Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PLUTARCH. The Philosophie, commonlie called the Morals. [8], 1363, [65] pages, but with pages 865-876 bound between pages 804 and 805 and 1333-1334 between 1213 and 1213. Folio, 331x215 mm, contemporary calf with gilt arabesque centerpiece on covers, metal catches, lacking clasps, rebacked, front free endpaper and rear endpapers renewed; contents crisp and generally clean apart from soiling and edgewear on title and dampstaining in upper outer corners in glossary at end with paper corrosion on last few leaves not affecting text, isolated small marginal stains elsewhere, contemporary signatures and inscriptions on title and front pastedown, clean tear in 2C6 and 5A6, blank corner off 3R2 and 4X5, small rust hole through blank outer margin of 3Z5-4A1. London: Arnold Hatfield, 1603

Additional Details

first edition in english, translated by Philemon Holland. STC 20063.