L'HISTOIRE de THUCYDIDE ATHENIEN, De la guerre qui fut Entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens by THUCYDIDES.: - 1559

Paris, De l'imprimerie de Michel de Vascosan, M.D.LVIIII (1559).. translatee de grec en françois par feu Messire Claude de Seyssel. Divided into 8 books. Folio, approximately 335 x 220 mm, 13¼ x 9 inches, decorated headpiece to beginning of each book, pictorial initials, text in French. Leaves: [12], 1-244, numbered on rectos only, making a total of 512 pages, bound in full modern vellum, black lettering to spine, central design with initials of a previous owner 'William Stirling Maxwell' with his large bookplate on first pastedown, all edges red. Title page slightly dusty, some pale stains to lower margins of 4 pages at rear, nowhere near text, occasional pale age-browning to margins and occasional small brown spot, a few small dotted illustrations in margins at beginning of book, pinhead worm hole to outer margins from title page to leaf 138, nowhere near text, last page has pale age-browning, very old illegible ink name to last page (see attached image), otherwise a very good clean copy. William Sterling Maxwell was an expert on Spanish paintings and was the author of Annals of Artists of Spain. See: Harvard College Library, French 16th Century Books, Volume 2, page 641, No. 523; Adams, Catalogue of Books printed in Europe 1501-1600, Volume 2, page 276, No, 681; Brunet, Manuel du Librarire, Volume V, column 848. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.