February 14, 2023
Highlights in this list include:
The First Anglo-American Treatise on Courts-Martial Adye, Stephen Payne [d.1794]. A Treatise on Courts Martial To Which is Added, An Essay on Military Punishments and Rewards. London: Printed for J. Murray, 1786. viii, 284, [4] pp. Includes 4 pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over..... More
"Adapted to Our Present Age" Bond, J[ohn]. A Complete Guide for Justices of Peace, According to the Best Approved Authors. In Two Parts. The First Containing the Common and Statute Laws of England, Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. The Second Consisting of the Most Authentick and..... More
"Four Wretches are Ordered to Die" [Broadside]. [Execution]. The Recorder's Report. To The King in Council, Of All the Prisoners, Under Sentence of Death in Newgate, When the Four Following Prisoners, John Smith for Uttering Forged Bank Notes, John Crisp for Burglary, Edward Hogan, And James Scott for Cutting and..... More
"True Directions by Authentick Precedents" Brown, William [fl c.1680]. The Clerk's Tutor in Chancery; Giving True Directions by Authentick Precedents, How to Draw Affidavits, Petitions, Interlocutory-Orders, Reports Before Masters, Bills, Answers, Pleas and Demurrers; With Such Process, Proceedings, And Other Instruments Relating Thereunto, As are Now in Use in that..... More
Guidance for the Novice Clerk Brown, William [fl c.1680]. The Entring Clerk's Vade Mecum: Being an Exact Collection of Precedents for Declarations and Pleadings in Most Actions: Especially Such as Are Brought For, Or Against Heirs, Executors, or Administrators: Executrices, Administratrices, and Their Husbands in Personal Actions. With Variety of..... More
Settlement Cases Relating to Justices of the Peace Caldecott, Thomas [1744-1833]. Reports of Cases Relative to the Duty and Office of a Justice of the Peace, From Michaelmas Term 1776, Inclusive, to Michaelmas Term 1785, Inclusive. London: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers, For P. Uriel, 1786-1797. [viii], 166, [2];..... More
Apprentices, Journeymen and the Industrial Revolution Chitty, Joseph [1776-1841]. A Practical Treatise on the Law Relative to Apprentices and Journeymen, And Exercising Trades. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, 1812. iv, 169, [4] pp. Forms. 1 pp. publisher advertisement at rear of text. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Contemporary three-quarter..... More
"A Pioneer Book" Cunningham, Timothy [d.1789]. The Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes, And Insurances: Containing all the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, Judgments, Decrees, And Customs of Merchants Concerning Them, Methodically Digested. Together with Rules and Examples for Computing the Exchange Between England and the Principal..... More
D'Anvers Substantially Revised Translation of "A New Departure in the Literature of Abridgments" D'Anvers, Knightly. [Rolle, Henry (1589-1656)]. A General Abridgment of the Common Law, Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles, With Notes and References to the Whole. With Three Tables: The First, Of the Several Titles. The Second, Of the..... More
A Classic Treatise on Charitable Uses Duke, George. Moore, Sir Francis [1558-1621]. Bridgman, Richard Whalley [1761?-1820], Editor. The Law of Charitable Uses, As Laid Down and Digested by George Duke, Esq., In 1676, Together With the Learned Readings of Sir Francis Moore, Printed from His Own Manuscript. To Which is..... More
First Edition of a Classic English Treatise on Criminal Law East, Sir Edward Hyde [1764-1847]. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. London: Printed by A. Strahan for J. Butterworth and J. Cooke, 1803. Two volumes. lxiv, 480; [ii], 481-1126 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Recent period-style quarter calf..... More
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A Work Highly Esteemed by Coke and Blackstone in a Handsome Contemporary Binding [Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (1470-1538)]. [Rastell, William (1508?-1565), Table of Contents]. La Nouvelle Natura Breviu[m] du Iudge Tresreverende Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert, Denierement Renue &. Corrige per Laucteur, Avecques un Table Perfecte des Choses Notables Contenus en Ycell, Novelment..... More
Final Edition of an Important Eighteenth-Century Treatise on English Bankruptcy Law Green, Edward. The Spirit of the Bankrupt Laws. Wherein are Principally Considered, The 1. Declaring the Party Bankrupt. 2. Seizing His Estate, And Summoning Him to Surrender. 3. Receiving Proof of the Debts of His Creditors. 4. Appointing, Chusing..... More
Collected Writings and Speeches of a Notable Eighteenth-Century English Lawyer Hargrave, Francis [1741?-1821]. Juridical Arguments and Collections. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797-1799. [vi], xv, 570, liii; [viii], 391, [1], xxiv pp. Half-title lacking from Volume I, that of Volume II misbound after title page. Quarto (10-3/4"..... More
William W. Story's Copy of the Harvard Law Library Catalogue [Harvard Law School]. [Sumner, Charles (1811-1874), Compiler]. [Woodward, William R., Compiler]. A Catalogue of the Law Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, And Thurston, 1841. xii, 228 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent period-style three-quarter calf..... More
The Youngest Person Ever Convicted of Murder In Massachusetts Haskell, E. Luscomb. The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy. The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law. Boston: S.n., 1892. [viii], 20-90 pp. Portrait frontispiece. 4 plates. Octavo (9" x 6"). Sewn pamphlet in stiff printed wrappers..... More
"One of the Most Remarkable Books of All Time" Jones, Sir William [1746-1794]. An Essay on the Law of Bailments. London: Printed by J. Nichols; For Charles Dilly, 1781. [iv], 130, [2] pp. With a half-title, errata leaf at rear of text. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets..... More
One of the Great Landmarks of Sixteenth-Century English Legal Literature [Rastell, William (1508-1565), Compiler]. A Collection of all the Statutes, From the Beginning of Magna Carta, Unto this Present Yere of Our Lord God. 1574. [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1574. [viii], 689 [i.e. 687] ff. Main text in parallel..... More
Reforming the Registration of Land [Real Property]. [Great Britain]. The Office of Generall Remembrance. Of Matters of Record, Created by His Maiesties Letters Pattents for Ease of His Subiects in Their Searches, And Auoyding the Inconueniences Heretofore Incident for Want of Meanes Speedily to Finde Out All Incumbrances upon Record..... More
The Law of Replevin in the Early Eighteenth Century [Replevin]. A Methodical Treatise of Replevins, Distresses, Avowries , &c., Containing the Method of Proceedings Therein in the Courts at Westminster, County-Courts, Hundred-Courts, Courts-Baron, &c., Shewing How the Law is Alter'd by the Late Statute of the Eleventh of King George..... More
"A Comprehensive Little Book" Sayer, Joseph. The Law of Costs. London: H. Woodfall and W. Strahan, 1768. xvi, 280 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind rules to boards, later hand-lettered paper title label to front board, blind fillets along joints, raised bands, lettering piece..... More
The First Book by Cromwell's Law Reformer Sheppard, Wiliam [d.1675?]. The Offices and Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tything-Men, Treasurers of the County-Stock, Overseers for the Poore, And Other Lay-Ministers. Whereunto are Adjoyned the Severall Offices of Church-Ministers and Church-Wardens. London: Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne with Permission of the Assignes of..... More
"Collect All and Every the Sums of Money" [Taxation]. [Massachusetts]. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, &c., Jeremiah Allen, Gent. Treasurer and Receiver General for His Majesty's Said Province. To [Mr. Ebenezer Waer] Constable or Collector of the Town of [Wrentham] Greeting &c. [Boston], October 6, 1718. 7-3/4" x 8-1/2 part-printed document..... More
The Medical Establishment vs. Homeopathy [Trials]. Massachusetts Medical Society. Trial of William Bushnell, M.D., Milton Fuller, M.D., Samuel Gregg, M.D., H.L.H. Hoffendahl, M.D., George Russell, M.D., I.T. Talbot, M.D., David Thayer, M.D., And Benj. H. West, M.D., All of Boston, for Practicing Homoeopathy, While They Were Members of the Massachusetts..... More
With "Scientific Precedents" Wilmot, Edward Coke. A Succinct View of the Law of Mortgages: With an Appendix, Containing a Variety of Scientific Precedents of Mortgages. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Son, 1798. [vi], 104, 108, [4] pp. Includes 3 pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind..... More
A Useful Reference for Commenwealth-Era Justices of the Peace [W]ingate, E[dmund] [1596-1656]. Statuta Pacis: Or a Perfect Table of All the Statutes (Now in Force) Which any Way Concerne the Office of a Justice of Peace. Cleerly also Setting down the Severall Duties of Sheriffes, Head-Officers of Corporations, Stewards in..... More
Proposals for Undergraduate Legal Education That Anticipated Blackstone Wood, Thomas [1661-1722]. Some Thoughts Concerning the Study of the Laws of England. Particularly in the Two Universities. In a Letter to the Reverend ----- Head of ----- College in Oxford. London: Printed for J. Stagg, In Westminster-Hall; And D. Browne, At..... More
First Edition of the First Record of the Constitutional Convention Yates, Robert [1738-1801]. 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 by the Late..... More