Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis with Kirsch's bookplate

Justinian (483 - 565) Corporis Juris Civilis, Vols.1 & 2 bound together. (Amsterdam, Daniel Elzever, 1681) 904; 754pp. Thick octavo, calf over boards, rebacked in morocco, later endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown of Guido Kirsch and signed by him; early vellum tabs to fore edges. Guido Kirsch (1889?1985), lawyer and historian; Son of Rabbi Alexander Kisch and an older brother to noted medical scholar Bruno Kisch, was born in Prague; he studied law at the German university there and received his habilitation from the University of Halle in 1915. Kisch became professor of the history of German law in Konigsberg in 1920; he returned to Prague in 1921; and from 1922 he taught at the University of Halle. He was forcibly retired in November 1933 by the Hitler regime and worked thereafter as a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. In 1935, Kisch moved to the United States, where he taught Jewish history at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He moved to Basel in 1962.