(VOLUMINA Legum, Vol. 4) (Warsaw, 1737).

(VOLUMINA Legum, Vol. 4.)

Constitutional laws and privileges; of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and all their provinces: adopted at the General Sejm of the Crown from the Sejm of Wiślica in the Year of Our Lord 1347 until the last Sejm. [On the reverse: Volume Four, from the Year 1641 to the Year 1668, containing the Acts of the Republic]. Warsaw, 1737. Reprinted in the year of our Lord 1737 by the Printing House of His Royal Majesty and the Republic of Poland at the Warsaw College of the Piarist Scholars... (33 x 19.5 cm), fol. [1], p. 1068, fol. [1], woodcut vignettes, contemporary leather binding.
(Vol. 33). Volume Four contains laws from the years 1641–1668, during the reigns of the Vasa dynasty, Władysław IV, and Jan Kazimierz. 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 by the Piarists in 1782. Volume IX was published in 1889 in Kraków by the Academy of Learning. Traces of moisture and soiling, owner’s seals, a worn owner’s inscription, and a few notes; the binding shows heavy scuffing and other minor damage, including losses.