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Amsterdam: Arkstée et Merkus, 1774. New Edition. Three volumes of six published, rebound in half leather with marbled boards, gilt titles to red labels, tanned heavily internally, most pages uncut to Tome I and II, illustrated throughout with many plates, most folding. Damp stained and heavily tanned to many pages, pages wavy. Ex library stamps to the half titles, reverse of frontispiece and title page (Vol I) and three pages in the volumes (see below). Bibliotheque des Officiers Metz. Vol. I: [4], C, [4], 242pp, with frontispiece, engraving to title page, and XXXIX numbered plates and a folding map of Sicily at page 1. Stamp at page 101, to the reverse of the frontispiece and to the title. Vol. II: [4], XXII, [2], 336, [28]pp, engraving to title page, XXXVI numbered plates, many folded with an additional plate number VI from Vol IV. Plate XI is bound in upside down; plate XIX is bound in at 105 not 195 as called for. Stamp at page 117, half title page. Vol. III: [4], XXIV, [8], 310pp, engraving to the title page, XVI numbered plates and one folding map of Greece to page 125. Stamp to page 95 and the half title. Collated, complete. Polybius (c. 200 c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period of 264 146 BC, recording in detail events in Italy, Iberia, Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Egypt and Africa, and documented the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars among many others. Polybius's Histories is important not only for being the only Hellenistic historical work to survive in any substantial form, but also for its analysis of constitutional change and the mixed constitution. Provenance: ex library stamps, these volumes purchased in the paper wrappers at auction. Approximately 11 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles to red labels, five raised bands. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition half calf with marbled paper covered boards. Page edges good condition tanned and untrimmed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition new, cream. End papers very good condition new, cream. Title good condition gently tanned, stamped to Vol I. Pages good condition browning to the edges, dampstained and wavy throughout, heavily tanned throughout, most pages to Vol I and II uncut at the top. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1774 Binding: Hardback. Seller Inventory # ABE-1698183732512
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