1734
by Harderwijk (Netherlands)
1734. T'Harderwyck, by de Erv. van Jan Rampen, 1734.. T'Harderwyck, by de Erv. van Jan Rampen, 1734. Interleaved and Extensively Annotatedby Two Early Readers [Harderwijk (Netherlands)]. Gereformeerde Willekeuren Ende Stadt-Rechten van Harderwyck. Harderwyck: By de Erv. van Jan Rampen, 1734. [10], 227 pp. Interleaved. Quarto (10-1/2" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary quarter vellum over formerly paper-covered boards, edges untrimmed. Paper covering boards abraded, creasing and light wear to spine, which is starting to separate from boards, early hand-lettered title and fragment of paper label to its head, light wear to board edges and corners, which are bumped, pastedowns loose. Light toning to interior, faint dampstaining in a few places, light soiling and faint spotting to a few leaves, clean tear across text leaf L3 (pp. 85-86) affecting text without loss to legibility, early ink underlining and annotations to interleaves throughout in two hands, most in a single hand. $1,800. * Only edition. The Dutch town of Harderwijk, which received city rights in 1231, was a member of the Hanseatic League. It had an economy based on fishing and trade. This account of its ordinances and privileges is interleaved and annotated by two early readers. The bulk of the annotations are in a single hand and consist of citations to other treatises, such as Damhouder's Praxis Rerum Civilium, and legal codes. They are highly detailed and often quite extensive, and create an indispensable working reference for the annotator. Some also refer to earlier rulings and statutes dating from the sixteenth century to the year of the work's publication. The annotations in the other hand are later and make note of eighteenth-century updates through September 12, 1774. OCLC locates 3 copies of this scarce title in North America (Harvard, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School).
(Inventory #: 79835)