RAEVAERTS, JACOB. Iacobi Raeuardi Brugensis iurisconsulti egregii et antecessoris Duacaeni Opera quae reperiri potuerunt omnia : in tomos II digesta : cum indice rerum, verborum & authorum locupletissimo.. Francofurti, typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1601.

8vo (170x106 mm), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin binding, four bands spine, pp. 1043, 21.
Nine title pages,one for each of the works contained in the collection, two printer’s devices.

Uncommon first edition of Raevaerts’s collected works.

Born in Bruges, Jacob Raevarts studied first in Leuven, then in Orleans, were he got his doctorate in Civil Law. He came back in his homeland where he taught in Douai university for a long time and where he became Dean. Despite his early death he left a huge production of law works, and among them we highlight a wide commentary to Digesto, titled De regulis iuris, an important monographic treatise on adverse possession and a wide treatise de iuris ambiguitatibus, aiming to solve the most important disputes present in the Justinian’s commentary of the time.

References: OCLC locates 10 copies worldwide, 2 in USA (Library of the Congress and Yale).

A very fine copy, in its original binding.