LAUTERBECK, Georg

"Regentenbuch"

"Darinn vil und mancherley nützliche anweisungen, cordial advice and suggestions, for laudable and happy government, arrangements, improvements and maintenance of good policy, in times of peace and war, as well as the promotion of the common good among the subjects and whatever else may be useful for good government ... To all potentates, kings, princes, ... ... almost necessary and useful to read, in order to be knowledgeable in all relevant matters. Likewise his treatise and booklet on court life. Furthermore, Mr. Claudij Sisellijs, ... two books on the office of the kings and the government of the common good. Item Guidonis de Susaria, and Pauli Grillandi Castilionici, two treatises of peinliche sachen und Fragen. Likewise the treatise of Mr. Ulrichi Zasij on feudal law. The above-mentioned author has written the first from French but the other from Latin, ... has written".

Printed ... by Peter Schmid. Published by Sigmund Feyerabend and Georgen Fischer. Printed in the royal imperial city of Frankfurt am Mayn. 1579. 35 x 24 cm.

Title page, defective woodcut portrait colored, (9), 434 leaves and printer's signet, including a large woodcut. Leaves 333 and 334 missing and replaced by blank pages. Embossed leather binding with clasps. Not collated. Spine and binding leather defective, clasps working. Block firm.