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by TheRemnantTrust | Mar 13, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Manuscript Date: 1446 Manuscript in Latin, on paper. This manuscript of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s “De Officis” was prepared for Nicolai Renciade by an unknown scribe in 1446. Renciade was a student of Giovanni de Juvianello, a professor of grammar, rhetoric, and poetics...
by TheRemnantTrust | Mar 5, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1640 First English Edition. “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli first appeared in 1513 in a correspondence version under the title, “De Principatibus.” It was first published five years after Machiavelli’s death in 1532 in Italian by Antonio Blado...
by TheRemnantTrust | Feb 26, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1738 Published in Dublin in 1738 under the title, “The Trial of John Peter Zenger,” this volume was originally published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1738 as “A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger.” It contains the pleadings and...
by TheRemnantTrust | Feb 12, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1656 First Edition. James Harrington’s great Utopian political treatise, “The Common-Wealth of Oceana,” was published in 1656. “Oceana” was published in two first editions for Daniel Pakeman and Livewell Chapman (presented here) by John Streater with their...
by TheRemnantTrust | Feb 5, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1513 First Edition, except were cited. This volume is entitled “Liber trium virorum & trium spiritualium virginum” and includes six texts in one volume with a woodcut title page of full length figures portraying the six authors with their...
by TheRemnantTrust | Jan 29, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1692 First Edition. Sir Roger L’Estrange’s version of the “Fables of Aesop” was printed in 1692. It is a collection of fables attributed to Aesop, who is believed to be a Greek slave and storyteller that lived between 620 and 564 BC. Originally passed down...
by TheRemnantTrust | Jan 23, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1694 Second Edition. John Locke first published “Two Treatises of Government” anonymously in 1689 as a defense of the Glorious Revolution. The first treatise discusses patriarchalism – the idea that the power of the monarchy is absolute...
by TheRemnantTrust | Jan 17, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1651 First Edition, with additional engraved title page and folding table. “Leviathan” was written during the English Civil War (1642-1651) by Thomas Hobbes, where he asserts that civil war and anarchy can only be avoided by having a strong, undivided...
by TheRemnantTrust | Jan 9, 2018 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1698 First Edition. Algernon Sidney’s “Discourses Concerning Government” was published from his original manuscript in 1698. Written between 1680 and 1683, it was not published until 1698, after Sidney was executed in 1683 for his involvement...
by TheRemnantTrust | Dec 11, 2017 | Book of the Week | 0 Comments
Published: 1748 First Edition. David Hume’s “Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding” was first published in 1748. In 1758, the work became known as “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.” It was a revision of an earlier...
