Lucensis Civitatis Statuta Nuperrime Castigata

Henricus Bucellius; Joannes Philipp de Mariani; Lucca (Italy)

Lucae : Joannes Baptista Phaellus, 1539

[16th Century Italian Criminal Law] Lovely example of early Tuscan printing.  Folio, 34 cm. Bound in full vellum, with manuscript spine lettering.  Some worming to spine. Marginal dampstaining.  Woodcut bordered title page. Final 3L6 (woodcut only of arms of Lucca) wanting. Broad-margined copy. Roman types. Early inscription of Paolo Antonio Parensi of Lucca, 1727.  Adams L-1593. Based on the city code of 1446, the code was revised in 1527. (Note: This copy sold at Swann's Galleries, in 1983, Sale 1295 lot 195.) 

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