Historiōn ta Sōzomena
by Polybius
Bibliographic Information
Author: Polybius.
Title: Historiōn ta Sōzomena: Polybii Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarum Libri qui Supersunt.
Publication Info: Amstelodami: Officina Johannis Janssonii à Waesberge, & Johannis van Someren, 1670.
Edition:
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed twice in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Polybius. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo. Thomas Jefferson gave one copy to John Wayles Eppes and the other to Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Jefferson had sent at least one of these copies to Wythe from Paris.[1] Brown's Bibliography[2] includes the 1763-64 edition of Polybius published in Leipzig based on an edition Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[3] George Wythe's Library[4] on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown."
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in later full calf, uniformly bound, with raised bands and spines in six panels. Has morocco title label to second panel, contrasting morocco volume label to third, and remaining panels with gilt central lozenge and volute corner pieces. Gilt rolled border to covers with all edged marbled and blue endpapers. Purchased from Temple Rare Books.
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References
- ↑ See Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787, page 5.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:25 [no.51].
- ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
