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PLUTARCH Vitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516] image 1
PLUTARCH Vitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516] image 2
PLUTARCH Vitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516] image 3
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PLUTARCH
Vitae, [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516]

15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

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Vitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, title printed in red and black with large device, 78 woodcut illustrations, extensive early ink annotations throughout (marginal notes, underling and paragraph marks, pointing hands, full-page index of names on blank verso final leaf of printed text), without final blank, title strengthened with old paper at upper margin, worming in upper gutter margin of approximately 30 leaves, a small single worm hole touching a few letters (mostly side-notes) of fol. 26-41 and fol.354-360, fol.348 to end with some dampstains and 2 leaves heavily browned, final leaf (fol. 360) repaired with old paper at fore-margin resulting in small loss of side-notes, publisher's device at end, later stiff boards, rebacked in vellum, soiled, folio (310 x 215mm.), [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516]

Footnotes

The most illustrated early Italian edition of Plutarch's "Lives". The woodcuts depict episodes from Greek and Roman history, and mythological scenes, and appear for the first time in this edition.

Provenance: "Canoniens Laurentius Troja[-], 1819", inscription on title, with earlier inscription obscured in upper margin.

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