Historiōn ta Sōzomena

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Historiōn ta Sōzomena: Polybii Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarum Libri qui Supersunt

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Historiōn ta Sōzomena
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Title page from Historiōn ta Sōzomena, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Polybius
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Published Amstelodami: Officina Johannis Janssonii à Waesberge, & Johannis van Someren
Date 1670
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Language Latin
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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.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. See Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787, page 5.
  2. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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
  3. E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:25 [no.51].
  4. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe