GUEVARA (Fray Antonio de): L'horloge des princes, avec le tres renomme livre de Marc Aurele Recueilly par Don Antoine de Guevare ; traduit en partie de Castillan en Français par feu N. de Herberay, seigneur Des Essars Paris, Félix Magnier, 1588 ; 31 ff. constitués du Discours de l'autheur (sic), du prologue et de la table, et 395 pp. in 8°, brown marbled basane, spine of five nerves well ornamented, red morocco title page, red edges. Copy bound around 1680. New edition, printed by Denis Cottinet and shared between Magnier and Jean Richer; the first French translation dates from 1550, while the original edition was published in Valladolid in 1529. It is one of the most important books in the history of political ideas in the 16th century. It contains many topics of both pure and social politics, including a chapter on childcare. As often throughout the book, the author refers to Roman antiquity: for example, the origin of the Peasant of the Danube, whose subject La Fontaine took for his fable.
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GUEVARA (Fray Antonio de): L'horloge des princes, avec le tres renomme livre de Marc Aurele Recueilly par Don Antoine de Guevare ; traduit en partie de Castillan en Français par feu N. de Herberay, seigneur Des Essars Paris, Félix Magnier, 1588 ; 31 ff. constitués du Discours de l'autheur (sic), du prologue et de la table, et 395 pp. in 8°, brown marbled basane, spine of five nerves well ornamented, red morocco title page, red edges. Copy bound around 1680. New edition, printed by Denis Cottinet and shared between Magnier and Jean Richer; the first French translation dates from 1550, while the original edition was published in Valladolid in 1529. It is one of the most important books in the history of political ideas in the 16th century. It contains many topics of both pure and social politics, including a chapter on childcare. As often throughout the book, the author refers to Roman antiquity: for example, the origin of the Peasant of the Danube, whose subject La Fontaine took for his fable.