1654 Scarce Latin Book - Quatuor Summis Imperiis - Four Greatest Empires by Sleidan
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Author : I. Sleidani. Johannes Sleidanus (Sleidan).
Title : I. Sleidani De Quatuor Summis Imperiis libri tres: postrema editione hac accurate recogniti.
Language : Text in Latin.
Publisher : Amstelodami, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1654.
Size : 4.5 " X 3 ".
Pages : 309 pages + index.
Binding : Very good full calf binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed, lower part of spine chipped - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover .
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing or staining).
Illustration :Including the very nice illustrated title page.
Estimate : (USD 200 - USD 300)
The book : Scarce and very nice 17th century edition of Selidan's work - De quatuor summis imperiis. : An historical account of the four chief monarchies or empires of the world. Viz. I. The Assyrian, or Babylonian. II. The Persian. III. The Grecian. IV. The Roman, continued down to the beginning of the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth. Being a relation of the most considerable occurrences that have happened in the world from Noah's flood to the year of Our Lord J.C. 1520. /
Written in Latin by John Sleidan, sometime ambassador in England from the Protestant states of Germany, deputy for the city of Strasburg in the Council of Trent; and author of The history of the reformation in Germany.
The author : Johannes Sleidanus or Sleidan (1506 – 31 October 1556) was a Luxembourgeois historian and annalist of the Reformation.