Histoire de Polybe, / nouvellement traduite du Grec par Dom Vincent Thuillier, ... Avec un commentaire ou un corps de science militaire, enrichi de notes critiques et historiques, ... Ouvrage très-utile non-seulement aux officiers généraux, mais même à tous ceux qui suivent le parti des armes.
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1753
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3096496.6
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nouvelle edition revue, corrigée & augmentée d’un supplement. … v. 6 : ill., maps, plans. ; 4to. Imperfect: wanting the plate opposite p. 183. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. The “Yorke.” on this bookplate appears to have been re-worked and is darker than the rest of the lettering. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; gilt spine tooling; red-brown spine label; gilt roll on board edges; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Jean-Charles Chevalier Folard (1669-1752) Antoine Vincent Thuillier (1685-1736)