First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 270 and 260 leaves including 3 blanks.
Lowndes II, 837.
Clarke, page 94, no. 16.
Sprinkled calf, gilt backs, marbled endpapers, m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
The
Code Frédéric was published in 1751 by Frederick the Great, to replace the Roman, Saxon and other foreign laws and statutes then in force.
This code was replaced in 1900 by the
Civil Code.
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Calvini Lexicon juridicum.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 89. no. 61, as above.
CALVINUS,
Johannes.
Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici . . . Avctvm
deinde, expolitvm et emendatvm, ex hactenus editis accuratissimis lucrubrationibus Do. Cviacii, Brissonii, Donelli, Dvareni,
Gothofredi, Pacii, Vvlteii, Goeddæi item Corrasii, Fabri, Wesembeccii, aliorumq; præstantissimorum Virorum: quorum Catalogum
mox post præfationes inuenies; stvdio et opera. Iohannis Calvini, aliàs Kahl. Wetterani, Iuris Doctoris, & in Academia Heidelbergensi Professoris. Editio Postrema, prioribvs avctior et longe
limatior, cum præfationibus clarissimorum & eminentissimorum huius æui Iurisconsultorum, Dionisii Gothofredi, & Hermanni Vvlteii
. . . Cvm Gratia et Privilegio Sac. Cæs Maiest.
[
Geneva:] sumptibus
Samuelis Chouët,
m.dc.lxix
. [1669.]
Law 181
Folio. 530 leaves in sixes, title-page printed in red and black, with
Chouët’s device, text in double columns.
This edition not in the bibliographies.
Calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. The name
R Belwood written on the title. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of William Byrd with his armorial bookplate.
Johannes Calvinus, fl. in the 17th century, was professor of law at Heidelberg. The first edition of his
Lexicon Ivridicvm was printed in 1600.
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Harris’s Justinian.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 90. no. 43, Justinian’s Institutes, Lat. Eng. by Harris, 4to.
JUSTINIAN--HARRIS,
George.
D. Justiniani Institutionum libri quatuor. The Four Books of Justinian’s Institutions, translated into
English, with notes, by George Harris, LL.D. The
second edition.
London: Printed by
J. Purser, for
M. Withers,
mdcclxi
. [1761.]
Law 51
4to. 210 leaves collating in fours,
Latin and
English text in roman and italic letter respectively, engraved arms at the head of the dedication, engravings in the text, separate
pagination for each book.
This edition not in Marvin.
Not in Sweet & Maxwell.
Clarke, page 75, no. 81.
Calf, gilt back, repaired with new marbled endpapers, original m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library
of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Justinian I., 483-565, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. The first edition of his
Institutiones was published in Mainz by Peter Schoeffer in 1468.
George Harris, 1722-1796, English civilian. The first edition of his translation appeared in 1756.
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