Thvcydidis Atheniensis historiographi longe clarissimi de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo: ab Laurentio Vallensi translati, & a doctissimis viris cum grecis collati: cũ eiusdẽ vita /
Thucydides.
Parthenius, Bartholomaeus.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL
Moray, James Stewart,Earl of,approximately 1531-1570,former owner.StEdNL
Wilbie, James,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
apud ... Parrhisiorum Luteciam : Venundantur I. Badio Ascensio & I.ni Paruo,
1528.
Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the front pastedown. Manuscript note, with sale catalogue description, pasted to front flyleaf: "Thucidides This book originally belonged to Jacobus Stevard--ie The Regent Moray. He was shot by Hamilton of Bothwelhaugh in the Town of Lithlingow [sic] in the year 1569 in the 37th year of his age- & afterward belonged to James Wilbie and subsequently to John Earl of Aboyn_". Pencil inscription next to the note provides the correction "Linlithgow". Manuscript inscription on the first page of the prologue to book one of Thucydides "Mr Jacobus Wilbie", deleted.
"Jacobus Stevard C.P.S." and the Royal arms of Scotland tooled and gilded on the front and back boards with the motto "Salvs per XPM".
France Paris.