PLUTARCH -

Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque trad. en françois, avec des remarques historiques et critiques, par Dacier. Nouvelle Edition, augmentee de plusieurs Notes & d'un dixieme Tome. 10 volumes.

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain, 1735.

8vo. Uniformly bound in ten contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Stamps and library-labels to front free end-papers. Deaccession-stamp to back free end-papers. Bindings with wear, spine-ends chipped, leather on spine cracked and boards with scratches. Vol. 10 with dampstain to first 30 ff. and a few leaves detached, but generally internally nice and clean.
LXXXI, (3), 548 pp. + 5 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 568 pp. + 4 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 594 pp. + 2 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 558 pp. + 4 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 564 pp. + 1 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 564 pp. + 2 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece. (2), 603 pp. + 3 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 478 pp. + 4 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece; (2), 519 pp. + 1 engraved plate and 1 frontispiece; (2), 570 pp. + 6 engraved plates and 1 frontispiece. (A total of 32 plates, presumably out of 50).

French translation of the works of Plutarch by philologist André Dacier, by many considered more exact than those of Amyot and Tallemant..

Order-nr.: 62954