477. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum. Amstelaedami. Apud Henricum Wetstenium. 1692. 2 volumes in-4, (8) ff, 672 pp. (4) ff, 590 pp, (28) ff, long-grained red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spines, gilt edges, inner gilt scrolls (period binding). "The most complete and beautiful edition we had of this writer at the time." (Brunet). Printed on 2 columns, it is illustrated with a frontispiece and 25 plates. The first volume, in a bilingual Latin/Greek edition, contains the lives of the main Greek philosophers (Plato, Thales, Euclides, Socrates, Pythagoras), with full-page portraits. A fine copy bound in full red morocco. Covers rubbed on volume I, with small tear at upper head, small worm hole at bottom of spine of volume II.