FUNDAMENTAL STRUVE'S BIBLIOGRAPHY, BEING A SELECTED LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS THAT A LAW LIBRARY MUST HAVE

Struve, Burkhard Gotthelf. Bibliotheca selectissima juris accedunt Hen. Contelmanni adnotatonesubi praestantiora jurisconsultorum opera ad nostra usque tempora referuntur. Lavsannae, Sumptibus Friderici Redelii, 1762.

4to (223x160 mm), stiff vellum binding, handwritten author name and the note Biblioth. Select. at spine, edges sprayed in red ink, ff. [2, last blank],vij, [1], 100. Red and black titlepage, xylographic headletters.

Struve's fundamental bibliographic guide to law books.

The work was edited by Migliorotto Maccioni, who signed the annotation under the pseudonym of Enrico Contelmanno. Maccioni, law teacher, commented many classical work of jurisprudence, and, among them, the present edition that was reissued five time before 1765, alone or as an appendix to work by Thomasinus or Heinecke. In the introduction he summarizes the Italian dispute on Pandettes between two important jurists of that time, B. Tanucci and G. Grandi, lining up with the first.

Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (1671-1738) was a German jurist, born in Weimar. He obtained theprofessorship in Jena where he was appointed librarian of the local University. All his publications are related to juridical bibliography. Henricus Coltemannus, real name Migliorotto Maccioni (1732-1811) was a jurist, teacher of Civil Law in Pavia and, at the end of his career he became deputy director at the Pisa University . He organized the famous Averani’s library, base of the current Pisa university library.

References: ICCU, IT\ICCU\RMGE\000091. OCLC locates only two copies in USA of this edition (Harvard Law School Library and University of Michigan).

A fine copy.