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2003réf. 24278Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co Incus. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 90 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: This volume collects all of the surviving state funeral orations from Athens including Thucydides Gorgias Lysias Plato Menexenus Demosthenes and Hyperides. To stimulate student discussion and comparison For reference Lincoln's address at Gettysburg is included in an appendix. Translations are in English including introduction and notes as well as literary and historical commentary. -- AUTHOR: Jud Herrman is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Allegheny College. -- FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC at the close of each campaign season the Athenian state honored its war-dead in a public burial ceremony choosing a prominent orator to give the keynote address. This volume collects all of the surviving state funeral orations from classical Athens. Like tragedy these speeches present an image of an idealized Athens. The narratives of past Athenian glories found in these speeches feature many of the same mythical tales that were also presented on stage. Like many of the plays the funeral orations emphasize important themes such as Athenian unity their aid to suppliants and their willingness to drive away foreign invaders to protect the other Greeks. The selective version of more recent history found in the funeral orations also highlights these same qualities by focusing on the role of Athens during the Persian Wars 490-479 when the city helped save the other Greeks from invading foreigners and by passing over other events such as the Peloponnesian War 431–404 in which Athens opposed fellow Greeks. Although nearly all of the surviving Greek tragedies are set in the distant mythical past the significant exception is Aeschylus’ Persians the audience in the theater would recognize aspects of contemporary Athens in the depiction of ancient Athenian heroes such as Theseus. The funeral orations draw similar connections more explicitly by presenting a continuous narrative tying the present generation with the great heroes of long ago." -- with a bonus offer--; 520-Herrm; Thucydides Gorgias Lysias Plato Menexenus Demosthenes and Hyperides; with Herrman Judson Translation Introduction notes Commentary Athenian Funeral Orations ; Translations are in English including Introduction notes and literary and histori . 2003. 1585100781 . Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co Inc,us paperback
1545réf. 00009254Venetia = Venice: Vincenzo Vaugris = Vincenzo Valgrisi 1545. First Italian edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 24 1-440 1 pp. Every other text page paginated. Recent early 20th century tan paper-covered boards. Title page with publisher's device woodcut initials final page of text with publisher's device on the reverse. Translated from the Italian on the title page: "With annotations and explanations of the historical places and most detailed alphabetized tables of all the wars the peace agreements the alliances formed the naval battles the daily events the cities taken the portents predicted and the leveled burned destroyed places that are recorded in history." Translated from the Greek into the Tuscan language by Francesco di Soldo Strozzi Fiorentino. A Manual of Classical Bibliography Joseph Moss 700. The Oxford Classical Dictionary 1134; 1516-1521. The first edition in Italian. Moss records this imprint as the first edition in Italian and writes that it has been reprinted several times both with and without dates. Adams records an undated Venetian imprint from Baldassar de Constantini Adams T-684 but not the Venetian Valgrisi imprint the Constantini imprint recorded by Adams shares the same collation as the Valgrisi imprint. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War is one of the first written histories dependent on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to be produced in the Western world. The work is divided into several parts: an introductory book a section on The Ten Years War focused on the conflict between Athens and Corinth the peace that followed this war The Peace of Nicias the Sicilian War the Plague that struck Athens with the last book Book 8 a portion of Thucydides history on the Decelean War. Thucydides intended his histories to describe the events that directly follow the ones recorded by Herodotus. He began writing the books soon after the Peloponnesian War started and recorded several of the events soon after they happened. From his 20s to his 50s Thucydides worked on his histories and the work reflects his changing perspective over time. His scientific exacting approach to describing the causes of the war and the fall of Athens along with his brief and concise prose all help his work to stand apart from the other historical writings of Classical Antiquity. Binding is Near Fine with two tiny splits to the paper over the joints leaves rarely show foxing with one or two corners missing not affecting the text marginal annotations or the catch words. Overall a nice clean copy. Vincenzo Vaugris [= Vincenzo Valgrisi] hardcover
réf. Z1-B-004-00744BiblioLife. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. BiblioLife unknown
1562réf. 71711Coloniae Cologne: Apud Maternum Cholinum Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius 1562. Hardcover. Very Good. Coloniae Cologne Apud Maternum Cholinum Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius 1562 first thus. Folio 24 index 274 pages. Contemporary quarter vellum; early ink titles to the spine and to the top and leading edges; covers worn; marginal pencilling small worm hole throughout; some leaves tanned; occasional marginal stains; in very good condition internally excellent. A handsome Sammelband containing Lorenzo Valla's authoritative Latin translations of Herodotus' 'Histories' and Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War' also published by Maternus Cholius. The second title bound before the Herodotus is: 'Thucydides Laurentio Valla interprete. Nunc postremò correctus & ex Graeco innumeris locis emendatus quemadmodum ex Praefatione in proxima pagina uidere licet'. Basileae Basel Impensis Henrici Petri et Materni Collini Henricus Petrus and Maternus Cholinus 1564. Folio xii 370 2 integral blank pages; in comparable condition. Provenance: Old ownership details to the first title page: 'Sum Jacobi a Wachtendunck 1616. Ex liberali donatione R.D. Wildhelmi Ludolfi V.C. Ex donatione Jacobi a Wachtendungk factus ex libris name crossed out and illegible'. VD16 H 2516 Herodotus; VD16 T 1122 Thucydides. Apud Maternum Cholinum [Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus] [Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius] hardcover
1731réf. 4069A handsome copy in the original full vellum. Folding maps of ancient Greece & Sicily. ; Folio 27 x 41.5 cm; 343472848123 pages. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. R. & J. Wetstein & Gul. Smith hardcover
1759réf. 140946021Glasguae Glasgow: Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1759. Near Fine. Foulis Press edition. Each volume has the Greek text followed by the Latin translation which was taken from Duker's 1731 edition by Valla rev. Estienne Portus & Duker. Bound in contemporary speckled calf with double gilt ruling; six compartment spines tooled in gilt with five raised bands and the original morocco spine labels. All edges stained red 6.25" x 4" 18mo. Near Fine with chip to spine label on volume one minor rubbing to joints. Minor dust soiling to top edges; slight offset to title pages in each volume else bright. A handsome set of Thucydides' primary historical account The Peloponnesian War printed by famed scholars and publishers Robert and Andrew Foulis. A pioneering work of history. Robertus et Andreas Foulis unknown
1759réf. 140946021Glasguae Glasgow: Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1759. Near Fine. Foulis Press edition. Each volume has the Greek text followed by the Latin translation which was taken from Duker's 1731 edition by Valla rev. Estienne Portus & Duker. Bound in contemporary speckled calf with double gilt ruling; six compartment spines tooled in gilt with five raised bands and the original morocco spine labels. All edges stained red 6.25" x 4" 18mo. Near Fine with chip to spine label on volume one minor rubbing to joints. Minor dust soiling to top edges; slight offset to title pages in each volume else bright. A handsome set of Thucydides' primary historical account The Peloponnesian War printed by famed scholars and publishers Robert and Andrew Foulis. A pioneering work of history. Robertus et Andreas Foulis unknown books
réf. 122447London Printed by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper and are to be sold by him at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street 1676. . Second edition 'much corrected and amended'; folio 32 x 20.5 cm; additional engraved title 2 folding engraved maps 3 further engraved plates including one folding woodcut initials letter title printed in red and black initials in pen to title maps with closed tears engraved title slightly frayed at margins upper margin a little softened and frayed through prelims with dampstaining to upper margin running throughout a little spotted and toned; contemporary blind-panelled calf edges sprinkled red covers abraded joints and edges expertly restored; 48 357 11pp. The final lifetime edition of Hobbes' English-language translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC fought between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta and the Delian League of Athens. 'Hobbes 1588-1679 was forty when he completed this translation the first in English directly from the Greek but held it back for some time doubting whether he would get readers enough but published it eventually deciding to be content with "the few and better sort". Forty years later in Vita Carmine Expressa he said that he had written it so that his contemporaries might learn from the fate of Athenian democracy how much wiser one man is than the mass of men' MacDonald & Hargreaves. Complete with folding engraved maps of 'Antient Greece' annotated by Hobbes himself and 'Antient Sicele' and engraved plates depicting 'Plataea' 'The Campe of the Lacedemonians.' and the folding engraved view of 'Syracuse besieged by the Atheniana'. ESTC R11589; MacDonald & Hargreaves4. London, Printed by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, and are to be sold by him, at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstans C unknown
1676réf. 922London: Andrew Clark 1676. Second Edition. Folio 13" Tall Fine Leather Binding Bound by A.B. Buck. Near Fine. The History of the Grecian War: In Eight Books Written by Thucydides. Faithfully Translated from the Original by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. Second Edition 1676. Printed in London by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper. A handsome beautifully bound 1676 second edition of Thomas Hobbes's landmark translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. Originally published in 1629 Hobbes's translation was his first published work and remains one of the most celebrated and muscular English translations of the great Greek historian. Complete with striking fold-out maps and detailed engravings this volume represents a brilliant intersection of classical history and 17th-century English political philosophy. The Hobbes Translation: Highly sought after by collectors of both classical history and political philosophy. Hobbes translated Thucydides to warn his fellow Englishmen against the dangers of democracy making this text a precursor to his later masterpiece Leviathan. Superb Cartography & Engravings: Features the magnificent "Mapp of Antient Greece" expressly designed by Thomas Hobbes himself alongside intricate fold-out plates depicting city fortifications regional maps and boasts a beautifully engraved architectural title page. Imprint: London: Printed by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper and are to be sold by him at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street MDCLXXVI 1676. Second Edition much Corrected and Amended. Large folio 13"x9" bound by A.B. Buck in full dark brown Morocco with six compartments and five raised bands to spine with bright gilt rule to bands. Binding and hinges are excellent new end papers and paste downs elaborate engraved frontispiece/title page depicting Thucydides and scenes from the Peloponnesian War. The text block is crisp with generous margins. Includes the dedication to Sir William Cavendish. The volume contains all fold-out maps and plans including the notable map of Ancient Greece by Hobbes himself and detailed engravings of fortified cities. Early neat ink marginalia/manuscript notes on the endpapers add a lovely touch of historical provenance. Pages are bright and clean with minimal age toning/foxing/soiling. Thomas Hobbes undertook this translation during a period of rising political tension in England. He chose Thucydides because in Hobbes's own view the Greek historian demonstrated the failures of democracy and the necessity of strong centralized authority. Because of this this translation is not just a classical history-it is a foundational text in the development of modern political thought. Key Conflicts & Campaigns within the Text The Archidamian War Books 1-5: This is the first decade of the conflict characterized by repeated Spartan invasions of Attica and Athenian naval raids on the Peloponnesian coast. It includes the famous account of the devastating Plague of Athens which killed the great Athenian leader Pericles. The Siege of Plataea Books 2-3: One of the most famous and harrowing sieges in ancient history. Thucydides provides incredible tactical details of the Spartan siege engines the Plataean counter-defenses and the ultimate desperate breakout attempt by the defenders in the dead of winter. The Mytilenean Revolt Book 3: A critical moment where the city of Mytilene attempts to break away from the Athenian Empire. This section contains the famous "Mytilenean Debate" a chilling discussion on the ethics of empire justice and whether to execute an entire rebel population. The Battle of Pylos and Sphacteria Book 4: A shocking Athenian victory where they managed to trap and capture elite Spartan hoplites on a small island. This completely upended the myth of Spartan invincibility as Spartans were expected to fight to the death rather than surrender. The Sicilian Expedition Books 6-7: Often considered the climax of Thucydides's narrative this covers Athens' disastrous hubristic attempt to conquer Syracuse in Sicily. It is a massive self-contained tragedy within the broader war ending in the total annihilation of the Athenian fleet and army. For collectors Books 6 and 7 are often considered the greatest pieces of military writing in antiquity. The Ionian War / The Oligarchic Coup Book 8: The final book covers the beginning of the end for Athens detailing naval warfare in the Aegean the intervention of the Persian Empire and the political collapse of the Athenian democracy into a short-lived oligarchy. Thucydides's manuscript abruptly cuts off in the year 411 BC. . Andrew Clark unknown
1540réf. 4885Basel: Ex Officina Hervagiana 1540. THIRD EDITION IN GREEK 1st ed. 1502. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin lightly soiled some surface abrasions discreet repairs to hinges. The binding is stamped with the date 1542 and the initial M. The boards are ruled in compartments with blind-stamped figurative rolls featuring female personifications of Prudence holding a mirror and Justice with her scales as well as Christ Moses and Lucretia plunging her a sword into hear breast. Further tools include interlocking sheaves of wheat and small pomegranates. A nice copy with broad margins. There is a little light dust-soiling to the margins of the first few leaves the final leaf and scattered instances in the upper margin elsewhere; a persistent light dampstain to the upper inner corner of the leaves; a wormhole to the outer blank margin occasionally developing into a short trail only entering the text in gatherings Z A and B. With minute contemporary annotations in the first three books. Printed in Greek with attractive woodcut Greek initials and Herwagen’s printer’s device on final leaf. This is the third printed edition of the Greek text of Thucydides edited by the renowned humanist Joachim Camerarius to whom Henri Estienne would dedicate in 1564 his own edition of Thucydides. In his introduction Camerarius tells us that he used a manuscript -brought to Italy from Constantinople over one-hundred years earlier- that had only recently come to Basel thanks to Herwagen. The text is followed by the scholia. “The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him. He began work at the very start of the events he records and the penetration and concentration which he devoted to his account of the ‘Peloponnesian War’ the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. were based on the conviction that it would prove the most important event in Greek history.”PMM 102. Ex Officina Hervagiana hardcover
1540réf. 4885Basel: Ex Officina Hervagiana 1540. THIRD EDITION IN GREEK 1st ed. 1502. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin lightly soiled some surface abrasions discreet repairs to hinges. The binding is stamped with the date 1542 and the initial M. The boards are ruled in compartments with blind-stamped figurative rolls featuring female personifications of Prudence holding a mirror and Justice with her scales as well as Christ Moses and Lucretia plunging her a sword into hear breast. Further tools include interlocking sheaves of wheat and small pomegranates. A nice copy with broad margins. There is a little light dust-soiling to the margins of the first few leaves the final leaf and scattered instances in the upper margin elsewhere; a persistent light dampstain to the upper inner corner of the leaves; a wormhole to the outer blank margin occasionally developing into a short trail only entering the text in gatherings Z A and B. With minute contemporary annotations in the first three books. Printed in Greek with attractive woodcut Greek initials and Herwagen’s printer’s device on final leaf. This is the third printed edition of the Greek text of Thucydides edited by the renowned humanist Joachim Camerarius to whom Henri Estienne would dedicate in 1564 his own edition of Thucydides. In his introduction Camerarius tells us that he used a manuscript -brought to Italy from Constantinople over one-hundred years earlier- that had only recently come to Basel thanks to Herwagen. The text is followed by the scholia. “The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him. He began work at the very start of the events he records and the penetration and concentration which he devoted to his account of the ‘Peloponnesian War’ the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. were based on the conviction that it would prove the most important event in Greek history.”PMM 102. Ex Officina Hervagiana hardcover books
1588réf. 1936Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1588. SECOND ESTIENNE EDITION corrected by Estienne and with numerous additions. Printed in two sizes of the ‘grecs du roi’ types of Claude Garamond. There are numerous historiated initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces. The Estienne "Noli altum sapere" device appears on the title page. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary calf rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central wreath-like cartouches also gilt are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition with good margins. There is however a bit of worming affecting the text in the first part. Second Estienne edition generally considered the best sixteenth century edition of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War. The war was fought from 431–404 BC “between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of alliances that between them included nearly every Greek city-state. The fighting engulfed virtually the entire Greek world and it was properly regarded by Thucydides as the most momentous war up to that time. With Athens’ defeat . . . the most culturally advanced Greek state was brought into final eclipse.” Britannica "For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia as well as further revised Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text in parallel columns while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Estienne has also added marginal concordances to his first edition. Among the other important additions are Estienne's ‘Proparasceue’ Preparation to the reading of the Greek scholia which is to this day a most valuable exposition of the special vocabulary and technical terminology used by the Greek scholiasts; his annotations on the text and scholia of the first two books Renouard as well as Carter and Muir in PMM wrongly attribute these annotations to Isaac Casaubon; the Thucydidean Chronology of David Chytraeus and the Greek Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus with a Latin translation by Casaubon." Quoted from Schreiber's "The Estiennes" "The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him"PMM 102. “Thucydides kept rigidly to his theme: the history of a war—that is a story of battles and sieges of alliances hastily made and soon broken and most important of the behaviour of peoples as the war dragged on and on of the inevitable “corrosion of the human spirit.” He vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactics on land and sea. He gives a picture direct in speeches indirect in the narrative of the ambitious imperialism of Athens—controlled ambition in Pericles reckless in Alcibiades debased in Cleon—ever confident that nothing was impossible for them resilient after the worst disaster. He shows also the opposing picture of the slow steadiness of Sparta sometimes so successful at other times so accommodating to the enemy. “His record of Pericles’ speech on those killed in the first year of the war is the most glowing account of Athens and Athenian democracy that any leading citizen could hope to hear. It is followed in of course due chronological order by a minutely accurate account of the symptoms of the pestilence “so that it may be recognized by medical men if it recurs” and a moving description of the demoralizing despair that overtook men after so much suffering and such heavy losses—probably more than a quarter of the population most of it crowded within the walls of the city died. “Equally moving is the account of the last battles in the great harbour of Syracuse and of the Athenian retreat. In one of his best-known passages he analyzes by a most careful choice of words almost creating the language as he writes the moral and political effects of civil strife within a state in time of war. By a different method in speeches he portrays the hard fate of the town of Plataea due to the long-embittered envy and cruelty of Thebes and the faithlessness of Sparta and the harsh brutality of Cleon when he proposed to execute all the men of the Aegean island city of Mytilene. Occasionally he is forced into personal comment as on the pathetic fate of the virtuous and much-liked Athenian Nicias. “He had strong feelings both as a man and as a citizen of Athens. He was filled with a passion for the truth as he saw it which not only kept him free from vulgar partiality against the enemy but served him as a historian in the accurate narrative of events—accurate in their detail and order and also in their relative importance. He does not for example exaggerate the significance of the campaign he himself commanded nor does he offer a self-defense for his failure. Characteristically he mentions his exile not as an event of the war but in his “second preface”—after the peace of 421—to explain his opportunities for wider contacts. By the end of the 4th c. BC “the philosopher Theophrastus coupled Thucydides with Herodotus as a founder of the writing of history. Little is known of what the scholars of Alexandria and Pergamum did for his book; but copies of it were being made in considerable numbers in Egypt and so doubtless elsewhere from the 1st to the 5th century AD. By the 1st century BC as is clear from the writings of Cicero and Dionysius who vainly disputed his preeminence Thucydides was established as the great historian and since that time his fame has been secure.” Britannica. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus hardcover
1588réf. 1936Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1588. SECOND ESTIENNE EDITION corrected by Estienne and with numerous additions. Printed in two sizes of the ‘grecs du roi’ types of Claude Garamond. There are numerous historiated initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces. The Estienne "Noli altum sapere" device appears on the title page. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary calf rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central wreath-like cartouches also gilt are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition with good margins. There is however a bit of worming affecting the text in the first part. Second Estienne edition generally considered the best sixteenth century edition of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War. The war was fought from 431–404 BC “between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of alliances that between them included nearly every Greek city-state. The fighting engulfed virtually the entire Greek world and it was properly regarded by Thucydides as the most momentous war up to that time. With Athens’ defeat . . . the most culturally advanced Greek state was brought into final eclipse.” Britannica "For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia as well as further revised Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text in parallel columns while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Estienne has also added marginal concordances to his first edition. Among the other important additions are Estienne's ‘Proparasceue’ Preparation to the reading of the Greek scholia which is to this day a most valuable exposition of the special vocabulary and technical terminology used by the Greek scholiasts; his annotations on the text and scholia of the first two books Renouard as well as Carter and Muir in PMM wrongly attribute these annotations to Isaac Casaubon; the Thucydidean Chronology of David Chytraeus and the Greek Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus with a Latin translation by Casaubon." Quoted from Schreiber's "The Estiennes" "The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him"PMM 102. “Thucydides kept rigidly to his theme: the history of a war—that is a story of battles and sieges of alliances hastily made and soon broken and most important of the behaviour of peoples as the war dragged on and on of the inevitable “corrosion of the human spirit.” He vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactics on land and sea. He gives a picture direct in speeches indirect in the narrative of the ambitious imperialism of Athens—controlled ambition in Pericles reckless in Alcibiades debased in Cleon—ever confident that nothing was impossible for them resilient after the worst disaster. He shows also the opposing picture of the slow steadiness of Sparta sometimes so successful at other times so accommodating to the enemy. “His record of Pericles’ speech on those killed in the first year of the war is the most glowing account of Athens and Athenian democracy that any leading citizen could hope to hear. It is followed in of course due chronological order by a minutely accurate account of the symptoms of the pestilence “so that it may be recognized by medical men if it recurs” and a moving description of the demoralizing despair that overtook men after so much suffering and such heavy losses—probably more than a quarter of the population most of it crowded within the walls of the city died. “Equally moving is the account of the last battles in the great harbour of Syracuse and of the Athenian retreat. In one of his best-known passages he analyzes by a most careful choice of words almost creating the language as he writes the moral and political effects of civil strife within a state in time of war. By a different method in speeches he portrays the hard fate of the town of Plataea due to the long-embittered envy and cruelty of Thebes and the faithlessness of Sparta and the harsh brutality of Cleon when he proposed to execute all the men of the Aegean island city of Mytilene. Occasionally he is forced into personal comment as on the pathetic fate of the virtuous and much-liked Athenian Nicias. “He had strong feelings both as a man and as a citizen of Athens. He was filled with a passion for the truth as he saw it which not only kept him free from vulgar partiality against the enemy but served him as a historian in the accurate narrative of events—accurate in their detail and order and also in their relative importance. He does not for example exaggerate the significance of the campaign he himself commanded nor does he offer a self-defense for his failure. Characteristically he mentions his exile not as an event of the war but in his “second preface”—after the peace of 421—to explain his opportunities for wider contacts. By the end of the 4th c. BC “the philosopher Theophrastus coupled Thucydides with Herodotus as a founder of the writing of history. Little is known of what the scholars of Alexandria and Pergamum did for his book; but copies of it were being made in considerable numbers in Egypt and so doubtless elsewhere from the 1st to the 5th century AD. By the 1st century BC as is clear from the writings of Cicero and Dionysius who vainly disputed his preeminence Thucydides was established as the great historian and since that time his fame has been secure.” Britannica. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus hardcover books
1588réf. 4174Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1588. SECOND ESTIENNE EDITION corrected by Estienne and with numerous additions. Printed in two sizes of the ‘grecs du roi’ types of Claude Garamond. There are numerous historiated initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces. The Estienne "Noli altum sapere" device appears on the title page. Hardcover. Fine. A fine tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition lightly toned with minor blemishes A FEW small ink stains sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf ss2 small rust spot g3-5 v. light dampstain at corner light damp to lower outer margin of final few signatures title and verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Provenance: 1. Ownership inscription dated 1595 of the German jurist political philosopher and seven-time rector of the University of Tübingen Christoph Besold 1577-1638. Besold was a close friend of Johannes Kepler whom he met while studying at Tübingen at which time he purchased this book. Besold championed Kepler's theories while at Tübingen and in 1626 he participated in the trial of Kepler's mother who was accused of witchcraft and ultimately acquitted. As a political philosopher Besold proposed a form of mixed constitution in which the ‘rights of majesty’ are divided between the prince and the assembly of estates. For his evolving views see his “De consilio politico axiomata”1622 “De statu reipublicae mixtu”revised ed. 1625 and “Principium et finis politicae”1626. For his views on Democracy in particular see his 1623 “Discursus politici” esp. Chapter III “De Democratia”. 2. Small stamp of the Donaueschingen Hofbibliothek library sold 1999-2001 on verso of the title. Second Estienne edition generally considered the best sixteenth century edition of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War. The war was fought from 431–404 BC “between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of alliances that between them included nearly every Greek city-state. The fighting engulfed virtually the entire Greek world and it was properly regarded by Thucydides as the most momentous war up to that time. With Athens’ defeat . . . the most culturally advanced Greek state was brought into final eclipse.” Britannica "For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia as well as further revised Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text in parallel columns while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Estienne has also added marginal concordances to his first edition. Among the other important additions are Estienne's ‘Proparasceue’ Preparation to the reading of the Greek scholia which is to this day a most valuable exposition of the special vocabulary and technical terminology used by the Greek scholiasts; his annotations on the text and scholia of the first two books Renouard as well as Carter and Muir in PMM wrongly attribute these annotations to Isaac Casaubon; the Thucydidean Chronology of David Chytraeus and the Greek Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus with a Latin translation by Casaubon." Quoted from Schreiber's "The Estiennes" "The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him"PMM 102. “Thucydides kept rigidly to his theme: the history of a war—that is a story of battles and sieges of alliances hastily made and soon broken and most important of the behaviour of peoples as the war dragged on and on of the inevitable “corrosion of the human spirit.” He vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactics on land and sea. He gives a picture direct in speeches indirect in the narrative of the ambitious imperialism of Athens—controlled ambition in Pericles reckless in Alcibiades debased in Cleon—ever confident that nothing was impossible for them resilient after the worst disaster. He shows also the opposing picture of the slow steadiness of Sparta sometimes so successful at other times so accommodating to the enemy. “His record of Pericles’ speech on those killed in the first year of the war is the most glowing account of Athens and Athenian democracy that any leading citizen could hope to hear. It is followed in of course due chronological order by a minutely accurate account of the symptoms of the pestilence “so that it may be recognized by medical men if it recurs” and a moving description of the demoralizing despair that overtook men after so much suffering and such heavy losses—probably more than a quarter of the population most of it crowded within the walls of the city died. “Equally moving is the account of the last battles in the great harbour of Syracuse and of the Athenian retreat. In one of his best-known passages he analyzes by a most careful choice of words almost creating the language as he writes the moral and political effects of civil strife within a state in time of war. By a different method in speeches he portrays the hard fate of the town of Plataea due to the long-embittered envy and cruelty of Thebes and the faithlessness of Sparta and the harsh brutality of Cleon when he proposed to execute all the men of the Aegean island city of Mytilene. Occasionally he is forced into personal comment as on the pathetic fate of the virtuous and much-liked Athenian Nicias. “He had strong feelings both as a man and as a citizen of Athens. He was filled with a passion for the truth as he saw it which not only kept him free from vulgar partiality against the enemy but served him as a historian in the accurate narrative of events—accurate in their detail and order and also in their relative importance. He does not for example exaggerate the significance of the campaign he himself commanded nor does he offer a self-defense for his failure. Characteristically he mentions his exile not as an event of the war but in his “second preface”—after the peace of 421—to explain his opportunities for wider contacts. By the end of the 4th c. BC “the philosopher Theophrastus coupled Thucydides with Herodotus as a founder of the writing of history. Little is known of what the scholars of Alexandria and Pergamum did for his book; but copies of it were being made in considerable numbers in Egypt and so doubtless elsewhere from the 1st to the 5th century AD. By the 1st century BC as is clear from the writings of Cicero and Dionysius who vainly disputed his preeminence Thucydides was established as the great historian and since that time his fame has been secure.” Britannica. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus hardcover
1588réf. 4174Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1588. SECOND ESTIENNE EDITION corrected by Estienne and with numerous additions. Printed in two sizes of the ‘grecs du roi’ types of Claude Garamond. There are numerous historiated initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces. The Estienne "Noli altum sapere" device appears on the title page. Hardcover. Fine. A fine tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition lightly toned with minor blemishes A FEW small ink stains sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf ss2 small rust spot g3-5 v. light dampstain at corner light damp to lower outer margin of final few signatures title and verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Provenance: 1. Ownership inscription dated 1595 of the German jurist political philosopher and seven-time rector of the University of Tübingen Christoph Besold 1577-1638. Besold was a close friend of Johannes Kepler whom he met while studying at Tübingen at which time he purchased this book. Besold championed Kepler's theories while at Tübingen and in 1626 he participated in the trial of Kepler's mother who was accused of witchcraft and ultimately acquitted. As a political philosopher Besold proposed a form of mixed constitution in which the ‘rights of majesty’ are divided between the prince and the assembly of estates. For his evolving views see his “De consilio politico axiomata”1622 “De statu reipublicae mixtu”revised ed. 1625 and “Principium et finis politicae”1626. For his views on Democracy in particular see his 1623 “Discursus politici” esp. Chapter III “De Democratia”. 2. Small stamp of the Donaueschingen Hofbibliothek library sold 1999-2001 on verso of the title. Second Estienne edition generally considered the best sixteenth century edition of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War. The war was fought from 431–404 BC “between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of alliances that between them included nearly every Greek city-state. The fighting engulfed virtually the entire Greek world and it was properly regarded by Thucydides as the most momentous war up to that time. With Athens’ defeat . . . the most culturally advanced Greek state was brought into final eclipse.” Britannica "For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia as well as further revised Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text in parallel columns while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Estienne has also added marginal concordances to his first edition. Among the other important additions are Estienne's ‘Proparasceue’ Preparation to the reading of the Greek scholia which is to this day a most valuable exposition of the special vocabulary and technical terminology used by the Greek scholiasts; his annotations on the text and scholia of the first two books Renouard as well as Carter and Muir in PMM wrongly attribute these annotations to Isaac Casaubon; the Thucydidean Chronology of David Chytraeus and the Greek Life of Thucydides by Marcellinus with a Latin translation by Casaubon." Quoted from Schreiber's "The Estiennes" "The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. Thucydides has been valued as he hoped; statesmen as well as historians men of affairs as well as scholars have read and profited by him"PMM 102. “Thucydides kept rigidly to his theme: the history of a war—that is a story of battles and sieges of alliances hastily made and soon broken and most important of the behaviour of peoples as the war dragged on and on of the inevitable “corrosion of the human spirit.” He vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactics on land and sea. He gives a picture direct in speeches indirect in the narrative of the ambitious imperialism of Athens—controlled ambition in Pericles reckless in Alcibiades debased in Cleon—ever confident that nothing was impossible for them resilient after the worst disaster. He shows also the opposing picture of the slow steadiness of Sparta sometimes so successful at other times so accommodating to the enemy. “His record of Pericles’ speech on those killed in the first year of the war is the most glowing account of Athens and Athenian democracy that any leading citizen could hope to hear. It is followed in of course due chronological order by a minutely accurate account of the symptoms of the pestilence “so that it may be recognized by medical men if it recurs” and a moving description of the demoralizing despair that overtook men after so much suffering and such heavy losses—probably more than a quarter of the population most of it crowded within the walls of the city died. “Equally moving is the account of the last battles in the great harbour of Syracuse and of the Athenian retreat. In one of his best-known passages he analyzes by a most careful choice of words almost creating the language as he writes the moral and political effects of civil strife within a state in time of war. By a different method in speeches he portrays the hard fate of the town of Plataea due to the long-embittered envy and cruelty of Thebes and the faithlessness of Sparta and the harsh brutality of Cleon when he proposed to execute all the men of the Aegean island city of Mytilene. Occasionally he is forced into personal comment as on the pathetic fate of the virtuous and much-liked Athenian Nicias. “He had strong feelings both as a man and as a citizen of Athens. He was filled with a passion for the truth as he saw it which not only kept him free from vulgar partiality against the enemy but served him as a historian in the accurate narrative of events—accurate in their detail and order and also in their relative importance. He does not for example exaggerate the significance of the campaign he himself commanded nor does he offer a self-defense for his failure. Characteristically he mentions his exile not as an event of the war but in his “second preface”—after the peace of 421—to explain his opportunities for wider contacts. By the end of the 4th c. BC “the philosopher Theophrastus coupled Thucydides with Herodotus as a founder of the writing of history. Little is known of what the scholars of Alexandria and Pergamum did for his book; but copies of it were being made in considerable numbers in Egypt and so doubtless elsewhere from the 1st to the 5th century AD. By the 1st century BC as is clear from the writings of Cicero and Dionysius who vainly disputed his preeminence Thucydides was established as the great historian and since that time his fame has been secure.” Britannica. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus hardcover books
1550réf. 111546London: William Tylle 1550. First edition of one one of the greatest of classic historical works. Folio bound in 19th century full vellum morocco spine label marbled endpapers title-page with elaboarate historiated woodcut border. In very good condition with light toning to the text. Rare and desirable in this condition. “The standards and methods of Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered. He began work at the very start of the events he records and the penetration and concentration which he devoted to his account of the ‘Peloponnesian War’ the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. were based on the conviction that it would prove the most important event in Greek history… He saw his history as a source of profit to ‘those who desire an exact knowledge of the past as a key to the future which in all probability will resemble the past.’ It was in this sense… that he called it… ‘a possession forever.’ This is exactly what it has become” PMM 102. William Tylle hardcover
