Herrn Christian Thomasens Königl. Preussischen Geheimden Raths [Et]C., Juristische Disputation Von Der Kebs-Ehe:Deme ... Beygefüget M. P. Antonini Antwort Auf Die Einwürffe Herrn Breithaupts, Jägers, Zierolds, Petri Encratitae Und Reinbecks Wider Die Dis

Zufinden in der Rengerischen Buchhandlung: Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1714. Octavo in full vellum; [26], 675, [17], 40, [48] p., [1] leaf of plates: 1 ill. (engraving); 18 cm. Handsome full-page frontis illus in b&w, title page printed in black and red. Catalog and indexes at rear. Ex-libris of Bibliotheca Boytzenburgensis, with minimal markings (small circular stamp top front past-down, front board, title page; a few small hand-written accesion numbers(?) to paste-downs. Else a very crisp, tight near fine copy, with nominal wear to vellum. An exceptional copy. No worming or foxing. .

In black letter German. // Concubinage -- Europe. Common law marriage -- Europe. Marriage law of early 18th century Germany. // Thomasius was a leading German author, historian, jurist and philosopher of his time. A progressive thinker, he promoted the use of German over Latin and argued that bigamy was natural. He was also an opponent of the persecution of "witches" and the use of turture. An Enlightenment thinker. Dramatic frontispiece woodcut illustration depicts what appears to be a man with two wives, each with a child. One wife stands in the doorway, the other is leaving with a loaf of bread.