A Practice Manual of German Law
Johann Stephan Putter. Anleitung zur Juristischen Praxi wie in Teutschland Sowohl Gerichtliche als Aussergerichtliche Rechtshandel oder Andere Canzlen- Reichs-und Staats-Sachen Schriftlich oder Mundlich Verhandelt, und in Archiven Beygeleget Werden. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1789. 20 cm. Two volumes bound as one. Contemporary three-quarter tree calf over marbled boards.
Anleitung
zur Juristischen Praxi covers judicial administration, pleading, titles
of honor, legal ceremony, and the orthography and spelling of legal
German. 
First published in 1753, it went through several editions
and continued to be issued into the nineteenth century.
This work is by the same distiguished German legal scholar, Johann Stephan Pütter (1725-1807), that authored the Juristischen Encyclopadie also acquired this year.