Copy of a Principal English Treatise on Canon Law Owned by a Liturgical Scholar and the Bishop of Bombay [Lyndwood, William (c.1375-1446)]. [Badius, Josse (1462-1535), Editor]. Provinciale, (Seu Constitutiones Angliae,) Continens Constitutiones Provinciales Quatuordecim Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium, Viz. A Stephano Langtono ad Henricum Chichleium; Cum Summariis Atque Eruditis Annotationibus, Summa Accuratione..... More
With an Inscribed Presentation Card to Philip Jessup Llewellyn, K[arl] N[ickerson] [1893-1962]. Jessup, Philip [1897-1986]. Put in His Thumb. New York: The Century Company, [1931]. [x], 119 pp. Quarter cloth over speckled boards, black lettered title to front cover, deckle edges, most signatures unopened. Light shelfwear and soiling. Near-fine 5"..... More
1810 Handbook on the Poor Laws of Massachusetts Presented to a Notable Jurist Leavitt, Jonathan [1764-1821]. [Sedgewick, Theodore (1746-1813)]. A Summary of the Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Settlement, Support, Employment and Removal of Paupers. Greenfield: Printed by John Denio, 1810. 64 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary quarter..... More
Anstruther-Thomson, John [1818-1904]. Eighty Years' Reminiscences. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Two volumes. Plates. 360; 419 pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt ornaments and gilt title to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities with minor wear, bookplate of Willis Sharpe Kilmer..... More
Three Eighteenth-Century Works on English Election Law With an Interesting Maryland Association [Great Britain]. [Election Law]. [Maryland, Colonial Period]. Orders and Resolutions of the Honourable House of Commons, On Controverted Elections and Returns: Determining the Qualifications of Candidates and Voters; The Rights of Election for the Several Cities and Boroughs;..... More
Copy of the First American Treatise on Wills that Belonged to an Important Early Illinois Statesman Vallette, Elie. [Sparrow, Thomas (1746?-1780?), Engraver]. The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland, Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form, and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments, For..... More
1812 Compilation of Georgia Law [Georgia]. Clayton, Augustin Smith, Compiler. A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the Legislature Since the Political Year 1800, To the Year 1810, Inclusive. Containing All the Laws, Whether in Force or Not, Passed Within Those Periods, Arranged in a...... More
This Copy Belonged To Royall Tyler Of Vermont Ventris, Peyton [1645-1691], Reporter. Richardson, Mr. Serjeant, Editor. [Tyler, Royall (1757-1826), Owner]. The Reports Of Sir Peyton Ventris Kt. Late One of the Justices of the Common Pleas. In Two Parts. Containing Select Cases Adjudged in the King's Bench, In the Reign..... More
Owned by a Signer of the Declaration of Independence [Hopkinson, Francis (1739-1791)]. Park, James Allan [1763-1838]. A System of the Law of Marine Insurances: With Three Chapters On Bottomry; On Insurances on Lives; and On Insurances Against Fire. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1789. xvi, [8], xliv, 530, [45] pp. Octavo (7-1/2"..... More
[Manuscript]. Lewis, Edwin O. [1879-1974]. [Here Lies an Honest Lawyer]. [Philadelphia, c.1969] 125 pp. [And] The Papers of Judge Edwin O. Lewis: Table of Contents. [Philadelphia, n.d.] 21 pp. Photocopied typescripts in bound in calf-stamped cloth dissertation binder, light shelfwear. "Here Lies an Honest Lawyer/ Edwin O Lewis retired/ former..... More
An Examination of the Labor Injunction from the Early 1920s-- A Presentation Copy from a Group of Notable Chicago Union Leaders Frey, John P. [1871-1957]. The Labor Injunction: An Exposition of Government by Judicial Conscience and Its Menace. [Cincinnati, OH: Equity Publishing Company, 1923]. ix, [4], 197 pp. Cloth, gilt..... More
Inscribed by Darrow to British Actress Rosalinde Fuller Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. A Persian Pearl and Other Essays. Chicago: C.L. Ricketts (Lakeside Press colophon), 1902. 160, [1] pp. Quarter cloth over patterned paper boards, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges. Light soiling, some wear to..... More
Felix Frankfurter's Copy [Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965)]. Elath, Elihu, Norman Bentwich and Doris May, Editors. Memories of Sir Wyndham Deedes. [London]: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. In Association with the Anglo-Israel Association, 1958. 93 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Cloth very good, dust jacket lightly edgeworn and somewhat toned. "Felix Frankfurter/ 1958" to..... More
Treatise on Courts Martial Owned by Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart [Stuart, J.E.B. (1833-1864)]. Simmons, Thomas Frederick. Remarks on the Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial; With a Summary of the Law of Evidence, As Connected with Such Courts; Also Some Notice of the Criminal Law of England, With Reference to..... More