Thucydides

folio (345 x 210mm.), parallel Latin and Greek text, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, title woodcut initials and headpieces, RED MOROCCO GILT FOR NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC, most likely bound for him in Paris, with his small Greek monogram within an oval made of laurel branches on covers, double gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in compartments, speckled edges, occasional light browning, slight worming at foot, title-leaf becoming loose, spine repaired at head and foot, upper joint cracked

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), monogram on binding and stamp at foot of title-page

VD16 T1116

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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This is the first edition of the Cretan Franciscus Portus's translation of Thucydides into Latin, based on that of Valla as revised by Henri Estienne. It was also printed by Wechel in quarto and sixteenmo in the same year.

The laurel branch oval on the covers is very similar to one used by the Eve bindery in Paris in the late sixteenth century (see Henry Davis Gift, 109).