[Collected works of king James I of England] Serenissimi et potentissimi principis

Jacobi, dei gratia, magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regis, fidei defebdoris, opera, edita ab Jacobo Montacuto , Wintoniensi Episcopo & sacelli Regii decano. London, apud Bonhamum Nortonium, & Ioannem Billium, 1619, (46),609 p., with woodcut printer's mark (repeated on intertitles), woodcut coat of arms, beautiful engraved portrait and many woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, contemporary calf, ribbed and gilt back with morocco letterpiece, small folio.

Here and there with old annotations by M. Tydeman (his name and date 1814 above annotations on first blank). Boards reset and backstrip with repairs. Acceptable copy. See extensively on James VI and I (1566-1625): https://tinyurl.com/nu9yvd6. The most remarkable titles in these collected works: Daemonologia, sive Dialogus de artibus magicis (p. 85-126), Misocapnus, sive De abusu tobacci (p. 197-207) and Triplici nodo Triplex cuneus, sive Apologia pro iuramento fidelitatis (...). (p. 237-281). See lot 156 in this auction for a book from his library (with the same arms appearing in this book).