PLUTARQUE.

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PLUTARQUE.
Vitae. S.l.n.d. [at colophon]: Venice, Melchior Sessa and Pietro Ravani, November 26, 1516. In-folio, hard vellum, marbled edges (Binding: 17th or 18th century). Essling, n°597. - Renouard, Josse Bade, t. III, p. 178. Pretty Venetian edition, illustrated with many woods in the text which are meticulously described by Essling. Printed in Roman characters, it follows the version published by Josse Bade in Paris in 1514. It includes the dedication addressed by the Parisian humanist to Jerome Aleander (here undated) and the lives of Evagoras by Isocrates, Pomponius Atticus by Cornelius Nepos, Plato and Aristotle by Guarinus of Verona, Charlemagne by Donatus Acciaolus and those written by Aemilius Probus. Title printed in Gothic type in red and black, decorated with one of the typographical marks of Melchior Sessa. Copy with several pen notations (most of them cut by the bookbinder's knife) and with 4 of the woods formerly coloured. Handwritten bookplate crossed out on the title, small wet stamp scratched in the white of the title. Handwritten bookplate on the upper back cover, repeated: Di me Pellegrino Papotti N°198. 1820. Two inverted leaves from the last table book. Without the last page, blank. Lack of paper deleting words on page XX8, brown spot on page Y2v°. Small wetness on a few pages, especially at the corner of the first and last notebooks. Spine redone with the original binding spine brought back, modern title label.
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