PLUTARCHI CHAERONEI, DE VIRTVTE MORUM, INTERPRETE CAROLO VALGULIO BRIXIANO. | Peri tes ethikes aretes

Paris: Apud Guil. Morelium, in Graecis typographum Regium, 1555. Full Leather. Good binding. Plutarch’s De Virtute Morum, translated by Carolo Valgulio, and published by Guillaume Morel, French printer to the King. Title page vignette. Text in Latin and Greek, with engraved initials and headpiece. Biographical slip for Morel tipped in the front endpaper. “PPRISIIS M. D. LVII.” on the colophon. Dampstaining to the top edge of seven leaves, and trimming to the faded, contemporary Greek and Latin marginalia. Joints fully cracked but holding. Full calf. Uncommon, OCLC notes one institutional holding. Collates complete; pagination and collation reset; 32, 24 pp. A-D4, A-C4. (USTC 160465). Good binding.