Thucydides. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Thomas Hobbes, London: for Richard Mynne, 1634, 2°, second issue, engraved frontispiece (soiled and worn at outer margin), 3 folding engraved maps (map of Greece cleanly torn, one map loosely-inserted), 2 plates, with final blank, contemporary calf (spine rather worn) [STC 24059; Palmer p. 107] -- JUVENAL. The Satires. Together with the satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, translated by Dryden, London: for Jacob Tonson, 1693, 2°, first edition (half title, title, preliminaries and some other leaves with repeirs to margins, some dampstains), contemporary panelled calf (spine restored) [Wing J1288]; and two other works, including another translation by Dryden.

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Thucydides. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Thomas Hobbes, London: for Richard Mynne, 1634, 2°, second issue, engraved frontispiece (soiled and worn at outer margin), 3 folding engraved maps (map of Greece cleanly torn, one map loosely-inserted), 2 plates, with final blank, contemporary calf (spine rather worn) [STC 24059; Palmer p. 107] -- JUVENAL. The Satires. Together with the satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, translated by Dryden, London: for Jacob Tonson, 1693, 2°, first edition (half title, title, preliminaries and some other leaves with repeirs to margins, some dampstains), contemporary panelled calf (spine restored) [Wing J1288]; and two other works, including another translation by Dryden.

Hobbes's translation of Thucydides was the second to be published in English. The first, by Thomas Nicolls, appeared in 1550. (4)

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