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THEOPHRASTUS

Characteres ethici, sive Descriptiones morum Graece. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit, in Latinum sermonem vertit, et libro commentario illustrauit [...]

Lyon [= Geneva]
François Le Preux
1593 (part-title: 1592)

€160 - €200

8vo: 2 parts, [8]-88, 270-[2 bl., 16] pp. Woodcut mark on title. Pages 1-42 printed in GREEK. (some toning and spotting). Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine (sl. loosening at front). Good copy

Scholarly ed. of the ""Moral Characters"" of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus (371-287 BC) by the famous Huguenot French scholar Casaubon (1559-1614).
Ref. GLN 5891. - Not in Adams. Prov. A number of old annotations at beginning. Old ownership entry on title. Library stamps

Humanism