Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Thucydides. Thucydidis Atheniensis de Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo è Graeco sermone in Latinum nova interpretatione conversi: cum annotationibus […] chronographia […] Cum indice rerum et verborum praecipuorum auctore Georgio Acacio Enenckel.

With engr. folding map of Greece and a view of the city of Siracusa in woodcut. 16 leaves, 664 pp., 24 leaves. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. – Argentorati (Strassburg), Lazarus Zetzner, 1614.

Learned and authoritative translation of Thucydides’ „Peloponnesian War“ by the Historian Georg Acacius Eneckel, Baron of Hoheneck. – Graesse VI/2, 151 („version très élégante“). – Title with old stamp, erased. Lacking first flyleaf. Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 22401