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Leti, Gregorio

Historical and political rules of virtues, and maxims necessary for the conservation of states [...], 1699

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Amsterdam, Theodore Boeteman, 1699. In 8th. 2 vols. Chalcographic antiporte, frontispiece in red and black, with 16 intaglio plates of which six are folded, some burnished papers, slight blooms, sporadic light marginal halos, small tears on the white margins of some papers, § Together in the lot Houssaye, Amelot de la , Histoire du gouvernement de Venise . Paris, Frederic Leonard, 1677 and Voltaire , From the History of Charles XII King of Sweden. Venice, Francesco Pitteri, 1735.

Specialist Notes

Work I: First edition of the last of the political topics of the Milanese man of letters in which he describes the Dutch government as an exemplary model of a democratic system, abandoning the idea of the princeps imago Dei expressed in Political Dialogues (1666).