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THUCYDIDES (c.470-c.400 B.C.). De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo, in Greek and Latin. [Geneva:] Henri Estienne for Huldrich Fugger, 1564. 2º (333 x 220mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut device. (Occasional light browning, especially in the last few leaves, inkstains on O2r.) 17th-century Dutch vellum, spine compartments ruled in red, double gilt fillet round sides, central blindstamped arabesque (upper joint a little worn). Provenance: John Stuart Blackie (presentation inscription from Marischal College, Aberdeen, dated 1852) -- Clifton College Library (bookplate with presentation inscription from N. Macpherson, 1896).
FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION which is also the first edition to print the Greek text accompanied by a Latin translation' (Schreiber). Although the title states the contrary, the translation was largely by Estienne, the attribution to Lorenzo Valla being somewhat of a fig leaf. 'Estienne has also included the Greek scholia, which surround the text on the page; he has been able to correct and clarify several thorny passages in Thucydides by his distinctive use of punctuation and parentheses, which was followed by later editors' (Schreiber). Adams T-666; Renouard 123,7; Hoffmann III, pp.551-52; Schreiber 153.
FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION which is also the first edition to print the Greek text accompanied by a Latin translation' (Schreiber). Although the title states the contrary, the translation was largely by Estienne, the attribution to Lorenzo Valla being somewhat of a fig leaf. 'Estienne has also included the Greek scholia, which surround the text on the page; he has been able to correct and clarify several thorny passages in Thucydides by his distinctive use of punctuation and parentheses, which was followed by later editors' (Schreiber). Adams T-666; Renouard 123,7; Hoffmann III, pp.551-52; Schreiber 153.
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