Arte real para el bven govierno de los reyes, y principes, y de sus vassallos. : En el qual se refieren las obligaciones de cada vno, con los principales documentos para el buen gouierno ... / por el licenciado Geronymo de Zevallos ...
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Arte real para el bven govierno de los reyes, y principes, y de sus vassallos. : En el qual se refieren las obligaciones de cada vno, con los principales documentos para el buen gouierno ... / por el licenciado Geronymo de Zevallos ...
Created/published
Toledo : A costa de su autor, 1623.
Description
8 preliminary leaves, 190 leaves, [30] pages ; 20 cm
Associated name
Cevallos, Gerónimo de, author.
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From dealer's description: "8vo, ff. [viii], 190, [16]; with woodcut Royal arms to the title, woodcut initials; a few creases, but a very good, genuine copy in contemporary vellum, ink titling on the spine; edges of the upper cover chipped, a stretch hole in the centre; exlibris of Franz von Pollack-Parnau on the front paste-down, another modern exlibris –partly perished- on the rear paste-down. First edition, rare, of this important Mirror of Princes, a very substantial and comprehensive treatise on statecraft which originally outlines precepts of economics as well as politics. Alongside advice on royal office, prerogatives and boundaries, alongside theories on the bodies that are necessary for the government of a State, alongside the moral and intellectual ‘portrait’ of a Prince which emerges from the 34 chapters and which is expected of a work belonging to the fairly codified genre of the speculum principis, in contrast with other works of this kind here many passages are devoted to exposing injustices and abuses in taxation leading to the hampering of industry and trade; to denouncing the excesses of riches in the hands of the Church, and indeed the over-swollen gilded ecclesiastical ranks; to reviling untaxed inheritance and privileges; to reproaching corruption in the exercise of law and order. Colmeiro notes all these observations as marks of originality and as an important contribution to the reflection on political economy in seventeenth-century Spain, when most treatises concerned with economics concentrated almost exclusively on the diatribe (here also treated) over the effect of the flux of gold and silver from America. Colmeiro 405; Palau 380042; not in Goldsmiths’. OCLC finds copies at Harvard, Illinois, Berkeley and Texas only, in the US, plus a handful other worldwide."
From dealer's description: "8vo, ff. [viii], 190, [16]; with woodcut Royal arms to the title, woodcut initials; a few creases, but a very good, genuine copy in contemporary vellum, ink titling on the spine; edges of the upper cover chipped, a stretch hole in the centre; exlibris of Franz von Pollack-Parnau on the front paste-down, another modern exlibris –partly perished- on the rear paste-down. First edition, rare, of this important Mirror of Princes, a very substantial and comprehensive treatise on statecraft which originally outlines precepts of economics as well as politics. Alongside advice on royal office, prerogatives and boundaries, alongside theories on the bodies that are necessary for the government of a State, alongside the moral and intellectual ‘portrait’ of a Prince which emerges from the 34 chapters and which is expected of a work belonging to the fairly codified genre of the speculum principis, in contrast with other works of this kind here many passages are devoted to exposing injustices and abuses in taxation leading to the hampering of industry and trade; to denouncing the excesses of riches in the hands of the Church, and indeed the over-swollen gilded ecclesiastical ranks; to reviling untaxed inheritance and privileges; to reproaching corruption in the exercise of law and order. Colmeiro notes all these observations as marks of originality and as an important contribution to the reflection on political economy in seventeenth-century Spain, when most treatises concerned with economics concentrated almost exclusively on the diatribe (here also treated) over the effect of the flux of gold and silver from America. Colmeiro 405; Palau 380042; not in Goldsmiths’. OCLC finds copies at Harvard, Illinois, Berkeley and Texas only, in the US, plus a handful other worldwide."
Item Details
Call number
270074
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "8vo, ff. [viii], 190, [16]; with woodcut Royal arms to the title, woodcut initials; a few creases, but a very good, genuine copy in contemporary vellum, ink titling on the spine; edges of the upper cover chipped, a stretch hole in the centre; exlibris of Franz von Pollack-Parnau on the front paste-down, another modern exlibris –partly perished- on the rear paste-down. First edition, rare, of this important Mirror of Princes, a very substantial and comprehensive treatise on statecraft which originally outlines precepts of economics as well as politics. Alongside advice on royal office, prerogatives and boundaries, alongside theories on the bodies that are necessary for the government of a State, alongside the moral and intellectual ‘portrait’ of a Prince which emerges from the 34 chapters and which is expected of a work belonging to the fairly codified genre of the speculum principis, in contrast with other works of this kind here many passages are devoted to exposing injustices and abuses in taxation leading to the hampering of industry and trade; to denouncing the excesses of riches in the hands of the Church, and indeed the over-swollen gilded ecclesiastical ranks; to reviling untaxed inheritance and privileges; to reproaching corruption in the exercise of law and order. Colmeiro notes all these observations as marks of originality and as an important contribution to the reflection on political economy in seventeenth-century Spain, when most treatises concerned with economics concentrated almost exclusively on the diatribe (here also treated) over the effect of the flux of gold and silver from America. Colmeiro 405; Palau 380042; not in Goldsmiths’. OCLC finds copies at Harvard, Illinois, Berkeley and Texas only, in the US, plus a handful other worldwide." Ordered from Quaritch, D9054, 2017-01-31, "Politics 2017" list, item 16. Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
270074