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De Cyri Institutione libri octo. Graeca recognovit... notas H. Stephani, Leunclavii, Ae. Porti & Mureti recensitas & castigatas, Variatium Lectionum delectum, Indicesque necessarios adjunxit Thomas Hutchinson, A.M. Editio Octava.
by Xenophon
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Londini [London]: Typis J. Nichols; Impensis W. Ginger [et al], 1782. 8vo, pp. 8vo, pp. [iv], 548 + frontispiece map. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary sheep, unlettered spine divided by raised bands, edges sprinkled red. First gatherings a little proud and slightly worn at edges, one leaf with a small piece torn from blank margin, short wormtrail to blank margin of last few leaves. Binding rubbed, worn at extremities, a few strips scraped from rear board. The eighth edition of Thomas Hutchinson's reputation-making edition of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, first published in 1727 and reprinted once a decade thereafter. Later editions become harder to find, and ESTC locates just 5 copies of this one (BL, Morrab, NLI, Cornell, Illinois). ESTC T139189.
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- McNaughtan's Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4245
- Title
- De Cyri Institutione libri octo. Graeca recognovit... notas H. Stephani, Leunclavii, Ae. Porti & Mureti recensitas & castigatas, Variatium Lectionum delectum, Indicesque necessarios adjunxit Thomas Hutchinson, A.M. Editio Octava.
- Author
- Xenophon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Typis J. Nichols; Impensis W. Ginger [et al]
- Place of Publication
- Londini [London]
- Date Published
- 1782
- Keywords
- Classics Greek
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