COMMYNES, Philippe de - De Carolo octavo, Galliae... Lot 363

COMMYNES, Philippe de - De Carolo octavo, Galliae rege, & bello Neapolitano, commentarii. Ioanne Sleidano, Interprete. Acessit brevis quaedam explicatio rerum, & authoris vita. Strasbourg, Wendelin Rihel, 1548. Pet. in-8, (8) ff. 111 (9) ff. including Rihel's mark, worn calf, ribbed spine with tears, upper board detached. RITTER I, no. 563. New dedication by Sleidan for this edition, to Edward Seymour (b. c. 1506-Jan. 22, 1552) Earl of Hertford, Duke of Somerset, dated Strasbourg, May 1548. (Bound in sequence:) SEYSSEL, Claude de - De Republica Galliae & regum officiis, libri duo. Ioanne Sleidano, interprete. Adiecta est summa doctrinae Platonis, de Repub. & Legibus. Strasbourg, Windelin Rihel, 1548, (8), 110 (2) ff, last two errata and Rihel's mark, small tear to title not lacking. First Latin edition, dedicated by Sleidan to Edward VI (1537-1553) King of England and Ireland. Translation of La Grande Monarchie de France, first published in 1519. Claude de Seyssel was the first great theorist of absolute monarchy, a position taken advantage of by Bodin in his Republic.