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Cambridge: J. Nicholson, et al., 1785. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good. Hutchinson translation of the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon (c.430-c.355). It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand, an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. Text in Greek and Latin. Quarto: lix, 598 p. with a color folding frontispiece map. In a one-half brown calf over marbled paper binding, with gilt and blind stamping, four raised bands, and yellow endpapers. The binding has been expertly rebacked with the remaining portions of the spine laid down and restoration to the corners. Occasional purple pencil marginalia, with a previous owner's ink signature and an ink inscription to the front flyleaf. Some general shelfwear to the boards.