Idea principis christiano-politici
Subtitle: symbolis CI. expressa
By: á Didaco Saavedra Faxardo, esquire, &c. Ab innumeris priorum editionum mendis expurgata
Contributors: Sadeler, Johann, -1665
Publisher: Apud Fridericum Leonardum.
Published: 1660
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 599
Subjects: Emblems; Political science; Kings and rulers; Duties
Work titles: Idea de un príncipe político-cristiano
Notes: Title page is fully engraved.

Translation from the author's: Idea de un principe politico christiano, first printed in Valencia, 1660.

Two issues, one printed in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu, and the other by Joost Pluymer, were printed in the same year.

There are numerous references to the New World in the text including a mention of Columbus and Cortes as lawgivers (Empresa XVII), Cortes' valor (Empresa XXVI and LII), and  the riches of the New World (Empresa LXIX)

Signatures: A-2B¹² 2C²

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Includes 103 engraved emblems by Johann Sadeler.

Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-century imagery, 484.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 283453n.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 283485.

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827, 673.

European Americana, 660/151.

Purchase; 2016; 17-060.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.