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1772284685Etonae: Excudebat J. Pote 1772. Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A Second Edition copy of Joseph Pote's Scriptoribus Graeci a Greek reader for use by schoolboys at Eton. Text in Greek and Latin. Pagination and register resets with the Latin translation; iv 321 1 249 pp. Lacking final advertisement leaf called for by the ESTC. Else complete with no marks of any kind. Lacking final marbled endpaper. Front hinge repaired by a conservator with Japanese tissue. Front and rear board reattached. Minor loss to the extremities of the spine. Full calf with lettering and tooling on the spine now faded and illegible. Very Good. ESTC T63892. Very Good binding. Excudebat J. Pote unknown books
171323161Amsterdam: Depens de la Compagnie 1713. Gebunden. Depens de la Compagnie unknown
1784553662Paris 1784. Hardcover. USED Fair/No Jacket. Leatherbound. The book is badly worn with bits flaked off and the front cover is coming loose. In December 1960 a woman named Susan decided it would be appropriate to gift-inscribe a nearly 200-year-old book on the front flyleaf. Unfortunately that was this book. hardcover
175518919Portrait frontis of Thucydide Ex Thucydide: funeral prayer was instituted by the Athenians; Pericles' funeral oration; Again Plague of Athens. In order for the second out of the book of the Historiae. In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebant Robertus Et Andreas Foulis unknown
171491091Chez Michel-Étienne David, l'aîné, Quay des Augustins, à la Providence. Chez, Nicolas Gosselin, dans la grand'Salle du Palais, à l'Envie. Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, l'aîné, Quay de Conti, au coin de la rüe Guenegaud. | Paris 1714 | 10 x 16.6 cm | Relié
174625224Oxford: Ek Pheatrou en Oxonia 1746. First edition edited by Edward Bentham of Thucydides' De bello peloponnesiaco in ancient Greek; 8vo 4 163 1 14 index 48 Latin translation and index; engraved vignette on title engraved headpiece; bound with: M. T. Ciceronis sententeæ duæ de iis honore augendis qui periculum vitæ adierunt repub. causa . Oxonii 1746 pp. 16; contemporary full speckled calf gilt decorated spine; label wanting spine darkened joints cracked but cords holding; internally fine. Also with selections from the works of Plato and Lysias. Ek Pheatrou en Oxonia unknown
174625224Oxford: Ek Pheatrou en Oxonia 1746. First edition edited by Edward Bentham of Thucydides' De bello peloponnesiaco in ancient Greek; 8vo 4 163 1 14 index 48 Latin translation and index; engraved vignette on title engraved headpiece; bound with: M. T. Ciceronis sententeæ duæ de iis honore augendis qui periculum vitæ adierunt repub. causa . Oxonii 1746 pp. 16; contemporary full speckled calf gilt decorated spine; label wanting spine darkened joints cracked but cords holding; internally fine. Also with selections from the works of Plato and Lysias. <br/><br/> Ek Pheatrou en Oxonia unknown books
171491091Paris: Chez Michel-Étienne David l'aîné Quay des Augustins à la Providence. Chez Nicolas Gosselin dans la grand'Salle du Palais à l'Envie. Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon l'aîné Quay de Conti au coin de la rüe Guenegaud. 1714. Fine. Chez Michel-Étienne David l'aîné Quay des Augustins à la Providence. Chez Nicolas Gosselin dans la grand'Salle du Palais à l'Envie. Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon l'aîné Quay de Conti au coin de la rüe Guenegaud. Paris 1714 10 x 16.6 cm Relié Complete copy comprising two translations by Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt whose works are commonly known as ""belles infidèles"" beautiful but unfaithful translations. Between 1662 and 1795 no other translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War was published. The privilege granted to the bookseller Clousier in 1712 was shared among several booksellers including Michel-Étienne David Nicolas Gosselin and Jean-Geoffroy Nyon. Contemporary full brown calf gilt spines with five raised bands and four compartments decorated with plain and dotted fillets enclosing fleuron tools tan morocco lettering-pieces numbering-pieces within gilt borders gilt rolls to board edges red speckled edges marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Light scratches and rubbing to boards corners worn. Old bookplate mark on the first pastedown of the second volume. Marginal worm trail in the first volume not affecting text overall some slight foxing. Chez Michel-Étienne David, l'aîné, Quay des Augustins, à la Providence. Chez, Nicolas Gosselin, dans la grand'Salle du Palai hardcover
17954386Paris: Chez les Editeurs J.B. Gail. et P.F. Aubin 1795. FIRST EDITION 4 vols 8vo pp. iv xxxviii 374 2 frontispece; iv 363 3; iv 333 1; iv 337 3. Contemporary half sheep sprinkled beige paper boards spines divided by gilt rules tan and olive textured paper labels. A few minor spots. Extremities slightly rubbed corners of a couple of labels chipped. The first appearance of this significant translation the only 18th-century French text of Thucydides and the most authoritative modern translation since Hobbes’s English version of 1629. Lévesque a historian of Russia and France finds in the ancient source vital lessons for France then in the midst of the Revolution and his preface argues for Thucydides as the most political of historians and a source of practical advice for contemporary readers. Chez les Editeurs J.B. Gail... et P.F. Aubin hardcover
175948757Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1759. 8vo in eights 8 vols.; text in Greek and Latin; contemporary speckled calf gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments red and black morocco labels in 2 red speckled edges; spines toned and rubbed labels worn with 4 perished leaf R4 of vol. 6 with a small closed tear; text clean and bright. A good sound set. Gaskell 375. <br/><br/> excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis unknown books
17596265Glasguae Glasgow: In aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1759. FIRST FOULIS EDITION 8 vols. 8vo pp. vi 184 184; ii 150 150; ii 151 3 blank 151 1; ii 178 178 2 blank; ii 134 134 2 blank; ii 151 3 blank 151 1; 138 138; 154 154. Contemporary calf spines divided by raised bands between double gilt rules. One blank leaf of 8 discarded some light spotting one or two minor edge tears. Rather rubbed and marked some wear to spine ends several joints cracking and one one front of vol. 1 loosening labels lost. Gilt crest to head of each vol. of army officer politician and aide-de-camp to George III James St Clair Erskine 2nd Earl of Rosslyn 1762-1837. The scarce first Foulis edition of Thucydides a highly regarded printing: ‘It is beautifully printed and called by Harwood “one of the most correct of all the Greek classics published at Glasgow.” Copies of it are now scarce and in fine condition bear a considerable price’ Dibdin. The text is Duker’s the translation the same as had appeared in Duker’s 1731 folio which is ultimately Valla’s but as revised by Estienne Portus and Duker. This is the variant issue with the Latin text following the Greek text instead of on alternating leaves. Gaskell 375; ESTC T99792; Dibdin II 509. In aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis hardcover
17314069<p>A handsome copy in the original full vellum. Folding maps of ancient Greece & Sicily. ; Folio 27 x 41.5 cm; 343472848123 pages. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.</p> R. & J. Wetstein & Gul. Smith hardcover
1759140946021Glasguae Glasgow: Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1759. Near Fine. Foulis Press edition. Each volume has the Greek text followed by the Latin translation which was taken from Duker's 1731 edition by Valla rev. Estienne Portus & Duker. Bound in contemporary speckled calf with double gilt ruling; six compartment spines tooled in gilt with five raised bands and the original morocco spine labels. All edges stained red 6.25" x 4" 18mo. Near Fine with chip to spine label on volume one minor rubbing to joints. Minor dust soiling to top edges; slight offset to title pages in each volume else bright. <p>A handsome set of Thucydides' primary historical account The Peloponnesian War printed by famed scholars and publishers Robert and Andrew Foulis. A pioneering work of history. Robertus et Andreas Foulis unknown
