Rechten, ende costumen van Antwerpen.

Folio: [28]-390-[1] pp. (map lacking, tears strengthened on t.-p., sl. soiled, marginal dampstains, some bottom margins wormholes, occasional marginalia).

Cont. parchment, flat spine (tail and and one corner strenghtened, wormholes and lack on upper cover).

First edition of the Antwerp Common Law. Only 400 copies were printed, not for the trade, but exclusively for the City authorities. Printed in gothic type. Woodcut arms of Antwerp on title. Ref. Voet 569. - BT 4109. - Pettegree (NB) 1538. - Not in Sorgeloos. Bound with, as usually: Ordonnantie ende verhael vanden stijl ende maniere van procederen voor amptman borghemeester ende schepenen der Stadt van Antwerpen. Ibidem, 1582, 56-[4] pp. (same cond.). Issued 29 November 1582. “On the procedure to be followed in civil litigations before the competent judicial authorities at Antwerp” (Voet). Gothic type. Woodcut Antw. arms on title. Ref. Voet 108. - Pettegree (NB) 1535. - BT 2265. - Not in Adams, Sorgeloos. Prov. Ms. ex dono from D. Petri of Alost to Leonard Rinckens, 1583. - Ms. list of the cities of the Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii Antwerpen. Joined: [Loix, chartes & coustumes du noble pays & conte de Haynnau [- de Mons]. Antwerp, M. Hillen for J. Pissart [from Mons], 1538]. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to, 17th-c. parchment (titles lacking, 1st part dampstained, p. 73 bound after p. 79 in part I). Gothic type; interfoliated leaves with ms. notes. Ref. NK 1381 & 1383. (Together 2 works)