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Title: Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes secretary to ye late Earle of Devonshire Author: Thucydides. Place: London Publisher: Imprinted [at Eliot’s Court Press] for Richard Mynne Date: 1634 Description: Translated by Thomas Hobbes. [34 (incl. engraved title-page)], 536 [i.e. 535], [13] pp. Signatures: engr. t.p.+A⁴, a-c⁴, B-3Y⁴, 3Z⁶ (with final leaf a blank). With engraved pictorial title-page 5 copper-engraved maps and plans (2 folding). [Bound with]: The History of Polybius the Megalopolitan. London: Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1633. [xiv], 480, [14] pp. (Folio) 33.5x22 cm. (13x8½"). Period full calf, black leather label. First edition of the Thomas Hobbes translation of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, chronicling the conflict between Athens and Sparta, this being the 1634 second issue with a cancel title-page with different imprint and date; the first issue was dated 1629. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, covers detached; hole in title page of first work, final two leaves of index to second work torn with some loss; several long tears to large folding map; good. Item number: 260980