POLITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hohenthal, Peter Karl Wilhelm von: Liber de politia, adspersis observationibus, de causarum politiae et iustitiae differentiis. Lipsiae [Leipzig] apud Christ. Gottlob Hilscherum 1776.

A broad Enlightenment-era bibliographical study of the polity. Subjects include the citizenry, religion and customs, health, nourishment, security, the administration of justice, leisure, private property, agriculture and city business, laws and institutions, and the difference between justice and political science. This is in fact an extended version of a university dissertation (with a slightly different title) of 1774. Hohenthal (1754-1825) was a Saxon jurist and book-collector and later a participant in the Congress of Vienna.

Details

8vo., pp. [16] 332 + 1 folded-out table. With section-title for Prologomena bound after section-title for main text. Engraved vignette to title-page. Title-page foxed, light foxing and browning elsewhere, bound in contemporary brown speckled-paper boards, rubbed and a touch worn, old label removed from spine, modern bookplate of Heinz Peter.

OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside Germany at Illinois, Harvard; BNF, Paris Cujas, Danish Union Cat. Our copy compared with digitised copy at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Pol.civ. 71).