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Author: Langhorne, J. & Langhorne, W.:
Title: Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Original Greek; With Notes, Critical and Historical; and A New Life of Plutarch.
Published: London: Thomas Tegg, R.M. Tims & R. Griffin, 1826.
Classification: Catalogue 01 - Literature
Description: In Six Volumes. Plutarch's accounts of the lives of notables persons of ancient Greece and rome. B/w engraved illustrations on title pages. Vol I - 426 pp. Dedication to the Rt. Hon. Lord Folkestone. Contents: Life of Plutarch, Thesus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa, Solon, Publicola, Themistocles, Camillus. Vol II - 438 pp. Contents: Pericles, Fabius Maximus, Alcibiades, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Timoleon, Paulus Aemilius, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides. Vol III 458 pp. Contents: Cato the Censor, Philopoemen, Titus Quinctius Flaminius, Pyrrhus, Caius Marius, Lysander, Sylla, Cimon, Nicias. Vol IV 392 pp. Contents: Marcus Crassus, Sertorius, Eumenes, Agesilaus, Pompey, Alexander. Vol V 408 pp. Contents: Julius Caesar, Phocion, Cato the Younger, Agis, Cleomenes, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Demosthenes, Cicero. Vol VI 412 pp. Contents: Demetrius, Antony, Dion, Marcus Brutus, Artaxerxes, Aratus, Galba, Otho, An Account of Weights, Measures, and Denominations of Money, Mentioned by Plutarch & Chronological Table. Previous owner's inscription on all ffeps dated 1846 and bookplate on feps. Edges untrimmed. Contents clean in all six volumes. All bound in brown hard paper boards with paper spine labels. Vol I - Small piece missing from top and bottom of spine. Edges of spine and corners of boards rubbed. Vol II - Small piece missing from top of spine. Corners rubbed. Vol III & V - Top and bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Vol IV & VI - Nicks in top and bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Overall condition VG-.
Book Number: #3507
Price: € 317.50
   

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