February 21, 2023
Highlights in this list include:
Blackstone's Remarks on the Wilkes Cause [Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780), Attributed]. The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered on the Principles of the Constitution and the Authorities of Law. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1769. [ii], 44 pp. Lacking half-title. Quarto (9" x 6"). Stab-stitched..... More
The Laws, Rights and Liberties of London Bohun, William. Privilegia Londini: Or, The Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Laws, And Custom of the City of London. Wherein are Contained, I. The Several Charters Granted to the Said City, From King William I. to the Present Times. II. The Magistrates and Officers Thereof..... More
Supporters of Charles II Take to the Tables in Gray's Inn [Broadside]. The Lawyers Demurrer, To the Addresses in Fashion. Or, The Several Declarations and Orders of the Honourable Societies of the Middle-Temple, And Gray's-Inn, Lately Made in Relation to That Affair. London: Printed for Richard Janeway, 1681. 12" x...... More
He Fatally Shot His Father's Servant [Broadside]. [Trial]. Davis, George [d.1833], Defendant. The Trial of Geo: Davis, For the Wilful Murder of Thomas Cooper. [London]: Smeeton, Printer, [1833]. 10" x 7-1/4" broadside, text in single column below headline. Light toning, light foxing, soiling and very light creasing in places, a...... More
"I Have Made My Peace with God" [Broadside]. [Execution]. Hussey, Charles [d.1818]. The Last Dying Speech of Charles Hussey, Who was Executed This Day for the Murder of Mr. Bird and his Housekeeper, Late of Greenwich. [London]: Cheap Printing Office, [1818]. 14-1/2" x 6-1/2" broadside, text in double columns below..... More
Carriages Over One Ton Banned "Upon Pain of Our Heavy Indignation" [Broadside]. [Highways]. Charles I [1600-1649], King of England. By the King. A Proclamation for Restraint of Excessive Carriages, To the Destruction of the High Ways. London: Imprinted...by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill, 1635. 14-1/4" x...... More
"Sooner or Later All Sin Comes to Light" [Cheap Repository Tracts]. Fielding, Henry [1707-1754]. [More, Hannah (1745-1833)]. Murders. True Examples of the Interposition of Providence, In the Discovery and Punishment of Murder. Bath: Sold by S. Hazard, (Printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts); by J. Marshall..... More
With "An Essay on Christian Government" [Cock, Charles George]. English-Law: Or, A Summary Survey of the Household of God on Earth; And that Both Before and Under the Law; And that Both of Moses and the Lord Jesus. Historically Opening the Purity and Apostacy of Believers in the Successions of..... More
An Authority Second Only to the Year Books Dyer, Sir James [1512-1582]. Cy Ensuont Ascuns Novel Cases, Collectes per le Iades Tresreverend Iudge, Mounsieur Iasques Dyer, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke. London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1592. [iv], 62, 65-377, [1] ff. Complete. Folio (11" x 7-1/2"). Near-contemporary speckled calf..... More
A Pioneering Treatise on Private Bills Ellis, Charles Thomas. Practical Remarks and Precedents of Proceedings in Parliament: Comprising the Standing Orders of Both Houses, To the End of the Year 1801; Relative to the Applying for, And Passing, Bills for Inclosing or Draining Lands; Making Turnpike Roads, Navigations, Aqueducts; Building..... More
"The Protestant Joiner" [Execution]. [Great Britain]. College (Colledge), Stephen [c.1635-1681]. A True Copy of the Dying Words of Mr. Stephen Colledge, Left in Writing Under His Own Hand, And Confirmed by Him at the Time of Execution, August 31. 1681. At Oxford. Published by His Own Relations. London: Printed for..... More
A Plea for Reform of the "Arbitrary" Chancery Courts Faldo, Thomas. Reformation of Proceedings at Law. By Way of Petition, Dedicated to the Honourable Committee of Parliament, For Reformation of Courts of Justice, And Proceedings at Law. [London]: Printed by Hen: Hils, 1649. [ii], 25, [1] pp. Quarto (6-3/4" x...... More
Kent Admired Its "Ability and Perspicuity" Fearne, Charles [1742-1794]. Powell, John Joseph [1755?-1801], Editor [Vol. II Only]. An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises. Vol. I. Of Contingent Remainders, With Tables and Index. [...] Vol. II. Of Executory Devises. Dublin: By H. Watts, Law Bookseller, 1794;..... More
First Edition of Fitzherbert's Important JP Manual Edited by Crompton Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony [1470-1538]. Crompton, Richard (fl. 1573-1599), Editor. [West, William (1568-1594), Compiler of Index]. Loffice et Aucthoritie de Iustices de Peace, In Part Collect per le Iades Tresreverend Iudge, Mounsieur A. Fitzherbert, Et ore Enlarge per Richard Crompton, Un..... More
Gilbert on the Practice of the Court of Exchequer [Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey (1674-1726)]. A Treatise on the Court of Exchequer: In Which the Revenues of the Crown; The Manner of Receiving and Accounting for the Several Branches of Them; The Duty of the Several Officers in the Collection and Receipt;..... More
The Nature of Treason and Other Crimes Gonson, Sir John [d. 1765]. A Charge to the Grand Jury of the City and Liberty of Westminster, &c. At the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, Held the Third Day of July, 1729, In Westminster-Hall. Printed at the Desire of the Justices of..... More
"Idle Belches Against the Common Law" [Great Britain]. A Person of Honour. Defensio Legis, Or, The Whole State of England Inquisited and Defended for General Satisfaction. By a Person of Honour. London: Printed for and are to be sold by George Savile, 1674. [iv], 313, [4] pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x...... More
Jefferson Owned a Copy of this Digest [Great Britain]. [Court of Common Pleas]. [Court of King's Bench]. Judgements as They Were Upon Solemne Arguments Given in the Upper-Bench and Common-pleas, Upon the Most Difficult Points in All Manner of Actions: Together with the Terms and Number-Rolls, In Which the Same..... More
A Landmark in Poor Law Reform [Great Britain]. [Poor Laws]. Orders and Directions, Together With a Commission for the Better Administration of Iustice, And More Perfect Information of His Maiestie; How, And by Whom the Lawes and Statutes Tending to the Reliefe of the Poore, The Well Ordering and Training..... More
"Corrected & Purged from a Multitude of Errors" Justices of the Peace, Great Britain. A Manuall: Or, Analecta. Being a Compendious Collection Out of Such as Have Treated of the Office of Justices of the Peace, But Principally Out of Mr Lambert, Mr Crompton, & Mr Dalton. And Serving for..... More
A Thorough Guide to Pleading, Jefferson Owned a Copy [Pleading]. [Great Britain]. Placita Generalia et Specialia. In an Exact Collection of the Most Usefull and Necessary Presidents of Declarations, Plaints, Demurrers, Pleas in Barr, Abatement and Disability, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments by Confession, And After Verdict: With Variety of Process Relating..... More
First Edition of "A Reporter of Much Authority" With Cases from the Commonwealth and Restoration Periods Siderfin, Thomas [1657-1670]. Les Reports des Divers Special Cases Argue & Adjudge en le Court del Bank le Roy, Et Auxy en le Co. Ba. & L'Exchequer en les Primier Dix ans Apres le..... More
The Last Digest of English Statute Law Williams, Thomas Walter [1763-1833]. A Compendious Digest of the Statute Law, Comprising the Substance and Effect of All the Public Acts of Parliament in Force, From Magna Charta in the Ninth Year of King Henry III. To the Twenty-Seventh Year of His Present..... More