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1821019011Oxonii: J. Parker & R. Bliss. The first 3 of 4 volumes. The three volumes here contain Lib. I-VIII in Greek plus the Index. The missing volume contains the Latin translation. Full leather. Vol. 1: Rebacked with original spine laid down no spine or title plates previous owners' names in ink and pencil occasional brief notations in pencil Good. Vol. II: Front cover and front blank nearly detached back cover detached leather in top and bottom compartments of spine missing internals nice Fair. Book III: Front cover and front blank and rear cover and rear blank detached chip at head of spine and leather from compartment at bottom of spine gone internals other than the detached blanks nice Fair. A nice working copy that could be made Very Good with rebinding. In Greek and Latin. . Fair. Hard Bound. First Edition Thus. 1821. J. Parker & R. Bliss unknown
1829451162London : Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copies recased and rebacked in modern half-leather over marbled boards preserving the original spines. Gilt tooling to the spines and the modern labels mounted thereto. Text block with marbled edges notably tight. Sporadic faint marginal foxing with heavier foxing to maps as well as their facing pages. Folding maps remain in otherwise very good condition. A well-preserved set overall. Physical description; complete in 3 volumes : maps part folded ; 22 cm. Notes; Title continues ""Prefixed is an entirely new Life of Thucydides with a memoir on the state of Greece civil and military at the commencement of the Peloponnesian war."" Subjects; Greece--History--Peloponnesian War 431-404 B.C. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green hardcover
182046253Lipsiae: Sumptibus Libraire Hahnianae 1820. 8vo. 2 vols xxvi 546 viii 594 4 pp. Bound in a nice contemporary full morocco with gilt embossed boards gilt borders and tooled bands on spine. Previous owner's signature and inscription in Greek on ffeps. Hinge of vol 2 split and splayed slightly at head and foot of spine board still securely attatched however. Some loss to leather to edges of boards. GREEK AND LATIN TEXT. . Good. Full Calf. 1820. Sumptibus Libraire Hahnianae 1820 unknown
18471897927London & Cambridge: T. Combe for Parker et al. 1847. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Three volumes complete. Three quarter contemp. calf over marbled boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Some general edgewear to binding but sound and sturdy. Includes folding maps and plates. Third edition revised from the editions of 1832 and 1839. Occasional pencil notes in the text otherwise quite sound internals. Bookplate of an early owner on f.p.e.p. of each volume. T. Combe for Parker et al. hardcover
18635405Paris: L. Hachette ET Cie 1863. First Edition. Very Good. Traduction Nouvelle avec une Introduction et des Notes par E.-A. Bétant Derecteur du Gymnase de Genève. First edition of this popular French translation of Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War.' Bound in contemporary green stained leather over boards with gilded double rule border on front and rear. With gilding on the spine. General wear rubbing to edges chipping at head of spine and creasing; square and solidly bound. Marbled end papers 2 aged ink notes on first blank. Infrequent marginal section indicators in aged ink and minor and light infrequent spotting. Overall very good condition and complete with blanks at front and rear. <br /> <br /> Pages: 6 8 595 Dimensions: 71/8 x 4¾ x 13/8. L. Hachette ET C(ie) unknown
1897984N23London: J.M Dent and Sons 1897-1939. Cloth. Very Good. 6" by 4". Various. A grand collection of The Temple Classics thirty-three books of twelve selected works that are praised for their significance and longevity. A grand collection of The Temple Classics an array of popular classical literature selected for their significance and longevity. All published by J.M Dent and Sons between 1897-1939. Edited by Israel Gollancz a professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London. Scarce as such a large set.<br /><br />In the publisher's original blue cloth with a charming frontispiece at the beginning of every volume. Collated complete.<br /><br />The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. Volumes 1-6. Published in 1897.<br />The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne translated by John Florio. Volumes 1-6. Published in 1897.<br />The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Published in 1898. Contains a folding map as the frontispiece. <br />The Golden Legend or Live of the Saints as Englished by William Caxton. Volumes 1-7. Published in 1900.<br />The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor. Volume 2 published in 1900. A complete edition published in 1901. Includes advertisements from Dent and Sons to end papers.<br />A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. Published in 1900.<br />The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White. Published in 1901.<br />Thucydides' Peloponnesian War translated by Richard Crawley: Volume 2. Published in 1903.<br />The Hellenics and Gebir of Walter Savage Landor. Published in 1908.<br />The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi newly translated out of the Italian by T.W. Arnold. Published in 1926.<br />The Gul's Hornbook and The Belman of London in Two Parts by Thomas Dekker. Published in 1928.<br /><br />Another The Golden Legend or Live of the Saints as Englished by William Caxton. Volumes 1-3 and 5-7. Volumes 5 is a 1900 original while volumes 1-3 and 6 are 1930's reprints. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally very smart with the odd mark to boards. Small signs of shelf wear to head and tail of spines. Slight bruising to board extremities of Selborne Montaigne volumes 6 and 4 and Life of Johnson volume 2. Offsetting to end papers and the occasional spot. Browning to original advertisements in both Taylors. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good J.M Dent and Sons hardcover
181132394AB1811. Bilingual Edition Greek-Latin. Three Volumes complete set. Oxford J.Parker 1811. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I:XXIV 440 pages / Volume II: 418 pages / Volume III: 266 pages plus 60 unnumbered pages of Index Rerum and Index Verborum. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Occasional annotations and textmarkings. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.Hinges all attached with only the front boards of Volume I and II slightly starting. Besides a few dogears a nd minor signs of only occasional foxing in very good condition. From the library of Daniel Conner Connerville / Manch House with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This is a rare version of this text ! Thucydides c. 460 c. 400 BC was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods as outlined in his introduction to his work. Thucydides has been called the father of the school of political realism which views the political behaviour of individuals and the subsequent outcomes of relations between states as ultimately mediated by and constructed upon fear and self-interest. His text is still studied at universities and military colleges worldwide. The Melian dialogue is regarded as a seminal text of international relations theory while his version of Pericles's Funeral Oration is widely studied by political theorists historians and students of the classics. More generally Thucydides developed an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plagues massacres and wars. Thucydides believed that the Peloponnesian War represented an event of unmatched importance. As such he began to write the History at the onset of the war in 431 BC. He declared his intention was to write an account which would serve as "a possession for all time". The History breaks off near the end of the twenty-first year of the war 411 BC in the wake of the Athenian defeat at Syracuse and so does not elaborate on the final seven years of the conflict. The History of the Peloponnesian War continued to be modified well beyond the end of the war in 404 BC as exemplified by a reference at Book I.1.13 to the conclusion of the war. After his death Thucydides's History was subdivided into eight books: its modern title is the History of the Peloponnesian War. This subdivision was most likely made by librarians and archivists themselves being historians and scholars most likely working in the Library of Alexandria. Thucydides is generally regarded as one of the first true historians. Like his predecessor Herodotus known as "the father of history" Thucydides places a high value on eyewitness testimony and writes about events in which he probably took part. He also assiduously consulted written documents and interviewed participants about the events that he recorded. Unlike Herodotus whose stories often teach that a hubris invites the wrath of the deities Thucydides does not acknowledge divine intervention in human affairs. Thucydides exerted wide historiographical influence on subsequent Hellenistic and Roman historians although the exact description of his style in relation to many successive historians remains unclear. Readers in antiquity often placed the continuation of the stylistic legacy of the History in the writings of Thucydides's putative intellectual successor Xenophon. Such readings often described Xenophon's treatises as attempts to "finish" Thucydides's History. Many of these interpretations however have garnered significant scepticism among modern scholars such as Dillery who spurn the view of interpreting Xenophon qua Thucydides arguing that the latter's "modern" history defined as constructed based on literary and historical themes is antithetical to the former's account in the Hellenica which diverges from the Hellenic historiographical tradition in its absence of a preface or introduction to the text and the associated lack of an "overarching concept" unifying the history. A noteworthy difference between Thucydides's method of writing history and that of modern historians is Thucydides's inclusion of lengthy formal speeches that as he states were literary reconstructions rather than quotations of what was saidor perhaps what he believed ought to have been said. Arguably had he not done this the gist of what was said would not otherwise be known at allwhereas today there is a plethora of documentationwritten records archives and recording technology for historians to consult. Therefore Thucydides's method served to rescue his mostly oral sources from oblivion. We do not know how these historical figures spoke. Thucydides's recreation uses a heroic stylistic register. A celebrated example is Pericles' funeral oration which heaps honour on the dead and includes a defence of democracy: " The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; they are honoured not only by columns and inscriptions in their own land but in foreign nations on memorials graven not on stone but in the hearts and minds of men." Stylistically the placement of this passage also serves to heighten the contrast with the description of the plague in Athens immediately following it which graphically emphasises the horror of human mortality thereby conveying a powerful sense of verisimilitude: "Though many lay unburied birds and beasts would not touch them or died after tasting them . The bodies of dying men lay one upon another and half-dead creatures reeled about the streets and gathered round all the fountains in their longing for water. The sacred places also in which they had quartered themselves were full of corpses of persons who had died there just as they were; for as the disaster passed all bounds men not knowing what was to become of them became equally contemptuous of the property of and the dues to the deities. All the burial rites before in use were entirely upset and they buried the bodies as best they could. Many from want of the proper appliances through so many of their friends having died already had recourse to the most shameless sepultures: sometimes getting the start of those who had raised a pile they threw their own dead body upon the stranger's pyre and ignited it; sometimes they tossed the corpse which they were carrying on the top of another that was burning and so went off." Thucydides omits discussion of the arts literature or the social milieu in which the events in his book take place and in which he grew up. He saw himself as recording an event not a period and went to considerable lengths to exclude what he deemed frivolous or extraneous. Wikipedia hardcover
181229674London: J. Walter White & Cochrane Etc 1812. Book. VG. Leather. New Edition. 8vo. Two 2 volumes in recent half red morocco leather over navy cloth boards. Faded Marbled edges. New endpapers. 427pp and 398 pp. Two fold out maps. To which is added three discourses on the life of Thucydides On his qualification as a historian and a survey of the History by the translator William Smith. Foxing to prelims and title pages o/w sharp copies. J. Walter, White & Cochrane Etc Hardcover