(VOLUMINA Legum, Vol. 5) (Warsaw, 1738).

(VOLUMINA Legum, Vol. 5.)

Laws, Constitutions, and Privileges of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and of all the provinces belonging to them: at the General Sejm of the Crown, from the Sejm of Wiślica in the Year of Our Lord 1347 until the Last Sejm. Volume 5. From the Year 1669 to the Year 1697. Containing the Acts of the Republic. Warsaw 1738. Reprinted at the Printing House of His Royal Majesty and the Republic at the Warsaw College of the Piarist Scholars at public expense. (33 x 20 cm), fol. [1], p. 989, [1], woodcut vignettes and initials, contemporary leather binding.
(Estr. Vol. 33). Volume five contains laws from 1669–1697 enacted during the reigns of Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki and Jan III Sobieski. Volumina Legum: The first Polish collection of statutory law, containing a record of all royal privileges and Sejm constitutions from 1347 to 1793 (the sessions of the Grodno Sejm). This work was initiated by Józef Andrzej Załuski, Bishop of Kyiv. They began work on a chronological and complete edition of Polish laws. The first six volumes, containing laws enacted up to 1736, were compiled and published by the Piarist Stanisław Konarski. Volumes VII and VIII were published in 1782 by the Piarists. Volume IX was published in 1889 in Kraków by the Academy of Learning. Traces of slight moisture and water damage in the upper corner; an ex-libris on the endpaper; the owner’s seal on the title page; the binding shows scuffs, slight losses, and damage.