Enchiridion Lexici Juris Incliti Regni Hungariae, Seu Extractus...
A Classic Hungarian Law Dictionary Kubinyi, Sandor [1751-1799]. Enchiridion Lexici Juris Incliti Regni Hungariae, Seu Extractus Universarum Legum Patriarum, Omnes in Toto Corpore Juris Occurrentes Materias, Incluso Opere Tripartito & Kitonichio a S. Stephano Proto-Rege, Usque ad Annum 1792-Um Juxta Ordinem Alphabeticum, Cum Exactissimis ad Loca Decretalia Provocationibus Exhibens. Additus est Index Scriptorum Publico-Politico Juridicorum. Bratislava (Pozsony): Sumptibus & Typis Simonis Petri Weber, 1798. viii, 824 pp. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece and blind fillets and ornaments to spine. Light rubbing to joints, heaver rubbing to boards with wear to corners, chip to edge of lettering piece, gilding rubbed from letters, minor worming to foot of spine and rear hinge, front hinge starting, front free endpaper lacking, later bookseller stamp and owner annotations and markings to front pastedown. Moderate toning and faint spotting to interior, faint dampstaining to margins in a few places, fold lines to corners of a few leaves, light soiling, some edgewear and early owner signature to title page. $1,500. * Later edition. Text in Latin, the official language of Hungarian law and government until 1836. As indicated by the timespan of its publication history, 1603 to 1832, this was long a standard reference work in the Kingdom of Hungary. Editions are valuable today as guides to Hungarian civil law and government during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Despite the importance of this work, few copies of any edition are found outside of Eastern Europe. OCLC locates 2 copies of the 1798 edition in North America (Columbia Law School, Library of Congress). This edition not in the British Museum Catalogue.
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