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Les Loix du Roy Minos , ou continuation de quatrième livre des avantures de Telemaque fils d'Ulisse….
Amsterdam, Francois l'Honore, 1716.
Duodecimo, contemporary vellum, titled in ink on the spine, old patch to lower cover; a good copy.
'Nouvelle edition' (according to the title-page) of an early work in the tradition of Fénélon's Avantures de Télémaque, and a continuation of its fourth book. It is very rare: OCLC lists only one copy, in the City University of New York Graduate Library.
Fénélon's Télémaque was an idealised account of the Roman Republic, and one of the most important books in the French classical tradition of the imaginary voyage. Although the authorship of Les Loix du Roy Minos remains unknown, it is one of the most inventive of the Fénélon imitations, a detailed investigation of the legal and political system of the utopian Minos: the focus on the courts and policing of the kingdom suggests an author associated with the legal system.
Not in Barbier or NUC.
