The history of Thucydides / newly translated into English, and illustrated with very copious annotations, exegetical, philological, historical and geographical; almost entirely original ... / by the Rev. S.T. Bloomfield [complete in three volumes]
1829, First Edition. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. Very good copies recased and rebacked in modern half-leather over marbled boards, preserving the original spines. Gilt tooling to the spines and the modern labels mounted thereto. Text block with marbled edges, notably tight. Sporadic, faint marginal foxing, with heavier foxing to maps as well as their facing pages. Folding maps remain in otherwise very good condition. A well-preserved set overall. Item #451162
Physical description; complete in 3 volumes : maps (part folded) ; 22 cm. Notes; Title continues "Prefixed is an entirely new Life of Thucydides, with a memoir on the state of Greece, civil and military, at the commencement of the Peloponnesian war." Subjects; Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Price: €275.00