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Photography Books & Fine Books in All Fields
11:00 AM PT - Dec 12th, 2008

 

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Plutarch's Lives with additions London, 1657

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Title: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans...With the Lives of Hannibal & Scipio African...in this Edition are Further Added the Lives of Twenty Selected Eminent Persons of Ancient and Latter Times...
Author: Plutarch
Description: [xvi], 443, 446-1031, [27], 76, [34] pp. Woodcut headpieces, portraits and initial letters; engraved additional title page. (Folio) 13¼x8¾, later calf-backed marbled boards.Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives with the addition of twenty 'Lives' by Andrew Thevet including a life of Johann Gutenberg [John Guttemberg].
Heading: zzkPlace Published: London
Publisher: Abraham Miller
Date Published: 1657

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Binding well worn, front cover detached; first 6 leaves and final 3 leaves detached, foxing, some worming in outer margin; else good and worthy of repair.

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