RARE FIRST EDITION of a monograph on law in ancient Israel by eminent German historian Karl Dietrich Hüllmann (1765-1846), Professor of History in the universities of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1797, Königsberg from 1808, and Bonn from 1818, where he also served as the first rector in the then newly established University of Bonn. 215x130mm. VI+227 pages. Brown rebound Hardcover with cloth spine. Cover slightly stained and rubbed. Cover edges rubbed. Cover upper corners bumped, front cover upper corner also peeling. Bump-mark on rear cover outer edge. Spine edges slightly bumped. Sticker residues and black inscription in felt-tip pen on spine. Several wormholes and worm-marks on front cover upper edge and corner, rear cover, spine, and inner cover. Several worm-marks on front whitepage, introduction and 7 first pages outer and bottom edge - NO damage to text. Ex-library copy with stamp and small ink and pencil inscriptions on whitepage, pre-title and title pages. Pre-title upper corner slightly tattered. Some page edges slightly water-stained - NO damage to text. Pages browning and slightly wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on ancient Israelite law is in good reading condition.