POSTEL, Guillaume, and Anthonius THYSIUS.
De Republica, seu magistratibus Atheniensium liber … Accessit Antonii Thysii IC. Discursus politicus de eadem materia … Leiden, Jean Maire, 1645.
16mo, pp. [14], 5–368, with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Postel; a very good copy, bound a little tightly in late seventeenth-century speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red edges; ownership inscription to title-page of Nathaniel Bridges of Magdalen College, Oxford (matric. 1693), later inscription of M J Cholmeley.
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De Republica, seu magistratibus Atheniensium liber … Accessit Antonii Thysii IC. Discursus politicus de eadem materia …
An uncommon Leiden edition of Postel’s study of the Athenian magistracy, first published 1541 and revised and enlarged in 1551. Jean Ballesdens edited an edition for Maire in 1635; this 1645 edition added an essay on the same topic by the librarian and historian Anthony Thysius the Younger (1603–1665), a professor at Leiden University.
First published as De magistratibus Atheniensium liber the work was Postel’s most successful, with nine editions up to 1700; it contains, as well as comments on the influence of Athenian on Roman law, references to Ottoman law.
STCN 840219253.