Plutarque & Jacques Amyot - Les Œuvres Morales de Plutarque - 1584

Rare two-volume set from this edition, which constitutes one of the great undertakings for transmitting ancient thought to the French Renaissance -

The work gathers a substantial portion of the treatises commonly grouped under the name Moralia, an extremely varied collection in which Plutarch addresses morality, philosophy, religion, education, politics, manners, friendship, family, human passions, religious practices, and numerous problems relating to the conduct of existence -

Plutarch, a Greek writer born around the 1st century AD and who died in the early 2nd century, here appears not as a systematic philosopher building a single doctrine, but as an attentive observer of human beings who mobilizes different philosophical traditions to reflect on ways of living reasonably and virtuously -

Plutarch & Jacques Amyot - The Morals of Plutarch - 1584 - Volumes I and II - Antoine Chyppin -
[27], 1 blank, 536 pp.; 537-1010, 2 blanks, 189, 1 blank, [58] pages.

Good condition of bindings, works in their original tan calfskin bindings, marbled boards, wear from use, some minor flaws on covers, headcaps and corners worn, joints cracked, edges speckled red, spine long and ornately decorated, author’s name and volumes gilded -

Good interior condition, some stains, small hole at the title of Volume I which is doubled, small vignette on the title page, pretty headbands, fine initial, several manuscript ex-libris including “Guenyer” and “Catherinos”, in its own pagination the two treatises “On Fortune or Virtue of Alexander,” “Of Isis & Osiris,” “Of Oracles that have ceased,” “What does this word E’i mean,” flyleaves in decent condition, a pleasing copy -

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