THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE THE MARITIME LAW

BALDASSERONI, ASCANIO. Delle assicurazioni marittime trattato dell'avvocato Ascanio Baldasseroni. Tom. 1. [-3. e ultimo]. In Firenze : nella Stamperia Bonducciana, 1786

3 volumes in 4to, contemporary paperboards with handwritten title at spine, pp. VI, 414; IV, 527; IX, 832, 28 (index).
Beautiful engraved devices at title-pages.

Scarce first edition of Baldasseroni's exhaustive treatise on maritime law that takes into consideration the insurance contracts referring, through a wide exemplification, the doctrine and law of several European countries —also giving as appendix the texts of the laws and current customs of maritime insurance in Europe.

Ascanio Baldasseroni (Livorno 1751-Florence 1824) was an Italian jurist.He also published a Dizionario ragionato di giurisprudenza marittima e di commercio(1810-13) a kind of institution of maritime and commercial law, also considering the French commercial code recently introduced in Italy.
These works, that represented the first attempt of an organic arrangement of maritime law. After the great success of his works, Italian and European scholars and politicians often turned to Livorno by Baldasseroni for legal opinions, arbitration awards and recommendations for legislative reforms.

Provenance: Stamp of a nobiliary ring at title-pages.

References: Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13258. OCLC 65353081.

A very fine, complete untrimmed and unsophisticated set, in its original binding.