LAST AND BEST EDITION OF FOLIGNI'S TREATISE ON REAL PROPERTY AND LONG LEASE CONTRACTS

[Long lease] Foligni, Francesco (Fulgineo, Francesco). Francisci Fulginei […] Tractatus de iure emphyteutico, in quo quaestiones omnes, quae ad materiam spectant, titulis apte distinctis, adamussim discutiuntur & enucleantur. Hac vltima editione non solum expurgatior, […] sed etiam communiorum, et receptiorum quarumcumque opinionum incidentium adnotatione, […] auctus. Genevae (Geneve): apud Leonardum Chouet (Chouet, Léonard), 1665.

Folio (cm 35 x 22), contemporary full vellum (water stains at the boards), with five raised bands spine, handwritten title at spine; pp. [12], 373 [i.e. 399], [57]; p. 399 is wrongly numbered 373. Text in Latin in two columns.
Title-page in red and black types, with a wide device representing the crowned salamander resurging by the flames. Engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved headletters.
Author’s dedicace to the cardinal Antonio Barberini.

Ultimate edition of main Foligni's treatises, regarding long lease contracts, that was reprinted until late 19th century.

The work deals with all the aspects regarding the long lease contract (also called, with the juridical term, enphyteusis), as to say the contract granting the use of a land for a long period receiving as payment a part of the profit (money or natural products) gained by it. The work is presented as a practical book, structured under the form of quaestiones (questions) with their punctual responses. An alphabetical index is added, to easily find the needed questions.

Francesco Foligni (Fulgineo)(m. 1647), a lawyer and noble man from Foligno, was also apostholic protonotary and general curate of the cathedral of his town.

References: ICCU\RMGE\000092. OCLC: 15052123 (locates two copies in USA) and 83753589 (locates a copy in USA at the University of California Berkeley Law Library).

Waterstains and some usual brownings; overall, an honest copy.