An Original 1923 Issue of Byrne's Dictionary of English Law Byrne, William James. A Dictionary of English Law. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1923. xliv, 942 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Quarter morocco-stamped cloth over plain cloth, gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, spine... More
A Notably Misogynistic 1914 Anti-Suffrage Tract by A Chicago Lawyer Gigliotti, Cairoli. Woman Suffrage: Its Causes and Possible Consequences. [Chicago: Press of Barnard & Miller, 1914]. ix, 92 pp. Cloth, black-stamped title to front board. Light soiling and shelfwear, rear hinge starting, some toning to text, some offsetting to front... More
Harvard Law Review. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Law Review Association, 2017-2018. Vol. 131 (2017-2018) Part 1-2, in 2 books. Newly bound in tan buckram with upper red and lower black spine lettering pieces. New. $150. More
"The Irish Sacco and Vanzetti" [Manuscript]. [Murder]. [Massachusetts]. Lines Written Relative to the Murder of Marcus Lyon Who Was Murdered in Wilbraham Nov 9th 1805. c.1859. 4 pp. Conjugate 8" x 5" leaves with a watermark dated 1859, lithographed image of a U.S. flag-waving woman above the caption "True to... More
Legal Guidance for "Everywoman" Jessup, Henry Wynans. Law for Wives and Daughters: Their Rights and Their Obligations. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. ix, [5], 208 pp. Cloth in moderately worn a soiled dust jacket, minor stain to front board, moderate toning to text. A nice copy. $150. * Only... More
"Usury Condemned" Blaxton, John. The English Usurer. Or, Usury Condemned, By the Most LEarned, And FAmous Divines of the Church of England, And Dedicated to All His Majesties Subjects, For the Stay of Further Increase of the Same. London: Printed by John Norton, 1634. Reprint. Amsterdam and Norwood, NJ: Walter... More
The Fates of 79 Prisoners in Taunton, Somerset on October 14, 1833 [Crime and Criminals]. [Great Britain]. A Calendar of the Prisoners for the Michaelmas Season, To be Holden at the Castle, Taunton, On Monday, The 14th Day of October, 1833. [drop head title]. Yeoville: Porter, Printer, [1833]. [12] pp... More
Fees and Regulations Established by the Burial Board of Chard, Somerset [Broadside]. [Funerals]. [Great Britain]. Chard Burial Board. Table of Fees and Payments Fixed by the Chard Burial Board, To be Received for Interments, Vaults, Graves, And Otherwise, In the Burial Ground for the Parishes of Chard Parish and Chard... More
"Valuable Freehold Lands" [Broadside]. [Land Auction]. [Great Britain]. Batcombe, Somerset, Butleigh and Babcary. Valuable Freehold Lands. To be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Wainwright, On Monday, The 28th Day of April, 1834, At the George Inn, In Shepton-Mallet, At 3 O'Clock in the Afternoon. Shepton-Mallet: Cary, Printer, [1834]. 19-1/4" x.... More
Land for Sale in Somerset [Broadside]. [Land Auction]. [Great Britain]. Batcombe, Somerset. Freehold Lands, To be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Wainwright, At the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Batcombe, On Thursday the 22nd. Day of July, 1830. Shepton-Mallet: Wason & Foxwell, [1830]. 17-3/4" x 11" broadside. Text in single column... More
Large Gilt Arms of the British East India Company to Centers of Boards [British East India Company]. Charter of the 8th of January, 1753; Being the Twenty-Sixth of King George the Second; Establishing Courts of Justice, And a Military Force in the East Indies [caption title]. [London, c. 1758]. 50... More
A Marriage Nullified by the Pennsylvania Legislature [Divorce]. [Fry v. Fry] Hirst, W[illia]m L. Corwin, Tho[ma]s. In the Matter of the Application of Emilie L. Fry to be Divorced from Horace B. Fry. Speeches of Wm. L. Hirst, Esq., And Hon. Thos. Corwin, On Behalf of Emilie L. Fry, Before... More
A Rare Scottish Dictionary on Criminal Law Angus, John W. Shearer, R.B., Editor. A Dictionary of Crimes and Offences According to the Law of Scotland, with appendix relating to criminal Jurisdiction. Edinburgh: William Green & Sons, 1895. 538, [1] pp. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Publisher's blue cloth, blind rules to... More
The First Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries in a Foreign Language Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaires Sur les Loix Angloises, De M. Blackstone. Traduits de l'Anglois par M.D.G.***. Sur la Quatrieme Edition d'Oxford. Brussels: J.L. de Boubers, 1774-1776. Six volumes. Two folding tables (of descent and consanguinity). Table of Contents of... More
Tenth Edition of Jacob's Great Dictionary Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. Morgan, J[ohn], Editor. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing the Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms Used in the Law; As Also the Law and Practice, Under the Proper Heads and Titles. Together With Such Learning as Explains the History and Antiquity... More
"His Reports Have a Peculiar Value" Barnardiston, Thomas [d. 1752], Reporter. Reports of Cases Determined in the High Court of Chancery, From April 25, 1740. to May 9. 1741. With Two Tables; One of the Names of the Cases, The Other of the Principal Matters. [London]: Printed by Henry Linton... More
Bentham's Main Work on Education Bentham, Jeremy [1748-1832]. Chrestomathia: Being a Collection of Papers, Explanatory of the design of an Institution, Proposed to be Set on Foot, Under the Name of the Chrestomathic Day School, Or Chrestomathic School, For the Extension of the New System of Instruction to the Higher... More
An Important (And Very Rare) American Edition of Blackstone Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Tucker, St. George [1752-1827], Editor. Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes, with an Appendix to... More
California's Field-Based Codes of 1872 [California]. [Haymond, Creed (1836-1893)]. [Burch, John C. (1826-1885)]. [Lindley, Charles]. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes: Political, Civil, Civil Procedure, And Penal. Volume I: Sacramento: T.A. Springer, State Printer, 1872; Volume II-IV: Sacramento: D.W. Gelwicks, State Printer, 1871. Four volumes. Complete... More
Tables of Duties and Other Fees and Taxes Collected in the Papal States in 1821 [Italy]. [Papal States]. Stato Generale Delli Prodotti e Delle Passivita dell'Appalto della Stamperia Camerale dell' Anno 1821. [Rome: S.n., 1822?]. [iv], 67 pp. Folio (13-1/4" x 9"). Contemporary paper-covered boards. Some rubbing with wear to... More
An East India Company Official on Chinese History and Anglo-Sino Relations Auber, Peter [1770-1866]. China: An Outline of Its Government, Laws, And Policy, And of the British and Foreign Embassies to and Intercourse with that Empire. London, Parbury, Allen and Co., 1834. viii, 419 pp. Folding color frontispiece, a map... More
A Scarce Eighteenth-Century Digest Bridgman, Richard Whalley [1766?-1820], Compiler. Thesaurus Juridicus, Containing the Decisions of the Several Courts of Equity, Upon the Suits Therein Adjudged, And of the High Court of Parliament, Upon Petitions and Appeals: To Which are Added, The Resolutions of the Barons of the Exchequer in Matters... More
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Cardozo Can't Recall Any Memories Worth Sharing [Manuscript]. Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. [Shapiro, Harold Roland]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Shapiro On Supreme Court Letterhead, March 26, 1937]. Single 7-3/4" x 5" sheet. Horizontal fold line though center, tiny inkspot above letterhead, otherwise fine. [With] Cardozo, Benjamin N. [6-1/2" x 8-1/2"... More
With 65 Tables, 4 Folding, Outlining Inheritance, Succession and "Impediments to Marriage" [Family Law]. [Italy]. [Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia]. Tavole Pratiche per la Consanguinita ed Affinita e per l'Impedimento che Producono nel Matrimonio, Per le Sostituzioni e Fedecommessi per le Successioni Legittime o Intestate e per la Porzione Legittima Secondo le... More
1823 Docket Book from Plymouth, Massachusetts [Manuscript]. [Massachusetts]. [Docket Book, Court of Common Pleas, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1823]. [26], [110] pp. Includes 3 thumb-tabbed indexes. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece reading "Dockets/ 1823" to spine. Worn, about 45% of marbled paper lacking from boards, lower... More