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THUCYDIDES (ca. 455 - ca. 400 B.C.). Works, in Greek. Venice: Aldus Manutius, May 1502.
Aldine 2° (300 x 200 mm.). Greek type, initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Lacking a preliminary blank, but not the final blank.) 18th-century English blue morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: (?) Richard Porson 1759-1808, Greek Scholar (later pencil note); Sir Thomas Sebright 1802-64 (engraved armorial bookplate); second Earl of Powis 1785-1848 (signature, his Aldines sold in 1923 as a single lot to Quaritch)
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Bound with the Thucydides scholia from the Aldine Xenophon of 1503 (Renouard 41.7). FINE COPY. Renouard 33.4; Isaac 12777; Hoffmann III, 550; Adams T-662.
Aldine 2° (300 x 200 mm.). Greek type, initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Lacking a preliminary blank, but not the final blank.) 18th-century English blue morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: (?) Richard Porson 1759-1808, Greek Scholar (later pencil note); Sir Thomas Sebright 1802-64 (engraved armorial bookplate); second Earl of Powis 1785-1848 (signature, his Aldines sold in 1923 as a single lot to Quaritch)
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Bound with the Thucydides scholia from the Aldine Xenophon of 1503 (Renouard 41.7). FINE COPY. Renouard 33.4; Isaac 12777; Hoffmann III, 550; Adams T-662.
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