Pupillorum Patrocinium, Legum et Praxeos Studiosis, Non Minus...
Contains the First Text Illustration of a Book Auction Damhouder, Josse (Joost) de [1507-1581]. Pupillorum Patrocinium, Legum et Praxeos Studiosis; Non Minus Utile Quam Necessarium, Iconibus Materiae Subiectae Convenientibus Illustratum, Iam Denuo Vigili Cura, & Non Poenitenda Accessione Locupletatum. Item De Magnificentia Politiae Amplissimae Civitatis Brugarum, Cum Eiusdem Topographia, & In Laudem Amplissimi Senatus Oratione. Subhastationum Compendiosa Exegesis, Iterum Recognita & Locupletata. Index Verborum Rerunque Locupletissimus. Antwerp: Apud Ioannem Bellerum, 1564. [xii], 180, [18] ff. Main text in parallel columns. 12 woodcut plates, 1 double-page. Quarto (7-1/2" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary limp vellum, early hand-lettered title to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate soiling, light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and lightly worn. Moderate toning, light foxing and faint dampstaining to a few leaves, light edgewear faint early owner signature and a few minor tears to title page, another minor tear to f. 71., paper repairs to margins of title page, fol. 1 and fol. 71. An attractive copy of a scarce edition. $3,500. * Third edition. First published in 1544, this is a comprehensive treatise on the law of guardian and ward. Like Damhouder's works on civil and criminal law, Pupillorum Patrocinium has plates that illustrate points in the text. One depicts three young orphans with their guardian, tutor, godfather, conservator and executor before a magistrate, facing preface. Other plates depict situations in later stages of life, such as a guardian introducing a child to a teacher, the guardian and child at a shoemaker's shop and the guardian making a record of his charge's assets with an accountant. This edition incorporates two other works. De Magnificentia Policiae Amplissimae Civitatis Brugarum, first published in 1544, is a political and sociological study of Bruges. It is illustrated with a folding plan of the city. Subhastationum Compendiosa Exegesis, first published in 1546, is a brief treatise on public sales. It has what is believed to be the first text illustration of a book auction. OCLC locates 10 copies in North America, 5 in law libraries (Columbia, George Washington University, Harvard, Library of Congress, Yale). Dekkers, Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica 44.
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Book number 70807