[VOLUMINA legum - volume 1] 1733

[VOLUMINA legum - volume 1].[LEGES, Statuta Constitutiones Privilegia Regni Poloniae, Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae, Omniumq[ue] Provinciarum Annexarum, a Comitiis Visliciae Anno 1347 celebratis usq[ue] ad ultima Regni Comitia. In Typographia S. R. M. & [et] Reipublicae Collegij Varsaviensis Scholarum Piarum, in Unum Opus Absolutissimum, Collegij ejusdem Opera, Primum Collecta, & [et] Sumptibus Publicis Reimpressa. Anno Salutis Humanae 1732. volumen Primum. Ab Anno 1347. ad Annum 1547, Acta Reipublicae Continens]. [Warsaw 1733. in Drukarnia J. K. M. y Rzeczypospolitey]. folio, pp. [44], 589, [4]. Bound in period leather.
E. 33, 321; 20, 7. Spine damaged with loss, binding rubbed, inside traces of moisture and woodworm in places. The copy needs bookbinding treatment. Deleted owner's stamp and bibliot. doublet stamp. Missing dedication and title page, on the back of which was an unsigned full-page copperplate with an image of the Polish Eagle surrounded by the coats of arms of the lands with Themis (with a scale) and Valor (with a lion at her feet) sitting at the sides, with a four-line Latin poem under the engraving. Volume 1 of the "Volumina Legum" - a collection of laws covering constitutions passed at the Sejm for the years 1347-1547. It begins with the Wiślicki Statute, then further privileges and laws follow. At the end is an index. Konarski's treatise is the first attempt to outline the history of legislation with a description of the legislative technique under the Jagiellons and later monarchs, about sejmiks, about the sejm, about the election of the marshal, about the enactment, signing and promulgation of laws, about the privileges of printers as to the printing of constitutions (E.) Volume prepared for printing by Stanislaw Hieronim Konarski. The following volumes (2-6) already had titles in Polish.