Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 688
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
[SCOTT, THOMAS.] Vox Populi. Or, Newes from Spayne, translated according to the Spanish Coppie. Which may serve to forewarn both England and the United Provinces how farre to trust to Spanish Pretences. [14] leaves, each trimmed and inlaid to size, with D1 bound after B3. bound with: The Second Part of Vox Populi, or Gondomar appearing in the Likenes of Matchiavell in a Spanish Parliament, wherein are discouered his treacherous & subtile Practises . . . Second Edition. 2 engraved text illustrations showing the Spanish Parliament in session with the Devil looking on, and a meeting of English Jesuits. [6], 60 pages, including engraved title. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 182x149 mm, later 19th-century green morocco with the arms of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell on the front cover, his supra-libros on the rear cover, and his full-size armorial bookplate inside the detached front cover; occasional light soiling in the second work. [London?]: Imprinted in the Yeare 1620; Goricom [Gorinchem, i. e., London]: Ashuerus Janss. [i. e., William Jones], "1624 Stilo Novo"

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Ficitious reports to the Spanish Council of State and Parliament by ambassador Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar (1567–1626), at the conclusion of his first embassy to England. "Gondomar's notoriety during his time in England ensured that, for more protestant writers, he was the incarnation of the Machiavellian diplomat. Thomas Scott caricatured him in Vox Populi . . . and in The Second Part of Vox Populi" (ODNB). STC 22100.8, 22103.7.