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BODIN, JEAN. 1530-1596.

11 June 2008, 13:00 EDT
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BODIN, JEAN. 1530-1596.

Les six livres de la republique. Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1580. a8, e4, a-zz8, A-Z8. 8vo (174 x 108 mm). Period full limp vellum, ties absent. Period notation and ownership signature to title-page, some brief period marginalia and underlining, some faint dampstains, a few spots, vellum soiled.

“The first modern attempt to create a complete system of political science. Although like most sixteenth-century writers he approved of absolute government, he demanded its control by constitutional laws, in which respect he foreshadowed the development during the seventeenth century of the idea of ‘social contract’ (PMM).” Adams B 2237, Printing and the Mind of Man 94a.

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