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PLUTARCHUS (ca. 45 - ca. 120 A.D.). Paralellum, vitae Romanorum & Graecorum. Quadraginta novem, in Greek. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 27th August 1517.
2° (302 x 198 mm.). 348 leaves. Greek type. Printer's woodcut device. (Sheet G3.6 inserted from another copy, crease in title, some staining at beginning and end.) Early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, (slightly rubbed). Provenance: early inscription (erased); Bibliot. S. Silvestri (stamps); Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (inscription); Albert May Todd (bookplate).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Isaac 13397; Adams P-1609; Hoffmann III, 174.
2° (302 x 198 mm.). 348 leaves. Greek type. Printer's woodcut device. (Sheet G3.6 inserted from another copy, crease in title, some staining at beginning and end.) Early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, (slightly rubbed). Provenance: early inscription (erased); Bibliot. S. Silvestri (stamps); Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (inscription); Albert May Todd (bookplate).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Isaac 13397; Adams P-1609; Hoffmann III, 174.