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POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF ROMAN REPUBLIC
SIGNET LIBRARY COPY
PREVOTIUS, Claudius (Claude PRÉVOST). Commentarius de Magistratibus Pop. Rom. ex variis authoribus collectus. Ad Reipub. Rom. statum cognoscendum apprimè utilis & necessarius.
Lausanne, Franciscus le Preux, 1579. 8vo. With woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 2 decorative woodcut initials, and 3 head and tailpieces. Eighteenth-century half vellum, paste-paper sides, ribbon marker, with the nineteennth-century gilt stamp of "the Society of Writers to the Signet" on both boards.
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First edition of a neo-Latin book on the political structure of the Roman republic. The book's seventeen chapters cover topics such as: "De Populo Romano," "De Interrege & Interregno" and "De Senatoribus." The title-page notes that the material was compiled from "various authors" but names only Prevotius (active 1543-1579), Protestant professor at the University of Lausanne.
The Writers to the Signet were those authorised to supervise the use of "the Signet," originally the private seal of the early Scottish Kings. The Society is particularly noted for its Edinburgh library, containing about 65,000 books, almost half of a legal nature. They sold about 25,000 books at auction in 1978.
In very good condition. The binding also very good, with only minor damage to the corners. Neo-Latin work on the political structure of the Roman republic.
