Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian warre . written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes the author of the booke De cive secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire.
Thucydides (460-400 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1648
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3028731
Summary
Bibliographic description
[34], 536 [i.e. 535], [11] p., [5] plates (3 folded) . maps . fol.. Previous shelfmark: J.4.1. Not identified in 1796 inventory. Christie's, 21 June, 2004, lot 648.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscriptshelfmark on inside front board: "P: 1: For: history".. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border; single gilt fillet on board edges; blind fillets on spine.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)