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1934WRCLIT85141New York: The Modern Library 1934. Cloth. Folding map. Binding a bit dull but a good sound copy. Poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman's copy with his November 1943 ownership inscription on the front free endsheet scattered underscores and marginal comments and 3 index cards with early ink manuscript notes laid in. The Modern Library hardcover books
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
1920314255Frankfurt am Main: Kleukens Presse 1920. Number 34 of 250 copies. Unpaginated 12 ff. First and last leaves are blanks. 1 vols. 4to. Full brown morocco stamped in blind spine titled in gilt patterned paper endsheets t.e.g. Number 34 of 250 copies. Unpaginated 12 ff. First and last leaves are blanks. 1 vols. 4to. Pericles' Funeral oration from the second book of Thucydides History of the Peleponnesian War. The German text is by Rudolf G. Binding.<br/>This is the fifth book of the Kleukens Presse; most copies were issued in boards the present copy is in a full brown morocco binding with elaborate decorative strapwork borders in blind. Rodenberg I104; Schauer II67 Kleukens Presse unknown books
15466591Frankfurt: Petrus Brubachius 1546. Later printing. Vellum. Very Good. 8vo. 460pp. With the final two leaves F7 with a woodcut printer's device on the recto and F8 a blank. BOUND WITH: Thucydides. CONVERSA EX THUCYDIDIS HISTORIA QUAEDAM IN LATINUM SERMONEM. Edited by Joachimo Camerario. Wittenberg: Johannes Crato. 1565. ff.78. Complete with the final two blank leaves. The two works bound in cont. vellum soiled hand lettered spine. I: Edited by Veit Winsheim. VD 16 ZV14511 Not in Adams or BL German STC. II: Edited by Joachimus Camerarius. VD16 T1132. Not in Adams or BL German STC. Petrus Brubachius hardcover books
1821298044Oxford: Parker 1821. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes 8vo foxing on end papers full vellum some soiling on covers interior clean hinges on volume 1 repaired volume 5 printed in Greek. Oxford: J. Parker 1821. Very good.<br/><br/> Parker unknown books
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
1550111546London: William Tylle 1550. First edition of one one of the greatest of classic historical works. Folio bound in 19th century full vellum morocco spine label marbled endpapers title-page with elaboarate historiated woodcut border. In very good condition with light toning to the text. Rare and desirable in this condition. The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. He began work at the very start of the events he records and the penetration and concentration which he devoted to his account of the 'Peloponnesian War' the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. were based on the conviction that it would prove the most important event in Greek history. He saw his history as a source of profit to 'those who desire an exact knowledge of the past as a key to the future which in all probability will resemble the past.' It was in this sense. that he called it. 'a possession forever.' This is exactly what it has become" PMM 102. William Tylle hardcover books
19801506144The Franklin Library 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Gilt title and raised bands to spine with all page edges gilt. High-quality patterned paper with gilded edges ribbon marker and silk moire endpapers. Limited Edition as stated on title page. Near fine book scuff mark on front cover scratches on top and bottom edges and forend and white mark on top right corner of front cover and bottom edge of back cover. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1970UTHUPEL00jknWashington Square Press 1970. Good. Thucydides. The Peloponnesian Wars. New York: Washington Square Press 1970. 370pp. Indexed. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Good. General shelf wear. Edges bumped. Washington Square Press paperback books
1963UTHUPEL00twWashington Square Press 1963. Good. Thucydides. The Peloponnesian Wars. NY: Washington Square Press 1963. 370pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Good. Slight yellowed. Small moisture stains to bottom corners of first several pages. Washington Square Press paperback books
1831287921Oxonii; Londini; Cantabrigiae: Excudebat S. Collingwood Academiae Typographus Impensis J. Parker; Whittaker Treacher et Arnott; C. J. G. et F. Rivington; J. et J. J. Deighton 1831. Full Leather. Good binding. 19th century edition of Thucidides's work on the Peloponnesian War. Library plates on the front endpaper; library stamps on the front flyleaf and rear endpaper. Annotations throughout in the same hand underlining difficult vocabulary and providing translations in the margins. Hinges reinforced with green cloth. Fully rebacked in leather with the remnants of the original spine laid down. Full green morocco with gilt lettering borders and decorations. All edges gilt. Good binding. Excudebat S. Collingwood, Academiae Typographus, Impensis J. Parker; Whittaker, Treacher, et Arnott; C. J. G. et F. Rivington; J unknown books
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
18151304179London: Printed by T. Chaplin . for the Propietors Military Chronicle and Military Classics Office 1815. New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; "New Edition to which is prefixed The Life and Character of the Translator"; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine brown with gold print top portion of vol. I torn away; Boards in brown leather with gold print wear to corners edges hinges and spine caps spotting/stains/small surface tears to leather; Text block has marbled edges and endpapers endpapers of vol. I torn along hinge pencil annotation through introductory material of vol. I up to page xlii age-toning and foxing to some pages binding tight blue ribbon marker for vol. I missing but present for vol. II though torn from binding; 2 volumes lxi 313 313 pages. 1304179. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Printed by T. Chaplin ... for the Propietors, Military Chronicle and Military Classics Office hardcover books
15884174<p>Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1588</p><p>Folio: 35 x 22.5 cm. ¶6 ¶4 a-z6 aa-zz6 aaa-nnn6 ooo4<br /></p><p>SECOND ESTIENNE EDITION.</p><p>Printed in two sizes of the 'grecs du roi' types of Claude Garamond. There are numerous historiated initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces. The Estienne "Noli altum sapere" device appears on the title-page.</p><p>A fine tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition with minor blemishes: lvs. l6 m3 and mm4 with small ink stains m2-3 sm. burn hole in margin ss2 small rust spot g3-5 v. light dampstain at corner light damp to lower outer margin of final few signatures title and verso of final leaf lightly soiled.</p><p>Provenance: 1. Ownership inscription dated 1595 of the German jurist political philosopher and seven-time rector of the University of Tübingen Christoph Besold 1577-1638. Besold was a close friend of Johannes Kepler whom he met while studying at Tübingen at which time he purchased this book. Besold championed Kepler's theories while at Tübingen and in 1626 he participated in the trial of Kepler's mother who was accused of witchcraft and ultimately acquitted. As a political philosopher Besold proposed a form of mixed constitution in which the 'rights of majesty' are divided between the prince and the assembly of estates. For his evolving views see his "De consilio politico axiomata"1622 "De statu reipublicae mixtu"revised ed. 1625 and "Principium et finis politicae"1626. For his views on Democracy in particular see his 1623 "Discursus politici" esp. Chapter III "De Democratia". 2. Small stamp of the Donaueschingen Hofbibliothek library sold 1999-2001 on verso of the title.</p><p>"Second Estienne edition generally considered the best sixteenth century edition of the greatest historian of Athens. For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia as well as further revised Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text in parallel columns while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Estienne has also added marginal concordances to his first edition. Among the other important additions are Estienne's 'Proparasceue' Preparation to the reading of the Greek scholia which is to this day a most valuable exposition of the special vocabulary and technical terminology used by the Greek scholiasts; his annotations on the text and scholia of the first two books Renouard as well as Carter and Muir in PMM wrongly attribute these annotations to Isaac Casaubon; the Thucydidean Chronology of David Chytraeus and the Greek Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus with a Latin translation by Casaubon." Quoted from Schreiber's "The Estiennes"</p><p>"The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him"PMM 102</p><p>Schreiber 216-217; Renouard 152-53 4; Moeckli 124; Hoffmann III 749; Printing and The Mind of Man 102</p> Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, books
15881936Geneva:: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1588. SECOND ESTIENNE EDITION corrected by Estienne and with numerous additions. Printed in two sizes of the ‘grecs du roi’ types of Claude Garamond. There are numerous historiated initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces. The Estienne "Noli altum sapere" device appears on the title page. Folio:. 32.2 x 21 cm. Collation: ¶6 ¶¶4 a-z6 aa-zz6 aaa-nnn6 ooo4. Bound in contemporary calf rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central wreath-like cartouches also gilt are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition with good margins. There is however a bit of worming affecting the text in the first part. "The second Estienne edition is generally considered the best sixteenth century edition of the greatest historian of Athens. For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia as well as further revised Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text in parallel columns while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Estienne has also added marginal concordances to his first edition. Among the other important additions are Estienne's “Proparasceue†Preparation to the reading of the Greek scholia which is to this day a most valuable exposition of the special vocabulary and technical terminology used by the Greek scholiasts; his annotations on the text and scholia of the first two books Renouard as well as Carter and Muir in PMM wrongly attribute these annotations to Isaac Casaubon; the Thycydidean Chronology of David Chytraeus and the Greek Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus with a Latin translation by Casaubon." Quoted from Schreiber's "The Estiennes" Schreiber 216-217; Renouard 152-53 4; Moeckli 124; Hoffmann III 749; Printing and The Mind of Man 102. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, unknown books
16762710London: : Charles Harper 1676. SECOND EDITION. . Folio:. 31 x 20.5 cm. . Ï€2 engraved and printed titles A4 a-d4 e2 B-Z4; Aa-Zz4; Aaa4. With five added maps and plates. Illustrated with the famous engraved title page showing Archidamos Perikles and the author with vignette views of Sparta Athens and a small map of Greece; and five engraved maps and views by Thomas Cecill entitled: "The Mappe of Ancient Greece" "Plataea" "Sphoicteria" "Antient Sicele According to the Description of Philip Chiuerius" and "Syracvse Beseeged by the Athenians". Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in compartments with decorative tools at each corner of the central panel. The hinges are starting the corners bumped but the binding is in overall good condition. The contents are in excellent condition: the leaves are bright and crisp the maps and plates are intact and present. Hobbes published his translation of Thucydides’ masterpiece in 1629 when he was in his early forties. Yet he tells us in the introduction that the translation once completed “lay long by†him indicating that it had been completed much earlier. “Hobbes was interested in Thucydides less for his style than his subject matter. Nor did he take up the study and translation of the Greek historian simply with a scholar’s antiquarian interest but with the humanist desire to learn and pass on the lessons of history to his contemporaries. He is not shy of speaking of the utility of history. He talks of Thucydides’ writings ‘as having in them profitable instruction for Noblemen and such as may come to have the managing of great and weighty actions.’ It is in the history of Thucydides that the purposes of history are most finely embodied: ‘For the principall and proper worke of History being to instruct and enable men by the knowledge of Actions past to beare themselves prudently in the present and providently towards the Future there is not extant any other merely humane that doth more fully and naturally performe it then this of my Author.’… “Hobbes had very definite ideas about the conclusions to be drawn from Thucydides. In the long introductory essay ‘Of the Life and History of Thucydides’ he derives from the history an account of the political opinions of its author: ‘For his opinion touching the government of the State it is manifest that he least of all liked the Democracy. And upon divers occasions hee noteth the emulation and contention of the Demagogues for reputation and glory of wit; with their crossing of each others counsels to the damage of the Publique; the inconstancy of Resolutions caused by the diversity of ends and power of Rhetorique in the Orators; and the desperated actions undertaken upon the flattering advice of such as desired to attaine or to hold what they had attained of authority and sway amongst the common people. Nor doth it appeare that he magnifieth anywhere the authority of the Few; amongst whom he saith every one desireth to be chiefe; and they that are undervalued beare it with lesse patience than in a Democracy; whereupon sedition followeth and dissultion of the government. Hee prayseth the government of Athens when it was mixed of the Few and the Many; but more he commendeth it both when Pisistratus raigned saving that it was an usurped power and when in the beginning of this Warre it was Democraticall in name but in effect Monarchicall under Pericles.’ “Thucydides here is represented as a closet royalist. The passage to which Hobbes is directly referring which must have been written after the final defeat of Athens in 404 is Thucydides summary account of the causes of her downfall in Book II. This is a long but crucial passage in Hobbes’ translation a shortcut to the lessons to be learnt from the larger narrative. While there are many factors that contributed to the political philosophy later developed by Hobbes not least his experience of civil disorder in Britain it might be argued that the political analysis here of the weakness of the Athenian democracy was influential in defining a problem to which the doctrine of Leviathan was the solution.â€Robin Sowerby “Thomas Hobbes’ Translation of Thucydides†"The historical methods of Thucydides who lived in the fifth century B.C. have never been bettered. His severe standard of historical truth coupled with his passionate belief in the general significance of particular events have given his history of the tragic war between Athens and Sparta a universal value to statesmen and historians alike." Printing and the Mind of Man 219 Wing 1134 Charles Harper, unknown books
19302610Chelsea: The Ashendene Press 1930. First Thus. Near Fine. This copy one of 260 printed on paper an additional 20 were printed on vellum. Bound in the original publisher's full white pigskin binding by W. H. Smith and Son lacking the slipcase. In Near Fine condition overall slight toning on the spine and a bit of rubbing at the base of the spine. Internal contents in Fine condition. <br/><br/>Printed in black Ptolomey type with marginal chapter summaries in red Blado Italic type the first time St. John Hornby used a different type for the side-notes. Three-line initials from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for "Utopia." Marginal chapter summeries and opening lines designed by Graily Hewitt printed in red.<br/><br/>"When Thucydides set out to compose his work the writing of warfare was already a notable tradition launched with a bang by the legendary Homer about three centuries earlier.He was followed 300 years later by Herodotus who gave an account of the Persian Wars similarly rich in iconic battles and larger than life personalities on both sides of the conflict. With Thucydides the writing of war took a new direction. In contrast to the wars of Homer and Herodotus the armed conflict that concerned Thucydides was fought primarily among Greeks. It also involved events which occurred within the author's lifetime which introduced a contemporary dimension to the genre. Thucydides focused on offering a strong and authoritative account of the war its causes and its behind the scenes negotiations. To this end he largely left out the gods and religious explanations more generally.Instead he offered a deel analysis of human factors and motivations" Finley. In this sense Thucydides did more than leave historians with an account of the war published close to its conclusion; he created a new expectation for the genre of history and the work of historians.<br/><br/>Ashendene Bibliography XXVII. Near Fine. The Ashendene Press unknown books
1999Embry 186317Harvard U. Press 1999. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Part of the Loeb Classical Library. Text in Greek and English. Harvard U. Press, 1999. unknown books
201994206Princeton:: Princeton University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. Hardcover. 9780691190150 . Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Selected translated from the Greek and introduced by Johanna Hanink. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Princeton University Press, hardcover books
1948D14607London: The Dropmore Press 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by E.H. Blakeney. 12 24 4 pp. With an illustrated frontispiece. 4to. bound in publisher's half vellum and red cloth with nice example of the pictorial dust-wrapper and uncommon thus. Vellum discolored at the top of spine else an excellent copy. #130 of 300 copies printed. <br/><br/> The Dropmore Press hardcover books