French Civil Code. First and only official edition. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, 1804. In-4, half-brown basane with corners, spine decorated, red edges (Binding of the period). First edition of the Civil Code, in the in-4 print run on fine paper. The work was published simultaneously in in-8 and in-32 format. The Napoleonic Code, drafted in barely thirteen months and promulgated on 21 March 1804, is considered to be "one of the greatest monuments to the principle of equality proclaimed by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (Pierre Larousse). A fine copy in period condition. Minor rubbing to binding. En français dans le texte, n°210 - Monglond, VI, 567.