Thomas Bever
The History of the Legal Polity of the Roman State; And of the Rise, Progress, and Extent of the Roman Laws
(London, 1781). A notable English history of Roman law by a contemporary of Edward Gibbon. $1,650.

Sir William Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws of England
[Philadelphia]: Robert Bell, 1771-72. Five books. First American edition of Blackstone, with the fifth appendix volume. The subscriber list includes John Adams, John Jay and other leaders of colonial America. $17,500.

Francesco Bursati (Borsati)
Consiliorum Sive Responsorum.
(Frankfurt, 1594-1610). These four books contain 461 consilia (judgments on points of law) by a notable sixteenth-century Mantuan jurist. $7,500. 

Pope Clement V
[Constitutiones Cum Apparatu Joannis Andrea]. (Rome, 1476).
One of the principal books of the Corpus Juris Canonici, this is the last great collection of the pre-Reformation era, this edition featuring glosses by the great canonist Giovanni d’Andrea. $12,500.

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