[Rarebooks] FS: POLYBIUS, SCIENCE MILITAIRE

[Norman Kane]

WE CAN OFFER:

HISTOIRE DE POLYBE, NOUVELLEMENT TRADUITE DU GREC PAR DOM VINCENT THUILLIER 
. . . AVEC UN COMMENTAIRE OU UN CORPS DE SCIENCE MILITAIRE OU TOUTES LES 
GRANDES PARTIES DE LA GUERRE, SOIT POUR L'OFFENSIVE, SOIT POUR LA DEFENSIVE 
. . .  PAR M.  [JEAN CHARLES] DE FOLARD ...  Paris: Pierre Gandouin et al, 
1727-1730.  6 volumes, 4tos, old full calf, some spine wear, some hinges 
tender.  Bookplate of Fintray House, home of the Forbes-Sempill family 
(Baronets of Craigievar and Tintray) a once noble pile in the village of 
Hatton of Fintray on the river Don in Aberdeenshire.  It was demolished in 
1952.   67 copper plates, many folding, and head and tailpieces, initial 
letters, &c.  Text and plates clean with little or no foxing.  (Greek-born, 
he was nonetheless a meticulous historian of the rise of Rome; he travelled 
widely and witnessed, with Scipio, the destruction of Carthage in 146 
B.C.)     $3750.00


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