c.1783 French Manuscript on Political Science and National Character [Manuscript]. [Political Science]. [French Manuscript Account of English and European History]. [France, c.1783]. 140-219; 1-169 ff. Two parts. Quarto (7-3/4" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary 3/4 vellum over marbled boards, raised bands and faint early hand-lettered title to spine, ends rouged. Moderate rubbing..... More
"When Occasion Serves, And My Head Will Bear It, I Like to Look Into a Book" [Manuscript]. Houston, William Churchill [c,1746-1788]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, to Robert Morris, Trenton, January 27, 1787]. Single leaf folded to form 9-1/2" x 7" bifolium with integral address leaf, docketed in Morris's hand to verso..... More
An Eminent Admiralty Lawyer Offers Legal Advice in Hope of Regaining Royal Favor [Manuscript]. Godolphin, John [1617-1678]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To the Earl of Lauderdale, London, Doctors Commons, February 23, 1664]. Single leaf folded to form bifolium (12" x 8") with integral address leaf and red wax seal. Light toning..... More
Lectures Based on Zoes's Corpus Juris Civilis Commentaries by a Contemporary Jurist [Manuscript]. [Zoes, Hendrik (1571-1627)]. Explicatio in Zoesy Digesta. [Central Europe, c.1700]. [658] pp. Quarto (7-3/4" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary vellum, black-stamped lettering piece and later hand-lettered title to spine, edges rouged. Moderate soiling, some minor stains and a few..... More
Manuscript Precedent Book, Edinburgh, 1776 [Manuscript]. [Scotland]. A Collection of the Stiles of Personal Rights and Diligence. Personal and Real. Volume I. Edinburgh, 1776. 355, [4] pp. With an index. Quarto (8" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt fillets, lettering piece reading "Stiles" and contemporary..... More
Manuscript Epitome of Sir Thomas Craig's Jus Feudale [Manuscript]. [Craig, Sir Thomas (c.1548-1608)]. Ane Epitome or Abridgement off the Most Substantiall Thinges Conteined in the Books off that Famous and Learned Jurisconsult Mr. Thomas Craiges off Riccartown, Advocat before the Lords of Counsell and Session, Treating upon the Feudal Law..... More
Rare Manuscript Treatise on the Laws of Guernsey [Manuscript]. [Guernsey]. [Carey, Laurent (1723-1769)]. [Renouf, Thomas W., Transcriber]. [Loix, Coutumes et Usages de Cette Ile]. [Guernsey, c.1846]. 399, [8] pp. Octavo (8" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling..... More
Manuscript Reference Dealing with Assumpsit and Family Law [Manuscript]. [Great Britain]. [Legal Handbook]. [Great Britain, c.1750]. 400 pp., 357 pp. with content. Octavo (7" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary calf, gilt rules to boards, extra-gilt spine with raised bands, blind tooling to board edges, speckled edges. A few scuffs, nicks and spots..... More
A Justice's Commonplace Book Enriched with Newspaper Clippings [Manuscript]. [Great Britain]. Manuscript Commonplace Book of a Justice of the Peace [Spine Title]. [England?, c.1842-1858]. [i], 188, [7] ff. With a 4 ff. index. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, contemporary hand-lettered paper label, reading "Law," to..... More
Collection of Related Autograph Letters Concerning Brandeis, Henry Ford's Anti-Semitism and Civil Rights [Manuscript Archive]. [Brandeis, Louis D. (1856-1941)]. [Hapgood, Norman (1868-1937)]. [Anderson, George W. (1861-1938)]. [Pound, Roscoe (1870-1964)]. [Collection of Nine Items Relating to Brandeis, Civil Rights and Other Subjects, 1920-1934]. Single and multi-page autograph and typewritten letters and..... More
"Never Printed But Lent Me to Copy" [Manuscript]. Lowndes, William (1652-1724). A Treatise of Estates & Conveyances by Wm. Lowndes Esqr. Late Secretary of the Treasury. Never Printed but Lent to Me to Copy. AD 1712....Ends page 49.' Cornwall?, 1699-1718. [4], 49, [1], 50-62, [5] pp. 11 blank leaves. Quarto..... More
Seventeenth-Century Italian Manuscript Formbook [Manuscript]. [Italy]. [Formulary]. Italy, c. 1650. 250 ff., 18 ff. thumb-tabbed index, 25 blank leaves. Octavo (6" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary limp-vellum flap binding, remnants of thong-and-toggle fastener, untrimmed edges. Light soiling and shelfwear, "Formularium Instrorum" to front cover in later hand, along with lists of years..... More
Handsome c.1350 Leaf from a Registrum Brevium [Manuscript]. [Great Britain]. [Leaf from a Registrum Brevium]. [Probably London or Westminster, c. 1350]. [2] pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Parchment leaf, light soiling, mostly to margins, a few tiny spots, minor edgewear, faint fold crease to lower outer corner. 33-line single-column text..... More
Annotated Manuscript Copy of the Institutes of Justinian [Manuscript]. [Justinian I (483-565 CE), Emperor of the East]. Justinian Institutiones. [France, c.1700]. 144, [142], 63, [322] ff. Folio (11-1/2" x 8"). Contemporary reversed calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and blind fillets to spine, fragments of thong ties. A few..... More
A Tudor-Era Recognizance [Manuscript]. [Great Britain]. [Tudor-Era Recognizance To Return To Court]. Essex, UK, 1564. Essex, April, 1, 1564. 6-1/4" x 8" sheet, manuscript text to recto, verso blank. Light soiling, some edgewear, a few tiny holes near upper corners, paper residue at corners of verso from previous mounting. Item..... More
A New York Lawyer Re-Establishes His Practice in Ohio [Manuscript Archive]. [Scott, Lyman, Jr.]. [Documents Concerning Scott's Application to Practice Law in Ohio]. Coshocton County, OH and Cattaraugus County, NY, 1832-1836. Six documents, one franked on verso, sizes ranging from 4-1/2" x 8" to 12-1/2" x 7-1/2." Moderate toning, fold..... More
Presentation Copy of a Section of Scott's Landmark Translation of Las Siete Partidas [Manuscript]. [Alfonso X (1221-1284), King of Castile and Leon]. [Scott, Samuel Parsons (1846-1929), Translator]. "Las Siete Partidas," Translation of Titles I, II, III and IV of the "First Partida." [Hillsboro, OH?, c.1913]. 101 ff. Carbon-copy typescript with..... More
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Pre-Publication Manuscript Copy of a Classic Manual on Parliamentary Procedure [Manuscript] Elsynge, Henry (The Elder). Modus Tenendi Parliamentu[m]. In Two Bookes. Composed by Henry Elsing. Esquire, Clerke of the Parliament. The Catalogue of the First Booke-Modus Tenendi Parliamentum Apud Anglos in Two Bookes-The First of the Forme, & All Things..... More
Eighteenth-Century Account Books of a Law Firm in Rochester, Kent, England [Manuscript]. [Solicitors]. [Great Britain]. [Two Account Books]. Rochester, England, 1752-1791, 1797-1800. [xiii], 145; [xxvi], 744 pp. Main texts of both volumes preceded by thumb-tabbed indexes. Folio (14-1/4" x 9-1/2" and 14-1/2" x 9-1/2") Book 1: Contemporary green vellum, blind..... More
Eighteenth-Century English Manuscript Law Dictionary [Manuscript]. [Law Dictionary]. England, c.1753. [326] pp. Quarto (8" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary limp reversed calf with yapp edges, raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing, a few minor scuffs and stains, binding cocked, several leaves, presumably blank, removed from end of text block. Text in neat..... More
"Public Whore?" [Manuscript]. [Wisconsin]. [Acker, James, Defendant]. [Accusation of Adultery]. Walworth County, Wisconsin Territory, 1845. 12-1/2" x 7-3/4" sheet. Moderate toning, two horizontal fold lines, light edgewear. Content in neat hand, docketed on verso. $450. * The document pertains to suit filed against James Acker by Dyes Read for William..... More
A Hatchet Assault in Texas [Manuscript]. [Texas]. [Cotton, James, Defendant]. [Affidavit Concerning the Case of Texas v. James Cotton]. Harris County, TX, February 19, 1852. 12" x 7-1/2"sheet. Moderate toning, light soiling, rubbing with a few small chips and clean tears to edges. $450. * This document appears to be..... More
An Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Prejudicium [Manuscript]. [Praejudicia Tabularia]. Probably Hungary, c.1760. [284] pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, edges rouged. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks to boards, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, pastedown excised from verso..... More
Holmes Describes His Approach to the Law in a Letter Written in May 1898 [Manuscript]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. [Castletown, Lady Clare (1853-1927)]. [Autograph Letter Signed "H" to Lady Clare Castleton, Boston (?), May 18, 1898]. 8" x 5" bifolium, content filling rectos and versos of both leaves. Faint..... More
1810 Student Notes on Lectures on the Code de Procedure Civile and Code d'Instruction Criminelle [Manuscript]. Jouvent, Barthelemy [d.1821]. Cours de Procedure Civile. Dicte par Monsieur Jouvent, Professeur & Doyen a la Faculte de Droit a Toulouse. Toulouse, 1810. [364] pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary vellum, gilt fillets and..... More