Beschrijving
Leeuwarden, Hero Nauta, 1686, 4to., first edition, two volumes, volume I: without binding, volume II: full parchment spitsel binding with handwriting on spine (author, volume 2), titlepages in black and red with woodcut printer's mark (Lex et Ratio), volume I: [24]+680 pp. (pp 681-688 are missing), volume II: [8]+542+[64] pp. The second volume is in good condition with only minor damage and smudged parchment. Volume one has no binding anymore, and because of that the bookblock has been exposed, resulting in (water)stains, damaged/curled corners and the last few pages have been lost.
Ulrik Huber (13 March 1636 in Dokkum – 8 November 1694 in Franeker), also known as Ulrich Huber or Ulricus Huber, was a professor of law at the University of Franeker and a political philosopher. Huber studied in Franeker, Utrecht and Heidelberg. He started in 1657 – at a very young age – as professor of Eloquence and History at the University of Franeker and as of 1665 he became professor of law. From 1679 to 1682 he was a judge at the Court of Appeal of Friesland and thereafter returned to his position as professor of law until his death in 1694. His major work, De jure civitatis libri tres, was published initially in 1672 and continued to be revised until 1694. Huber considered captivity in war, criminal conviction, voluntary renunciation of liberty, and birth from a female slave legal grounds for slavery. Apart from this work, he was internationally well-known for his studies on Roman law. In the Netherlands he is also well known for his work ‘Heedensdaegse Rechtsgeleertheyt soo elders, als in Friesland gebruikelijk’ (The Jurisprudence of My Time). In this work he presents a complete overview of the law system of Friesland at that time. In 1672 he became engaged in the public polemic about the Frisian constitution then raging in and around the States of Friesland with his pamphlet ‘Spiegel Van Doleancie En Reformatie, Na den tegenwoordigen toestant des Vaderlandts’ (Mirror of Appeal and Reform, concerning the current situation of the Fatherland). He is considered the greatest jurist of the Dutch province Friesland ever known. At the University of Groningen, one of the institutes of the Faculty of Law is named after him.
