November 23, 2021
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Right of Pasture in the Holy Roman Empire Barth, Gottfried [1650-1728]. Hahn, Heinrich [1605-1668]. Struve, Georg Adam [1619-1692]. Stryk, Samuel [1640-1710]. De Jure Pascendi et in Primis de Jure Ovium, Materiisque Affinibus, German. Von Hut- und Weide-Schafen, Schafereyen, Und Andern Hiebey Gehorigen Materien. Tractat. Selectiss. Annexis Consiliis, Resolutionibus et Decisionibus..... More
Notably Handsome First Edition of the Most Popular Work Ever Written on Justices of the Peace Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. The Justice of the Peace, And Parish Officer. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot, 1755. Two volumes. xxvii, [1], 541, [3]; [iii], 573, [11] pp. Three-page publisher advertisement at end of Volume..... More
The First California Law Compilation [California]. Garfielde, S., Compiler. Snyder, F.A., Compiler. Compiled Laws of the State of California: Containing all the Acts of the Legislature of a Public and General Nature, Now in Force, Passed at the Sessions of 1850-51-52-53. To Which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, The..... More
The First English Treatise on the Law of Infants [Carter, Samuel]. The Infants Lawyer: Or the Law (Ancient and Modern) Relating to Infants. Setting Forth Their Priviledges; Their Several Ages for Divers Purposes; Guardians and Prochein Amy, As to Suits and Defences by Them; Actions Brought by and Against Them..... More
A Pastor Defends His Congregant Clark, Benjamin Franklin [1808-1879]. Alarming Developments Connected With Our Courts. The Wrong Member of Middlesex Bar, Convicted of Perjury, And the Means By Which it was Accomplished Exposed! By B.F. Clark, Pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in North Chelmsford, Ms. Boston: Printed by..... More
Nathaniel Forster Sides with Blackstone [Forster, Nathaniel (c.1726-1790)]. A Letter to Junius. By the Author of the Answer to "The Question Stated, &c." London: Printed for James Fletcher and Co., 1769. 15, [1] pp. Quarto (10-1/2" x 8"). Stab-stitched pamphlet neatly disbound and recently resewn into plain wrappers. Light toning..... More
A Remarkable Collection of Nineteenth-Century Works on Legal Reform and International Law Compiled by a Notable Scottish Lawyer [Great Britain]. [Law Reform]. [Murray, David (1842-1928)]. [The David Murray Collection of Law Reform and International Law]. 16 volumes. 155 titles. Various paginations. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5," Vols. 1-15; 9-1/4" x 6,"..... More
The Book That Established Sir William Jones's Reputation as a Legal Scholar Jones, Sir William [1746-1794]. The Speeches of Isaeus in Causes Concerning the Law of Succession to Property at Athens, With a Prefatory Discourse, Notes Critical and Historical, and a Commentary. London: Printed by J. Nichols, For E. and..... More
A Pair of Printing Blocks [Legal Printing]. [Reproductions of Two Sixteenth-Century Printing Blocks, One of Them from a Law Book]. c.1950-1960. 4-3/4" x 3-1/2" and 6" x 3-1/2." Mid-century metal electrotype mounted on inch-thick hardwood blocks. Some darkening, mostly to background, from ink. $750. * The smaller block, which has..... More
Du Ponceau Advises a Fellow Philadelphia Attorney [Manuscript]. Du Ponceau, Peter S. [1760-1844]. [Copy of Letter to Robert E. Griffith, Philadelphia, December 10, 1822]. Single leaf folded to form 10" x 8" bifolium, "Copy" to head of recto of first leaf, franked and docketed (and marked "Copy") on verso of..... More
Against "The Time-Killers" Shedd, Kendrick P. [1866-1953]. Uncaged Criminals. A Plain Talk With Young Men. An Address Delivered at the Men's Mass Meeting, Y.M.C.A. Music Hall, Sunday, May 15, 1892. Rochester, NY: R. W. Burnett, Printer, 1892. 16 pp. Octavo (6" x 4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in stiff wrappers, title printed..... More
The Priority of the Law Over the Crown Somers, John, Baron [1651-1716]. The Security of Englishmen's Lives: Or the Trust, Power, And Duty of the Grand Juries of England Explained, According to the Fundamentals of the English Government, And the Declaration of the Same Made in Parliament by Many Statutes..... More
A Victim of The Popish Plot [Trial]. [Popish Plot]. Coleman, Edward, Defendant [1636-1678]. The Tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. For Conspiring the Death of the King, And the Subversion of the Government of England, And the Protestant Religion: Who upon Full Evidence was Found Guilty of High Treason, And Received..... More
"Select" Trials at Old Bailey [Trials]. [Great Britain]. Select Trials for Murders, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, And Other Offences: At the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To Which are Added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Exploits, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying-Speeches of the Most Eminent Convicts. London: Printed for J. Wilford..... More
The Day-To-Day Enforcement of the Law in Eighteenth-Century England [Trials]. [Great Britain]. Sessions of the Peace, Middlesex County. The Proceedings at the Sessions of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, And County of Middlesex, On Wednesday the 8th, Thursday the 9th, and Friday the 10th..... More
The Last Words of the "Macaroni Parson" Villette, Reverend John [d.1799]. [Dodd, William (1729-1777)]. A Genuine Account of the Behaviour and Dying Words of William Dodd, LLD. Who was Executed at Tyburn for Forgery on Friday the 27th of June, 1777. By the Reverend John Villette, Ordinary of Newgate. London..... More
Year 30, Hilary Term, of Edward III, Beale R23 [Year Book]. Edward III [Reigned 1312-1377]. De Termino Hillarii Anno Regis Edwardi Tertii Post Conquestum XXX. [Drop Head Title]. London: Imprinted...in Fleetestreet Within Temple Barre, At the Signe of the Hande and Starre, By Richard Tottell, 1585. 32 ff. Folio (10-3/4"..... More