16 unnumbered pages, 282, XXVI, XXX-LVI pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations; 38 cm (folio)
Geographic Subject:
Austria
Related Place:
Austria -- Vienna.
Rights:
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Notes:
Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-2M⁴ 2N1 a² b-f⁴ g⁴(g1+'g').; The three folded leaves of plates, numbered XXVII-XXIX, are inserted between p. XXVI and XXX (i.e. between leaves d3 and d4).; The illustrations depict instruments of torture and their application.; Side-notes in Latin.; Woodcuts: title vignette (coat of arms), initial, head- and tail-pieces.; Typographical ornaments.; List of members of the commission entrusted with the elaboration of the code: p. LV-LVI.; Penn Libraries copy bound with: Austria. Geheime Anmerkungen ad Constitutionem nostram criminalem Theresianam, oder, zu unser neuen peinlichen Gerichtsordnung für unsere teutsch-erbländische Malefiz-Obergerichten, und die mit peinlichen Gerichtsbarkeit begabte unmittelbare Länderstellen. [Wien : Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern?, 1769?] and Austria. Instruction zur Theresianisch-peinlichen Gerichtsordnung. [Vienna? : Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern?, 1769?].; Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on front pastedown and autograph on front free endpaper; bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper; bookseller's typed description laid in; 3 pressed flowers in 2 clear protective folders laid in; ms. marginal note in pencil and some underlining in colored pencil.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Lea Collection, L.7.7
Collection:
Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
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