Albany: H.B. Parsons, 1888. xvi, 625 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Original sheep, blind frames to boards, raised bands and lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing with some wear to extremities, joints just starting at head of spine, hinges cracked but secure. Offsetting to margins of endleaves, toning to text, internally clean.    $150.

* Ninth edition of a work first published in 1880. Throop was the editor the 1880 Annotated New York Code of Civil Procedure. “The plan of this work is that which the Editor...deemed the best adapted to enable justices of the peace, and practitioners before them, (1) easily to become familiar with the new system; (2) to overcome the difficulties, which will at first inevitably attend its practical application to legal proceedings; and (3) to ascertain readily, and without the labor of continually comparing the repealing act with the statute books, what provisions of the former statutes, affecting those proceedings, are yet in operation, and may safely be followed”: Preface iii-iv. OCLC locates 1 copy of this edition. Not in the on-line HLC.

With a Foreword by H. Lauterpacht. London: William Hodge and Company, [1950]. liv, 356 pp. Plates. Cloth very good in moderately worn dust jacket.    $125.

* A title in the War Crimes Trials Series. This trial addressed the systematic murder of 96 newborn children of Polish and Russian slave laborers though willful neglect in 1944.

Ingolstadt: Excudebat Andreas Angermarius, Impensis Ioannis Hertsroy, 1609. [xvi], 137, [11], 219, [12] pp. Octavo (4" x 6"). Contemporary vellum with lapped edges, blind rules to boards, raised bands and title in faint early hand to spine, ties lacking. Some spotting, discoloration and soiling to boards. Woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Light browning to text, occasional light foxing, wormholes to portions of text with negligible loss, a few tiny spark burns. Annotations in early hand to front and rear free endpapers, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy of a scarce title.    $600.

* First edition. This book considers matters relating to tithes, interest, usury and ground rent in canon law. Canisius was a distinguished professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt and a notable scholar. A collected edition of his works, Opera Juridica, was published in Louvain in 1629. KVK locates 13 copies of this edition, 22 copies of all editions. Not in the BMC or the Canon Law Collection. ADB 3:749.

London: William Hodge and Company Limited, [1954]. xiii, 298, [1] pp. Plates. Fold-out maps. Cloth very good in lightly worn and soiled dust jacket.    $50.

* A title in the series Notable British Trials. “In the summer of 1951 two little girls were strangled in Bath. Straffen, a certified mental defective, was tried at Taunton Assizes, found unfit to plead, and committed to Broadmoor Institution. In April next year he escaped, and within a matter of hours he strangled a third little girl. For this crime he was tried at Winchester Assizes, found guilty and sentenced to death, despite his plea of insanity. On the second day the trial had to start all over again with a fresh jury owing to the indiscretion of one of the jurors. Eventually Straffen was reprieved. The first murder by a Broadmoor escapee, and a mental defective at that, this trial is of the highest medical and legal importance and is unique in the annals of British Courts”: Book Jacket.

London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, [1949]. xxxvii, 250 pp. Plates. Original cloth, some shelfwear and fading to spine, internally clean.    $125.

London: Printed for Thomas Payne and Son, 1785. xvi, 588, [30] pp. Octavo (5" x 8-1/4"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, endpapers removed. Occasional light foxing, early signatures to title page, early annotations in fine hand to a few leaves. Ex-institution library. Small inkstamps to title page and elsewhere.    $400.

* Only edition. With index. Petrie ran unsuccessfully against John Bristow for a seat in the House of Commons from the Borough of Cricklade. He discovered that the winner purchased votes, and took Bristow and his conspirators, Paul Benfield and Sir John MacPherson, to court. Petrie prevailed, and as a consequence of this bribery, and of other examples discovered in the course of the proceedings, the elective franchise in Cricklade was extended to the freeholders of several adjoining hundreds. The first nineteen chapters of Petrie’s account review the proceedings. The final two chapters contain the statements on the proceedings by the House of Lords and House of Commons. OCLC locates 19 copies. HLC II:1164.

Reprint New York: Howard Fertig, 1967. 580 pp. Cloth. Ex-library. Very Good.    $20.

With a Foreword by Sir Norman Birkett. London: William Hodge and Company, [1949]. xlii, 278 pp. Plates. Cloth very good in moderately worn dust jacket.    $125.

* A title in the War Crimes Trials Series. Falkenhorst was Commander-in-Chief of German troops in Norway from 1940 to 1944. He was notorious for his harsh treatment of prisoners of war, especially British commandos, many of whom he had executed. This is why he was tried as a war criminal. A British tribunal sentenced him to 20 years’ imprisonment.

Hartford: [American Publishing Company], 1876. vi, [9]-360 pp. Original blue textured cloth, gilt seal of Connecticut to front board, gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, front endleaf detached, a few cracks to text block, internally clean. A solid copy of an uncommon title.    $50.

* Only edition. “[T]he public owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Trumbull for having laid forever this phantom of the early days of the Colonial history of our country, which has been called up so often by men who supplied want of brains and wit, by the empty shadow of what never had an existence. (...) Nobody could have done it better than Mr. Trumbull out of his rich store of archaic learning, and his familiarity with the rise and condition of the social and political institutions of New England.”: Albany Law Journal 15 (1877) 140.

New York: Octagon Books, 1979. 106 pp. Original cloth, negligible shelfwear, internally clean.    $45.

[Lausanne]: Ex Officina Bousquetiana, 1759. Three volumes. Volumes I and II have copperplate pictorial frontispieces. Dedication has attractive copperplate vignette. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering pieces to spines, endpapers renewed. Title pages printed in red and black. Small later institution inkstamps to title pages. Light soiling to title pages, light foxing and toning to some leaves, interior otherwise clean. An appealing set.    $1,500.

* First edition. As Vicat explains in his preface, he compiled this dictionary from those of Francois Hotoman, Barnabe Brisson, Johannes Calvinus (Kahl), Johann Gottlieb Heineccius and, especially, Alexander Scotus to bring their “excellent” work to a wider audience. More important, by combining these works and filling the gaps with original entries he was able to create a dictionary that covered the whole language of the law. Vicat’s definitions are brief, but they contain comprehensive reference to authorities and texts, as well as conjugations, common phrases using the words, metaphors, alternate definitions and antonyms. Vicat was a jurist and the director of the University of Lausanne’s library from 1749 to 1762. A pioneer in library science, he was the first to issue a printed catalogue. OCLC locates 27 copies, 13 of this edition. BMC 26:118.

The Hague: Apud Abrahamum de Hondt, 1707. Two volumes. Folio (8" x 13"). Contemporary paneled vellum, large arabesques to centers of boards, raised bands, hand-lettered titles to spines. Light soiling and discoloration, wear to corners, front board of Volume I somewhat bowed, its hinge starting at foot. Title pages with larger woodcut printer devices in red and black, handsome woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Early signatures in miniscule hand to title pages, interiors remarkably fresh. A very nice set.    $500.

* Second edition. With indexes. First published in 1698-1704, this exhaustive commentary of Justinian’s Digest is one of the principal works of Roman-Dutch law. A deeply influential work that was translated into Italian, Dutch and English, it remains an authority in South Africa. Voet discusses all of the titles then explains how they were influenced by customary and local law. The second volume pays special attention to current issues relevant to the Netherlands, especially those relating to maritime law. Voet was Professor of Law at the Universities of Utrecht and Leiden. Walker 1280. Dekkers, 181 (9).

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. ix, 1366 pp. Cloth very good in moderately worn dust jacket.    $125.

* 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.

New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1869. xlvii, 731 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 9"). Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and original lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Some offsetting to margins of title page, internally clean. A handsome copy of an uncommon title.    $450.

* First edition. “Although the work was written and published in New York, it will be beneficial chiefly to the profession in other States. The sweeping changes of the Constitution of 1846 and the Code, have reached not only the practice but the very essence of the law. A liberality, aye a looseness now obtains in the courts, that renders valueless the technical learning of earlier days. Under other jurisdictions where the spirit of the common law still holds its vigor, Mr. Waterman’s work will be better appreciated. (...) When we can say that the law is determined by precedent and not by the discretion of a judge, we will obtain the full benefit of the researches of scholarly men. The work is needed, however, in every law library, and with the practicing attorney will be in almost daily use.”: Albany Law Journal 1 (1870) 19. A second edition of this work was published in 1872. HLC II:876.

New York: Vanguard Press, [1928]. viii, 135 pp. Cloth very good in lightly worn dust jacket.    $150.

* The Vanguard Press was a left-wing publishing house with close ties to the labor movement. Hayes [1881-1954], a founding member of the ACLU, was an important civil rights lawyer and the author of Let Freedom Ring (1928).

Worcester: Printed by Chas. Hamilton, 1864. 60 pp., blank interleaves. Octavo (6" x 9"). Contemporary three-quarter morocco over textured cloth, morocco title label to front board. Some rubbing to extremities, joints starting at ends, rear hinge starting, internally fresh.    $150.

* With a subject index listing titles. This was the first issue of an annual that was published until 1881. The catalogue indicates that Worcester had an large and sophisticated library. Its index is a good guide to the leading books of the day. For example, the entry Civil Law lists Cooper’s Justinian and the entry for Corporations lists Angell and Ames. OCLC locates 2 copies, one at Yale and another at UMass-Amherst.

142. Wyndham, Horace. Judicial Dramas: Some Society Causes Celebres. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1927. 323 pp. Frontispiece. Plates. Original cloth, some shelfwear some chipping to head of spine, binding slightly cocked. Offsetting to endleaves, light foxing to preliminaries, interior otherwise fresh.    $25.
* Includes the cases of Queen Caroline, the Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Palmerston and Sir Robert Wilson.