GEORG STIERNHIELMS COPY OF THUCYDIDIS De bello Peloponnesiaco libri viii, Frankfurt 1589.

GEORG STIERNHIELMS COPY. THUCYDIDIS. De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. Ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallæ, ab Henrico Stephano iterum recogniita... Francofvrdi, courtesy of Andreæ Wecheli, 1589.
8th (about 163x103, binding 173x115 mm.). (32), 1-558, (34) pp. Title and last leaf with woodcut printer device.
Contemporary pigskin, somewhat worn, faded blindtooled decorations, blank spine in four compartments, lacks first endpaper. Signature is a title by Georg Stiernhielm and M. Flinck, on the inside of the upper cover by Carl Brunckman 1758.

Georg Stiernhielm (1598-1672), lawyer, author, see Carlander II:65-67 and IV:516-518 (with a report for the auction of his library in Uppsala 1688); Magnus Flinck (1758-1814), Swedish lawyer; Carl Brunkman (1734-1781), Swedish philologist and publicist;
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