BOUCHEL, Laurent - La Bibliothèque ou trésor du... Lot 342

BOUCHEL, Laurent - La Bibliothèque ou trésor du droit françois, où son traitées les matières civiles, criminelles, et bénéficiales, tant réglées par les ordonnances et coustumes de France, que décidées par arrests des cours souveraines; sommairement extraites des plus célèbres jurisconsultes et practiciens françois, et conférées en plusieurs endroits avec les loys, et coustumes des nations étrangères. Augmented in this new edition by Maistre Jean Bechefer. Paris, Jacques Dallin, 1667. 3 vol. gr. in-folio, the large-margined copy appears on large paper, granulated brown calf, coats of arms in the center of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated with repeated numeral, lack at the bottom of the spine of volume I, qqs. coiffes arasées, charn. partly split, corners dull, one nibbled, coats of arms sometimes a little rubbed. DUPIN 1781. Third edition enlarged on those of 1615 and 1629, by Bechefer. Bouchel (1559-1629) was a lawyer at the Parlement de Paris, maître des requêtes to King Henri IV and a member of the Conseil privé in 1615. A vast dictionary of legal concepts, in which he compiled over 600 authors cited at the beginning of the work. For example, the article Loix is almost entirely taken from Jean Bodin's Six livres de la République. This 3000-page work appears to be the first attempt at a legal encyclopedia. With the coat of arms and cipher of Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617-1677) first president of the Parlement de Paris. He himself attempted to codify and unify the laws, and was the originator of the famous Lamoignon library, which grew for two centuries. OHR pl. 2015. Signed by François Lapeyre lawyer in Aurillac, stamped by A. Delzons avocat.