Boxhorn,M.Z. Lot n° 67

Varii tractatus politici, quorum seriem index tractatuum, operi praefixus, indigitat. 2 inst. in 1 vol. Amsterdam, Commelin 1663. 12°. 7 fol., 631 p., with gest. portr. as front. Prgt. d. Zt. with gold-stamped coat-of-arms supralibros on spine and front cover. (Best. and rubbed, covers damaged). Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 01720.0. First edition - Extensive political treatise by the scholar Boxhorn (1612 -1653), who was the first to theorize the concept of an Indo-European linguistic lineage. - Includes: Institutiones Politicae - Disquisitiones Politicae, Id est, sexaginta casus politici, Ex omni historia selecti. Ubi De singulis variae Sententiae, ac Decreta, variique Eventusproponuntur, exactum de iis Iudicium fertur - Dissertatione Politicae, de regio Romanorum Imperio, & quaedam aliae - De successione et Jure Primogenitorum - De Electione & Successione - De poenis - De primis Opibus Rerumpubl. - De Veteri Achaeorum Republica, & diversa ejus mutatione ac forma - De amnestia - De Republica Batavica, brevis, et accurata descriptio. - Beginning and end worm-marked (end somewhat stronger), faintly browned.