Thucydides
£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre... interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes. London: Richard Mynne, 1634. Folio, [16], 536, [10], engraved title by Thomas Cecill, folding map hand-coloured in outline, 2 plates, lacking 2 maps, the map laid down, a few leaves with marginal repairs, pp.46/47 stained, a few marginal tears (63/64), CC4 torn without loss, p. 351/352 torn with loss (supplied in facsimile), pp.353-357 with loss of fore-margin; inscription of Maurice Boreland (?) of Magdelene College in 1677 & W. Selwin, 1741; bookplate of James Abercromby, contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, [ESTC S117706]