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8vo (178 x 104 mm) 12 nn.ll., 1058 pp., 18 nn.ll. (table). Contemporary brown calf, gilt filet on covers with cental gilt medallion, spine with raised bands (some wear, head of spine damaged).
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See En français dans le texte, n° 68 and PMM, 94 (for the first edition 1576); not in Adams nor at the British Library.
Second octavo edition, after the one in 1577.
The British Libreary catalogue and Adams list another editin by Jacques du Puys, published in 1580 with 1060 pages.
"[Bodin] a dominé son siècle par la force de sa pensée politique, l'ampleur de son rpjet, la fermeté de sa construction. En France, il faut attendre Montesquieu pour lui trouver un égal. Ses contemporains ne s'y étaient aps trompés, qui assurèrent le succès éclatant de La République, dès sa parution, dans toute l'Europe" (Luce Giard, in : En français dans le texte).
"The 'Six Books of the Republic' went through many editions in the author's lifetime and after, and had an immense influence all over Europe. It is, in effect, the first modern attempt to create a complete system of political science" (PMM).
Some occasional toning.
Provenance: C. Baltazar (signature on the title and some underlining).
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