Crompton, Charles & John Jervis. Reports of Cases...in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber [1830-32]. American Decisions by Hare & Wallace. Philadelphia: T.& J.W. Johnson, 1865-66. Two volumes. Contemporary calf. Worn, covers detached, portions of spines lacking. Internally sound.$75. *Wallace 534. More

Price, George. Reports of Cases...in the Court of Exchequer [1814-24]. London: Various publishers, 1816-32. Ten of thirteen volumes. Contemporary calf. Ex-library. Worn, covers detached, rehinged with tape. Internally sound. $300. * Wallace 534. More

De Gex, J.P.; H. Cadman Jones & R. Horton Smith. Reports of Cases...in Chancery [1862-65]. Edited by J.C. Perkins. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1873-74. Four volumes. Contemporary law calf. Ex-library. Worn, covers detached. Internally sound.$150. *Wallace 527. More

Foster, T. Campbell and W.F. Finlason. Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit...[1856-67]. London: Sweet & Norton [et al.], 1860-67. Four volumes. Contemporary law calf. Ex-library. Worn, covers detached, reattached with tape. Internally sound. $100. *First edition. Maxwell and Brown, Checklist of British..... More

Mews, John. A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Bankruptcy, Probate. Admiralty, and Divorce [1756-1883]. London: H. Sweet [et al.], 1884. Seven volumes. Contemporary three-quarter calf. Ex-library. Worn, most covers detached, some crudely repaired. Internally sound. $250. *First edition. Marke 33. More

Manning, James; T.C. Granger and John Scott. Common Bench Reports. Cases Argued & Determined in the Court of Common Pleas [1845-1856]. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1852-62. Eighteen volumes. Contemporary calf, one volume in cloth. Ex-library. Worn, spines chipped, most covers detached, crudely repaired. Lacks Index volume. Internally sound. $200..... More

Campbell, Robert [Editor]. Ruling Cases. Arranged, Annotated, and Edited... With American Notes by Irving Browne. London: Steven and Sons, Ltd., 1894-1908. Twenty-seven volumes. [with]: Extra Annotations to English Ruling Cases: Tracing the History and Present Authority of Every Decision in the English Cases... Rochester: The Lawyer's Co-operative Publishing Co., 1916..... More

Adolphus, John Leycester & Thomas Flower Ellis. Reports of Cases...in the Court of King's [and Queen's] Bench [1834-1840]. London: Printed for Saunders and Benning, 1835-42. 12 Volumes. Contemporary half calf, two volumes in cloth. Ex-library. Worn, most volumes have one of their covers detached, several volumes repaired with tape. An..... More

Welsby, W.N.; E.T. Hurlstone & J. Gordon. Reports of Cases...in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber [1847-56]. With References to Decisions in the American Courts by J.I. Clark Hare and H.B. Wallace. Philadelphia: T.& J.W. Johnson & Co., 1864-74. Eleven volumes. Contemporary law calf, worn. Ex-library. Rear covers of..... More

A Popular Early Guide to Legal Abbreviations [von Schussenried, Werner]. Haloander, Gregor [1501-1531], Editor. Modus Legendi Abbreviaturas Passim in Jure Tam Civili Quam Pontificio Occurrentes, Nunc Primum Integritati Suae Restitutus. Huic Accessere Tituli, Quae & Rubricae Vulgo Nuncupantur, In Universum Jus Civile, Ex Haloandri Recognitione Adscripti. Lyon: Excudebant Godefridus &..... More

Kisch, Guido. Jewry-Law in Medieval Germany: Laws and Court Decisions Concerning Jews. New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1949. xiv, 274 pp. Original cloth, negligible light shelfwear. $20. More

Sullivan, John Stephen. A Most Unique Ruffian: The Trial of F.B. Deeming, Melbourne, 1892. Melbourne, Canberra: F.W. Cheshire, [1968]. 203 pp. Illustrations. Portraits. Hardback in lightly worn dust jacket. $20. More

Account of an Adultery Trial Published to Block an Academic Appointment [Trial]. Ure, Andrew [1778-1857], Plaintiff. [Chapman, Nathaniel, Editor]. The Whole of the Proceedings, Duly Authenticated, In the Case of Divorce of Andrew Ure, M.D. v. Catharine Ure, For Adultery with Granville Sharpe Pattison. Tried in the Consistory Court at..... More

Two Titles by an Important Scottish Jurist, One With Hand-Colored Leaves of Arms and Heraldic Devices Mackenzie, Sir George [1636-1691]. Observations Upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, As to Precedency. Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, 1680. [xviii], [2], 92, 89-92..... More

Twining, William. Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, [1985]. xiv, 574 pp. Publisher's red cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering, very good, in near-fine dust jacket. $65. * A title in the Law in Context series. First published in 1973, this printing includes the author's ten..... More

With a Chapter on Female Crime [Wade, John (1788-1875)]. A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gambling, Forgery, Street-Robberies, Burglary and House-Breaking, Receiving of Stolen Goods, Counterfeiting the Coin, Exhumation, Cheating and Swindling, Adulteration of Food, &c. Also an Account of..... More

Donaldson, Alfred Gaston. Some Comparative Aspects of Irish Law. Durham, NC: Published for the Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center [by] Duke University Press, 1957. xii, 293 pp. Cloth, negligible light shelfwear. $20. More

Lazarus-Black, Mindie. Legitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters: Law and Society in Barbuda and Antigua. Washington, DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, [1994]. xxv, 357 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Some fading to spine of dust jacket, otherwise fine. $10. More

Sweeney, James Ross, Editor. Chodorow, Stanley, Editor. Popes, Teachers, And Canon Law in the Middle Ages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, [1989]. xiii, 342 pp. Illustrations. Cloth very good in dampstained dust jacket. $25. More

Dorsen, David M. Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. xiii, 498 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine. $20. More

Neal, David. The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony, Law and Power in Early New South Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 280 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Fine. $20. More

Lydon, James. Law and Disorder in Thirteenth-Century Ireland, The Dublin Parliament of 1297. [Dublin]: Four Courts Press, [1997]. 171 pp. Illustrations. Hardback in dust jacket. Fine. $45. More

Used to Illustrate Darrow's Autobiography [Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938)]. [Darrow, Ruby (1870-1957)]. [Seven Images Featured in The Story of My Life]. Four black-and-white photographs, two black-and-white photostats and one full-color cigar box label, sizes range from 4" x 2-1/2" to 6-1/2" x 10". Photographs and photostats each captioned on verso in..... More

Owned by Nathan Leopold's Brother McKernan, Maureen. The Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb. Introduction by Clarence Darrow and Walter Bachrach. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1925]. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Original publisher's cloth, red rules to boards, red-stamped decoration to front board and title to spine, bookplate of Foreman M...... More

Only Known Copy of a Gruesome Revenge Murder in Lancashire [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Weatherill, Miles (d.1868)]. Shocking Murder at Todmordon. [London]: W.S. Fortey, Printer & Publisher, 2 & 3, Monmouth Ct., [1867]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" sheet, summary of case in two columns and verse text..... More

Handsome 1719 Edition of Coke on Littleton Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton, Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law It Self (...) Also Three Learned Tracts of the Same Author: The..... More

Handsome Illustrated Giunta Edition of the Decretum Gratiani Gratian the Canonist [c. 1090-c.1160]. Johannes Teutonicus (or Zeneka) [d.1253], Glossator. Bartolomeo da Brescia (d.1258), Glossator. Martinus Polonus [d. 1279], Margariti Decreti. Joannes Diaconus Hispanus, Flos Decreti. Decretus Gratiani Cu[m] Glossis D[omi]ni Joannis Theutonici Prepositi Alberstatensis [et] Annotationibus Bartholomei Brixiensis, Divisionibus Archidiaconi..... More

The First American Legal Text Swift, Zephaniah [1759-1823]. A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut. In Six Books. Windham, CT: Printed by John Byrne for the Author, 1795-1796. Two volumes. vii [i.e. iv], 452; v, [1], 479, [12] pp. With a folding copperplate table of descents and..... More

Inscribed by Holmes to a Former Clerk Who Became a Prominent Lawyer, Businessman and Philanthropist Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. vii, 316 pp. Original cloth, printed paper title label to spine, deckle edges. Light fading to spine and joints, a...... More

"A General Display of the Progress and Consequence of Vice," Illustrated with 55 Copperplates [C][Criminals]. [Great Britain]. The Malefactor's Register; Or, The Newgate and Tyburn Calendar. Containing the Authentic Lives, Trials, Accounts of Executions, And Dying Speeches, Of the Most Notorious Violators of the Laws of Their Country; Who have..... More

A Conspiracy to Prevent Services in English in Two Lutheran Churches in Philadelphia [Trials]. Eberle, Frederick, Primary Defendant. Carson, James, Reporter. Trial of Frederick Eberle and Others, At a Nisi Prius Court, Held at Philadelphia, July 1816, Before the Honorable Jasper Yeates, Justice, For Illegally Conspiring Together by All Means..... More

A Bizarre Case Involving Murder and Fraudulent Claims of Marriage and Parenthood [Trial]. Edwards, Charles [1797-1868]. Cunningham, Emma, Claiment. The Burdell Case, Closing Argument of Mr. Charles Edwards, Advocate for Infant Next of Kin of Harvey Burdell: And in Opposition to the Claim of Emma Augusta Cunningham, For Letters of..... More

A Fascinating Compendium of "Celebrated" Trials in a Handsome Binding [Trials]. [Borrow, George H., Editor]. Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence from the Earliest Records to the Years 1825. London: Printed for Knight & Lacey, 1825. Six volumes. 35 engraved plates, 3 folding. Complete. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4")..... More

Powers That Belong to the "Free Subject" Free Subject. The Humble Desires of a Free Subiect and True Lover of the Liberties of the Three Nations, Of England Scotland, And Ireland, And of the Dominions, And Territories Belonging to Them; Whereby to Unite Them in love, And Amity. London: Printed..... More

A Copy Owned by Joseph Story, Benjamin Butler and Henry Fowle Durant Shower, Bartholomew. Leach, Thomas, Editor. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, During the Reigns of Charles the Second; James the Second; And William the Third. By Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knt. In Two Volumes. Volume..... More

The First Federal Bankruptcy Act [Bankruptcy]. [United States]. A Bill to Establish an Uniform System of Bankruptcy, Throughout the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by T.L. Plowman, 1801. 28 pp. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light soiling to exterior, a few minor spots to title page. Rare..... More

Rare Calf-Bound Presentation Copy [Trial]. Pritchard, Edward William [1825-1865], Defendant. Roughead, William, [1870-1952], Editor. Trial of Dr. Pritchard. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1906]. 343 pp. Portrait frontispiece. 14 plates. Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine, gilt-stamped company name to..... More

"They Must At Least Stand Convicted of a Rash, Intemperate, and Improvident Zeal" A Freeholder of Cornwall. [Gregor, Francis (1760-1815)]. Two Letters: The First Containing Some Remarks on the Meeting Held 5th November, 1809, To Celebrate the Acquittal of Messrs. Hardy, J.H. Tooke, Thelwall, And Others, In November 1794: With..... More

The First Civil Procedure Code of Baja California [Mexico]. [Baja California]. Codigo de Procedimientos Civiles Para el Distrito Federal y el Territorio de la Baja California. Mexico City: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1872. [ii], 459, [11] pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Contemporary crimson quarter sheep over marbled boards, gilt-edged raised bands..... More

First Edition of an Uncommon Study by Lord Kames [Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782)]. Elucidations Respecting the Common and Statute Law of Scotland. Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, 1777. xvi, 421, [2] pp. Includes two-page publisher list of other titles by Kames. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, lettering piece..... More

1883 Catalogue of Stevens & Sons [Bookseller Catalogue] Stevens & Haynes. A Catalogue of Modern Law Works, Published During the Years 1865-1882. Being a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Legum of Henry G. Stevens and Robert W. Haynes, Law Publishers, Booksellers and Exporters of Law and Miscellaneous Literature. London: Stevens &..... More

Inventory of Estates in Roman Law Della Valle, Rolando [fl. 1561]. Tractatus Non Minus Utilissimus Quam Necessarius de Inventarii Confectione. Nunc Primum ad Communem Omnium Utilitatem cum Summarijs et Locupletissimo Omnium Rerum Notabilium Repertorio in Lucem Editus. Venice: Ex Officina Ioan. Bapt. Somaschi, 1573 (Colophon date 1572). [xl], 235, [1]..... More

"To the Granddaughter of One of America's Most Inspiring Thinkers" Lawrence, Jerome [1915-2004]. Lee, Robert E. [1918-1994]. Inherit the Wind. New York: Random House, Inc., [1955]. Photo illustrations. vi, 162 pp. Original publisher's cloth in lightly edgeworn and toned dust jacket, top-edge rouged. Faint offsetting to endleaves, author signatures and..... More

Scarce First Edition of the First Systematic Account of the Court of Common Pleas Impey, John [d. 1829]. The New Instructor Clericalis, Stating the Authority, Jurisdiction, And Modern Practice of the Court of Common Pleas. With Directions for Commencing and Defending Actions, Entring up Judgments, Suing Out Executions, And Proceeding..... More

"By Reason of Some Natural Imperfection"? [Trial]. Weld v. Weld. The Proceedings in the Arches-Court of Canterbury in a Cause Between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, Daughter to the Lord Aston; And Edward Weld, Esq; Her Husband. Containing, I. Her Libel Exhibited Against Him for Impotency. II. Her Answer and..... More

Holmes Warmly Congratulates His Successor on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [Manuscript]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. [Knowlton, Marcus Perrin (1839-1918)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Marcus P. Knowlton, Washington, DC, January 22, 1903]. Content to first 2 pp. of 7-3/4" x 5" U.S. Supreme Court bifolium letterhead. Moderate toning, single..... More

A Well-Preserved Copy of Kent's Commentaries Kent, James [1763-1847]. Comstock, George [1811-1892], Editor. Commentaries on American Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1867. Four volumes. 8 pp. publisher catalogue bound before title page of Volume I. Octavo (9-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, raised bands, red and..... More

Probably the Single Most Important Interpretation of American Law Kent, James [1763-1847]. [Kent, William (1802-1861), Editor]. [Eaton, Dorman Bridgeman (1823-1899), Editor]. Commentaries on American Law. New York: Published by William Kent, 1851. Four volumes. Star-paged to the second edition (1832). Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards..... More

Represented by Two Distinguished Scottish Jurists [Trial]. Stevenson, Duncan [1776?-1867], Defendant. Report of Trial of Issues, In the Action of Damages for Libel in the Beacon, James Gibson of Ingliston, Esq. Clerk to the Signet - Pursuer, Against Duncan Stevenson, Printer in Edinburgh - Defender. Taken in Short Hand. Edinburgh..... More

A Complete Set of Volumes Published by the Stair Society [The Stair Society]. Stair Society (Series). Edinburgh: Printed for the Stair Society by [Various Printers], 1936-2020. 67 volumes. Complete set of all volumes published to date. Original blue cloth hardcover. Light to moderate dampstaining to bindings of about one third..... More