(The History Of The Peloponnesian War). De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo, Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Ex Veterum Notationibus Recentiorum Observationibus Recensuit, Argumentis Et Adnotatione Perpetua Illustravit, Indices Et Tabulas Chronologicas Adjecit, Atque De Vita Auctoris Praefatus Est Francis Goeller. Thucydides. Continental & Classics

2 volumes bound as one. 8vo. (21 x 13 cm). pp.xxxii+920. Text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary full vellum with the arms of the city of Utrecht stamped to both covers, smooth spine ruled and decorated in gilt, manuscript title "Thucydides" to upper portion, sprinkled edges. Engraved portrait of Thucydides and engraved map serving as frontispieces. Browning to both plates, contents otherwise clean and crisp, some light soiling to binding, generally a very good copy in a handsome binding, likely a prize binding made for one of the local schools. Thucydides was a fifth-century Greek and eyewitness to the long struggle (431-404 B.C.) for dominance between the warring city-states of Athens and Sparta. De bello Peloponnesiaco, or The History of the Peloponnesian War, his contemporary account of events, is one of the earliest works of historical writing.