Lot 43
43
THUCYDIDES. De bello peloponnesiaco, in Greek. [Edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, [not before 14] May 1502. Super-chancery folio, 320 x 212 mm. (12 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.), crushed brown morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind with fleurons at corners, rebacked, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, turn-ins ruled in gilt, g.e., by Bedford, extremities rubbed; lacking final blank leaf, very faint foxing to last 2 leaves, washed and pressed.

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THUCYDIDES. De bello peloponnesiaco, in Greek. [Edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, [not before 14] May 1502. Super-chancery folio, 320 x 212 mm. (12 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.), crushed brown morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind with fleurons at corners, rebacked, spine gilt and gilt-lettered, turn-ins ruled in gilt, g.e., by Bedford, extremities rubbed; lacking final blank leaf, very faint foxing to last 2 leaves, washed and pressed.

EDITIO PRINCEPS. Collation: A8 A-O8 P4. 123 (of 124) leaves, lacking P4 blank. Greek types. 55 lines and headline, initial spaces with guide letters. Adams T-662; Isaac 12777; PMM 102; Renouard Alde, p. 33.4.

Provenance: Flaxley Abbey -- Henry Hucks Gibbs, first Lord Aldenham, Aldenham House bookplate and inscription on front flyleaf "From the Flaxley library, £2 unbound" (sale, Sotheby's, 24 March 1937, lot 338).