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PLATO.
Phædon: or, A Diologue on the Immortality of the Soul.
New York: W. Gowan, 1833. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of any work by Plato TP + 1 leaf = Dedication pagewith advertisement on verso + [1]-2 = publisher's advertisements + [5]-209, 12mo. The first American printing of any work by Plato, noted on the TP: "Translated from the Original Greek by Madam Dacier with Notes and Emendations to which is prefixed the Life of the Author by Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, First American, from the Rare London Edition". André Dacier (1651-1722) and his wife Anne Lefevre (1654-1720) were learned Hellenist and Latinist scholars who took the side of the Ancients in the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns which was raging at the time. They did much of their work together. Dacier also translated Horace, Aristotle, Sophocles, Epictetus, Hippocrates and Plutarch. He was an editor of the Delphin series of classics and was, for a time, in charge of the library at the Louvre. Original boards with expert repairs to spine and label. Two inch circlular stain to front cover. A large, uncut copy of this edition which is normally trimmed to the considerably smaller size of the title page. Overall, a lovely copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
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- ordernr.: 203
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