Cases Temp. Macclesfield Lucas, Robert [d. 1776]. Cases in Law and Equity, Chiefly During the Time the Late Earl of Macclesfield Presided in the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot for Francis Gosling, MDCCXLI [1741]. [ii], ii, [8], 538, [94] pp. Folio (12" x 8")... More
Rights, Liberties and Privileges of London [London]. The Laws and Customs, Rights, Liberties, And Privileges, Of the City of London: Containing: The Several Charters Granted to the Said City, From William the Conqueror to the Present Time; The Magistrates and Officers Thereof, And Their Respective Creations, Elections, Rights, Duties and... More
Copy of a Nineteenth-Century Study of the English Constitution Owned by a Notable Pennsylvania Jurist Bowyer, Sir George [1811-1883]. Commentaries on the Constitutional Law of England. London: V.R. Stevens and G.S. Norton, 1846. viii, 530 pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"). Recent library buckram, raised bands and red and black lettering... More
Copy of a Final Edition of an Important Collection of Blackstone Texts with Interesting Associations Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the Antiquities and Laws of England. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1771. [iv], 353, [3], lxxx, [20] pp. Six parts, each preceded by divisional title page... More
A Set of Coke's Reports Owned by John Bouvier and Six Other Prominent American Lawyers Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke Kt. Of Divers Resolutions and Judgments Given with Great Deliberation, By the Reverend Judges and Sages of the Law, Of Cases and Matters in Law... More
Copy of a Classic Treatise on Criminal Law with an Interesting Association Hawkins, William [1673-1746]. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or a System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Their Proper Heads. Corrected, With the Addition of Some References. [London]: Printed by... 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
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A Constitutional Defense of the Glorious Revolution Acherley, Roger [c.1665-1740]. The Britannic Constitution: Or, The Fundamental Form of Government in Britain. Demonstrating, The Original Contract Entred into by King and People, According to the Primary Institutions Thereof, In this Nation. Wherein is Proved, That the Placing on the Throne King..... More
A "Father" of Leading Cases Jenkins, [David] [1582-1663]. Eight Centuries of Reports: Or, Eight Hundred Cases Solemnly Adjudged in the Exchequer-Chamber, Or, Upon Writs of Error. Publish'd Originally in French and Latin by Judge Jenkins. Now Carefully Translated, With the Addition of Many Thousand References: Particularly to Such Statutes as... More
Translated By the Father of Louisiana Jurisprudence Pothier, Robert Joseph [1699-1722]. [Martin, Francois-Xavier (1762-1846), Translator]. A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View. Translated from the French of Pothier. Newbern, NC: Martin & Ogden, 1802. Two volumes bound as one. [xii], 364; [x], 315, [1] pp. Octavo... More
Handsome 1789 Folio Edition of New York Laws with Two Interesting Laid-In Manuscript Notes [New York]. [Jones, Samuel (1734-1819), Compiler]. [Varick, Richard (1753-1819), Compilers]. Laws of the State of New-York, Comprising the Constitution, And the Acts of the Legislature Since the Revolution, From The First to the Twelfth Session, Inclusive... More
Handsome Copy of an Important Early English Translation of De Jure Belli ac Pacis Grotius, Hugo [1535-1645]. [Morrice, John, Translator and Editor]. Of the Rights of War and Peace, In Three Volumes; In Which are Explain'd the Laws and Claims of Nature and Nations, And the Principal Points that Relate... More
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Owned by Two Notable Lawyer-Statesmen [Great Britain]. [Court of Chancery] [Johnson, William Samuel (1727-1819)]. [Verplanck, Gulian C. (1786-1870)]. Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery. Carefully Corrected from the Many Gross Errors of the Former Impression. To Which are also Added Proper References to the Ancient and... More
A First-Edition Copy of Sir Thomas Jones's Reports from the Library of the First U.S. Supreme Court Reporter Jones, Sir Thomas [1614-1692]. [Dallas, Alexander J. (1759-1817)]. Les Reports de Divers Special Cases en le Common Bank & En le Court del Bank le Roy. En le Reigne de le Roy..... More
Final Edition of Blount's Dictionary, Sir Frederick Pollock's Copy Blount, Thomas [1618-1679]. Nelson, William, Editor. [Pollock, Sir Frederick (1845-1937)]. A Law-Dictionary and Glossary, Interpreting Such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms, As are Found Either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Laws. With References to the Several Statutes... More
Signed By Benjamin Cardozo Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. What Medicine Can Do For Law. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Original three-quarter cloth over paper boards, deckle edges. Negligible light shelfwear, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, faint residue from small label to front board near foot of spine. "Benjamin... More
The Growth of the Law, Inscribed by Cardozo Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. The Growth of the Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, [1924 (1927 printing)]. 145 pp. Publisher's cloth, light shelfwear, "To the Association of the Bar of the City of New York From Benjamin N. Cardozo" in bold hand... More
First Edition of The Paradoxes of Legal Science Inscribed by Cardozo Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928 (1930 printing)]. v, 142 pp. Publisher's cloth, negligible light shelfwear. "To the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. From Benjamin... More
A Historical Review and Defense of the King's Right to Tax His Subjects in Order to Support the Queen Prynne, William [1600-1669]. Aurum Reginae; Or a Compendious Tractate, And Chronological Collection of Records in the Tower, And Court of Exchequer Concerning Queen-Gold: Evidencing the Quiddity, Quantity, Quality, Antiquity, Legality of... More
Fletcher Webster's Copy of an Account of One of His Father's Famous Cases [Trial]. Jackman, Joseph. Goodridge, Elijah Putnam [1787-1851], Defendant. The Sham-Robbery, Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge on His Own Person, In Newbury Near Essex Bridge, Dec. 19, 1816: With a History of His Journey to the Place Where... More
Signed by Justice Lewis Powell [Powell, Lewis F. (1907-1998)]. American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Education Against Communism. The New Czars Vs. the Rule of Law. Chicago: American Bar Association, [1964]. 158, [3] pp. Buckram, gilt titles to front board and spine. Negligible light shelfwear, signature of Lewis F. Powell... More
With A "Merchant's Dictionary of Words and Terms" [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744)]. Lex Mercatoria: Or, The Merchant's Companion. Containing all the Laws and Statutes Relating to Merchandize. Wherein Our Trade with Foreign Nations, and Trade in General Amongst Our Selves, With What Belongs to Particular Companies, and all Maritime Affairs, in... More
1858 Trial of the Head of New York City's Police Department for Neglect of Duty [Trial]. Tallmadge, Frederick A. [1792-1869], Defendant. Gerry, Elbridge T. [1837-1927], Reporter. Trial of Hon. Frederick A. Tallmadge, General Superintendent of Metropolitan Police, Before James W. Nye, Esq., President and Hon. James S.T. Stranahan, Thomas B.... More
1858 Trial of the Head of New York City's Police Department for Neglect of Duty [Trial]. Tallmadge, Frederick A. [1792-1869], Defendant. Gerry, Elbridge T. [1837-1927], Reporter. Trial of Hon. Frederick A. Tallmadge, General Superintendent of Metropolitan Police, Before James W. Nye, Esq., President and Hon. James S.T. Stranahan, Thomas B.... More
With Extensive Manuscript Additions Concerning Toll Bridges, Taxation and Veterans [Connecticut]. Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, In America. Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1786. 8, 2, 5, 3, 346, [8] pp. [Bound with] [Manuscript Copies of Subsequent Acts, Laws and Resolutions, 1786-1817]. 347-387, [388-390] pp. Octavo (9"... More
Scarce Eighteenth-Century Legal Bibliography with an Interesting Association Hommel, Karl Ferdinand [1722-1781]. Litteratura Iuris. Leipzig: Apud Casparum Fritsch, 1779. [xvi], 366, [36] pp. Two folding copperplate leaves. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary paper covered boards, early hand-lettered title to spine, speckled edges. Light rubbing and soiling to boards, rubbing to... More
Copy of a Principal English Treatise on Canon Law Owned by a Liturgical Scholar and the Bishop of Bombay [Lyndwood, William (c.1375-1446)]. [Badius, Josse (1462-1535), Editor]. Provinciale, (Seu Constitutiones Angliae,) Continens Constitutiones Provinciales Quatuordecim Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium, Viz. A Stephano Langtono ad Henricum Chichleium; Cum Summariis Atque Eruditis Annotationibus, Summa Accuratione..... More
With an Inscribed Presentation Card to Philip Jessup Llewellyn, K[arl] N[ickerson] [1893-1962]. Jessup, Philip [1897-1986]. Put in His Thumb. New York: The Century Company, [1931]. [x], 119 pp. Quarter cloth over speckled boards, black lettered title to front cover, deckle edges, most signatures unopened. Light shelfwear and soiling. Near-fine 5"... More
1810 Handbook on the Poor Laws of Massachusetts Presented to a Notable Jurist Leavitt, Jonathan [1764-1821]. [Sedgewick, Theodore (1746-1813)]. A Summary of the Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Settlement, Support, Employment and Removal of Paupers. Greenfield: Printed by John Denio, 1810. 64 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary quarter... More
Three Eighteenth-Century Works on English Election Law With an Interesting Maryland Association [Great Britain]. [Election Law]. [Maryland, Colonial Period]. Orders and Resolutions of the Honourable House of Commons, On Controverted Elections and Returns: Determining the Qualifications of Candidates and Voters; The Rights of Election for the Several Cities and Boroughs;... More
Copy of the First American Treatise on Wills that Belonged to an Important Early Illinois Statesman Vallette, Elie. [Sparrow, Thomas (1746?-1780?), Engraver]. The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland, Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form, and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments, For... More
1812 Compilation of Georgia Law [Georgia]. Clayton, Augustin Smith, Compiler. A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the Legislature Since the Political Year 1800, To the Year 1810, Inclusive. Containing All the Laws, Whether in Force or Not, Passed Within Those Periods, Arranged in a.... More
This Copy Belonged To Royall Tyler Of Vermont Ventris, Peyton [1645-1691], Reporter. Richardson, Mr. Serjeant, Editor. [Tyler, Royall (1757-1826), Owner]. The Reports Of Sir Peyton Ventris Kt. Late One of the Justices of the Common Pleas. In Two Parts. Containing Select Cases Adjudged in the King's Bench, In the Reign... More
Owned by a Signer of the Declaration of Independence [Hopkinson, Francis (1739-1791)]. Park, James Allan [1763-1838]. A System of the Law of Marine Insurances: With Three Chapters On Bottomry; On Insurances on Lives; and On Insurances Against Fire. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1789. xvi, [8], xliv, 530, [45] pp. Octavo (7-1/2"... More
[Manuscript]. Lewis, Edwin O. [1879-1974]. [Here Lies an Honest Lawyer]. [Philadelphia, c.1969] 125 pp. [And] The Papers of Judge Edwin O. Lewis: Table of Contents. [Philadelphia, n.d.] 21 pp. Photocopied typescripts in bound in calf-stamped cloth dissertation binder, light shelfwear. "Here Lies an Honest Lawyer/ Edwin O Lewis retired/ former... More
An Examination of the Labor Injunction from the Early 1920s-- A Presentation Copy from a Group of Notable Chicago Union Leaders Frey, John P. [1871-1957]. The Labor Injunction: An Exposition of Government by Judicial Conscience and Its Menace. [Cincinnati, OH: Equity Publishing Company, 1923]. ix, [4], 197 pp. Cloth, gilt... More
Inscribed by Darrow to British Actress Rosalinde Fuller Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. A Persian Pearl and Other Essays. Chicago: C.L. Ricketts (Lakeside Press colophon), 1902. 160, [1] pp. Quarter cloth over patterned paper boards, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges. Light soiling, some wear to... More
Felix Frankfurter's Copy [Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965)]. Elath, Elihu, Norman Bentwich and Doris May, Editors. Memories of Sir Wyndham Deedes. [London]: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. In Association with the Anglo-Israel Association, 1958. 93 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Cloth very good, dust jacket lightly edgeworn and somewhat toned. "Felix Frankfurter/ 1958" to... More
Anstruther-Thomson, John [1818-1904]. Eighty Years' Reminiscences. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Two volumes. Plates. 360; 419 pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt ornaments and gilt title to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities with minor wear, bookplate of Willis Sharpe Kilmer... More