Charles-Joseph BAIL
Etat des Juifs en France, en Espagne et en Italie, depuis le commencement du cinquième siècle de l'ère vulgaire jusqu'à la fin du seizième, sous les divers rapports du droit civil, du commerce et de la littérature[The Condition of the Jews in France, Spain, and Italy, from the Beginning of the Fifth Century of the Common Era to the End of the Sixteenth, in Relation to Civil Law, Commerce, and Literature]
Alexis EYMERY|Paris 1823|13.5 x 20.3 cm|Broché
First edition (cf. Quérard I, 152, which incorrectly gives the date as 1824).
Our copy is preserved in its original beige printed wrappers, with the title label pasted to the spine.
Tears and corner losses to the wrappers, a few scattered foxing spots.
Born in Béthune (Pas-de-Calais) in 1777 and deceased in Margency (Val-d'Oise) in 1824, Chevalier Bail began a military career before turning his attention to the moral and political sciences.
This work was entered for the prize awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1823.
€500