Lot no. 64
THUCYDIDE. Θουκυδίδης μετά σχολίων παλαιών και πάνυ οφελίμων. Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus. Basel, Johann Herwagen, 1540 - [Hardback:] THUCYDIDES. De bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque libri VIII. Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus and Gottfried Hittorp, 1527. 2 works in one volume, half tan basane (18th century binding). Important edition of Thucydides printed in Greek by Johann Herwagen. The text was prepared by Joachim Camerarius. The scholies are collected in an appendix with their own pagination.
A rare German edition of The Peloponnesian War by the same Greek historian, translated into Latin by Lorenzo Valla and revised by Conrad Heresbach, has been bound in. It is decorated with a fine woodcut title frame after Hans Holbein.
Old marginal annotations at the beginning of the text.
Worn binding, spotting and dampstaining, marginal worm work in the first volume.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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