This edition opens with a copper-engraved frontispiece; the second volume has a separate title-page. OCLC locates no institutional holdings of this title in the U.S., while COPAC finds only one U.K. holding (British Library).

•  Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, I, 402; Grieder, Anglomania in France, 1740–1789, 157 (for 1769 & 1781 eds.).   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt extra in billet pattern with gilt-stamped leather title-label; small area of spine gilt rubbed and small chips to top and bottom; corners and lower edges rubbed, with small insect hole to back joint. Attractive paste-paper endpapers and all edges red. One leaf with tear in margin, not into text; light old staining to a few leaves, including margins of frontispiece. Title-page with faint traces of early inked inscription. A sound, clean copy.  (26853)

Provenance:  Ink signatures of “Mesange de St. Andre,” dated 1784, appear on front free endpaper and at top margin of title-page; gift inscription on front fly-leaf reads “Henri de Mesange St. Andre offr. au regt. de Barrois.” Later from the library of Helen de Guerry Simpson.

•  Pichon 2075; Coumont, Demonology and Witchcraft, S3.1.   Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra and with gilt-stamped label; spine chipped at head and foot, joints open. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon placemarker. Edges stained red. Faint waterstain at lower margin of some leaves. Chip at lower outer corner of pp. 145/146. Slight loss of paper at lower edge of pp. 289/290. Ownership markings include a bookplate on the front pastedown and early ink inscriptions on the front free endpaper, front fly-leaf, and in the blank area of the top margin of the title-page.  (24562)

OCLC and ESTC locate only six U.S. institutional holdings.

Binding:  Contemporary treed calf with covers framed in gilt single fillet, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label. The sunburst tool with floral center used on the spine resembles that used by the Hallhead and McKenzie binderies on Dublin College books, lacking the border. Marbled endpapers; green silk placemarker present.

Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription of “M. M'Causland” (possibly Marcus McCausland [1787–1862]).

•  ESTC T132869; Schweiger, II, 822; McDonnell & Healy, Gold-Tooled Bindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin, 27–30 & 295–99; Lowndes 1607; Graesse, VI, 241; Dibdin, II, 109; Brunet, V, 87.   Binding as above, board edges lightly rubbed, leather lost at head of spine, small abrasion to front cover, some spine gilt chipped; still, quite nice. Inscription as above; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pp. 197/98 incorrectly paginated as 167/68.  (25949)

•  Contemporary sheep with spine gilt extra and covers gilt modestly, rubbed and pulled at top of spine; ex-library with paper label and remnant of call number on spine, perforation-stamps on title- and one other leaf, several inked or stamped old numbers, and old pencilling. Paper browned as so often, with some foxing and soiling; all edges red.  (25827)

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The volume opens with a copper-engraved portrait of the seven bishops: Sancroft, Thomas Ken, John Lake, William Lloyd, Jonathan Trelawny, Francis Turner, and Thomas White.

•  ESTC T103539.   Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons and contrasting panel of plain calf, edges and corners rubbed; recently rebacked with complementary speckled calf, spine with raised bands. Pages age-toned with some light spotting. Some corners bumped in use and one leaf a bit crumpled in the press; complete with the handsome frontispiece.  (26524)

•  ESTC N22343. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder. In good untattered condition, with noticeable (but not print-obscuring) stain in lower center portion.

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Uncommon.  Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Goedeke, Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung (for first ed.). 19th-century quarter morocco (refurbished) over paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges of paper sides rubbed. Front pastedown with bookseller’s ticket from B. Westermann & Co. of New York, private collector’s 19th-century bookplate, and institutional stamp (no other markings). Small repaired hole to title-page, with four letters unobtrusively replaced. Foxed, with a few corners crumpled or dog-eared. One engraved plate from another work laid in. A pleasant, we would say “atmospheric” little volume.

Schwarz critiques Protestant authors, such as Grotius, Puffendorf, Heineccius, and Thomasius, and other writers on these subjects, pointing out where they agree with and where they differ from Catholic teaching.

He first published his Institutiones juris in 1741, and, according to DeBacker-Sommervogel, this is the third of six editions. Present here are parts 1 and 2 of 4, in which, however, all the matters above listed are discussed. This edition is printed with the title-page in red and black, a woodcut headpiece and tailpieces, and a plethora of side- and footnotes.

Provenance: Inked inscription on title-page, "Rodriguez de Arellano."

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 948. Limp vellum with remnants of ties; spine with inked title. Scattered spots of staining to spine and rear cover. Pp. 41–42 of the first series of pagination has a large chip out of the upper outer corner with loss of page numbers but no text. Pp. 155–56 has a tear in the outer margin, not touching text. Occasional worming in the outer margins, not touching text. Scattered age-spotting; a few occasions of light waterstaining in the outer margins. (3439)