Lex Mercatoria

No Boards, Spine and binding secure, tight & square, Minimal Foxing. 501 pages.
This is the 1629 printing. THIS IS ONE OF ONLY SEVEN KNOWN COPIES IN EXISTENCE (unavailable online except here). The other six are in institutions. Is anyone kinows of any 1629 printings in private hands, please advise. The boards are easily replaced, and otherwise the book is in great condition, Minimal Foxing. First printed in 1622, this copy is a second printing from 1629, this is the first English presentation of the
Lex Mercatoria or Merchant Law. It was written by Gerard Malynes, entitled
"Consultudo Vel Lex Mercatoria" or the Ancient Law Merchant. In his preface to this work,
he stated that he had entitled it Lex Mercatoria instead of Jus Mercatorum because it is customary law
provided by the authority of all kingdoms and Commonweals,and not a law established by the sovereignty of
any prince. Blackstone stated that the affairs of commerce were regulated by a law of their own called the
Law Merchant or Lex Mercatoria "which all nations agree in and take notice of and it is particularly held to
be part of the law of England which justifies the causes of merchants and the general rules which obtain in
all commercial countries." Still later, Lord Mansfield stated that "Mercantile law is not the law of a particular
country but the law of all nations". (Nick Szabo, 1998)