Marks, Jacob; I. Maurice Wormser; Pierre Georges Lepaulle. Lectures on Legal Topics. 1923-1924. Volume V. Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Committee on Conferences and Lectures. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. viii, 485 pp. Original maroon cloth hardcover, light shelfwear, internally clean. $25. * There..... More

Simpson, Sidney Post, 1898-1949. Stone, Julius, 1907-1985. Schoch, Magdalena, 1897-1987. Cases and Readings on Law and Society. St. Paul, West Publishing Co., 1948-1949. 3 volumes. Publisher's maroon hardcover, moderate shelf wear. Internally clean and bright. $65. * American Casebook Series. Warren A. Seavey, General editor. Contents: Book 1. Law and..... More

Pound, Roscoe [1870-1964]. The Lawyer from Antiquity to Modern Times: With Particular Reference to the Development of Bar Associations in the United States. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing, 1953. xxxiii, 404 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Brown textured cloth hardcover, gilt stamped spine and front cover, a fine copy. $45. * First..... More

A "Deep-Sea Change" for Jerome Frank Frank, Jerome [1889-1957]. If Men Were Angels: Some Aspects of Government in a Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1942]. xii, 380 pp. Publisher's cloth hardcover, soling and nicks to front board, hinges cracked but secure, spine faded, internally clean. $65. * First edition..... More

Wigmore, John Henry [1863-1943]. A Panorama of the World's Legal Systems. Library Edition with Five Hundred Illustrations. Washington, D.C.: Washington Law Book Company, [1936]. xxiii, 1206 pp. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Light shelfwear. $35. * Unabridged one-volume edition of..... More

Chroust, Anton-Hermann. The Rise of the Legal Profession in America. Norman: University of Oklahoma, [1965]. 2 volumes. Publisher's cloth hardcover, light shelf wear, internally clean and bright. $45. * A history of American law from the colonial period to 1840. More

"Greatest Juristic Volume of the Twentieth Century" Stone, Julius. The Province and Function of Law. Law as Logic, Justice, and Social Control. A Study in Jurisprudence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950. lxi, 918 pp. Publisher's gilt stamped cloth hardcover, very good, in a torn dust jacket in a Brodart..... More

Hook, Sidney, Editor. Law and Philosophy: A Symposium. New York: New York University Press, 1964. xiii, 344 pp. Publisher's cloth hardcover, very good, in a dust jacket with clean tears repaired on the rear with clear tape. $20. * Philosophy and law touch at many points, and where they do..... More

White, James B. The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. xxxv, 986 pp. Publisher's original yellow cloth hardcover, with black spine lettering, as new. Internally clean. A fine copy. $95. * "The contemporary law and literature movement began with..... More

An Important Post-Incunable Anthology of Writings on Canon Law [Canon Law]. [Repetitiones Totius Juris Canonici Capitulorum]. Electissime ac Exuperantissime Pluriu[m][que] Fructuu[m] Feraces Repetitiones Excelle[n]tio[rum] Totius Iuris Canonici Capituloru[m]: ab Illustribus Etia[m] Novissimis Elaborate ac Promulgate Auctoribus. [Paris]: Venundantur Autem hec Repetitiones in Vico Sancti Iacobi in Intersignio Lupi Apud Poncetu[m]..... More

Rare Account of Three Montreal Murders Badreux, Jean. Les Trois Crimes: Rawdon, St-Canut, St-Liboire. Histoire Complete des Meurtres, Details Horribles. La Vindicte Publique. Montreal: Leprohon & Leprohon, 1898. 45, [3] pp. 2 text woodcuts. 3 pp. publisher catalogue, another advertisement (with woodcut) to verso of front wrapper. Octavo (8-3/4" x...... More

Excellent Guides to Practice in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas During the 1700s. Harrison, Joseph. The Present Practice of the Court of King's Bench, With Large Notes and Observations, From the Best Authorities, And the Rules of Court. In a Method Intirely New. To Which are Added..... More

Influential Commentaries Code and Digest Cujas, Jacques [1522-1590]. [Justinian I (483-565 CE), Emperor of the East]. Paratitla in Libros Quinquaginta Digestorum Seu Pandectarum, Item in Libros Novem Codicis Imperatoris Iustiniani. Ex Postrema Auctoris Recognitione. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, Sub Monocerote, 1588. [xxviii], 195, [1]; [xxxvi], 541 (i.e. 521) pp. Two..... More