usury (8 Ergebnisse)

Original full leather binding, spine extensively giltstamped. Binding a bit worn / front hinge weak, else contents (very) good. Text in French. Please see description or ask for photos.

Contemporary full leather bindings with gilt decoration on spine. Binding partly worn / soiled, else contents with some minor browning / staining, but contents still (very) good, in very acceptable bindings. Text in French. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Traité de lusure et des intérets. Cologne & Paris, Valat-la-Chapelle, 1769. 8vo. x + 342p + [1] f errata. Vignette on title. Contemporary marbled calf, back-strip richly gilt. First edition of a treatise on usury and credit by a Catholic moralist from Lyon. Distinguishing between usury and interest, the author condemns the former, and accepts the latter as justifiable gain. In support of his arguments he appends the encyclical letter "Vix pervenit" by Pope Benedict XIV, dated 1745, with Latin and French parallel texts on pp265-293. This work was refuted by several contemporary authors. Higgs 4740 (without mention of errata leaf).

Contemporary leather binding, spine and corners crudely restored. Margins waterstained, lvs. stained more severely in the first 50 pp. (but still very readable). Acceptable copy of a rare book. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Conférences Ecclésiastiques de Paris sur lUsure et la Restitution, où lon concilie la Discipline de lEglise avec la Jurisprudence du Royaume de France. Etablies & imprimées par ordre de S. E. Monseigneur le Cardinal de Noailles, Archevèque de Paris. Paris, Jacques Estienne, 1718. 4 volumes in 8vo. [24] + 447 + [43]p; [2] + 546 + [15 + 1 blank]p; [2] + 490 + (17 + 1 blank]p; [2] + 564 + [20]p. With archiepiscopal arms on titles. Contemporary mottled calf; back-strips gilt; red morocco title labels; light wear to ends of spine. First edition of this detailed official report on the Paris meetings held by the Gallic Church to discuss the practice of usury in order to reconcile religious dogma with French law. Usury was morally condemned on principle on the grounds of natural, divine and civil laws, and its practitioners were charged with bad faith. The report was compiled by Father Le Semelier and published on the instructions of Cardinal Louis-Antoine de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris (1651-1729). An attractive set. I.N.E.D. 2861; Einaudi 3348 (1775 edn); Kress S.4446 (1766 edn).

Contemporary full overlapping vellum binding, but bookblock loose in binding (bookblock itself well bound), flyleaves missing, some light browning, else a very good copy. Please see description or ask for photos.

Contemporary full overlapping vellum binding. Endpapers renewed, binding a bit tight, else a very good copy. Please see description or ask for photos.

Contemporary full overlapping vellum binding. Spine a bit soiled, old owner's name neatly in corner of title, some slight browning, else a very nice / fine copy. Please see description or ask for photos.