{"product_id":"thucydides-hobbes-history-grecian-war-london-1676-123901","title":"History of the Grecian War:","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003efinal lifetime edition\u003c\/h4\u003eThe final lifetime edition of Hobbes' English-language translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), fought between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, and the Delian League of Athens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hobbes (1588-1679) was forty when he completed this translation [the first in English directly from the Greek] but held it back for some time, doubting whether he would get readers enough, but published it eventually, deciding to be content with \"the few and better sort\". Forty years later, in \u003cem\u003eVita Carmine Expressa\u003c\/em\u003e, he said that he had written it so that his contemporaries might learn from the fate of Athenian democracy how much wiser one man is than the mass of men' (MacDonald \u0026amp; Hargreaves).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplete with folding engraved maps of 'Antient Greece', annotated by Hobbes himself, and 'Antient Sicele', and engraved plates depicting 'Plataea', 'The Campe of the Lacedemonians...', and the folding engraved view of 'Syracuse besieged by the Atheniana'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond edition, 'much corrected and amended'; folio (33 x 21 cm); additional engraved title, 2 folding engraved maps, 3 further engraved plates, including one folding, woodcut initials, letter title printed in red and black, inscription in pen and blue ink to title-page upper margin, textblock toned with occasional spotting; contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked and the covers restored, very good; [48], 357, [11]pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC R11589; MacDonald \u0026amp; Hargreaves 4.","brand":"THUCYDIDES; HOBBES, Thomas (translator).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57636624925047,"sku":"123901","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123901_01.jpg?v=1792774751","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/thucydides-hobbes-history-grecian-war-london-1676-123901","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}