RARE FIRST EDITION OF MARESCOTTI'S REPERTORY OF LAWSUITS
ONLY ONE COPY IN USA

Marescotti, Ercole. Variarum Resolutionum, Liber Primus, & Secundus. Inquibus selectiores Utriusque iuris materiae tam beneficiales, quam prophanae, quae apud omnia tribunalia frequentius in disputationem veniunt; necnon dubia, & quaestiones, [...] adducuntur [...]. Romae, Ex Typographia, & Sumptibus Aegydii Spadae, 1614.

Two volumes bound together, folio (313x215 mm), vellum binding with handwritten titles at spine, boards enriched by handcolored paper, edges sprayed in red and blue ink, ff. [20], 224, [4], 307, [145]. Titlepages printed in red and black, xylographic Cardinals coat of arms, typographical small hands at margins, xylographical decorations and headletters along the volume, text on two columns.

Scarce first edition of Resolutiones by Marescotti, that provides jurists, magistrates and students with a collection of real cases from Inheritance Law to Emphyteusis, from Commercial to Civil Law.

Ercole Marescotti (m. 1621) was a famous Italian jurisconsultant, belonging to an old noble family from Bologna.

Provenance: at titlepages sepia ink handwritten ownership signatures, Ex Libris de Vincentij de Ravanis I.C. beside the coat of arms.

Bibliography: Fontana, pars I, col. 621. Not in Sapori, that only mentions the Venetian edition of 1625 (I, 1784), the only Marescotti’s work present in the catalogue. OCLC 427998602 locates in USA only the copy at University of Michigan Law Library.

Ancient, neat repairs to the first leaves and light foxing, but overall a good copy.