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"De Republica libri sex ; Latine ab auctore redditi, multo quam antea locupletiores. Cum indice copiosissimo. Editio altera, priore multo emendatior."
Francofurti ( Frankfurt ) , apud Ioannem Wechelum & Petrum Fischerum consortes, 1590, in-4°, 19 x 12 cm, (8nn pp + 1221 pp + (83) nn pp (complete). Title printed in red and black, with a wood engraved printer's mark. Bound in half vellum, boards covered with marbled paper. Title page with a large cut out which has been repaired, no loss of text. With the usual stains and fingermarks. On the whole still an acceptable copy. Tipped on to verso of the title is the engraved ex-libris of Finck Earl of Wichelsea & Nottingham . In probably his own handwriting he has noted on the title page that he bought this book in Stockholm in 1729. This book is the main work of Jean Bodin and constitutes the first modern attempt to construct a system of political science. The sixth book deals mainly with economical topics. This is the first Latin edition outside the French speaking territory. It is the 3rd Latin edition. (See Crahay, Isaac , Lenger. Bibliographie Bodin pp. 153, edition L3. ) USTC 667166. - VD16 B6279..
De la Demonomanie des Sorciers. A Monseigneur M. Chrestofle de Thou, Chevalier Seigneur de Coeli, premier President en la Cour de Parlement, & Conseiller du Roy en son privé Conseil.
" Paris, chez Jacques du Puys, 1582, in-4°, (28) nn pp + 252 pp (complete). Bound in old supple vellum, (binding a bit soiled and with some minor traces of use). Title page with a small hole in the title vignet. The lost paper sticks on the opposite (blank) fly leaf ( a paper restorer should be able to put it back), Interior fine, notwithstanding some faint waterstains at some pages and a worming gallery in the lower margin of some pages (never reaching the text). Still a fine.good copy. With an engraved armorial ex-libris (18th c., not identified) and a manuscript ex-libris on the recto of the title ''Simon Castoris''. This is the fourth edition. ( See Crahay, Isaac, Lenger ; Bibliographie critique des éditions anciennes de Jean Bodin-Bruxelles 1991. pp. 228-229. Edition F4 ) This horrible text where cruelty disputes with credulity reflects the author's terror and panic when observing his country devastated by war. God has abandoned France. The Demon has taken over."
