Political science -- Early works to 1800
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The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, c1975), by Estienne de La Boétie, ed. by Harry Kurz, contrib. by Murray N. Rothbard (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)- Advices from Parnassus (London: Printed by J. D. for D. Brown et al, 1706), by Traiano Boccalini, ed. by John Hughes, contrib. by Girolamo Briani
- Crisis Politica Determina el Mas Florido Imperio, y la Mejor Institucion de Principes, y Ministros (in Spanish; Madrid: Por E. Fernandez de Huerta, 1719), by Juan de Cabrera
- De Republica Libri Sex: Latine ab Auctore Redditi, Multo Quam Antea Locupletiores, cum Indice Locupletissimo (in Latin; Frankfurt: P. Fischer, 1609), by Jean Bodin
- A Discourse Concerning Militia's and Standing Armies, With Relation to the Past and Present Governments of Europe, and of England in Particular (London, 1697), by Andrew Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militia's (Edinburgh, 1698), by Andrew Fletcher
- A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias (London: Reprinted for M. Cooper, 1755), by Andrew Fletcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- El Hombre de Estado (2 parts in 3 volumes, in Spanish; 1789-1791), by Nicolo Donato
- Leviathan: or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Common-Wealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil (first edition; London: printed for A. Crooke, 1651), by Thomas Hobbes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Leviathan: or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Common-Wealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil ("25 ornaments" edition; London: printed for A. Crooke, 1651, printed ca. 1680), by Thomas Hobbes (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'Homme d'État (2 parts, in French; Liege: C. Plomteux, 1767), by Nicolo Donato
- Of the Antiquity, Power and Decay of Parliaments: Being a General View of Government, and Civil Policy, in Europe, With Other Historical and Political Observations Relating Thereunto (London: J. Roberts, 1714), by Thomas Rymer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue Concerning Government (second edition, 1681), by Henry Neville (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Plato Redivivus, or, A Dialogue Concerning Government: Wherein, By Observations Drawn From Other Kingdoms and States Both Ancient and Modern, an Endeavour is Used to Discover the Present Politick Distemper of Our Own, With the Causes, and Remedies (London: Printed for S.I., 1681), by Henry Neville
- Politick Discourses: Written in Italian by Paolo Paruta, A Noble Venetian, Cavalier and Procurator of St. Mark; Whereunto is added, A Short Soliloquy, in Which the Author Briefly Examines the Whole Course of His Life (London: Printed for H. Moseley, 1657), by Paolo Paruta, trans. by Henry Carey Monmouth
- The Six Bookes of a Common-Weale (London: G. Bishop, 1606), by Jean Bodin, trans. by Richard Knolles (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown; The Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and the End of Civil Government (London: Printed for A. Churchill, 1690), by John Locke
- The Works of Nicholas Machiavel (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Davies et al., 1762), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ellis Farneworth, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
- The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence: Translated From the Originals, Illustrated with Notes, Annotations, Dissertations, and Several New Plans on the Art of War (second edition, corrected, in 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davies et al., 1775), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ellis Farneworth, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
- Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942), by Estienne de La Boétie, trans. by Harry Kurz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cicero's Prince: The Reasons and Counsels for Settlement and Good Government of a Kingdom, Collected out of Cicero's Works (translated by Rymer from selections originally made by Bellenden; London: Printed for S. Mearne, 1668), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Thomas Rymer and William Bellenden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
- The Oceana and Other Works of Iames Harrington (London: Printed for T. Becket, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), by James Harrington, contrib. by John Toland
- The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (London: Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (PDF and page images at CMU)
- The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (second edition; London: Printed for R. Clavel, et al., 1695), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (third edition; London: Printed by T. W. for A. Churchill et al, 1720), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (multiple formats at archive.org)
- De Vorst (The Prince in Dutch; Leiden: C. J. Cyfveer, 1834), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by T. R. Roest van Limburg (multiple formats at Google)
- Gorgias (New York: Liberal Arts Press, c1952), by Plato, trans. by W. C. Helmbold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aristotelis Politica (in Greek, with notes in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1909), by Aristotle, contrib. by Franz Susemihl and Otto Immisch (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Cive, by Thomas Hobbes (text files at McMaster)
- De Laicis: or, The Treatise on Civil Government, by Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino (HTML at catholicism.org)
- Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
- Discourses on Livy, by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (HTML at Wikisource)
- Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes (Gutenberg text)
- A Political Treatise, by Benedictus de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes (HTML at umb.edu)
- The Political Works of James I, Reprinted From the Edition of 1616, With an Introduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by King James I of England, contrib. by Charles Howard McIlwain (page images at HathiTrust)
- Politics, by Aristotle, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (PDF at McMaster)
- Politics, by Aristotle, trans. by H. Rackham (HTML at Perseus)
- The Politics of Aristotle: A Revised Text, With Introduction, Analysis, and Commentary (in Greek with English notes; covers books 1-5; no further volumes of this edition known; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Aristotle, contrib. by Franz Susemihl and Robert Drew Hicks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by W. K. Marriott (multiple formats at theprincebookfree.com)
- The Prince (with two shorter works), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by W. K. Marriott (Gutenberg text)
- The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ninian Hill Thomson (HTML and PDF at Bartleby)
- The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the German Nobility, Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther; With Introductions and Notes (Harvard Classics v36; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, trans. by Ninian Hill Thomson, Ralph Robinson, R. S. Grignon, and C. A. Buchheim, contrib. by Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther, and William Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Republic (based on the 1892 edition; includes translator's full commentary), by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- The Republic, by Plato, trans. by Paul Shorey (HTML at Perseus)
- The Republic of Plato (1901 Collier edition), by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (HTML at Columbia)
- Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke (Gutenberg text)
- The Sophistes and Politicus of Plato, With a Revised Text and English Notes (in Greek with English commentary; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1867), by Plato, ed. by Lewis Campbell
- Statesman, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
- Statesman, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- A Treatise on Government (aka Politics), by Aristotle, trans. by William Ellis (Gutenberg text)
- Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke (PDF at McMaster)
- Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants, by Hubert Languet (HTML at lonang.com)
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778 (third edition, 3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for William Cobbett, 1797), by John Adams
- The Oceana of James Harrington and His Other Works, Som Wherof Are Now First Publish'd From His Own Manuscripts: The Whole Collected, Methodiz'd, and Review'd, With an Exact Account of His Life Prefix'd (with "Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy" by Hall; London, 1700), by James Harrington, ed. by John Toland, contrib. by John Hall
- The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (fifth edition corrected, 2 volumes; Cambridge, MA: At the University Press, 1807), by J. J. Burlamaqui, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, by Thomas Hobbes (text at McMaster)
- Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
- Laws, by Plato, trans. by Robert Gregg Bury (HTML at Perseus)
- Laws, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- The Social Contract, and Discourses, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1883), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ninian Hill Thomson (Gutenberg text)
- Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, by David Hume, ed. by Eugene F. Miller (HTML at econlib.org)
- Ioannis Stobaei Florilegium (4 volumes in 1, in Greek with Latin notes; Leipzig: B. G. Teubneri, 1855-1857), ed. by Stobaeus and August Meineke (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Theologico-Political Treatise, by Benedictus de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes
- The Athenian Constitution, by Aristotle, trans. by Frederic G. Kenyon (HTML at Internet Classics)
- The Athenian Constitution, by Aristotle, trans. by H. Rackham (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Medieval English Political Writings, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at Rochester)
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