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13 CAMERON, David. For the Record. London: William Collins, 2019 Signed limited edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies signed by the author. Cameron’s memoir covers his upbringing, family life, political career, and time in Number 10, leading to his resignation following the 2016 EU referendum. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the original black cloth slipcase, front panel with gilt facsimile signature. A fine copy. £250 [135784] 14 CAMPANELLA, Tommaso. A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. London: printed for Philemon Stephens, and are to be sold at his shop, 1654 [i.e. late 1653] all kings either wolf, mercenary, or shepherd First edition in English of De monarchia hispanica discursus , first published in Latin in 1640, this copy from the celebrated library of the earls of Macclesfield. Written during the Dominican monk Campanella’s 27-year imprisonment for conspiring against the Spanish rulers of southern Italy, the Discourse offers both an anti- Machiavellian analysis of political power, and a survey of the Spanish government. “Kings, Campanella argued, come in three types: the wolf, the mercenary, and the shepherd. The wolf is merely a tyrant who looks upon the people as existing ‘for his own use’; the mercenary – Machiavelli’s Prince – does not ‘devour’ as the wolf does, but merely ‘steals what is useful to him’, while offering his flock no real protection. The shepherd, however, the political counterpart to Christ himself, lives only to serve the people; and it is the shepherd, counterpart to the pope, who is the only truly prudential ruler” (Pagden, p. 46). The final two chapters concern the King of Spain’s position in the New World. Campanella shows little humanitarian concern
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for the natives, proposing to transport them to Africa, but does point out the foolishness of simply stripping the lands of gold and silver, rather than populating them with productive men and developing the region. The translation is by Edmund Chilmead (1610–1654), a chaplain at Christ Church, Oxford, ejected in 1648, perhaps for his commitment to the royalist cause, and who supported himself through translation work in London. The Macclesfield library ranked as one of the finest country house libraries in Britain, with both the first and second earls of Macclesfield acquiring books on a vast range of subjects in the first half of the 18th century. Quarto (190 × 135 mm). Contemporary blind ruled calf, red morocco label, vellum manuscript hinge supports (taken from a manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX, six lines from two columns visible, with rubrication). Macclesfield library bookplate (North Library) to front pastedown, and blind stamps to initial two leaves. Joints split at ends but holding firm, light wear at spine ends and corners, some light browning (more pronounced to endpapers from turn-ins), running central crease and creasing to some corners, chip to terminal free endpaper; still a nice copy, unrestored and contents crisp. ¶ ESTC R207219 (variant without comma after “glasse”); Sabin 10198; Thomason, E.722; Wing C401[1]. Anthony Pagden, Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination , 1990. £4,000 [150999]
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