The First Edition Inscribed by Frankfurter to a Protege Brandeis, Louis D. [1856-1941]. Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1914]. xiv, [2], 223 pp. Original cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine. Small stain to front board, light wear to..... More

The Landmark Trial that Helped Established Freedom of the Press in America [Trial]. Zenger, John Peter [1697-1746], Defendant. A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New-York Weekly Journal. [Drop-Head Title]. [London, 1738?]. 32 pp. Text in parallel columns. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-3/4")..... More

The Report that Led to the Decriminalization of Homosexuality [Wolfenden Report]. Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Secretary of State for Scotland by Command of Her Majesty. London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1957..... More

With a 75-Page Dedication to Lord Mansfield [Heathcote, Ralph (1721-1795)]. The Irenarch: Or, Justice Of The Peace's Manual. Addressed to the Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leicester. By a Gentleman of the Commission. To Which is Prefixed, A Dedication to Lord Mansfield, By Another..... More

Criticism of the Test Acts [Sheriffs]. [Great Britain]. The Case of the Sheriffs, For the Year 1682. Or, The Third Years Paper in Regard to the Act for Corporations. Being the Case Also of the Dissenting Ministers, In Regard to the Act of Oxford. In a Second and Third Sheet..... More

Brandeis Makes the Case for an American Jewish Congress Brandeis, Louis D. [1856-1941]. Jewish Rights and the Congress. Address Delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York City, January 24, 1916. New York: Issued by the Jewish Congress Organization Committee, [1916]. 11 pp. Stapled pamphlet. Moderate toning, light soiling to exterior, small..... More

Nineteenth-Century Ledger from Rural New Hampshire [Manuscript]. [New Hampshire]. [Docket Book]. Grafton County, New Hampshire, 1839-1877. [360] pp. Folio (13-1/2" x 8"). Contemporary three-quarter sheep over marbled boards, gilt fillets and title to spine. Moderate rubbing, a few scuffs and stains and faint dampstaining to boards, which are slightly bowed..... More

First Edition of the Eighth Part of Coke's Reports Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. La Huictme Part des Reports de Sr. Edw. Coke Chevalier, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Des Divers Resolutions & Iugements Donez sur Solennes Arguments & Avec Grand Deliberation & Conference des Tresreverends Iuges & Sages de la..... More

The Abolition of Game and Navigation Laws Welford, Richard Griffiths. Bright, John. The Influences of the Game Laws; Being Classified Extracts from the Evidence Taken Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Game Laws, And Some Introductory Remarks. With an Appendix, And an Address to the..... More

Seventeenth-Century Edition of Lyndwood's Provinciale Lyndwood, William [1375?-1446], Glosses. [Acton, John (d.1350), Commentaries]. Sharrock, Robert [1630-1684], Editor. Provinciale Vetus Provinciae Cantuariensis, Cum Selectioribus Lindwodi Annotationibus. Quibus Subnexae sunt Constitutiones Othonis & Othoboni. Cardinalium & Sedis Romani in Anglia Legatorum. Revisa Omnia, & Cum Veteribus Comparata. Oxford: Excudebat Hen: Hall, Academiae..... More

Nelson, William E. Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [1976]. Second printing. viii, 269 pp. Publisher's cloth hardcover, very good in moderately worn dust jacket. $20. * Americanization of the Common Law remains one of the standard works..... More

"The Most Learned Civilian of His Time" Cowell, John [1554-1611]. Institutiones Iuris Anglicani, Ad Methodum Et Serium Institutionum Imperialium Compositae & Digestae. Opus non Solum Iuris Anglicani Romanique in hoc Regno Studiosis, Sed Omnibus qui Politeian & Consuetudines Inclyti Nostri Imperii Penitius Scire Cupiunt, Utile & Accommodatum. Cum Duplici Indice..... More

The Execution of the Stanfield Hall Murderer [Broadside]. [Execution]. Rush, James Bloomfield [1800-1849]. The Awful Execution and Confession of James Bloomfield Rush, Who was Executed on Saturday Morning at Norwich. Exeter: W. Cooper, Printer, [1849]. 19-1/2" x 14-3/4" broadside, text in three columns below headline and woodcut vignette. Moderate toning..... More