Price: £450
Subject: Theology
Published Date: 1601
Stock Number: 61061
(Your basket is currently empty)Eivsdem De Optimo Genere Elocvtionis, Scriptio antehac edita, nunc emendatior.
Description: some browning and a bit of damp-staining, cut close at top with some page numbers shaved, pp. [10], 294, 16mo, 18th-century speckled calf, red morocco label with gilt title, tooled gilt compartments within raised bands, minor wearPublication Details: Strasbourg: Lazarum Zetznerum, 1601
Notes: An English translation, either by William Covell or William Crashaw, appeared in 1605 (a rare book, only 5 copies in ESTC): 'False complaints. Or The censure of an vnthankfull mind, the labour of Carolus Pascalius translated into English by W.C. A worke very learned and fit for all estates in this age of vnnecessarie discontentments, shewing how all complaine, but all without cause.' A preliminary epistle by Jacques Auguste de Thou adds his lustre to the volume. In 1598 Pascal was sent by Henri IV as an ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth....more
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