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Tonight, I decided to clean up, cataloging old books can be messy, un-packing , reading photographing, researching all leads to lots of stuff lying around. So here is a look at the making of the ‘sausage’. First there is the unpacking: carefully at first, then in a frenzied way I open the box., I use a trusty very sharp knife, then once i get inside the box, I trust only my hands. It is often suprising to see what people wrap books in.

Some Very established Dealers have whole Shipping and Packaging departments, with men wearing smocks who custom fit each book in a custom box, they sometimes even have custom printed tape! Other times I’ve received books wrapped in wash cloths, old t-shirts, once I received a first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia wrapped in some surgical wipes (Ted).

Once the book is unwrapped I collate it, blind, without looking at other collations, to see what I come up with.

π4 (unsigned) A-Y4,Z2,Aa-Cc2 [Bound with] π2,A-K4,L2 [Bound with] π1,A4 (π2 blank) B-Z4, Aa-Cc4, a1, ß4,b-c4,d6. 

Ok Looks complete, but from here I check, the easiest place for these three books will be Oclc, ‘back in the day’ I’d go to the NUC, but now I can do it sitting down,    http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSLogin?sessionid=0.

I search “Tractatvs de miserabilivm” and I come up with

Title: Tractatvs de miserabilivm personarvm privilegiis, in qvo complvres singvlares materiae ad earum fauorem in vsu forensi quotidianae, & frequentes, tum iuxta iuris communis, quam municipalis regni dispositionem, supremorum totius orbis tribunalium, placita accuratè, exactèq; dilucidantur : opus sane practicabile, curiosum, necessarium, & utile Author: Novarius, Joannes Maria Accession Number: 65106265

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Title: Tractatvs de miserabilivm personarvm privilegiis, in qvo complvres singvlares materiae ad earum fauorem in vsu forensi quotidianae, & frequentes, tum iuxta iuris communis, quam municipalis regni dispositionem, supremorum totius orbis tribunalium, placita accuratè, exactèq; dilucidantur :
opus sane practicabile, curiosum, necessarium, & utile /
Author(s): Novarius, Joannes Maria, 16XX.
Publication: Neapoli : ex typographia Dominici Maccarani : expensis Stephani Monleverii, 
Edition: Hac secvnda editione diligentivs recognitum, singulis ferè in locis auctum, & quamplurimis nouis priuilegijs lucupletatum, & illustratum.
Year: 1637
Description: [XXVI], 228, [36], 97, [11] p. ; fol.
Language: Latin; In II: Accesserunt in calce nonnullae allegationes Francisci Severini.
Note(s): Bevat ook: Io. Mariae Novarii L.C. Lvcani De relictorvm ex cavsa male ablatorvm privilegiis : practicabilis tractatus./ Met reg.
Other Titles: Tractatus de miserabilium personarum privilegiis, in quo complures …; De relictorum ex causa male ablatorum privilegiis
Damn! this doesn’t match. By the page count method, I have [IV],165, [24] ok, so I look for other copies because there is no apparent lacuna. 

I find an earlier edition, slightly different title, same printer:

Praxis aurea privilegiorum miserabilium personarum : in qua complures materiae in earum favorem in usu forensi quotidianae & frequentes dilucidè breviter, exactèque tractantur ac exornantur … / authore Io. Maria Novario ..

No match here either? I look back at Oclc, nothing for 1669 at all>>?

Ok other catalogues, None at Harvard, or Columbia,None at Yale, None In the German KVK catalogue or KIT…

Dang  The Library of Congress has a 1740…

I look at the collation again, It is complete What ever it is.. So now I go thru the same Process with the other two titles.

But first as a breather I’ll take some pictures, I’ll use my stones and antlers to hold the pages open!

337G          Novari, Giovanni Maria & Barbato, Horatio.

Tractatvs de miserabilivm personarvm privilegiis, in qvo complvres singvlares materiae ad earum fauorem in vsu forensi quotidianae, & frequentes, tum iuxta iuris communis, quam municipalis regni dispositionem, supremorum totius orbis tribunalium, placita accuratè, exactèq; dilucidantur :opus sane practicabile, curiosum, necessarium, & utile
[bound with]
De Restitutionis incertorum et male ablatorum privilegiis fertilis et praegnans tractatus… Accesserunt in calce nonnullae allegationes V. I. D. Francisci Severini
       [bound with]
De restitutorio interdicto ac de reuocanda possessione liber singularis : ad intellectum reg. pragm. Regni Neap. incipientis, assistentiam sub titulo de assistentia praestanda : in quo praeter huberem tractatum, obligationis bonoru[m], pacti de capiendo constituti, excussionis, ac hypothecariae, nihilum penè desiderari potest in materia, quin luculenter, copiosèq[ue] tractetur

Neapoli: ex Typographia Dominici Maccarani 1637 et Typis Luca & Antonii de Fusco ,1669
and
Neapoli: ex Typographia Dominici Maccarani 1637 et Typis Luca & Antonii de Fusco ,1669
and
Neapoli: Per Jacobum Gaffari; 1637 Sumptibus Io.Domenici Bove .

Now to figure out what these three are…