D'AGUESSEAU (Henri François) – SELECTED WORKS OF D'AGUESSEAU, CHANCELL

D'AGUESSEAU (Henri François)

SELECTED WORKS OF D'AGUESSEAU, CHANCELLOR OF FRANCE CONTAINING t. I: Speeches for the opening of hearings, Mercuriales, Indictments and other speeches made on various occasions, Instructions on studies suitable for training a magistrate and other works on some of the objects of these studies (1759/1761 - CXLVII-622 p.); t. II: Pleas to Parliament in the capacity of Advocate General in the years 1691, 1692 and 1693 (1761 - XXXVI -692 p.); t. III: Pleadings delivered in Parliament in the capacity of Advocate General in the years 1694 and 1695, Two pleadings, one from January 1696, the other from 1698, in the case of the Prince of Conti and the Duchess of Nemours, and a pleading from April 1696 in the case of the Duke of Luxembourg and the other dukes and peers (1762 - XXIV-822 p.); vol. IV: Pleadings delivered in Parliament... since April 1696 and in the years 1697, 1698 and 1699 (1764 - XXX-737 p.); vol. V: Pleadings, memoirs, dissertations and other works (1767 - XXXII-752 p.); vol. Volume VI: Several Petitions on Domain Matters Presented to Parliament in the Capacity of Attorney General (1769 - XVI-773 pp.); Volume VII: Several Petitions and Memoranda on Domain Matters with Various Documents on the Peerage (1772 - XLVIII-685 pp.); Volumes VIII and IX: Letters on Criminal and Civil Matters (1774/1776 - XXIV-711/XX-731 pp.); Volume X: Continuation of Letters on Civil and Criminal Matters, Considerations on Coinage, Memoir on the Shares of the East India Company, etc. (1777 - XVI-460-XII-316 pp.); Volume XI: Philosophical Meditations on the Origin of Justice, etc. (1779 - XVI-677 pp.); Volume XII: Philosophical and Literary Letters, Memoirs on Several Matters of Jurisprudence and Various Fragments, etc. (1784 - XXVIII-648-XLIX p.) ; t. XIII: Unpublished letters of Chancellor d'Aguesseau published under the auspices of His Excellency Mgr the Count de Peyronnet, Keeper of the Seals of France, Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Justice, by DB Rives, Director of Criminal Affairs and Pardons for the Department of Justice (1823 - CXVI p.-3 ff.-583 p.)

Édition :

Paris

Date :

1759 to 1823

13 volumes in-4, contemporary full brown calf binding, spine with 5 raised bands richly decorated with floral motifs, lace and gilt fillets, title and volume on burgundy and brown paper, red edges, blind tooling framing the covers except for volumes VIII and IX, rolls on the edges, printing with wide margins, headbands and initials, 19th century binding in imitation of the last two volumes (slight abrasions, gilt and volume slightly faded on volume XII, damaged headcaps with small losses to almost all, bumped edges and corners with some losses, 4 joints very slightly split, some differences in level for the tools and for the height), nevertheless a beautiful set with an exceptionally fresh interior.

Partly first edition of the works of Chancellor d'Aguesseau. The first volume here dates from the original (1759) but was printed in 1761; it does not include the Chancellor's portrait as a frontispiece. The twelfth volume is dated 1784 but has the same collation as the original 1783 edition. The thirteenth volume, published in 1789, is missing; it has been replaced by the first edition of d'Aguesseau's "Unpublished Letters," published by D. B. Rives in 1823 and containing two particularly fine facsimiles of autographs. The other volumes are first editions. While it is unnecessary to introduce this author, we will nevertheless quote M.-F. Renoux-Zagamé (in Dictionnaire historique des juristes français, Paris, PUF, 2007): “His works [were] collected and edited primarily by his sons. Known and used by the drafters of the Code, his writings, and in particular his legal briefs and pleadings, continued to inform lawyers' arguments and judges' self-reflection in the early decades of the 19th century. Their richness is a measure of the universality of the chancellor's qualities: in addition to the famous opening speeches, constantly reprinted, as well as the Instructions proper for training a magistrate, the Institution of Public Law (vol. I), one finds (vol. VIII) Metaphysical Meditations; various memoranda on specific legal questions (vol. XIII), the petitions issued as Attorney General (vol. VI), and above all his principal pleadings (vols. II to VI) as well as the most important letters written as chancellor (vol. XII). Through these writings, what can be discerned, because he undoubtedly brings it to its perfection, is the legal reasoning that constructed and then operated the old institutional and legal world.” A very fine and complete collection.

Référence : 31898

Mots-clés : Ancient Law - History of Law

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