Various authors

A COLLECTION OF 7 EARLY PRINTED BOOKS ON LAW, RHETORIC, HISTORY AND POLITICS

Germany, Holland, Italy, 1664-1729
John Barclay (1582-1621): ARGENIS. Format 8°, 18.1x11.6 cm. 637 numbered pp., in Latin. Copper-engraved title page (crossed out in pen in two places at the top, and the lower margin trimmed by ca. 1.5 cm). Full-page copper-engraved portrait of the author following the dedicatory epistle. Solid leather binding. Published by the Hack family in Leiden and Rotterdam in 1664. Johannes Pauli (1455-1530/1533): Politischer Schimpff und Ernst (...) Von einem Liebhaber auffs neue übersehen, vermehret und (...) zum Druck befördert. Format 16°, 15.1x9.3 cm. 448 numbered pp., in German. Published by Joh. Friderich Spoor and Reinhard Wächtler in Strasbourg in 1677. Solid leather binding. Some leaves lightly stuck together, one gathering loosened from the binding, bent corners. Giovanni Battista Ganducci (1602-1690): Descriptiones oratoriae, ex probatissimis auctoribus excerptae. Format 16°, 14x7.8 cm. 615 numbered pp., in Latin. Solid leather binding. Published by Nikolaus Pezzana in Venice in 1685. Bartolomé Cartagena: ENCHIRIDION IURIS UTRIUSQUE BREVITER ET PERSPICUE EXPLANANS and B. S. [Stephan Dobner?]: SYNOPSIS IURIS CIVILIS. Format 16°, 11.7x6.2 cm. 102 and 93 numbered pp., in Latin. Bound together in a solid leather binding. Published by Wilhelm Metternich in Cologne in 1698. M. ANTONII MURETI PRESBYTERI (...) ORATIONUM VOLUMINA DUO. Format 16°, 14x8.2 cm. 558 numbered pp., in Latin. Solid leather binding with blind-tooled decoration, spine with 4 raised bands. Published by Franz Metternich in Cologne in 1711. Adam Friedrich Blafeys (1692-1753): PRAGMATIsche Geschichte Der Cron Böhmen. Format 4°, 20.5x17.5 cm. 912 numbered pp., in German. Copper-engraved frontispiece. Solid half-leather binding. Published by Christoph Riegel in Leipzig in 1729. Damaged by woodworm. Henricus Zoesius (1571-1627): Commentarius ad L. Libros Digestorum seu Pandectarum. Volume II, continuous pagination: pp. 587-870, though between every two numbered leaves of text a blank leaf for notes has been bound in, a large part of which is filled with period manuscript writing. This is therefore apparently a bespoke binding, as none of the known editions of the book had this form. Solid leather binding. The otherwise unidentified edition apparently dates from Cologne, from the first third of the 18th century.