Large Volume In Folio From 1610 "lives Of Illustrious Greek And Roman Men" By Plutarch - Amyot

A rare and beautiful volume from 1610 (date of the assassination of Henri IV..). Full calf spine with raised bands decorated with beautiful gilded irons, red morocco title, marbled endpapers, red edges. “Lives of Illustrious Greek and Roman Men” compared to each other by Plutarch of Chaeronea, translated by Mr. Jacques Amyot, King's Advisor &c... by him reviewed & corrected in infinite passages? With the lives of Hannibal & Scipio Africanus, translated from Latin into French by Ch. de l'Ecluse. Enriched in this latest edition with ample summaries on each life: with moral annotations in the margins which show the benefit that can be made from reading these stories: & with four Indices representing the Authors, the similarities, the apophregms, & the remarkable materials throughout the Work. Additionally, the Lives of Epaminondas, Philippus of Macedonia, Dionysius the Elder Tyrant of Sicily, Augustus Caesar, Plutarch & Seneca, taken from good Authors, have been added again. Item the Lives of the Excellent War Chiefs, taken from the Latin of Aemilius Probus. All arranged by SG S; With the effigies of illustrious men carefully removed from ancient medals together a very necessary chronology for the understanding of the times in which they lived. . Printed for Iacob Stoer, & Samuel Crespin 1610 in Geneva.... Rare and very complete, pleasant to read, informative to the highest degree, a source of ancient History of Antiquity