![Item #362 Capitoli coi quali l'Ill[ustrissi]mi Congregazione dell' ospitale di Santa Maria de'...](https://wscotterrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744990181)
One of only a very few known publications issued by the Carpi foundling hospital, a beneficent organization inaugurated in 1690 near Modena for the care and agrarian education of local bastardini. The short pamphlet comprises the set of regulations governing the management of the orphanage's farmland, especially the landlord's responsibilities.....
Two works, bound together, on the customary law of Hainaut; the first on the pays et côte, and the second on the capital city of Mons. Both were printed with royal privilege by Jehan Loë and his son Laurent at Hainaut in 1553. The earliest laws of Hainaut were outlined.....
![Item #366 De Usuris et de Montibus pietatis. […]. Bologna: Eredi di Vittorio Benacci [Girolamo...](https://wscotterrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744994402)
The only known copy of a 17th-century Bologna printing of the full text of the papal bull De Usuris et de Montibus pietatis, promulgated during the tenth session of the Fifth Lateran Council in Rome, on 4 May 1515. The bull formally condemned the practice of usury, and established the.....
Only edition. The devastating Italian plague of 1629-31 affected every aspect life in Central and Northern Italy, especially in Milan, with the most severe metrics being loss of life (nearly half the population) and the attenuation of the economy. Any country diluted of resources will be at risk of aggression.....
Earliest obtainable edition of the Dutch poet, actor, and man-of-mystery Robert Hennebo's tongue-in-cheek paean to jenever, the national drink of the Netherlands. Probably first written in 1716, following Hennebo's failed military career, and printed in abbreviated form in 1718, when Hennebo had traded in his avocation as an actor for.....