PLUTARCH.  Les Oeuvres Morales & meslees ... Translatées de Grec en François, reueues & corrigées en ceste troisiéme edition en plusieurs passages par le Translateur, translated by Jacques Amyot, Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1575. 2° (380 x 255mm.), wood-engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces (title with some marginal staining, 2 wormholes at lower margin running from [ai]-eii), 17th-century calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, scuffed, lacking lettering-piece), early signature of Robert ?Tulloch, scored through, on title, bookplate (1). BM STC French, p. 358.
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PLUTARCH. Les Oeuvres Morales & meslees ... Translatées de Grec en François, reueues & corrigées en ceste troisiéme edition en plusieurs passages par le Translateur, translated by Jacques Amyot, Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1575. 2° (380 x 255mm.), wood-engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces (title with some marginal staining, 2 wormholes at lower margin running from [ai]-eii), 17th-century calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, scuffed, lacking lettering-piece), early signature of Robert ?Tulloch, scored through, on title, bookplate (1). BM STC French, p. 358.

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PLUTARCH. Les Oeuvres Morales & meslees ... Translatées de Grec en François, reueues & corrigées en ceste troisiéme edition en plusieurs passages par le Translateur, translated by Jacques Amyot, Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1575. 2° (380 x 255mm.), wood-engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces (title with some marginal staining, 2 wormholes at lower margin running from [ai]-eii), 17th-century calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, scuffed, lacking lettering-piece), early signature of Robert ?Tulloch, scored through, on title, bookplate (1). BM STC French, p. 358.

With Plutarch's Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains ... Translatées de Grec en Francois par Messire Jacques Amyot (Lausanne, 1574), uniformly-bound. (2)
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