First edition. A title-frontispiece featuring the personification of justice. Specific title page and pagination for Receptarum juris utriusque regularum partitiones by Cousinio.
Contemporary full vellum binding with overlapping flaps. Smooth spine with title-label lacking. Vellum soiled overall. Good copy.
These Elements of Civil Law are the work of Professor of Law at Amsterdam Joannes Arnold Corvinus, Protestant minister and jurist. Before becoming a lawyer he was a Calvinist preacher. Close to Grotius, he was part of a group of legal writers sympathetic to Protestants who commented on reason of State.
New edition. Imprint for this new edition completed on December 1st, 1655.
Very worn contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with grotesques (leafy designs, dots and fleur-de-lys). Brown sheep title label. Headcaps torn with large lacks to first and last compartments. Joints cracked at head and foot with leather lacks. Corners cut and worn bare. Overall very rubbed. First text leaf with browning, some following leaves affected. Foxing to index. Lacks lower right corner of page 1043.
19th-century armorial bookplate of Bellaigne de Bughas.
First edition.
Contemporary half navy blue sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with quintuple gilt fillets, gilt friezes at tail, small lacks to headcaps of both volumes and to spine of second volume, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners of second volume bumped, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some light foxing.
Rare.
First French edition, rare. Translated by Etienne François de Sennevert. A fine printing on handsome laid paper.
Contemporary full polished mottled calf, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt tooling in compartments and rolls, black morocco lettering-pieces, tan morocco volume labels, triple gilt fillet borders on the boards. Some surface abrasions to the boards, joints, and borders. Slight brown waterstain in the upper margin of the preliminary leaves of volume 1. A small loss at the foot of volume 4. Headcap of volume 2 lightly worn. Loss at the lower joint of volume 1. Despite a few minor defects, a very handsome copy.
New edition, the same year as the first edition which appeared in London and Paris.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Upper joint cracked at head and foot. Headcap worn. Rubbing. Handsome copy.
Third edition statement, the first having appeared in 1789. Fine printing.
Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 3 compartmentalized fleurons. Roulette at head and foot. Black morocco title-label. Triple fillet frame on boards. Edges gilt. Head slightly worn. One corner slightly bumped. Rubbing. A lack along the lower joint at foot. Despite some defects, a high-quality binding.
First edition. One large folding table on heavy paper.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Beige morocco title-label. Headcaps torn. Joints opened or cracked at head and foot. Corners bumped. Surface wear to boards. Lacks to raised bands. One tear to the table.
First edition.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Red morocco title label. One hole at foot. Corners rubbed and folded. Rubbed throughout. 2 blank leaves intended for notes have been inserted every 2 leaves, most have remained blank, those bearing notes concern the bailliage of Dourdan. Leaf 7 has been bound by error after the preliminary pages. Wormholes from p. 160 to 192 in lower margin, in the center.
First edition.
Bradel bindings in full apple-green boards, smooth spines slightly browned and decorated with gilt fillets, traces of rubbing to headcaps, corners slightly bumped, some tears to leading edges, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing.
New édition, illustrated with 4 folding plates (tree of consanguinity, tree of affinities, genealogy of Charles Le Bel and Blanche de Bourgogne, of Louis XII and Jeanne de France)
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Beige morocco title label. Rubbing to headcaps, joints, edges and corners; handsome copy, fresh.
Bookplate: Library of the Grand Seminary of Versailles, and stamp on title page.
First edition, rare.
Contemporary full speckled blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulette at head and tail. Beige morocco title label. Lower board extensively affected by old dampstaining which has whitened and blackened the leather. 4 corners slightly bumped. Good copy with elegant spine.
First edition.
Bound in slightly later (ca. 1820) half navy sheep. Smooth spines decorated with four small tools and fillets. Some rubbing, particularly to the boards. A pleasing copy, relatively clean, printed on good laid paper.
New edition prepared by Pierre Baquelier (this edition had already appeared in 1517 and 1519). Two folding plates of genealogical trees illustrating the laws of consanguinity. Large title vignette depicting Gratian teaching the clergy. Printer’s device under the colophon fo.ccccxxii. Printed in Gothic type in two columns (52 lines). Edition for which the privilege was shared with Jean Petit. Title page printed in red and black. Copy fully rubricated in red, with titles also in red. Decorated woodcut initials. The appendices include a biography of Gratian; the Decretum abbreviatum in oratione soluta by Johannes Andreae, as well as the text of the plates: Declaratio arboris consanguinitatis, printed on the verso of the plates and on six leaves.
Colophon: "excussum in officina Johannis Prenel. Anno salutis humane millesimo quinqentesimo vigesimo sexto. Mensis Maij."
Mid-19th-century half-shagreen binding with corners. Spine with raised bands in compartments. Gilt title and date. A brown waterstain in the right margin of the last ten leaves, affecting only a few millimetres; a brown spot in the upper margin of the final twenty leaves. Browning also along the right margin of the title page, extending only a few millimetres; a few leaves show a brown spot in the upper margin. Generally quite fresh, though some leaves are browned, notably in the tables; some leaves also trimmed in the lower margin. A tear across half the page on leaf focccxcix. Numerous pagination errors.
First edition, rare.
Half blond sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated in the grotesque style. Red morocco title labels and beige morocco volume labels. Library labels at foot. Two small wormholes along the lower joint of volume I. A split with loss at the lower joint of volume II. A good, decorative copy.
Second edition partly in first edition, rare. The original was published in Paris in 1723, the author being unsatisfied with his work proposed this second edition revised and expanded with a second part, Suplémant au projet de taille tarifée, in which he responds to the objections of his detractors.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, blonde morocco title label. Gilt rolls on the leading edges and headcaps. All edges speckled red. Head slightly worn, first band very slightly visible at the joint, a small amount of bookworm damage affecting the last compartment as well as the tail joint of the lower board.
New edition, after the first published in Amsterdam. The work was constantly revised and expanded with each new release. A frontispiece by Scottin; two folding plates and numerous tables.
New edition, revised, corrected & expanded with the Tariff of Entry & Exit Duties, with Assessments of Goods, concerning the public revenues of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, And an Introduction on Double-Entry or Italian Bookkeeping... by Henri Desaguliers.
Contemporary full glazed brown sheep binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. One lack at head. Lower joint cracked at head. Small stains on boards. Good copy.
New edition of the work that Lange had published approximately half a century earlier under the name of Gastier, prosecutor at the parliament, and which originally bore the title "Praticien français". Quérard gives the 1755 edition, the last edition, and remarks: "The various intermediate editions underwent considerable modifications; those of 1699 and 1702 were given by Denis Simon, who added observations on various matters. After the author's death, two manuscript works found among his papers were added, one on the Right of indult; the other on Ecclesiastical jurisprudence". Title page in red and black.
Full blonde sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands decorated with a red morocco title label, compartments, fleurons and small bird tools. All edges red. Head slightly worn and a little damaged, corners bumped and surface wear. Fresh interior.
A classic of French legal literature of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Third edition. Printed in two columns.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with small flowers and fleurons. Title-label in snow morocco. Headcaps worn with lacks. Scuffs. 2 corners bumped.
Second edition after the 1750 first edition. Edition similar to the first, indistinguishable from it, without statement. No privilege or imprint. Uncommon. Edition printed in Toulouse.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Headcap partly torn away. One joint rubbed. Corners bumped. One wormhole to title label.
Legal study and work on second marriages, both of widows and widowers, particularly during or after imposed mourning, and especially regarding children from a first marriage, in civil code and customary law. Louis Astruc was a lawyer and professor of law in Toulouse. Interesting work, which demonstrates the close relationship between laws and customs.
A stamp from a religious library in the margin of the title page, difficult to read.
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