Catalogue 97
Books, Manuscripts, Broadsides and Pamphlets on Law and Related Fields: America, Great Britain & Europe, 15th to 20th Centuries
Catalogue 96
Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera on Law and Related Fields:
America, Great Britain & Europe, 16th to 20th Centuries
Catalogue 95
Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera on Law and Related Fields:
America, Great Britain and Europe, 15th to 20th Centuries
Antiquarian E-Lists
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
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




