Gottingen Dieterich 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xx 970 2 pages 21 cm. 2 volumes in one. Contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards blue leather spine label. Rubbing splitting starting to front joint. Owners names to fep minor toning. W/G. 16. Brieger 841. <br><br> The Deutsche Rechtsalterthumer German Legal Antiquities 1828 was a comprehensive compilation of sources of law from all Germanic languages whose structure allowed an initial understanding of older German legal traditions not influenced by Roman law. The work stimulated other publications in France the Netherlands Russia and the southern Slavic countries and has not yet been superseded. <br> Borst 1554 - KLL II 1062 f. "Grimm schuf mit diesem Werk etwas vollig Neues . die bis heute umfassendste Sammlung der Rechtsquellen aus allen Jahrhunderten von Tacitus' Germania bis zu seiner Gegenwart. Gottingen, Dieterich hardcover