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PLUTARCH. Omnium quae exstant operum. 2 vols. 1624
PLUTARCH. Omnium quae exstant operum. Greek text with Latin translation by Hermann Cruser and Wilhelm Xylander in parallel columns. Engraved frontispiece portraits of the dedicatees, King Louis XIII of France and Chancellor Nicolas Brulart de Sillery; portrait of Plutarch on both titles. 2 volumes. Folio, 402x260 mm, contemporary vellum, soiled, ties lacking, short vertical crack at top of Volume 2 spine; scattered minor foxing, occasional light marginal dampstains. Signatures of G. C. Verplanck dated New York, 1840. Paris: [Antoine Estienne for] Societas Graecarum editionum, 1624
- Notes: "magnificent edition of plutarch; it is after the pages of this edition that the text of Plutarch is universally cited to this day"--Schreiber 284. Hoffmann III, 173-74.
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