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[Henriquez, J.:] Code des seigneurs, hauts-justiciers et féodaux, ou maximes concernant les fiefs & droits féodaux, les justices seigneuriales, & les droits qui appartiennent au Seigneurs à cause de leur justice. A Senlis, chez Des Rocques, et à Paris, chez Nyon [...], Knapen [...], Duchesne [...] 1761.

First edition of this legal handbook to seigneurial feudalism, it is composed of maxims, properly cited, taken from standard authorities, organised into chapters and under questions. Clearly found useful, it was printed three further times.

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12mo., pp. xii 368 [4]. Half-title and title-page. Light spotting and age-yellowing, bookplate removed, bound in contemporary marbled sheep, spine gilt, red morocco gilt label, all edges red; wear to corners, piece loosening at head of spine, scraping to spine. Verso of title-page with stamp "Louis Stouff 1915, de mon aieul le Président Béchaux”.

Conlon XIII 61:745. OCLC (08/17) shows 10 copies, of which 3 are outside France (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Wisconsin-Madison, UCB).