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Ramírez Carrillo, Alonso. Manuscript document, unsigned. On paper, in Spanish. Peñafiel, Spain, 1621. Folio (31 cm; 12.25"). 15 ff.
$500.00
Detailed here is the last will and testament of the choir master of Popayán, Colombia. Ramírez was an absentee office holder, for he lived in Peñafiel, Spain, indulged in this failure to take up his duties in the New World by the bishop of Popayán — who happened to be his uncle. The choir master’s wealth was considerable and while not itemized as in an estate inventory, it is more than hinted at via the bequests here of real estate (with provenance), of silver and gold chalices and crosses, and of cash in the form of coin. The bequests also give an interesting picture of the size of his family and the ranking of nieces, nephews, etc.
Certified, contemporary copy of the original.
Sewn. In good condition. Very legible notarial hand. (7710)
Ramírez Carrillo, Alonso. Document (“escritura pública de donación”). In Spanish, on paper. Peñafiel, Spain, 24 April 1615. Folio. [10] pp.
$450.00
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Don Alonso Ramírez was the past choir master of Popayán, Colombia, and by this document gives various properties to María de la Puente, widow of Diego Ramírez Carrillo (Don Alonso’s nephew) and Doña Isabel Ramírez Carrillo, Maria’s daughter. The properties include a vineyard (“nueve viñas” that Don Alonso bought from Diego on 9 March 1591; another (“viña a Manzanillo”) that he bought from Juan Arranz, the elder, citizen of Manzanillo, on 7 December 1612; a third vineyard (“viña a Majuelo”) that he purchased from Francisco Santos and his wife (María Muñoz), citizens of Manzanillo, on 20 April 1614; a piece of land in Manzanillo, in the region called “tierras de las Tapias,” sown with two cargas of seed, purchased from Gaspar Decian on 6 January 1586; and a house in the parish of Nuestra Señora de Mediavilla that he purchased on 16 July 1605 from the administrators of the trust that Joratalina Sarmiento established.
A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.
Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition. (14466)

The
GENUINE Nature of LAW
Reyher, Samuel, praeses. ...Genvina jvrivm naturæ, gentium ac civilium principia, ex limpidissimis verbi divini fontibus, ac vasti juris romani oceano, ejusque interpretibus derivata.... Kiliæ: Literis Bartholdi Reutheri, 1710. Small 4to. 46 pp.
$185.00
Reyher, 1635-1714, directed many, many students through their law
studies at the University of Kiel. In this thesis, to which Johann Michael Eccard
was the respondent, the "genuine nature of law" is explored via the writings
of classical poets and historians, and inscriptions on monuments. There were
several editions, all scarce.
Modern boards covered with old-style German sprinkled brown
paper, with paper label on front cover. Title-page lightly soiled in top margin.

Rivera
Assumes the PRESIDENCY
Rivera [Cabezas], Antonio. A los habitantes del estado.
La Asamblea Legislativa me ha llamado a ejercio del Poder Ejecutivo por decreto de este dia, en
que declara haber lugar a la formacion de causa al Gefe del Estado. Guatemala: 1830. Folio
(30.7 cm; 12.25"). [1] p.
$2000.00
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A crisis has caused the Guatemalan national assembly to remove Doctor Pedro
José Antonio Molina Mazariegos as president and appoint Antonio Rivera, a liberal politician.
Rivera assumed the presidency on 9 March 1830, on which day he issued this announcement that
he had assumed the position and calling on the people to remain calm.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, and METABASE locate no copies. There is no
OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.
Valenzuela, III,
579. Light to tea-colored waterstains in margins. A good copy.
(30889)

Natural Law
Schwarz, Ignaz. Institutiones juris universalis, naturæ et gentium, ad normam moralistarum nostri temporis.... Augustae: Sumptibus Joannis Antonii Fesenmayr p.m. haeredum bibliopolarum, typis Antonii Maximiliani Heiss, 1743. Folio (32.2 cm, 12.75"). [5] ff., 195, [1], 204 pp.
$1850.00
Ignaz Schwarz (16901763) was a Jesuit and a professor of humanities, philosophy, and history. In this four-part work he discusses the philosophical foundation of natural law and its basic applications, in the process discussing matters as diverse as the nature of moral acts; the law of the family; slavery, employment and service; the nature of property; sovereignty; just war and the law of war; and treaties and other elements of what is now known as international law.
Schwarz critiques Protestant authors, such as Grotius, Puffendorf, Heineccius, and Thomasius, and other writers on these subjects, pointing out where they agree with and where they differ from Catholic teaching.
He first published his Institutiones juris in 1741, and, according to DeBacker-Sommervogel, this is the third of six editions. Present here are parts 1 and 2 of 4, in which, however, all the matters above listed are discussed. This edition is printed with the title-page in red and black, a woodcut headpiece and tailpieces, and a plethora of side- and footnotes.
Provenance: Inked inscription on title-page, "Rodriguez de Arellano."
DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 948. Limp vellum with remnants of ties; spine with inked title. Scattered spots of staining to spine and rear cover. Pp. 4142 of the first series of pagination has a large chip out of the upper outer corner with loss of page numbers but no text. Pp. 15556 has a tear in the outer margin, not touching text. Occasional worming in the outer margins, not touching text. Scattered age-spotting; a few occasions of light waterstaining in the outer margins. (3439)

AZTEC KINGS Used as Exemplars for a
European Perfect Prince
Signed Authorial Comment — Only Two Copies in U.S. Libraries

Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de. Theatro de virtudes politicas, que constituyen á un Principe: Advertidas en los monarchas antiguos del Mexicano Imperio, con cuyas esfigies se hermoseó el Aco triumphal ... Mexico: Por la viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1680. 4to (20 cm, 7.75"). [4] ff., 88 pp.
$17,250.00
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Guillermo Tovar y de Teresa, the great historian of colonial Mexican art and printing, wrote that this work “es
el mas singular de todos los libros de 'Arcos Triunfales' impresos durante el virreinato. Su originalidad radica en no usar las fabulas e historias mitologicas de la antiguedad grecolatina — en un clima de intenso humanismo — las cuales destacaban el fuerte acento cultural occidental en las mentalidades barrocas de Mexico en el siglo XVII; Siguenza se valio de la historia antigua para senalar las virtudes de un principe, contenidas en los emperadores aztecas.”
He goes on to say that the structure erected by the city council of Mexico (i.e., cabildo) to welcome the new viceroy (Conde de Paredes) also incorporates Biblical Judeo-Christian and some other Old World elements, and thus presents the three main elements of NovoHispanic society: Europe, the Indigenous, and Catholicism.
“Polymath” is the term most often applied to Sigüenza y Góngora (1645–1700), and indeed he was a cosmographer, philosopher, chronicler, poet, biographer, historian, cartographer, and priest. Here he provides a detailed description of the wondrous Paredes “triumphal arch,” including its siting in the city; its height, width, and ornamentation; a good physical description of it; and some details of the materials used in construction. In keeping with the style of celebration of the time, and with his own diverse interests, the volume also records the epigrams and poetry that were commissioned for and inscribed in the “arch.”
Provenance: The author's signature appears below the Latin epigraph on leaf pi1r and his Latin commentary on it above it. Undated (but late 17th- or early 18th-century) ownership signature of Francisco ***** de la Parra above the epigraph and partially into the author's Latin commentary. On the same page, in the lower area, the ownership inscription of Don Roque de Figueroa, dated Naples, 29 January 1688. Later in a convent library as evidenced by unidentified partial marcas de fuego in uppper and lower edges of the book. Virgin of Guadalupe bookplate and ownership stamp on front pastedown of the great 20th-century collector and book scholar Francisco Gonzalez de Cossio.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership (TxU, TxDaD), with the copy at the DeGolyer lacking the epigraph leaf prior to the title-leaf. Those sources also find one Chilean and two Mexican libraries reporting ownership. The copy in the Mexican National Library lacks all of the preliminaries, including the title-leaf; the Tecnologico in Monterrey has both the Ugarte and Conway copies and both are complete. COPAC finds no copies, and CCPBE finds two Spanish libraries reporting ownership, those copies apparently lacking a preliminary leaf (the epigraph?). CCILA locates a copy at the National Library of Peru but we could not trace it via the library's OPAC.
Medina, Mexico, 1216; Andrade 734; Tovar de Teresa, Bibliografia novohispana de arte, 72. 20th-century plain caramel-color sheep; leather abraded, top area of spine damaged and darkened, else very good.
A clean, untrimmed, complete copy with extraordinary provenance. (38602)

END of the War of the Austrian Succession — Easing Wartime Taxes
Spain. Sovereigns, 1746–59 (Ferdinand VI). Decree. Begins, “No esperè a se concluyesse la Paz, y estrituyesse el Exercito a Espana ...”. Buen Retiro: No publisher/printer, 1749. Small folio (29 cm; 11.5"). [2] ff. (last p. blank).
$250.00
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The king announces that with the signing of the peace treaty ending the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48), he is ordering the cancelling of several wartime economic measures, especially relating to taxes and special duties.
Dated in text 2 December, this would surely have been a most welcome Christmas present!
Removed from a binding with sewing holes in inner margins. Date of decree in ink at top of first page. Very good. (34853)

Protecting Cotton Growers
Spain. Sovereigns, 1759–1788 (Charles III). Begins: “Ambrosio Funes de Villapando ... Por quanto hemos recibido una Real Pragmàtica-Sancion de su Magestad en fuerza de Ley ... por la qual se prohibe la introduccion, y uso en estos Reynos de los Tegidos de Algodòn, ò con mezcla de èl, de Fàbrica Estraña....” Barcelona: 1771. Folio. [4] ff.
$385.00
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War with England => Free Trade in American Corn & Wheat
Spain. Laws, statutes, etc. Real provision de su magestad, y señores del consejo, por la que se declara que el comercio de granos ultramarinos debe quedar libre.... Zaragoza: Imprenta Real, 1771. Folio. [4] pp.
$275.00
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The KEYSTONE of Hispanic-American Colonial Law
A Very
HANDSOME Edition
Spain. Laws, statutes, etc. Recopilacion de leyes de los reinos de las Indias. Madrid: Boix, 1841. Small folio. 4 vols. in 2. I: [6] ff., 335, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [1] f., 334 (i.e., 332) pp., [1 (index) f. III: [1] f., 319, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f. IV:[1] f., 147, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f.; 105, [1], 31, [1] pp. (all indices).
$2150.00
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Handsome mid-19th century edition of the first comprehensive compilation of the laws of the Spanish Indies. Antonio Rodríguez de León Pinello compiled it by 1635, but it circulated only in manuscript until Fernando Jiménez de Paniagua brought it up to date and saw the result through the press in 1681. Prior to the publication of this massive work, it was common practice for lawyers and courts in the various legal districts of the New World (i.e., audiencias) to compile in manuscript the laws in force in order that they might be used as precedents. Upon publication of this code, the number of precedents did not (as might have been expected) decrease via "regularization" but instead increased: The courts continued to accept the cases and laws on point in the old local manuscript compilations and also those contained in the Recopilación!
In sum, this is a major work for all collections of international and Hispanic-specific law. The first edition is very uncommon in today's marketplace, meaning most scholars and collectors must settle for a later edition, such as this fifthwhich has the happy advantage of being
handsomely printed in double-column format. This copy is attractively bound, as well.
Palau 137466; Sabin 68390. Victorian acid-stained sheep with gilt spines extra. Marbled edges. Tape adhered to one title-page at inner margin. Ownership signatures on title-page. A nice set. (3584)

Barcelona Speed Limits, 1787
Spain. Sovereigns, 1759–1788 (Charles III). Begins: "Don Francisco Gonzalez de Bassecourt...Por quanto hemos recibido una Real Cédula en que se dispone lo conveniente para evitar los daños que ocasiona el abuso de correr con los Coches dentro de la Poblaciones...." Barcelona, 1787. Folio. [2] ff.
$300.00

Earn Your Keep!
Spain. Sovereigns, etc., 1788–1808 (Charles IV). [begins] El rey. Debiendo aplicar por todos los medios posibles mi paternal amor y cuidado a mis vasalos ... He vendio por mi real decreto de veinte y tres de diciembre del ano proximo pasado en mandar ... [in manuscript: Madrid: 21 February] 1789. Folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [3] pp.
$250.00
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The king asks all government officials to pay attention to the requirements of their jobs and to earn their salaries.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat find
no copies.
Not in Medina, BHA. Folded as issued; lower margin irregular with mild damp damage. (33489)

A Bespoke Cedulario for
Use in New Spain & Guatemala
(Spanish Royal Decrees). An assemblage of 43 manuscript and printed royal and viceroyal decrees and some 25 related documents. Barcelona, Madrid, Valldolid (Spain), Aranjuez, Mexico City, & elsewhere: 1701–79. Small 4to, folio, & larger. Approximately 135 ff.
$8275.00
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Explaining why manuscript cedularios were made in the era of the printing press is called for here, and the answer is simple: The number of copies that were printed of any given royal cédula tended to be smaller than the number of lawyers, clerks, judges, and other legal sorts who needed a copy. And within months of the issuance of the decree, no printed copies were available for love or money. Owning the various editions of the Recopilación de leyes de Indias was insufficient, for most cédulas related to
specific issues peculiar to one person, place, institution, or event, and such specificity is not included in the recopilaciones, though the royal decrees provided good, useful precedents to cite.
QED: Every colonial-era lawyer had to resort to maintaining his own cedulario.
This cedulario was assembled in Mexico during the 18th century, probably around 1778 or 1780, for the use of a lawyer before the audiencia, or perhaps for an audiencia judge or a judge's staff member. The decrees relate to a wide variety of topics: criminal cases, the army and navy, confiscation of property, the use of stamped paper, the royal treasury, royal officials in Nicaragua, cabildos, proselytization of Indians, commodities, dress codes, bigamy, and other social matters in the regions of Mexico, New Galicia, and Guatemala. Of the 43 items, 22 are printed decrees (all but one printed in Spain) and the remaining 21 are manuscript. Fifteen bear
true (rather than stamped) royal signatures: six are signed by Felipe V, and nine are by Ferdinand VI. Of the 28 documents not signed by a king, 17 are printed and 11 are manuscript.
The documents are sewn and were once bound; binding removed some time ago. 18th-century numbering of documents shows that 10 documents were removed som time before the collection came into our hands. There are some stains, a few holes at folds, a few edges a little tattered — nothing worse.
A sound and interesting collection. (34851)

Noted Christian Nativist Fans the Flames
Sparry, C. The illustrated Christian martyrology; being an authentic and genuine historical account of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world by pagans and papists. Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1854. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.5"). Color frontis., 254 pp., [16] ff. (of publisher's ads), 23 color plts.
$550.00
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Charles Sparry was a virulent anti-Catholic “reverend,” author or compiler of several anti-Catholic books, editor of the short-lived periodical The North American Protestant magazine or the anti Jesuit, and an accused purveyor of obscene literature.
The present martyrology, first printed in 1846, reached seven editions during the 19th century, four of them printed by Leary & Getz, the printing arm of the famous Philadelphia bookstore generally and simply known as “Leary's.” Not unexpectedly, the volume is wildly anti-Cathoic but is also an excellent example of mid-century American bookmaking in its publisher's binding, illustration, and method of printing.
The binding is the publisher's red roan in imitation of morocco. Both covers are gilt-stamped with a triple rule border at the board edges and gilt corner devices; in the center of each board is a gilt vignette of a martyrdom based on one of the plates in the text. All edges are gilt.
The illustrations are wood engravings, mostly unsigned, but a few signed “Lossing.” There are several in-text wood-engraved portraits and there are additionally
24 wood-engraved plates (including the frontispiece) that have been hand colored, probably by a stencil method.
The text is printed in double-column format from stereoplates, in roman type, with an interesting six-line capital at the beginning of each chapter.
Provenance: “Mamie C. Swinton, from 'Aunt Jennie,' August 1870.”
Binding as above, rubbed at board edges and joints (outside); top and bottom of spine pulled with loss of leather. Short tears in foremargins of final blank leaves; scattered foxing and some brown spotting. Over all, a good++ copy; a very good representative of
the genre, “ugly ideas got-up beautifully.” (37226)

A Tale of
Crime & Redemption
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco (Gianfrancesco). La copia di un grandissimo caso intervenuto a uno gran gentil huomo Senese condenato a morte e condotto dal propio figliolo alla giustitia, cosa bella e sententiosa. [Italy]: no date (ca. 1550?). 4to (20 cm; 7.75"). [8] pp.
$275.00
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This clearly has been extracted from a 16th-century edition of Straparola's Le tredici piaceuolissime notti di m. Gio. Francesco Straparola da Carauaggio, but which is yet undetermined. Straparola (d. ca. 1557) was a poet and “story teller” and native of Caravaggio who was born in the last twenty years of the 15th century. The present tale of a father condemned to death but shown the path to righteousness by his son is printed in italic on pp. [2–6] and roman on pp. [7–8]; p. [8] bears
a graphic large woodcut of one man stabbing another ensnared in his own cloak. The title-page bears an even larger woodcut, being a border surrounding a bust of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus!
All of the hints are here — sensational subject matter, vernacular language, poor typography, and poor printing mixed with inattention to composition and a sensational woodcut — that this was
a cheap production for a popular reading audience.
Provenance: Undeciphered early signature on title-page; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
20th-century light boards covered with light brown speckled paper. Clean, very good. (37833)

An Art Collector's Estate
Suárez de Toledo, Juan. Collection of documents in Spanish on paper relating to his death and estate. Talavera: 1669–79. Folio, 100 ff.
$950.00
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Suárez de Toledo seems to have been a serious collector of oil portraits — including one of Hernando Cortés and one of the Queen of France — as well as of religious art, silver, and other “objets d'art.” The several inventories present in this cahier document his passion, with the other documents further telling the story of the complicated settlement of the estate by the heirs.
Written by several notaries so hands are varied. Stitching starting to loosen. A very few leaves with small loss of text to a hungry rodent. (27598)

Gilt Vellum Binding with
the Papal Coat of Arms
[Tagliaferri, Johannes Baptista]. Manuscript on paper, in Latin. “De executiva et inspectiva ecclesiae potestatibus disputatio.” [Rome?: ca. 1831–44?]. Folio (32 cm; 12.5"). [7] ff., 371 pp.
$1275.00
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Gregory XVI (pope, 1831–46) was a fervent ultramontanist and so sought to strengthen the papal prerogatives and powers, and through them the religious and political authority of his papacy. This manuscript on the
executive and investigative powers of the Church, a topic dear to his heart, dovetails nicely with ultramontanism and was dedicated to him. Signed by Tagliaferri at the end of the dedication, it is written in a single easy-to-read hand on a single stock of high quality wove paper with a watermark bearing the date of 1822.
An extended text apparently unpublished, at least separately.
Provenance: Gilt supra-libros of Pope Gregory XVI. Circa 1930 acquired by John Howell, bookseller in San Francisco, and added to his personal library (bookplate on front pastedown). He later sold it to the Pacific School of Religion (bookplate on front pastedown; stamps).
Binding: Full vellum over boards, round spine, no raised bands; spine richly gilt using a variety of tools. Papal coat of arms in the center of each board. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, spine darkened as are the boards, front joint repaired; gilt faded but still attractive and “legible.” Small stamp on a blank page and another in upper margin of the first page of the dedication; charge pocket on rear pastedown.
An impressively bound copy of an interesting and very nicely produced manuscript. (35975)

Praising the Patron Saint of . . . Lawyers?
Tardolus, Laomedon. Laomedontis Tardoli camertis civis romani[,] Oratio de justitiae ac divi Ivonis laudibus ad senatum apostolicum. [Rome: Marcello Silber for Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1520?–1530?]. 4to (20.6 cm, 8.125"). [8] ff.
[SOLD]
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Scarce Latin pamphlet praising St. Yves of Kermartin (1253–1303), patron saint of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children. The volume opens with a preface dedicated to the lawyers of the “Consistorianorum collegio,” followed by the Oratio. The text is printed in single columns in italic with one 3-line plain and one five-line decorative initial; the title-page is neatly framed with a four-element decorative woodcut border in two elaborate designs.Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC reveal only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership (UCLA, UC-Berkley Law Library).
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Not in Adams, nor EDIT 16. 18th-century German brown speckled paste paper over light boards; binding well rubbed with most loss at spine. Light pencilling, and signs of other pencilling erased, on endpapers. Moderate age-toning and foxing; one very short marginal tear. In fact a rather nice copy. (38231)

The First Anglo-Dutch War, New Amsterdam, Prisoner Exchanges, & Much More
United Provinces of the Netherlands. Verbael gehouden door de Heeren H. van Beverningk, W. Nieupoort, J. van de Perre, en A.P. Jongestal, als gedeputeerden ... van de heeren Staeten generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden, aen de republyck van Engelandt. Gravenhage: By Hendrick Scheurleer, 1725. 4to (25.5 cm; 10"). xx, 416, 415–518, 517–716 pp.
$725.00
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We have here the minutes of negotiations between Dutch ambassadors and the English Republic regarding the First Anglo-Dutch War, various commercial disputes, and matters in North America, 1653–54. The documents are chiefly in Dutch, but some are in English, French, or Latin; for example pp. 198–214 contain a draft in English followed by one in Latin “of Articles of Union, Peace and Confederation to be made between the Common-Wealth of England and the States General of the United-Province of the Neitherlands [sic].”
Muller notes that this account “chiefly” concerns New-Netherland and that “it contains all the speeches and reports”; Asher adds that the information here is “not to be found in the letters of the Pensionary J. de Witt and other ministers.”
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of J.W. Six; later in the collection of Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 725/147; Asher, Dutch books and pamphlets, 335; Sabin 98926; Frederik Muller, America (1872 catalogue), 1100. Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, round spine, raised bands, blind rules on covers, center cartouche blind-embossed. The usual foxing and browning found in so many copies. Solid, attractive, and a very good copy. (35777)

Wonderful Title-Page — Serious Text
Valerón, Manuel Román. Tractatus de transactionibus in quo integra transactionum materia theoricè, ac ingenti studio, & justa methodo collecta, & exposita continetur. Lugduni: sumptib. Philippi Borde, Laurenti Arnaud, Petri Borde, et Guill. Barbier, 1665. Folio extra (33 cm; 12.75"). [8] ff., 272 pp., [21] ff.
$675.00
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Second edition, following the first of the previous year, of Valerón's work on contracts, inheritance, succession, and compromise under
Roman law. Valerón (fl. 1663) held the chair of canon law in the University of Valladolid.The work begins with a title-page in black and red, bearing the printers' large woodcut device incorporating images of Time and Fortune. The text is printed in the expected double-column format in roman and italic.
Palau 276638. 18th-century mottled calf, round spine, modest gilt tooling on spine. Front joint (outside) open along top three inches; front pastedown loosening from the board. Scattered foxing and staining. Sporadic worming in inner margins not touching the text. All edges richly saffron, unusually bright. (29157)

Waxing Philosophical on
Duty, Obedience, & the Common
Good
Vauvilliers, Jean-François. Questions sur les sermens
ou promesses politiques en général, et en particulier sur le voeu de haine éternelle a la royauté.
Bâle: De l'Imprimerie de Thourneisen, 1796. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 74 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: The author justifies his refusal to take the oath of allegiance.
Vauvilliers was a prominent Hellenist scholar and professor who, following the Revolution,
became an important Parisian official.WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter 33276. “Spine” with overcast, later stitching. Title-page with
paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled initials in upper outer corner. One leaf with
tear from upper inner margin, touching a few letters without loss; last leaf with tear from foot
along inner margin. Light to moderate foxing scattered throughout.
(30943)
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Law as
Practiced in Seville
Vela de Oreña, José. Dissertationes iuris controversi in Hispalensi senatu. Nedum praecipuis eius illustratae definitionibus, sed & alijs inter scribendum obuis, tam Granatensibus, quam Hispalensibus. Granatae [i.e., Granada]: Apud Vincentium Aluarez à Mariz, 1638. Folio (29 cm; 11.5"). [16], 260, [50] ff.
$1675.00
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Vela (1588–1643) held one of the chairs of law at the University of Salamanca and went on to be a high court judge in Seville and later Granada. He was the author of three important works on canon and Roman law, of which this was the second to come off a press. He left unpublished a second volume of this work that appeared 10 years after his death, is rarely found with vol. I, and is more dedicated to civil law.First edition. Printed in double-column format in roman and italic, the volume begins with a large engraved coat of arms of the Count Duke Olivares on the title-page signed “I. de Courbes F[ecit]”; also by Courbes, opposite “fol. I,” is a large in-text
engraved portrait of the author.
The prefatory matter includes
epigrams by Manuel Barbosa, Francisco Bermudez de Pedraza, Ramón de Morales, and Michael Verdejo Carvajal.
Provenance: Gift inscription to Lic. Jose Maria Herrera from Ezequiel Montes, dated 13 August 1860.
Searches of WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two copies of vol. I in the U.S. and none of vol. II.
Palau 356893. On Vela, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 996, frame 355. 19th-century full mottled calf, gilt spine; title-page with old repair away from text. Some sections age-toned. Occasional small areas of light waterstains. Worming in some margins, in a few instances with old repair; worming in text, but this remarkably between lines or columns and not costing any words. Over all, a very good copy. (34941)

The ENDURING LAWS of the
VISIGOTHS
Visigoths.
Laws, statutes, etc. Fuero juzgo en latín y castellano,
cotejado con los más antiguos y preciosos códices por la Real
Academia Española. Madrid: Por Ibarra, 1815. Folio (34.2 cm, 13.5").
[7] ff., pp. [iii], ivliv, [2] ff., X, 162 pp., [2] ff., XVI, 231, [1]
pp.
$300.00
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The best pre-20th century edition: Edited by scholars of the Spanish Royal Academy. The Fuero juzgo (in Latin, Forum judicum) is, basically, the customary law of the Visigoths of Spain that existed and was maintained outside of and in parallel with the Leges romanæ, the Fuero juzgo being the code to which German-origin Spaniards were liable and the Leges romanæ that to which inhabitants of pre-Visigothic origin had to answer. The Visigoths achieved the code in written form during the high middle ages.
As a social and historical document of medieval Spain, the Fuero juzgo
is of outstanding importance, but its significance does not stop there, for
the code continued unrepealed into the 19th century and, indeed, was an important
element in the formation of the legal status of the Indians of America under
the Spanish rule. The verso of the seventh unnumbered leaf at the beginning
of this edition has an engraved facsimile of a page from the Codex murcianus
of the Fuero juzgo.
Palau 95528. Original printed wrappers with a little tattering and a small chip from the base of the spine; light waterstaining in the outside margins of some leaves and title-page with some staining in the inside margin, not affecting printed area. Wrappers, edges, first and last leaves with smoke discoloration; many upper margins with intrusion of same. (3312)
Ward, Robert Plumer. An essay on contraband: Being a continuation of the treatise of the relative rights and duties of belligerent and neutral nations, in maritime affairs. London: J. Wright & J. Butterworth (pr. by G. Woodfall), 1801. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). vii, [1 (blank)], 173–255, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking i/ii, i.e., the half-title).
$150.00
Paginated continuously with Ward’s Treatise of the Relative Rights and Duties, and apparently also issued as the second part of that document, this work discusses international law regarding trade in wartime; the 1793 stoppage by the English of American corn exportation to France is included and analyzed as an example.
Goldsmiths'-Kress 18239; NSTC W529. Recent paper wrappers. Some instances of light foxing and offsetting. (11195)

Opera Juridica: Roman & Spanish Legal Analysis
Yañez Parladorio, Juan. Rerum quotidianarum libru duo ... Editio ultima caeteris longe elegantior, & emendatior. [and] Quotidianarum differentiarum sesqui-centuria. Amstelaedami: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1688. 4to (20.2 cm, 8"). 2 vols. Vol. I: [26], 492 (i.e., 498), [54 (index)] pp. Vol. II: [2], 507, [45 (index)] pp.
$600.00
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17th-century gathering of these important writings by a distinguished 16th-century Spanish advocate. “De ratione juris discendi” follows the main work in the first volume, with the companion volume adding the title work, “Quaestiones selectae forenses duodeviginti,” and “De ratione in jure scribendi ad filios.” The title-page vignette of vol. I depicts Minerva and the olive tree, labelled “Oliva Minervae.”WorldCat, Copac, STCN, and NUC Pre-1956 do not find any locations of this Jansson-Waesberg edition; Palau does not list it.
Provenance: Front free endpapers each with early inked inscription mostly inked over, title-page verso with inked inscription “de los libros . . . D. Emanuel Lopez Forrecilla y dela Fuente.”
Not in STCN. See Palau 377674–377683 for other eds. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, spines with early hand-inked title; minor staining and back outer (yapp) edge of vol. I chipped, ties on both volumes still partially present. Pages age-toned with intermittent spotting; vol. I with light waterstaining to margins of some leaves and a few early inked corrections and marks of emphasis. Vol. II: Text block pulling away from spine, first few leaves separating, some leaves with worming in inner margins touching text without obscuring sense, one leaf with tear from outer margin extending into text without loss. All edges stained red, and both volumes with inscriptions as above. (29082)
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