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DE DAMHOUDER, Joost

Practycke ende handbouck in criminele zaeken, verciert met zommeghe schoone figuren ende beilden ter materie diene[n]de (...) allen Souuerains, Baillius, Scouteetins, Meyers, Burchmeesters, Scepenen en[de] andere wethoudere[n] en[de] Officieren zeere prof

Loven/ Thantwerpen
Steven Wouters en Jan Bathen/Hans de Laet
1555

€2.400 - €3.000

4to, [20]-292 (= 293)-[3] pp and 57 full page woodcuts. First page with small repairs without loss of text and old owner name on title page. Half vellum binding with new endpapers. Good copy

Rare first Dutch version of the ""Praxis rerum criminalium"" (Louvain 1554) of the Bruges lawyer Damhouder (1507-1581), for over a century the basic work on criminal law in the Low Countries. Copy of the rare issue with the additional address of Hans de Laet. B.B. II 27-28 D-42. Index Aurel. 149.373. B.T. 800. Dekkers Bibl. Belg. jurg. 44 nr. 4. Machiels D-16. Not in Adams, BL London, NUC.

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