KLING (Melchior). Das Gantze Sechsisch Landrecht mit Text vnd Gloss/ in eine richtige Ordnung gebracht/ Durch Doctor Melchior Klingen von Steinaw/ an der Strassen/ [...]. Leipzig: Steinmann, Hans, 1577. - In-folio, cold-stamped sow skin on wood, boards decorated with framed scrolls and a central plate depicting Justice on the first board and Lucretia piercing her breast on the second board, spine ribbed, brass clasps (period binding). Second posthumous edition of this work first published in 1572, considered the first systematic treatment of Saxon state law. It is the work of the German lawyer and jurist Melchior Kling (1504-1571) who had Philipp Melanchthon as a teacher. A very fine copy in its first blindstamped binding. Soiling to the binding, missing a clasp and the last endpaper. Worm gallery on the first few leaves, with slight damage to the text.