The History of the Grecian War: in Eight Books ... Translated by Thomas Hobbes
by Thucydides
- Used
- Condition
- Nineteenth-century half brown calf and marbled boards, rebacked in brown morocco with orange leather spine labels. Front inner h
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Thucydides and the other Greek classic works of history would become favorites of many of the Founding Fathers, with Thomas Jefferson famously writing to John Adams in 1812: " I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier" Wing T1134
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 338312
- Title
- The History of the Grecian War: in Eight Books ... Translated by Thomas Hobbes
- Author
- Thucydides
- Format/Binding
- Engraved title-page by Thomas Cecill in nine compartments, with central oval portrait of Thucydides, and 5 engraved maps and pla
- Book Condition
- Used - Nineteenth-century half brown calf and marbled boards, rebacked in brown morocco with orange leather spine labels. Front inner h
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition of the Hobbes translation (first printed in 1629)
- Publisher
- Printed by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1676
- Keywords
- American | Ancient
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; History, Travel & Geography;
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- Morocco
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