PLUTARQUE Plutarchus Plutarch

Les Oeuvres Celebrated edition 1574 Vascosan

      Vascosan,, Paris 1574 - Les Oeuvres morales et meslees. Paris, Vascosan, 1574. 7 volumes in-8. A SPLENDID SET. Complete & in Mint CONDITION, Amyot's Translations of Plutarch. No writer of one age and nation has ever received more devoted and important services from a writer of another than Plutarch owes to Amyot. Already the translator of the Greek pastorals of Heliodorus and Longus, as well as seven books of Diodorm Siculus, Amyot came not unprepared to the subject of his life's work. Years were spent in purification of the text. Amyot's marginal notes as to variants in the original Greek give hut a slight conception of the extent of his labours in this direction. In 1559, being then Abbot of Bellozane, Amyot published his translation of Plutarch's Lives, printed in a large folio volume by the famous Parisian house of Vascosan. Yet it was not the Lives solely that occupied him. In 1572 were printed Les Oeuvres Morales et Meslees de Plutarque. Translatees du Grec en Francois par Messire Jacques Amyot. The popularity of this work, by whose appearance all Plutarch was rendered accessible in the vernacular to French readers, was hardly inferior to that the Lives had attained. Provenance: Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum, with release stamp dated 1968. A.S.W. Rosenbach was a legendary dealer and collector of rare books and manuscripts. another copy of this book sold in Paris, 28 April 1999, at Piasa for 3000. [Attributes: Hard Cover]