Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Condition: very good. Den Haag : H. Scheurleer op Ordre van den Hoove van Hollandt, 1735, Modern halfcloth binding. 194 pp. Met : Brieven tusschen Jacob Pesters, zyn soon Jan Pesters, en andere Persoonen, gewisselt; met de Stukken daer toe relatief. Den Haag : H. Scheurleer "op Ordre van den Hoove van Hollandt", 1735. (4),199 pp. Folio. Dutch & French text. Orig. marbled wrappers included. Leaves sl. frayed; small portion of lower margin of last ±10 leaves lacking, not affecting text. First title-page sl. foxed. - Official account of the the civil trial between Louisa Junkers on account of her daughter Maria Elisabeth, against Jacob Pesters and his son Jan, the last of whom was accused of having courted Maria Elisabeth in such a way as to be of 'disadvantage' to her. Jacob Pesters, accused in name of his son Jan Pesters who was still a minor, in his turn Maria Elisabeth Junkers of plotting to poison his son. To prove this, he presented the court with numerous letters (the second part of this book), which turned out to be fabricated and false. In the subsequent criminal trial Jacob Peters is convicted to "Swaart over het Hooft'', a public humiliation on the scaffold where the executioner swings his sword in a frightening way over the head of a kneeling sentenced person, next to life long house arrest at his own costs and a fine of 20.000 pounds. Condition : very good copy. Keywords : RECHT, rechtsgeschiedenis NL old & rare law books.