Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
PLUTARCH. Les Oeuvres Morales [Meslées]. French translation by Jacques Amyot. [32], 1142, [56]; [12], 976, [20] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 185x113 mm, contemporary limp vellum with thong ties; old stamp and inscriptions on titles, worming at beginning and end of Volume 1 affecting some text, title soiled and mounted, partly detached, front free endpaper lacking, partial light dampstaining in Volume 2 throughout. [Geneva]: Jacob Stoer, 1595

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Plutarch's writings on moral and miscellaneous subjects include a dialogue on the appearance, orbit, and possible habitability of the Moon, found on pages 803-46 in the second volume of this edition. BEA, page 918; GLN-3811.