Nachträgliche Actenstücke der deutschen Bundes-Verhandlungen; als Anhang zu den Protokollen der Bundesversammlung (Retroactive Documents of the German Federal Negotiations as Appendix to the Protocols of the Federal Assembly) Vols. 4 and 5

Frankfurt / Main: Andreäischen Buchhandlung, 1820. First edition. Softcover. Fair to good- condition. Quarto. (2) 306, viii, 291 (1)pp. uncut. Plain blue stiff paper wraps with paper labels on spine, protected by modern mylar.

Volume 4:

I. Disclaimer of the Frankfurt Senate addressed to the Federal Assembly, a rebuttal of claims of the Frankfurt Jews addressed to the Federal Assembly, dated Frankfurt, May 8, 1817, with enclosures 1, 2 and 3, signed by the Mayor and Council of Frankfurt in volume four. Attachment one elaborates on the judicial and community relation of the Jews in Frankfurt/Main; illustrated historically and legally in relation to a complaintif memorandum and subsequent petitions, submitted at a Federal Assembly against the Frankfurt Senate. The subject of the detailed complaint was the desire for protection against the impairment of acquired rights. Attachment two is a survey of the Royal Prussian Judicial Faculty, including the current legal situation of the Frankfurt Jews and the state of the Jewish community at the time of the Free City of the Reich, respectively the Grand Duke. Attachment three treats the claims of the Jews in Frankfurt to obtain citizenship of the city.

II. Addendum to the memorandum submitted to the German Federal Assembly on November 4, 1816, of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, relating to their civil and constitutional rights. Prompted by the disclaimer of the the Senate of May 8, 1817, and its three attachments.

III. Judicial expert opinion of the judicial faculty of the Grand Duke's Hesse University in Gießen, respective the civil rights of the Jewish community of the free city of Frankfurt, dated July 1, 1616.

IV. Addressed to the high German Federal Assembly. Certified defense of the rights of the citizenry of Frankfurt/Main, against demands of the Jewish Community to be granted equal civil and political rights as the citizens of the free city by the representatives of the citizens; dated Frankfurt June 16, 1817. Includes 61 attachments.

Volume 5:

Contains sixty-one attachments relating to the defense as described in the previous volume, number IV, pp. 225 - 394. In addition this volume contains XVI documents, including a short dispatch of the so-called addendum to the grievance of the Frankfurt Jews addressing the German Federal Assembly, respective their claim to the civil rights in the free city of Frankfurt, dated October 25, 1817. The other fifteen documents are concerned with various legal matters throughout Germany, e.g. Braunschweig, Offenbach, Heidelberg, Trier and other jurisdictions and not related to Jewish issues.

Text in German, Gothic script. Some wear along edges of wraps, small chips, more pronounced at spines, here with cracks and spine of volume two with more extensive chipping. Some foxing of blacks with first seventy pages of volume one with some water staining in margins. (Inventory #: 51743)