May 30, 2023
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A Would-Be Reformer Asks for Recognition [Brunskell, Percivall]. A Brief Vindication of Mr. Percivall Brunskell's Case. With an Account of Twenty One Years Most Remarkable Passages. London: [s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1695. [viii], 16 pp. Quarto (7-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning, trimming to fore-edge affecting most..... More
A Satirical "Trial" of The Oxford Movement [Church of England]. In Re Williams Versus Garbett: The Judgment of an Ecclesiastical Court. Oxford: Printed and Published by J. Vincent, 1842. 15, [1] pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"). Disbound sewn pamphlet. Moderate toning, light soiling to exterior, browning and light wear to..... More
First Edition of the Sixth Part of Coke's Reports Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. La Size Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Des Divers Resolutions & Iudgements Dones sur Solemne Arguments, & Avec Grand Deliberation & Conference des Tresreverend Iudges & Sages de la Ley..... More
The Establishment of the Record Commission [Cooper, Charles Purton, Editor]. Record Commission. Observations, Letters and Opinions of the Commissioners, On the Constitution and Duties of the Record Commission. [London: C. Roworth & Sons], 1836. 35 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Moderate toning, light soiling to exterior..... More
"The Most Remarkable and Most Scholarly of All the Reports" Foster, Sir Michael [1689-1763]. A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746. In the County of Surry; And of Other Crown Cases. To Which are Added Discourses upon a Few..... More
The Beginning of the English Reformation [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. Henry VIII [1491-1547], King of England. Anno XXVI. Henrici VIII. Actes Made in the Session of this Presente Parlyament Holden Upon Prorogation at Westm[inster], The .III. Daye of Nove[m]bre, In the XXVI. Yere of the Reygne of Our Mooste Drad Soveraigne..... More
1729 Compilation of Laws Concerning the Taxation of Salt [Great Britain]. [Taxation]. A Collection of All the Statutes Now in Force, Relating to the Duties Upon Salt, With So Much of the Laws of Excise, As Are Particularly Referr'd to in the Said Statutes. London: Printed by the assigns of..... More
Regulating the Price of Bread Heslop, Luke [1738-1825]. Observations on the Statute of the Thirty-First George II. Ch. 29. Concerning the Assize of Bread; With Occasional References to the 3d George III. Chap. 11 - The 13th George III Chap. 62 - And to the Late Statute for Regulating the..... More
With a Hand-Colored Folding Frontispiece Hoggart [Haggart], David [1800-1821]. The Life of David Hoggart, The Murderer, Alias M'c Colgan, Alias Daniel O'Brian; Related by Himself While Under Sentence of Death. This Unhappy Youth was Executed at Edinburgh, On the 18th of July, 1821, For the Murder of Morrin, One of..... More
Rare Printing of Notable Arbitration Concerning Land Use Hyde, Nicholas. The Award, Order, And Judgment, Of Nicholas Hyde, Esq. In the Year 1619, Respecting the Town Commons Belonging to the Freemen of the City of Bath. [Bath]: Gye, Printer, [1792?]. 16 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self..... More
"The Present Abstruse and Expensive System of Conveyancing" Jones, J.G.J. Land and its Laws! A Few Observations upon the Evils Resulting from the Existing System of the Laws Relating to Real Property. London: James Ridgway, 1850. 10, [2] pp. With 2-pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (8" x 5"). Disbound pamphlet, edges..... More
Letters (and Polemics) from Junius Junius. The Letters of Junius. Complete in One Volume. A New Edition. With A Copious Index. London: [s.n.], 1788. 394 pp. Octavo (6-3/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few..... More
1847 French Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage [Manuscript]. [Dossat, Jacques-Jean-Baptiste Alphonse (b.1823)]. [Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage in Roman and French Law]. [Grenoble?], 1847. 202 pp. Quarto (10" x 7-3/4"). Contemporary quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, raised bands, gilt ornaments and gilt title (Condition des Femmes) to spine..... More
Standing Orders for the House of Lords [Manuscript]. [Parliament]. [GreatBritain]. Remembrances for Order and Decency to be Kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when His Majesty is Not There Leaving the Solemnity Belonging to His Majesty's Coming to be Marshall'd by Those Lords to Whom it..... More
"Adapted to These United States" Parker, James [1714-1770], Compiler. Conductor Generalis: Or, the Office, Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace, High-Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Gaolers, Jury-Men, And Overseers of the Poor. As Also the Office of Clerks of Assize, and of the Peace, &c. To Which Are Added..... More
Seven Grand Jury Charges [Partridge, Samuel]. Seven Charges Given to Grand Juries, At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace. London: Sold by Lackington, Allen and Co., 1809. [x], 16, [4], 17-59, [1] pp. 4-pp. appendix misbound after p. 16. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light..... More
Two Rare Titles Informed by Blackstone, Howard and Beccaria Paul, Sir G[eorge] O[nesiphorus] [1746-1820]. Observations on the State of the Glocester Infirmary, As Reported by the Committee of Governors Appointed to Examine Into the Income and Expences of the Same; And of the Propriety and Expediency of Adopting the Regulations..... More
First Edition of Reeve's Baron and Femme, The First American Treatise on Family Law Reeve, Tapping [1744-1823]. The Law of Baron and Femme; Of Parent and Child; Of Guardian and Ward; Of Master and Servant; And of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the Terms, Heir..... More
A Lavish Limited-Edition Biography of Charles I in a Riviere Binding Skelton, Sir John. [1831-1897]. Charles I. London, Paris and Edinburgh: Goupil & Co., 1898. v, 185 pp. Color frontispiece. 18 text illustrations. 23 plates with captioned tissue guards, each with a duplicate. Quarto (12-1/2" x 10"). Contemporary blue morocco..... More
"The Able Chief Justices of Oliver Cromwell" Style, William [1603-1679]. Narrationes Modernae, Or Modern Reports Begun in the Now Upper Bench Court at Westminster, In the Beginning of Hillary Term 21 Caroli, And Continued to the End of Michaelmas Term 1655. As Well on the Criminall, As on the Pleas..... More
The Rare First Printing of a Notable 1714 English Water Law [Water Law]. [Great Britain]. The Great Law of Marsh Land. [King's Lynn?: S.n., 1714]. 22 pp. Quarto (9-3/4" x 7-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Moderate soiling, a few minor stains and several tears and chips to wrappers, moderate..... More