Rare books, manuscripts and ephemera from five centuries

Legal reforms come to Milan 

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[LOMBARDY - LAW]. REGOLAMENTO DEL PROCESSO CIVILE per la Lombardia Austriaca. In Milano: nella Stamperia di Gaetano Motta, 1785. SOLD

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 158, [1] privilege, [1] blank; woodcut vignette on title-page and headpiece on p. 1; aside from very occasional light spotting, very clean and crisp throughout; uncut in the original publisher’s printed blue wrappers; light wear to corners and ink mark to corner of lower cover, but still a lovely copy.

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Sole edition of this rare work setting out the code of civil procedure in Lombardy, at the time under Habsburg rule.

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The general code of civil procedure for the Habsburg Empire was approved by Joseph II in 1781 and was introduced gradually into the various provinces, with light adaptations for local conditions, from the following year. The present work, with its dedication signed by Archduke Ferdinand Karl, who was Governor of the Duchy of Milan between 1765 and 1796, sets out the code as it applied to Lombardy in 452 numbered paragraphs divided into 39 chapters. The code itself was only in use for two decades, being supplanted by the Code Napoléon in 1806. 

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Outwith Italy, OCLC records copies at GWU Law, UC Berkeley Law, Harvard Law, Ticino, and the Danish Royal Library. 

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