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Lot 143

LAW - NORMAN
LEROUILLÉ (GUILLAUME) Le grand coustumier du pays & duche de Normendie, Rouen, Antoine Maury, and others, 1694, folio (4)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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LAW - NORMAN

LEROUILLÉ (GUILLAUME) Le grand coustumier du pays & duche de Normendie, black letter, in 2 columns, title printed in red and black with historiated woodcut border, 2 woodcut tables (the Arbor Consanguinitatis printed in red and black), decorative woodcut initials, opening gathering loose, later calf, rebacked and recornered, worn, upper cover working loose [Adams N339], Rouen, Nicolas le Roux for Francois Regnault of Paris, Jehan Mallard of Rouen & Girard Anger of Caen, 1539--TERRIEN (GUILLAUME) Commentaires du droict civil tant public que privé, observé au pays & Duché de Normandie, large woodcut device on title, loss to one blank corner of title and pp.623/4, occasional light dampstains, contemporary calf, gilt-blocked arabesque on sides, rebacked in morocco gilt, joints worn, Paris, Jacques du Puys, 1574--BASNAGE (HENRY) La coutume reformée, 2 vol., contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled with one morocco lettering label within raised bands, rubbed with small losses at spine extremities, Rouen, Antoine Maury, and others, 1694, folio (4)

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Provenance: First work, inscription dated 1576 struck through in upper margin of title; Viscount Birkenhead, bookplate. Second work, early inscriptions in two hands on final blank; ownership inscription "...Rouen, Sept. 26, 1866" on title.

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