Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PLUTARCH. Parallela. Greek text. [3] (of [4]), 345, [1] leaves, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso; lacks blank *4. Folio, 299x205 mm, 17th-century calf with morocco lettering piece; title lightly soiled and spotted, with early ink monogram and 19th-century institutional embossed stamp, and minor restoration in blank outer margin, scattered 17th-century marginalia translating Greek words and phrases into French and Latin and referring to leaf numbers in another edition, restoration in blank upper outer corner of approximately the last 60 leaves. (Venice: Aldine press, August 1519)

Additional Details

first aldine edition and second edition in the original Greek of Plutarch's Lives, following the first edition printed by Filippo Giunta in Florence 2 years earlier. Renouard, page 87(9); New UCLA 182; Hoffmann III, 175.