D. Ioannis Antonii Belloni I.C. Taurinensis, Et Pedemontani Senatus Praesidis Primarii Tractatus. De Iure Accrescendi, Pars Secunda. In Qua Septimum Disputationis Caput, Quando Scilicet Locum Habeat Ius Accrescendi, Continetur. Et Difficiliores..

Augustae Taurinorum [Turin]: Apud HH. Ioannis Dominici Tarini, 1637. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo (8" x 14"). D. Ioannis Antonii Belloni I.C. [Iuris Consultaris] Taurinensis, Et Pedemontani Senatus Praesidis Primarii Tractatus. De Iure Accrescendi, Pars Secunda. In Qua Septimum Disputationis Caput, Quando Scilicet Locum Habeat Ius Accrescendi, Continetur. Et Difficiliores, praecipue ultimarum voluntatum, quaestiones exponuntur. Opus non minus in Scolisquam in foro versantibus perutile, & necessarium. Part 2 only. Latin. Vellum boards. [6], 565 p.p. Engraved title with printer's device, headpieces and intials. Ex-library bookplate of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge [Massachusetts] to front pastedown, embossed library stamp to title page. Bookplate indicates the book was a gift from Richard H. Dana, March 1914. Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) was the son of Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast. Dana was a lawyer and graduate of Harvard University, and he married Edith Longfellow (daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Spine lacking. Boards detached, worn, stained, and bowed. Several pages and signatures are loose. Rfep (and possibly other front and back matter) lacking. [Copy held by the National Library of Scotland has a collation of [14], 565, [1] per WorldCat.] Significant worming, especially to pastedowns and front matter. Some staining and foxing commensurate with age. Errors in pagination from p. 374-379, but catchwords and text are continuous. Large chip to lower corner of p. 249, with loss. Perforations to p.p. 511, 513. Tears to foot of p.p. 515-529. A few ink annotations. Laid-in shelf number flag. Giovanni Antonio Belloni was born in Turin, probably in the last two decades of the 16th century, and he died in 1640. His first legal work was published in Parma in 1616 and was appointed to the Piedmontese Senate in 1617. De iure accrescendi is the largest and most complete monographic work on the subject of ius accrescendi (the right of survivorship) in Roman law. [Biographical Dictionary of Italins, Volume 7, 1970.].