12 volumes, octavo (190 x 130 mm); pagination: 4 unnumbered pages, cccxx, 318, 320, 319, 319, 319, 320, 320, 320, 318, 320. Contemporary half-leather bindings with hazel-colored marbled paper boards; titles and volume numbers on red and black morocco spine labels. Red speckled edges. An excellent copy. A rare first and only edition of this official collection of laws and proclamations issued by the Provisional Municipality of Venice (the pro-French democratic government) following the fall of the Republic of Venice and the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte. It compiles the decrees, manifestos, and laws of this new political phase prior to the Treaty of Campo Formio (October 1797), which ceded Venice to Austria.