PEREZ (Antonio) Praelectiones in duodecim libros Codicis Justiniani Imp. Amsterdam: Louis and Daniel Elzevier, 1661. -2 volumes in-4, stiff ivory parchment, gilded fillet framing the boards, ribbed spines decorated with gilded fillets, speckled edges (late 17th century binding). Willems, 1273. Second Elzevier edition, the first in-4. It was printed by Louis and Daniel Elzevier and, according to Willems, "is more beautiful and more convenient" than the first edition given by Louis Elzevier in 1653 in folio format. It was reproduced by Daniel Elzevier in 1671. This work, composed by the Spanish jurisconsult Antonio Perez (1583-1672), professor of law at Louvain, contains his lessons on the 12 books of Justinian's Code, in which he explains all the laws they contain, illuminating them with those of his own time. A good copy in an antique binding, from the library of the Lyonnais lawyer Florentin-Gabriel Petit (1751-1819), known for having had a very fine library. Worm holes, not serious, on the spine and back of the second volume. Scattered foxing. Small wormholes in the lower margin of the first leaves of the first volume. Provenance: crossed-out manuscript bookplate of a lawyer from Lyon, with the date December 31, 1691 on the first endpaper of each volume. - Florentin-Gabriel Petit, with ex-libris bearing the handwritten date 1788.