Juan de Santa Maria, Fray (1551-1622) Christian Policie: or, The Christian Common-Wealth.
London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Richard Collins, 1632.
Quarto, one of three issues of the first edition dated 1632, with cancel title page; English translation by James Mabbe of the Spanish original, República y Policía Christiana, originally published in 1615; lacking initial blank; bound in full new gilt-tooled calf, some leaves with delicate fore-margins, some internal toning and offsetting, 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.
Rare at auction; STC 14831; ESTC S107911; ESTC lists eleven American institutions holding all of the 1632 issues; this issue present in four U.S. libraries.
