Verhandeling over de Huwelyks-Wetten van Moses

die de huwelyken in de naaste bloedverwantschap verbieden. Johan David Michaëlis. Leiden, Samuel en Johannes Luchtmans, 1764. Bound together with: Verhandeling over de Misdaaden en Straffen (...) Waar by de verklaaring op dit werkje van den Heere de Voltaire. Amsterdam, Gerrit Bom, 1768.

Halfvellum, 2 parts in one vol. Title on spine in ms., 2x title with woodcut vignette, (8),417 and (18),196 pp. Name and 2x bookplate to first endpaper. Very good copy. This treatise on crime and punishment discusses the humanisation of criminal law and tied in excellently with Voltaire's ideas of enlightenment, the latter praising this work in its introduction.