PLUTARCH. Oeuvres [ Contents : Les Vies des hommes illustres, 1567, 6 vols. ; Les Oeuvres morales et meslées, 1574, 7 vols., including Table; with :] Decade, contentant les Vies des Empéreurs, 1567; all Paris: Michael de Vascovan. Together 14 vols., 8vo, 167 x 104 mm. (6 9/16 x 4 1/16 in.), uniformly bound in eighteenth-century dark blue morocco ( Decade non-uniform), covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt in six compartments, red morocco lettering-pieces, edges marbled and gilt, some wear to extremities, upper inner hinge of first vol. cracked, occasional light dampstaining, scattered slight mostly marginal foxing or darkening . RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, roman type, woodcut initials and headpieces. Brunet IV, 737-8 ("très-belle édition"); Rothschild II, 1899 (without the Decade ). Provenance : Early ownership inscriptions on titles: "dumas" ( Vies ), "Doullez" ( Oeuvres morales ) -- Hippolyte de Montcalm, eighteenth-century bookplates -- Eugène Paillet, morocco bookplate (sale, Paris, 17-20 March 1902 ) -- Édouard Rahir, bookplate (sale, Paris, part 5, 19-21 May 1937, lot 1531). (14)
PLUTARCH. Oeuvres [ Contents : Les Vies des hommes illustres, 1567, 6 vols. ; Les Oeuvres morales et meslées, 1574, 7 vols., including Table; with :] Decade, contentant les Vies des Empéreurs, 1567; all Paris: Michael de Vascovan. Together 14 vols., 8vo, 167 x 104 mm. (6 9/16 x 4 1/16 in.), uniformly bound in eighteenth-century dark blue morocco ( Decade non-uniform), covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt in six compartments, red morocco lettering-pieces, edges marbled and gilt, some wear to extremities, upper inner hinge of first vol. cracked, occasional light dampstaining, scattered slight mostly marginal foxing or darkening . RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, roman type, woodcut initials and headpieces. Brunet IV, 737-8 ("très-belle édition"); Rothschild II, 1899 (without the Decade ). Provenance : Early ownership inscriptions on titles: "dumas" ( Vies ), "Doullez" ( Oeuvres morales ) -- Hippolyte de Montcalm, eighteenth-century bookplates -- Eugène Paillet, morocco bookplate (sale, Paris, 17-20 March 1902 ) -- Édouard Rahir, bookplate (sale, Paris, part 5, 19-21 May 1937, lot 1531). (14)
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