16 volumes, including index. Volume 1 with engraved frontispiece and title page printed in black and red. (Folio) 38x24 cm (15x9") period leather with raised spine bands, gilt decorated compartments, paper spine labels lettered in gilt, speckled edges.

Giovanni Battista de Luca (1614–1683) was an Italian jurist and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. De Luca's writings, which are eminently practical in character, are most important for proper understanding of the jurisprudence of the Roman Curia and especially of the Rota Romana in his time. His complete works were published under the title Theatrum Veritatis et Justitiae; a comprehensive legal encyclopedia that became one of the most significant authorities of the late ius commune and was reprinted regularly up until the middle of the 18th century. This scarce set is from the library of the Mount St. Alphonsus seminary in Esopus, N.Y