Manuscript Copy of Middlesex County Bar Rules from 1807 [Lawyers]. [Massachusetts]. Rules and Regulations of the Bar in the County of Middlesex. Cambridge, MA, December 17, 1807. [14] pp. Quarto (7-3/4 x 6-1/2"). Four bifolium sheets, content in neat contemporary hand, signed with secretarial signature of President Artemas Ward. Light..... More

A Plan to Promote the "Respectability, Esteem, And Confidence" of the British Legal Profession Day, Joseph. An Address to the Attorneys at Law and Solicitors, Practising, In Great Britain, And to the Public, Upon the Proceedings of a Committee of the London Law Club, Relative to a Bill Proposed to..... More

Eighteenth-Century Account Books of a Law Firm in Rochester, Kent, England [Manuscript]. [Solicitors]. [Great Britain]. [Two Account Books]. Rochester, England, 1752-1791, 1797-1800. [xiii], 145; [xxvi], 744 pp. Main texts of both volumes preceded by thumb-tabbed indexes. Folio (14-1/4" x 9-1/2" and 14-1/2" x 9-1/2") Book 1: Contemporary green vellum, blind..... More

Includes a Landmark Contract Case Aleyn, John, Reporter. Select Cases In B.R. 22, 23, & 24. Car. I Regis, Reported by John Aleyn Late of Greys Inn Esq; With Tables of the Names of the Cases and of the Matters Therein Contained: Also of the Names of the Learned Councel..... More

Handsome Presentation Copy of an Uncommon Volume of Exchequer Reports Parker, Thomas [1695?-1784], Reporter. Reports of Cases Concerning the Revenue, Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer, From Easter Term 1743, To Hilary Term 1767. With an Appendix, Containing Cases Upon the Same Subject in Former Reigns. With Two..... More

A Vermont Embezzler [Broadside]. [Criminals]. [Vermont]. Mark E. Foster, Hardwick, County of Caledonia, Vermont, Wanted for Embezzlement. [Caledonia County, VT, 1908]. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" broadside, single-column text below photographic image of Foster and headline. Light toning, two horizontal fold lines, light soiling to margins. $150. * Foster embezzled funds from..... More

An Interesting Murder and Piracy Trial, Joseph Story Presided [Trial]. Williams, John, Primary Defendant. The Trial of John Williams, Francis Frederick, John P. Rog, Nils Peterson and Nathaniel White, On an Indictment for Murder on the High Seas: Before the Circuit Court of the United States, Holden for the District..... More

Guided by Satan Dighton, Robert (Senior) [1752-1814]. A Lawyer and His Agent. London: Printed and Sold by Bowles & Carver, 18 April 1795. 14-1/2" x 10-1/2" hand-colored mezzotint mounted on 16-1/2" x 12-3/4" sheet. Light soiling and minor edgewear to margins of print, colors vivid. A well-preserved image. $2,500. *..... More

A Classic English Work on Equity and the Philosophy of Law that Influenced Blackstone [Saint German (Germain), Christopher]. The Dialogue in English, Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, And a Student in the Lawes of England. Newly Corrected and Imprinted with New Additions. [London]: Printed by the Assignes of John More..... More

Coke's Reports in Verse Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. [Worrall, John (d.1771), Editor]. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. In Verse; Wherein the Name of Each Case and the Principal Points are Contained in Two Lines. To Which are Added, References in the Margin to All the Editions of the..... More

The First Work Devoted to the Theory of Conveyancing Sheppard, William [fl. 1660]. Hilliard, Edward, Editor. The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances: Or, A Plain and Familiar Treatise, Opening the Learning of the Common Assurances, Or Conveyances of the Kingdom. Revised & Corrected, With Notes and Additional References by Edward Hilliard..... More

The First English Treatise on Laws Concerning Architecture Elmes, James [1782-1862]. A Practical Treatise on Ecclesiastical and Civil Dilapidations, Re-Instatements, Waste, &c. With an Appendix Containing Cases Decided, Precedents of Notices to Repair, Examples of Valuations, Surveys, Estimates, &c. Considerably Enlarged. London: Samuel Brooke, 1829. xxiv, 288, cxxi, [28] pp..... More

"Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, But of the Law It Selfe" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, But of the Law It Selfe. London: Printed for the..... More