Law - First Edition [CIVIL CODE] French... - Lot 247 - Briscadieu

Lot 247
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Law - First Edition [CIVIL CODE] French... - Lot 247 - Briscadieu
Law - First Edition [CIVIL CODE] French Civil Code. Original and only official edition. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, year XII - 1804. In-4 : 2f., 579pp. Small soiling on the first leaves, light staining on some leaves, small scattered stains in places, ink stains in fine. Contemporary fawn basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red title, small accidents to the headpieces without missing, cold fillet on the boards, spotting, cold roulette on the edges. First edition in the rare in-4 format. An in-8 edition was published simultaneously. Written in barely thirteen months, the Napoleonic Code is considered as "one of the greatest monuments of the principle of equality proclaimed by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen".
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