[Carniola] Landts-Handvesst | Ljubljana, 1687, bound with similar works of 1707 and 1638, later boards

[Carniola]

Three statutes in one volume, comprising:

Landts-Handtvesst dess löblichen hörzogthumbs Crain. Ljubljana: Jožef Tadej Mayr, 1687, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tailpieces, engraved armorial frontispiece by And. Trost (slightly shaved at head)

Landschrannen-Ordnung dess Löblichen Hörtzogthumbs Crain und der Angeraichten Herschafften Windischen March, Möttling, Usterreich und Karsst. Ljubljana: Johann Georg Mayr, 1707, small woodcut armorial on title-page, large woodcut armorial on verso of title-page, woodcut initials and tail-pieces

Gemainer Statt Laybach new Reformierte Gerichts Ordnung. Graz: heirs of Ernst Widmanstetter, 1638, woodcut armorial on title-page, without final blank leaf

together 3 works in one volume, folio (275 x 182mm.), nineteenth-century German patterned paper boards, manuscript inventory/archive number on upper cover, boards somewhat rubbed

A volume of statutes relating to the Habsburg territory of Carniola (Krain), covering much of modern Slovenia, and with Laibach (Ljulbljana) as its capital.

LITERATURE

1st work: VD17 23:740172B; 3rd work: not found in VD17, but there is a copy in Regensburg