Bakken, Larry A. Justice in the Wilderness: A Study of Frontier Courts in Canada and the United States 1670-1870. Littleton, Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1986. Illustrations. xii, 266 pp. Publisher's red cloth hardcover, with stamped spine and front cover. A very good copy. $35. More

The First Index of the Common Law, Written to Accompany the First Abridgement of the Common Law [Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony [1470-1538]. [Rastell, John (d. 1536)]. La Table Co[n]teynant en Sommarie les Choses Notables en la Graunde Abridgement, Composee par le Iudge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony Fytzherbert, Dernierment Renue et Corige: Au..... More

With Interesting Content on Land Valuation [Land Law]. [Great Britain]. [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744), Attributed]. The Land-Purchaser's Companion: And the Laws Relating to Tenants and Tenures. Containing I. The Years Purchase All Sorts of Lands, Tenements, Rents, Reversions, &c. Are Worth Valuation of Wood, Timber, Tithes, Annuities, &c. With Contracts for..... More

Kelley, James L. Lawyers Crossing Lines. Nine Stories. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. xiii, 190 pp. Softcover, light shelfwear, minor stains to margins of a few leaves, author presentation inscription to title page. $5. More

Steinbock, Bonnie. Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. x, 256 pp. Cloth in lightly worn dust jacket, author inscription to front free endpaper. $5. More

Anderson, J.W. Eisenhower, Brownell, and the Congress: The Tangled Origins of the Civil Rights Bill of 1956-1957. University, AL: Published for the Inter-University Case Program by University of Alabama Press, 1964. viii, 139 pp. Cloth, light shelwear, light fading to spine and upper portions of boards, author presntation inscription to..... More

Rare English Treatise on Taxation Kyd, Stewart [d. 1811]. An Arrangement, Under Distinct Titles, Of All the Provisions of the Several Acts of Parliament Relating to the Assessed Taxes. London: Printed for, and sold by, Butterworth, Hurst, and Pheney [et al.], 1799. [ii], 4, 9, [1], 288 pp. [Bound with]..... More

Gibson, William Marion. Aliens and the Law: Some Legal Aspects of the National Treatment of Aliens in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940. xv, 200 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear, owner signature to front free endpaper. $10. More

The Brandeis Firm Seeks Information from a Judge [Manuscript]. [Brandeis, Louis D. (1856-1941)]. [Typed Letter on Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter Letterhead, Boston, December 24, 1909]. Single-sided letter on 10-1/4" x 8" sheet. Moderate toning, fold lines, some with browning. Letter signed, most likely by a secretary or clerk, "Brandeis, Dunbar..... More

Forsyth, William. Hortensius the Advocate: An Historical Essay on the Office and Duties of an Advocate. Jersey City, NJ: Frederick D. Linn & Company, 1881. xvii, 404 pp. Publisher's original cloth hardcover, gilt title to spine. Light rubbing and shelf wear, spine ends chipped, internally clean. $30. * An extensive..... More

Lupton, George W. Civil Aviation Law. Chicago: Callaghan, 1935. xxviii, 347 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear, author presentation inscription to front endleaf. $45. More

Scarce Treatise on Notarial Instruments, Oaths and Compromise Bertazzoli, Bartolommeo [1520-1588]. Tractatus Clausularum Instrumentalium, In Quo, Praeter ea Quae ad Litium Integram Discussionem, & Causidicorum Faciliorem Pariter Instructionem Necessario Requiri Videntur, Accurate Omnia Etiam Difficilium Quasi Legum Aenigmata Passim Enodata Reperiuntur. Opus Profecto Cunctis Iurium Alumnis ut Utile, Sic &..... More