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17th-Century Continental Printing

17th-Century Continental Printing

April 28, 2026

Highlights in this list include:

  • an interleaved, heavily annotated copy of the Code Louis of Louis XIV
  • a compendium of Holy Roman forest law from a distinguished German hunting library
  • a rare study of marriage and family law in a handsome paneled pigskin binding
Items on Display at the 66th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

Items on Display at the 66th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

April 30–May 3, 2026

Highlights in this list include:

  • an extraordinarily rare volume from Alexander Hamilton's library, signed by him and two of his sons
  • an unproduced HBO screenplay based on the memoir of Arthur Kinoy, an important civil rights lawyer
  • a 1689 document from Plymouth Colony recording a land sale
  • a volume of briefs and related documents, with salty annotations, from the prosecutor of the Tweed Ring
  • a copy of the first German book with realistic life-size images of fish owned by a distinguished book binder
  • an Enlightenment-era argument against witchcraft trials by an Italian jurist
  • Sem's account, in 68 images, of the important 1918 Bola-Pacha treason trial
  • incunable editions of two important legal reference works in a contemporary binding
  • a collection of the only known copies of 25 English execution broadsides
  • a copy of the first English treatise on marriage law owned by an early Connecticut lawyer, politician, and poet
  • a first edition of Care's English Liberties, a work that inspired the American Founders
  • a rare complete card game used to promote female suffrage in Great Britain