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Lot n° 86

BASILE Ier, empereur byzantin.

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[In Greek and Latin]: Exhortationum capita LXVI ad Leonem filium, cognomento Philosophum. - Exhortationum capita sexaginta sex. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1584. 2 parts. - PLUTARCH. [In Greek and Latin]: De tranquilitate animi liber aureus. Paris, Frederic Morel, 1585. - PLUTARCH. Commentarium in Principe requiri doctrinam. Paris, Étienne Prévosteau, heir of Guillaume Morel, 1582. 3 parts. - DEMOSTHEN. De Rhodiorum libertate oratio. Paris, Étienne Prévosteau, heir of Guillaume Morel, 1582. 3 parts. Together 4 works in one volume in-4, modern vellum. Collection of 4 rare 16th century Parisian editions, mostly printed in Greek. They are followed by an 18-leaf piece in Latin and a 11-leaf fragment (numbered 431-441) in Greek. A COPY WITH NUMEROUS MARGINAL AND INTERLINEAR ANNOTATIONS OF THE TIME. Old handwritten bookplate of a Salomon le Belin on the title of the Demosthenes and a long handwritten note of the same on a leaf bound at the head and preserved from the old binding. Missing pages 5 to 8 in the second part of the Commentarium of Plutarch. Smudging in the lower margin of the last 11 leaves of the volume.