Description
Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholis et antiquis et utilibus, collation: ?*6 ?*6 ?-z6 A-D6 E8 F10, [12], 225, [3], 127, [4] pp., with blank leaf t6 and final 2ff. with register and printer's woodcut device, some water-staining, mostly marginal, leaves towards end with ink-stain to upper inner corner becoming a damp-mark extending into text at end and with some page edges brittle and worn away, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, spine repaired, folio, 310 x 205mm., Basel, ex officina Hervagiana, 1540.
⁂ Scarce edition of Thucydides' famous work on the war between Athens and Sparta. This edition with Panno/nius on title; another issue has Pan/nonius.
Literature: Adams T665
Lot 20
Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholis et antiquis et utilibus, Basel, ex officina Hervagiana, 1540.
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholis et antiquis et utilibus, collation: ?*6 ?*6 ?-z6 A-D6 E8 F10, [12], 225, [3], 127, [4] pp., with blank leaf t6 and final 2ff. with register and printer's woodcut device, some water-staining, mostly marginal, leaves towards end with ink-stain to upper inner corner becoming a damp-mark extending into text at end and with some page edges brittle and worn away, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, spine repaired, folio, 310 x 205mm., Basel, ex officina Hervagiana, 1540.
⁂ Scarce edition of Thucydides' famous work on the war between Athens and Sparta. This edition with Panno/nius on title; another issue has Pan/nonius.
Literature: Adams T665