Thucydides. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre, translated by Thomas Hobbes, engraved title by T.Cecill, 2 plates and 3 folding maps, general map trimmed close and mounted on stub, lacking final blank, title a little soiled & stained and with small holes, slight worming to inner margin at beginning, tear to head of 2K1 affecting head-line, 3I1 defective at upper outer corner with loss to border, small stains to map of Syracuse, a few other minor marginal defects, small circular gilt-stamped vellum monogrammed book-label of Charles Baring Wall of Norman Court and bookplate of Robert Andrew Allison, later calf with border and spine tooled in blind, by J.Rodwell of Oxford with his ticket, rubbed, spine defective, upper cover detached (with title and first leaf attached), [STC 24059], folio, [Eliot's Court Press] for Richard Mynne, 1634.

⁂ Charles Baring Wall (1795-1853), Tory politician.