McNamara, M. Frances. Ragbag of Legal Quotations. Albany: Matthew Bender & Company, 1960. xi, 334 pp. Reprinted 1992 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780963010636; ISBN-10: 0963010638. Hardcover. $25. * One of the best collections of legal quotations ever. McNamara's attractive and well-indexed volume provides over 2,000 quotations arranged under... More

Final Edition of Cowell's Law Dictionary Cowel[l], John [1554-1611]. A Law Dictionary: Or the Interpreter of Words and Terms, Used Either in the Common or Statute Laws of Great Britain, And In Tenures and Jocular Customs: First Published by the Learned Dr. Cowel, And in This Edition Very Much Augmented... More

One of the Earliest English Texts to Address Conveyancing. [C] West, William [1568-1594]. The First Part of Symboleographie: Which May be Termed the Art, Or Description, Of Instruments and Presidents. First Collected by William West of the Inner Temple Esquire. And Since Augmented with Divers New Presidents not Formerly Printed... More

Law Dictionary by an Important Nineteenth-Century Mexican Statesman Montiel y Duarte, Isidro Antonio [1821-1891]. Vocabulario de Jurisprudencia. Mexico City: Imprenta de la v. e. Hijos de Murguia, 1878. 242, [5] pp. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (10-3/4" x 7-1/2"). Later quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and gilt title... More

A Sixteenth-Century "Nutshell" of Roman, Feudal and Canon Law Wesenbeck (Wesembeke), Matthaeus [1531-1586]. Oeconomia Iuris. Leipzig: Curante Ernesto Voegelino [Imprimebatur per Andream Schneider, Typis Vogelianis, 1571]. [ii], 383, [21] pp. Quarto (7-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary paneled vellum, gilt-stamped early owner name (Cancell: Mari: Burg/ 1681) and faint tiny early signature... More

First Edition of Lilly's Modern Entries Lilly, John [fl. c.1740]. Modern Entries, Being a Collection of Select Pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, Viz. Declarations, Pleas in Abatement and in Bar, Replications, Rejoinders, &c. Demurrers, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments, Forms of Making up Records of Nisi... More

First Edition of a Classic Study of International Law and the Laws of Armed Conflict Bynkershoek (Bijnkershoek), Cornelis van [1673-1743]. Quaestionum Juris Publici, Libri Duo, Quorum Primus Est de Rebus Bellicis, Secundus de Rebus Varii Argumenti. Leiden: J.V. Kerckhem, 1737. [xxiv], 384, [31] pp. Quarto (7-3/4 x 6"). Contemporary vellum... More

Owned by Two Notable Lawyer-Statesmen [Great Britain]. [Court of Chancery] [Johnson, William Samuel (1727-1819)]. [Verplanck, Gulian C. (1786-1870)]. Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery. Carefully Corrected from the Many Gross Errors of the Former Impression. To Which are also Added Proper References to the Ancient and... More

1507 Lyons Imprint of an Important Early Law Dictionary in a Handsome Contemporary Binding [Jodocus of Erfurt, Attributed]. [Caccialupe, Giovanni Battista (d. 1496)]. Vocabularius Perutilis Utriusq[ue] Iuris [Juris] tam Civilis Q[uam] Canonici. [Lyon: Jean Barbier and Jean Petit, September 7, 1507]. [212] ff. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo (6-3/4"... More

A Collection of English Satirical Pamphlets, Many Rare, in a Contemporary Binding [Satire]. [Great Britain]. [Bound Collection of Satirical Pamphlets on Legal and Political Topics]. London, 1684-1712. 19 pamphlets (and 3 defective pamphlets). Octavo (6" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary paneled calf, raised bands and early hand-lettered title label (reading "Tracts") to... More

"Of Respectable Authority" [Finch, Thomas, Reporter]. Precedents in Chancery, Being a Collection of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery; From the Year 1689, To 1722. [London]: Printed by E. And R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, 1733. [viii], 356, 367-598, [40] pp. Pagination irregular, text complete. Folio... More

"Contributed Very Much to the Elucidation of the More Ancient Laws" Barrington, Daines [1727-1800]. Observations on the More Ancient Statutes, From Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James I. Cap. XXVII. With An Appendix, Being A Proposal For New Modelling The Statutes. With Considerable Additions. London: Printed by W. Bowyer... More

"A Reporter of Acknowledged Accuracy." Carthew, Thomas. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, From the Third Year of King James the Second, To the Twelfth Year of King William the Third. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1728. [xiv], 520, [30] pp... More