(Droit) — Damhoudere, Josse de.- Praxis rerum criminalium [...]. Hac postera editione a M. D. Leonardo alege Juriscons. Mantuano recognita. Cum repertorio locupletissimo [...]. Venetiis, Joann. Antonium Bertanum, 1572. In-4° : [8]-172-[31]-[1 bl.]...
Estimation :
600 / 800
Adjudication :
600 €
Description
lvs (wormholes in the first half, small marks of folds in the beginning, dampstains in the margins -2 largers in lvs 69 and 70, first quire partly unbound, lvs 153 and 154 slightly yellowed otherwise fresh copy). Contemporary binding : calf, decorated boards with agilt central fleuron encircled by 3 blind fillets with gilt fleurons in the angles, title with pen on the top edge (entirely rubbed with ornaments partly left, spine lacking, upper board partly unbound, corners and parts of the edges dulled). Treatise on criminal law (1„ed. : 1551) with a manual of procedures by the famous Belgian jurist and humanist de Damhoudere (1507-1581), first book on this particular subject ever published in Northern Europe. Edition given by the jurist from Mantova Leonardo Legge (half of 16. Cent). Copy with text on two columns and with the printer’s mark on title-page. Provenance : Ludwig de Damhoudere 1585. Ludwig was the only child of the author and member of the Council of Flanders. Inscription dating from 4 years after his father's death, involving perhaps this book is coming from the library succession of his father (handwritten mention); de Nuefbourg 1715, counselor at the Chamber of Accounts in Normandie according to a handwritten annotation (id.). # Adams D-14 (ed. 1555); # USTC 863927; # Edit16 32839; # Dekkers 44; # not in STC Italy, Soltész, Machiels. fl Traité de droit criminel avec manuel de procédures juridiques, le dans son genre publié en Europe du Nord, donné par le juriste italien L. Legge. Mention d'appartenance du fils de l'auteur, Ludwig, datant de 1585. Plein veau de l'ép. (trous/galeries de vers dans la 1re moitié, mouill. marg., rel. frottée avec perte partielle du décor, dos manquant, plat sup. part. dérelié).
