Domenico Moro - Del Sindicato degli Officiali - 1767

Rare and important work of eighteenth-century administrative and criminal law printed in Naples in 1767.

The volume represents a famous legal treatise dedicated to the institute of the syndicate of officials, i.e., the procedure of control, accountability, and verification of the conduct of public officials, magistrates, and administrators at the end of their term of office in the Kingdom of Naples.

Valuable features: Original title page; bears a fine woodcut vignette centered, depicting a cherub with a heraldic shield and allegorical elements, the indication of the third edition, and the formula Con licenza de' Superiori, e Privilegio.

Structure of the work: Divided into three main books (Book I: Del Sindicato degli Officiali, Book II, Book III: De' delitti degli Officiali) with extensive summaries, detailed chapters, footnotes in Latin, and an exhaustive General Index of the things written in this Opera at the end.

Specifications of the item:
Author: Domenico Moro (Lawyer)
Complete title: Del Sindicato degli Officiali. Opera dell'Avvocato Domenico Moro.
Third Edition
Year of publication: MDCCLXVII (1767)
Place of printing: Naples
Printing house / Publisher: In the Press of the Heirs of Moro
Language: Italian (with Latin quotations and extracts)
Binding: Contemporary hard parchment binding with manuscript title on the spine (Moro Del Sindicato)
Pages: 349 pages (complete with final general index)
Dimensions: 36 x 24 cm

Conditions: General state good and solid for an eighteenth-century volume. Binding: Full contemporary hard parchment with manuscript title on the spine. Displays a small worn corner and physiological signs of time on the boards. Interior: Pages well bound, intact and fully legible. A humidity/age-related stain on the first pages and some sporadic foxing scattered in the text, which in no way compromises reading.

Binding in full contemporary parchment with physiological time signs and light wear to boards and joints. Interior solid, pages intact; widespread foxing and age-browning that do not impair legibility.

Binding: Full contemporary hard parchment in excellent preservation, with an elegant period ink inscription on the spine.
Typography: Decorative initials with woodcut initials and decorative headpieces at the beginning of chapters.

A work of notable historical-legal interest, ideal for collectors of Neapolitan cinquantaine/ settecentine, ancient jurisprudence texts, and the history of public institutions of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.