Scanaroli, Giovanni Battista (1579-1664)

De visitatione carceratorum libri tres. Quibus omnia ad visitationem, patrocinium, & liberationem carceratorum spectantia explanantur. Original edition. [Prisons and Criminal Procedure]

Rome: "Typis Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae," 1655. 2 parts including Appendices bound in one, Folio (330 x 220mm x 65 mm.). 588pp, Unpaginated Index ca. 138 pp., Appendix , [4pp.]' Appendix 122pp, Index, upaginated. Half title, woodcut devices on title, headpieces, initials and ornaments, printed in double column, full-page woodcut illustration in the Appendix (repair without loss to foot of title, some ink staining occasionally affecting legibility, Zz4 torn without loss, variable browning, spotting and staining throughout). Modern vellum-backed marbled boards, new endpapers. Provenance: old ownership inscription on title; unidentified old armorial bookplate on verso of title. FIRST EDITION. Graesse VI, 290.
OCLC Number: 937580225


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Price: $850.00