Browne, Irving. Law and Lawyers in Literature. Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1883. xv, 413 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Publisher's cloth, lightly worn, later owner signature and bookplate (Ben A. Maslan) to front pastedown, light toning, occasional small pencil marks to margins and notes to rear free endpaper. $40. *..... More
Greenwood, F. Murray, Editor. Wright, Barry, Editor. Canadian State Trials, Volume II: Rebellion and Invasion in teh Canadas, 1837-1839. Toronto, Buffalo and London: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by the University of Toronto Press, [2002]. xvi, 499 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine. $35. More
Greenwood, F. Murray, Editor. Tucker, Eric, Editor. Binnie, Susan, Editor. Canadian State Trials, Volume IV: Security, Dissent, And the Limits of Toleration in war and Peace, 1914-1939. Toronto, Buffalo and London: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by the University of Toronto Press, [2015]. xv, 517 pp..... More
Rogers, R. Vashon [1843-1911]. The Law of the Road; or, Wrongs and Rights of a Traveller. San Francisco: Sumner Whitney and Company, [1876]. viii, 275 pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"). Publisher's red cloth, gilt stamped spine and front cover, blind-stamped rear cover. Light rubbing, soiling and shelfwear, spine ends bumped..... More
Greenwood, F. Murray, Editor. Wright, Barry, Editor. Canadian State Trials, Volume I: Law, Politics, And Security Measures, 1608-1837. Toronto, Buffalo and London: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by the University of Toronto Press, [1996]. xiv, 742 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. $35. More
Girard, Philip, Editor. Phillips, Jim, Editor. Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III: Nova Scotia. [Toronto]: The Osgoode Society, [1990]. viii, 369 pp. Cloth, fading to spine, otherwise fine. $35. More
A Profound Influence in Pre-Revolutionary America [Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor. English Liberties, Or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio, Non Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, And Several Other Statutes; With Comments on Each of Them. Likewise, Of Ship-Money: Of..... More
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Yankee From Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. xiii, 475 pp. Illustrations. Cloth in worn and lightly soiled dust jacket, part-erased owner name and warm author presentation inscription to front free endpaper. $20. More
Hake, Edward. Yale, D.E.C., Editor. Epieikeia: A Dialogue on Equity in Three Parts. With a Preface by samuel E. Thorne. [New Haven]; Publihsed for the Yale Law Library by Yale University Press, 1953. xii, 152 pp. Softbound, light shelfwear, some fading to spine and edges of covers. $25. More
Jenkins, Brian. Henry Goulburn, 1784-1856: a Political Biography. Montreal, [Que.]: McGill-Queen's University Press, [1996]. xii, 440 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $35. More
Hale, Matthew. Postema, Gerald J., Editor. On the Law of Nature, Reason, and Common Law: Selected Jurisprudential Writings. Oxford, [United Kingdom]: Oxford University Press, [2017]. lxi, 253 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $95. More
[Gray, John Chipman]. John Chipman Gray. Boston: Privately Printed, 1917. 143 pp. Original cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine. Portrait frontispiece with tissue overlay. Cloth, light shelfwear, a few minor spots and scuffs, leaf with browned top edge stating "With the Compliments of Mrs. John Chipman Gray and..... More
Fried, Barbara. The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Harvard University Press, 1998. x, 338 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $50. More
Mendle, Michael. Henry Parker and the English Civil War: the Political Thought of the Public's Privado. Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press, [1995]. xix, 204 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $75. More
Stephen Field's Personal Reminiscences Field, Stephen J. [1816-1899]. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches. To Which is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State. By Hon. George C. Gorman. [Washington, D.C.]: Printed for a Few..... More
Dyer, Alan. A Biography of James Parker, Colonial Printer. Troy [N.Y.]: Whitston Pub. Co., 1982. xvii, 421 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $30. More
Myerson, Joel. Theodore Parker, a Descriptive Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1981. xii, 225 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $65. More
Locke, John. Horwitz, Robert H. Clay, Jenny Strauss. Clay, Diskin. Questions Concerning the Law of Nature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [1990]. x, 260 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $20. More
Hall, Mark David. The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, [1997]. x, 228 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $35. More
Documentary History of Hamilton's Law Practice Goebel, Julius, Jr. and Joseph Smith (Editors). The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964-1981. Five volumes. Complete set. Cloth, light shelfwear, soem dulling to spine lettering of Volume V, owner inkstamps to front endleaves of Volumes..... More
Nizer, Louis. Between You and Me. New York: Beechhurst Press, [1948]. 302 pp. Cloth, lightly worn, author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper: "To Louis Lurie with high regard and affection Louis Nizer." $35. * Nizer was a high-profile trial lawyer with a number of celebrity clients, including Johnny Carson..... More
Lawrence, Alexander A. James Moore Wayne: Southern Unionist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970. xx, 250 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, negligible light soiling and shelfwear, occasional faint dampstaining to right margin, author's presentation inscription to John Passmore Widgery dated August 16, 1976 to title page. $25. * Widgery, who served as..... More
Tuller, Roger H. Let No Guilty Man Escape: a Judicial Biography of "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2001]. xii, 210 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $35. More
Boissery, Beverley. A Deep Sense of Wrong: the Treason, Trials, and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion. Toronto: Dundurn Press, [1995]. xiv, 367 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $20. More
Anderson, Ellen. Judging Bertha Wilson: Law as Large as Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2002]. viii, 531 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $20. More