Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of Peace [Vol. I: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy; Vol. II: The Defensor Pacis]

New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Very Good -. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951, 1956. First Editions. Two volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's dark blue-green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, black topstains; xvi,342; xciv,450pp. Moderate shelf wear, textblocks a bit shaken in bindings, contemporary partly-redacted ownership signature to front free endpapers and rather extensive marginalia to first fifty leaves of Vol. II, else a Very Good reading set overall.

The second volume published five years after the first, consisting of a lengthy introduction by Gewirth followed by his translation of Marsilius of Padua's treatise "Defensor Pacis.