Auction 362 Old & Rare Books - Classical Antiquity
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MARCUS AURELIUS. Reflexions morales de l'Empereur Marc Antonin avec des remarques de Mr. & de Mad. Dacier. 2e ed. (…). Amst., A. Wolfgang, 1691. 2 in 1 vol. (15), 162, (3), 264 pp. W. front. 12°. Cont. cf., spine w. raised bands & gilt dec. & lettering, gilt dec. on board edges, speckled edges. (Some wear, waterstains low in the margins in the very first few pp., allegorical bookplate "N. de B. 1594" on upper paste down, autograph entry "Ex libris Armani Begin presbyt.", a very charming & well-bound copy). -- Id. The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Newly transl. from the Greek (…). Glasgow, R. Foulis, 1742. 308 pp. Cont. cf. w. spine w. raised bands, gilt dec. & brown labels. (Some wear & chafing to binding, allegorical bookpate "Anw. Lumisden" on paste down, a few wormholes in the margin of the first few pp., but clean & bright). -- (2).

Ad 2: Transl. & Notes by J. Moor & Th. Hutcheson. "Certainly the best translation, previous to Long's, for accuracy and diction, and superior to that in spirit." C.R. Haines, LCL 58.

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