Karl Ferdinand HOMMEL (Giacomo MANZONI)
Caroli Ferdinandi Hommelii Ivris Feodalis In Academia Lipsiensi Professoris Ordinarii Oblectamenta Ivris Feodalis[The Delights of Feudal Law by Karl Ferdinand Hommel, Ordinary Professor of Feudal Law at the University of Leipzig or Grammatical Observations Variously Illustrating the Law of Vassalage and Germanic Antiquities]
Johannis Gothofredi Dyckii [Johann Gottfried Dyck]|Lipsae [Leipzig] 1755|15.6 x 19 cm|Relié
Rare first edition of a work by the "German Beccaria," unrecorded in French libraries according to WorldCat, composed while the author held the chair of feudal law at the University of Leipzig, a position obtained at the age of thirty, three years prior.
Contemporary full brown sheep, smooth spine gilt with fleurons, light brown morocco lettering-piece, red edges. Bookplate of Count Giacomo Manzoni, former Finance Minister of the Roman Republic, concealing an ownership inscription written in bro
€450