A Paris, Chez Veuve Savoye - Saillant & Nyon - Cellot - Veuve Dessaint - Delalain, 1773, in-12 (16.8 x 9.5 cm - 6.6 x 3.7 inches), 364 pp., contemporary full brown calf (restorations of leather on spine-ends and corners, spine raised on 5 bands decorated with hatched fillets (some rubbing), 5 compartments gilt tooled, 1 compartment with gilt lettered red morocco label, gilt fillet on the leading edges, red edges.
Henri-François d' Aguesseau (1668-1751) "one of the noblest figures of the old French magistrature" began with such a glare that the lawyer Denis Talon will say "that he would like to finish as this young man started". Eloquent speaker, often in exile, he was opposed the enrigistration of the Unigenitus Bull and later with the system of the Schottish adventurer Law. From the Library of Dr. Charles Groffier (ex-libris of the first free endpaper. Dry seal with the royal coat of arms of France on the first free endpapper. Cfr. Camus 1350.