{"product_id":"31898-d-oeuvres-choisies-de-d","title":"D'AGUESSEAU (Henri François) – SELECTED WORKS OF D'AGUESSEAU, CHANCELLOR OF FRANCE CONTAINING vol. I: Speeches for the opening of hearings, Mercuriales, Indictments and other speeches delivered on various occasions, Instructions on the","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eD'AGUESSEAU (Henri François), Paris, 1759 to 1823, 13 vols. 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 vols. 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 vol. 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePartly 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 The thirteenth volume, published in 1789, is missing; it has been replaced by the first edition of d'Aguesseau's \"Unpublished Letters,\" published by D. B. Rives in 1823 and containing two particularly fine facsimiles of autographs.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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mémoire du Droit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51963209089371,"sku":"31898","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/0163\/5419\/files\/31898-1.jpg?v=1766931369","url":"https:\/\/www.memoiredudroit.fr\/en\/products\/31898-d-oeuvres-choisies-de-d","provider":"La Mémoire du Droit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}