Title
Josephi Averanii, v. cl. jurisconsulti, & in illustri Academia Pisana, dum viveret, antecessoris, Opus postumum : continens Interpretationum juris libros tres posteriores : in quibus multa cum juris civilis, tum aliorum veterum scriptorum, loca nova ratione illustrantur; multa item ex antiquitate Romana Graecaque docte pertractantur.
Imprint
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Apud Petrum vander Aa, 1746.
Description
2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm (octavo)
Note
Also publ. in 1746 with imprint of Boudewijn vander Aa ("Apud Balduinum van der Aa"), Pieter's brother, with identical title, pagination, etc.; whether a different issue or edition is not clear.
Vol. 1: [28], 886 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 398, [250] p.
Signatures: v. 1: pi¹ *⁶ **⁸ A-3I⁸ 3K³; v. 2: pi² A-I⁸ K⁴ L-SS⁸.
Printer's devices (engravings) on title pages, head- and tailpieces, initials.
Title pages in red and black.
Title vignette in v. 1 signed: I.C. Philips inv[enit]. et fecit 1731; that in v. 2 (a different scene) signed: I.C. Philips del[ineavit] et fec. 1731; engraved frontispiece portrait of author signed: F. v. Bleyswyk del. & sculp[sit].; engraved plate in v. 2 (leaf SS4b), including cameo portrait of author and a classical temple as obverse and reverse of a medal, is signed by Bleyswyk (i.e. François van Bleyswyk) in the same way. Philips is presumably to be identified as Jan Caspar Philips, b. 1700.
"Vita Josephi Averanii, v. cl. jurisconsulti, & in illustri Academia Pisana, dum viveret, antecessoris" (including bibliography of Averani's works) at end of v. 2 (RR6-SS7).
Publisher's advertisements on last leaf of v. 2 (SS8a-b).
Includes index.
Local Note
Lib. copy misbound: table of contents to bk. 4 of the Interpretationes juris (gathering **), intended to follow the contents of bk. 3 at the beginning of the volume (as indicated by the catchword on *6b) is bound in following the section title of bk. 4.
Binding: contemporary vellum boards.
Location
RARE
Call Number
KJA2030.A92 A3 1746
Language
Latin
