August 30, 2022
Highlights in this list include:
"A More Complete Lawyer Than Any of His Contemporaries" Bacon, Sir Francis [1561-1626]. Law Tracts, Containing 1. A Proposition for Compiling and Amendment of Our Laws. 2. An Offer of a Digest of the Laws. 3. The Elements of the Common Laws of England, Containing a Collection of Some Principal..... More
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A Fatal Shootout with the Police [Broadside]. [Murder]. Cooper, Thomas [d.1834]. Murder of a Policeman at Highbury. [London]: Printed and Published by E. Lloyd, [1842]. 19" x 14-1/2" broadside hinged (with two small circular stickers at top-edge) onto 24" x 17" board. Text in five columns and woodcut vignette depicting..... More
A Standard Treatise on Bankruptcy During the Gilded Age Bump, Orlando [1841-1884]. Law and Practice in Bankruptcy: With the Bankrupt Law of the United States as Amended, And the Rules and Forms; Together with Notes Referring to All Decisions Reported to May 1, 1873. New York: Baker, Voorhis, & Co...... More
Includes an Important Early Case Involving Deaf-Mutes C[arter], S[amuel]. Reports of Sevral Special Cases Argued and Resolved in the Court of Common Pleas: in the XVI, XVII, and XIXth Years of King Charles II. In the Time When Sir Orlando Bridgman State Chief Justice There. To Which Are Added, Some..... More
Companion Volume to Townesend's Table of Precedents Cornwall, James. G[ardiner], R[obert]. Tables to the Modern Printed Presidents of Pleadings, Writs, And Returns of Writs, &c. At the Common Law. Being a Continuation from Mr. Townsend's Tables Down to this Time. To Which are Added the Parts of Pleadings; And the..... More
Hew Dalrymple's Collection of Decisions of the Court of Session, 1698-1718 Dalrymple, Sir Hew, Lord North Berwick [1652-1737]. Decisions of the Court of Session, From M,DC,XCVIII, to M,DCC,XVIII. Collected by The Right Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple of North-Berwick, President of that Court. Edinburgh: Printed for Gavin Hamilton & John Balfour..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1755 [Great Britain]. George II [1683-1760], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Vicesimo Nono. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Thirty First Day of May, Anno Dom. 1754 in the Twenty Seventh Year..... More
"Advancing Law to a Vigorous Maturity" [Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782)]. Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session, From the Year 1730 to the Year 1752. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1766. Folio (12" x 7-1/2"). Recent library buckram, gilt institution name to boards, red and black..... More
An Early Twentieth-Century Libertarian Text Kromphardt, G. Fred. Usonan Fundamental Law. San Francisco: G. Fred Kromp Hardt, [1914]. 32 pp. Later quarter cloth over plain boards, printed paper label to spine. Very light soiling to boards, light rubbing to extremities, light fading to spine. Light toning to interior, light foxing..... More
A Leading British Statesman Discusses Extradition Treaties Lewis, Sir George Cornewall [1806-1863]. On Foreign Jurisdiction and the Extradition of Criminals. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. 78 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers, wrappers carefully reattached with added tissue at spine, most signatures unopened. Light toning..... More
A Bold Blackstone Signature [Manuscript]. Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. [Walker, Thomas (1724-1804)]. [Franked Docketed Address Leaf Addressed to Walker, Signed, In Blackstone's Hand, Oxford, October 14, (1766?)]. 9" x 7" leaf from a bifolium letter, Moderate toning, moderate soiling, vertical and horizontal fold lines, chips along fold lines, minor loss..... More
First English-Language Edition of A Profitable Booke Perkins, John [d. 1545]. A Profitable Booke of Mr. Iohn Perkins, Sometimes Fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of England. And Now Translated Out of French into English for the Benefit of Young Students, And Others. London: Printed by R.B...... More
"Is There a Punishment Too Severe for Such Depravity?" Phillips, Charles [1787?-1859]. Seduction!!! The Eloquent Speech of Mr. Phillips, Of the Irish Bar, In the Case of Creighton v. Townsend, For Seduction. London: Published by J. Johnston, [1817?]. 20 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning, slight..... More
Dalrymple's Biographies of the Lords of Session [Scotland]. [Court of Session]. [Dalrymple, Sir David (1726-1792), Compiler]. A Catalogue of the Lords of Session, From the Institution of the College of Justice, In the Year 1532. With Historical Notes. Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Murray, and Cochram, 1767. [iv], 17, [1]; 26..... More
"Nulli Secundus in his Draughts" Vidian, Andrew. The Exact Pleader: A Book of Entries of Choice, Select and Special Pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the Reign of His Present Majesty King Charles II. With the Method of Proceeding in All Manner of Actions in the Same Court. By..... More
One of the "Great Textbooks" Wharton, Francis [1820-1889]. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States: Comprising a Digest of the Penal Statutes of the General Government, And of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia; With the Decisions on Cases Arising upon Those Statutes, And a General View..... More
"A Brow-Beater Badger'd" [Williams, Charles (d.1830)]. Counsellor Nodee, Or, A Brow-Beater Badger'd. [London]: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside, [c.1812]. 9-1/2" x 13" hand-colored etching backed onto 10" x 13" sheet. Light soiling to margins of sheet, margins of etching trimmed to edges of image, colors vivid. $750. * "A scene..... More
An Impressive Collection of Eight Year Books of Edward III [Year Books]. Edward III [1312-1377]. De Termino Hillarii Anno. XVIJ. Edwardi Tertij. [London: Richard Tottell, 1584?]. lxxx ff. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) S112018. Beale, Bibliography of Early English Law Books R6. [Bound with] De Termino Hillarii Anno XVIIJ. Edwardi Tertij..... More