A Profound Influence in the American Colonies, One of the Two Editions Owned by Jefferson [Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor. English Liberties, Or the Free-Born Subject's Inheritance; Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio non Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, And Several Other Statutes; With... More

Three Sixteenth Treatises on Clerical Salaries and Pensions Falconi, Enea. Tractatus Utilissimus Reservationum Papalium, Ac Legatorum Compositus per Egregium Quondam I.U.D. do. Aeneam de Falconibus, De Magliano Sabinensem. Nunc Primum in Lucem Aeditum per R.P.D. Ludovicum Gomesium Episcopum Sarnensem ac Sacri Palatii Apostoliciauditorem, Ad Communem Omnium Utilitatem. Rome: [Impensis d.... More

Handsomely Printed Pocket-Sized Edition with Commentaries by Sassoferrato [Justinian I (485-565 CE), Emperor of the East]. D'Aurigny, Gilles, Editor. [Sassoferrato, Bartolo de (1313-1357), Glossator]. Textus Infortiati: D[omi]ni Justiniani Imp[er]atoris Sacratissimi. Cu[m] Summariis. [Paris: Francois Regnault, c.1530]. 290, [24] ff. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-3/4"). Recent three-quarter... More

An Important Early American Treatise on the Legal Rights of Married Women Cord, William H. A Treatise on the Legal and Equitable Rights of Married Women: As Well as in Respect to Their Property and Persons as to Their Children. With an Appendix of the Recent American Statutes and the... More

Should We Revive Trial by Battle? Kendall, E[dward] A[ugustus] [1776?-1842]. An Argument for Construing Largely the Right of an Appellee of Murder, To Insist on His Wager of Battle, And Also for Abrogating Writs of Appeal. Humbly Addressed to the Judges of His Majesty's Courts of Law and Both Houses... More

"The Complement of Sir W. Blackstone's Commentaries" Wooddeson, Richard [1745-1822]. Elements of Jurisprudence, Treated of in the Preliminary Part of a Course of Lectures on the Laws of England. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick for J. Moore, 1792. [vi], 207 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, lettering piece and... More

Advice for Law Students Fulbeck(e), William [1560-1603]. Stirling, T.H. A Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law: Wherein is Shewed, What Things Ought to be Observed and Used of Them That Are Addicted to the Study of the Law, And What, on the Contrary Part, Ought to be... More

1837 Printing of The Federalist in a Handsome Period-Style Binding Hamilton, Alexander [1755-1804]. Madison, James [1751-1836]. Jay, John [1745-1829]. The Federalist, or The New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: With an Appendix, Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the... More

[American School 19th Century]. [Hirst, William L. (1804-1876)]. Portrait of William L. Hirst (1804-1876). Oil on Canvas, framed. 39 1/2 inches x 31 1/4 inches. $4,000. * Hirst began his legal career as a Court of Common Pleas clerk before passing the bar in 1827. He had thriving private law... More

How to Live the Life of a Proper Gentleman [Allestree, Richard (1621/2-1681)]. The Gentleman's Calling. Written by the Author of The Whole Duty of Man. London: Printed by Edward Jones, For Edward Pawlet, 1696. [xxvi], 165, [3] pp. Includes two-page publisher catalogue. Copperplate engraved allegorical frontispiece. Private Devotions, pp. [159]-165... More

With Sixteen Hand-Colored Plates, Three by George Cruikshank [Trials]. Moore, A. [Cruikshank, George, Illustrator]. [Jenkins, J., Illustrator]. The Annals of Gallantry; Or, The Conjugal Monitor: Being a Collection of Curious and Important Trials for Divorces, And Actions of Crim. Con. During the Present Reign; Accompanied with Biographical Memoirs and Anecdotes... More

[American School 19th Century]. [Troubat, Francis (1802-1868)]. Portrait of Francis Joseph Troubat (1802-1868) Oil on Canvas, framed. 29 inches x 24 1/4 inches. $5,000. * A prolific writer of legal texts, Troubat is best known as the co-author with William W. Haly, of The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings... More

Neagle, John (1796-1865). After Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). Tilghan, William (1756-1827). Portrait of William Tilghan (1756-1827). Oil on Canvas, framed. 29 inches x 24 inches. $6,000. * William Tilghman was a politician and jurist in Maryland and Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Maryland Assembly from 1788 to 1790, and... More