CLAPMARIUS (Arnoldus). De Arcanis rerum publicarum Illustratus A. Ioan. CORVINO Ic. Accessit Chr. BESOLDI De eadem materia discursus. Amsterdam, Elzevier, 1641. In-24, brown morocco, smooth spine richly decorated, cold framing on the boards (binding first half 19th c.). Beautiful frontispiece engraved by Cor. Cl. Duysend. [20] ff. (of which the frontispiece), 51 pp, [2] bl. ff, 340 pp, [1] f., 53 pp. (treatise on Besoldus), [29] pp. (index), 4 bl. ff., then last part of 120 pp. with a separate title : "Arnoldi Clapmarii, Francisci Roselli et Wolfgangi Heinrici Ruprechti Conclusiones de ivre pvblico." Qs small rubs otherwise a very nice copy of this pleasant edition of Clapmarius' political treatise. (Willems 972.)

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