Bourdot de Richebourg, Charles A. — *Nouveau coutumier génér - Lot 589

Bourdot de Richebourg, Charles A. — *Nouveau coutumier général, or Collection of General and Specific Customs of France and the Provinces Known as Gaul*…With notes by Messrs. Toussaint Chauvelin, Julien Brodeau, and Jean-Marie Ricard […] appended to the annotations by Messrs. Charles Du Moulin, François Ragueau, and Gabriel-Michel de La Rochemaillet. Paris, Claude Robustel, 1724. 4 folio volumes bound in full contemporary calfskin, spines with highly ornate raised bands, marbled edges—5 cap bands with minor imperfections, scuffs, and faint water damage affecting the first 43 pages of Vol. I—[3 ff.], VIII, 1,278 pp.; [2 ff.], VIII, 1,244 pp.; [2 ff.], VIII, 1,304 pp.; [2 ff.], VIII, 1,237 pp., [1 f. table]. First edition of this monumental work, a veritable legal encyclopedia compiling all the customs in use in the Kingdom of France, to which the author added those of territories corresponding to present-day Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.Contains the text of more than 150 customs along with commentaries by the most renowned lawyers of the time.