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1575575041575. Paris 1575. 1st ed. Paris 1575. 1st ed. The First Modern Treatise on Rural Rights: Rene Choppin's Landmark 1575 Agrarian Law Choppin Rene 1537-1606. De Privilegiis Rusticorum: Lib. III. O Fortunatos Nimium Sua Si Bona Norint Agricolas Gnauosque Senes Extrema per Illos Iustitia Excedens Terris Vestigia Fecit. Paris: Apud Nicolaum Chesneau 1575 colophon: 29 November 1574. xvi 248 24 pp. Quarto 9" x 6-1/2"; 22.86 x 16.51 cm. Contemporary limp vellum early calligraphic title to spine ties lacking. Negligible light shelfwear text block partially detached from binding. Woodcut printer device to title page woodcut decorated initials. Some toning light dampspotting and early annotations to a few leaves. A very good unsophisticated copy in its original binding. $1500. First Edition of this pioneering and rare treatise on the legal rights and social standing of the rural peasantry. Choppin a distinguished avocat of the Parlement of Paris was a key figure in the "Gallican" school of law. Alongside Jean Bodin and Jean Bacquet he sought to unify French law under royal authority by synthesizing Roman principles with local custom. De Privilegiis Rusticorum is a landmark work that defines the "privileges" of farmers-not as aristocratic perks but as specific legal protections regarding land access taxation and debt. The work famously invokes Virgil's Georgics in its title reflecting the Humanist effort to reconcile classical agrarian ideals with 16th-century legal practice. The Biographie Universelle notes it "deserves notice for the singularity of its subject" and its "profound research" 8:499. Rare in commerce and in institutional collections. OCLC locates only three North American copies Columbia GWU Harvard. Camus Profession d'Avocat 1477. unknown
1575575041575. Rare Treatise Dealing With Legal Rights of Farmers and Other Rural People Choppin Rene 1537-1606. De Privilegiis Rusticorum: Lib. III. O Fortunatos Nimium Sua Si Bona Norint Agricolas Gnauosque Senes Extrema per Illos Iustitia Excedens Terris Vestigia Fecit. Paris: Apud Nicolaum Chesneau 1575 colophon: 29 November 1574. xvi 248 24 pp. Quarto 9" x 6-1/2". Contemporary limp vellum early calligraphic title to spine ties lacking. Negligible light shelfwear text block partially detached from binding. Woodcut printer device to title page woodcut decorated initials. Some toning light dampspotting and early annotations to a few leaves. $2000. First edition. Choppin or Chopin was a French jurist and an avocat of the Parlement of Paris. Like Jean Bacquet and Jean Bodin Choppin drew on Roman law and feudal principles to advocate a centralized state under royal rule. De Privilegiis Rusticorum addresses legal privileges enjoyed by rural people in Roman and civil law such as access to uncultivated land. A well-written and remarkably comprehensive work it went through seven subsequent editions in Latin. Its final edition translated into French was published in 1634. This was a rarely explored topic and Choppin's treatise is the only early example we have encountered. According to the Biographie Universelle "it deserves notice for the singularity of its subject for its profound research and the decisions it contains" 8:499. All editions are scarce today and rare in North American law libraries. OCLC locates three copies of the 1575 edition at Columbia George Washington University and Harvard. Camus Profession d'Avocat 1477. unknown books