Corpus Juris Publici Academicum, Enthaltend Die Vornehmsten...
Classic Study of the Constitutional Law of the Holy Roman Empire Schmauss, Johann Jacob [1690-1757]. Corpus Juris Publici Academicum: Enthaltend Die Vornehmsten Grund-Gesetze Des Heil. Rom. Reichs, Als: Die Guldene Bulle, Profan- und Religions-Auch Westphalisch- Und Andere Frieden, Die Cammer-Gerichts- und Reichs-Hof-Raths-Ordnungen, Reichs-Matricul und Neueste Wahl-Capitulation, Nebst einigen Andern Reichs-Constitutionen; Zum Gebrauch so Wohl der Studirenden Jugend, Als auch Anderer dem Studio Juris Publici Beflissenen. Frankfurt and Leipzig, Zu Finden bey August Martini 1722. [xiv], 1072 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Copperplate portrait frontispiece of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4"). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin with later, possibly nineteenth-century, calf rebacking, raised bands and twentieth-century lettering piece to spine, clasps lacking (probably removed). Light rubbing and some minor nick marks to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners, a few vertical creases to spine, crack in text block between frontispiece and title page, thumb-tabs, originally placed between each section of text, neatly removed. Moderate toning, foxing in places, occasional faint dampstaining to head of text block, recent marks in light pencil in a few places, early owner annotations to front pastedown and title page. $1,250. * First edition. Schmauss was a professor of law at the University of Gottingen. A comprehensive, historically grounded work, his Corpus Juris Publici established his reputation as the leading expert of his day on the constitutional law of the Holy Roman Empire. Stintzing-Landsberg holds this book in high regard and recommends it as a "convenient collection of sources" for the study of the Empire's constitutional history. It went through several editions and resissues, the last in 1794. (The last edition was reprinted in 1973). All original editions are scarce or rare. OCLC locates 12 copies of the first edition, none in North America. This edition not in VD18. Stintzing-Landsberg, Geschichte der Deutschen Rechtswissenschaft Part III, Vol.1, 126.
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