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284. Bristol, Roger P.
Index of Printers, Publishers, And Booksellers Indicated by
Charles in his American Bibliography. Bibliographical Society of
the Univ. of Virginia, 1961. Reprinted Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino
Publishing, 2005. iv, 171 pp. Cloth. New. $60.
* This useful bibliography is a tool for use in conjunction with
Evans, American Bibliography. Bristol has provided an index
of printers, publishers, and booksellers to help navigate Evans when
author-title information is not clear, or not properly transcribed.
Bristol suggests that Evans made many attributions of author,
publisher, and place of publication which have been found to be poor
hunches. The index is an attempt to correct some of these errors.
Names of printers and publishers are brought together under place,
with no attempt to establish relationships or to differentiate
between the individuals of the same name. Bristol was involved in
updating Evans even further through supplements and indexes intended
to make the information provided in Evans more accurate and
accessible. This volume is scarce, no copies having appeared for
sale on line for the past year or so. Besterman 5196.  
285. Cowley, John D.
A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digests, Dictionaries and Indexes of
English Law to the Year 1800.
London: Quaritch for the Selden Society, 1932. Reprint Mansfield
Center, CT: Martino Publishing, 2005. xcv, 196 pp. Illustrated.
Tables. Facsimiles. Cloth. New. $75.
* This bibliography aims to record as far as possible all printed
editions of abridgments, digests, dictionaries and indexes of
English law in general from the earliest times to the year 1800. It
also illustrates the development of the alphabetical system of
digesting. The work provides 330 descriptive entries and is divided
into four sections: I. Abridgments and Indexes of the Statutes; II.
Abridgments of Common Law & Equity; III. Common Law Indexes; IV.
Dictionaries & Legal Encyclopedias. Each section is preceded by a
thorough discussion of each type of work, as well as a discussion of
important books and authors for each. About one hundred pages are
devoted to the historical introduction. A quite extensive
bibliographical essay precedes the 330 descriptive entries. Indexed.
286. Gagarin, Michael and David Cohen, Editors.
The
Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law.
Cambridge University Press, [2005]. xiii, 480 pp. Cloth. New. $85.
* Provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics
pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction
establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its
development over the last 30 years. Many of the 22 essays written by
an international team of experts, deal with procedural and
substantive law in classical Athens, but significant attention is
also paid to legal practice in the archaic and Hellenistic eras;
areas that offer substantial evidence for legal practice, such as
Crete and Egypt; the intersection of law with religion, philosophy,
political theory, rhetoric, and drama, as well as the unity of Greek
law and the role of writing in law. The volume is intended to
introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new
thinking among specialists.
287. Jin, Guangming, and Qipeng Li, Compilers.
[Ying Fa Han Guo Ji Fa Ci Dian]/English, French, Chinese
Dictionary of International Law. Taibei Shi: Wu Zhou Chu Ban
She, 1986. 543 pp. Hardbound, spine ends and corners bumped,
internally clean. $65.
* The terms are arranged in parallel columns. OCLC locates 7 copies.
288. [Kress Library].
The Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue. Covering
Material Published through 1776 with Data upon Cognate Items in
Other Harvard Libraries.
Cambridge, MA: Maurizio Martino Publisher, [1993]. Quarto. ix, [2],
414 pp. Cloth. Fine. $60.
* Reprint edition. Contains 7,279 items that reflect the changing
business practices and institutions, economic conditions, and
economic thought of the period covered. Indexed.
289. Martindale Hubbell Law Directory. 2006 Edition.
New Providence: LexisNexis, 2006. 16 Volumes. Cloth. Complete set,
ex-private law firm library, very good. Publisher’s Price $875.
Special $295.
* Vols. 1-12, U.S.A.; 2 Law Digest volumes; 2 International Law
Directory volumes. Provides basic practice profile data on virtually
every attorney in the U.S. with professional biographies of leading
lawyers and firms, with detailed descriptions of each firm and full
biographies of its members. One of the most comprehensive listings
of international lawyers available, with profiles of lawyers and
firms in 160 foreign countries, as well as U.S. firms with
international interests. Information on almost every in-house lawyer
and corporate legal department. Exclusive lawyer and law firm
ratings based upon peer review evaluations. Also provides law
digests of the U.S. and 75 countries, prepared by leading law firms
and covering every topic from Absentees and Affidavits to Divorces
and Wills.
290. Martindale Hubbell Law Directory. 2005 Edition.
New Providence: LexisNexis, 2005. 16 Volumes. Cloth. Complete set,
ex-private law firm library, very good. Publisher’s Price $875.
Special $195.
* Vols. 1-12, U.S.A.; 2 Law Digest volumes; 2 International Law
Directory volumes. Provides basic practice profile data on virtually
every attorney in the U.S. with professional biographies of leading
lawyers and firms, with detailed descriptions of each firm and full
biographies of its members. One of the most comprehensive listing of
international lawyers available, with profiles of lawyers and firms
in 160 foreign countries, as well as U.S. firms with international
interests. Information on almost every in-house lawyer and corporate
legal department. Exclusive lawyer and law firm ratings based upon
peer review evaluations.
Also provides law digests of the U.S. and 75 countries, prepared by
leading law firms and covering every topic from Absentees and
Affidavits to Divorces and Wills. See illustration below.
291. Oates, J.C.T.
A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the
University Library
Cambridge.
Cambridge: University Press, 1954. Reprinted Martino Fine Books,
[n.d.]. xiv, 898 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth. Fine. $80.
*This work is to list all the fifteenth-century books in the
Cambridge University Library, to direct the reader to the best
published descriptions of each book, to supplement published
descriptions when they appear inadequate or inaccurate, and to
describe the peculiarities and the provenance of the Cambridge copy.
In all 4,227 books are described.
292. Pollard, A. W., Compiler.
List of Catalogues of English Book Sales 1676-1900 Now in the
British Museum.
With an introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. London: Printed by Order
of the Trustees, 1915. Reprinted by Martino Fine Books, 1995. xvi,
523 pp. Cloth. Fine. $70.
* The collection of nearly 8000 catalogues of English book sales in
the British Library ranges from the first sale of books by auction.
New Edition Just Published
293. Svengalis, Kendall F.
Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual 2006.
Westerly, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Lawpress, June 2006. viii, 722
pp. Softbound.
New. $135.
* Revised and updated. Now in its Tenth edition, this essential
reference tool, a consumer’s encyclopedia of legal publications,
provides comprehensive information on all major categories of legal
publications from the consumer’s perspective. Essential information
on leading legal publications for the 50 states and the District of
Columbia. See illustration below.
294. Tomlinson, William, and Richard Masters.
Bookcloth 1823-1980: A Study of Early Use and the Rise of
Manufacture, Winterbottom’s Dominance of the Trade in Britain and
America, Production Methods and Costs and the Identification of
Qualities and Designs. [Cheshire: Dorothy Tomlinson, 1996]. xvi,
143, pp. 11 plates with tipped-in binding samples, color portrait
frontispiece, illustrations in color and black and white. Cloth with
gilt top-edge in slipcase. New. $85.
* The first and arguably the only comprehensive study of the science
and history of manufacturing bookcloth, this fascinating study
focuses on the development and use of starch-filled bookcloth, from
building factories to the formation of the Winterbottom Book Cloth
Company in 1891, which dominated the industry for almost a century.
The real treasure of this book is the section containing 36
tipped-in samples of the qualities and 30 embossed samples of the
most popular designs. Includes bibliography and extensive notes and
appendices.
An Indispensable Reference
295. Walker, David M.
The Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2.1980.
ix, 1366 pp. Ex-library. Cloth very good in lightly worn dust jacket
with lightly faded spine, front free endpaper lacking. Ex-library.
Stamps to front endleaf and foot of title page. $85.
* An indispensable compendium of information about the branches of
legal science, legal systems, institutions such as courts and
juries, notable judges and jurists, legal concepts and ideas, major
legal principles and important documents and cases. It deals with
legal history, legal philosophy, comparative law, international law,
EEC law and the main legal systems which share the common Western
legal tradition, namely those of the U.K., the major Commonwealth
countries, the U.S.A. and the countries of Western Europe.
296. Walter, Carroll G.
Brief-Writing and Advocacy. New York: Baker, Voorhies & Co.,
1931. 248 pp. Ex-library with stamps, card pocket on rear pastedown
page and location label on spine. Red cloth, worn. Internally
clean. $25.
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