Plutarch Translators (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions.

Condition: Good. a new edition. Full tree calf, G+. 357pp, leather rubbed at the egdes spine scuffed, Ex Library [ Eccles Hotel, Bantry Bay ] with Occasional ink stamp, a nice copy. Odd volume. Covers the lives of Paulus Æmilius, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato The Censor, Philopmen, Titus Quinctius Flaminius & Pyrrhus. Popular translation on Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives' in which he give biographies of emminent Greeks & Romans & then offers comparisons on their virtues & morals. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus [ 46 - 120 ] 250 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In full leather with red morroco spine label stamped in gilt, 8vo, 745pp. (shelfwear and rubbing to outer extremities, browning and foxing to edges and several pages, staining from previous damp to upper and lower page tips/corners) A fair but solid reading copy only. sold as is.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First. 8vo. black cloth w gilt titles and banding to sp. boards sl bowed and white damp marked. eps show damp marking. TEG some page edges uncut. internally clean . No inscrip. Would make a very Good restoration project. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A Very Rare Set of First Edition Volumes. Only one other listing of such a set is online, owned by Pryor-Johnson Rare Books (who write that they are not aware of another copy of this edition). Brown half leather covers with marbleized boards. Decorative blind and gilt stamping on the spines, with dual black slips on each. Five very slightly raised bands. Marbled page edges and end-papers. Woodcut engraved frontispiece (presumably of Plutarch), with tissue guard in each volume. Irregular pagination. Each volume is 500 to 600 pages long. Covers and spines are lightly rubbed in a few places. Back cover of volume 1 is nearly detached, and head of spine is pulling away from binding (good only). The heads of the other spines have some chipping. No marginalia (only writing on tissue guard in volume 1). Volume 3's front end-paper has paper loss to it (possibly from a removed bookplate). Bindings are tight, and hinges/joints on each (beside's back cover of volume 1) are holding strong. Very light to mild foxing as well as age-toning to each volume, though for the publishing dates the text bodies are in wonderful condition. Full refund if not satisfied. "The Moralia (Ancient Greek: Ethika; loosely translated as "Morals" or "Matters relating to customs and mores") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right." (Wikipedia). This particular edition contains 77 essays, including the psuedo-Plutarchian work "On the Names of Rivers and Mountains" (not typically found in the Moralia), and lacks "Summary of the Birth of the Spirit" as well as "Sayings of the Spartan Women." Prefaces and dedicatories are authored as follows: Matthew Morgan for Volume 1; George Tullie for Volume 2; Robert Midgley for Volume 4; Samuel White for Volume 5. The English translation "Plutarch's Morals" (1684-1690) was a collaborative effort undertaken by a host of scholars. Their goal was to outdo the work of Philemon Holland, who first translated the Moralia into English in 1603. As Matthew Morgan's preface to the first volume makes clear, the entire Moralia was intended to be translated/published by the end of a single year (1684-5). It was also meant to only be 4 volumes altogether. But the collaborative translation ended up taking over 6 years, and was 5 volumes when completed. The first 3 volumes were published by John Gellibrand (1684-1685), and the last 2 by R. Bentley (1690). The order of each treatise, although not in the order classically placed in Plutarch's Moralia, is according to the completion of each translation as they came to the publishers' hands. William W. Goodwin, upon revising the 5th Edition of this translation in 1870, had this to say in his preface, "The original editions.contained translations of every grade of merit. Some of the essays were translated by eminent scholars like William Baxter (nephew of Richard Baxter) and Thomas Creech.But a large number, including some of the longest and most difficult treatises, were translated by men whose ignorance of Greek - or whatever language was the immediate ancestor of their own version - was only one of their many defects as translators. Notwithstanding all the defects of the translation.it is beyond all question a more readable version than could be made now; and the liveliness of its style will more than make up to most readers for its want of literal correctness." A most rare and attractive set, one of great historical value. PLEASE NOTE: This set will arrive with "signature required" upon delivery. Full refund if not satisfied.

[Ancient History and Biography] FINELY BOUND SIXTH EDITION. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (21 x 14 x 14cm). With an etched frontispiece by W. Ridley to volume I. Elegantly bound (circa 1870s) in tan half calf, with red and black labels, full gilt back, marbled sides, drab endpapers, edges speckled red. Some spotting within chiefly to prelims and final gatherings. Bindings pleasingly aged with very little wear. A bright, fine set. An important English translation of Plutarch's parallel Lives, first published in six volumes in 1770. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Normanton, an Irish peer (almost certainly the 3rd Earl, James Agar, 1818-1896) a Peelite and Tory MP for Wilton, Hampshire).

Condition: Good. Folio. 27 x 41cm. Contemporary calf with gilt coat of arms on covers; new half Sokoto goat spine, with original label preseved, by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. Preliminary pages repaired, some with waterstains. Very thick book = 9cm. [24], 1429, [68f] pp. 56 woodcut portraits en medallions of 65 subjects. OCLC Number:260354355.Notes: Printer's name from colophon.Signatures: ã? A-6K? 7L?.Includes indexes.Description: [24], 999, 1002-1429, [69] p. : ports. ; 42 cm. (fol.)Other Titles: Lives.Vies des hommes illvstres Grecs et RomainsResponsibility: comparees l'vne auec l'autre par Plutarque de Chaeronee. Translatees par M. Iacques Amyot conseiller du roy, &c. par luy reueue?s et corrigees en infinis passages. Auec les vies d'Annibal et de Scipion l'Africain, traduites de Latin en François par Charles de l'Ecluse. Enrichies en ceste derniere d'amples sommaires sur chacune vie: d'annotations en marge: & de quatre indices representans les autheurs, les similitudes, les apophthegmes, & les matieres remarquables en tout l'oeuure. Plus y on: esté adioustees de nouueau les vies d'Epaminondas, de Philippus de Macedoine, de Dionysius l'aisné tyran de Sicile, & d'Auguste Caesar, tires des bons autheurs. Item les vies de neuf des excellens chefs de guerre, prisses du Latin d'Aemilius Probus, par S.G.S. Auec les viues effigies des hommes illustres, soigneusement retrices des medailles antiques: ensemble vne chronologie tres necessaire pour l'intelligence des temps esquels ils ont vescu.Expertise byBernard Portheault8, rue des Pichots 41500 Mer.[Plutarque - Amyot, Jacques]. - Les Vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains, comparées l'une avec l'autre par Plutarque de Chaeronee. Translatées par M. Jaques Amyot? Avec les vies d'Annibal et de Scipion l'Africain, traduites de Latin en François par Charles de l'Ecluze. Paris, Gilles Bets, 1584. Imprimé par Pierre Le Voirrier. In-folio relié en plein veau d'époque très accidenté (plats, dos et mors avec manques), plats frappés d'un médaillon central à fond azuré - Titre et 7 premiers feuillets remontés malhabilement, feuillet A6 dérelié - [12 ff.], 1429 pp., [34 ff.]. Illustré de 56 portraits en médaillon pour 65 personnages décrits. Quelques mouillures centrales.