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Barnabae Brissonii, regii in Gallia consistorii ... de verborum quae ad ius ciuile pertinent significatione opus praestantissimum : in meliorem commodioremque ordinem redactum, innumeris mendis emaculatum et post aliorum curas plurimis accessionibus, obseruationibusque philologicis, criticis, iuridicis locupletatum / prodit opera studioque Io. Gottliebii HeineccI ... praemissa praefatione noua de interpretationis grammaticae in iure ciuili fatis et vario vsu nec non huius nouae editionis praerogatiuis, Iusti Henningii Böhmeri ...

Half-title: Barnabas Brissonius de verborum significatione, seu dictionarium iuridicum
Engraved title page: Io. Gottl. Heineccii dictionarium iuridicum in quo Barnabae Brissonii opus praestantissimm de verborum significatione in meliorem ordinem redactum plurimis[que] accessionibus locupletatum traditur cum praefat. Iust. Hen[n]in. Bohmeri
Half-title to volume 2: Barnabae Brissonii de verborum significatione tomus alter

Halae Magdeburgicae : Impensis Orphanotrophei, MDCCXXXXIII [1743]

2 volumes ([10], XXXXVIII, 1436 pages, [1] leaf of plates) : illustration (engraving) ; 37 cm (folio)

Date on title supplied with apostrophes.
Signatures: pi⁶ a-f⁴ A-8S⁴ 8T².
Conjugacy of initial gathering cannot be determined with certainty. In each copy held the half-title, engraving, and title page are bound in a different order.
Head- and tailpieces; intials; factotums. Title page printed in red and black.
Volume 2 has half title only.
Includes index.

Engraved title page, title page and half-title page bound in different order in each copy.
Copy 1 extensively foxed and discolored.

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 11356774 (https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=1.65/PPNSET?PPN=020817037)

Provenance (c. 1): From the Library of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, Scotland; Kirkcudbright Law Library (stamp); David Melville of Barquhar, Steward Clerk of Kircudbright (presentation bookplate, dated 1843); Provenance (c. 2) Akademische Boekhandel P. Somerwil (bookplate on upper pastedown); Provenance (c. 3): Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth J.S. Scholtens Dalhuisen in honor of her father Professor Dr. J.E. Scholtens (1902-1991), Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1949-1972; presentation copy, with flyleaf hand-inscribed in colors: Q.B.F.F.Q.S. Recti ingenii et exempli juvenem Nicol. Guichart. Hoc libro industriae et honoris praemii loco in mea classe publice donavi. Groningae A.D. VI. Jd. Quintil. [MD] CCLX. [signed] Buning gymnasiarcha.

Copy 1 bound in brown calfskin, with title label, gold-tooled and -stamped on spine; Copy 2 bound in brown calfskin, gilt-tooling on covers also, with blue-speckled page-edges; covers detached; Copy 3 bound in contemporary brown leather (sheep?), gold-tooled and -stamped spine, covers, and edges, with gilt, imperial arms in medallions on covers (motto "Praemium Groninganum"), wallpaper endpapers, and ribbon.

De verborum quae ad ius pertinent, significatione

Germany -- Halle an der Saale.

KJA1956.A3 D48 1743 Folio

Latin

Hotman, François, 1524-1590. De verbis feudalibus.
Loccenius, Johan, 1598-1677. Explicatio peregrinarum.