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PLUTARCH. - Lot 254
PLUTARCH.
The Lives of Illustrious Men. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée et augmentée de plusieurs Notes et d'un tome neuvième (Les Vies... omises par Plutarque), par M. Dacier.
Paris, Emery, 1734, 9 volumes in-4, bound in full contemporary basane racinée, richly decorated ribbed spines, title and appendix. Bound with the arms on the first boards of a family related to the Biron de Curland.
Illustrated with 41 engraved medallion portraits at the head of each chapter. Each life is adorned with a medallion, except those for which no documents have been found. Brunet IV, 739.
Handwritten bookplate of Catherine de Courlande.
First in-4 edition of Dacier's translation.
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