Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[PUFENDORF, SAMUEL, Freiherr von.] Severini de Monzambano Veronensis [pseud.] De statu imperii Germanici ad Laelium fratrem, dominum Trezolani. [24], 218 pages, including initial blank. 12mo, contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked; upper outer corner excised from I4 with text loss. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court on title verso. Geneva: apud Petrum Columesium, 1667

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first edition of Pufendorf''s critique of political conditions in the German Empire. "The book, claiming to be the notes of an Italian traveling in Germany, combines history, political geography, and a theory of national interest to describe the constitution, the state of domestic and foreign policies, and the religious denominations" (DLB).