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[171], [1 (blank)]; roman letter, 2- to 6-line capital spaces with guide letters, initials and paraphs supplied in red and blue, running-titles in brown ink; lettering-piece chipped, slight wear to corners, a few small marks; washed (initials in blue faded to light grey, running-titles and annotation faded), occasional light marginal thumb-marks, slight soiling to blank first and final pages and to corners of first few leaves, old repair to f. 6~sup~v~sup~, a few pinhole wormholes to contents and dedication; overall a very good, wide-margined copy; near-contemporary annotation to f. 22~sup~r~sup~, eighteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Amadeo Svajer and eighteenth-century ink shelfmarks to front pastedown, later manuscript quiring in pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFourth edition of Eusebius’ (\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 260–339) important history of the church, the last book printed by the German physician and printer Johannes Schallus at Mantua, our copy from the library of the influential eighteenth-century Venetian merchant and bibliophile Amadeo Svajer, who funded the 1757–8 production of Zatta’s important edition of Dante’s Commedia, the first since 1544 to feature new illustrations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dedication by Schallus – who worked primarily as a physician and printed seven books in Mantua between 1475 and 1479 – to Federico I Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1441–1484), praises Eusebius as ‘shining like a moon amongst small fires’ and hopes that the work will benefit ‘modest and pious minds’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). Schallus may have worked with an assistant of Mentelin; Dibdin writes that ‘the volumes which issued from his press are of equal beauty and rarity; and it is seldom that we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than that which is now before us’ (Dibdin, \u003ci\u003eBibliotheca Spenceriana\u003c\/i\u003e, on the present edition of Eusebius).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchallus presents Eusebius’ work not only as a valuable historical resource, but also as a \u003ci\u003especulum principis\u003c\/i\u003e of sorts, in which Federico could ‘read of the excellent deeds of Christian princes’ and ‘marvel at their virtues and emulate their wisdom and piety’, especially as Gonzaga was at this time ‘fighting bravely and courageously for the Tuscans, and through frequent victories acquiring an immortal name for [himself] and [his] nation’: shortly before publication, Gonzaga had been involved in the war that emerged in the aftermath of the Pazzi Conspiracy of April 1478, Mantua having allied itself with the Florentine Republic against Pope Sixtus IV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: From the library of Amadeo Svajer (also Schweyer, 1727–1791), who financed Zatta’s publishing endeavours and influenced the material he published, including ‘Dante, the Church Fathers, and Petrarch’s \u003ci\u003eRime\u003c\/i\u003e, which appear to be amongst Svajer’s interests at the time … Zatta had attempted to move, in 1752, to Rovereto, [Svajer’s] place of residence’ (Mangani, pp. 81-2). Svajer was a renowned bibliophile, and his collection of three thousand books in Latin, five thousand in Italian, twelve hundred in French, and fourteen hundred manuscripts (including the will of Marco Polo) was sold by Jacopo Morelli in 1794, significant portions being purchased by the Manins, the Biblioteca Marciana, the Museo Correr, the Republic of Venice, and the Paduan bookseller Scapin. Svajer’s only known work, a biography of Frederick II of Prussia, was printed by Zatta in 1759. Morelli’s catalogue indicates that Svajer also owned a copy of the 1476 third edition of Eusebius’ \u003ci\u003eHistoria ecclesiastica\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHain 6711; Proctor 6908; GW 9437; Goff E-127; BMC VII 933; BSB-Ink E-112; ISTC ie00127000; USTC 995892; AGAPE 322. For this copy, see Morelli, Catalogo di libreria posta in vendita in Venezia nell’anno MDCCXCIV, (1794), p. 10 (‘exemplar nitidissimum’). 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Polished sheep in panel design, covers ruled and tooled in blind to panel design with small fleurons, rebacked; pp. 444; woodcut device to title, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces; a little scuffed and worn with some light offsetting to endapers but a good sound copy; bookplate of Lord Calthorpe and shelf-mark to upper pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Continental edition of Milton’s celebrated defence of the English Commonwealth, issued with a false London imprint the same year as the first printing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pivotal work in the polemics of the Interregnum, Milton’s \u003ci\u003eDefensio\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing rebuttal of Claude Saumaise’s \u003ci\u003eDefensio regia\u003c\/i\u003e, the Royalist tract defending Charles I, published the previous year. The work is significant as the official reply commissioned by the English Parliament, written in Milton’s capacity as Latin Secretary to the Council of the Commonwealth. Prompted by the serious effect Salmasius’s arguments were having on public opinion across the Continent, the treatise offers an eloquent defence of the regicide and the legitimacy of the Commonwealth. Milton considered it his finest work in prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDefensio\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in more editions and was more widely circulated during Milton’s lifetime than any other of his works. The speed with which the work travelled across Europe is reflected in this Amsterdam edition, produced by Jansson’s press at a moment when the book was fiercely sought after. Contemporaries recognised Milton’s 1651 reply to Saumaise as an extraordinary demonstration of talent by a previously little-known writer, decisively dismantling the arguments of one of the most eminent scholars of the age. 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The preface by Albert Einstein, one of Moch’s most eminent supporters, makes clear peace can only arise from political will: ‘Those who do not believe in the possibility of the attainment of a lasting and assured peace, or have not the courage to act accordingly, are ripe for destruction’ (p. 8).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: front free endpaper with the ownership inscription of Patrick Blackett (1897–1974) with his occasional underlining throughout and one word (‘Target?’) in pencil to the top of p. 10. \u003cstrong\u003eBlackett was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation, including experiments demonstrating nuclear transmutation and important early research into the positron.\u003c\/strong\u003e During the Second World War, he headed Operational Research at the Admiralty, where his statistical criticism of the RAF blanket bombing campaigns led to increasing ostracism from the military authority. 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Contemporary stiff vellum, spine lettered in ink, pp. [xxviii], 108, with additional copper-engraved title designed and engraved by Thaysses; vellum a little darkened, light toning, occasional light spotting; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncommon first edition, complete with the additional engraved title depicting Cromwell on horseback, this issue without errata and with Pauwels spelled ‘Pauvvels’ on the title-page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFerdinand (or Fernando) de Galardi was a Spanish diplomat at the French and English courts, author of several works on politics, diplomacy, and the role of the ambassador. In La tyrannie heureuse (The Fortunate Tyranny), he exposes Cromwell’s anti-Catholic policies and autocratic rule. The opening chapter compares Cromwell to Cesare Borgia and Cardinal Richelieu before offering a detailed, blow-by-blow account of his meteoric rise to power through the Civil War and the abolition of the monarchy. Subsequent chapters describe the devastations in Scotland and Ireland, as well as the persecution of Catholics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is dedicated to Spanish nobleman Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Mendoza, Governor and Captain-General of Panama and President of the Real Audiencia of Panama from 1671 to 1673, perhaps best known for spearheading Panama’s relocation after the 1671 destruction of Panama Viejo following a raid by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraved frontispiece by S. Thayasses, about whom little is known, shows Cromwell as commander on horseback, his depiction bearing a striking resemblance to the Monument to Philip IV of Spain by Pietro Tacca (Madrid, begun 1634). Cromwell is here surrounded by roundels bearing quotes in Latin on tyranny from the likes of Seneca (’Power is well purchased at any price’), Euripides (‘Be just, unless a kingdom tempts to break the laws’, elsewhere attributed to Suetonius), Justinian (’With him there was no dishonourable method of winning’), and Grotius (’no less subtilly politike, than truly valiant, and one that would not think any thing dishonest that was profitable’, trans. 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The Life and Times of Charles James Fox.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eTrans-Atlantic Radicalism\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRUSSELL, John, \u003ci\u003eLord\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The Life and Times of Charles James Fox. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Richard Bentley.\u003c\/i\u003e 1850-1866.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s blue pebble-grained cloth, partly uncut and unopened, spines lettered in gilt, covers ornamented in blind, brown endpapers with publisher’s advertisements; I: pp. xv, [1 (blank], 366, 2 (advertisements); II: viii, 380; III: xii, 404; spine ends bumped, slight wear to corners and extremities, slight foxing to fore-edge of textblock; sporadic light spotting; overall a very good set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of Lord John Russell’s biography of Whig statesman Charles James Fox (1749–1806), Britain’s first Foreign Secretary, rival of William Pitt, a supporter of American independence and the French Revolution, and a friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; all three volumes are rarely seen together, and are rarer still in the uniform publisher’s bindings.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Russell presents his biography of Fox as a tribute informed by his lifelong Whig convictions. ‘The defining moment in [Russell’s] politics, which occurred nine years before he was born, was George III’s dismissal of Charles James Fox in 1783. Throughout his life he worked with a statue of Fox on his desk’. (ODNB) Similarly to Fox, he believed that, even amid the age of revolutionary societies, the danger to Parliament came not from the people but from an overreaching monarch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese three volumes offer substantial insight into the struggles of the American colonies and intellectual movements which would shape the emerging United States. Fox promoted the work of Tom Paine and other campaigners for Parliamentary reform, and in 1787 formed the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. 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