169 - COQUILLE (Guy). The Works of Master Guy Coquille, Lord of Romenay, containing several treatises on the Liberties of the Gallican Church, the History of France, and French Law...

COQUILLE (Guy). The Works of Master Guy Coquille, Lord of Romenay, containing several treatises on the Liberties of the Gallican Church, the History of France, and French Law... Paris, Guignard, 1666, 2 folio volumes, Volume I: 22 unnumbered folios–538 pp.–2 unnumbered folios–132 pp.–20 unnumbered folios. - Volume II: 6 unnumbered folios–456 pp.–152 pp.–6 unnumbered folios, then paginated 153–428 pp.–28 unnumbered folios. Bound in contemporary brown calfskin, with an ornate ribbed spine and marbled edges. - Covers rubbed, corners slightly rounded, minor imperfections elsewhere on the bindings; some sewn quires; a small wormhole in the lower margin of the first 5 leaves of Volume I; severe water damage on the last 25 leaves of Volume II. This rare edition of the works of the famous jurist from Nièvre is also found dated 1665. It begins with a discourse on the life and works of Coquille; a catalog of the 24 posthumous pieces included in this edition; the “Memoirs for the Reform of the Ecclesiastical Estate” (85 pp., pp. 86–88 blank); the “Treatise on the Liberties of the Church of France...” ; the “History of the Region and Duchy of Nivernais” (pp. 334–538); and the ordinances of Henry III “concerning the complaints and grievances raised by the Deputies of the Estates… convened… in the city of Blois.” The customs of the Nivernais region (including regulations on prostitution) occupy the first half of the second volume. These are followed by the “Institutions on French Law” and the “Questions, Answers, and Meditations on the Articles of the Customs.” - A few engraved ornamental woodcuts. (Brunet II, col. 268 for the 1665 edition).