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).

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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)