[Rarebooks] FS: John of Salisbury's work on medieval politics. Cologne: 1584

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John of Salisbury. POLITICRATICUS, Sive, De NugisCurialium, & Vestigiis Philosophorum, Libri Octo. Leyden: Ex OfficinaPlantiniana apud F. Raphelengium. 1595. 8vo. (16),597,(19)pp. Index. Plantindevice on title. BOUND WITH: Molanus, Johannes (i.e. Jean Vermulen)...LIBRI QUINQUE: De Fide Haereticis Seruanda, Tres: De Fide RebellibusSeruanda... De Fide et Juramento, Quae a Tyranno Exiguntur... cum TripliciIndice... Cologne: Godefridum Kempensem. 1584. (16),214,(18)pp. With the finalblank. Index. The 2 works bound together in cont. vellum, blind paneled, withthe intitials "V.S.D." on the front cover, as well as the date"1601."    $2,000.00(trade discount allowed)
I.             Title page has anold erasure on a blank section, leaving a few small holes. This copy is heavilyannotated throughout in the margins as well as the endsheets at front and backof the volume, in red and black ink, probably in two different old hands. Thisis 12th century John of Salisbury's authoritative text on thepolitical philosophy of his day. It was influential for centuries after it waswritten. Known as "The Statesman's Book," it talks about the behaviorof a Princess, the differences between a Prince and a tyrant, and the educationof a statesman, etc., etc. Adams A305.
II.          Text on Christianheresies, and specifically the theology of Jan Hus. Molanus was an importantFlemish Catholic who was Professor of Theology at Louvain University. VD 16,V816 (under Vermeulen). Adams M1557.
 
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