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Legatura

His Majesty's laws and constitutions, 1770

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€ 400 - 600

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€ 645

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Information

Turin, Royal Printing House, 1770.  In 4th. 2 vols.  Savoy coat of arms on the title pages, text arranged in a double column, in Italian and French, slight foxing and blushing, binding  in red morocco with decoration  embossed in gold, on the plates with a phytomorphic frame, in the center of the plates the crowned coat of arms of the House of Savoy with the lions on the sides, surmounted by a trophy of flags and with a trophy of arms below, backs with 4 raised nerves , on the title compartments, friezes of leaves, gilded cuts, some peeling and slight shortcomings. 

Specialist Notes

First promulgated in 1723 and republished in 1729, this work was issued by the king of Sardinia Vittorio Amedeo II and contained an organic body of his own laws and those of his predecessors. The work in 6 books represents one of the first examples in Italy of consolidation of law through the rationalization of pre-existing sources. In 1770 Charles Emmanuel III resumed this text, but by then it was considered "old" following the circulating ideas of the Enlightenment legal.
Example donated by the King, as can be read on the flyleaf "present du Roi 14 Aoust 1770".