July 11, 2023
Highlights in this list include:
Probably the First Census of English Public Records [Agard, Arthur (1540-1615), Compiler]. [Powell, Thomas (1572?-1643?), Editor]. The Repertorie of Records: Remaining in the 4 Treasuries on the Receipt Side at Westminster: The Two Remembrancers of the Exchequer: With a Briefe Introductive Index of the Records of the Chancery and Tower..... More
One of the Last People to be Executed for Forgery in Great Britain [Broadside]. [Execution]. Fauntleroy, Henry [1784-1824]. The Last Dying Speech and Confession, Parentage, And Education of Henry Fauntleroy, Esq. Who was Executed this Morning, Tuesday, November the 30th, 1824, Fronting the Debtor's Door of Newgate.-For Forgery. Portsea: Williams..... More
The Repudiation of Queen Caroline [Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain]. The Attempt to Divorce the Princess of Wales Impartially Considered; More Particularly with Reference to the Probability of its Success. London: Printed for J. Ridgway and Sons, 1816. 25, [1] pp. Lacking final advertisement leaf..... More
An Updated Edition of Dugdale's Origines Juridicialia Cooke, Edward, Compiler. [Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686)]. Chronica Juridicialia: Or, A General Calendar of the Years of Our Lord God, and Those of the Several Kings of England, From the First Year of William the Conqueror, Successively Down to this First Year of..... 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
The First Scottish Treatise on Bills of Exchange Forbes, William. A Methodical Treatise Concerning Bills of Exchange: Wherein is an Account of the Rise and Progress of Exchange; The Nature and Kinds of It Explained; The Prevailing Custom of Merchants, Illustrated and Confirm'd from Civil Law; The Authority of Lawyers..... More
The Great Soap Controversy [Great Britain]. A Short and True Relation Concerning the Soap-Busines. Containing the Severall Patents, Proclamations, Orders, Whereby the Soape-Makers of London, And Other His Majesties Subjects, Were Damnified, By the Gentlemen that were the Patentees for Soape at Westminster, With the Particular Proceedings Concerning the Same..... More
Full Support for War with France [Great Britain]. [Parliament]. The Address of the Honourable the House of Commons: Presented to His Majesty on Thursday the 25th Day of April, 1689. With His Majesty's Answer Thereunto. London: Printed by Charles Bill, and Thomas Newcomb, 1689. [4] pp. Folio (12-3/4" x 8")..... More
Mutual Support between William III and Parliament [Great Britain]. [Parliament]. The Address of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, And Commons Assembled in Parliament, To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, Presented by the Right Hononourable [sic] the Lord Marquis of Halifax, Lord Privy Seal, And Speaker to the House of Lords..... More
31 Elizabeth I: The First Post-Armada Regnal Year [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. Elizabeth I [1533-1603], Queen of England. Anno XXXI. Reginae Elizabethae At a Session of Parliament Holden at Westminster the Fourth Day of Februarie, In the One and Thirtieth Yeere of the Reigne of Our Most Gratious Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth..... More
A 1716 Digest of English Excise Taxes [Taxation]. [Great Britain]. A Collection of All the Statutes Now in Force, Relating to the Excise Upon Beer, Ale, And Other liquors; And the Duties Upon Candles, Hops, Sope, Paper, Callicoes, &c. And Upon Starch, And Gilt and Silver Wire. With an Abridgment..... More
Remarks on Prisons in England and Abroad Howard, John [1726-1790]. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, And an Account of Some Foreign Prisons. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and C. Dilly, in London, 1784. [vi], 492, [18]..... More
Three Important Collections of Manuscripts Hunter, Joseph. Three Catalogues; Describing the Contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, Of the Dodsworth Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, And of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. London: Pickering, 1838. ix, [3], 413, [3] pp. Publisher's..... More
![Item #75726 An Arrangement, Under Distinct Titles [with] Methodical Arrangement. Stewart Kyd](https://lawbookexchange.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/75726.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687815739)
Rare English Treatise on Taxation Kyd, Stewart [d. 1811]. Arrangement, Under Distinct Titles, Of All the Provisions of the Several Acts of Parliament Relating to the Assessed Taxes. London: Printed For, And Sold By, Butterworth, Hurst, And Pheney [et al.], 1799. [ii], 9, [1], 288 pp. Lacking 4 pp. publisher..... More
The Successor to Meriton's Land-Lords Law [Land Law]. [Great Britain]. The Landlords Law: Or, The Law Concerning Landlords, Tenants, And Farmers. Viz. 1. Of the Nature and Origin of Tenures. 2. Of Estates, and Their Several Kinds. 3. Of Copyholds and Copyholders. 4. Of Leases, Covenants, Surrenders, Assignments, &c. 5..... More
Class Notes Compiled by a Student at Albany Law School in 1878-1879 [Manuscript]. [Albany Law School]. [Class Notes on Equity Jurisprudence and Evidence]. Albany, New York, 1878-1879. 238 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 6-3/4"). Contemporary three-quarter sheep over marbled boards. Worn, spine perished, light rubbing, soiling and faint dampstaining to boards..... More
The First Collection of Laws Concerning Quakers [Quakers]. [Great Britain]. A Collection of Acts of Parliament, And Clauses of Acts of Parliament, Relative to Those Protestant Dissenters Who are Usually Called by the Name of Quakers. From the Year 1688. London: Printed by Luke Hinde, 1757. 96 pp. Quarto (10-1/4"..... More
"Their General Accuracy, I Believe, Has not Been Questioned" Salkeld, William [1671-1715]. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Heads; From the First Year of K. William and Q. Mary..... More
Sixteenth-Century Editions of Three Classic Legal Reference Works [Wernherus of Schussenried (15th. c.)]. Modus Legendi Abbreviaturas Passim in Iure tam Civili Quam Pontifico Occurrentes, Nunc Primum Integritati Suae Restitutus. Huic Accessere Tituli (Quae & Rubricae Vulgo Nuncupantur) In Universum Ius Civile. Paris: Apud Gulielmum Desboys, 1562. 55, [1] ff. Final..... More
"Tithes Too Hot to be Touched" Spelman, Sir Henry [1564?-1641]. The Larger Treatise Concerning Tithes, Long Since Written and Promised by Sir Hen: Spelman Knight. Together with Some Other Tracts of the Same Authour, And a Fragment of Sir Francis Bigot Knight, All Touching the Same Subject. Whereto is Annexed..... More
First Edition of the First Standard Treatise on Wills Swinburne, Henry [1560?-1623]. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes, Very Profitable to be Understoode of All the Subjects of This Realme of England, (Desirous to Know, Whether, Whereof, And How, They May Make Their Testaments: And by What Meanes..... More
The First English Writer on Jurisprudence Zouch(e), Richard [1590-1661]. Elementa Jurisprudentiae, Definitionibus, Regulis & Sententiis Selectioribus Juris Civilis, Illustrata; Accesserunt Descriptiones Juris & Judicii, Sacri, Militaris, Et Maritimi. Amsterdam: Sumptibus Joh. Nevilsoni, [1652]. [x], 439 pp. Four parts with continuous pagination and divisional title pages. 12mo. (5" x 2-3/4"). Contemporary..... More