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Condition: Headdresses, bits and corners in good condition, solid hinges, smooth back decorated with the title in ink, rather fresh interior, cancelled handwritten ex-libris by Etienne Baluze. Complete.
Book illustrated with a beautiful title-frontispiece signed C.V.D (Cornelis Van Dalen) it should be noted a curiosity, the skirt is studded with eyes and ears, there is also page 110 a fold-out table.
Note on the edition: Dedicatory epistle addressed by the author to Johannes Ulrich von Schaffgotsch, Count of Kynast and Greiffenstein, who was beheaded for having participated in the assassination of Wallenstein in Eger (Regensburg) in 1534. Notice to the reader.
The main work of the famous jurisconsult, a kind of encyclopedia of political science, in a humanist style precursor of the time, the author mixes the thought of ancient philosophers with that of the fathers of the Church and especially contemporary authors. Uncommon and important political philosophical work
A fine copy of this rare work. 67537419
