Three Scarce Titles by Alciati, Including a Collection of Consilia Relating to Dueling Alciati, Andrea [1492-1550]. In Digestorum Seu Pandectarum Librum XII qui De Rebus Creditis Primus est, Rubric. Si Certum Petatur, Commentarius: Longe Doctissimus Atque Utilissimus: Una cum Vocum ac Rerum Toto hoc in Libro Notabilium Indice Diligentissimo. Lyons..... More

Alden, Joseph. The Science of Government In Connection With American Institutions. New York: Sheldon and Company, [1876]. 304 pp. Gilt stamped cloth, lightly rubbed, soiled. Pages lightly browned. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Endpapers contain a list of books published by Sheldon and Company. Very good. $10. *..... More

Includes a Landmark Contract Case Aleyn, John. Select Cases In B.R. 22, 23, & 24. Car. I. Regis, Reported by John Aleyn Late of Greys Inn Esq; With Tables of the Names of the Cases and of the Matters Therein Contained: Also of the Names of the Learned Councel Who..... More

Allen, Harry E. and Clifford E. Simonsen. Corrections in America: An Introduction. Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press, [1975]. xx, 555 pp. Ex-library, card pocket on rear pastedown page and location label on lower spine. Illustrated. Cloth, internally clean. $5. More

An Influential Spanish Work Addressing the Relationship Between Church and State Alvarez de Abreu, Antonio [1683-1756]. Victima Real Legal, Discurso Unico Juridico-Historico-Politico, Sobre que las Vacantes Mayores, Y Menores de las Iglesias de las Indias Occidentales, Pertenecen a la Corona de Castilla, Y Leon, Con Pleno, Y Absoluto Dominio. Madrid..... More

Ambler's Chancery Reports Ambler, Charles [d. 1794]. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, With Some Few in Other Courts. London: Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, 1795. viii, [12], 783, [29] pp. Folio (12-1/4" x 7-3/4"). Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, blind..... More

American Bar Association. Centennial. A Century of Service. [Chicago: American Bar Association, 1979]. Photo illustrations. 48 pp. Cloth. Gilt stamped binding very lightly rubbed, faded, soiled. Good. $15. * This souvenir album has been produced by the American Bar Association as a permanent record of the Centennial Annual Meeting and..... More

An Early Effort to Promote Copyright in the United States American Copyright Club. An Address to the People of the United States in Behalf of the American Copyright Club, Adopted at New-York, October 18th, 1843. New York: Published by the Club, 1843. 2 pp. Octavo (8" x 5-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched..... More

Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance. Reporter: Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Associate Reporter: Kyle D. Logue, University of Michigan Law School. American Law Institute, July 2019. 1 Volume. Hardcover. New. $266. * This Restatement covers the law of contracts in the liability insurance context, liability insurance coverage..... More

A Notable Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Lawyer and Democratic Politician [American School, 19th Century]. [Hirst, William L. (1804-1876)]. [Portrait of William L. Hirst]. 31-1/4" x 39-1/2" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise fine. $4,000. * Hirst..... More

A Philadelphia Lawyer Who Served as Pennsylvania's Deputy Attorney General [American School, 19th Century]. [Smith, Lewis Waln (1846-1881)]. [Portrait of Lewis Waln Smith]. Philadelphia, c.1870. 24" x 30" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise..... More

Impressive Portrait of Chief Justice Taney [American School, 19th/20th Century]. [Healy, George P.A. (1813-1894), After]. [Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864)]. [Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney]. 40-3/4" x 33" (image size). N.p., n.d. $6,500. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, plaque reading "Rodger [sic] Brooke Taney/ Nat 1813-Ob 1864..... More

Anderson, William C. A Dictionary of Law, Consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases, and Maxims, and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence. Originally published: Chicago: T.H. Flood and Company, 1889. viii, 1140 pp. Reprinted 1996, 2019..... More