[Rarebooks] FS: Important work on political life by Polish writer Gosliki. Venice: 1568

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Goslicius, Lurentius Grimaldus (or, Gosliki, Wawrzyniec). DE OPTIMO
SENATORE Libri Duo. In Quibus Magistratuum Officia, Civium Vita Beata,
Rerumpub. Foelicitas Explicantur... Accessit Locuples Rerum Toto Opere
Memorabilium Index. Venice: Iodanum Zilettum. 1568. First edition. 4to.
ff.(4),83,(5). Index. Woodcut device on title and historiated woodcut
capital. Gilt tooled 17th c. red morocco, a bit rubbed, spine label
lacking. Title page a bit soiled and with a small paper repair to blank
fore-margin. Engraved bookplates on front pastedown (one of Winthrop
Sargent the American historian and lawyer, and with his early ownership
signature on the front free endpaper).	$2,500.00 (trade discount
allowed)
This important work on political life by Gosliki (1530-1607) has been
identified as one of Shakespeare's sources for Hamlet (i.e. the
character of the king's counselor, Polonius).

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