PLUTARCHUS.
Moralia, quae usurpantur. sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinae penus: id est, varij libri: morales, historici, physici, mathematici, deniq; ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem: omnes de Graeca in Latinam linguam transscripti.
Basel, Thomas Guarini, 1570. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and repeated on last page, some mathematical woodcuts in text and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Early 17th-century Jesuit prize binding in richly gold-tooled light brown calf, sides with arabesques in the style of Gascon, richly gold-tooled double borders and inner panel with small bands in a geometrical pattern. [12], 857, [91] pp.
€ 4,250
Scholarly edition of Plutarch's Moralia in a beautiful and very richly decorated prize binding, probably from the Southern Netherlands for one of the Jesuit Colleges, with the "IHS" device and the legend "Jesus Maria" within a crown of thorns. The Plutarch edition is the first edited by Xylander, and contains Plutarch's collected studies in the fields of ethics, religion, physics, natural history, music, politics, philosophy and literature, cast in Dialogues or Diatribes. The book is well produced, printed mainly in roman type with small italics for the Latin quotations and the legenda in the margins.
Small stamp on title-page; a few leaves slightly stained. Very good copy. BMC STC German, p. 706; VD 16, P3681 (8 copies); this edition not in Adams; Dibdin; binding not in De Prijs is het Bewijs.
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