(SAUMAISE, CLAUDE de) (SALMASIUS).

Defensio Regia pro Carolo I. ad Serenissimum Magna Britanniae Regem Carolum II., Filium natu majorem, Heredem & Successorem legitimum.

No place, no printer, 1652. 12mo. Fine contemp. red full morocco, profusely gilt spine and covers. Inner gtilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Edges on covers gilt. (2),444 pp. A faint dampstain on some leaves in middle of the book.

This royalist tract tract, defending absolute monarchy, was attacked by John Milton in his famous "Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio, contræ Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii Defensionem Regiam."

Order-nr.: 55229