Author: LISOLA, Baron Francois P. de.
Title: The Buckler of State and Justice Against the Design manifestly discovered of the Universal Monarchy, Under the vain Pretext of the Queen of France Her Pretensions.
Description: London, Printed by James Flesher, for Richard Royston, Bookseller to His most Excellent Majesty, 1667. 1st English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original leather boards. Professionally rebacked, wear to corners, ex-libris plate to inside front cover, prev. owner's name to top RH corner of title-page, a little worming to bottom RH corners of first 20 pages & prefatory matters not affecting text. Overall a handsome copy of a political commentary, translated out of the French, focusing on France's role in the Low Countries at the time, the undermining of the Pyrenean treaty etc. The author, Franz Paul Baron de Lisola (1613-1674) was an Austrian diplomat who began his diplomatic career in 1639 with a mission to London as Ambassador to persuade Charles I to reinstate the Count Palatine. He represented the emperor Leopold in Poland, Spain and most of all in the Netherlands. His most famous work was Bouclier d'estat et de justice contre le dessein manifestement decouvert de la monarchic universelle (...) which reflected his efforts as one of the chief architects in forming a coalition against Louis XIV. This volume forms an English translation of the work originally published in French. Scarce. 311pp.

Keywords: history historical century 17th seventeenth english britain british england france french monarchy austria austrian lowlands netherlands politics political social international relations diplomacy diplomat leopold emperor