MITTERMAIER, C. J. A.

Regensburg, G. Joseph Manz, 1842-43. 8vo. XVI,+ 678; (2),+ 816 pp. A few pencil notations. Contemporary brown half calf, gilt- and blindstamped spines and marbled board papers. Two volumes. From the library of Nils G. von Koch at Augerum with his stamp on front paste downs. Fine copy of the sixth edition of Mittermaier’s treaty of the German Civil law. The first was first published in 1824. Carl Josef Anton Mittermaier (1787-1867) was one of the foremost German jurists in the early 19th-century, and one of the most important critics of the death penalty. His main area was in the fields of criminal laws, criminal procedures and prisons but wrote extensively in several fields of the law. He was professor of law and jurisprudence first in Bonn but from 1821 at Heidelberg, but he was also active as a liberal legislator in the parliaments of Frankfurt and Baden.Fine provenance. Nils S. von Koch (1801-81) was an influential Swedish liberal jurist and politician, married to Francis Eliza Lewin from England. He was very engaged in the social questions of his time like education, penalty laws and prisons, voting rights etc.