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Emblems, Political science, Kings and rulers, Duties, Early works to 1800Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Edition Notes
Title page is fully engraved.
Translation from the author's: Idea de un principe politico christiano, first printed in Valencia, 1660.
Two issues, one printed in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu, and the other by Joost Pluymer, were printed in the same year.
There are numerous references to the New World in the text including a mention of Columbus and Cortes as lawgivers (Empresa XVII), Cortes' valor (Empresa XXVI and LII), and the riches of the New World (Empresa LXIX)
Signatures: A-2B¹² 2C²
Text printed in two parallel columns.
Includes 103 engraved emblems by Johann Sadeler.
Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-century imagery, 484.
Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 283453n.
Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 283485.
Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827, 673.
European Americana, 660/151.
Purchase; 2016; 17-060.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.
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