Loading...
Warning
  • JFolder::create: Could not create folder.Path: /domains
  • Key folder in safepath unaccessible
Print
ROBERTSON,W.
ROBERTSON,W.
ROBERTSON,W.
ROBERTSON,W.
ROBERTSON,W.
ROBERTSON,W.
ROBERTSON,W. Geschiedenis van Oud Griekenland, van de vroegste tijden af, tot dat het een Romeinsch wingewest werd. Naar den tweeden druk uit het Engelsch vertaald. Utrecht etc., A. van Paddenburg, W. Holtrop & C. van der Aa, 1780 - 1781. 3 volumes in 2: XIV,345,(1 blank); (IV),330; (IV),182;(19 index),(1 blank) p. Half calf. 23 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 261832115) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with 5 raised bands) (Condition: Bindings worn & scuffed. Corners bumped. 2 small paper shelf numbers on the upper boards. 2 small oval stamps on the title) (Note: This is a translation into Dutch of the second edition of 'The History of Ancient Greece' (1778), by the Scottish historian and minister of the Church of Scotland, Reverent William Robertson, 1721-1793, who was a significant figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and also of the moderates in the Church of Scotland. One of his most notable works is his 'History of Scotland 1542-1603', begun in 1753 and first published in 1759. (Source Wikipedia; but see also for Robertson: G. Ceserani, 'Narrative, Interpretation, and Plagiarism in Mr. Robertson's 1778 'History of Ancient Greece', in 'Journal of the History of Ideas', Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul., 2005), pp. 413-436)) (Provenance: On the front pastedown the booklabel of Mr. S.I.Z. Wiselius. See for the Dutch jurist, playwright and poet Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius, 1769-1845: resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1780-1830/lemmata/data/Wiselius) (Collation: 1: (*)2, *3, 2*4 A-X8 Y6 (leaf Y6 verso blank; minus blank leaf Y6); 2: pi2, A-V8, X6 (minus blank leaf X6); 3:pi2, A-M8, N6 (leaf N6 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)
Book number: 022248 Euro 80.00

Keywords: (Oude Druk), (Rare Books), Altertum, Altertumswissenschaft, Altphilologie, Antike, Antiquity, Dutch imprints, Dutch translations, Greece, Greek, Griechenland, ancient history, classical philology, griechische
€ 80,00

Reviews

There are yet no reviews for this product.