ÉMÉRIGON, Balthazard-Marie.

Traité des assurances et des contrats à la grosse ...

Marseilles, Jean Mossy, 1783. Two vols, 4to, pp. [8], xvi, 686; [4], 680, [1] errata, [3] publisher’s advertisements; without the engraved frontispiece portrait sometimes found; early ink ownership inscription to the front pastedown; a few gatherings browned and a little light offsetting from the binding, but a nice, crisp copy in contemporary tree calf, red edges, two corners worn, spines decorated gilt, with contrasting gilt lettering-pieces, chipped at head and foot; an attractive set. First edition of an important work in the history of insurance. An English translation first appeared in 1811 (Baltimore, Philip H. Nicklin).McCulloch writes: ‘The author of this work, an advocate in the parliament of Aix and a councillor in the admiralty court of Marseilles, died in 1784 … He had by long practice and study acquired a very extensive and profound knowledge of maritime and commercial law. This treatise is of the highest authority. It is said by Lord Tenterden, in the preface to his work on maritime law, to be “peculiarly valuable for its extent of learned research, and the numerous and apt citations of the texts of the civil law and of the marine ordinances, the opinions of former writers, and the adjudications of the courts of justice of his own country, which are to be found in every part of it”. It is not limited to the subject specified in the title; but, to use the words of M. Pardessus, “Il embrasse la presque totalité du droit maritime, et ne saurait être trop recommandé à ceux qui s’occupent de cette importante partie de la législation.”‘Goldsmiths’ 12420; Kress B.573; McCulloch, p. 246; Mansutti 568; “Utrecht”, p. 813; not in Einaudi or Institute of Actuaries.

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