97
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PLUTARCH.
Parallela.
Greek text. [3] (of [4]), 345, [1] leaves, including final leaf
with Aldine device on verso; lacks blank *4. Folio, 299x205 mm, 17th-century calf with
morocco lettering piece; title lightly soiled and spotted, with early ink monogram and
19
th-century institutional embossed stamp, and minor restoration in blank outer margin,
scattered 17th-century marginalia translating Greek words and phrases into French and
Latin and referring to leaf numbers in another edition, restoration in blank upper outer
corner of approximately the last 60 leaves.
(
Venice: Aldine press, August 1519)
[3,000/5,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
and second edition in the original Greek of Plutarch’s Lives, following
the first edition printed by Filippo Giunta in Florence 2 years earlier. Renouard, page 87(9);
New UCLA 182; Hoffmann III, 175.
