November 8, 2022
Highlights in this list include:
An Early Argument for Universal Land Registration A Well-Wisher. Reasons for a Registry: Shewing Briefly the Great Benefits and Advantages That May Accrew to This Nation Thereby. And Likewise Reconciling Those Mistaken Inconveniences Which Many Have Conceived Thereof. By a Well-Wisher to the Publick Interest of the Nation. London: Printed..... More
Grand Juries Must Indict in All "Cases of Blood" Babington, Zachary. Advice to Grand Jurors in Cases of Blood. Asserting from Law and Reason that at the King's Suit in All Cases (Where a Person by Law is to be Indicted for Killing of Another Person) That the Indictment Ought..... More
Examination Time! Barrere, Adrien [1877-1931]. [Daumier, Honore (1808-1879)]. Passing the Bar. [Paris/New York: Sidney Z. Lucas, c.1930]. 11-1/2" x 23-1/4" color etching on upper half of 19-3/4" x 25-1/2" sheet, small line-drawing and four 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" black-and-white reproductions of lithographs below. Negligible light toning, faint dampstain to right-hand margin..... More
An Essay on Parliamentary Power Written Three Years Before the Glorious Revolution C., R. of the Middle Temple. Smith, Sir Thomas [1513-1577]. Arcana Parliamentaria: Or Precedents Concerning Elections, Proceedings, Privileges, and Punishments in Parliament. Faithfully Collected Out of the Common and Statute-Law of This Realm. With Particular Quotations of the..... More
A Successor to Kyd's Law of Awards Caldwell, James Stamford [1786?-1858]. A Treatise of the Law of Arbitration; With an Appendix of Precedents. London: Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1825. xxiv, 310, [2] pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine..... More
Unrecorded Account of the Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Thistlewood, Arthur [1774-1820], Primary Defendant. Lives Trials, Behaviour, Execution and Last Dying Words of Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, And Richard Tidd, For High Treason. They Were Executed This Morning in Front of..... More
"An Alphabetical Common Place Book of the Penal Laws" Clark, George. The Penal Statutes Abridged, And Alphabetically Arranged. Calculated to Serve the Desirable End of an Alphabetical Common Place Book of the Penal Laws. Exhibiting at One View. The Nature of the Offence; The Penalty Annexed to it, For the..... More
"A Work of Credit and Celebrity" Croke, Sir George [1560-1642]. Grimston, Sir Harbottle, Translator and Editor. Reports of Sr George Croke Kt, Late One of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench, And Formerly One of the Justices of the Court of Common-Bench. London: [various imprints], 1661, 1659 and 1669..... More
Lord Eldon's Copy of the First Major Work on Voluntary Trustees Hampson, Sir George Francis [1789-1833]. A Short Treatise Endeavouring to Point Out the Means by Which Those Who Accept the Situation of Trustees May Perform Their Duties Without Incurring Responsibility. London: Printed for A. Maxwell, 1825. xx, 129, [3]..... More
A Scarce Review of Real Property From the Library of Lord Eldon Hayes, W[illiam]. A Popular View of the Law of Real Property, With an Application of its Principles to the Important Measure of a General Register: Shewing What Changes in the System a Register is Calculated to Produce. London..... More
Lord Eldon's Copy of Holroyd on Patents Holroyd, Edward [1794-1881]. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Patents for Inventions. London: Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Richards, 1830. xii, 236 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, tiny fragment of paper label to spine. Light..... More
"Happiness that No Nation in the World but the English Ever Enjoyed" [Juries]. [Great Britain]. The Complete Juryman: Or, A Compendium of the Laws Relating to Jurors, Viz. Of Grand Juries. Of Petit Juries. Who Are Qualified to Serve on Juries. Who Are Exempted from Serving on Juries. Of Returning..... More
An Important Contribution to the Development of Modern Legal Theory Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Le Court Leete & Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de Graies Inne un Apprentice en Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Necessarie pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts a Scier, & Pur les Students de les Measons..... More
A Yorkshire Sheriff's Record of Expenses [Manuscript]. Boynton, Sir Griffith, 6th Baronet [1745-1778]. [Sheriff's Accounting for Sir Griffith Boynton]. [Yorkshire, 1772?]. [2 blank], [5], [1 blank] pp. Text in one (possibly two?) neat hands to unsewn 12-1/2" x 8" bifolia. Light toning, horizontal fold lines, light soiling in places, a...... More
First Edition of the First English Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant Meriton, George [1634-1711]. Land-Lords Law: A Treatise Very Fit for the Perusal of Gentlemen and Others. Being a Collection of Several Cases in the Law Concerning Leases, Distresses, Replevins, Rescous, Waste, And Several Other Matters Which..... More
Fear of a Standing Army Philipps, Fabian [1601-1690]. Tenenda non Tollenda, Or the Necessity of Preserving Tenures in Capite and by Knight-Service, Which According to Their First Institution Were, and are Yet, a Great Part of the Salus Populi, and the Safety and Defense of the King, as Well as..... More
"Their General Accuracy, I Believe, Has not Been Questioned" Salkeld, William [1671-1715]. Reporter. Reports of Cases Adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench; With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, From the First Year of K. William and Q. Mary, To the Tenth Year..... More
Cromwell's Financial Demands on the Clergy Sheppard, William [d.1675?]. The Parsons Guide: Or the Law of Tythes. Wherein is Shewed, Who Must Pay Tythes, And to Whom, And of What Things, When, And How They Must be Paid, And How they May be Recovered at this Day, And How a...... More
Sheppard's Plan to Reform Conveyancing Sheppard, William [fl. 1660]. [Browne, William, Editor]. The President of Presidents. Or, One General President for All Common Assurances by Deeds: Being a Perfect Abstract of the General Learning and Forms of Presidents, Touching or Any Ways Relating to All Conveyances Now in Use. Illustrated..... More
"The Complement of Coke's Theory of the Supremacy of the Law" Yelverton, Sir Henry [1566-1629]. [Whitelocke, Sir James (1570-1632)]. The Rights of the People of England, Concerning Impositions. Stated in a Learned Argument; By Sir Henry Yelverton Knight and Baronet, Late one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas..... More