With a Warm Inscription from the Author Archer, Gleason L. [1880-1966]. History of the Law. Boston: Suffolk Law School Press, 1928. 442 pp. Original textured cloth, gilt fillets and title to spine. Light rubbing and shelfwear, faint dampstaining to front board, moderate toning to interior, small tears to bottom-edges of..... More

JUS GENTIUM Journal of International Legal History. Vols. 1 to 8 no. 2. (2016-2023). Complete set to date, 16 issues. Softbound. Issued twice a year (January and July) by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISSN 2381-0254. New. $800. * JUS GENTIUM Journal of International Legal History..... More

Campbell, John Lord. Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered. London: John Murray, 1859. vi, 117, [32] pp. Ex-library, with property stamps, bookplate on front pastedown. Publisher's maroon cloth boards rebacked preserving original spine. $20. * First edition. Originally composed as a letter to J. Payne Collier, Campbell analyzes legal allusions in a...... More

Cresswell, Stephen. Mormons & Cowboys, Moonshiners & Klansmen. Federal Law Enforcement in the South & West, 1870-1893. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, [1991]. viii, 323 pp. Black & white illustrations. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, with stamped spine. A very good copy. $10. * The author draws on contemporary accounts..... More

Daigaku, Kyushu. Kakalog [i.e. Katalog] der Bibliothek von Wolfgang Kunkel. [Wolfgang Kunkel Library Catalog]. [Fukuoka: Kyushu University Library], 1988. xiv, 660 pp. Publisher's printed wraps, softbound. Preface in German and Japanese. Bibliographical items in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish and Spanish. A very good copy. $85. More

With Two Notable UC-Berkeley Law School Associations Daube, David [1909-1999]. Studies in Biblical Law. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947. viii, 328 pp. Original cloth, gilt title to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities, light toning to interior, light browning to front free endpaper, which has pencilled signatures of Max Radin..... More

A Landmark in the Development of Juridical Apologetics Greenleaf, Simon. The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice with an Appendix Containing a History of the Most Ancient Manuscript Copies of the New Testament, and a Comparison of their Text with that..... More

Hale, Fiona Cook, Editor. Who's Who Among Women Lawyers. Boston: Fiona Hale Cook, Sixty State Street, 1939. 117, [3] pp. With two pages of advertisements. Main text in parallel columns. Original cloth, black-stamped titles to front board and spine. Light rubbing to exterior, foxing to endleaves, faint check marks in..... More

Holdsworth, Sir William [1871-1944]. An Historical Introduction to the Land Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927. xxiv, 339 pp. Cloth in moderately soiled and edgeworn dust jacket, light toning to interior. $150. * One of the most distinguished historians of English common law, Holdsworth produced this manual to provide students..... More

Hotchkiss, Henry G. A Treatise on Aviation Law. Giving Authorities with Complete Citations of Federal and State Decisions and Including Texts in Full of the International Covention of 1919, The Havana Convention, Air Commerce Act of 1926, Air Commerce Regulations, Air Commerce Forms for Pilots' Licenses, Etc., Other Federal Statutes..... More

Keown, John. Abortion, Doctors and the Law. Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Abortion in England from 1803 to 1982. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x, 212 pp. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, with gilt stamped spine, very good, in a very good dust jacket. $45. * Ranging..... More

Lewis, Hubert. The Ancient Laws of Wales Viewed Especially in Regard to the Light They Throw upon The Origin of Some English Institutions. Edited by J.E. Lloyd. London: Elliot Stock, 1892. xvi, 558 pp. Publisher's orange cloth hardcover lightly rubbed, with gilt stamped spine. Bookplate on front pastedown and signature..... More

Jack Kemp's Copy Ogletree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. xv, 365 pp., Plates. Illustrations. Cloth in very lightly rubbed dust jacket, presentation inscription to Jack Kemp to front free endpaper, Kemp's..... More

Richardson, Elliot [1920-1999]. Reflections of a Radical Moderate. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. xvii, 285 pp. Cloth in near-fine dust jacket, author presentation inscription to front free endpaper. $75. * First edition. A distinguished public servant, Richardson, as U.S. Attorney General, was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal. He..... More

Shumaker, Walter A., and George Foster Longsdorf, Compilers. The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary Comprising the Terms and Phrases of American Jurisprudence, Including Ancient and Modern Common Law, International Law, and Numerous Select Titles from the Civil Law, the French and the Spanish Law, Etc., Etc. with an Exhaustive Collection of Legal..... More

Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames [1829-1894]. A General View of the Criminal Law of England. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. ix, 399 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary pebbled cloth, black-stamped frames to boards, gilt title and black-stamped fillets to spines. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear..... More

One of the Greatest Commercial Scandals in Scotland's History [Trials]. City of Glasgow Bank Directors, Defendants. Report of the Trial of the Directors of the City of Glasgow Bank Before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, On Monday, January 20, 1879, And Following Days. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Publishing Company/ London..... More

Presented to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Weeks, Alvin G. [b.1866] Massasoit of the Wampanoags: With a Brief Commentary on Indian Character; And Sketches of Other Great Chiefs, Tribes and Nations; Also a Chapter on Samoset, Squanto and Hobamock, Three Early Native Friends of the Plymouth Colonists. [Norwood, MA]: Privately Printed..... More

Williams, William Retlaw. The History of the Great Sessions in Wales, 1542-1830, Together with the Lives of the Welsh Judges, And Annotated Lists of the Chamberlains and Chancellors, Attorney Generals, And Prothonotaries of the Four Circuits of Chester and Wales; The Lord President of Wales, And the Attorney Generals and..... More

First Edition of the First Record of the Constitutional Convention Yates, Robert [1738-1801]. Lansing, John [1754-1829] Martin, Luther [1748-1826]. Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia, in the Year 1787, for the Purpose of Forming the Constitution of the United States of America. From the Notes Taken..... More