Caroli Ferdinandi Hommelii Ivris Feodalis In Academia Lipsiensi Professoris Ordinarii Oblectamenta Ivris Feodalis

Rare first edition of a work by the "German Beccaria," unrecorded in French libraries according to WorldCat, composed while the author held the chair of feudal law at the University of Leipzig, a position obtained at the age of thirty, three years prior.

Contemporary full brown sheep, smooth spine gilt with fleurons, light brown morocco lettering-piece, red edges. Bookplate of Count Giacomo Manzoni, former Finance Minister of the Roman Republic, concealing an ownership inscription written in brown ink.

Upper headcap missing, surface scuffing to spine and boards, lettering-piece partly missing, discreet worm galleries to the pastedowns.

Marginal browning to the opening and closing leaves, scattered foxing, worm hole to the lower right corner of the first few leaves.