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Poaching and the Law
62. [LANGHAIDER, Sylvester.] S.C. Disquisitio furtivae venationis,
ad genuina juris principia verumque Germanorum sensum
accomodata. Nuremberg, Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1767. £950
8vo, pp. [viii], 191, [1], title vignette and head-and tail-pieces; occasionally
lightly browned and a little foxed; contemporary full mottled
sheep, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label;
head of spine chipped; author’s name noted in ink on front paste-down.
First edition of this rare study of poaching and the law, and game law in
general. Langhaider gives a thorough overview of anti-poaching legislation,
with detailed reference to the legal authorities. He demonstrates how
poaching contravenes natural law, property rights, and is detrimental
to animal preservation. He gives vivid examples of penalties applied to
those caught poaching, from cutting off of hands or thumbs and coldwater
dipping, to the more common financial penalties; aggravated
poaching involving threatening behavior to officials was punished much
more severely. In the last section he gives a veritable bibliography of legal
publications on poaching, beginning with Lex Salica, and the 1338 ruling
on the Drey Eicher-Wald.
Sylvester Langhaider (originally Ignaz) (1717–1795), studied at Kremsmünster,
Linz and Salzburg before entering the Benedictine monastery. He
taught law at Kremsmünster academy, first canon law, later constitutional
law, and became public notary and librarian of Kremsmünster. His published
a number of well-regarded dissertations on law (Wurzbach).
Wurzbach XIV, 120; Hamberger/Meusel IV, 352 (mistakenly dated 1764); not
in Lindner, Schwerdt or Souhart; OCLC: BL, Bibliothèque Nationale, National
Library of Scotland.
63. [LAW.] Waids Ordnung, betreffend die Marggreuischen
Vnterthanen so Wald gerechtigkeit in den Nürmberger Welden
haben. n.p.,1535. £1,500
4to, pp. [38], [2] blank, with one large folding woodblock printed plate
(Kettenmaass); contemporary vellum, using an antiphonary leaf with
illuminated letters in red, green and brown, lacking ties, title in ink at
head of upper cover; with charming hand-painted arms of Rieter von
Kornburg, 1609 pasted onto front pastedown.
First edition of the revised legislation regulating forestry and land usage
rights in the woods around Nuremberg, part of the Franconian territories
of the Hohenzollern (Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach).
Original usage for the subjects of the Margraves Brandenburg-Ansbach-
Kulmbach had been regulated in a treatise agreed by Peter Knorr and
Dietrich von Harras in 1496, but, after repeated conflicts in the early
sixteenth century, the ruling was re-established with some modifications.
In fourteen paragraphs basic forestry rights are regulated, followed by a
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multi-paragraph explanation of community usage, such as using fire-wood,
taking out wood, using land for grazing, etc. Specific penalties apply on
contravention.
Particularly appealing is the plate illustrating the ‘Kettenmaas’, the
measurement used in the regulation.
Another edition was published the same year.
VD 16 B 6979; Hohenemser 849; OCLC records five copies of either issue in
Germany, no copies outside of Germany
Index to Laws Regulating Education in Bohemia
64. [LAW – EDUCATION.] Auszug der höchsten Gesetze und
hohen Verordnungen, welche für das Normalschulwesen oder
die Nationalschulen im Königreiche Böhmen vom Jahre 1770 bis
1788 ergangen sind. In alphabetischer Ordnung. Prague, k.u.k.
Normalschul-Buchdruckerey, 1788. £950
8vo, pp. [viii], 188 [vere 138]; lightly browned, due to paper stock;
original beech board covered with blue paper, extremities rubbed; a
good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this compilation of all the laws, rules
and regulations affecting schools and education in Bohemia in the late
eighteenth century. Designed for the use of lawyers, headmasters, teachers,
and, one assumes, parents, all manner of questions regarding education
are arranged in alphabetical order, with brief rulings and reference to the
relevant statutes and regulations. Beginning with the problem of whether
second-hand ABC primers may be sold at markets or by itinerant traders