ON GOOD GOVERNANCE

HURAULT, JACQUES.

Des offices d'estat avec un sommaire des stratagemes.

Paris, Michel Sonnius, 1588.

4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Wear to extremities, with with a bit of loss of leather to boards. Spine-ends chipped. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Title-page slightly soiled and a few marginal annotations in contemporary hand, but otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), 301, (16) ff. 

Rare first edition of this guide for princes and rulers in general. It was to a large extend based on works from the classical antiquity and their view on good governance. It was considered a classic well into the 17th century.
A second edition was published in 1596.

Order-nr.: 60910