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THUCYDIDES – XENOPHON – Nicolas PERROT D’ABLANCOURT (Trans.)
Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War; Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, continued by Xenophon. Translated by Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d’Ablancourt; Xenophon’s Greek History, or the Continuation of Thucydides
Paris. Published by Michel-Étienne David the Elder, Quai des Augustins, at La Providence, 1714 – and, Paris. Michel Clousier, 1714 (Volume III).
3 volumes in-12°. Full brine sheepskin binding. Spined back decorated with gilt metalwork and fleurons. Cap bands trimmed on volumes I and II. Foot bands trimmed on volumes II and III.
A complete copy bringing together two translations by Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancour.
Between 1662 and 1795, no other translation of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was produced.
The printing licence granted to the bookseller Clousier in 1712 was shared by several booksellers, including Michel-Étienne David, Nicolas Gosselin and Jean-Geoffroy Nyon.
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