Official Documents, Proclamations, Ordinances, Resolutions And Publications Concerning the Government, 1742.

Utdrag Utur alle ifrån den 7. Decemb. 1718. utkomne Publique Handlingar, Placater, Förordningar, Resolutioner Ock Publicationer, Som Riksens Styrsel samt inwärtes Hushållning ock Författningar i gemen, jämwäl ock Stockholms Stad i synnerhet, angå; Med nödige Citationer af alle Paralel-Stellen, Som utwisa, Hwad ändringar tid efter annan i ett eller annat mål kunnat wara giorde. Hwarförutan De uti desze Handlingar åberopade äldre Acters Innehåll korteligen anföres, så ofta nödigt warit. Följandes efterst wid hwar Del ett fullkomligit Orda-Register Öfwer des Innehåll. Första Delen til År 1730.

Excerpts From all since the 7. Decemb. 1718 published Official Documents, Proclamations, Ordinances, Resolutions And Publications Concerning the Government of the State and the domestic Economy and Regulations in general, including and in particular concerning the City of Stockholm; With the necessary Citations of Parallel Passages, Which show, What changes now and then may have been made by one or another case. Additionally, brief reproductions of the contents of older cited Documents whenever necessary. Each Section last followed by a complete Word Index of its Contents. The First Part until the Year 1730.

(Stockholm: Printed by Lorentz Ludewig Grefing, 1742). Volume (and Part) 1 of 15, uniformly bound in contemporary brown half leather with beige, dark-spotted paper boards.

This book series (published in Stockholm 1742–1794) was a one-stop shop legal compilation of its time, an 18th Century Swedish counterpart of today’s comprehensive online digital collections of legal resources.

Provenance notes. The 15 volumes were purchased by the UMN Law Library on October 22, 1951 from “Björck”, which probably is Björck & Börjesson. In this volume, like in the 14 others, we find the signature G. Edelstam in sepia ink; this was probably Colonel Gustaf Edelstam (1764–1825), a most noteworthy former owner. He was one of the heroes of the Finnish War (1808–1809), in which Sweden eventually lost its eastern territories to the Russian Empire. Under the name Fahlander (his family name before being ennobled in 1809), Edelstam was immortalized through the epic poem Tales of Second Lutenant Stål (Swedish original title: Fänrik Ståls sägner, Part I, 1848), written by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland. In 1811, Edelstam was appointed governor of the province of Västerbotten in the north of Sweden, “where, though raised and naturally fallen, a warrior for life and soul, he also distinguished himself as a civil servant through his justice and love for order.” (Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon I, 1906.)