Lyon, Chouet, 1607. 4to. In contenmporary full vellum. Binding with wear, soiling and miscolouring. Back board with wormholes and corner and and head and foot of spine with loss of vellum. Title-page with light soiling and previous owner's name in contemporary hand. Small dampstain to upper margin, but internally generally nice and clean. (16), 1172, (22) pp.
Rare first edition of Favre’s commentary on Roman jurist Papinian, one of the founding jurists at the school of law at Beirut in the second century. Here Favre attempts to present and analyse all the rules of Roman laws in a scientific and systematic way.