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There is a particular abundance of material on those perennial legal topics of costs, charges and fees. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The court of the Parlement of Aix was established by Louis II of Provence in 1415, but after the union of Provence with the crown in 1498, Louis XII decided to reform its administration of justice, using the Parlement of Paris as model. At first, the Count of Provence s administration remained essentially in place, and the new Parlement remained subject to the Governor of Provence. This intermediary situation provoked some unrest and anxious to better ensure his authority, Francis I introduced these edicts in 1534 (first published in 1535), restricting the powers of the Governor, and bringing the Parlement directly under Royal control, which lasted until the Revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n These edicts cover administration of the Parliament at every level, the election of officials (from the President down), raising and organizing the  Gendarmerie , the organization of the  Legions , and the fining and punishment of criminals. The work finishes with an interesting edict on the running of the justice system in the town of Marseille with its special privileges and exemptions. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n For some reason the Ordonnances are quite often found bound with one or more other works, including Arena's, which lists the remuneration and privileges of lawyers and judges at the Parlement of Aix. A list of the names of all the towns subject to the jurisdiction of the Parlement d Aix is given at the end, introduced in Provençal. A very good copy of a rare work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FRANCOIS I [with] ARENA, Antoine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816066818383,"sku":"L1262","price":10500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_9008.jpg?v=1781795329"},{"product_id":"wilson-thomas","title":"WILSON, Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond and last contemporary edition of Thomas Wilson's classic work on all aspects of usury in the form of a dialogue or, more accurately, speeches made between a rich merchant, a zealous preacher and a civil lawyer. This is the first authoritative work on the then vigorously debated subject by an English author and provides considerable insight into the economic life of Elizabethan England as well as a history of usorial prohibitions . Wilson himself was a doctor of civil law and sometime master of the court of Requests, unsurprisingly therefore, the lawyer has the best part. Wilson's professional background does bear fruit however as no common lawyer of the period would have been able to cite so freely the legal writers of ancient Rome, of the mediaeval schools and of modern European jurisprudence. The tone of the work is more practical than academic however, with propositions explained and justified by the use of practical and financial examples. What is particularly interesting to the modern reader are the techniques employed not to contravene the usury laws whilst still financing transactions and earning a good return on one's money. If these rules did nothing else they gave rise to a wide range of very sophisticated commercio-financial arrangements which otherwise would not have seen the light of day for centuries to come. The autograph on the title is almost certainly Richard Crakenthorpe's (1567-1624) Protestant divine and author of three published works, all controversial and anti Catholic, and \"Popish Falsifications\" that has survived in ms. only. See Milward p. 237.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WILSON, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816118427983,"sku":"L987","price":5750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0001_8c536d80-a43f-45c8-84ca-b7a912c6063c.jpg?v=1781795301"},{"product_id":"clark-william","title":"CLARK, William","description":"\u003cp\u003eA most interesting work on the state of Tithes in Britain, including a short description of tithes and a summary of the Statutes of tithing, sometimes erroneously attributed to William Crashaw. The pamphlet was issued as part of the  Tithes controversy  in which many Puritans resisted the payment of tithes. William Clark describes the state of confusion over tithes that stemmed from Henry VIII s dissolution of the monasteries in which  at a stroke, came at least one-third of the tithes of England into lay hands, and the lay rector appears on the scene  Robert Brown.  Tithes in England and Wales.  The confusion after the dissolution lead many to avoid paying tithes altogether, and Henry VIII to issue new statutes concerning tithes, followed by Edward and Elizabeth I. Clark describes the confused situation in his preface  The Canon and civil laws since first K. Henry of happy memory the eight, dismembered their bodies, and restored to the diadem of the Land (over the state Ecclesiastical) the ancient jurisdiction of the Crowne, they have and do lie hidden; such of them that K Henry then continued and K Edward that succeeded him .. and afterwards were the late Queenes deceased   they have, these Lawes, and doe lie hidden in manifold, darke, and dangerous corners, in practise only familiar in Consistories and their knowledge to the country obscure.  The preface, (disingenuously dated 1591, considering he refers to Queen Elisabeth as deceased) discusses his intentions in laying out, in a systematic fashion, the function of tithes, so that by shining a light on them it might lead to their eventual reform. The tithes concern all the produce of the land from tax on eggs, geese, mills, fish, fowl, trades, crafts, merchandise, woods pasture etc etc. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The  Tithes Controversy  was one of the many hot-button religio-political issues of the 1640s and 50s that helped polarize Civil War England. Throughout the seventeenth century, popular support arose for the non-payment of tithes an attack on the very idea of a state church. The problem with tithes stemmed from the rise of Separatist or  congregationlist  sentiments, in part from economic issues such as lay  impropriations,  that is, the collection of tithes by lay owners of ecclesiastical lands (tithes were expropriated to lay owners following the dissolution of the monasteries). Even pro-tithe spokesmen like Henry Spelman vilified lay impropriators who  imployed the church to prophane uses, and left the parishioners uncertainly provided of divine service.  In the more radical views of non-conformist groups like the Diggers, the abolition of tithes was bound up with the abolition of rents and private property, a notion voiced in a number of polemical pamphlets that undoubtedly put conservative landowners on edge. Ironically, backlash against impropriators in the form of non-payment of tithes left legitimate ministers without a means of living in some parishes. In turn, many wished to change the way ministers made a living, either through government stipends, voluntary parishioner contributions, or by putting ministers to work. Nonetheless, the laws largely stayed the same and the non-payment of tithes continued on unabated. If anti-tithing pamphlets galvanized this behavior, a number of writers sought to counteract it by waging pamphlet warfare of their own.  Phil Palmer.  MCRS Rare Books blog  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n This work was first produced as a table of two sheets in 1595, and twice reprinted. This is the first edition in book form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CLARK, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816163057999,"sku":"L3152","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20190522_171010.jpg?v=1781794889"},{"product_id":"slany-kladno","title":"[SLANY\/KLADNO.]","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeautifully bound Czech ms. a rare and remarkable witness to the world of provincial guilds in early modern Europe. It is a working ledger, for quick note taking and reckoning, used by the Company of Bakers, Millers and Gingerbread Makers of Slany (or Kladno), a few miles north-west of Prague. It features over one hundred leaves of notes, in several hands, concerning payments to the guild by its members, spanning two centuries. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Half of the ms. text was written in the C17. This ms. provides a fascinating picture of the small community of bakers and millers who operated in Kladno. Whilst Prague had over 100 bakers in the early C17, it is reasonable to think a small town like Slany did not have more than 10 (Jan‚àö¬∞ ek,  Dejiny obchodu ). Bakers and millers were, historically, connected professions; in smaller cities, as here, they could share the same corporation or confraternity (Patkova,  Bratrstvie , 122). Bakers could employ their own millers to grind flour which could only be used for making bread and not for sale as such (Winter,  Remeslnictvo , 643-44). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The baker Adam Sobotka, and the millers Jan Oliwa, the Jira_eks, Jan and Waclaw Kozak and the Cynt family are among those mentioned in the first half of the C17. Their names appear with others at the bottom of several annotations, as they were, in turn, part of the company s council, renewed every year (Lacina,  Pameti , 60). Their businesses were interconnected. For instance, we know that Adam Sobotka and his wife Dorota bought a bakery from Jan Jira_ek in 1594; Dorota later sold it after Adam s death (Lacina,  Pameti , 292). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Each entry features the year, the date, a brief summary of the occasion of specific payments or donations to the company. Many are concerned with the company s devotional activities, some for specific feasts (e.g., St Lucas Evangelist or St John Nepomuk). In particular, in addition to cash payments, many record payments or donations in pounds of wax. Guilds typically owned chapels or chantries in churches, which they kept illuminated with expensive beeswax candles; the largest candles could weigh up to 30 pounds (Richardson,  Craft Guilds , 149). Members were required to contribute to expenses regularly, usually quarterly hence the regular but not too crowded entries in this ms. As here, wax was given for celebrations  for the dead  and  in good memory , to commemorate deceased members or relatives. In one case the money was donated by a furrier, outside the company, probably related to a member of the guild. Due to the high cost, payments in wax were also used as a punitive fine for the infringement of the company s regulations, including absence from commemorations, or upon someone s appointment to an office (Richardson,  Craft Guilds , 156-57), as happens in the ms. when Mathaus Ji_ka was introduced as a baker. Sometimes a different hand crossed out a note or added  solutum  or  dedit  (paid) below, meaning that this book was of official standing, but also for quick reference. Though the hands are many, they often repeat themselves in the course of a short period; also, in some notes the author refers to himself in the first person (e.g.,  the money was given to me ). He was probably treasurer in that year. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A fascinating insight into the life of the skilled artisan in early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[SLANY\/KLADNO.]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820342026575,"sku":"L1263","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-27at6.23.22PM.png?v=1782581118"},{"product_id":"conseillers-et-maitre-generaux-des-monnaies-1","title":"[CONSEILLERS ET MA‚àöéTRE GÉNÉRAUX DES MONNAIES.]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very good clean copy of the first edition of this lavishly illustrated work a scarce, important reference book issued by the Council of Finance of the Habsburgs. It was addressed to officers in charge of exchanging or collecting money. In addition to an initial section with regulations concerning their professional behaviour and knowledge, it provides a detailed and comprehensive catalogue of all existing coins, reproduced according to their actual size, which could be accepted in the Habsburg territories in the year 1633. The main purpose was to defy attempts of  agiotage  or financial fraud achieved by altering the value of money (hence the price of goods) as compared to received exchange rates (and the limits of market negotiation). The 1685 incredibly detailed (and never repeated) woodcuts provide faithful representations of the two sides of each gold or silver coin (whole, demy, quarter), as well as the exchange value in  estrelin ,  marq ,  once  and  aes , beginning with regional Habsburg currency from Flanders (e.g.,  franc ,  Pietre d or ,  Toison d or ) to Spain (e.g.,  Castilien d or ), and continuing with Portugal (e.g.,  grand Crusart  or  manuel ,  ducat ), England (e.g.,  noble ‚àö‚Ć la Rose ,  noble d Eduart ) and ducats from Germany, Poland and several parts of Italy. It also includes the  escudo San Tom é  or  santhom é , with the motto  INDIA TIBI CESSIT  colonial gold currency printed in Goa by the Portuguese starting from the mid-C16. 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They were ordered to report in person, within 3 (if in Italy) or 4 (if abroad) months, to the major guild of the Arte della Seta at Por Santa Maria. In case of no-show, they should immediately have their goods seized and permission would be granted to anyone to kill them without punishment. If the murderer was a bandit, he could be pardoned; if he wasn t, he could request pardon for a bandit. Those who showed up would not be asked to repay public or private debts for a year, or be prosecuted for their debts, but could not leave Florence again without a licence.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Giorgio Marescotti received an official ten-year privilege to print bandi in 1585, though he was never  stampatore ducale  (Biagiarelli, 318). For printers, the production of and trade in administrative  ordini  and  bandi  was  safe and abundant due to the high number of magistrates issuing ordnances, regulations, provisions, etc. which quickly expired and were quickly renewed  (Biagiarelli, 317-18).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[FLORENCE]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859628400975,"sku":"L3501","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3501-1.jpg?v=1781793801"},{"product_id":"strada-jacopo-de","title":"STRADA, Jacopo de.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A good copy of the first edition, second issue, of this attractively illustrated work on numismatics. It .features more than 450 woodcuts of coins and medals in clear impression, all with portraits of Roman .emperors beautifully designed in white on a black background. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Jacopo de Strada (1507-1588) was an Italian polymath and courtier. He started his career as a .goldsmith in Mantua, becoming a renowned architect, artist, antiquarian collector, art dealer and .advisor. He worked in the service of pope Paul III in Rome, and at the court of the Holy Roman .Emperors Ferdinand I, Maximillian II and Rudolf II. At Augsburg, he entered the circle of the rich art .patron Hans Jakob Fugger, to whom this work is dedicated. For Fugger, Strada also realised an .impressive suite of 2,000 drawings in pen and ink of Greek and Roman coins. His position at the .Emperors  court was high: there is a famous portrait of Strada by Titian (Kunsthistorisches Museum, .Vienna), in which he is depicted surrounded with coins and books, and another one by Tintoretto .(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n . Epitome thesauri antiquitatum  is a synthesis of Strada s life-long work on coins, and it  originated .in his own collection of coins and medals. It was printed as part of a projected work which was to .have been the culmination of his extensive research in European collections as well as his own. .Strada particularly notes in his preface to this Epitome the assistance he received from Guillaume Du .Choul and Jean Grolier, adding praise of Grolier s magnificent library  (Mortimer). Although, from .the title, coins appear to be the main object of this work and Strada talks about the numerous .examples he documented, this is not strictly a manual of numismatics. The author does not indicate .the coins  currency value, nor their size or weight. Instead, this is an interesting compilation of brief .biographies of rulers from Julius Cesar to Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, in which coins are used \u003cbr\u003e\n .as the source for the images. Strada s interest in coins is iconographical, and he focuses on describing the portraits, their symbolism and historical significance. The fine woodcuts were realised .by Bernard Salomon (1506 1561), a French painter and engraver specialised in illustrating emblem .books. Interestingly, in addition to emperors, the countless coins depicted in this work also show .portraits of wives and noblewomen, including Cleopatra VII. Strada was only interested in the .genuine material relics of the past and his choice of images indicates his ambition to provide .authentic sources: in the  Epitome  empty circles occasionally appear in lieu of the coins of those .rulers of whom he could not find a reliable numismatic image. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .From the prestigious numismatic library of Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2019), British art .historian and collector of fine historic numismatic books, coins and medals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STRADA, Jacopo de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859649208655,"sku":"L3842","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_8976.jpg?v=1781793726"},{"product_id":"reserved-11","title":"RESERVED","description":"\u003cp\u003eLavishly coloured, handsomely bound copy of this masterpiece of Renaissance numismatics. This copy features an additional etched, hand-coloured frontispiece with the same armorial design as the gilt centrepieces on the covers. The escutcheon‚Äî‚Äòd‚Äôargent √† la fasce de gules, acc. en chef d‚Äôun lion naissant de sable, mouvant de la fasce‚Äô (Rietstap, ‚ÄòArmorial général‚Äô, 329)‚Äîis probably that of the Norroy family in Berry. (According to Rietstap, the double-queued tail can be a variation on the single-queued, without indicating any specific heraldic differences.) At the time, the bearer of the arms was Jean de Norroy (d. after 1570), seigneur de Lestang and chevalier de l‚ÄôOrdre de Saint-Michel (‚ÄòArchives généalogiques‚Äô, 58). His seat was the Castle of Orbigny in the Val de Loire; nothing else is known about him except a few mentions in notarial documents. The bordure in gules and ermine may indicate a younger branch of the family or a reference to the maternal line. The crest and the cornerpieces feature thunderbolts modelled after the iconography of ancient Roman deities; the person who designed the binding was well-acquainted with classical antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eHubertus Goltzius (1526-83) was a Flemish painter and engraver trained in classical art by his father, a German artist. He worked for 12 years on this compendium of Roman imperial coins and medals, from Julius Caesar to the Holy Roman Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand, which he had seen in the collection of Antwerp humanists including the geographer Cornelius Grapheus and the antiquarian Marc Laurin, Duke of Watervliet. The first edition was published in Spanish in 1550; Italian, German and Latin translations followed in 1557, urged by the great success of the work. This is the second Italian edition, which bears a slightly different title. Goltzius‚Äôs work displayed the first combined use of copperplate and woodblocks engraved following the chiaroscuro technique‚Äîits first appearance in a book. The woodcutter, Josse Gietleughen of Courtrai, prepared two blocks for each etched image: ‚Äòa darker tone provide[d] the background for the effigy, a lighter tone the flesh-tone and the background for the inscription, and the white of the paper the highlights‚Äô (‚ÄòPrinting Colour 1400-1700‚Äô, 154). In this copy changes in degrees of ochre, brown and green between plates well illustrate the ongoing experimentation with chiaroscuro printing. Each medallion is surmounted by a motto summarising the virtues and vices of the individual emperor and preceded by a short account of his deeds. The annotator, who wrote in French and Italian, was interested in the dates of the emperors‚Äô accessions, which he noted on the margins, and on religious references (e.g., the appearance of the ‚ÄòAntichristo‚Äô Mahomet among the Saracens under Heraclius and that the Kings of England ‚Äòare now all heretics and excommunicated‚Äô).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RESERVED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859661070671,"sku":"L3027","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3027-2.jpg?v=1781793701"},{"product_id":"morisot-claude-barthelemy","title":"MORISOT, Claude Barth élemy.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine copy, crisp and clean, of the first and only edition, first issue, of this lavishly illustrated Americanum,  the first naval history, a veritable naval encyclopaedia  (Borba de Moraes). The French Neo-Latin poet Claude Barth élemy Morisot (1592-1661) is especially renowned for his alchemical allegory.  Orbis Maritimi  is an encyclopaedia of the sea, navigation, maritime customs and folklore   a fundamental source on maritime law, like Cleriac s (1647), and travel. Book I is devoted to ancient times, prefaced by a handsome engraving of an ancient  naumachia , a popular spectacle, whereby a theatre was flooded and small ships faced one another in a choreographed battle. ..The account begins with the obscure ..origins of navigation and the invention of ships, ancient myths of navigation (e.g., Jason), the most important ancient Greek and Roman sea battles, with observations on the kinds of vessels used, how victors at sea were honoured on return, and maritime spectacles staged in ancient cities. The section on ancient hydrography is a description of the seas, coasts and coastal cities of antiquity, based on ancient sources and providing the modern equivalent of historic place names. It is illustrated with several half-page maps, based on De Bry, including the Iberian peninsula, Britain and Ireland, sundry parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Greece. Book II proceeds through the medieval period, analysing major sea battles by the Gauls, Normans, Britons, Germans, Russians, Poles, and so on, down to Morisot s times. A couple of sections focus on England, with a summary of key maritime battles since antiquity, and a discussion of C16 maritime policy (e.g., Thomas Seymour as Lord Admiral), voyages (e.g., Francis Drake and Raleigh in the Americas), and early colonies (e.g., Thomas Gates and Thomas Hamond in Virginia, and the establishment of Nova Scotia). Morisot continues with a critique of John Selden s  Mare Clausum , a theory of territorial waters. Morisot provides illustrations of medieval or contemporary coins or medals representing the king or emperor through maritime iconography. Among the numerous voyages that are mentioned are also Columbus s 1492 voyage, followed by Spanish explorations of South America, de Veer s expedition to the Antarctic, Magellan s explorations in the southern hemisphere, and Portuguese travels in Brazil and Asia. The accounts are factual and detailed, peppered with anecdotes and maritime folklore. 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Each portrait comprises a roundel, set in an elaborate classical architectural scene, bearing the side profile of each woman, accompanied by her title. Their hair is dressed in the contemporary fashion, following authentic Roman numismatic material, though the engravings are elevated to a higher degree of detail, as seen in the ornate plaits, thanks to the greater precision allowed by the medium as compared to coinage. A few roundels are blank, likely due to the lack of numismatic source material, including Cossutia, the first wife of Caesar, Servilia, the first wife of Augustus, and the daughters of Agrippa and Drusus, both named Julia. In addition to the portraits, there are also some engravings of other coins which were minted during their lifetime. Agrippina the Younger s apparition on the obverse of two coins, together with her son Nero, is particularly striking.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Each engraving is accompanied by a corresponding biography, both executed by Vico. The biographies differ largely in length, depending on the attention given to each individual in the ancient sources. At the beginning of the book, Vico lists his all his sources, looking to historians, poets, playwrights, satirists, and philosophers to retrieve biographical information. Livia, Messalina and both Agrippina the Elder and Younger are treated with particular attention. 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The 1629 harvest was uninspiring, and 1630 terrible; the price of wheat rose from 38 shillings in 1629 to 54 shillings in 1630. This work is a collection of orders to the justices of the peace dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. As the proclamation itself notes, this was largely an expansion of similar orders and reforms to the poor laws made by Elizabeth I and James I. Among other requirements, the orders mandated that corn be sold in an open market and that justices of the peace be present to ensure fair prices and prevent hoarding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‚ÄúUnder Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts the central government through the Privy Council increased its intervention in nearly every aspect of the English economy. The distribution of grain, which had always been subject to local restriction and control, became governed by an increasingly elaborate centralized machinery. Marking what N. S. B. Gras called ‚Äúthe apogee of paternalism‚Äù in the history of the English grain trade, the first Book of Orders for the relief of dearth was issued in early 1587 It attributed the high price of grain to hoarding and outlined detailed instructions regarding the disposition of private stocks in crisis periods. As in other areas of royal regulation much was expected of local justices of the peace, who were responsible for particular county divisions. They were to organize juries consisting of ‚Äúhonest and substantial‚Äù citizens who were preferably not also large grain stockholders. The juries were to discover and report the stores of grain of each stockholder, the number of persons living in each house, and the number of acres to be sown that year. Justices were then to estimate the individual stocks held in excess of household use and seed requirements and bind the owners to bring the excess to local markets for sale at ‚Äúconvenient and charitable‚Äù prices. Market transactions were to be carefully observed, and justices were required to submit monthly reports informing the council of measures take in accordance with the orders and relating the current state of affairs. The dearth orders were issued in each subsequent crisis period until the revolution of the 1640‚Ķ Recent work by Robert Fogel provides strong support for the view that the Tudor policy was both a necessary and effective method of famine relief. Fogel argues that the dearth orders eliminated famine during the period they were effectively enforced and that continuation of the program would have prevented two centuries of unnecessary famine episodes.‚Äù Randall Nielsen. ‚ÄòStorage and English Government Intervention in Early Modern Grain Markets‚Äô.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA very good copy of this important work of great social and economic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[CHARLES I].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868702449999,"sku":"L4224\/2","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_5570.jpg?v=1781793439"},{"product_id":"james-i-5","title":"[JAMES I.]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA good large copy of this important collection of  Orders  by James I intended to regulate the grain market during a time of famine, following the poor harvest of 1622. The original order was published in 1608 but re-issued following the more recent period of dearth. Books of orders were issued on several different occasions, including famine, poverty and plague epidemics. The text records a number of orders to the Justices to ensure the fair and lawful sale of grain and all associated products, such as bread, beer and ale. This includes provisions that all corn brought to market cannot go unsold and cannot subsequently be sold outside the town and faulty bread be sold to the poor to provide relief. Furthermore, millers are unable to become buyers of corn nor sell meal.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts the central government through the Privy Council increased its intervention in nearly every aspect of the English economy. The distribution of grain, which had always been subject to local restriction and control, became governed by an increasingly elaborate centralized machinery. Marking what N. S. B. Gras called  the apogee of paternalism  in the history of the English grain trade, the first Book of Orders for the relief of dearth was issued in early 1587 It attributed the high price of grain to hoarding and outlined detailed instructions regarding the disposition of private stocks in crisis periods. As in other areas of royal regulation much was expected of local justices of the peace, who were responsible for particular county divisions. They were to organize juries consisting of  honest and substantial  citizens who were preferably not also large grain stockholders. The juries were to discover and report the stores of grain of each stockholder, the number of persons living in each house, and the number of acres to be sown that year. Justices were then to estimate the individual stocks held in excess of household use and seed requirements and bind the owners to bring the excess to local markets for sale at  convenient and charitable  prices. Market transactions were to be carefully observed, and justices were required to submit monthly reports informing the council of measures take in accordance with the orders and relating the current state of affairs. The dearth orders were issued in each subsequent crisis period until the revolution of the 1640   (R. 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The present treatise is groundbreaking in its use of coins, medals and emblems to illustrate historical events. Beginning in 1500 with Louis XII of France and ending in 1599 with Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Luck's historical treatise uses the portraits and scenes depicted on the coins and medals that it reproduces (in chronological order) as starting-points for biographical discussions of the century's most important rulers and for historical treatments of its most memorable battles and political events. This fascinating work constitutes a history of sixteenth-century Europe told through coins. \"In Luck s text, coins are the driving evidentiary force for a history of Europe in the years 1500 to 1600, serving not as mere material footnotes but as a narrative itinerary for epochal events.\" (Stielau) \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.While many of the coins reproduced in this work were in Luck's collection, others are reproduced from the earlier work .Symbola divina et humana pontificium, imperatorum, regum. by Jacob Typot (1540-1601). The present copy is in the first state (USTC 2137262) without the added poems in praise of the author, and with the preface in its original setting. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.Nicolas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721) was a royal administrator in the reign of Louis XIV and a renowned antiquarian and bibliophile. He was educated at a Jesuit college and graduated in canon and civil law at Orl éans in 1665. From 1674 to 1706, he held administrative posts successively in Montauban, Pau, Poitiers and Caen; most notably he was appointed master of requests (Ma‚àö√Ütre des requ‚àö‚Ñ¢tes) by the king in 1674 and held this position for twenty years. Throughout this time, Foucault displayed an interest in art and archeology and assembled a fine collection of rare books and manuscripts, antique figures, medals and coins, most of which had been discovered in France. \"Sa collection de manuscrits   comprenait, entre autres, cent vingt-trois livres d heures, dont celles de Ren é d Anjou, des bibles, des cartulaires et un riche ensemble de pi√®ces sur l histoire, le droit public et l administration de la France, r éunies en 180 volumes in-folio. Ses s éries numismatiques n  étaient pas moins c él√®bres. Lorsqu il d écida de s en s éparer, en 1708, sa collection comptait autour de quinze mille monnaies, toutes antiques, soit autant, par exemple, que celle de Christine de Su√®de.\" (Avisseau-Broustet) In his old age, however, Foucault was forced to sell off his collections and his library was in part dispersed before his death (it appeared on the market from 1715 onwards).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LUCK, Johann Jacob.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868706120015,"sku":"L4436","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_5359.jpg?v=1781793433"},{"product_id":"le-pois-antoine-2","title":"LE POIS, Antoine.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very good copy of the first French edition of this beautifully illustrated treatise on Roman numismatics. In the manner of Vico and Erizzo, it was the first French work in its field to rely on the author s personal collection rather than ancient sources. Antoine Le Pois (1525-1578) was a French physician and passionate numismatist. He studied under Jacques Dubois, the scholar turned anatomist who was the first to teach the anatomy of the human corpse in France. Once Le Pois had returned to Nancy, he began his collection and, as physician, entered the service of Charles III, beloved Duke of Lorraine and a fellow coin enthusiast who had funded his education. His brother, Nicolas Le Pois, also received funding, and was responsible for the work s posthumous publication and explicit dedication to the duke. \u003cbr\u003e\n In the preface, Antoine muses on pursuits which mix utility and delight then frankly analyses the merits of coin collecting; although the greed of collectors and the constituent materials of the objects themselves can render it disadvantageous, it can also offer invaluable insight into the practices of antiquity. This use of coins as historical evidence, already recognised by Petrarch in the 14th century, is now declared by Le Pois to be especially helpful when trying to visualise structures, ornaments, and implements which survive elsewhere only in textual format (so he formulates a hypothesis on how the elusive diadem might have looked) or, indeed, not at all. Organised in thematic groupings, the main text discusses coins whose accumulation paints the story of Rome from its early days of rape and fratricide to emperors broadcasting their piety and pioneering exotic conquests. The celebrated full-page illustration of Priapus, one of four concluding medals, unusually has been neither mutilated nor removed. The importance of this is affirmed by Debure:  Il est difficile d en trouver des exemplaires bien complet. Il faut, sur-tout, avoir attention ‚àö‚Ć la figure d un PRIAPE ( ), parceque cette figure a  ét é souvent g‚àö¬¢t ée, ou m‚àö‚Ñ¢me supprim ée entierement par des personnes ‚àö‚Ć qui elle avoit paru trop ind écente  (Debure, Bibliographie instructive, II, 1768, p. 322). \u003cbr\u003e\n The monogram of the illustrator, Pierre Woeiriot, appears within the portrait which prefaces the text. Woeiriot also engraved Phalaris  Bull among other historical scenes of antiquity and illustrated both the Old Testament and a work by Georgette de Montenay, the mother of Good King Henry. Previous owners include Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000), the sexually liberal but politically conservative French author and diplomat, and the lawyer and collector Silvain S. Brunschwig. \u003cbr\u003e\n Charles Lormes (1825-1900) was one of the founding members of the Soci ét é des Bibliophiles normands in 1863. His fine library was dispersed in 1901 (this being lot 938).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LE POIS, Antoine.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868712902991,"sku":"L4376","price":4250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Le-Pois-L4376-5.jpg?v=1781793391"},{"product_id":"peto-luca","title":"PETO, Luca.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of this eclectic and entertaining antiquarian study of Roman and Greek weights and measures, including those still used in Rome at the time, first published in folio in the same year. The woodcuts show amphorae of various sizes, weights and rulers, and two reliefs depicting Roman farmers using amphorae and carrying weights on their wagons with oxen. Peto, who litters his account with literary references to Plautus, Crispian, Martial, Virgil, Tibullus, etc., notes that the ancient Greek system of measures originated with doctors and veterinarians (hippoiatricorum), which he relates to the Roman system used chiefly for liquids such as olive oil, hence the illustrations of amphorae. Peto dedicates a section on the differences between the Romano-Julian and the modern Gregorian calendars to a well-known medical doctor, Alexander Petronius.  \u003cbr\u003e\n Besides his medical interests   Peto was in fact chiefly a lawyer, as he is described in this book   there is a proudly Roman emphasis on Peto s work: one section relates extracts from Pliny and Virgil s Georgics to the  quality  of two years, 1569 and 1570, describing the weather and agricultural conditions in Rome; in 1569 there was an abundance of pigs of great fatness, as had not been seen in a decade. Peto describes the modern designations for olive oil, pettitus, medius, folietta and congitella, as well as the local Roman designations, the aridorum: rublus, rublitella, quarta, scortius, semiscortius, quartucius, etc. There is a section on the restoration of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct by Pope Pius IV, which appeared as a separate work in 1570, with reproductions of ancient inscriptions; the dedication is to his successor Pius V. Finally, there follow Quintus Rhemnus Fannius Palaemon s  songs  on weights and measures, first published in a compendium of medical works in 1528, who is quoted liberally throughout the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PETO, Luca.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868715852111,"sku":"L4791","price":2950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Peto-L4791-1.jpg?v=1781793378"},{"product_id":"la-barthe-abbe-de","title":"[LA BARTHE, Abb é de].","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A rich and fascinating late eighteenth-century French manuscript containing lectures on physics delivered in 1762 at the Academy of Sciences in Paris by Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770), apparently belonging to a characterful French Enlightenment intellectual, with further extensive notes on physics, including diagrams and tables, as well as medicinal receipts and accounts. Part of the manuscript refers to the management of the Ferme de Monziols or Marvejols in Loz√®re, southern France, owned by the la Barthe family (the name appears on p. 200 in this manuscript as the name given to some land undergoing  ameliorations ); construction of the property was begun in 1702 and completed in 1725. The Abb é la Barthe (1721-1801), who inherited in 1759, studied in Auvergne and Paris   presumably mathematics and physics   before serving as an artillery officer in the War of the Austrian Succession; on the pastedown he records buying a book in 1767  chez Jombert libraire , i.e. the Parisian bookseller Charles-Antoine Jombert (1712-84), who specialised in books on military science and artillery. In Paris, La Barthe associated with intellectuals including Charles Marie de la Condamine (1701-74), French explorer, mathematician and contributor to Diderot s Encyclop édie. Though the book is not signed anywhere by la Barthe, the dates fit perfectly, as does the scientific and experimental nature of the manuscript s contents, revealing a fascination with scientific methodology and instruments, as well as its content referring to intellectual Parisian life and the running of Monziols. The book itself was evidently made and sold by a stationer in Montpellier. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The dates of the manuscript accord closely with La Barthe s inheritance of Monziols in 1759, since the earliest record in his hand is from 1758, detailing the 9-month process of teaching a canary to sing a fanfare. If not in Paris already, la Barthe was certainly in the city by 1762, since in this year he recorded Nollet s lectures, apparently using a different, more careful hand:  Extrait des leçons de physique experimentale faittes par M. l Abb é Nolet [sic] de l Academie des Sciences 1762.  Jean-Antoine Nollet is known for being the first to observe osmosis and for his outlandish experiments with electricity, which included electrocuting a boy hanging from the ceiling by silk cords, and simultaneously electrocuting two hundred monks to prove conductivity. He was the leading populariser of science in C18th France and aimed to increase public scientific knowledge through his lectures. The notes here include a description and diagram of Nollet s anemometer for measuring wind and cover the properties of water as ice, vapour and seawater, fire (described as a  fluid  element), use of the Marmite de Papin, i.e. pressure cooker, etc. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Possibly by 1769 La Barthe was back at Monziols, since a note refers to building works undertaken in that year. The extensive notes on physics and mechanics, as well as receipts for medical and gastronomic recipes, are indicators of La Barthe s interest in running his estate; an index describes the contents. There are several pages of notes  from experience  on fixing pendulums in clocks, La Barthe complaining that the distance to Paris poses a challenge for small-town amateur horologists. Extensive notes on thermometers, partially derived from the Scottish physician George Martine s work, published 1766, include historically aberrant temperatures recorded in European cities and the ideal temperatures for growing exotic plants including pineapples; La Barthe also records changes to the mercury in his de Luc barometer in accordance with weather events in 1797. He notes a  secret  for cleaning telescopes. There are notes, with calculations, referring to Mathurin Jacques Brisson s experiments at the Academy of Sciences on the  specific weight  (pesanteur) of bodies such as gold and silver in water, vinegar, etc. He records the prices of art materials including pencils, pigments and papers and notes recipes for inks, including a  perpetual ink.  The medicinal receipts include remedies for children and horses and an elixir for long life; there are extensive lists of prices of medicinal drugs, pills, syrups, etc., some for a specific druggist, M. Grand of Montpellier. Gastronomic receipts include hams, cakes, pat és, lemonade, honey and gooseberry jelly, etc. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Perhaps most interesting are the hand-coloured illustrations, possibly La Barthe s own invention, depicting  mechanical or philosophical  stoves capable of heating two rooms using the same amount of wood usually required to heat one, with depictions of the outside brick structures and the internal airflow (pp. 255-258). The large full-page diagram is a design for a particular folding box. After La Barthe s death the manuscript continued to be used in the running of the estate; there are several pp. of early nineteenth-century notes in a different hand, record matters relating to livestock farming and to the prices of grain, etc., many going back to the early C17th, copied from other accounts.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.. .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[LA BARTHE, Abbé de].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868723257679,"sku":"L4340","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"vitruvius-and-agricola-georgius-ed-philandrier-guillaume","title":"VITRUVIUS and AGRICOLA, Georgius, ed. 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The commentary of the French architect Guillaume Philandrier on Vitruvius was one of the most influential, and is accompanied in this edition by his epitome of Georgius Agricola s De mensuris et ponderibus, first published 1533, which was intended to be used alongside that work, allowing readers to navigate it according to categories of measurement including liquid and dry, medical and veterinary, Greek and Roman, etc. It was also useful without recourse to Agricola s work, however, since it clearly lays out the divisions of larger measurements into smaller. There follow two indexes to Vitruvius of Roman and Greek words. .\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n..Oswald von Eck, who most likely commissioned the binding, was the son of the German humanist Leonard von Eck (1480-1550), tutor of Duke William IV and chancellor of Bavaria. Oswald studied at the universities of Ingoldstadt, of which he became rector in 1539, and Bologna. He was involved in the Ortenburg Nobles  Conspiracy to introduce Protestantism to Bavaria, after which he fell into serious debt and at his death in 1573 his goods, including his library, were auctioned off. The majority of his books were purchased by Erasmus Neustetter (d. 1594) and several are now in the W√ºrttemberg State Library..\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003cbr\u003e\n.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VITRUVIUS and AGRICOLA, Georgius, ed. 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This was his earliest published work of numismatics, and was,  in its size and scale ‚Äö without precedent in the field of numismatics  (ibid., p. 31).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGoltzius's catalogue inhabits a common trope employed by countless humanists and antiquarians of the period: adjoining the Habsburg dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors to an historical account of the ancient Roman emperors. Goltzius, however, added the element of basing portraits of the emperors on their portrayals on coins, his putative numismatic evidence (which cannot have always been strictly accurate) lending credence to the idea of a continuous Roman imperatorial lineage. Initially the series was to include 148 medallions, but a number remained uncompleted for the first three editions. In the Latin edition, presumably the earliest, Goltzius employed an etched line block to provide the outlines, and one or two tone blocks depending on the colouring. In this edition, however, a number of the medallions are printed using a woodcut line block and only one tone block, which removed the need for printing on two presses (one for the etched block and another for the woodblocks), and reduced the number of runs through the press. Van Mander stated that the etched line blocks were made by Goltzius himself, and the woodblocks by Joos Gietleughen (Bialler).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis was an impeccably well-researched book, as demonstrated by the long catalogue of authors cited, in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German. Goltzius begins with an historical catalogue of the triumphs won by consuls and triumvirs of ancient Rome, from the foundation of the city by Romulus to the death of Augustus. This is followed by a quote from Ammianus Marcellinus, the ancient Roman soldier in the army of Julian the Apostate. Each coin portrait is then accompanied by a brief life of the emperor in question, compiled from these sources. 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At the end are reprinted Josse Bade’s notes from the prior edition, published by him in 1532, which also carried a colophon declaring its authorisation by Budé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePriscian was the most significant Latin grammarian to survive from antiquity. His most important work is this famous Latin grammar, the 18 books of the Institutionis Grammatices. This is followed by a number of shorter works, one on Roman weights and measures, along with: the elements of rhetoric, De constructione et ordinatione partium orationis; on Latin accents; his commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid; his translation of Hermogenes of Tarsus on rhetoric; his commentary on comic verses; works on the metre of Terence, metre used in rhetoric, and his commentary on Rufinus; and on the declination of nouns and pronouns, conjugations, and participles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI: ‘… beaucoup corrigée et augmentée … un beau volume’ (Renouard).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BUDÉ, Guillaume. 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