STATUTES

[Netherlands. Zeeland] Kuere van den Lande van Zeelandt. Daer by gevoeght Zijnde de Interpretatie ende Ampliatie van eenige artijckelen der voorsz. Kuere. Gedruckt na de Rechte Originele Copie [...] Tot Middelburgh [Middelburg] gedruckt by François Croock 1659.

Statutes of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. The two parts consist, firstly, of legislation promulgated in 1495 by the territory's ruler Philip the Handsome, and secondly, of additions dating up to 1604. The book illustrates legal continuity through periods of profound change and unrest.

Details

4to., pp. [8] 80 [8] 20 [12]. Woodcut shield to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Repair on verso of title-page, covering three words (all visible through it), flaw to last leaf (on recto, affecting two words and removing one further, and on verso, causing hole in ornamental tailpiece). Bound in contemporary vellum boards, touch rumpled and warped, new pastedowns and endpapers.

This edition not in STCN. OCLC (08/17) shows copies outside Netherlands at Northwestern and Basel.