PLUTARCH. - Lot 66

PLUTARCH. Les œuvres morales et meslées (2 vol.) - Les vies des hommes illustres, Grecs & Romains (2 vol.). 4 vols. gd In-folio bound in fawn basane, spines with ornate nerves. Paris Vascosan 1575 and 1565 (3rd ed. of the Œuvres morales in Jacques Amyot's translation and 2nd ed. translated by the same of the Vies des hommes illustres. With 50 small woodcut portraits. Visible damage to bindings, interior in good condition. ATTACHED: MERIAN (Matthieu & Gaspard, eds.). Topographia Galliae. Kassel, Barenreiter, 1968, 1970. Three In-4 volumes, full publisher's cream cloth in dust jackets, numerous illustrations and maps, some folding. Reprint of the 1655-1661 edition of the most important collection of images of 17th-century French towns, engraved by Matthieu Mérian from life drawings and published by Gaspard Mérian, Matthieu's second son: maps, town views, bird's-eye views, plan of all French towns, etc...