[Rarebooks] fa: LISOLA - THE BUCKLER OF STATE AND JUSTICE AGAINST THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY - 1673

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[Francois Paul Lisola:] The Buckler of State and Justice Against the Design manifestly Discovered of the Universal Monarchy, under the vain Pretext of the Queen of France, her Pretensions. The 2d Edition. To which is added, A Free Conference touching the Present State of England both at home an abroad: in order to the Designs of France. London: Printed for Richard Royston, and to be sold by Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1673. First edition thus. Thick 12mo (16 cm) in later but not recent ribbed cloth binding with partial spine label; [22], 311, [7], 72 pp. Wing L2371; ESTC R26158.

The English translation of Lisola's important and influential political treatise, this is the first edition to include the Free Conference. The Baron François de Sola (1613-1674) was an accomplished Austrian diplomat and one of the most inveterate opponents of Louis XIV, whom he here denounces for his invasion of the Low Countries in the War of Devolution (1667-68). Lisola was instrumental in forging the Triple Alliance of England, Sweden and the Dutch Republics which forced the French king to hand back most of the territory he'd gained. Samuel Pepys owned this same edition of the work, though on encountering Lisola in the very year it was published (1673), he seems to have been more interested in the Baron's "fine daughter, which hath travelled all Europe over with them, it seems; and is accordingly accomplished, and indeed, is a wonderful pretty woman."

The second work has a separate title-page and pagination (the pagination rather erratic but the text is continuous and complete, as issued; one leaf bound out of order). Binding with rubbing and wear to the spine; bound without the imprimatur leaf preceding the title-page; wear/small chips to the edges of the title-page; contents mildly toned with  occasional dust-soiling to the edges; corners a bit bumped; light hint of damp-staining to the fore-edges of the first half; some cracking between the page-gatherings; otherwise clean and sound, securely bound.