- 2945
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1554-1618).
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500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Three discourses... I. Of a war with Spain, and our protecting the Netherlands... II. Of the original, and fundamental cause of natural, arbitrary, and civil war. III. Of Ecclesiastical power. Published by Phillip Ralegh. London: for Benjamin Barker, 1702 (1701)
8vo (182 x 112mm.), [6], 204, [2]pp., illustration: engraved portrait of Raleigh by F.H. van Hove, binding: contemporary speckled calf
Literature
Armitage 145
Catalogue Note
first edition of the first discourse, which was probably written early in James I's reign, in which Raleigh offered general arguments for assisting the Netherlands against Spain: that the Spanish would use a vanquished Netherlands as a base for an attack on England; and that if England did not assist the Netherlands, the French would. The two other discourses were published in 1650. The portrait was first used in An introduction to a breviary of the history of England (1693).