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Tractatus Duo Analytici, Prior, De Donationibus Factis, Vel...
Essays on Prenuptual Agreements and Gifts by a Notable French Humanist Jurist Du Moulin, Charles [1500-1566]. Tractatus duo Analytici. Prior, De Donationibus Factis vel Confirmatis in Contractu Matrimonii. Posterior, De Inofficiosis Testamentis, Donationibus & Dotibus. Paris: Apud Gervasium Mallot, Via Iacobaea, Sub Signo Aquilae Aureae, 1578. 76 ff. Octavo (6"..... More
Waging War: the Clash between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS.
Barron, David J. Waging War: the Clash between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS. New York: Simon & Schuster, [2016]. xiv, 560 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. $5. * Contents: Foundings. The Revolutionary War; The founding; Quasi war; The good officer; The man on horseback; Antebellum; Civil War and..... More
Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, most...
Scalia, Antonin. Ring, Kevin A., Editor. Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, most Outspoken Justice. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Pub., [2004]. xiii, 338 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $10. * Contents: Scalia's philosophy; Interpreting laws; Separation of powers; Race; Abortion; Death penalty; Religious freedom; Gender equality; Free speech;..... More
The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America.
Kahn, Paul W. The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America. New Haven, [CT]: Yale University Press, [1997]. xi, 306 pp. Softcover. Fine. $10. * Contents: Introduction: In America the Law Is King; Part I: Studying the Rule of Law; 1. Marbur and the Historical Origins..... More
All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina...
Burke, W. Lewis. All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, [2019]. x, 346 pp. Softcover. Light shelfwear. Stain to front free endpaper. $10. * "'The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,' writes W. Lewis Burke, "is one of..... More
George Washington Williams: a Biography.
Franklin, John Hope. George Washington Williams: a Biography. Durham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1998. xxvi, 348 pp. Softcover. Light shelfwear. Owner inscription to front free endpaper. $15. * Contents: Soldier and student; Successful clergyman; Editor and publisher; A star in the Midwest; Republican yeoman; On the campaign trail; Lawmaker from..... More
Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson.
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, [N.Y.]: M.E. Sharpe, [2001]. 2nd ed. xii, 296 pp. Softcover. Fine. $15. * Contents: Making a covenant with death: slavery and the Constitutional Convention; Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance: a study in ambiguity; Evading the..... More
Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment: the Story of the First...
Reilly, Elizabeth, Editor. Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment: the Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment. Akron, [OH]: University Of Akron Press, [2011]. 1st ed. x, 301 pp. Softcover. Fine. $15. * Contents: The antebellum political background of the Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps; The historical context of the..... More
No Establishment of Religion: America's Original Contribution to...
Gunn, T. Jeremy. Witte, John. No Establishment of Religion: America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, [2012]. 415 pp. Softcover. Fine. $20. * Contents: Introduction, John Witte, Jr.; The separation of church and state versus religion in the public square: the contested history of the Establishment..... More
Albany Law School 1851-2000: a Tradition of Change.
Allen, Elizabeth K. Waite, Diana S. Albany Law School 1851-2000: a Tradition of Change. Albany, [N.Y.]: Albany Law School, [2000]. xi, 180 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $10. More
The Honourable Henry Erskine Lord Advocate for Scotland with Notices..
Fergusson, Alexander. The Honourable Henry Erskine Lord Advocate for Scotland with Notices of Certain of His Kinsfolk and of His Time Compiled from Family Papers and Other Sources of Information. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. xx, 564 pp. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. Octavo (9" x 6"). Publisher's cloth..... More
The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England.
Feather, John. The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1988]. xvi, 176 pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Near-fine, front board slightly bowed, corners bumped, internally clean. $25. More
Seizure of Territory: The Stimson Doctrine and Related Principles...
Langer, Robert. Seizure of Territory: The Stimson Doctrine and Related Principles in Legal Theory and Diplomatic Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. viii, 313 pp. Original cloth, light soiling and shelfwear, shelf label to foot of spine, ink stamps to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, which has residue from..... More
The New Tsar: the Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin.
Myers, Steven Lee. The New Tsar: the Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]. 1st ed. x, 572 pp. Softcover. Lightly worn. Author inscription and signature to title page. $5. * Contents: Part one. Homo sovieticus; A warm heart, a cool head and clean..... More
The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787.
Meigs, William Montgomery. The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787: An Effort to Trace the Origin and Development of Each Separate Clause from its First Suggestion in that Body to the Form Finally Approved. Containing Also a Fac-simile of a Heretofore Unpublished Manuscript of the First..... More
The Soviet Union and International Law: A Study Based on the...
Taracouzio, T.A. The Soviet Union and International Law: A Study Based on the Legislation, Treaties and Foreign Relations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. xvi, 530 pp. Publisher's cloth, blind frames to front board, gilt titles to front board and spine. Light fading..... More
Chapters in the History of Popular Progress Chiefly in Relation to...
Routledge, James. Chapters in the History of Popular Progress Chiefly in Relation to the Freedom of the Press and Trial by Jury. 1660-1820. With an Application to Later Years. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. vii, [2], 631 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Publisher's textured cloth, black-stamped frames to boards, gilt..... More
Kissinger: Volume I, 1923-1968 : the Idealist.
Ferguson, Niall. Kissinger: Volume I, 1923-1968 : the Idealist. New York: Penguin Books, 2015. xix, 986 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket with light staining on front cover. $10. * Contents: Book I. Heimat; Escape; Fu"rth on the Hudson; An unexpected private; The living and the dead; In the ruins..... More
Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the...
Gibson, Alan Ray. Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic. Lawrence, [Kan.]: University Press of Kansas, [2006]. xvii, 174 pp. Softcover. Fine. $10. * Contents: The center will no longer hold; The progressive interpretation; The liberal tradition; The tunnel history..... More
Treason Against God: A History of the Offense of Blasphemy, Signed.
Inscribed to an Influential American Legal Scholar Levy, Leonard W. Treason Against God: A History of the Offense of Blasphemy. New York: Schocken Books, [1981]. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, fine in moderately worn dust jacket. Author's presentation inscription "To Yale Kamisar with admiration" to front free endpaper, owner name (Kamisar)..... More
History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen.
Henderson, John Alexander, Editor. History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. Aberdeen: Printed for the New Spalding Club, 1912. xxiv, 504 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Original cloth, blind frames and central gilt arms of the New Spalding Club to boards, gilt fillets and title to spine. Negligible light soiling, light..... More
The United States Supreme Court: the Pursuit of Justice.
Tomlins, Christopher L., Editor. The United States Supreme Court: the Pursuit of Justice. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xiv, 578 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $10. * Contents: The establishment of the federal court system (1787-1791), Wythe W. Holt, Jr.; The earliest years (1790-1801): laying foundations, Maeva Marcus; The Marshall..... More
The Constitutional History of England, Boston, 1863-1864, 2 vols.
May, Thomas Erskine [1815-1886]. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George Third 1760-1860. Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863-1864. Two volumes. 484; 596 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Publisher's pebbled cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt titles and volume numbers to spines, colored endpapers. Light soiling to exterior..... More
The Supreme Court Review: 1994.
Hutchinson, Dennis J, Editor. Strauss, David A., Editor. Stone, Geoffrey R., Editor. The Supreme Court Review: 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1995]. 540 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $10. * Contents: Sexual harassment, content neutrality, and the First amendment dog that don't bark, Richard H. Fallon; Turner Broadcasting: content-based regulation of..... More
Dred Scott v. Sandford: a Brief History with Documents.
Finkelman, Paul. Dred Scott v. Sandford: a Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, [1997]. xii, 240 pp. Softcover. Near-fine. $5. * Contents: Part 1.; Introduction: The Dred Scott Case, Slavery, and the Politics of Law.; An Overview of the Dred Scott Case; A Bad Decision; A Complex and Confused..... More