Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
THUCYDIDES. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre. English translation by Thomas Hobbes. 3 engraved plates, including one folding; 2 folding maps. [34], 536, [13] pages, including engraved title and final blank. Folio, 335x211 mm, 17th-century black morocco gilt-tooled to panel design with ornamental center- and cornerpieces, recased with joints reinforced at top and bottom, endpapers renewed, covers slightly warped; contents crisp and generally clean, with only small light dampstain in blank outer margin of first few leaves, scattered corrections in ink in contemporary hand, clean tear in 3C4, rust spot in blank lower margin of 3H3, small paper flaw in blank area of 3Y3, maps lightly offset, the first trimmed to plate mark with lower right corner reinforced on verso, second map and third plate cropped in blank outer margin, rear free endpaper lacking. London: Hen. Seile, 1629

Additional Details

first edition of this translation, the second into English but first directly from the Greek, and also Hobbes's first book; first issue, with title dated 1629. The 1550 English version by Thomas Nicolls was made from the French of Claude de Seyssel. Hoffmann III, 560; Macdonald & Hargreaves 1; Pforzheimer 493; STC 24057.