[Osborn, Francis]
Politicall Reflections upon the Government of the Turks
£2,394
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Nicolas Machiavel: The King of Sweden's Descent into Germany: The Conspiracy of Piso and Vindex against Nero: The Greatnesse and Corruption of the Court of Rome: The Election of Pope Leo the XI: The Defection from the Church of Rome: Martin Luther. By the Author of the Late Advice to a Son. London: printed by J. G. for Thomas Robinson in Oxford, 1656. First edition, 12mo, [8] 194 pp., contemporary blind-ruled sheep, engraved bookplate (Murray Esqr of Dollerie), lacking free endpapers, worming to front pastedown and quire A, title-page with resulting loss of a few letters to head and fairly extensive loss of paper to lower margin, a few letters affected in A2-4, A5-9 with small hole in fore margins only not affecting text [Atabey 891; Wing O518];
Care, Henry. English Liberties: or, the Free-Born Subject's Inheritance, containing I. Magna Charta … II. The Proceedings in Appeals of Murther … III. The Terms of Liberty of Conscience … IV. An Abstract of the Penal Laws against Popish Recustants, Priests and Jesuites, etc. V. The Office and Duty of Constable … London: for Sarah Harris, 1691. Second edition, 12mo, [6] 184 pp., retaining one cover only (contemporary sheep, detached), a few headlines shaved, closed transverse tear through H12 [Wing C518];
and 3 others (Debes, Faerooe, and Foeroa Reserata: That is a Description of the Islands and Inhabitants of Foeroe, 1676, first edition in English, engraved folding plate torn, lacking folding map; A Collection of the Several Statutes … now in Force, relating to High Treason, 1710, first edition; and George Abbot, The Case of Impotency, 1719, third edition) (5)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
Footnote
Osborn's work has been described as ‘an early work on the reasons for Ottoman greatness’ (Atabey). Care's work was first published in 1682 and bore a strong influence on the American Founding Fathers, having 'a much longer and more significant reach in the American colonies than in England ... [and playing] an important role in spreading concepts about English law, history, government, liberties and especially juries' (Schwoerer, The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist, 2001, p. 233).