Emerigon, 1783. TRAITE D'ASSURANCES

Emerigon, Balthazard-Marie

Emerigon [1716-1785] was the leading French authority on commercial law during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His work was held in the highest regard by English and American jurists. Kent, Commentaries on American Law and cited in Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847).

First edition of the 18th century's most important writing on maritime law and insurance, treating commerce between Europe and America; and the source of many judicial precedents regarding loss by shipwreck, corsairs and piracy, etc.

TRAITE DES ASSURANCES et DES CONTRATS
(a la Grosse)

First edition, complete in two volumes, in French
fine original 1783 printing on laid paper

1783, Marseille, Jean Mossy,
Imprimeur du Roi, de la Marine, & Libraire, a la Canebiere

10" x 8", hardcover cloth library binding (Library of Congress bookplate stamped "Law - France ..."

Volume I, 686 pages, frontispiece engraved portrait
Messire Jean Francois Andre le Blanc de Castillon, Procureur General au Parlement de Provence

Volume II, 684 pages, several with attractive ornaments

Pages clean, crisp and unmarked; title page of both volumes have the inked date 1835,below approximately 1" x 2-1/4" piece removed from upper right page corner

Complete two volumes ............................................................................................ $ 950...... reduced to $ 750.