Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou Biblia Oktō

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Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou Biblia Oktō = Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo

by Thucydides

Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou Biblia Oktō
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Title page from Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou Biblia Oktō, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Thucydides
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Published Amstelædami: Apud R. & J. Wetstenios & Gul. Smith.
Date 1731
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Language Ancient Greek
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Pages 940
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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as [Th]ucydides Gr. Lat. notis variorum. Dukeri fol. This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both George Wythe's Library[1] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography[2] list the 1731 edition published in Amsterdam. This is also the edition Millicent Sowerby's included in Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,[3] however, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. The Wolf Law Library chose to add the edition suggested by Sowerby, Brown, and LibraryThing.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary blind-stamped Dutch vellum with spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece and 2 folded plates with title-page in red and black. Contains ownership inscriptions to the front flyleaf. Purchased from Blackwell's Rare Books ABA.

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

External Links

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References

  1. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 19, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe.
  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 Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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), 1:8 [no.15].