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ISRAELITE GOVERNANCE EXAMINED BY ITALIAN REFUGEE IN LONDON --- [4], 231, [9] p. | 4to | A-2E^4 2F^6 2G^4 | 211 x 156 mm --- First and only edition of this blend of theology and political science by an Italian Waldensian. Born around 1540 and calling Calabria home, the author was forced to leave Catholic Italy and spent nearly half his life in London, where he served as pastor for the Italian refugee church from 1570 until his death in 1596 (with a brief visit to France in 1572, where he happened to be for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre). London had a number of these independent "stranger churches," which provided foreign Protestants with a permitted place of worship. On account of the false imprint, the treatise has been extolled as an early and important work of Dutch Reformed canon law. In truth, the work has little bearing, if any, on the Netherlands, except possibly for influencing the work of Johannes Wtenbogaert. The author was, however, connected by marriage to the Van de Corput… Read More

136, [8] p. | 12mo | A-F12 | 136 x 77 mm ¶ First edition in Italian, and apparently the only recorded copy (though Barzazi does call attention to this edition). Some half dozen editions of the Italian translation appear with imprints ranging from 1619 to 1638. The work is a translation of the author's Remarques d'estat et d'histoire sur la vie et les services de Monsieur de Villeroy by Giovanni Bernardo della Bastarderie, French tutor to the house of Cardinal Alessandro d'Este. With a woodcut printer's device at end; a couple of head-pieces and initials. Last three leaves are blank. ¶ Matthieu here recounts the life of Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy (1543-1617), a remarkably deft secretary of state. Despite ceaseless conflict associated with the French Wars of Religion, Villeroy managed to serve four French kings during his career, earning Professor Nicola Sutherland's label as the most distinguished of all sixteenth-century French secretaries. He engendered the favor of… Read More