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Molesworth, Robert.

An Account of Denmark as it was in the Year of 1692.

1694

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Year of publication
1694
Author
Molesworth, Robert.
Keyword
Scandinavian History

Description

London, Timothy Goodwin,1694. 8vo. In contemporary Cambridge mirror-style full calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities, front hindge very weak. Author's name in contemporary hand to title-page, otherwise internally fine. (42), 246 pp. Third edition of Molesworth notorious attack on Danish absolutism. Molesworth's work was influential in the burgeoning field of political science in the period. He made a case for comparative political analysis, comparing the political situation of a country to the health of an individual; a disease, he reasoned, can only be diagnosed by comparing it to its instantiation in other people.