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Leather. Condizione: Good. The first Amsterdam edition of Nicolas Perrot's compilation of witty sayings of the ancients. The first Amsterdam edition. This work first published in Paris in 1664. In a contemporary full calf binding, with marbled endpapers and original blanks. From the translation of Nicolas Perrot, a French man of letters, scholar and translator, and a member of the French Academy. This classical translation work comprises famous witty sayings (or "bons mots"), maxims and short anecdotes from ancient Greek and Roman writers like Plutarch and Diogenes Laerce, and helped to form classical taste in the mid-17th century through French prose. Register: a10, A-X12. Collated, complete. In a contemporary full calf binding, with marbled endpapers and original blanks. Externally, generally smart, with loss and white mark to the front board, and smaller loss to the rear board. Joints are starting to the heads and tails, but boards are firmly held. Ownership bookplate of Margaret Trotter to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only the odd spot. Good. None (illustratore). book.…