McNamara, M. Frances. Ragbag of Legal Quotations. Albany: Matthew Bender & Company, 1960. xi, 334 pp. Reprinted 1992 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780963010636; ISBN-10: 0963010638. Hardcover. $25. * One of the best collections of legal quotations ever. McNamara's attractive and well-indexed volume provides over 2,000 quotations arranged under... More

Children's Gard Game with a Racist Element [Playing Cards]. [Children's Games]. Zwarte Piet. [Furth: Spear and Sohne, c. 1925]. 31 color 4-1/8" x 2-1/2" lithographed cards on heavy coated stock in 4-1/2" x 3" slipcase, lithographed color illustration on front. Instruction sheet lacking (or never issued). Moderate rubbing and light... More

Inscribed by Learned Hand to the First Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hand, Learned [1872-1961]. The Bill of Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. v, 82 pp. Cloth very good in moderately worn dust jacket, a few tears and scuffs to lower edge of front panel, lightly... More

Important Lutheran Commentary on Canon Law Bound with a Classic Exposition of Justinian's Institutes Kling, Melchior [1504-1571]. Antiquarum Decretalium Titulos Commentaria: Quibus Omnia Fere Iudiciorum & Praxis, Quam Vocant, Iura Diligentissime Explicantur. Recens iam Nata & In Commondum Studiosorum Edita, Cum Indice Rerum & Verborum Memoriabilium Copioso. Frankfurt: Apud Chr... More

Early Assessment of the Case Method Redlich, Josef [1869-1936]. The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law Schools: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. New York: [Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching], [1914]. xi, 84 pp. Printed stiff wrappers, spine reinforced... More

1671 Edition of Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, All Plates Present Dugdale, Sir William [1605-1686]. Origines Juridiciales, Or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishments in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books, Grants and Settlements of Estates, Degree of Serjeant, Innes of Court and Chancery. Also a Chronologie... More

British Liberty: A Legacy of "Our Ancestors in Germany" St. Amand, George. An Historical Essay on the Legislative Power of England. Wherein the Origin of Both Houses of Parliament, Their Antient Constitution, And the Changes That Have Happen'd in the Persons that Compos'd them, With the Occasions Thereof, Are Related... More

First Edition of Blount's Dictionary Blount, Thomas [1618-1679]. Nomo-Lexikon: A Law-Dictionary. Interpreting Such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms, As are Found Either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Lawes. With References to the Several Statutes, Records, Registers, Law-Books, Charters, Ancient Deeds, And Manuscripts, Wherein the Words are... More

Gould on Water Rights [C] Gould, John M. A Treatise on the Law of Waters, Including Riparian Rights, and Public and Private Rights in Waters Tidal and Inland. Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1891. cxxi, 932 pp. Octavo (9" x 6"). Contemporary law calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and... More

"A Work of Credit and Celebrity" Croke, Sir George [1560-1642]. Grimston, Sir Harbottle, Translator and Editor. Reports of Sr George Croke Kt, Late One of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench, And Formerly One of the Justices of the Court of Common-Bench. London: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft... More

An Exhaustive Study of Tithes Rayner, John, Editor. Cases at Large Concerning Tithes; Containing All the Resolutions of the Respective Courts of Equity, Particularly Those of the Exchequer, Taken from the Printed Reports, And Manuscript Collections, Mostly by Sir Samuel Dodd, Late Lord Chief Baron, Never Before Published; Together with... More

Class Notes on Jurispridence, 1769 [Manuscript]. [Canon Law]. Tractatus de Jure et Justitia. Louvain?, 1769. 375, [11] pp. Quarto (6-3/4" x 4-3/4). Contempory sheep, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece (reading De Iure et Iustitia), edges rouged. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, endpapers... More

"His Majesties Four Principal Seales" [Brydall, John (b. 1635?)]. Jus Sigilli: Or, The Law of England, Touching His Majesties Four Principal Seales, Viz. The Great Seale, The Privie Seale, The Exchequer Seale, And the Signet. Also of Those Grand Officers, to Whose Custody These Seales are Committed. London: Printed by... More