Lot 106: [Roman Law, Judicial Process] Gail-Fabricius, 1697

AN EXTENSIVE TREATISE ON JUDICIAL PROCESS IN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE CHAMBER, WRITTEN BY ANDREAS GAIL, TOGETHER WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOST INTERESTING DISPUTES, COLLECTED BY FABRICIUS

[1.]: Gail, Andreas - Gymnich, Walter. Practicarum observationum, tam ad processum judiciarium, praesertim imperialis camerae, quam causarum decisiones pertinentium, libri duo. De pace publica [...]. De pignorationibus [...]. De manuum injectionibus [...] per nobilem ac clarissimum D. Andream Gaill, [...]. Editio postrema correctior, ex ultima recognitione Gualteri Gymnici [...] cum indice [...] locupletissimo. Coloniae Agrippinae [Koln]: Sumptibus & Typis Wilhelmi Metternich, Bibliop., Anno M.DC.XCVIIII. [1699].
[bound with:]
[2.]: Fabricius, Eberhard - Gail, Andreas. Everhardi Fabricii, Gailius enucleatus, hoc est enodatio controversiarum maxime nobilium, [...]. Opus omnibus utile, necessarium, [...] deductum. Coloniae Agrippinae [Koln]: Sumptibus & Typis Wilhelmi Metternich, Bibliop., Anno M.DC.XCVII. [1697].

8vo (206x170 mm), full mottled leather binding, four raised bands at spine with title, green and red sprinkled edges; pp. [28], 628; 272; [128]; 139, [1]. First work title-page in red and black types and second work title-page in black types, both with a printer's device (an eagle in a figured frame, with motto: Spirat ubi vult; printer's initials WFM). Xylographic initials and head- and final-pieces.

Andreas von Gail [Geihl] (1526-1587), German judge and jurisconsult, called the Papinian of Germany. His writings on public order, proscription, banishment and pledges were of considerable European influence.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.
Handwritten ownership inscriptions at title-page.

References:
[1.]: IT\ICCU\CAGE\016523 (2 copies). OCLC, 311477678 (1 copy in Germany).
[2.]: Not in ICCU. OCLC, 800830633 (1 copy in Italy at the Biblioteca Comunale di Trento), 31399714 (1 copy in USA, Syracuse University), 836690570 (1 copy in Germany).

Traces of use to the binding. Foxing and browning. A good copy.