THUCYDIDE, XÉNOPHON
L'histoire de Thucydide de la guerre du Peloponese ; L'histoire de Thucydide de la guerre du Peloponese, continuée par Xénophon. De la Traduction de Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d'Ablancourt ; L'histoire grecque de Xénophon, ou la suite de Thucydide[History by Thucydide of the Peloponnesian War ; History by Thucydide of the Peloponnesian War, pursued by Xenophon. Translation by Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d'Ablancourt ; Greek History by Xenophon]
Chez Michel-Étienne David, l'aîné, Quay des Augustins, à la Providence. • Chez, Nicolas Gosselin, dans la grand'Salle du Palais, à l'Envie. • Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, l'aîné, Quay de Conti, au coin de la rüe Guenegaud.|Paris 1714|10 x 16.6 cm|Relié
Complete copy comprising two translations by Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, whose works are commonly known as "belles infidèles" (beautiful but unfaithful translations). Between 1662 and 1795, no other translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War was published. The privilege granted to the bookseller Clousier in 1712 was shared among several booksellers, including Michel-Étienne David, Nicolas Gosselin, and Jean-Geoffroy Nyon.
Contemporary full brown calf, gilt spines with five raised bands and four compartments decorated with plain and dotted fillets enclosing fleuron tools, tan morocco lettering-pieces, numbering-pieces within gilt b
€300