Language: English
Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006
ISBN 10: 1576753875 ISBN 13: 9781576753873
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Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page.
Published by Printed for J. Place, A. & J. Churchill and R. Sare,, 1701
Seller: Claude Cox Old & Rare Books ABA, ILAB, Saxmundham, United Kingdom
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US$ 186.43
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Add to basketFolio, unpaginated, 6ll. prelims & preface, 170ll. text & appendix, the first half signed in 4s, then 2s; light marginal soiling but generally well preserved with good margins; later panelled calf worn, sides detached, backstrip largely absent. The magnum opus of the Cambridge Professor of Civil Law, 1594, and Master of Trinity, 1598. Prosecuted for exalting the King's Prerogative before the House of Commons by Sir Edward Coke, who had a hostile history with Cowell. He was saved from imprisonment by the interposition of James I but his book was burnt by order of the House. Several times reprinted & enlarged until 1727.