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THUCYDIDES. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre, translated by Thomas Hobbes, London: Richard Mynne, 1634, 4°, engraved title, 3 engraved maps, one folding (this dampstained), two double-page, and 2 double-page plates (text dampstained), contemporary calf (worn) [STC 24059] Provenance: Henry Duke of Newcastle (inscription dated 1676); Edmund Leslie Corry (bookplate) -- XENOPHON. Cyrupaedia. The Institution and Life of Cyrus, translated by Philemon Holland, London: by F.L. for Robert Allot 1632, small 2°, woodcut head and tail pieces (occasional light browning), early 18th-century panelled calf with vellum corners (rebacked) [STC 26068] Provenance: "1709. January 25 Left me by my grand father cost me 1s binding gilding & lettering" (manuscript note on final leaf); Henry White (inscription dated 1808) -- Cornelius TACITUS. The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, translated by R. Grenewey, [London: A. Hatfield for B. and J. Norton], 1598, 2°, bound with -- The Ende of Nero and beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola, translated by H. Savile, [London: E. Bollifant for B. and J. Norton], 1598, 2°, second edition (title to first work and final leaf of second work soiled, final leaves of second work heavily stained and occasionally cropping, dampstaining to D2 and M5, K4 cleanly torn), later sheep (worn) [STC 23644; 23643] Provenance: Robert Hall (inscription in an early hand); and 5 other translations in English. (8)