The History of Hereditary-Right. Wherein its indefeasibleness and all other such late doctrines, concerning the absolute power of princes and the unlimited obedience of subjects, are fully and finally determin'd by the Scripture standard of divine right
London: Printed for J. Baker, (1711). Hardcover. First edition (1711), old leather, fair to good copy, boards quite worn with significant loss of leather, strengthened along spine with japanese paper dyed a complementary color, inner hinges strengthened with japanese tissue paper. (16) 156 (2) pp. collated complete, owner's name and inscriptions on flyleaf (David Brailsford, 1740) and on rear endpapers. Text clean, one correction by Brailsford to p. 61. Considers the problem of hereditary right from the early Jews onward: from Cain to Nero as the second edition that came out after the author's death put it. Fleming was a Scottish presbyterian minister of liberal views. Good. Item #H5413
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