Lot n° 110
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LOISEL (Antoine). Beauvais, ou Mémoires des pays, villes, comté et comtes, evesché et evesques, pairrie, commune et personnes de renom de Beauvais et Beauvaisis. À Paris, chez Samuel Thiboust, 1617.
LOISEL (Antoine). Beauvais, or Memoirs of the countries, cities, counties and counts, eveschews and bishops, peerage, commune and persons of renown of Beauvais and Beauvaisis. In Paris, by Samuel Thiboust, 1617. In-4, [2] f. (title, dedication to bishop Augustin Potier, privilege), 367 p., [9] f., title in red and black with woodcut vignette, copperplate engraved vignette p.31, contemporary black tinted vellum, spine smooth and ornate, garnet morocco title-piece, traces of missing laces (black tint partly faded, small tear at edge of lower board, missing upper guard, paper yellowed and quires browned as almost always).
Unique first edition of this work by the lawyer Antoine Loisel, born in Beauvais in 1536. A student of Cujas, the author is best known for his "Institutes coutumières", one of the first and most important collections of ancient French law, which has been reprinted many times. These memoirs of Beauvais and the Beauvaisis region are distinguished in particular by the numerous supporting documents that are transcribed in the last 130 pages, including charters dating back to 1106.
This copy bears on the title the old handwritten mention: "Ex dono Auctoris, utebatur Johannes filesar (?) D.T.".
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