MOLESWORTH, ROBERT.

An Account of Denmark as it was in the Year of 1692.

London, Timothy Goodwin,1694.

8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with four raised bands. Ex-libris to verso of front board. Previous owner's name (Grifffith of Boynton) to title-page. Leaf B8 with tear and I2 with three small holes, otherwise internally nice and clean. (40), 246 pp.

Third edition of Molesworth notorious attack on Danish absolutism. Molesworth's work was influential in the burgeoning field of political science in the period. He made a case for comparative political analysis, comparing the political situation of a country to the health of an individual; a disease, he reasoned, can only be diagnosed by comparing it to its instantiation in other people.

Order-nr.: 63352