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The Tour of James Monroe, President Of The United States, Through...
President Monroe Tours the Northern and Eastern United States Waldo, Samuel Putnam [1780-1826]. The Tour Of James Monroe, President Of The United States, Through The Northern And Eastern States, In 1817; His Tour in the Year 1818; Together with a Sketch of His Life; With Descriptive and Historical Notices of..... More
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Notitia Iuris [Juris] Belgici.
Useful Summary of the Law of the Spanish Netherlands Zype, Francois van den (Franciscus) [c.1578-1650]. Notitia Iuris Belgici. Editio Nova Tertia Parte Auctior. Antwerp: Apud Hieronymum Verdussium, 1665. [24], 358, [60] pp. Quarto (7-1/2" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary sprinkled calf with early rebacking, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece..... More
A View Of The Conduct Of The Executive, In The Foreign Affairs...
Monroe's Critical Assessment of Washington's Foreign Policy Monroe, James [1758-1831]. A View Of The Conduct Of The Executive, In The Foreign Affairs Of The United States, Connected With The Mission To The French Republic, During The Years 1794, 5, & 6. Illustrated by His Instructions and Correspondence, And Other Authentic..... More
Bribery Oath. London, c. 1850, 4-1/4" x 8" handbill-sized form.
Designed to Enforce Honesty in Voters [Oaths]. [Great Britain]. Bribery Oath. London: Published by Shaw & Sons, Fetter Lane, [c. 1850]. [188-?]. 4-1/4" x 8" handbill, light blue paper. A notably well-preserved item. $150. * This handbill is a form template designed to enforce honesty in voters, who are required..... More
Die Sabbathi, 1 Junii, 1649, Ordered by the Commons Assembled....
A Dramatic Ordinance Relating to Pride's Purge [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. [Parliament]. Die Sabbathi, 1 Junii, 1649. Ordered By The Commons Assembled In Parliament, That None Of The Members Of This House, Who By Vertue Of The Order Of The First Of February 1648. Do Yet Stand Suspended From Voting, Or..... More
Edward H Rulloff. McDade 841. American Journal of Insanity, 1872.
McDade 841: "One of Those Bizarre Criminals Who Defy Easy Classification" Sawyer, George C. Edward H. Rulloff. Offprint from the American Journal of Insanity, April, 1872. [Utica, NY: State Lunatic Asylum]. 52 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Wrappers detached, chipped around edges and lightly soiled..... More
Katadynastes, Might Overcoming Right, Or a Cleer Answer to M....
A Criticism of the New Model Army's Actions Against Parliament in 1648 Geree, John [1601?-1649]. Katadynastes, Might Overcoming Right, Or a Cleer Answer to M. John Goodwin's Might and Right Well Met. Wherein is Cleared, That the Action of the Army in Secluding Many Parliament Men from the Place of..... More
Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, 1st edition.
Jolowicz, H.F. [1890-1954]. Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932. xxi, 545 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, light shelfwear, faint dampspotting to spine, near-invisible owner signatures to boards, other owner signatures to rear pastedown and front free endpaper, which has a...... More
Jurisprudentia Vetus Ante-Justinianea ex Recensione et Cum Notis...
An Important Collection of Early of Roman Law Schulting, Anton [1659-1734], Editor. Ayrer, Georg Heinrich [1702-1774], Preface. Jurisprudentia Vetus Ante-Justinianea ex Recensione et Cum Notis. Edito Nova Collata cum Codicibus Antiquissimo Wurceburgensi et Gothano. De Illustratione Iuris Civil. Antiqui ex Lectione Classicorum Auctorum. Praefatus est d. Georgius Henricus Ayrer. Leipzig..... More
Tractatus De Jure Conjugum. Cum Tractatione Praeliminari De Jure...
Interesting Seventeenth-Century Dutch Treatise on Marriage Law Rodenburg, Christiaan [1608-1668]. Tractatus De Jure Conjugum. In quo de Viri in Uxorem Potestate, Eorumque Obligationibus, Judiciis, Mutuis Gratificationibus, Bonorum Communione, Pactisque Dotalibus, Illustriores Controversiae, Ad Usum Fori Patrii, Vicinarumque Regionum Expenduntur, Cum Tractatione Praeliminari De Jure, Quod Oritur Ex Statutorium, Vel Consuetudinum..... More
Notae & Animadversiones in Libros IV Institutionum Juris...
A Well-Regarded Commentary on the Institutes Matthaeus, Antonius [1564-1637]. Mommerius (Mommer), Aegidius [c.1510-1570]. Notae & Animadversiones in Libros IV. Institutionum Juris Imper. Justiniani: Praefixa est Epistola Aegidii Mommerii, De Ratione Legendi Discendique Iura, Antehac Nunquam Excusa; Subjuncta Synopsis Institutionum Iuris, Qua Illae ad huc Hodie Sunt in Usus. Amsterdam: Impensis..... More
Commentariorum De Jure Novissimo Libri VI. Accessit...
A Well-Regarded, Long-Lived Treatise on Inheritance and Succession Goudelin (Godelinus), Pierre [1550-1619]. Wittebort, Maximilian [1586-1624]. Commentariorum De Jure Novissimo Libri Sex, Optima Methodo, Accurate ac Erudite Conscripti, Additis Harum Vicinarumque Regionum Moribus. Opus ut Diu Avideque Expetitum, Ita Scholis Foroque Utilissimum, Cum Indicibus. Accessit Clarissimi viri Maximiliani Wittebort, J.U.D. in..... More
Conclusiones Practicabiles Secundum Ordinem Constitutionum....
A Landmark in the Development of German Law Berlich, Matthias [1586-1638]. Schwendendorffer, Bartholomaus Leonhard [1631-1705], Editor. Conclusiones Practicabiles Secundum Ordinem Constitutionum Augusti Saxoniae Electoris, Discussae, Omnibus In Academiis, Camera Imperiali, Aliisque Judiciis, Inprimis Vero in Foro Saxonico Versantibus, Utilissimae & Summe Necessariae, Judicialia Continentes, Vereque & Solide Juris Communis &..... More
We Are Your Sons, The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
Meeropol, Robert. Meeropol, Michael. We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Written by their Children Robert and Michael Meeropol. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. xxiii, 419 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth bound hardcover, very good, in lightly worn dust jacket, signed by both authors on the front..... More
The Trial of the Cause on the Action Brought by Hans Wintrop Mortimer.
Account of a Notorious Case of Election Bribery Bound with Several Related Items [Trial]. Sykes, Francis [1730-1804], Defendant. The Trial of the Cause on the Action Brought by Hans Wintrop Mortimer, Esq; Member for the Borough of Shaftesbury, Against Francis Sykes, Esq; For Bribery Committed at Shaftesbury, Previous to the..... More
A Compendious Law Dictionary. Containing Both an Explanation of...
A Law Dictionary for "The Country Gentleman, The Merchant, And the Professional Man" Potts, Thomas [1778-1842]. A Compendious Law Dictionary, Containing Both an Explanation of the Terms and the Law Itself, Intended for the Use of the Country Gentleman, the Merchant, and the Professional Man. A New Edition. Revised, Corrected..... More
A Compendious Library of the Law, Necessary for Persons of All...
A Compact Gentleman's Law Library [Great Britain]. A Compendious Library of the Law: Necessary for Persons of All Degrees and Professions. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing, I. The Laws Relating to Parish-Officers, Viz. Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Scavengers, Surveyors of the Highways, &c. II. The Laws Relating..... More
Pratique Criminelle, Moulins, France, 1983, Translation of 1541 ed.
French Translation of An Early Illustrated Law Book Milles de Souvigny, Jean [d. 1563] Lebigre, Arlette, Translator. Pratique Criminelle. Moulins, France: A l'Enseigne des Marmousets, 1983. 134 pp, 15 plates. Stiff printed wrappers. Light shelfwear and soiling, head of spine bumped, internally clean. A nice copy of a title scarce..... More
Autograph Letter, Signed, With Long Postcript by Ruby Darrow, Signed.
"I Am Getting to be a Regular Scold" [Manuscript]. Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. Darrow, Ruby [1870-1957]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, With Long Postcript by Ruby Darrow, Signed, (Chicago?) May 29, (1927)]. Single-page letter on 10-3/4" x 7" sheet and 6-1/2" x 4-3/4" portrait photograph of Clarence Darrow in attractively matted and glazed..... More
Typed Letter, Signed, on US Supreme Court Letterhead, Framed.
Frankfurter Letter to a Distinguished Lawyer Concerning Alger Hiss [Manuscript]. Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Stryker, Lloyd Paul (1885-1955)]. [Typed Letter, Signed (With Full Signature), On U.S. Supreme Court Letterhead, Washington, DC, November 29, 1950]. Single-page letter on 10" x 8" sheet and 7"x 5" portrait photograph of Frankfurter in judicial attire..... More
An Analysis of the Laws of England. To Which Is Prefixed an...
The Outline of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. An Analysis of the Laws of England. To Which Is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse on the Study of the Law. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1758. lxx, [6], 189, [15] pp. Copperplate Table of Descents. Folding Table of Consanguinity. Octavo..... More
Trial of Mary Ann Tocker, For an Alleged Libel, On Mr R Gurney....
The First Woman to Represent Herself in a British Court [Trial]. Tocker, Mary Ann [1778-1853], Defendant. Trial of Mary Ann Tocker, For an Alleged Libel, On Mr. R. Gurney, Vice-Warden of the Stannery-Court, Devon, With the Defence Verbatim as Delivered by the Defendant; To which are Prefaced, Some Introductory Remarks;..... More
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Institutionum [bound with] Infortianum [and] Digestum Novum, 1553-56.
A Collection of Texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis in Handsome Uniform Contemporary Paneled Pigskin Bindings Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius) [c.1182-c.1260], Glossator. Gaius [Active 130-180 CE]. Institutionum D. Iustiniani Sacratissimi Imperatoris Libri Quatuor: Ad Vetustissimorum Simul et Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Summa Diligentia Recogniti..... More
Tractatus de Legibus, Ac Deo Legislatore, In Decem Libros Distributus.
A Handsome Copy of One of the Great Landmarks of International Law Suarez, Francisco [1548-1617]. Tractatus de Legibus, Ac Deo Legislatore, In Decem Libros Distributus. Naples: Ex Typis Fibrenianis, 1872. 2 volumes. [vi], 378; [iv], 680 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto (10-1/2" x 7"). Contemporary quarter morocco over..... More
Marriage Contract, York, England, 1345, in Anglo-Norman.
A Medieval Marriage Contract Nevill Thomas de. Chaumont, John de. [Marriage Contract] [York, England, 1345]. 39 lines of text in Anglo-Norman on 10-1/2" x 10" indented parchment sheet, fragment of seal below text. Light soiling, horizontal and vertical folds, minor staining to upper left corner, natural flaw to left margin..... More