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[8], 425, [23] pp. Device of Johann Gymnich III on title page (fish-tailed Pegasus, scepter, bird, snake; motto "Discite iusticiam moniti" with Gymnich's chiffre at top; framed). 1569. [bound with] Wesenbeck, Matthaeus. Tractatus de feudis. [10], 307, [i.e. 308], [14] pp. Woodcut device on title page. Witebergae : Excudebat Zacharias Lehman, 1584. (8vo) 15.5x9 cm (6x3½"), period pictorially blindstamped pigskin, spine lettered in ink manuscript.

The first is a significant work by the French legal authority Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius), being commentary, without text, on the collection of 168 novels of Justinian, each identified by number and caption. The second title is one of the three major works of the Belgian jurist Matthew Wesenbeck. The interesting pigskin binding has an oval armorial paper label on the rear cover, with evidence of a matching label having been removed from the front cover.