L'histoire [...] de la guerre du Péloponèse; continuée par Xénophon. De la traduction de N. Perrot Sr d'Ablancourt.

Folio, 2 parts with continuous pagination: [26]-599-[1 bl.]-29-[22 (of 30)] pp. (some foxing, staining in the margins of last ff.). Good inside condition.

Cont. vellum with visible sewing, flat spine titled in ink.

First edition of the translation by the philologist Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (1606-1664). His translations are part of the many qualified as "les belles infidèles" as they were adapted to correspond to the decency and taste of their time. Neat typography with large printer's mark on title-pages, text decorated with ornamented head- and tailpieces and with some initials. Ref. Brunet V:848. - Not in Dibdin. Prov. [Georges Petit].