Practique Iudiciare es Causes Criminelles, Tresutile et Necessaire...
Very Rare French Edition of Damhouder's Classic Treatise on Criminal Law with 68 Affixed Etchings Damhouder (Damhoudere), Josse (Joost) de [1507-1581]. Practique Iudiciaire es Causes Criminelles, Tresutile et Necessaire a Tous Baillifz, Prevostz, Seneschaux, Escoutettes, Maires, Drossartz, & Autres Iusticiers & Officiers de Toutes Provinces. Outre ce que la Presente Edition est Decoree de Plusieurs Figures Nouvelles, Est Au i Reveue & Augmentee de l'Autheur, & Enrichie des Ordonnances, Statutz, & Coustumes de France. Avec Deux Indices & Repetoires Copieux, L'Un de Tous les Tiltres & Chapitres, L'Autre des Sentences & Choses Memorables Traitees en Toute l'Oeuvre. Antwerp: Chez Iehan Bellere, 1564. [viii], 228, [22] ff. With full-page woodcut royal arms and 68 etchings affixed to leaves in spaces left blank in the text. Quarto (8-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Later vellum, lettering piece to spine, marbled edges. Light soiling, a few small scratches to boards, light wear to lettering piece, spine ends bumped, later armorial bookplate (of Anne d'Yves) to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, occasional light foxing and faint dampstaining and spotting, light soiling in a few places, small tears to edges of several leaves, mended on *2 (f. [ii]) and affecting text on leaf Q5 (f. 125) without loss to legibility, faint offsetting from engravings to facing pages in a few places, a few engravings just beginning to loosen at corners but secure, later owner signature (of T.S. Willems) and ink private library stamp (of P.E. Willems) to title page, brief annotation to verso of f. 179 with offsetting to facing page. $8,500. * Very rare Antwerp edition of the French version first published in Louvain in 1554. This was the first comprehensive study of criminal procedure published in northern Europe. Drawn mostly from Roman-Dutch sources, it was based on Philip Wielant's Practycke Crimineele (1439-1519) and other earlier treatises. Published in Latin, Dutch and French, it was the standard authority throughout the continent for many years. This Antwerp edition from 1564 is illustrated throughout with 68 engravings depicting torture, war, parricide, adultery, murder, theft, piracy and many other crimes. These constitute redrawn versions of the illustrations attributed to Gerard de Jode in the 1554 Louvain edition. The image.
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Book number 75998