Live auction - Lot 915
[Law]
Practique judiciaire es causes criminelles, tresutile et nécessaire à tous baillifz, prevostz, seneschaux, escoutettes, maires, drossartz, & autres justiciers & officiers de toutes provinces [...].
Antwerp, J. Bellerus, 1564
€ 1.000 / 1.200
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Lot description
4to: [8]-228-[22 (of 24)] ff. (lacking last 2 blanks, pale dampstaining, occ. ff. stained, stains more important to upper corners of ff. 103-105, sm. lack in the margin of f. 105, lower part of last f. strengthened).
Cont. limp overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink.
Edition made on the first French trsl. published in Leuven in 1554 and on the Parisian of 1555, containing the first translation of chapters 151 ("Du renvoy, confinement, ou banissement aux galères") and 154 ("Le simulachre de justice mondaine"). Illustrated with William of Orange's coat-of-arms (full-page) and 69 woodcuts in the text representing adultery, incest, rape, murder, etc. Ref. BB II:27 D-410. - BT 799. - Pettegree (NB) 9331. - Dekkers 44:4. - Not in Adams. Prov. Laurent Duhan de Rostaing (ms. entries). - Ms. entries crossed out on title. - Ms. note on the book on front flyleaf. - P. Ashburnham (armorial bookpl.). - Loudas, 1941 (ms. entry).