A view of ancient laws against immorality and profaneness
Subtitle: under the following heads; lewdness; profane swearing, cursing and blasphemy; perjury; profanation of days devoted to religion; contempt or neglect of divine service; drunkeness; gaming; idleness, vagrancy, and begging; stage-plays and players; and duelling. Collected from the Jewish, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard and other laws down to the middle of the eleventh century
By: By John Disney ...
Contributors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-1995, former owner
Publisher: C. Crownfield [etc.]
Published: 1729
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Criminal law; History; Comparative law; Prostitution; Blasphemy; Perjury; Sunday legislation; Liquor laws; Poor laws; Theater; Law and legislation; Dueling
Notes: "An index of authors, and the editions of them, made use of in this work": 5th-7th prelim. leaves.

Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Has Seymour B. Durst's bookplate.

Gift; Seymour Durst; 2012. plate:seymourdurst