[Proedría-basilikè]: a discourse concerning the precedency of kings: . wherein the reasons and arguments of the three greatest monarchs of Christendom who claim a several right thereunto, are faithfully collected, and renderd. Wherby occasion is taken to make Great Britain better understood then [sic] some forren authors (either out of ignorance or interest) have represented her according to this particular. Whereunto is also adjoynd a distinct treatise of ambassadors, &c.
James Howell (1594?-1666)
Category
Books
Date
1664
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3019877
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 219, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ports. ; fol. Imperfect: wanting portrait plates of Louis XIV, Philip IV and of Howell. Provenance: manuscript annotations in hand of John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes of Truro, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606-1685); that on front fly-leaf dated "9 Feb 1663". Pencil doodles on frontispiece and title page. Binding: seventeenth-century sponged calf; double gilt fillet border, with gilt cornerpiece stamps; blind roll pattern on board edges. Rebacked in calf. Gilt title and place/date on spine. Mottled edges.
Makers and roles
James Howell (1594?-1666) King Charles II (1630 - 1685), King of England, Scotland and Ireland King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) King Philip IV, King of Spain (1605-1665) David Loggan (Gdańsk c.1634 – London 1692) C. Molan P. Stent G. Tomlyn