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MENOCHIUS, Jacobus. De adipiscenda, et retinenda possessione amplissima & doctissima commentaria, Cologne: Walter Fabricius & Johann Gymnicus, 1572. Part I only (of 2), small 8°, printer's device on title and verso of final leaf (lightly browned and spotted throughout), contemporary vellum, lavishly stamped in blind with foliate designs and cruxifiction scenes in panels, ties (old repair to lower cover, corners bumped, old paper label on spine almost completely torn away, lightly soiled). Adams M1281. Sold not subject to return.
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