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D[UCHESNE], M, Code de la Police, Analyse des Reglemens de Police; Divisé en douze Titres, par M. D., conseiller du roy, lieutenant général de police de la ville de ... en Champagne.
Paris: Chez Prault pere, 1757. (POLICE CODE) First edition. 8vo. . Beautifully bound in a contemporary reliure à plaquette of red morocco, covers with wide gilt-tooled borders, spine elaborately gilt with green morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Small piece excised from top margin of flyleaf, otherwise a fine, flawless copy. This copy seems to be lacking preliminary signature a-d, & possibly the Table at rear. Barbier I 623 (citing a "3rd edition" of this same year, in 12mo?); Goldsmith 9311 (citing only the 2nd edition of 1758. ¶ With remarkable Gallic analytical acuity, the author divides the subject into 12 chapters: (1) Magistrats et Officiers; (2) De la Religion; (3) Des Mûrs; (4) De la Santé; (5) Des Vivres; (6) De la Voirie; (7) De la Tranquillité & Sureté Public; (8) Des Sciences & Arts Libéraux; (9) Du Commerce; (10) Des Manufactures & Arts Mécaniques; (11) Des Serviteurs, Domestiques, Manouvriers; (12) De la Police des Pauvres. Beautiful copy of a rare book
Offered for US$ 750.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 25266