PLUTARQUE (ca. 46-125). - photo 1

PLUTARQUE (ca. 46-125).

Lot 185
23.03.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 700
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 185 | PLUTARQUE (ca. 46-125).
Estimate value
€ 700 – 1 000
PLUTARQUE (ca. 46-125).

Les Règles et préceptes de santé, de Plutarque, Traduits du Grec par Jacques Amyot… Paris : Jean-Baptiste Cussac, 1785.

Brillant exemplaire, réglé en rouge et vert, en maroquin de l'époque signé Derome.

Beau volume issu des presses de Philippe-Denis Pierres, premier imprimeur de Louis XVI. Il est orné d'un portrait-frontispice allégorique et d'un portrait de Jacques Amyot.

La traduction de Plutarque par l'helléniste Jacques Amyot est regardée comme un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la prose française du XVIe siècle. Cette édition n'avait pas échappé à Vicaire (col. 700-701), de même que c'est le seul traité de Plutarque qu'il ait retenu (Livres en bouche, 76, pour l'édition de 1572).

Les soixante chapitres du traité consignent les réflexions du philosophe grec sur la médecine et l'hygiène. L'étude des moeurs et de la table attiques occupe les 80 premières pages.

Exemplaire enrichi d’un petit portrait d’Amyot gravé et monté sur un feuillet blanc. Faux-titre relié après le titre, et feuillet de dédicace relié par erreur après l’Avertissement. Vicaire, 701.



In-8 (200 x 125 mm). Illustré d'un portrait-frontispice de Jacques Amyot gravé par Ponce d’après Marchand (pâles rousseurs éparses, plus prononcées sur le titre et le frontispice). Reliure signée Derome le jeune, avec son étiquette : maroquin vert, roulette dorée en encadrement, roulette dorée sur les coupes, dos lisse orné, dentelle intérieure dorée, tranches dorées (dos légèrement passé).

Provenance : Maréchal Lyautey (alors seulement général, ex-libris).



A fine copy, ruled and bound in green morocco by Derome jeune.

Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Medicine & science, Printed books
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