Lot 157
Spanish empire.- Campanella (Tommaso) A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy, first edition in English, 1654.
Hammer Price: £700
Description
Spanish empire.- Campanella (Tommaso) A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. Wherein We Have a Political Glasse Representing Each Particular Country, Province, Kingdome, and Empire of the World, with Wayes of Government by Which They May be Kept in Obedience, first edition in English, woodcut initials and headpieces, title of the 1654 reissue mounted on stub at front, ink library stamps to title verso (with some show-through) and fore-margin of 2 other ff., a few pencil marks to fore-margins, modern calf, [Sabin 10198; Wing C401], sm. 4to, 1654 [but 1653].
⁂ Campanella's treatise on the expansion and defence of the Spanish empire in which he imagines the world unified under the rule of a theocratic monarch. Includes sections on the British Isles, Persia and the New World with recommendations to build castles at river mouths to guard against the English.
Provenance: Longton Public Library (ink stamps).
Description
Spanish empire.- Campanella (Tommaso) A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. Wherein We Have a Political Glasse Representing Each Particular Country, Province, Kingdome, and Empire of the World, with Wayes of Government by Which They May be Kept in Obedience, first edition in English, woodcut initials and headpieces, title of the 1654 reissue mounted on stub at front, ink library stamps to title verso (with some show-through) and fore-margin of 2 other ff., a few pencil marks to fore-margins, modern calf, [Sabin 10198; Wing C401], sm. 4to, 1654 [but 1653].
⁂ Campanella's treatise on the expansion and defence of the Spanish empire in which he imagines the world unified under the rule of a theocratic monarch. Includes sections on the British Isles, Persia and the New World with recommendations to build castles at river mouths to guard against the English.
Provenance: Longton Public Library (ink stamps).
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