Polybius, The History [translated by Grimeston], London, 1634, calf

POLYBIUS

The history of Polybius the Megalopolitan. The five first bookes entire: with all the parcels of the subsequent bookes unto the eighteenth, according to the Greeke originall. Also the manner of the Romane encamping... Translated into English [from the French of Louis Meigret] by Edward Grimeston, sergeant at armes. London: N. Okes for Cornelius Bee, 1634 

folio (315 x 204mm.), title within woodcut border, folding plan, contemporary speckled calf, English manuscript fragment on vellum in binding, some browning, some damp-staining towards the end, joints partially split, spine rubbed

LITERATURE:

Cockle 127; ESTC S116052; STC 20099a