Voets, Melchior; Johann Wilhelm

Historia Juris Civilis Juliacensium et Montensium [bound with] Tractatus De Jure Revolutionis Ad Lucem Ordinationis Judiciariæ bound with] Observatioi de Ordinatione Feudali. [with a few loose broadsides from the 1780s.] First editions.

Coloniae [Cologne] : Apud Hilgerum Nöten [&] Agrippinae Kopp,:1683 [&] 1691. 4to. 39.5 x 17.5cm, Old vellum spine and corners and patterned boards.
Fair amount of soiling to vellum and boards, rubbing to extremities; early manuscript notes and armorial label on front pastedown, toning and occasional early ink marginalia and underlining; very good

[8], 124, [8]; [8], 63, [8] pp. Bound in at the rear are 40 pages of an additional work (Observatio i de Ordinatione Feudali...), followed by an additional 18 leaves continuing the work in manuscript. With woodcut devices, initials, head and tail pieces. Text in German and Latin.

OCLC Number: 82461509 etc., for later editions of the first volume; OCLC Number:1068166445 for the second volume;

One of the early professors of the Düsseldorf Academy of Law, Melchior Voets (1618-1675), was the author of two Kurkölnische Rechts Court regulations and numerous works of history and law. Rare. Item #51-3735

Price: $1,000.00