De Arcanis Rerum Publicarum : Libri Sex (1641)
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De Arcanis Rerum Publicarum : Libri Sex (1641)
by Arnoldus Clapmarius, et al.
Full Title: De arcanis rerum publicarum libri sex, illustrati a Ioan. Corvino. Accessit Chr. Besoldi de eadem materia discursus nec non Arnoldi Clapmarii et aliorum conclusiones de iure publico.
5 x 3 x 1 ¼. In Latin. Published by Amsterodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium [ELZEVIR Press], 1641. Complete. Three works bound together as a practical reference political science handbook. Full calf leather with four raised bands. Gilts title and rule in compartments. Boards with trivial staining and a hint of rubbing to extremities, to included bumped corners. Marble pastedowns and endpapers, with minor damage to lower tip of front endpaper. Engraved frontispiece. Text block is remarkably fresh and clean. An excellent overall copy, the binding is sturdy and still bright from cover-to-cover. Early editions are not commonly seen in the marketplace. Provenance: Maurice Bottet (late 19th-century French author).
Johannes Arnoldi (1582 – 1650) was a Dutch Remonstrant minister and jurist. Arnold Clapmar (1574 – 1604) was a German academic, jurist and humanist, known for his writings on statecraft. Christoph Besold (1577 – 1638) was a German jurist and publicist whose writing is seen as important for the history of the causes of the Thirty Years' War.
About the printer: Elzevir is the name of a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries. They became very famous and very desirable among bibliophiles, who sought to obtain the tallest and freshest copies of these tiny books. Though their Greek and Hebrew impressions are considered inferior to those of the Aldines and the Estiennes, the famous Elzevir small editions (in 12mo, 16mo and 24mo) were beloved for their elegance of design, neatness, regularity of type, and, ultimately, utility and portability.
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