Lot 06221

[ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ – ΠΛΑΤΩΝ / ARISTOTLE – PLATON] “Les Politiques d’Aristote… Traduictes de Grec Francois, Par Loys le Roy dict Regius. Auec expositions prises des meilleurs Autheurs…” [BOUND TOGETHER] “La Republique de Platon, Diuisee en dix livres, ou Dialogues, Traduicte de Grec en Francois, & enrichie de commentaires par Loys le Roy”, Paris, Claude Morel, 1600. Folio, pp. [24], 499, [41] + [8], 420, [10]. Extremely scarce first editions of the important first complete French translations of the Politics of Aristotle and the Republic of Plato. Both works translated by Louis Le Roy (or Leroy), famous French humanist scholar and professor of Greek at the Collège Royal in 1572. Leroy has previously published parts of his translation of both Aristotle’s Politics and Plato’s Republic, but never managed to publish the whole works. After his death, a number of finished works (including the current ones) were left behind and finally published (after more than 20 years of efforts) by the scholarly printer Frederic Morel. Contemporary full calf. Bumped corners, rubbed with small leather pieces chipped along joints, spine & corners. FIRST FULL FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS & PLATO’S REPUBLIC. Brunet: I, 469 & IV, 702.