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1700Best.-Nr. 848691700. London 1700. First edition. London 1700. First edition. First Edition of the Earliest English Treatise Devoted Exclusively to the Common Law of Husband and Wife With the Contemporary Signature of John Trumbull Marriage Law. Great Britain. Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires for John Walthoe And are to be Sold in his Shop in Vine-Court Middle-Temple 1700. Octavo. 7" x 4-1/4"; 183 x 110 mm. xxx 380 36 pp. Lacking the advertisement leaves one facing title four at end. Contemporary sheep sympathetically rebacked retaining original spine with raised bands and lettering-piece; boards with blind fillets. Moderate wear corners rubbed; title and front free endpaper rehinged small marginal repair to title. Moderate toning occasional light damp-marking; a few minor marginal defects including a small tear to L4. Ownership inscription of John Trumbull dated 1777 to title and following leaf. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. A very good copy with notable early American legal provenance. $7500. First edition of the earliest English treatise devoted exclusively to the law of husband and wife and one of the principal early attempts to systematize the common-law doctrine of coverture in a single practical work. Issued in expanded editions 1719 1738 it remained a point of reference for eighteenth-century practitioners and compilers. The treatise organizes the law of marriage as a coherent doctrinal field proceeding from formation solemnization and validity through the incidents of coverture to dissolution and separation. Its treatment of the feme covert is comprehensive addressing personal status contractual incapacity property rights and procedural position. In contrast to earlier more diffuse authorities it offers a structured exposition designed for professional use with attention to pleading evidentiary questions and precedent. Of particular legal interest is its detailed account of the interaction between strict coverture doctrine and the equitable and customary devices that qualified it. The discussion of marriage settlements trusts and separate maintenance agreements documents the means by which property could be secured to or for the use of married women notwithstanding their forma. unknown books
1700Best.-Nr. 176470London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires for John Walthoe 1700. The first English treatise devoted exclusively to family law First edition in an exceptionally well-preserved binding of this oft-cited work on the legal position of women in 17th- and 18th-century England and a key summary of the social mechanisms underpinning such works as The Taming of the Shrew. "Baron and Feme" refers to the legal fiction that husband and wife shared one legal personhood. The anonymous author of this treatise draws heavily on Sir Edward Coke's edition of Littleton aiming to codify and explain family law "in all the Circumstances of Life from the Solemnization of Marriage to the Divorce" p. vi. "Although written in English at a time when many law books were still published in Latin and law French it was clearly intended for a legally trained reader" Glover p. 75. This copy includes extensive ink annotations in an 18th-century hand suggesting a similar level of legal training. The annotations mainly cite other legal reference works but they also explicate several points of law and invoke others to challenge assertions in the text. The notes on the rear blank verso for instance observe that "the Wife's Portion consisting of Choses in action shall not upon ye husb's death be liable to his debts tho' ye husb: before marriage had made an adequate Jointure on her". Further editions appeared in 1719 and 1738. Octavo 192 x 115 mm pp. xxxii 380 misprinting pp. 178-9 182-3 186-7 and 190-1 as 162-3 166-7 170-1 and 174-5 36. Contemporary calf spine ruled in black and lettered in black manuscript covers with double fillet in black. Housed in custom green morocco book-form case. With 18th-century ink annotations and infrequent underlining to contents and rear blank verso. One corner just worn at tip infrequent brown marks to several pages contents otherwise bright and fresh: a fine copy. ESTC R6177; Wing B899. Susan Glover Engendering Legitimacy: Law Property and Early Eighteenth-century Fiction 2006. unknown
Best.-Nr. LCS-14866Superbe peinture chinoise en rouleau horizontal représentant le cortège d’un mariage luxueux. Chine, dynastie Qing, seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. S.l.n.d. [Chine, dynastie Qing, seconde moitié du XIXe siècle].Rouleau horizontal peint sur soie et papier traditionnel chinois. Encre de Chine et lavis coloriés. Baguette d’enroulement en bois sombre ornée d’une bande de soie bleue. L’axe central du rouleau a un diamètre de 2 cm environ. Couverture décorée de soie multicolore. Dimensions du rouleau : environ 3,85 m de longueur x 0,36 m de largeur.
PARIS, Téqui - 1944 - In-12 - Broché - VI & 312 pages - Propre
