Thoukudidou Tou Olorou Peri Tou Peloponnesiakou Polemou Biblia Okto Graece Thvcydidis De Bello

by Thucydides Ca 455 Ca 400 B C

$9,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

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. Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central, wreath-like cartouches, also gilt, are stamped at the

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