HOTMAN, ANTOINE]. Trait de la dissolution du mariage pour l'impuissance & froideur de l'homme ou de la femme. Paris: Jean Millot, 1610. Title printed in red and black with printer's woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and initials. 8vo, contemporary vellum, flat spine gilt, fragment of later calf lettering-piece, spine darkened, light marginal dampstaining . Third? edition of this early work on divorce. Hotman, advocate general to the French parliament, states that he wrote the work (first published in 1581) because of the increasing frequency of suits for divorce on grounds of impotence. His scholarly examination of the problem of unconsummated marriage is based on classical and biblical sources. Barbier IV, 755.
HOTMAN, ANTOINE]. Trait de la dissolution du mariage pour l'impuissance & froideur de l'homme ou de la femme. Paris: Jean Millot, 1610. Title printed in red and black with printer's woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and initials. 8vo, contemporary vellum, flat spine gilt, fragment of later calf lettering-piece, spine darkened, light marginal dampstaining . Third? edition of this early work on divorce. Hotman, advocate general to the French parliament, states that he wrote the work (first published in 1581) because of the increasing frequency of suits for divorce on grounds of impotence. His scholarly examination of the problem of unconsummated marriage is based on classical and biblical sources. Barbier IV, 755.
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