December 20, 2022
Highlights in this list include:
With a Warm Inscription from the Author Archer, Gleason L. [1880-1966]. History of the Law. Boston: Suffolk Law School Press, 1928. 442 pp. Original textured cloth, gilt fillets and title to spine. Light rubbing and shelfwear, faint dampstaining to front board, moderate toning to interior, small tears to bottom-edges of..... More
A Controversial Work that Opposed Claims of Royal Prerogative [Bacon, Nathaniel (1593-1660), Attributed]. [Selden, John (1584-1654), Attributed]. An Historicall Discourse Of The Uniformity Of The Government Of England. The First Part. From the First Times Till the Reigne of Edward the Third. London: Printed for Mathew Walbancke at Grays-Inn-Gate, 1647..... More
Notable for Its Insights into Seventeenth-Century Legal Practice [Booth, William, Attributed]. The Compleat Sollicitor, Performing His Duty: And Teaching his Clyent to Run Through and Manage His Own Business, As Well in His Majesties Superior Courts at Westminster: As in the Mayors Court, Court of Hustings, And Other Inferiour Courts..... More
A Lavish History of the Supreme Court Carson, Hampton L. The History of the Supreme Court of the United States; With Biographies of All the Chief and Associate Judges. Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler and Company, 1902. 2 volumes. xii, 338; [viii], 339-660 pp. 58 plates. Quarto (9" x 6-3/4"). Original sheep..... More
Owned by a Member of the Darrow Family Darrow, Clarence [1854-1938]. Resist Not Evil. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1903. 179 pp. Original green textured cloth, white-stamped title and ornaments to front board, white-stamped title to spine, small ownership stamp of E.E. Darrow to front pastedown. A few negligible stains, some..... More
Advice for the Seventeenth-Century English Law Student Doddridge, Sir John [1555-1628]. The English Lawyer. Describing a Method for the Managing of the Lawes of this Land. And Expressing the Best Qualities Requisite in the Student, Practizer, Judges and Fathers of the Same. London: Printed by the Assignes of I. More..... More
"The Best of the Old Treatises Upon Pleading" [Euer, Sir Samson (d.1659)]. A System of Pleading. Including a Translation of the Doctrina Placitandi; Or, The Art and Science of Pleading: Originally Written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at Law, And Now First Translated From the Obsolete Norman French. Shewing Where, In..... More
A Royalist Who Inspired Works by Locke and Sidney [Filmer, Sir Robert (d. 1653)]. The Free-Holders Grand Inquest Touching Our Soveraigne Lord the King and his Parliament. [London]:, S.n., Printed in the Three and Twentieth Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lord King Charles [i.e. 1648]. [viii], 64 pp..... More
Rare Variant Printing of an Early Work on Sheriffs [Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (1470-1538)]. In This Booke is Contayned the Offyces of Shyriffes, Bayliffes of Lybertyes, Escheatours, Constables, And Coroners, And Sheweth What Everye One of Them May Dooe by Vertue of Their Offices, Drawen Out of Bookes of the Common..... More
Gilbert on an Important Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Wills [Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey (1674-1726)]. The Law of Executions. To Which are Added, The History and Practice of the Court of King's Bench; And Some Cases Touching Wills of Lands and Goods. By the Late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert. London: Printed by His..... More
The Importance of Grand Juries to English Liberty and Morality Gonson, Sir John [d. 1765]. The Charge of Sir John Gonson, Kt. To the Grand Jury of the City and Liberty of Westminster, &c. At the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, Held the Twenty Fourth Day of April 1728 in..... More
First Edition of Jacob's JP Manual Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. The Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace, In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law, And of the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace, Constables, And Other Parish Officers Under Them, Compleat..... More
Scarce Abridged Edition of Jacob's Law-Dictionary Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. The New Law-Dictionary: Containing the Definition of Words and Terms and Also the Whole Law, And Practice Thereof, &c. Carefully Abridged: In the Most Compleat and Informing Manner, For the Use and Benefit of Students, Attornies and Solicitors, Stewards, And Clerks..... More
Handwriting Evidence is Not Enough to Convict Le Vayer de Boutigny, Roland [1627-1685]. A Dissertation Shewing the Invalidity of All Proof by Similitude of Hands, In Criminal Cases. The Whole Collected from the Civil Law and Other Distinguished Authorities, Founded on the Principles of Reason and Equity, And Digested with..... More
"We Ascribe This Horrible Deed More to Principle Than to Depravity" Merritt, Timothy. A Discourse on the Horrid Murder of Capt. James Purrinton's Family, Of Augusta, Delivered in Bowdoinham, July 20, 1806. Augusta, [ME]: Printed...by Peter Edes, 1806. 23 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain wrappers, recently..... More
A Classic English Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant [R.T., Gent.]. Tenants Law: Or, The Laws Concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers. (Viz.) 1. Of the Several Kinds of Tenants and Tenures. 2. Of Leases, Covenants, Surrenders, And Assignments, &c. 3. Of Rent: Acceptance and Extinguishment Thereof. 4. Of..... More
A Collapsing Bank Defends its Actions [Richard Thompson and Company]. The Case of Richard Thompson and Company: With Relation to Their Creditors. Published for Better Information. London: [s.n.], 1677. [ii], 29, [1] pp. With initial errata leaf. Quarto (7-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in later (eighteenth-century?) mottled calf, blind..... More
"A Work of the Utmost Utility," Not in the ESTC Robinson, Walter. The Landlord's Pocket Lawyer; Or, The Complete Landlord and Tenant: Containing the Whole Law Concerning Landlords, Tenants, And Lodgers, Explained in a Familiar Manner [...] A Work of the Utmost Utility to Landlords and Tenants, As it will..... More
First Edition of the First Treatise on Conveyancing Sheppard, William [fl. 1660]. The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances. Or, A Plain and Familiar Treatise Opening the Learning of the Common Assurances, or Conveyances of the Kingdome. London: Printed by M.F. for W. Lee [et al.], 1648. [xii], 529, [6] pp. Quarto..... More
Trial of the Leaders of the Ill-Fated Miranda Expedition [Trials]. Smith, William S. [1755-1816], Defendant. Ogden, Samuel G. [1779-1860], Defendant. Lloyd, Thomas [1756-1827], Stenographer. The Trials of William S. Smith and Samuel G. Ogden for Misdemeanours had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the New-York District in..... More
Trial of the Leaders of the Ill-Fated Miranda Expedition [Trials]. Smith, William S. [1755-1816], Defendant. Ogden, Samuel G. [1779-1860], Defendant. Lloyd, Thomas [1756-1827], Stenographer. The Trials of William S. Smith and Samuel G. Ogden for Misdemeanours had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the New-York District in..... More
Eighteenth-Century English Law Bookseller's Catalogue Walthoe, John [1657?-1744], Bookseller. A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of this Realm; And Some Others Relating Thereunto, To Michaelmas Term, 1725. Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles. With an Account of the Best Editions, And Common Prices for which They are Now Sold..... More