Gobler, Justinus].

Gerichtlicher Proceß, auß grund der Rechten, und gemeyner übung, zum fleissigsten in drei theyl verfasset.

      Frankfurt/Main, Christian Egenolff d. A., (April 1538). - Folio. (6), CXXXIIII [134] ff. With title woodcut (by Hans Sebald Beham) and woodcut printer's device on last page. (Bound with) II: Justinian / Fuchsperger, Ortolf. Justinianischer Instituten warhaffte dolmetschung [.]. (Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn), 1538. (8), XCI [91], (9), XIII [13], (1) ff. With heraldic woodcut title vignette, several woodcut initials, and a full-page woodcut in the text. (Bound with) III: Charles V, Emperor. Peinlich Gerichts Ordnung [.]. (Mainz, Ivo Schöffer, 10 June 1535). (6), XXXV [but: 39] ff. (wants last blank). With two-part title woodcut, large woodcut initial, half-page woodcut in the text, and woodcut printer's device on last page. Contemp. blindstamped auburn calf on wooden boards. Remains of clasps. Fine legal sammelband containing three German works of the Renaissance: Gobler's formulary; the "Institutiones" of Justinian; and the Constitutio Carolina. I: Rare second edition of one of the earliest German formularies (first published by Egenolff in 1536). "Der zweyte Theil (de actionibus) ist aus dem Klagspiegel abgeschrieben" (Stintzing). The fine title vignette by Hans Sebald Beham depicts a Renaissance courtroom. - II: Third printing of the second German translation of the "Institutiones" (first printed in 1536). This had been preceded by Thomas Murner's translation (Basel 1519), which was literally correct but often missed the meaning and therefore was replaced by the translations of Gobler and - in the 17th century - Ortolph Fuchsberger (cf. Kaspers 104). This present edition contains a 28-page appendix "Der Rechten Regulae Iuris Civilis" (by Murner) not present in earlier printings. - III: Fourth official edition of the so-called "Carolina", the first and only criminal code of the Empire, and the basis of all later common German criminal law (cf. Kaspers). The two-part title woodcut shows the execution grounds; the preface is followed by a portrait of Maximilian with a sword and a book. - Attractive blindstamped binding with four roll-tooled borders (all unrecorded by Haebler). Covers rubbed; spine-ends, corners, and edges bumped; back cover beginning to split. Several contemp. ms. notes of ownership. Slight browning throughout due to paper. Stamp of the "Südmährische Privatbibliothek Alexander Franz Fleischer" on pastedowns. I: VD 16, G 2297. Stintzing/Landsberg I, 584, 6. Pauli (Beham) 1116.7 and p. 485. Not in Adams or BM-STC German. - II: VD 16, C 5240. Stintzing/L. I, 83. Stobbe II, 166. Eiden/M. 112. Not in Adams or BM-STC German. - III: VD 16, D 1072. BM-STC German 347. Kohler/Scheel XXIV, no. 4. Cf. Kaspers 132. Not in Adams. [Attributes: Hard Cover]