Louis XIV - Ordonnances de Louis XIV pour le commerce des marchands (Code Savary) - 1673

[LOUIS XIV - CODE SAVARY]. Ordinances of Louis XIV, king of France and Navarre, serving as regulations for the trade of merchants. Given at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the month of March 1673. In Paris, at the associates chosen by order of His Majesty for the printing of His new Ordinances, 1673.

Petit in-12, text and table paginated up to 131, followed by the extract of the privilege; 7 x 12.5 cm.

Pocket-format edition, printed in the very year of its promulgation, of the March 1673 Trade Ordinance, called the “Savary Code” after the merchant Jacques Savary who was its principal drafter. Desired by Colbert, it constitutes the first French commercial code and one of the great codification ordinances of Louis XIV’s reign: apprentices, merchants and traders, banking agents and brokers, books and ledgers, companies, letters and bills of exchange, exchange interests, corpora constraints, separations of property, bankruptcies and liquidations, jurisdiction of the consuls. Its provisions largely carried over into the Code de commerce of 1807. Large royal arms carved on wood at the title.

Contemporary full calf binding, spine with raised bands.

Condition: good; binding rubbed, interior correct.