Libri Dialecticæ Legalis quinque.
Paris, R. I Estienne 1535.
8vo (170 x 107 mm.). 167p.
Gilt-ruled red morocco (c. 1730) with stars, blooms and foliage, spine compartments with MARTIN FOLKES’ GILT GOLDEN FLEECE TOOL (crown neatly repaired), gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, all edges gilt.
For students hoping to pursue a career in law, this applies logic and rhetoric to draft arguments, court pleadings and legal decisions.
From the library of Martin Folkes (1690-1754), the scientist, antiquary and president of the Royal Society, who counted Newton a friend. In good condition (pale narrow stain in two dozen upper margins).
¶Risse, Bibliographia logica I: 48; Green & Murphy, Renaissance Rhetoric Short-Title Catalogue RR 1938; Renouard, Annales…des Estienne 41,4.
Price: $2,400.00