(1517). CHASSENEUX (Barthélémy de). COMMENTARIA... IN CONSUE - Lot 78

(1517). CHASSENEUX (Barthélémy de). COMMENTARIA... IN CONSUETUDINES DUCATUS BURGUNDIE PRINCIPALITER, ET TOTIUS FERE GALLIE CONSECUTIVE. Lyon, Jacques Marechal for Simon Vincent, September 17, 1517. In-4° gothic, [14]-382 leaves, tan calf, boards decorated with embossed designs, spine rebound (period binding). Rare first edition of the first coutumier relating to the Duchy of Burgundy. Autun-born lawyer Barthélémy de Chasseneux (1480-1541) offers in his treatise the model and principal source of French customary law, which was adopted until the introduction of the Napoleonic Code. The work was reprinted countless times. Fine two-column Lyon printing with running titles in French, illustrated with a large woodcut title in red and black, repeated on folio 12, 2 small repeated engravings showing the author offering the work to François I, 2 historiated initials and finally a full-page compartment woodcut on the verso of the last folio with the name of Symon Vincent. A good copy, the spine well executed (USTC, 84492, 1 ex.) (Baudrier XI, 398).