Athenian Law.- Petit (Samuel) Leges Atticæ, first edition, Roman and some Greek type, title printed in red and black and with large engraved printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, é4 blank, some foxing, occasional staining, mostly lightly browned, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, short split to vellum at head of upper joint, very small tape repair to lower cover, little staining, folio, Paris, Charles Morel, 1635. *** First edition of Samuel Petit’s important and handsomely printed study of ancient Athenian law, dedicated to Francis Auguste de Thou, the son of Jacques. Petit was a distinguished classical scholar and orientalist, and professor of Greek and later principal of the Collège des Arts at Nîmes.