ORDINANCE of Louis XIV King of France and... - Lot 75 - Giquello

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ORDINANCE of Louis XIV King of France and... - Lot 75 - Giquello
ORDINANCE of Louis XIV King of France and Navarre. Given at Fontainebleau in the month of August 1681. Touchant la Marine. Paris, Denys Thierry and Christophle Ballard, 1681. In-4, red morocco, double framed with three gilt filets with fleur-de-lis repeated in the corners, large coat of arms in the center, spine decorated with a fleur-de-lis repeated in the caissons, interior roulette, gilt edges (Period binding). First edition of this famous ordinance, one of the most important of the Ancien Régime legislation, commonly called Colbert's Ordinance. The ordinance of August 1681 concerns merchant shipping. Colbert had perfectly understood the interest for the maritime trade to have a safe legislation. That is why, after several meticulous preliminary investigations carried out since 1665, he decided to gather in a single text everything that concerned both sailors and ships. The result is a legal monument that includes 5 books, 53 titles and 704 articles. The following are successively studied: admiralty officers and their jurisdiction, people and ships, and maritime fisheries. The international success of this ordinance, which was copied extensively throughout Europe, is the best evidence of its legal quality (Étienne Taillemite, Histoire ignorée de la marine française, pp. 120-121). The articles devoted to maritime fishing occupy pp. 241-273: fishing for herring, "moluë" (cod), royal fish, parks and fisheries, nets, rets, traps, etc. The volume ends with an explanation of the marine terms used in the text. It should be noted that the privilege was granted to the Duchess of Vivonne who gave it to the printers Thierry and Ballard: daughter of Henri II de Mesmes, president à mortier at the Parliament of Paris, it was she who offered to Colbert in 1679 the manuscripts of the family library, including an important and unique collection of 242 Greek manuscripts. A precious copy of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Minister Secretary of State for the Navy, bound in his large coat of arms. It is probably the one mentioned in the catalog of the Bibliotheca Colbertina (1728, n°10576) and bears, on the title and at the end, this handwritten bookplate which was affixed by one of Colbert's sons after his death in 1690: De Seignelai 1692. Note that it does not bear the manuscript bookplate of the collection, usually affixed by the librarian Baluze. Wet stamp on one endpaper; engraved armorial bookplate of Claude-Édouard de Bona, an 18th-century Burgundian lawyer. Some leaves faded. Minor restorations to the binding (upper head and adjacent spine, two corners).
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