The Roman Law of Testaments, Codicils and Gifts in the Event of Death. (Mortis Causa Donationes.)
Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., 1892.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First edition. vii, 197pp. Brick red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. A trifle worn at the corners and spine ends, still easily a bright, fine copy. Born in Philadelphia, Dropsie was a Jewish-American lawyer, businessman, and patron of Jewish learning who left his fortune to found Dropsie College in Philadelphia, which was open until 1986; it is now part of Penn under the name "Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies."
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