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Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-08-06. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Philadelphia: William Steuart, 1766. First Edition. Good. Bound with (as usual) The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...To Which Is Added, The Contents of the Second Blast and a Letter...to the People of Edinburgh, Anno 1571 by John Knox. The Oxford Dictionary of National (UK) Biography describes this book as "a dialogue between the author and Thomas Maitland which defended a kind of constitutional monarchy in which bad kings could be legitimately deposed... giving the De jure something of the character of a literary exercise after the manner of Plato. Nevertheless, it provoked contemporary opposition ... and in 1584 it was condemned by act of parliament, though it still had considerable influence on political thought in the seventeenth century." This 18th century edition was published in the American colonies when ideas about resisting the monarchy were just beginning to take hold, and a full decade before the Declaration of Independence. As such, it is a key text… Read More

Philadelphia: Andrew Steuart, 1766. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. De Jure Regni apud Scotos, or a Dialogue, concerning the due Privilege of government, in the Kingdom of Scotland, betwixt George Buchanan and Thomas Maitland, . . . and Translated out of the Original Latin into English, by Philalethes. Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Steuart, 1766. viii, 112 pp., ornamental headpiece. [Bound after:] KNOX, John. First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regimen of Women. To which is added the Contents of the Second Blast, and a Letter from John Knox to the People of Edinburgh, anno 1571. Philadelphia: Reprinted by Andrew Steuart, 1766. 64 pp., separate title page, ornamental headpiece. Two works bound in one volume. 12mo (135 x 80 mm). Contemporary sheepskin, original endpapers (minor wear to extremities, boards bowed, leather scratched, corners scuffed, endpapers browned and frayed with loss). Text of both works with even browning… Read More