MERULA (=MEREL), P. v. Synopsis praxeos civilis, Maniere van procederen in dese provincien, Hollandt, Zeelandt ende West-Vrieslandt, belanghende civile saken. Amst., C. Claesz., 1592. (16), 524, (42) pp. W. large woodcut view of The Hague on ti-p., & 1 fold. table. Cont. vellum. (Vellum soiled, ties fail, new endpaper, lower blank corner ti-p. torn off).
Paulus van Merel (1558-1607), advocate at the Court of Holland (1587), librarian of the Leyden University (1597), later rector of the same University (1603). Influential and often reprinted book. - Rare first edition. Dekkers 115; NNBW II, 902-04.€ 160