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Corpus Juris Publici Academicum Enthaltend Die Vornehmsten.

1722rif. 710581722. Frankfurt 1722. 1st ed. Frankfurt 1722. 1st ed. Rare First Edition of Schmauss's Monumental Guide to Holy Roman Empire Law in Contemporary Armorial Calf Schmauss Johann Jacob 1690-1757. Corpus Juris Publici Academicum: Enthaltend Die Vornehmsten Grund-Gesetze Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Als: Die Guldene Bulle Profan- und Religions-Auch Westphalisch- Und Andere Frieden Die Cammer-Gerichts- und Reichs-Hof-Raths-Ordnungen Reichs-Matricul und Neueste Wahl-Capitulation Nebst einigen Andern Reichs-Constitutionen; Zum Gebrauch so Wohl der Studirenden Jugend Als auch Anderer dem Studio Juris Publici Beflissenen. Frankfurt and Leipzig Zu Finden bey August Martini 1722. First edition. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4". xiv 1072 pp. Calf thumb-tabs. Main text in parallel columns. Copperplate portrait frontispiece of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Contemporary speckled calf gilt armorial crests to center of boards raised bands blind tooling and lettering piece to spine. A few minor nicks to boards light rubbing to extremities gilding mostly rubbed away from crests corners bumped and somewhat worn front hinge starting at foot minor worming to upper corners of front pastedown and preliminaries with no loss to text or plate. Moderate toning to text faint dampspotting in places a few tabs stuck to adjacent leaves a few minor tears where tabs were peeled away. A handsome structurally sound copy of a scarce title. $1750. Schmauss was a celebrated professor of law at the University of Gottingen. A comprehensive historically grounded work his Corpus Juris Publici established his reputation as the leading expert of his day on the constitutional law of the Holy Roman Empire. Stintzing-Landsberg holds this book in high regard recommending it as a "convenient collection of sources" for the study of the Empire's constitutional history. It went through several editions and reissues the last appearing in 1794 reprinted in 1973. Published in 1722 this collection captures the legal and constitutional architecture of the Holy Roman Empire at a crucial moment of relative stabilization between the devastating geopolitical realignments of the seventeenth century and the mid-eighteenth-century rise of Prussian-Austrian dualism. Schmauss's textbook represents the zenith of German Reichspublizistik: the Enlightenment-era academic movement dedicated to treating th. unknown