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XENOPHON (ca. 430 ? ca. 355 B.C.E.). Xenophon's History of ...

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XENOPHON (ca. 430 ? ca. 355 B.C.E.). Xenophon's History of the Affairs of Greece. By the Translator of Thucydides. Translated by William Smith. London: for Benjamin White, 1770. 4to. Folding engraved frontispiece map. Contemporary tree calf, red morocco lettering?piece gilt, 6 compartments separated with gilt fillet bands (minor rubbing to extremities, a few scrapes to covers). Provenance: John Sullivan, Esq. (engraved armorial bookplate).?Preceded by John Newman's translation of 1685. An attractive copy. ESTC T145017.