THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. Translated from Greek into Latin by L. Valla. [Geneva]: H. Stephanus, 1588.
The improved second edition, ‘generally considered the best 16th-century edition of the greatest historian of Athens’ (Schreiber). ‘For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia, as well as further revised 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’. Adams T-667; PMM 102; Schreiber 216.
Folio (321 x 205mm). Text in parallel Greek and Latin columns. Woodcut Estienne device on title, initials, head- and tailpieces (very occasional minor spots or stains, small wormhole in margin from title to n1). Later mottled calf (neatly restored, rebacked to style). Provenance: bookseller's inscription on front free endpaper with price – label on front pastedown – very small modern ownership monogram on front free endpaper – evidence of removed bookplate.
THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. Translated from Greek into Latin by L. Valla. [Geneva]: H. Stephanus, 1588.
The improved second edition, ‘generally considered the best 16th-century edition of the greatest historian of Athens’ (Schreiber). ‘For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia, as well as further revised 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’. Adams T-667; PMM 102; Schreiber 216.
Folio (321 x 205mm). Text in parallel Greek and Latin columns. Woodcut Estienne device on title, initials, head- and tailpieces (very occasional minor spots or stains, small wormhole in margin from title to n1). Later mottled calf (neatly restored, rebacked to style). Provenance: bookseller's inscription on front free endpaper with price – label on front pastedown – very small modern ownership monogram on front free endpaper – evidence of removed bookplate.
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