Fraser, David. "Honorary Protestants": the Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2015]. x, 514 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. $120. * Contents: Introduction: Constituting Law, Constituting Justice in the Jewish school question; Invoking equality, invoking legality: Jews constituting their Canadian identity; Schools, taxes, Jews..... More
Shepard, Leslie. The History of Street Literature: the Story of Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, Proclamations, News-sheets, Election Bills, Tracts, Pamphlets, Cocks, Catchpennies, and other Ephemera. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, [1973]. 238 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $20. * Contents: The varieties of street literature; How it began; Printers and..... More
Myers, Robin, Editor. Harris, Michael, Editor. Economics of the British Booktrade, 1605-1939. Cambridge, [UK]: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985. xiii, 231 pp. Softcover. Near-fine with light soiling. $45. More
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Annual Reports of the Prison Discipline Society, 1826-1829 Prison Discipline Society. First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston, June 2, 1826. Sixth Edition. Boston: Published by Perkins and Marvin, 1830. 48 pp. Woodcut diagram. [With] Second Annual Report of the Board of Managers..... More
Authoritative Treatise on Tithes Mirehouse, John [1789-1850]. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Tithes. With Additions. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1822. xliv, 336 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Laer cloth, gilt fillets and title to spine, endpapers renewed, edges untrimmed. Light soiling to exterior, spine somewhat darkened, library..... More
Influential English Treatise on Tithes and Tithing Degge, Sir Simon [1612-1704]. The Parson's Counsellor, With the Law of Tithes or Tithing. In Two Books. The First Sheweth, The Order Every Parson, Vicar, &c. Ought to Observe in Obtaining a Spiritual Preferment, And What Duties are Incumbent upon Him After the..... More
State Trials, In Verse Moile, Nicholas Thirning, Pseudonym. [Bliss, Henry (1797-1873)]. State Trials: Specimen of a New Edition. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1838. xxix, [3], 402 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Recent cloth, gilt title and date to spine, endpapers renewed, cloth hinges. Light soiling to exterior, light toning..... More
With the Scarce Index Volume Wing, Donald, Compiler. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, And British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1994 [Vol. I], 1982 [Vol. II], 1988 [Vol. III], 1998 [Vol. IV]..... More
Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types: their History, Forms, and Use - a Study in Survivals. New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Edition: 2nd edition. 2 volumes. Softcover. Light shelfwear. $20. * Contents: V. 1. The invention of printing: the cutting and casting of types in relation to their design; A font..... More
Brown, Richard. Brett, Stanley. The London Bookshop: a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises. Pinner, [Eng.]: Private Libraries Association, 1971. 2 volumes. Hardcover. Light shelfwear. $75. * Contents: pt. 1. Portraits and premises, with prefatory reminiscence by P. Muir; pt. 2. Portraits and premises. More
Chambers, David. Brown, Richard. English Country Bookshops: Being a Further Part of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises. Pinner, Middlesex [Eng.]: Private Libraries Association, [2010]. 112 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $20. * Contents: George Bayntun, 2003; Bow Windows Book Shop, 2000; Claude Cox Old & Rare..... More
A Warm Letter from Kent [Manuscript]. Kent, James [1763-1847]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, From James Kent to Thomas Isaac Wharton, New York, May 3, 1828 (?)]. 2 pp. 10" x 8" bifolium, addressed and docketed (Ch. Kent Nov: 3d. 38) on verso with postmark and wax seal. Light toning, fold lines..... More
Murder or Self-Defense? [Trial]. Turton, William, Defendant. The Tryal of William Turton, Esq; For the Murder of John Holloway, At the Assizes Held at Oxford, On Thursday, The Seventeenth Day of July, 1755. Before the Honble. Sir Michael Foster, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench..... More
Federal Practice and Procedure, Wright & Miller. Thomson Reuters. Volumes 1 to 33A, in 89 books, with revised volumes, except vols. 3D (2022) and 14B (2009), current through April 2023 pocket parts and supplementary pamphlets [with] 2023 General Index and Tables (1 softbound). Together 90 books. Excellent condition, without any..... More
Mann, Alastair J. The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland. East Linton, [Scot.]: Tuckwell, [2000]. 308 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. $45. * Contents: 1. Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow: The Book and the Burghs; 2. The Scottish Press and the Scottish Church;..... More
McKerrow, R B. Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640. London: Bibliographical Society, 1949. liv, 216 pp. Hardcover. Light shelfwear. Some discoloration to endleaves. $35. More
Backhouse, Constance. Claire L'Heureux-Dube: a Life. Vancouver: Canadian Legal History, [2017]. xviii, 740 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $20. * Contents: Family heritage and childhood; Early education; A legal education; Law practice; Quebec Superior Court; Quebec Court of Appeals; Supreme Court of Canada; Selected cases; A wider stage. More
Lissitzyn, Oliver J. The International Court of Justice: Its Role in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1951. [12], 118 pp. Paper-covered boards, moderate shelfwear, light fadig to spine, library markings to binding and endleaves. $30. More
A Convicted Libeler Brings His Own Libel Charges [Trial]. Tipper, Samuel, Defendant. Finnerty, Peter, Plaintiff. Finnerty v. Tipper. A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial of the Action Brought by Peter Finnerty Against Samuel Tipper, Publisher of "The Satirist," For a Libel. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas..... More
McEldowney, John F. O'Higgins, Paul. The Common Law Tradition: Essays in Irish Legal History. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, [1990]. 249 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $30. * Contents: The common law tradition in Irish legal history, J.F. McEldowney and Paul O'Higgins; The development of civil bill procedure in Ireland..... More
McCarthy, Muriel. All Graduates & Gentlemen: Marsh's Library. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1980. 239 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. Author inscription to half-title. $50. * Contents: Archbishop Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713); Marsh's library; Incunabula and other early printings; Famous books. More
Cruelty Against a Woman, Or a Political Hatchet Job? Marie, Jane. The Case of Jane Marie, Exhibiting the Cruelty and Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, To a Defenceless Woman. Written and Published by the Object of His Cruelty and Vengeance, And Addressed to the Public of Philadelphia and the Whole..... More
Stone, Harlan Fiske. Law and its Administration. New York: Columbia University Press, 1924. 2nd ed. vii, 232 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn and lightly soiled dust jacket. $30. * Contents: 1. Nature and functions of law; 2. Law and justice; 3. Fundamental legal conceptions; 4. Fundamental legal conceptions (continued); 5..... More
Molinaro, Dennis G. An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2017]. xii, 325 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $45. * Contents: For the protection of people and state; Defining suspects; The trial; Citizens of the world; Outlaws; judgement. More
First American Edition of an Important English Treatise on Slander and Libel Holt, Francis Ludlow [1780-1844]. [Bleecker, Anthony, Editor]. The Law of Libel: In Which is Contained a General History of This Law in the Ancient Codes, and of Its Introduction, and Successive Alterations, In the Law of England. Comprehending..... More