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![Account Book, New York City, 1795-1798. [xxiii], 326 pp. Quarto](http://www.lawbookexchange.com/pictures/thumb/70503.JPG?v=1604604115)
![Tractatus de Fortuitis [Bound with] Tractatus de Probanda Negativa](http://www.lawbookexchange.com/pictures/thumb/70946.JPG?v=1604604160)
Of Men and Mountains, Early Printing Inscribed by Douglas.
With a Presentation Inscription From Douglas [C] Douglas, William O. [1898-1980]. Of Men and Mountains. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1950]. xiv, 338 pp. Frontispiece. Publisher's cloth bound hardcover in moderately edgeworn dust jacket, presentation inscription from Douglas to half title. $250. * Later printing of first edition (1950)..... More
Speech of Sir James Scarlett, At a Meeting of the Electors of...
Discusses Reform, Slavery and Press Freedom Scarlett, Sir James [1769-1844]. Speech of Sir James Scarlett, At a Meeting of the Electors of Malton, At the Late General Election, 1830. London: Printed for J. Arnould, 1830. [vi], 34 pp. With a half-title. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet, marbled edges..... More
Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad.
From The Library of Louis D. Brandeis [Brandeis, Louis D. (1856-1941)]. United States Railroad Administration. Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad Administration and General Orders and Circulars Issued by the Director General of Railroads. At head of title page: United States Railroad Administration Director General of..... More
Judicial Appointments: A Letter to the Right Honourable Baron...
A Rare Tract on Judicial Reform Vigil. Judicial Appointments. A Letter to the Right Honourable Baron Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor, &c. &c. &c. London: Bosworth & Harrison, 1857. 16 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light foxing to title page and following leaf, light soiling to..... More
Christopher Palles, Lord Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of...
Delaney, V.T.H. Christopher Palles, Lord Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, 1874-1916: His Life and Times. Dublin: Allen Figgis & Co., 1960. xi, [1], 200 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear, some fading to edges in worn dust jacket with crude tape repairs, library markings to pastedown and..... More
Convict Life, Or Penitentiary Citizenship, In the Illinois State...
Life Behind Bars in Joliet, Illinois Elgar, Thomas [b.1842]. Convict Life, Or Penitentiary Citizenship, In the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Ill. Written in Prison by Thomas Elgar, 6197, 1885. Rochester, NY: Published and Sold by Thomas Elgar, 1886. 48 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self wrappers. Moderate..... More
Law is a Bottomless Pit, Or, The History of John Bull, London, 1712.
An Iconic Eighteenth-Century Satire Owned by an Important Victorian Bookseller [Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)]. [Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, And Lewis Baboon. Who Spent All They Had in a Law-Suit. Printed from a Manuscript Found in the..... More
![Documents Touching the Trial of the Bishop of New York [Spine Title]. Benjamin T. Onderdonk](/pictures/thumb/73829.JPG?v=1656101084)
Documents Touching the Trial of the Bishop of New York [Spine Title].
21 Pamphlets Documenting the Aftermath of a Church Scandal [Onderdonk, Benjamin T. (1791-1861)]. Documents Touching the Trial of the Bishop of New York [Spine Title]. 22 titles. Various imprints, most New York, 1842-1848. Various paginations. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets to calf edges..... More
Federal Justice: Chapters in the History of Justice and the Federal...
Cummings, Homer [1870-1956]. McFarland, Carl [1904-1979]. Federal Justice: Chapters in the History of Justice and the Federal Executive. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. ix, 576 pp. Cloth bound hardcover, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners, owner stamp of Carl McFarland to head of text..... More
Excerpts from Spartan Education, Cambridge, 1943
Warren, Edward H. Excerpts from Spartan Education. Brought Out by the Harvard Law School Association. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1943. Frontispiece. xii, 36 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear, light fading to spine, a bit of glue residue to rear free endpaper. $10. More
Celtic Law Papers, Introductory to Welsh Medieval Law and Government.
[Jenkins, Dafydd, Editor]. Celtic Law Papers: Introductory to Welsh Medieval Law and Government. Studies Presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions. Brussels: Les Editions de la Librairie encyclopedique, 1973. vii, 213 pp. Softbound, deckle edges, negligible shelfwear and soiling, minor tear to head of..... More
![The Commissioners of the Alms-House vs ... [With 3 Other Titles]. Alexander Whistelo](/pictures/thumb/73825.JPG?v=1656446682)
The Commissioners of the Alms-House vs ... [With 3 Other Titles].
Includes "A Remarkable Case of Bastardy" with a Black Defendant Whistelo, Alexander, Defendant. The Commissioners of the Alms-House, vs. Alexander Whistelo, A Black Man; Being a Remarkable Case of Bastardy, Tried and Adjudged by the Mayor, Recorder, And Several Aldermen, Of the City of New-York, Under the Act Passed 6th..... More
Fulbeck's Direction, Or Preparative to the Study of the Law.
Fulbeck, William. Birks, Peter, Editor. Fulbeck's Direction, Or Preparative to the Study of the Law. London: J. And W.T. Clarke, 1829. Reprint. Hants, England: Wildwood House, [1987]. xviii, 252 pp. Softbound, negligible light shelfwear. $10. More
The Irish Legal History Society, Inaugural Addresses.
Osborough, W.N. The Irish Legal History Society: Inaugural Addresses. [Dublin]: Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society, [1989]. 31 pp. Cloth. Fine. $15. More
Koptische Texte, Volume I: Rechtsurkunden, Vienna 1895.
Owned and Annotated by a Notable Scholar of Roman and Coptic Law Krall, Jakob, Editor. Koptische Texte, Volume I: Rechtsurkunden. Vienna: Verlag der Kaiserl. Konigl. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1895. viii, 225 pp. Later cloth, moderate shelfwear, bookplate of A. Arthur Schiller to front pastedown, Schiller's signature to title page. Light..... More
The American Law of Ocean Bills of Lading, Part I, Texts of the...
Knauth, Arnold W. The American Law of Ocean Bills of Lading. Part I. Texts of the American, Canadian and Spanish Cogsa and the Brussels Convention of 1924 in French, English and Spanish; The WSA 1942 Bill of Lading Form, the Cotton Clauses and the Various Recommended Clauses. With a Commentary..... More
Bechbretha, Dublin, 1983.
Charles-Edwards, T.M., Editor. Kelly, Fergus, Editor. Bechbretha. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xii, 212 pp. Cloth in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. $85. * An edition of the oldest surviving Irish legal manuscript, which deals with the laws of beekeeping and, to a lesser extent, the law of comaithches..... More
The Michigan Poor Law, Its Development and Administration With...
Bruce, Isabel Campbell. Eickhoff, Edith. Breckinridge, Sophonisba, Editor. The Michigan Poor Law: Its Development and Administration with Special Reference to State Provision for Medical Care of the Indigent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1936]. xii, 292 pp. Cloth, moderate shelfwear, owner signature (Ruth E. Hyde) to front free endpaper. $20..... More
The Life of Mr James Quin, Comedian; With a History of the Stage...
Handsome, Extra-Illustrated Copy [Quin, James (1693-1766)]. The Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian, With the History of the Stage from His Commencing Actor to His Retreat to Bath. Illustrated with Many Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of Several Persons of Distinction, Literature, And Gallantry. To Which is added a Supplement of..... More
Reports of Cases in the Vice Admiralty of the Province of New York...
Hough, Charles Merrill, Editor. Reports of Cases in the Vice Admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty of the State of New York 1715-1788. With an Historical Introduction and Appendix. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. xxxvi, 311 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Original cloth, red..... More
Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6.
Sweetman, Edward. Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Melbourne: Whitcomb & Tombs, 1920 (printed 1970). 189 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear. $45. More
Democracy & Free Enterprise, The Baxter Memorial Lectures Delivered.
Arnold, Thurman W. Democracy & Free Enterprise: The Baxter Memorial Lectures Delivered at the University of Omaha. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942. 81 pp. Original cloth, light shelfwear, gift inscription to front free endpaper, which has a tiny hole near its right-hand margin. $20. More
Sunderland Murder: The Trial of Jacob Frederich Ehlert, For the...
Murder at Sea [Trial]. Ehlert, Jacob Frederich, Defendant. Sunderland Murder. The Trial of Jacob Frederich Ehlert, For the Murder of Capt. Johan Fredrick Berkhold; Of the Ship Phoenix, While Asleep in his Cabin, On the Night of the 12th of June, 1839. Convicted on the Evidence of his Accomplice, Daniel..... More
The High Court of Delegates, Cambridge, 1971.
Duncan, G.I.O. The High Court of Delegates. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1971. xxvii, 318 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear, small scuff to front pastedown, owner signature to front free endpaper. $15. More
The Perpetual Laws, Of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, From the...
Thomas's Perpetual Laws of Massachusetts [Massachusetts]. [Thomas, Isaiah, Compiler]. The Perpetual Laws, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, From the Establishment of Its Constitution To The First Session of the General Court, A.D. 1788. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1788. [viii], [5], 389 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 4-7/8") Contemporary sheep, blind fillets and..... More