Pack, Pieter - Opera omnia in vnum volumen redacta - 1679

Pack, Pieter: The complete works of the distinguished Pieter Peck of Zierikzee, formerly professor of law at the University of Leuven, collected in one volume and newly published: their contents are listed on the following page. Latest edition, corrected of errors. Antwerp, Verdussen, 1679. With printer’s device on title page. 896 pp., 22 leaves. Contemporary vellum. 33 x 20 cm.
Pieter Peck (Latinized as Petrus Peckius, 1529–1589) was from Zierikzee in Zeeland. He was initially a professor of law at Leuven and later rose to become a councillor of the Great Council of Mechelen (Magno Senatu Belgico), the highest court of the Spanish Netherlands at the time. Peck is regarded as one of the most important early modern pioneers of maritime law. – With the bookplate of the Bohemian nobleman Josef Zahorzansky von Worlik (1814–1842). First leaf with an added strip along the outer edge and slight loss of text; otherwise a very good copy!