Apr 19, 2004 - Sale 2003

Sale 2003 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 805
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ALTHUSIUS, JOHANNES. Politica . . . cui in fine adjuncta est Oratio panegyrica, de necessitate, utilitate & antiquitate scholarum. Editio quinta. [16], [49] pages, including final blank. Thick 8vo, contemporary sheep, top of spine chipped; contents browned, blank corner torn off 3K1. Herborn, 1654

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"The author's chief work, first published in 1603, " . . . the first systematic treatise on politics since the ancients. Its express purpose is to bring political science into accord with Calvinist theology generally and particularly to apply the teachings of the Old Testament to a further development of Aristotelian politics. Indeed his work may be regarded as the most developed system of politics which Calvinism has produced"--ESS II, 13.