GOBLER, Justin.

Den spieghele der rechte, uit den natuerlijcken, bescrevenen, gheestelijcken, wereltlijcken, ende anderen ghebruyckelijcken rechten, oock die ghemeyne inden heylighen rijck der Duytscher natien, insettinghen ende oeffeninghen daer toe ghesedt.

      Only Dutch edition of a famous juridical work by the German lawyer Justin Gobler (1496-1567) Antwerp, Symon Cock, 1560. Folio. Eighteenth-century blindstamped vellum, with green ties. Half-page woodcut on title, repeated in text, two woodcuts, one full-page and one half-page in text, and numerous woodcut initials. (4), 172 lvs. Only Dutch edition of this famous juridical work by the German lawyer Justin Gobler (1496-1567), originally published in German by Christ. Egenolff at Frankfurt in 1550. The author published many other, more specialized juridical works, but the present is a general work, a mirror of all his knowledge of the laws in force at the time, comprehensively treating administrative, canon, public and private law, criminal, feudal, military, procedural law, etc. in ten chapters, including also juridical notions like obligations, conveyances, privileges, contracts, bail, succession, etc. The present is a nice edition, including a full-page woodcut of a genealogical tree, and 2 other half-page woodcuts; it is neatly printed in two columns of gothic, with captions and latin references in the margins; a summary and a comprehensive table of contents make this work easily accessible. Very rare. Fine copy. With the bookplate of L.J. Hijmans van den Bergh.- (One corner of binding ink-stained; beginning and end very sl. browned). Belg. Typogr. 1277; Machiels G 368; STC Dutch p. 86; not in Adams; not in NUC.