[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 16th c. French pocket edition of Thucydides

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Thucydides. L'HISTOIRE DE THUCYDIDE ATHENIE DE LAGUERRE QUI FUT ENTRE LES PELOPONESIENS & ATHENIES. Tra[n]slatee en La[n]gueFrancoyse par Seu Messire Claude de Seyssel... Paris: Pierre Gaultier pourJehan Barbe & Claude Garamont. 1545. 16mo. ff.(16),555,(13). With the finalblank. Index. Title with printer's device. Cont. calf, gilt & blind tooledcovers with a central ornament on both covers inlayed in black, spine rebacked.A.e.g. Title and text with some light soiling.     $1,250.00(trade discount allowed)
Arare early French translation. One of the few books with Claude Garamont's namein the imprint. BL French p. 421 (incomplete). Not in Adams.
 
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