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Found these at the skip the other day (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by elsewhere to c/bookcollecting

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I haven't counted if they are all there but it seems like someone has left all 26 volumes. Not sure if they have any value but they are pretty old.

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[–] phil299 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sort of need the title page to be certain but they appear to be 1804 edition of "digest or the pandectes or the emperor Justinine" Complete in 50 books although could be bound in various combinations of volumes. TBH not sure how desirable they are, I only really deal in English , Latin and Greek texts so a little out of my orbit. BTW Pandectes means ,or at least can mean, law of everything , and these books are basically Roman law from the mid 500AD. It seems to me that because they are dis-bound the cost of binding would be more than the value of the set if complete but as I said not exactly my area of expertise

[–] elsewhere 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for your comments! I think you're spot on with the identification. These books have one page in Latin, and one in French. I still need to count how many of them I have in the box, I got distracted with the other ones I found in there

[–] phil299 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

BTW this is monumental Latin dictionary of legal terms and jurisprudence edited and completed by Pieter Cornelisz Van Brederode 1596 this certainly has some value nice find.

[–] elsewhere 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, it seems like there was somewhat of a legal theme in this box. I'm going to keep these for sure; I'm very much into antiques but I never ever had anything this old.

Off-topic but I'm still figuring out where to post between reddit and lemmy. I wish more people made the switch. I was about to delete my reddit account but then I just posed again... Over the weekend I will try to find time to post a proper update here with more pictures.

[–] phil299 1 points 2 years ago

Yes I do know what you mean about lemmy/reddit its just I can not get into reddit any more, the tone of the discussions here are just so much better, it is such a shame certain subs are less militant than others , the two I often used on reddit, book collecting and fl studio, basically seem as busy as usual , which is frustrating. However at the end of the day I am here now 90% of my social media time and very glad to have found a worthwhile alternative to work on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is quite a find. Looks like a bunch of uncut 18th century books in their original wrappers (well, mostly in wrappers).