May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Azpilcueta, Martín de (1491-1586)
Commentarius de Datis et Promissis Pro Justitia, vel Gratia Obtinendis.

Rome: Jacobus Tornerius & Jacobus Bericchius, 1584.

Quarto, second edition; woodcut device to title page, last leaf with large woodcut printer's device featuring a hedgehog present (L4); bound in full contemporary limp parchment, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.

Basque canonist, theologian and professor of canon law at Salamanca, Azpilcueta is also famous in the history of economics for advancing the quantity theory of money, that is, that the general prices of goods and services is in direct proportion to the money in circulation.

Adams A-2376.