Shelfmark
En.6.15 - En.6.22
Author
Uniform title
[De bello Peloponnesiaco. Latin & Greek. 1759]
Title
Ho tou Thoukydidou Polemos Peloponnesiakos. Thucydidis Bellum Peloponnesiacum. Ex editione Wassii et Dukeri.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Glasguae : In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Academiae typographi, MDCCLIX. [1759]
Physical description
8 v. ; 8vo.
Language
Parallel Greek and Latin texts.
Note
From the editions of Joseph Wasse and Karl Andreas Duker.
Note
First four words of title transliterated from the Greek.
Note
Latin text follows Greek text in each volume, with separate half-title page and pagination.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T99792
Provenance
Inscription in Latin on front flyleaf of first volume, recording donation to Samuel Hepburne by Thomas Hay, Earl of Kinnoul (Chancellor of St Andrews University, 1765-1787), on successfully defending his dissertation, Spring 1779. Witnessed by Robert Watson, Provost of St Leonard's College.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Kinnoul.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Robert Hepburne of Clarkington.
Provenance
Ownership inscription in some volumes: J. Hepburne Merriot, Mert. Coll.
Binding
18th century dark brown calf; gold tooled roll on board edges; modern rebacking in brown calf with gold tooled decoration and letters; red stained edges with bleached mottling.
Copy-specific note
Annotations in black and red ink throughout.
Subject
Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Added entry--name
Wasse, Joseph, 1672 - 1738 editor.
Added entry--name
Duker, Karl Andreas, 1670 - 1752 editor.
Added entry--name
Foulis, Andrew, ? - d. 1775 printer.
Added entry--name
Foulis, Robert, 1707 - 1776 printer.
Added entry--name
Kinnoull, Thomas Hay, 1710 - 1787 Earl of, previous owner.
Added entry--place
Scotland Glasgow.
Language code
grc lat
Identifier
B33802