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PRACTICAL NOTARY'S HANDBOOK





MAST, Dirck Heymansz vander.  Practique des Notarischaps, Seer nut, profijtelijck ende noodigh alle Jonckheyt die haer willen offenen in dese Konst. Midtsgaders voor alle andere Persoonen. Den vierden Druck van nieuws oversien, gecorrogeert en veel vermeerdert, by den Autheur selfs.
Delft, Jan Pietersz Waelpot, 1656. Small 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, including a view into a notary's office at the top, a clerk at work and the allegorical figure of law at either side of the title-page, and with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Delft on the letterpress title-page. Contemporary vellum.

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(12), 163, (1 blank) pp. Dekkers p. 110 (recording only 3 eds. plus a later pirated ed.); Pitlo pp. 44-55. "mogen wij daarbij niet vergeten, dat hij (Van der Mast) de baanbreker is geweest" (we must not forget that he (Van der Mast) was the pioneer), (p. 45).
Fourth revised and enlarged edition of the first Dutch-language notary book published in the Republic, soundly based on a lifelong notary's practice rather than academic theory. Pitlo praises the book, noting Maat as the pioneer in this area . Mast practiced at Rotterdam and Schiedam from 1629 to 1671 and first published his manual in 1642. After 1656 it was superceded by the notary book of Simon van Leeuwen, but was pirated in 1671.
Good but rather used copy. Binding stained, slightly loose in spine; first and last leaves slightly frayed at edges; slightly stained.