Viridiarium morale principis Christiani, e sacris, ac profanis scriptoribus concinnatum.

München, J.H. von Gelder, 1671

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12mo: [8]-100 pp. (sl. toned).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine. Excellent copy.

Mirror of princes by the German Jesuit Mancinus (1605-1673).
Ref. VD17 12:103877Q. - DBS V:464-465:5.
Prov. Contemp. presentation inscription (front flyleaf). - Old ownership entry on 1st title. - "Nordkirchen" (bookpl.).
Bound with: 1. Id. - Enchiridion aulicorum seu Methodus sacro-profana christiane vivendi in aulis principum. Ibid., 1672. 106 pp. On life at court and courtly behaviour. Ref. VD17 12:103798E. - DBS V:465:6. - 2. Quin, Walter - Corona virtutum principe dignarum, cui adjuncta sunt de vita & virtutibus duorum Antoninorum Pii & Marci maxime memorabilia [4th enl. ed.]. Braunschweig, J.H. Duncker for Th.H. Hanenstein (Hannover & Frankfurt), 1678. [16]-271 pp. 4th ed. of a Mirror of princes written for the use of Charles I by the Irish poet W. Quin (1575-1634), active in the service of the House of Stuart (1st publ. London 1613). It is "a neo-Stoic florilegium culled from the works of Justus Lipsius" (Wikipedia). Ref. VD17 23:282222L.