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First Edition of Alger's 1913 Progressive Era Critique of American Jurisprudence Alger, George W[illiam], [1872-1967]. The Old Law and the New Order. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First edition. [6], 295, [1] pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"; 19.1 x 12.7cm). Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and blind frames..... More
Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. London: Thames and Hudson, [1982]. Quarto (10-1/4" x 8-1/4" x 2"; 26 cm x 20.5 cm x 5 cm) xxiii, 691 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine and front..... More
[Various Authors]. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History. By Various Authors. Compiled and edited by a Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. John Henry Wigmore, Ernst Freund, and William Ephraim Mikell, editors. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. Reprinted New York: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1992. Three Volumes..... More
Arnup, John D. Middleton: The Beloved Judge. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, [1988]. 202 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover, fine. Internally clean. $25. * A study of Canadian jurist William Edward Middleton, who served on the Supreme Court of Ontario from 1910 to 1943. Arnup..... More
Austin, Robert B. Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United States, 1668-1820. Washington, U.S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Survice, 1961. x, 240 pp. Publisher's green cloth with blue stamped spine and front cover. "Property of U.S. Army to top and bottom..... More
Baker, Leonard. John Marshall: A Life in Law. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. Thick octavo (9-1/2" x 6-1/2" x 2-1/4"; 24.5 cm x 17 cm x 6 cm) [xvi], 846 pp. First edition. Publisher's quater cloth over brown boards with gilt stamped spine and frnot cover, fine in very..... More
Bancroft, George. History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America. Second Edition. Originally published: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. 2 Volumes. xxiv, 520; xiv, 501 pp. Reprint Union, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770022. Attractive smyth-sewn light red cloth hardcover with..... More
Bass, Jack. Unlikely Heroes: The Dramatic Story of the Southern Judges of the Fifth Circuit Who Translated the Supreme Court's Brown Decision Into a Revolution for Equality. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1981]. 352 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine, near fine in near fine dust..... More
Beale, Joseph H. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws. Originally published: New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1935. 3 Volumes. cxii, 646; xix, 647-1440; viii, 1441-2127 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2004. ISBN-13: 9781584774259. Smyth sewn tan cloth with green and black gilt stamped spine labels. New. $295..... More
The Dawn of Utilitarianism: Bentham's Radical Critique of Blackstone's Commentaries Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. Edited with an Introduction by F.C. Montague. Originally published: Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1891. Reprint Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2001. ISBN-13: 9781584771661. Octavo. xii, 241 pp. Smyth-sewn cadet blue cloth with..... More
Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Bentham, Jeremy [1748-1832]. Bowring, John [1792-1872], Editor. The Works of Jeremy Bentham. Edinburgh: William Tait/London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1838-1843. Reprinted New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. 11 volumes. Complete set. Main text in parallel columns. Folding plates. Folding tables. Octavo. (9-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Publisher's..... More
Berolzheimer, Fritz. The World's Legal Philosophies. Translated by Rachel Szold. With an Introduction by Sir John MacDonell and Albert Kocourek. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1929. lv, 490 pp. Reprint Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd., 2002. ISBN-13: 9781584772552. Attractive smyth-sewn plum cloth, spine and front cover with gilt..... More
Bishop, Joseph W. Justice Under Fire: A Study of Military Law. New York: Charterhouse, [1974]. xvi, 315 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $15. * An analysis of the United States military justice system, tracking its legal evolution, constitutional boundaries..... More
The Evolution of Common Law: Lewis's 4-Volume Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries (1898-1915) Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Lewis, William Draper, Editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, With Notes Selected from the Editions of Archibold, Christian, Cole, Ridge, Chitty, Stewart, Kerr, And Others; And in Addition Notes and..... More
Bolland, William Craddock. A Manual of Year Book Studies. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Part of the Cambridge Studies in English Legal History series. xix, 161 pp. 11 plates. Publisher's cloth, very good. Deckled edges, marker markings to frnot cover, and offsetting to endpapers. "Athenaeum Library" blind stamp to..... More
Fascinating c.1920 Catalogue of a Venerable London Antiquarian Bookseller [Bookseller Catalogue]. J. & J. Leighton Ltd. Catalogue VII. New Series. Early Works on Law, Politics, Economics, Constitutional History, Etc. Offered for Sale by J. & J. Leighton Ltd. [Birmingham: Printed by Frank Juckes, c.1920]. 232 pp. Printed wrappers bound into..... More
Signed by Justice Brandeis: The Historic 1934 New Deal Printing of His Antitrust Masterpiece Brandeis, Louis D. [1856-1941]. Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It. New Edition. With Foreword by Norman Hapgood. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932 [but December 5, 1934]. Octavo (7.5 x 5 inches);..... More
Bridgman, Richard Whalley [1762-1820]. A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing Some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and Other Law Writers; Collected from the Best Authorities, And Intended as a Companion to the Author's Reflections on the Study of the Law. To Which is Added, A Plan..... More
A Triple Execution at Staffordshire [Broadside]. [Executions]. Shaw, Charles [d.1834]. Tomlinson, Richard [d.1834]. Smith, Mary [d.1834]. The Trials of Charles Shaw, Aged 16, For Murdering John Oldcroft, Aged 9. Richard Tomlinson, For Murdering Mary Evans, His Sweetheart. Mary Smith, For Drowning her Infant Child. Who All Three Received Sentence of..... More
A Pioneering, and Fascinating, Comparative Study Cherry, Richard R. Lectures on the Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Communities. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Reprint Clark, New Jersey: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2002. ISBN-13: 9781584771678. Octavo (22 cm), xi, 123 pp. Smyth-sewn burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped spine and front cover..... More
Midwestern Legal Dynasty: Rufus King's Biography with an Association ALS to New York Judge Robert Ludlow Fowler [Cincinnati]. [King, Rufus]. Rufus King in the Development of Cincinnati During the Last Fifty Years: Printed for Private Distribution. Cincinnati, Robert Clarke & Co., 1891. First edition. Octavo. 8-1/2" x 6"; 21.59 cm..... More
Unrecorded Alabama Union Broadside: A Hoosier Soldier's Poetic Assessment of the War & General Grant [Civil War, American]. Time and Rebellion. Huntsville, AL, Jan. 1st, 1864. 14-1/2" x 9" (36.8 x 22.8 cm) broadside. text in three columns of poetic verse, enclosed within a classic decorative woodcut border positioned below..... More
Cohen, Daniel A. Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xi, 350 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $20. * An analysis..... More
A Durable Work by a Renowned Saxon Jurist Coler, Matthias [1530-1587]. Tractatus de Processibus Executivis, In Causis Civilibus et Pecuniariis, Accommodatus Passim ad Practicam Fori Saxonici. Cui in Fine Adiectus est Index Verborum & Rerum, Quae in hoc Opere Continentur, Copiosus. Jena: Excudebat Tobias Steinman, 1586. [xvi], 812, [64] pp..... More
A "Load of Infamy" Cresswell, Thomas Estcourt (1712-1788). A Narrative of the Affair Between Mr. Cresswell, And Miss Sc--e, Address's to G--v--e Sc---e, Esq. By Which May be Discover'd the Falsities, Misrepresentations, &c. In a Letter in the General Evening-Post, October 31; Signed Lancelot Lee. London: Printed for Charles Green..... More
Dane, Nathan [1752-1835]. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law, with Occasional Notes and Comments. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 1823-1829. Complete set, in 9 Volumes. Reprinted in Taiwan. [Buffalo: W.S. Hein, 1979]. Publisher's cadet blue cloth hardcover. Very good. $450. * Reprint of the monumental first comprehensive work..... More
Striking Image of Darrow at the Scopes Trial Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. [Scopes Trial]. [8-1/4" x 10-3/4" Black-and-White Portrait Press Photograph of Darrow Addressing the Court During the Scopes Trial]. [N.p.: S.n., N.d. Most likely a Reprint of an Associated Press photo, July 10-21, 1925]. Margins removed, a few minor creases..... More
First American Edition of an Important Treatise on English Constitution De Lolme, J[ean] L[ouis] [1740-1806]. The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of The English Government In Which it is Compared Both With the Republican Form of Government, And the Other Monarchies in Europe. A New Edition, Enlarged. New York..... More
Vecchio, Giorgio Del. Campbell, A. H., editor. Justice: An Historical and Philosophical Essay. New York: Philosophical Library, [1953]. 236 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in very good dust jacket. "Prof. Anghel N. Rugina" property stamps to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Offsetting to pastedowns and..... More
Denvir, John. Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1996]. xviii, 314 pp. Softcover. Fine. Interally clean. $15. * An analysis of the intersection of popular cinema, legal culture, and jurisprudence. Denvir and a team of contributing legal scholars and film theorists examine cinematic works as..... More
Dunkel, Wilbur. William Lambarde: Elizabethan Jurist, 1536-1601. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, [1965]. xxiv, 210 pp. Publisher's cloth very good, in a very good price clipped dust jacket. Top edge black. Pencil annotations and underling throughout pages. $20. * A comprehensive biography that details the life, political accomplishments and legal..... More
Cornerstone of English Legal History: Dyer's Reports (1602) Dyer, Sir James [1510-1582]. Un Abridgement de Touts les Cases, Reportes per Mounsieur Iasques Dyer. Ore Novelment Imprimee. London: In Aedibus Thomae Wight, 1602. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-3/4"; 14.6 x 9.5 cm). 99 leaves (including final blank leaf). Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked..... More
![Item #75184 The Ancient Method and Manner of Holding... [And Two Other Titles]. Henry Elsynge,...](https://lawbookexchange.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/75184.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676664315)
Three Restoration-Era Treatises on Parliament Elsynge, Henry [1598-1654]. The Ancient Method and Manner of Holding Parliaments in England. Third edition enlarged. London: Printed for S.S. and to be sold by Tho. Dring, 1675. [xii], 371, [1] pp. Final page blank. [Bound with] Hakewell, W[illiam] [1574-1655]. Modus Tenendi Parliamentum: Or, The..... More
Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. New York: The Free press, [1988]. xxi, 369 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $20. * A political biography exploring the complex life and public career of Judah P. Benjamin, the..... More
Landmark AntitrustT Association Copy: Co-Author Brian Facey to World Bank Advisor Dr. Shyam Khemani Facey, Brian A.; Assaf, Dany H.; Roberts, R.J. Competition and Antitrust Law: Canada and the United States. Third edition. Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2006. Octavo. xxxvii, 553 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board gilt-stamped..... More
Farnam, Henry W[alcott], [1853-1933]. Day, Clive, [1871-1951], Editor. Clark, Victor S[elden], [1868-1946], Introduction. Chapters in the History of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938. xx, 322 pp. Tables. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Worn with rubbed and bumped spine and..... More
Ferguson, Robert A. Laws & Letters in American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. 417 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Internally clean and bright. $50. * Legal history examining the profound intersection of jurisprudence and literature in the..... More
Finkelman, Paul. An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Octavo. 9" x 6". xii, 378 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2013. ISBN-13: 9781584770923. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * A detailed examination of the legal and constitutional turmoil that ensued when enslaved..... More
Finkelman, Paul, Editor. A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger Printer of the New York Weekly Journal. New York: Brandywine Press, [1997]. vii, 175 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2000. ISBN-13: 9781584770510. Attractive smyth sewn blue cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spine and front..... More
Fletcher, George P. Rethinking Criminal Law. Little, Brown and Company, [1978]. First edition. xxviii, 898 pp. Publisher's blue cloth hardcover with gilt stamped front cover and spine. Marker and glue residue to front pastedown. Internally clean. $35. * Widely recognized as one of the most influential and frequently cited theoretical..... More
Flexner, Bernard. Mr. Justice Brandeis and the University of Louisville. Louisville: University of Louisville, 1938. 86 pp. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Original stiff printed wrappers with untrimmed edges, text block has deckle fore-edge. Moderate wear to spine ends and edges of wrappers. Internally clean. $50. * An institutional study documenting the..... More
Forbes, William. A Treatise of Church-Lands & Tithes: In Two Parts, Containing, An Historical Account of Ecclesiastical Revenues, Churches, Church-Yards, Church-Offices, Benefices, Glebes, Manses, Patronage, Monachism, Religious, And Some Military-Orders, With a Particular History of Tithes: And a Clear and Full Discusion of Points of Right and Controversy, Relating to..... More
Foss, Edward [1787-1870]. Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870. London: John Murray, 1870. xv, 792 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo (9" x 6"). Original embossed maroon cloth with gilt title to spine. Worn, rubbed, scuffed, soiled..... More
A Classic Image of Blackstone Gainsborough, Thomas [1727-1788], After. Honorable Mr. Justice Blackstone. [London?, S.n., c. 1775-c.1822]. 7" x 4-3/4" (17.8 x 12.1 cm) copperplate engraving (trimmed closely to edges of images), publication information removed. Light toning, a few pin holes and tiny nicks to edges, faint dampstaining, somewhat noticeable..... More
Gray, W. Forbes. Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and Impressions. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1915. xii, 317 pp. Frontispiece. Thirteen plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover. Moderate shelfwear and soiling. Spine lettering lightly faded, cover gilt stamping bright. Fore-edge and bottom edge deckled. Offsetting..... More
A Superb Copy of the Rare Second Blaeu Edition, Featuring Grotius's Famous Anti-Piracy Warning and Distinguished Scottish Enlightenment Provenance Grotius, Hugo [1583-1645]. De Iure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres. In Quibus Ius Naturae & Gentium, Item Iuris Publici Praecipua Explicantur. Editio Nova ab Auctore ipso Recognita & Correcta: De qua..... More
Hahn, Henry G. Henry Fielding: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press Inc., 1979. xiv, 229 pp. Publisher's red cloth, fine. Internally clean. $20. * A comprehensive reference guide compiling and evaluating twentieth-century scholarship on the life, drama, and fiction of Henry Fielding. Hahn provides detailed annotations for over nine..... More
Caricature of a Radical Parliamentary Reformer Hannibal Scratch (pseudonym of John Nixon) [c.1750-1818]. Protheus on Privileges. [London]: Printed for Bentley and Co., February 1, 1791. 6-1/4" x 3-3/4" (15.8 x 9.5 cm) line engraving (measured to edges of image), heading removed. Light toning, faint spotting and dampstaining to margins. Very..... More
Collected Writings and Speeches of a Notable Eighteenth-Century English Lawyer Hargrave, Francis [1741?-1821]. Juridical Arguments and Collections. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797-1799. 2 volumes. First and only edition. Quarto (10-3/4" x 8-1/2"; 27 cm x 21.5 cm) [vi], xv, 570, liii; [viii], 391, [1], xxiv pp..... More
The Foundation of Jury Nullification: A Beautifully Bound 1771 Edition of The Englishman's Right, Directly Informing Revolutionary Thought Hawles, Sir John [1645-1716]. The Englishman's Right: A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law and a Juryman; Plainly Setting Forth, I. The Antiquity, II. The Excellent Designed Use, III. The Office, And..... More
[Haynes, E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock], [1877-1949]. Waugh, Alec, [1898-1981], Introduction. A Lawyer's Notebook. London: Martin Secker, 1932. [2], 246 pp, 1 leaf. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards. Paper label to spine. Moderate shelfwear. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Some penciling internally. A good copy. $30. * A collection of short essays, notes..... More
Heard, Franklin Fiske, [1825-1889]. Curiosities of the Law Reporters. Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1881. Second edition, revised. 212 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Contemporary previous owner's presentation inscription "Mr. B.D. Thompson/ With the compliments/ of C.H. Thomas/ St. Louis '85" to front pastedown. Internally clean..... More
Heidner, J. Edward. Law and Business: Pointers A Complete Commercial Instructor. Chicago, Heidner Publishing Company, [1905]. 18th edition. 360 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine. Blind frames to front cover. Internally clean. $15. * This practical manual serves as a comprehensive reference guide to the commercial laws..... More
Hoeflich, Michael H. and Ross E. Davies, editors. The Black Book of Justice Holmes: Text Transcript and Commentary. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing (an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.), 2021. lxii, 497 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616195939. ISBN-10: 1616195932. Hardcover. Cover lightly soiled. Else fine. $150. * Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes..... More
Hulst, Tom R. The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place. New York: iUniverse, [2004]. xx, 289 pp. Softcover. Near fine. Author's signature to title page. Occasional pencil annotations and markings. $25. * How specific geographic wildernesses directly forged American environmental law serves as the core thesis..... More
Hunnisett, Basil. Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England. Boston: David R. Godine, [1980]. xvi, 263 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $35. * An assessment of the development, production, and eventual decline of steel engraving as a major book illustration medium in..... More
Isaac, Peter; McKay, Barry. The Reach of Print: Making, Selling, and Using Books. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, [1998]. x, 228 pp. Publisher's green boards, fine. Internally clean. $20. * Contains thirteen interdisciplinary essays examining the production, commercial dissemination, and social reception of printed materials in the British provinces. Isaac, McKay..... More
Johnson, Herbert A. Chief Justiceship of John Marshall 1801-1835. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. First paperback edition. xii, 317 pp. Paperback. Near fine. Internally clean. $15. * A institutional and legal history of the Supreme Court of the United States during the tenure of Chief Justice John Marshall..... More
![Item #36547 Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens [Athenaion Politeia] 3d rev ed. E. G. Kenyon,...](https://lawbookexchange.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/36547.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1374702496)
The Recovery of Lost Antiquity: Kenyon's Definitive 1892 Edition of Aristotle's Constitution of Athens Kenyon, F.G., editor. Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens. [Athenaion Politeia]. Third and Revised Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Octavo. 9" x 6". lxvii, 229 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2003. ISBN-13: 9781584772613. Attractive smyth..... More
Kinney, Arthur F. Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. 318 pp, illustrations. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $20. * This anthology compiles primary Renaissance texts that document the underworld of early modern England, providing valuable insight into..... More
Lander, J. R. English Justices of the Peace, 1461-1509. Wolfeboro: Alan Sutton, 1989. x, 190 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $30. * Investigates the social composition and operational functions of county magistrates in late medieval and early Tudor..... More
Larwood, Jacob. Humour of the Law: Forensic Anecdotes. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1903. Octavo. 9" x 6". vi, 304 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2003. ISBN-13: 9781584773290. Attractive Smythe sewn blue cloth with gilt stamped front cover and spine. New. $49.95 * This wonderful collection preserves over..... More
LeBuffe, Francis P. Outlines of Pure Jurisprudence. New York: Fordham University Press, 1924. v, 156 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped spine, very good. Ink signature to front free endpaper ("Timothy T. Crown Oct 4th 1927). Small pencil annotation to p. 77 and 81, otherwise internally clean. $65. *..... More
A Handsome Portrait of Daniel O'Connell, "The Liberator" of Ireland Lewis, J. [John Frederick? (1804-1876)]. Portrait of Daniel O'Connell. [London: Printed by Brian & Payne, c.1828-1829]. 10" x 7" (17.8 x 12.1 cm) line engraving (measured to edges of sheet), publication information removed. Light toning, faint spotting and dampstaining to..... More
Maitland, F.W. [1850-1906]. Fifoot, C.H.S., Editor. The Letters of Frederic William Maitland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press in Association with The Selden Society, 1965. xxiv, 397 pp. Publisher's blue hardcover cloth. Worn and faded. Blue tape affixed to foot of spine. Remainder marks to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket "John..... More
An 18th-Century English Manuscript Digest of Property Law [Manuscripts]. [English Property Law]. Three 18th Century English Legal Manuscripts. [England. Circa 1780]. Three quarto volumes, each a[pproximately 203 x 165 mm. A total of approximately 167 pages in three volumes. Bound in contemporary vellum stationer's bindings. Slightly bowed and soiled. Watermarks..... More
Marzio, Peter C. The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th-Century America. Boston: David R. Godine, [1979]. Quarto (11-1/4" x 9" x 1-1/2"; 28.5 cm x 22.5 cm x 3.5 cm). xiv, 357 pp: illustrations. Publisher's quarter cloth over brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket..... More
A Landmark of 19th-Century Medical Jurisprudence: The First Edition of Maschka's Handbuch der Gerichtlichen Medicin Maschka, Josef, Editor, [1820-1899]. Handbuch der Gerichtlichen Medicin. Tubingen, [Ger.]: H. Laupp, [1881-1882]. 4 volumes. xiii, 1031; x, 794; viii, 703; viii, 668 pp. First edition. Illustrations. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"; 24.1; 15.2cm). Original text..... More
Massachusetts. Farrand, Max [1869-1945], Introduction. The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts: Reprinted from the Copy of the 1648 Edition in the Henry E. Huntington Library, With an Introduction by Max Farrand. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929. Quarto (12-3/4" x 9"; 32.5 cm x 23 cm).ix, [4], 59 pp. Fascimile..... More
Massachusetts. Farrand, Max [1869-1945], Introduction. The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts: Reprinted from the Copy of the 1648 Edition in the Henry E. Huntington Library, With an Introduction by Max Farrand. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929. Quarto (12-3/4" x 9"; 32.5 cm x 23 cm).ix, [4], 59 pp. Fascimile..... More
McDowell, Gary L. The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, [2010]. xvi, 409 pp. Softcover. Very good. Author's inscription and signature to title page, "With appreciation for/ your guidance and assistance,/ both of which made this/ book possible./ With all best wishes,/..... More
Moddelmog, William E. Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Providence of the Law, 1880-1920. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [2000]. x, 276 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket with Brodart. $30. * An interdisciplinary study investigating the shifting relationship between American literature..... More
1894 First Edition of The Paris Law Courts- From the Library of Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton Moriarty, Gerald P[atrick], [1863-1924], Translator. The Paris Law Courts: Sketches of Men and Manners. Translated from the French by Gerald P. Moriarty. London, Seeley and Co., 1894. First edition. Illustrated. viii, 293 pp. Octavo..... More
Morsley, Clifford. News from the English Countryside: 1750-1850. London: Harrap, [1979]. 320 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near find dust jacket in Brodart. Bookseller's ticket "Clifford Elmer Books" to fornt pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $20. * Departing from traditional retrospective histories, this book reconstructs century-long..... More
Myers, Robin, editor. Harris, Michael, editor. Medicine, Mortality, and the Book Trade. Kent: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1998. xii, 158 pp. Publisher's black boards, fine. Internally clean and bright. $20. * Myers and Harris explore the historic relationship between the development of medical science, public health crises, and the economics of..... More
Rare Early Glossary of Hungarian Law [Nadasdy, Ferenc (1622-1671)]. Cynosura Iuristarum Loca Decretalia, Et Articulos Novissimarum Constitutionum Inclyti Regni Hungariae, Usque ad Annum 1659. Inclusive, Sub Titulis Ordine Alphabetico Collectis, Breviter Repraesentans. Pottendorff: Per Hieronymum [Verdussen, 1668]. First and only edition. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"; 16.5 cm x 10.75 cm)..... More
Odem, Mary E. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1995]. xiv, 265 pp. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $15. * The battle lines over teenage desire and state control are laid bare in this history of the..... More
First American Edition of Phillipps's Foundation Treatise on Evidence Phillipps, S[amuel] March [1780-1862]. [Dunlap, John A.(1793?-1858?)], Editor, Notes. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence.... With Notes and References to American Authorities. To Which is Added, The theory of Presumptive Proof, &c. New York: Published by Gould, Banks, & Gould..... More
Author Presentation Copy of Allen Pinkerton's 1879 First Edition Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives to Notable Philadelphian Pinkerton, Allan, [1819-1884]. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives. Don Pedro and the Detectives. Poisoner and the Detectives. New York: G.W. Carleton, 1879. First edition. 377 pp. 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. Octavo (7-1/2"x..... More
Pitt-Lewis, G. Commissioner Kerr: An Individuality. With Two Portraits. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Frontispiece. Illustrated. ix, 395 pp. Black textured cloth with gilt stamped spine, worn, joints split but stable. Spine chipped at head and tail. Ex-library "The Law Society London" property stamp to front free endpapers, title pages..... More
Posner, Richard A. Overcoming Law. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, [1995]. x, 597 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $15. * A critique of modern American legal theory and judicial practice. Posner, an influential federal appellate judge and legal theorist, deploys..... More
Posner, Richard A. Sex and Reason. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. vii, 458pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stampe spine, fine in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows slight shelfwear to edges. Internally clean. $20. * A thorough interdisciplinary study evaluating human sexuality through the analytical lens of law..... More
A Dublin Edition of a Popular Legal Manual [Practitioner in the Law]. The Clerk's Magazine, Or Law-Repository. Containing: A Variety of the Most Useful Precedents [...] With Necessary Directions for Making Distresses for Rent, &c. As the Law Between Landlord and Tenant Now Stands. To Which is Added, The Doctrine..... More
Treatise on Legacies Praised by Kent Preston, William Scott. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Legacies. London: Printed for J. & W.T. Clarke, Law Booksellers and Publishers, Portugal-Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1824. lx, 387, [1] pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"; 22.9 x 14.6cm). Brown pebbled library cloth of the Birmingham..... More
Treatise on Legacies Praised by Kent, Few Printed Copies of This Edition Exist Today Preston, William Scott. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Legacies. London: Printed for J. & W.T. Clarke, Law Booksellers and Publishers, Portugal-Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1824. lx, 387, [1] pp. Publisher advertisement to final page. Octavo..... More
Pringle, Patrick. Stand and Deliver: Highwaymen from Robin Hood to Dick Turpin. New York: Dorset Press, [1991]. 287 pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Water stain to top edge, otherwise internally clean. $25. * A historical and sociological investigation into..... More
Pue, W. Wesley, editor. Sugarman, David, editor. Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions. Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2003. viii, 399 pp. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $45. * An international collection of essays directly addressing the cultural history and broader societal imagery of the legal profession. Pue, Sugarman, and..... More
Voltaire's Smile Purcell, Richard (Corbutt, Charles) [fl. 1746-1766] after L.Sen. Mons.r de Voltaire. [London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer at No.53 Fleet Street. c.1760]. 13-1/2" x 10" (34.3 x 25 cm) mezzotint (measured to plate marks), publisher information trimmed from foot of sheet, mounted to thick-peper board. Light soiling and edgewear..... More
Reppetto, Thomas A. The Blue Parade. New York: Free Press, [1978]. x, 373 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with orange and gray stamped spine, fine in very good dust jacket. Internally clean. $20. * An analysis tracing the development of American policing from its nineteenth-century municipal origins through the modern era..... More
Roe, Gilbert E., [1865-1928]. Our Judicial Oligarchy. With an Introduction by Robert M. LaFollette. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1912. First edition. xiv, 239 pp. Publisher's teal cloth with gilt stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Property stamps to page edges. Date due..... More
Rosenstock, Morton. Louis Marshall, Defender of Jewish Rights. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965. 334 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in very good price clipped dust jacket with Brodart. Bookplate of Alfred Heacock Whittaker to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $45. * A study of..... More
Rowland, John. More Criminal Files. London: Arco Limited, [1958]. viii, 158 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in very good price clipped dust jacket. Offsetting to pastedowns, endpapers, title pages and content page, otherwise internally clean. $15. * A compilation of notable twentieth-century British homicide investigations, evaluating..... More
Sabljak, Mark Greenberg, Martin H. A Bloody Legacy: Chronicles of American Murder. New York: Gramercy Books, [1992]. viii, 182 pp. Publisher's black cloth, fine in near fine dust jacket with Brodart. Bookseller's ticket "Clifford Elmer Books" to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $20. * A compilation of notable American homicide..... More
The Scarce 1791 Dublin Edition of Salkeld's Reports: An Important Artifact of the Irish Pirate Print Trade with Multi-Layered New Hampshire Legal Provenance Salkeld, William [1671-1715]. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, And Exchequer, Alphabetically..... More
The First Major English Text on International Law in a Remarkable Early Modern Binding with Political and Dramatic Structural Waste Selden, John [1584-1654]. Mare Clausum seu de Domino Maris Libri Duo... London: Excudebat Will. Stanesbeius, pro Richard Meighen, 1635. Folio. (11-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 28.6 x 19). [xxvi], 304, [12], [1..... More
Sellwood, Arthur. Sellwood, Mary. The Victorian Railway Murders. North Pomfret, Vermont: [1979]. 160 pp. Publisher's brown cloth wth gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket with Brodart. Bookseller's ticket "Clifford Elmer Books" to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $20. * A thorough historical reconstruction and legal analysis of the..... More
Silverstein, Mark. Constitutional Faiths: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black and the Process of Judicial Decision Making. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [1984]. 234 pp. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * Ananalysis of the judicial philosophies and constitutional interpretations of Supreme Court..... More
[United States Congress]. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Paul H. Smith [Editor]. Washington: Library of Congress, 1976-2000. 26 volumes. Complete set. Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's blue and red cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spine and covers. Volumes 21 to 25 with some highlighting to text. Very light shelfwear. $750. *..... More
The Roots of Liberty: Stearns' 1889 Study on Anglo-Saxon and Early English Law Stearns, John M. The Germs and Developments of the Laws of England: Embracing the Anglo-Saxon Laws Extant: From the Sixth Century to A.D., 1066: as Translated into English Under the Royal Record Commission of William IV.: with..... More
Essential Common Law Reference: Stimson's Classic 1881 Legal Glossary Stimson, Frederic Jesup. Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881. Octavo (9" x 6"). iv, 305 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999. ISBN-13: 9781886363700. Smyth sewn tan cloth with gilt..... More