An East India Company Official on Chinese History and Anglo-Sino Relations Auber, Peter [1770-1866]. China: An Outline of Its Government, Laws, And Policy, And of the British and Foreign Embassies to and Intercourse with that Empire. London, Parbury, Allen and Co., 1834. viii, 419 pp. Folding color frontispiece, a map..... More

[Auction Catalogue]. C.F. Libbie & Co. Catalogue of Miscellaneous Books Including the Remaining Portion of the Private Library of the Late Alfred S. Roe of Worcester Mass. June 12, 13 and 14, 1917. Boston: C.F. Libbie & Co., 1917. 169 pp. Printed wrappers. Some edgewear and a few minor chips..... More

[Auction Catalogue]. C.F. Libbie & Co. Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the late James Delano, Esq. of New Bedford, Mass. Together with Other Consignments... March 29 and 30, 1916. Boston: C.F. Libbie & Co., 1916. 117 pp. Printed wrappers. Light edgewear, small chip to foot of spine, internally..... More

[Auction Catalogue]. [Wynne, Edmund B.] Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials Made by the Late Edmund B. Wynn, of Watertown, N.Y. Comprising a Great Number of the Rarest, Most Interesting and Instructive Trials in the Courts of Great Britain and America.... New York: Bangs and Co., 1893. 208..... More

Austin, John [1790-1859]. Campbell, David, Editor. Thomas, Philip, Editor. Morison, W.L., Introduction. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. Aldershot, UK/Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth Publishing Co., Ltd., [1998]. xxv, 261 pp. Cloth, near-fine. $85. * A title in the Classical Jurisprudence Series. This study was deeply influention in England. More

Early Parliamentary Acts of South Australia [Australia]. [South Australia]. Acts of the Parliament of South Australia [1867, 1869-70, 1874, 1876-81]. Adelaide: Nine volumes in all. 1881 volume: later three quarter cloth over paper boards, typewritten paper title label to spine. Some shelfwear, internally clean; other volumes: Quarter cloth over stiff..... More

Parliamentary Documents Relating to the Penal Colony of Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales, 1839-1855 [Australia]. [Transportation]. [Van Dieman's Land]. Van Dieman's Land. Copies of Despatches from the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's Land, Relative to Transportation and the Assignment of Convicts. [London]: Ordered, By the House of Commons, To..... More

Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 [Australia]. [Victoria]. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres, 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto (10-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Modern cloth hardcover, gilt titles to spines, endpapers renewed, internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps to title pages. $650. * Only edition. (A companion..... More

Axtell, Silas Blake. Merchant Seamen's Law. New York City: Consumer's Book Co-operative, Inc., 1943. 156 pp. illustrations. Publisher's printed buff boards. A bit worn, but still quite a good copy. $25. More

An Important Forerunner to Grotius Ayala, Balthazar [c.1548-1584]. Westlake, John [1828-1913], Editor. De Jure Et Officiis Bellicis Et Disciplina Militari Libri III. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1912. [vi], xxvi, [9], 226, [6] pp. Frontispiece with tissue overlay. [With] Ayala, Balthazar. Bate, John Pawley, Translator, Notes. De Jure Et Officiis Bellicis Et..... More

Intended to Expose the Brutality of the French Revolution Ayme, Jean-Jacques. Narrative of the Deportation to Cayenne, And Shipwreck on the Coast of Scotland, Of J.J. Job Aime, Written by Himself. With Observations on the Present State of that Colony, And of the Negroes; And an Account of the Situation..... More

A Superb Set of the Rare First Edition of Azuni's Commercial Law Dictionary Azuni, D[omenico] A[lberto] [1749-1827]. Dizionario Universale Ragionato Della Giurisprudenza Mercantile. Nizza: Presso la Societa Tipografica, 1786-1788. Four volumes. [v], xx, 392, [2]; [viii], 378, [2]; [viii], 398, [2] pp., [2]; [viii], 296 pp., 55 pp., [3]. Volume..... More

Grand Juries Must Indict in All "Cases of Blood" Babington, Zachary. Advice to Grand Jurors in Cases of Blood. Asserting from Law and Reason that at the King's Suit in All Cases (Where a Person by Law is to be Indicted for Killing of Another Person) That the Indictment Ought..... More