Crompton, Charles; R. Meeson & H. Roscoe. Reports of Cases...in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber [1834-36]. With American Cases by Hare & Wallace. Philadelphia: T.& J.W. Johnson, 1865-73. Contemporary calf. Worn, covers detached. Internally sound.$75. *Wallace 534. More

Denison, Stephen Charles. Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration & Decided by the Judges of England [1844-52.] Volume II Continued by R.R. Pearce, American Cases by G. Shearswood. Philadelphia: T.& J.W. Johnson, 1853. Two volumes. Contemporary calf. Ex-library. One volume rebacked, covers detached, rehinged with tape. Internally sound.$100. *Wallace 538. More

Clark, C. and W. Finnelly. Reports of Cases...in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error [1831-46]. Edited with Notes & References to American & subsequent English Cases by J.C. Perkins. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1873-74. Twelve volumes. 10 volumes contemporary calf, 2 volumes cloth. Ex-library. Worn..... More

Hall, Frederick James & Philip Twells. Reports of Cases...in the High Court of Chancery [1848-50]. London: W. Maxwell, 1850-51. Two volumes. Contemporary law calf. Ex-library. Exterior scuffed, worn. Covers detached, one volume repaired with tape. Internally sound.$75. *Wallace 527. More

Hare, Thomas. Reports of Cases...in the High Court of Chancery [1841-1853]. With Notes & References to both English & American Decisions by E. Fitch Smith [et al.]. New York: Banks, Gould & Co., 1851-1871. Eleven volumes. Complete set of all volumes published. Contemporary law calf. Ex-library. Worn. Most covers detached..... More

[British Ruling Cases]. British Ruling Cases from Courts of Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia and Other Divisions of the British Empire. Rochester: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1900-1911. Eight volumes (of sixteen published). Original cloth, leather labels. Ex-library. Some soiling to binding and some spine labels chipped, else a very..... 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; Stevens & Sons and W. Maxwell & Son, 1884. Seven volumes. Contemporary three-quarter calf. Worn, covers of four volumes detached (some repaired with tape). Internally sound. $250. *First..... More

Vesey, Francis Jr. Reports of Cases...in the High Court of Chancery [1789-1817]. Edited with Notes & References to American Law and Subsequent English Decisions by Charles Sumner. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1894-95. Twenty volumes. Star-paged. Contemporary calf. Ex-library. Spines rubbed, some spines chipped, several joints cracked, several..... More

Meeson, R. and W.N. Welsby. Reports of Cases...in the Courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber [1836-47]. With References to Decisions in the American Courts. Edited by J.I. Clark Hare & H.B. Wallace. Philadelphia: T.& J.W. Johnson & Co., 1864-70. Sixteen volumes. Contemporary calf, two volumes clothbound. Ex-library. Extremely worn. Covers..... More

Ter Meulen, Jacob. Diermanse, P.J.J. Bibliographie des Ecrits sur Hugo Grotius. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. xx, 224 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth, negligible light shelfwear, otherwise fine. $35. More

The University of Cambridge Asserts its Rights Marriott, Sir James [1730?-1803]. The Rights and Privileges of Both the Universities and of the University of Cambridge in Particular Defended in a Charge to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions for the Peace Held in and For the Town of Cambridge..... More

Dumbauld, Edward. The Life and Legal Writings of Hugo Grotius. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1969]. xiii, 206 pp. Illustrations. Portraits. Cloth in moderately worn and lightly faded dust jacket. $15. More

Noda, Yosiyuki. Angelo, Anthony H., Translator. Introduction to Japanese Law. [Tokyo]: University of Tokyo Press, [1976]. xiv, 253 pp. Cloth in lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. $25. More

The Legal Status of Dowers for Women Taking Religious Vows Ullathorne, [William Bernard] [1806-1889]. Report on the Ecclesiastical Law Respecting the Dowries of Religious Women. London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1872. 37 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Moderate toning, single slight vertical fold line, light soiling..... More

United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Impeachment: Selected Materials on Procedure. Washington, D.C., 1974. v, 900 pp. Publisher's printed wraps, very good. $25. * 93rd Congress 2d Session. House Committee Print. Provides detailed information regarding the procedures and mechanics of the impeachment process in the House of..... More

A Rare Account of a Career-Ending Divorce Case [Divorce]. Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke. The Crawford Divorce Case (Second Edition.) Containing Important Facts Disclosed Since the Trial. Illustrated with Portraits. London: F. Henning, 1886. [146] unnumbered pp. Woodcut portrait frontispiece and a few small portrait vignettes. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-3/4")..... More

Rights, Privileges and Liberties of Dublin [Dublin]. Lucas, Charles [1713-1771]. The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Dublin, Transcribed and Translated into English; With Explanatory Notes. Addressed to His Majesty, And Presented to His Lords Justices of Ireland. By Charles Lucas, A Free-Citizen. Dublin: Printed by James..... More

Smith, Godwin. A Constitutional and Legal History of England. New York: Dorset Press, 1990. xv, 565 pp. Maps. Hardback in lightly worn dust jacket. $20. More

Maltz, Earl M. Rethinking Constitutional Law: Originalism, Interventionism, and the Politics of Judicial Review. [Lawrence]: University Press of Kansas, [1994]. ix, 148 pp. Cloth in dust Jacket. Fine. $15. More

Stacey, Robin Chapman. Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]. 354 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Fine. $45. More

Stedman, Jane W. W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre. [Oxford and New York]: Oxford University Press, 1996. xviii, 374 pp. Plates. Illustrations. Cloth bound hardcover, in lightly worn dust jacket. $10. More

Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868. London: Collins Harvill, 1987. 680 pp. Plates. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Portraits. Hardbound in dust jacket. Light fading to spine, early owner inscription in tiny hand to front free endpaper, otherwise fine. $15. 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