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education of princes25
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Fenelon, Francois De Salignac De La Mothe- (1651-1715)3
Le Blanc, Jean-Bernard3
Le Blanc, Jean-Bernard (1707-1781)3
Milton, John3
Milton, John (1608-1674)3
Nonney De Fontenai, Claude De3
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)2
Finnur Jonsson2
Finnur Jonsson (1858-1934)2
Guevara, Antonio De Bp (1545)2

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Le véritable mentor, ou, l'Éducation de la noblesse

Caraccioli, Louis-Antonio marquis (1719-1803)

1759

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Archontorologion : Or The diall of princes: containing the golden and famovs booke of Marcvs Avrelivs, sometime emperour of Rome

Guevara, Antonio de Bp (1545); North, Sir Thomas (1535?-1601?)

1619

North's translation, although prefessedly from the French, was made to a great extent from the Spanish original. Cf. Dict. nat. biog. The fourth book is a translation of Guevara's Aviso de privados. ...

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The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius Emperour and eloquent oratour
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The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius Emperour and eloquent oratour

Guevara, Antonio de Bp (1545); Berners, John Bourchier Lord (1533)

1553

Date in title-page border: 1534. Printer from colophon.

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Lessons to a young prince, by an old statesman, on the present disposition in Europe to a general revolution : with the addition of a lesson on the mode of studying and profiting by Reflections on the French revolution, by... Edmund Burke

Williams, David (1738-1816)

1790

Anonymous. By David Williams. Young Prince = the Prince of Wales, afterwards King George IV. With a half-title. Edition information precedes additional title information on t.p.

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Lettres sur l'éducation des princes : avec une lettre de Milton, où il propose une nouvelle maniere d'élever la jeunesse d'Angleterre

Nonney de Fontenai, Claude de; Milton, John (1608-1674); Le Blanc, Jean-Bernard (1707-1781)

1746

"Ces lettres ont été écrites... par M.de Fontenay." -- [Pref.]. Milton's letter translated by J.B. Le Blanc. Two issues were published in 1746, with differing title vignettes; p.176 incorrectly n...

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Lettres sur l'éducation des princes : avec une lettre de Milton, où il propose une nouvelle maniere d'élever la jeunesse d'Angleterre

Nonney de Fontenai, Claude de; Milton, John (1608-1674); Le Blanc, Jean-Bernard (1707-1781)

1746

"Ces lettres ont été écrites... par M.de Fontenay." -- [Pref.]. Milton's letter translated by J.B. Le Blanc. Two issues were published in 1746, with differing title vignettes; p.176 incorrectly n...

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Nouveaux dialogues des morts : avec des contes & fables: composés pour l'education d'un prince (v.1)

Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe- (1651-1715)

1719

"Recueil des fables, composées pour l'education de feu Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne": v. 2, p. [103]-204.

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Nouveaux dialogues des morts : avec des contes & fables: composés pour l'education d'un prince (v.2)

Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe- (1651-1715)

1719

"Recueil des fables, composées pour l'education de feu Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne": v. 2, p. [103]-204.

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Basilikon dōron. : or, His Maiesties instructions to his dearest sonne, Henry the Prince

James King of England (1566-1625); Waldegrave, Robert (1554-1604)

MDCIII. [1603]

Revised from the first edition. --ESTC. The roman numeral date on title page is made with turned "C's". With a final blank leaf. "From the method of leaf signatures this appears to have been onl...

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Lettres sur l'éducation des princes : avec une lettre de Milton, où il propose une nouvelle maniere d'élever la jeunesse d'Angleterre

Nonney de Fontenai, Claude de; Milton, John (1608-1674); Le Blanc, Jean-Bernard (1707-1781)

1746

"Ces lettres ont été écrites... par M.de Fontenay." -- [Pref.]. Milton's letter translated by J.B. Le Blanc. Two issues were published in 1746, with differing title vignettes; p.176 incorrectly n...

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Traitté de l'education d'un prince, avec quelques autres traittez sur diverses matieres morales

Nicole, Pierre (1625-1695)

1671

Privilege granted to the "sieur de Chanteresne", a fictitious name.

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