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Habsburg] - Ordonnancien, Statuten, Edicten ende Placcaten , ghepubliceert in de landen van herwaerts-over van weghen der keyserlicker en conijnglicker Majesteyten, ende haerlieder zeer edele voorsaeten. Ghent, J. van den Steene (col.: typis H. van den Keere), 1559, folio, 17th-c. blindstamped vellum (sl. soiled), ink titled spine on 6 raised bands (lower joint broken), [4]-801-[3] pp. (blank upper margin of title rest., some marg. browning). Good copy.
Rare 1st ed. of the 1st vol. of this extensive collection of edicts and ordinances for Flanders from 1506 to 1556. Book I : 16 chapters containing edicts on justice and jurisdiction (blasphemy, heresy and executions), jurisdiction applicable to clergymen, an edict for prison guards, etc. It includes 2 indices of forbidden books on resp. pp. 145-153 (dated 1546, also concerning printers and booksellers) and pp. 174-186 (dated 1550). Book II : political edicts on i.a. seafaring and fishery, hunting, infrastructure, coins, toll, the drapery industry, paper, windmills, grain, wine, beer, forest and peat. Book III : princely decrees on various matters. Woodcut printer's device within woodcut border with coat-of-arms of Ghent and Philipp II on t.-p. Ownership entries on flylvs. "M. Tydeman" (= Prof. Meindert Tydeman - 1741-1825) and J.D. Moerman . Ref. B.T. 2269. Pettegree NB 7892. Bibl. gant. 187. Graesse V, 43. Machiels II, N58. Not in Adams, STC Dutch.