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390 Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans, Compared together... Translated out of Greek into French, by James Amiot... With the Lives of Hannibal & Scipio African; Translated out of Latin into French, by Charles de l’Escluse, and out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North... And now also in this Edition are further added, The Lives of Twenty Selected Eminent Persons..., London: Printed by Abraham Miller, and are to be sold by William Lee, 1657, title printed in red and black (with early signature Char: Clare at head), additional engraved title faced by the leaf of “The Frontispice Explain’d”, woodcut medallion portraits within ornamental borders, the subjects of the additional lives illustrated with engraved portrait illustrations, some soiling and browning to text, contemporary calf, corners and edges worn, neatly rebacked, recent red morocco title label, folio
389 Photios I. Myriobiblon e Bibliotheke [graece] ... Graece edidit David Hoeschelius ... Latine vero redidit et scholiis auxit Andreas Schottus, [Geneva:] Paul Estienne, 1612, title-page printed in red and black, large woodcut title device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, Greek and Latin text in double column, toning, intermittent spotting, occasional minor worming in lower margins, title-page laid down, final few leaves slightly creased and frayed, old inscription to title-page, occasional old marginalia, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, folio in 6s (35 x 21cm)
Wing P2633. North’s translation was first published in 1579. (1)
Renouard 197.21 (also noting copies dated 1611; further copies traced dated 1613). First bilingual edition of the Myriobiblon, which preserves several important classical texts otherwise lost. The editio princeps was printed at Augsburg in 1601. Provenance: St John’s Seminary, Wonersh. (1) £300 - £500
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