[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of the 1st printed collection of Germanic Laws. Basil: 1557

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(LAW) Herold, Johannes Basilius (ed.). ORIGINUM AC GERMANICARUM
ANTIQUITATUM LIBRI, Leges Uidelicet, Salicae, Allemannorum, Saxonum,
Angliorum, Thuringorum, Burgundionum, Francorum, Ripuariae,
Boioariorum, Vuestphalorum, Vuerinorum, Frisionum, Langobardorum,
Theutonum... Basil: per Henrichum Petri. (1557). Folio. (20),347,(1)pp.
Woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. Numerous large
historiated capitals. Orig. limp vellum, soiled. Title page a bit
soiled. Very good copy.  $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of the first printed collection of Germanic Laws
(Leges Barbarum). The compiler, Herold (1514-1567) made use of a
manuscript in the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Fulda which was
subsequently looted in the Thirty Years War and is now lost. Adams
H421; VD 16 H2549.

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