Oak Knoll

Handwritten author's name at head of spine and title written in ink along the lower fore-edge. Small library ownership code on front cover along lower edge. Covers slightly warped due to pulling of the vellum. Covers lightly soiled, minor wear to head of spine. Ownership inscriptions in ink on front free endpaper. Titlepage lightly foxed with two small dampstains. Pages are toned throughout with very light foxing and minor dampstaining. Large dampstain spot appearing in about half of the textblock along the lower edge not effecting the text. Overall a very good copy.

Title-page in red and black types, with a wide device representing the crowned salamander resurging by the flames. Engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved headletters. Authors dedicace to the cardinal Antonio Barberini. Published by Léonard Chouët.

The work deals with all the aspects regarding the long lease contract (also called, with the juridical term, emphyteusis), as to say the contract granting the use of a land for a long period receiving as payment a part of the profit (money or natural products) gained by it. The work is presented as a practical book, structured under the form of quaestiones (questions) with their punctual responses. An alphabetical index is added, to easily find the needed questions.

Francesco Foligni (died 1647), a lawyer and noble man from Foligno, was also apostholic protonotary and general curate of the cathedral of his town.

ICCURMGE00092. OCLC: 15052123 (locates two copies in USA) and 83753589 (locates a copy in USA at the University of California Berkeley Law Library).