The History of the Grecian War: In Eight Books. Written by Thucydides. Faithfully Translated from the Original by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. With Maps Describing the Countrey. The Second Edition, Much Corrected and Amended by Thucydides; Hobbes, Thomas, translator - 1676

London: Printed by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, 1676. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and corrected. [46], 357, [10]pp (with two pages misnumbered). Recent dark red full paneled calf, sides decorated in blind, spine with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. Engraved title page in Latin, title page printed in red and black, one foldout map of ancient Greece, one foldout map of ancient Sicily, one foldout plate of Syracuse besieged by the Athenians, two inserted plates. Engravings by Thomas Cecill. With the bookplate of Samuel Boddington on the front pastedown. The name on the bookplate was at some point marked out and the new owner's name written in ink (A. S. Wilkins, likely Professor Augustus S. Wilkins). Minor mends to the engraved title, lower edge of the title page slightly trimmed (not affecting text), old mend to the back of one of the plates, small doodle on the margin of one of the leaves. Internally extremely clean with light toning. A near fine copy. Wing T1134.; Folio.