Einleitung zum Jure Civili, Nach Ordnung der Institutionum...
A Popular Eighteenth-Century German Textbook on Roman Law Schoppach, Johann Michael. Einleitung zum Jure Civili, Nach Ordnung der Institutionum Imperialium Zusammen Getragen, Und Aus Liebe vor die Angehend-Studirende Jugend ans Licht Gegeben. Nunmehro aber mit Dienlich- und Hinlanglichen Allegatis Versehen. Regensburg: Verlegts Johann Conrad Peetz, 1730. [xvi], 430 pp. Copperplate allegorical frontispiece. Octavo (6-1/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands, gilt tooling and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges, edges of text block rouged. Rubbing to boards and extremities, spine gilt rubbed away, light creasing to spine, chips to its foot, light wear to board edges, corners lightly bumped and worn, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, (illegible) early ownership signature to front free endpaper, partial crack in text block after frontispiece, all leaves secure. Title page printed in red and black. Light toning to interior, occasional light foxing, very faint offsetting to title page from frontispiece. $650. * Later edition. This introductory textbook on Roman civil law is patterned on the Institutes of Justinian. First published in 1711, it was a popular work that went through several editions, the last in 1763. All are scarce today. OCLC locates 6 copies, all of them in Germany or Switzerland. This edition not in Das Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts.
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