Quinta Pars Relationum Edwardi Coke Equitis aurati, Regiy Attornati Generalis : De variys Resolutionibus & Indicys, magna & matura deliberatione in rebus permagni momenti & ponderis…/ The Fift [sic] Part [Fifth Part] of the Reports of Sr. Edward Coke Knight, the Kings Attorney General : Of divers Resolutions and Iudgements given upon great deliberation, in matters of great importance & consequence by the reverend Iudges and Sages of the Law ; together with the reasons and causes of their Resolutions and Iudgements.
Original Bilingual Edition in Latin and English. London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1605. Quarto (19.5 cm wide x 29.3 cm high). [7], 41, 127, [2] pages. Original full leather on five raised bands. Original binding of the 17th century. Poor condition of the binding. Some fraying to the titlepage. Front pastedown missing but text complete with both endpapers. Annotated throughout in an old hand (possibly by Andrea Morrogh). Quite some wormhole-damage throughout to several pages but limited to only the outer margins of some pages without text being affected. Overall the typography and the paper-quality excellent and mostly clean. Pages mainly loose but only due the stitching of the five raised bands being separated. Name on endpaper in ink: “Ex libris Andrea Morrogh”, possibly of the Morrogh family of Inis Beg Morrogh (County Cork). Later from the library of Richard Meade in Ballymartle (near Kinsale).
EUR 2.800,--
