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FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF A FOUNDING TEXT OF THE COMMERCIAL LAWScaccia,...
FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF A FOUNDING TEXT OF THE COMMERCIAL LAW
Scaccia, Sigismundus. Sigismundi Scacciae ... Tractatus de commerciis et cambio : In quo non minus opportune, quam iuxta occasionem copiose tractatur de mora, interesse, vsura, solemnitate scripturae, asse in pondere, & valore, de moneta, solutionibus, oblatione, deposito, praescriptionibus, compensationibus, iurium cessionibus, delegationibus, adiudicatione nominis debitoris, hypotheca, adiecto, manifestatione, cessione bonorum, legitimatione personarum, curatore dando haereditati, & de modo procedendi in causis cambiorum.Coloniae (i. e. Cologne, Köln in German language): Boëtzer, 1620.
Folio, contemporary stiff vellum with six raised bands and handwritten title on lower edge, ff. [4], pp. 507, ff. [42].
Scarce first German imprint and second absolute edition of the fundamental treatise «On Commerce and Exchange» for the companies law, published for the first time in Rome by Brogiotti in 1619, that became an indispensable tool for commerce and earned Scaccia a long-lasting fame.
References: OCLC 645068230.
R. de Laurentiis, Sigismondo Scaccia (1564?-1634) fra pratica e teoria giuridica agli inizi dell'età moderna, in: «Rivista di storia del diritto italiano», 1991, vol. LXIV, pp. 282 e 287.
See also the following lot, another copy of the same edition.