Shelfmark
Ch.3.2.06 - Ch.3.2.17
Title
Collection des moralistes anciens, dediée au Roi.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris : Chez Didot l'aîné. Et De Bure l'aîné, 1782-1783.
Physical description
12v. ; 12mo.
Note
French translations of works in Greek, Latin, or Chinese. Translated by A. Auger, P. C. Lévesque, and J. A. Naigeon.
Note
Most vols. have half-titles.
Note
Set contains the following works: "Manuel d'Épictete."; "Pensées morales de Confucius ..."; "Pensées morales de divers auteurs Chinois ..."; "Morale de Séneque ..." (2 vols.); "Discours préliminaire pour servir d'introduction a la morale de Séneque par M. N."; "Pensées morales d'Isocrate ..."; "Pensées morales de Cicéron ..."; "Charactères de Théophraste et pensées morales de Ménandre ..."; "Sentences de Théognis, de Phocylide, de Pythagore, et des sages de la Grèce ..."; "Les entretiens mémorables de Socrate ..." (2 vols.).
Note
Vol. I: sheet of ms. notes (Storer's hand?), in French, on Henri, Duc de Rohan (1579-1638). Possibly meant to be in Ch.3.3.10-11 ("Memoires du Duc de Rohan ...")?
Provenance
Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
18th century blue, gold-tooled morocco.
Subject
Philosophy, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Ethics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Auger, Athanase, 1734 - 1792 translator.
Added entry--name
Levesque, Pierre-Charles, 1736 - 1812 translator.
Added entry--name
Naigeon, Jacques André, 1738 - 1810 translator.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B14197