SARRI, Gaetano (1698-1771). Gius pubblico-sicolo. Palermo: B...
Hammer
€300
SARRI, Gaetano (1698-1771). Gius pubblico-sicolo. Palermo: Bentivenga, 1786.
Expanded edition, dedicated to Viceroy Francesco d'Aquino and illustrated with 28 portraits of the kings of Sicily and Naples, of this treatise on the public law of the Kingdom of Sicily. The work examines the political and administrative organisation of the island, the prerogatives of the Crown, the magistracies, the Sicilian Parliament, the feudal system and the principal institutions of the Kingdom, collecting and commenting upon the laws then in force and Sicilian legal customs.
2 parts in one volume, 4to (270 × 215 mm). Engraved vignettes on the title-pages, 6 folding genealogical tables, 28 engraved portraits in the text, numerous woodcut tailpieces, uncut (foxing). Second-half nineteenth-century full vellum, gilt titles and decorations on spine label. (2)
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SARRI, Gaetano (1698-1771). Gius pubblico-sicolo. Palermo: Bentivenga, 1786.
Expanded edition, dedicated to Viceroy Francesco d'Aquino and illustrated with 28 portraits of the kings of Sicily and Naples, of this treatise on the public law of the Kingdom of Sicily. The work examines the political and administrative organisation of the island, the prerogatives of the Crown, the magistracies, the Sicilian Parliament, the feudal system and the principal institutions of the Kingdom, collecting and commenting upon the laws then in force and Sicilian legal customs.
2 parts in one volume, 4to (270 × 215 mm). Engraved vignettes on the title-pages, 6 folding genealogical tables, 28 engraved portraits in the text, numerous woodcut tailpieces, uncut (foxing). Second-half nineteenth-century full vellum, gilt titles and decorations on spine label. (2)