CARBEN, Johannes Petrus von.
Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de beneficio cessionis vulgo vom weiblichen Recht.
Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1727. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, blind-tooled spine, gold-tooled sides, gilt edges; with a later crowned cypher ainted in silver on the front board and a coat of arms painted in silver on the back. [4], 62 pp.
€ 1,750
Very rare first and only edition of a dissertation on the rights of women by Johannes Petrus von Carben. It deals with laws concerning women in cases of death (of the husband or the woman herself), divorce and adultery and women's rights concerning legacies, property and debts, often comparing them with the laws concerning men. The text is written in Latin, but Carben occasionally includes some German law texts. The work is dedicated to Daniel Kornmann.
The binding has a curious unidentified coat of arms and crowned cipher added in silver paint on the boards. With the bookplate of J.A. Molhuysen on paste-down. Internally in very good condition, with only a few tiny spots. Binding rubbed along the extremities, spine slightly damaged at the head and foot and the added silver a bit flaked, but still firm and otherwise good. WorldCat (1 copy); not in VD18.
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