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Table Talk of John Selden: Newly Edited for the Selden Society.
Selden, John. Milward, Ri. Pollock, Frederick, Editor. Fry, Edward, Biography. Table Talk of John Selden: Newly Edited for the Selden Society. London: Quaritch, 1927. xxv, 200 pp. Hardcover. A few minor smudges, spine ends and corners bumped, some foxing, otherwise good. $20. More
Gloucestershire Studies.
Finberg, H.P.R., Editor. Gloucestershire Studies. Leicester, [UK]: University Press, 1957. xiii, 304 pp. Hardcover in moderately worn dust jacket with price clip. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise good. $20. More
Le Droit du Seigneur au Moyen-Age: Etude Critique et Historique.
The Infamous Droit du Seigneur Foras, Amedee de [1830-1899]. Le Droit du Seigneur au Moyen-Age: Etude Critique et Historique. Chambery: Andre Perrin, 1886. xix, 281, [1] pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Stiff printed wrappers bound in later three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, blind fillets and gilt title and..... More
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the...
Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Harvard University Press, 2018. 349 pp. Hardcover in near-fine, lightly soiled dust jacket. $25. * Contents: Introduction: The violence of exclusion; Part I. Restriction. The Chinese question; Experiments in restriction; Part II..... More
Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise.
Fernandez, Angela. Dubber, Markus D. Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012. ix, 252 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $95. * Contents: Introduction: putting the legal treatise in its place, Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber; Historicising Blackstone's Commentaries on..... More
Monastic Tithes: from their Origins to the Twelfth Century.
Constable, Giles. Monastic Tithes: from their Origins to the Twelfth Century. Cambridge, [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1964. xxi, 346 pp. Hardcover in moderately worn dust jacket. Previous owner's signature and inscription to front pastedown and front free endpaper, otherwise good. $35. * Contents: Tithes in the early Middle Ages; The..... More
An Introduction to the History of the Land Law.
Simpson, A.W.B. An Introduction to the History of the Land Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. xx, 276 pp. Hardcover. Light shelfwear and soiling, light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, else clean. $20. More
A Firebrand Pluckt Out of the Burning: A Sermon Preached at...
"The Vitals of this Kingdome are Fearefully Distempered" Pickering, Benjamin. A Firebrand Pluckt Out of the Burning. A Sermon Preached at Margarets Westminster, Before the Honourable House of Commons, At Their Late Solemn Fast, Novemb. 27. 1644. London: Printed by I.L. for Philemon Stephens, and Samuel Gellibrand, 1645 [i.e. 1644]..... More
Three Criminal Law Reformers: Beccaria, Bentham, Romilly.
Phillipson, Coleman. Three Criminal Law Reformers: Beccaria, Bentham, Romilly. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1923. xvi, 344 pp. Hardcover. Ex-library with light shelfwear, ink shelf number to foot of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown, library stamp to verso title page, library card to rear pastedown, else good. $40. More
Jeremy Bentham Bicentenry Celebrations: Lectures Delivered at...
Everett, Charles Warren. Gagnebin, Bernard. Jeremy Bentham Bicentenry Celebrations: Lectures Delivered at University College London, 8 June 1948. "The Constitutional Code of Jeremy Bentham". London : H.K. Lewis & Co., 1948. 55 pp. Softcover. Moderate shelfwear. Internally clean. $50. More
English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance...
A Profound Influence in Pre-Revolutionary America [Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor. English Liberties, Or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio, Non Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, And Several Other Statutes; With Comments on Each of Them. Likewise, Of Ship-Money: Of..... More
A Treatise on the Law and Practice in Lunacy in Ireland: Together...
Harris, Leslie Gerald Eyre. A Treatise on the Law and Practice in Lunacy in Ireland: Together with the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871 : and a Collection of Forms for use in the Irish Free State and in Northern Ireland. Dublin: Corrigan and Wilson, 1930. xxxiii, 300 pp. Hardcover in..... More
Lexicon Iuris Civilis [bound with] Iuris Civilis Universi...
An Important Humanistic Law Dictionary with a Handsome Title Page, No Copies of this Edition in North America [Spiegel, Jakob (1483-c.1547)]. [Oldendorp, Johannes (1487-1567), And Others]. Lexicon Iuris Civilis, Per C.U.D. Iac. Spiegelium, Postremo Auctum & Recognitum. Basel: Apud Ioan. Hervagium, 1564. Main text printed in double columns. [275] ff...... More
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts...
Ekirch, A. Roger. Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvi, 277 pp., illustrations. Softcover, fine. $35. More
Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania, the Law...
Topping, Peter W. Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania, the Law Code of Frankish Greece: Translation of the Text of the Assizes with a Commentary on Feudal Institutions in Greece and Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. x, 192 pp., map. Publisher's original maroon cloth..... More
The Right of the People.
Douglas, William O[rville]. The Right of the People. Garden City: Doubleday. 1958. 238 pp. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered spine. Very good, dust jacket slightly soiled and light wear to edges, else very good. $100. * First edition. Inscribed by author, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to Clifford Evans..... More
The Trial of John Italos and the Crisis of Intellectual Values...
Clucas, Lowell. The Trial of John Italos and the Crisis of Intellectual Values in Byzantium in the Eleventh Century. Munchen: Institut fur Byzantinistik, Neugriechische Philologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte der Universitat, 1981. xliii, 266 pp. Softbound, new. $40. * Includes bibliographical references and index. More
The History of Contempt of Court: The Form of Trial and The...
Fox, Sir John C. The History of Contempt of Court: The Form of Trial and the Mode of Punishment. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. xxiii, 252 pp. Publisher's original red cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Very good, in a very good dust jacket. $100. More
The Freedom of the Seas; or, The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch...
Grotius, Hugo. The Freedom of the Seas; or, The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade. Translated with a Revision of the Latin Text of 1633 by Ralph van Deman Magoffin. Edited with an Introductory Note by James Brown Scott. New York: Oxford..... More
Code Civil: Livre Premier, Des Personnes, Titres V Du Mariage, VI....
A Witty (And Very French) View of Family Law Hemard, Joseph [1880-1961], Illustrator. Code Civil: Livre Premier, Des Personnes: Titres V. Du Mariage. VI. Du Divorce. VII. De la Paternite. VIII. De l'Adoption. IX. De la Puissance Paternelle. X. De la Minorite. XI. De la Majorite. Paris: Rene Kieffer, [1925]..... More
The Moulding of International Law: Ten Dutch Proponents.
[International Law]. The Moulding of International Law: Ten Dutch Proponents. Hague, Netherlands: T.M.C. Asser Instituut, [1995]. Illustrated. vii, 409 pp. Original gilt stamped green cloth. Fine. $35. * Biographies of outstanding Dutch scholars of International Law from the 19th century onwards who have made substantial contributions to the development and..... More
Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England...
Taggart, Michael. Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xxiii, 235 pp., illustrations, maps. Publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Damage stamp on title page. Very good, in a...... More
English Criminal Appeals, 1844-1994: Appeals Against Conviction...
Pattenden, Rosemary. English Criminal Appeals, 1844-1994: Appeals Against Conviction and Sentence in England and Wales. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 494 pp. Publisher's original cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Very good, in a very good dust jacket. $100. * Jacket. The failure of justice in..... More
Bench and Bar of Alameda County, 1953.
Taylor, C[harles] W[illiam]. Bench and Bar of Alameda County, 1953. [Angwin, Calif.] : [Pacific Union College Press], 1953. 207 pp., portraits. Padded faux black leather, with gilt stamped front cover and spine, with raised bands. Good. $60. More
Consilia: A Bibliography of Holdings in the Library of Congress...
Pazzaglini, Peter R., and Catherine A. Hawks. Consilia: A Bibliography of Holdings in the Library of Congress and Certain Other Collections in the United States. Washington: Library of Congress, 1990. xxiv, 154 pp. Illustrations. Original red cloth, with gilt stamped front cover and spine. Very good. $25. * Consilia are..... More