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160 - LA POIX de FREMINVILLE (Edme de).
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LA POIX de FREMINVILLE (Edme de). Dictionary or Treatise on General Policing in Towns, Market Towns, Parishes and Rural Manors. A work essential for all police and judicial officers… as well as for all public prosecutors… and also useful to parish priests, church wardens, church trustees, surgeons… property owners, tenants, farmers, merchants… Paris, Gissey, 1758, in-4, XIV-1f.n.ch.-588pp. Bound in grained brown calfskin, ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label, red edges. (Contemporary binding). - Corners slightly rubbed, endpapers distended, a few yellowed quires, a few small scattered ink stains or spots. An old bookplate in ink on the half-title page. First edition. This interesting work (which was published several times during the 18th century) contains a wealth of information on the customs of community life in both town and country in the 18th century: from ‘waycrosses’ to ‘flower pots’, via begging; luxury; abortion; hunting and poaching; corpses; hospitals; schools; Gypsies; games; trades (bakers, innkeepers, labourers, booksellers, servants, etc.). Arranged alphabetically, preceded by a comprehensive index. - Edme de La Poix de Fréminville was born in Verdun in 1680. He was appointed bailiff of Lapalisse (Allier) and his descendants settled either in Lapalisse or in Chavroches, where they held various judicial offices. (Quirielle, Bio-bibliography of Early Writers from the Bourbon Region, pp. 123 ff.). LA POIX de FREMINVILLE (Edme de). Dictionary or Treatise on General Policing of Towns, Market Towns, Parishes, and Rural Seigneuries. A work essential for all police and judicial officers… as well as for all public prosecutors… and also useful to parish priests, church wardens, church trustees, surgeons… homeowners, tenants, farmers, merchants… Paris, Gissey, 1758, in-4, XIV-1f.n.ch.-588pp. Bound in grained brown calfskin, ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label, red edges. (Contemporary binding). - Corners slightly rubbed, endpapers distended, a few yellowed quires, a few small scattered ink stains or spots. An old bookplate in ink on the half-title page. First edition. This interesting work (which was published several times during the 18th century) contains a wealth of information on the customs of community life in both town and country in the 18th century: from ‘waycrosses’ to ‘flower pots’, via begging; luxury; abortion; hunting and poaching; corpses; hospitals; schools; Gypsies; games; trades (bakers, innkeepers, labourers, booksellers, servants, etc.). Arranged alphabetically, preceded by a comprehensive index. - Edme de La Poix de Fréminville was born in Verdun in 1680. He was appointed bailiff of Lapalisse (Allier) and his descendants settled either in Lapalisse or in Chavroches, where they held various judicial offices. (Quirielle, Bio-bibliography of Early Writers from Bourbonnais, pp. 123 ff.).
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