First edition of Thucydides: historical and political lessons for the French Revolution
ANCIEN. Histoire de THUCYDIDE, Fils d'Olorus, Translated from the Greek by Pierre-Charles Lévesque.
A paris chez J.B. Gail. et P.F. Aubin, Paris, 1795.
FIRST EDITION in 4 volumes united here in 2 volumes in-8, half calf, morocco parts for the title and for the tomaison, frontispiece.
First publication of this important translation, the only 18th-century French text of Thucydides and the most authoritative modern translation since Hobbes' 1629 English version. Lévesque, historian of Russia and France, finds in the ancient source vital lessons for France, then in the midst of the Revolution, and his preface defends Thucydides as the most political of historians and a source of practical advice for contemporary readers.
Bookplate of Jean-Isaac Combes-Dounous (1758-1820), French magistrate, politician and Hellenist.
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