PLUTARQUE.Livre Rare Book
L'histoire de Thucydide de la guerre du Peloponese ; L'histoire de Thucydide de la guerre du Peloponese continuée par Xénophon. De la Traduction de Nicolas Perrot Sieur d'Ablancourt ; L'histoire grecque de Xénophon ou la suite de Thucydide History by Thucydide of the Peloponnesian War ; History by Thucydide of the Peloponnesian War pursued by Xenophon. Translation by Nicolas Perrot Sieur d'Ablancourt ; Greek History by Xenophon
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
