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Details
Title
Orbis Christiani status.
Uniform title
Commentaires de l'estat de la religion. English. Abridgement.
Created/published
Imprinted in Geneva : Leiden and Bremen: E. Vignon & Bernhardus Petrus, 1590.
Description
174 p.
Associated name
Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, author.
Note
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
Bd.w. FAST ACC 270964 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "[HENRI IV]. [ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE]. [EUROPEAN AMERICANA]. [CAROLINE LITERATURE]. ORBIS CHRISTIANI STATUS (1590) / [Jean de Serres] V. Partis Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae (1580) / [Jacobus Francus, i.e. Conrad Memmius] Jehova Vindex (1590). Geneva, Leiden and Bremen: E. Vignon & Bernhardus Petrus, 1580. Dates: 1580-1590. Together 3 works in one volume. 8vo. (ORBIS): 174 pp., 2 blank ff. (COMMENTARIORUM): 8 ff., 208 pp. (JEHOVA VIDEX): 2 parts in one volume. 12 ff., 34 ff. Contemporary half pigskin blind-tooled, upper compartment with the monogram of the first owner "M.M.H." in the lower the date "1590," boards painted black, sprinkled edges (front endleaf loosening). In very good antiquarian condition. Preserved in a fitted cloth case. Very good. Hardcover. (#369) $2,475 A fascinating Sammelband of three historical works relating to the Civil Wars in France at the end of the 16th-century, here preserved in a very attractive, strictly contemporary binding (dated 1590). ORBIS CHRISTIANI STATUS. First (?) Edition, bound third in the present Sammelband, which contains frequent and apparently unrecorded references to Elizabeth I, and also to America, i.a. the description of the Portuguese and Spanish possessions in the New World (p. 132 / 158), the West and East Indies (p. 138), an account of the Spanish Armada off the coast of Scotland and Ireland (pp. 143-4), etc. An extraordinary passage on p. 132 informs the reader that the vast lands of "America" (sic) and the West Indies were conquered "with appalling cruelty" (sic!) and were subjugated by authority of the Pope himself (sic!). The Orbis Christiani Status gives a strictly contemporary account of the rebellion of the Duc de Guise against royal authority, his assassination in 1588, and the eventual triumph of Henri IV. As per Hugh M. Richmond's 'Shakespeare's Navarre': "When Henri IV won his famous victories in 1589-1590 he became a folk-hero of the English, with their ineradicable taste for romance on horseback. There was every reason for fashionable young playwrights to exploit this popularity in the early 1590's, and Shakespeare was no exception. Love's Labour's Lost is thus in part an attempt to define the origins of a contemporary hero, and it develops motifs and character types which reappear in several of its author's later works. We are now able to judge what drew the young and ambitious Shakespeare to this material, and why it proved so seminal to his awareness. In the first place Love's Labour's Lost is a work of imaginative journalism exploiting contemporary political fashion" (SOURCE: Hugh M. Richmond, "Shakespeare's Navarre" in: The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3. Summer, 1979, pp. 193-216). Adams O-256. ΒΆ Not in Moeckli, Les livres imprimes a Geneve de 1550 a 1600." Ordered from Michael Laird Rare Books, D 9283, 2019-02-07, email quote.
Folger accession
270964