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169 - COQUILLE (Guy). The works of Master Guy Coquille, Lord of Ro…
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COQUILLE (Guy). The works of Master Guy Coquille, Lord of Romenay, containing several treatises concerning the liberties of the Gallican Church, the history of France and French law... Paris, Guignard, 1666, 2 folio volumes, Volume I: 22 unnumbered folios – 538 pp. – 2 unnumbered folios – 132 pp. – 20 unnumbered folios. - Volume II: 6 unnumbered folios – 456 pp. – 152 pp. – 6 unnumbered folios, then paginated 153 to 428 pp. – 28 unnumbered folios. Bound in contemporary brown calfskin, with a decorated ribbed spine and marbled edges. - Covers rubbed, corners slightly blunt, minor imperfections to the bindings elsewhere, some sewn quires, a small worm-eaten area in the lower margin of the first 5 leaves of Volume I, heavy water-stain on the last 25 leaves of Volume II. This uncommon edition of the works of the famous jurist from Nièvre is also found dated 1665. It begins with a discourse on the life and works of Coquille; a catalogue of the 24 posthumous works included in this edition; the “Memoirs for the Reform of the Ecclesiastical Estate” (85 pp., pp. 86–88 blank); the “Treatise on the Liberties of the Church of France…” ; the ‘History of the Region and Duchy of Nivernais’ (pp. 334–538); and the ordinances of Henry III ‘concerning the complaints and grievances raised by the Deputies of the Estates… convened… in the town of Blois’. The customs of the Nivernais (including regulations on brothels) occupy the first half of the second volume. These are followed by the “Institutions on French Law” and the “Questions, Answers and Meditations on the Articles of the Customs”. - A few engraved ornamental woodcuts. (Brunet II, col. 268 for the 1665 edition).
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