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Plutarchus. Vitae parallelae

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2 parts in 1, 290 ff., 62 lines and headline, Roman type, a2 with woodcut of Theseus and the Minotaur within an ornate woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorated capitals, initial spaces with guide-letters, occasional early ink marginalia, a1(tabula) large section torn away and repaired, text supplied in later ink verso, a2 lower corner repaired, a few stains to sig. a within text, a few other marginal small stains, later half calf, some worming to spine, rubbed, [BMC V, 432; Goff P-834; Hain 13130], folio, [Venice], [Bartholomaeus Zanis], 1496.

***A scarce edition at auction.The work is a series of biographies of famous figures arranged in tandem to illuminate their common virtues or failings..

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