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
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3028732
Summary
Bibliographic description
[34], 536 [i.e. 535], [11] p., [5] plates (3 folded) : maps ; fol. With an additional, final blank leaf. Provenance: manuscript inscription on titlepage: Jefferay Gilbert: 1710: [and] Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards on five tanned raised bands, double blind fillet on spine, second spine panel painted and lettered (faded), double blind fillets on covers, single gilt fillet on board edges, red sprinkled edges, printer’s waste used as spine support.
Makers and roles
Thucydides (460-400 BC) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)