A Rare 1851 New Orleans Legal Imprint on Spanish and Mexican Civil Law, with Notable California Provenance Schmidt, Gustavus [1795-1877]. The Civil Law of Spain and Mexico: Arranged on the Principles of the Modern Codes, with Notes and References. Preceded by a Historical Introduction to the Spanish and Mexican Law;..... More
The 1765 Manifesto on Free Speech and Jury Nullification: Zenger's Landmark American Press Trial Paired with the Owen Libel Case [Trial]. Zenger, John Peter, Defendant. Owen, William, Defendant. The Trial of John Peter Zenger, Of New-York, Printer: Who Was Charged with Having Printed and Published a Libel Against the Government;..... More
Rogers, Edward S. Good Will Trade Marks and Unfair Trading. Chicago: A.W. Shaw Company, [1914, reprinted 1919]. Octavo. 8.25" x 5.5". 288, [6] pp. Original dark green cloth with bright gilt stamped spine. Internally clean and bright. A very good copy. $85. Written by the ultimate pioneer of American intellectual..... More
Rogers, Edward S. Good Will Trade Marks and Unfair Trading. Chicago: A.W. Shaw Company, [1914]. First edition. Octavo. 8.25" x 5.5". 288 pp. Original maroon cloth. Spine sunned. Binding stained and soiled. Internally clean and bright. A good copy. $85. Written by the ultimate pioneer of American intellectual property, this..... More
Rare Account of a Sensational 1827 Case of Adultery and Murder Near Albany, New York: OCLC Locates 2 Copies [Trial]. Strang, Jesse, Defendant. Trial and Sentence of Jesse Strang, For the Murder of John Whipple. New York: Printed and Sold Wholesale and Retail, By C. Brown, 211 Water-Street, 1827. 22..... More
Chief Justice Charles P. Daly's Copy of Doctor and Student (1761), Featuring a Bound-In Manuscript Review [St. German, Christopher (1460?-1540)]. Doctor and Student: Or Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity, And a Student in the Laws of England; Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together with Questions and Cases Concerning..... More
Price, Leah. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Princeton, [N.J.]: Princeton University Press, [2012]. 350 pp. Publisher's white cloth near fine in fine dust jacket. Ex-library barcode to rear free endpaper, otherwise interally clean and bright. * A landmark study in the history of the book, examining..... More
Reflects Changes Introduced by the New York Code of Procedure Abbott, Austin [1831-1896]. Trial Evidence. The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the The Trial of Civil Actions (Including Both Causes of Action and Defenses) at Common Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes of Procedure. New York: Baker, Voorhis &..... More
Durden, Robert Franklin. James Shepherd Pike: Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, [1975]. First paperback edition. v, 249 pp. Softcover. Near fine. Internally clean. $25. * A critical biographical study exploring the complex racial attitudes of James S. Pike, a prominent nineteenth-century journalist and diplomat..... More
Oliver, Peter. 'Terror to Evil-doers': Prisons and Punishments in 19th Century Ontario. Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press, 1998. First edition. Thick octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4" x 2"; 23.5 cm x 16 cm x 5 cm) xxvi, 575 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt..... More
Wellek, Rene (editor). Ribeiro, Alvaro (editor). Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. First edition. xxiv, 417 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $25 * A distinguished and methodologically..... More
Stacey, Robert D. Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law. Eugene OR: ACW Press, [2003]. 134 pp. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $35. * A concise and illuminating jurisprudential study of Sir William Blackstone and his monumental influence on the development of English common law. Stacey analyzes Blackstone's legal philosophy, exploring..... More
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries Showing How Blackstone, Employing Eighteenth-Century Ideas of Science, Religion, History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy, Made of the Law at Once a Conservative and a Mysterious Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1996]. xx, 253 pp. Illustrations. Softcover..... More
Weyrauch, Walter O. Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, [2001]. xiv, 284 pp. Softcover. Near fine. Internally clean. $30. * A groundbreaking legal and anthropological anthology examining the autonomous, largely unwritten legal systems of the Romani people. Weyrauch compiles essential essays exploring Romanipen-the foundational..... More
Colaiaco, James A. James Fitzjames Stephen and the Crisis of Victorian Thought. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1983]. xiii, 266 pp. Portrait. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $35. * An intellectual and legal biography of the formidable Victorian jurist, codifier..... More
Tyack, David. James, Thomas. Benavot, Aaron. Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, [1987]. First edition. xi 259 pp. Publisher's red cloth fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $35. * A definitive legal and institutional history examining how statutory law, constitutional mandates, and..... More
Johnson, William R. Schooled Lawyers: A Study in the Clash of Professional Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 1978. First edition. xvii, 215 pp. Publisher's blue cloth near fine in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear along edges and sunning to spine. Internally clean. $35..... More
From the Library of Chief Justice of Hong Kong and Brunei, Geoffrey G. Briggs Sandoe, James (editor). Murder: Plain & Fanciful With Some Milder Malefactions. New York: Sheridan House, [1948]. First edition. xii, 628 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with sunned spine. Fading to outer edges of covers. Bookseller's ticket "Clifford..... More
Douglas, William O[rville], [1898-1980]. An Almanac of Liberty. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First edition. xx, 409 pp. Publisher's black cloth near fine, in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows shelf wear to edges and sunning to spine. Internally clean. $20. * Justice Douglas, who served on..... More
Lysander Spooner's Opinion of the Famous Webster Case Spooner, Lysander [1808-1887]. Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster. Boston: Published by Bela Marsh, 1850. 16 pp. with Errata sheet, often lacking in copies of this title, present. Octavo (9-1/2" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Moderate wear and..... More
Goodman, Jonathan. Bloody Versicles: Rhymes of Crime. Newton Abbot, David and Charles, [1971]. First edition. 224 pp. Publisher's black cloth, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $45 * A unique and thoroughly engaging true crime anthology compiled by acclaimed British criminology historian Jonathan Goodman. The work gathers a...... More
Piper, Leonard. Murder by Gaslight: True Tale of Murder in Victorian and Edwardian England. New York: Gallery Books, [1991]. First American edition. 219 pp. Publisher's black boards, fine in near dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $25. * A gripping and atmospheric historical investigation into some of the most sensational..... More
Lardner, Ring. I'd Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, [2000]. x, 198 pp. Publisher's black cloth near fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $30. * The sharp, witty, and deeply moving posthumous memoir of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., one of..... More
A Glimpse into the Operation of a Venerable Hundred Court During the Mid-Nineteenth Century [Archive]. [Courts, Great Britain]. [Documents Concerning the Salford Hundred Court]. Salford, England, 1838-1868. 12 documents: 2 jury lists, 4 jury summonses, 2 broadside notifications of court sessions, 2 receipts, 1 manuscript letter, 1 envelope (of another..... More
Furneaux, Rupert. The Medical Murderer. London: Elek Books, [1957]. 159 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has shelf wear and tears to edges. $45. * A chilling and deeply researched historical study examining doctors, nurses, and medical professionals who used..... More