Grenoble (Isère)

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copy.
Bound in half red chagrin, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dotted lines and decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and flyleaves of mould-made paper, first cover preserved, speckled top edge.
A pleasant copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on handmade vellum, the only deluxe copies.

Bound in half-red shagreen, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dots and ornamented with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front cover preserved, top edge speckled.

Preface by General Roques.

Handsome copy complete with its folding map at the end of the volume.
 

First edition. Title page in red and black. Title vignette with the arms of Dauphiné flanked by 2 angels. Manuscript inscriptions from the 16th century in the margins of the title page, the one at the bottom of the page recalling the history of Humbert bequeathing Dauphiné to the eldest son of the King of France. On the last leaf, manuscript ex libris, as well as on the verso of the first blank leaf: Je suis l'abbé de Pinet et de Cours ["I am the abbot of Pinet and Cours"].

Title inside the volume in the upper margin: Statuta Delphinatus. Gothic printing in 2 columns of 45 lines. Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5th ed.) II, 1812. As Brunet specifies, 2 blank leaves at the end, one separating the 2 parts. 2 copies in the Harvard Hollis catalog (Harvard Law School Library and Brown University), nothing in the catalogs of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, one copy located at the Caen library.
Full chamois binding, 17th century. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Holes and worm damage on the spine. Extensive worm damage on the boards. Visible stitching along the inner hinge. Title page browned, some stains. A dampstain on the verso of the title page, and various traces of brown dampstains throughout the volume. From leaf XVI of the second part, wormholes affecting some letters.
In 1349, the Dauphin Humbert II, without heir, bequeathed Dauphiné to the eldest son of the King of France, who would henceforth bear the title of Dauphin as sovereign of this province. Louis XII, son of Charles VII, would be the first Dauphin. Going to Dauphiné would be the first responsibility of the future King of France. From 1447, the Dauphin Louis went to his lands where he resided for 10 years. Louis decided to govern this province and modernized it by having a register of the rights, privileges and freedoms of Dauphiné compiled, the delphinal register. This register would be the basis of the statutes of Dauphiné found in this customary. In 1461, Louis the Dauphin became Louis XI upon the death of his father. All the customs of Dauphiné were compiled in 1482 in Grenoble. The first part of the work reflects this. The second part, largely in French, is the result of the meeting of the three estates forming Dauphiné and which met in Tours where Louis XII resided. The text is a response to their requests and grievances, establishing new edicts for Dauphiné.
There is found at the end, as Brunet stipulates, a piece dated March 1508, so the publication cannot be earlier: "Actu[m] quarta martij. Anno d[omi]ni M. cccccviij".

Original edition printed in a limited number of copies of this thesis defended in Grenoble on April 30, 1956, for the award of a Doctorate in Law.

Only one copy in the CCF (Grenoble).

Binding in half black shagreen with corners, smooth spine with five raised bands, paper boards marbled, light blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, the original illustrated wrapper (restored and mounted on a tab) preserved.

A map of Iran has been glued to the bottom of the false-title page, with a handwritten ex-libris at the top of the same page.

Rare thesis on the fluctuating policy of Persia regarding the regime of oil concessions granted since the reign of Nasreddin Shah.