![Reformacion der Bayrischen Lanndrecht [and] Nuwe Stattrechten. Bavaria, Ulrich Zasius, Compiler.](/pictures/thumb/62690.JPG?v=1517389415)
Two Important German Compilations, One Features Woodcuts by Holbein the Younger [Bavaria] [William IV (1493-1550), Duke of Bavaria]. [Ludwig X (1495-1545, Duke of Bavaria]. Reformacion der Bayrisch[e]n Lanndrecht: Nach Cristj Unsers Hailmachers Geburde Im[m] Funftzehenhundert unnd Achtzehendm Jar Aufgericht. [Munich: Johann Schobsser, 1518]. [xxxv], 168 ff. Final leaf, a blank... More
"An Authority in Mercantile Customs": Kent Beawes, Wyndham [fl. 1775]. Mortimer, Thomas, Editor. Lex Mercatoria Rediviva: Or, The Merchant's Directory. Being a Complete Guide to All Men in Business; Whether as Traders, Remitters, Owners, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Supercargoes, Agents. Containing an Account of Our Mercantile Companies; Of Our... More
Very Scarce 1787 Mexican Compilation of Colonial Spanish Laws Belena, Eusebio Buenaventura [1736-1794]. Montemayor y Cordova de Cuenca, Juan Francisco de [1620-1685]. Recopilacion Sumaria de Todos los Autos Acordados de la Real Audiencia y Sala del Crimen de Esta Nueva Espana, y Providencias de su Superior Gobierno; De Varias Reales... More
Oil Portrait of the Famous Trial Attorney Melvin Belli [Belli, Melvin [1907-1996]. "Dexter." [Portrait of Melvin Belli]. [San Francisco?], 1987. Oil on Canvas, 30" x 40," signed "Dexter." Very good condition, glazing free of cracks. An interesting item. $750. * The work of an amateur artist, possibly a friend or... More
"The Reports" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. George Wilson, Editor and Translator. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. in English, In Thirteen Parts Complete; With References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law; Exactly Translated and Compared with the First and Last Edition in French, and Printed... More
The Rotten Boroughs Doyle, John [1797-1868]. The Last of the Boroughbridges. [London]: Published by Thomas McLean, March 7, 1831. 11" x 13" Hand-colored lithograph. Some toning to margins, , a few miniscule spots to image, colors vivid. $350. * Doyle moved English caricature from the ridiculous, grotesque and sometimes bawdy... More
Frankfurter Quotes Holmes Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Typed Letter, Signed, On Harvard Law School Letterhead, November 5, 1932]. Single 8" x 5-1/2" sheet and 6" x 3-1/2" envelope. Some toning, two horizontal fold lines to letter, which has a full signature. Items housed in handsome recent cloth solander case with calf... More
Best Edition of a Definitive Study of Anglican Ecclesiastical Law Gibson, Edmund [1669-1748]. Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani: Or, The Statutes, Constitutions, Canons, Rubricks and Articles of the Church of England, Methodically Digested Under Their Proper Heads. With a Commentary, Historical and Juridical. Before it, Is an Introductory Discourse, Concerning the... More
A Fine Caricature of Erskine as a Revolutionary Avocat by Gillray Gillray, James [1756/57-1815]. [Erskine, Thomas, First Baron Erskine (1750-1823)]. L'Avocat De La Republique. London: Hannah Humphrey, 21 May 1798. Reissue. London: Thomas McLean, 1840. Attractively glazed and matted 10" x 7-1/2" colored lithograph in handsome 18" x 15-1/2" wooden... More
![Modern Reports, Or Select Cases [12 Volumes in 11 Books, Complete]. Great Britain, Modern Reports.](/pictures/thumb/62150.JPG?v=1517389398)
Rare Complete Set of the Modern Reports [Great Britain]. [Modern Reports]. [Colquitt, Anthony, Compiler]. 1. Modern Reports... London: Printed for J. Basset, 1682. [xii], 314, [22] pp. [With] 2. The Second Part of Modern Reports... London: Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, 1698. [x], 322, [22] pp... More
"His Office Shelves With Parish Laws are Grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides Between Them Plac'd" Hogarth, William [1697-1764], After. Cook, Thomas [c.1744-1818], Engraver. A Woman Swearing Her Child to a Grave Citizen. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Cook after a painting by William Hogarth. London c. 1795-1822. 19-1/4" x 21"... More
A Legal Guide for "Gentlemen of All Ranks" Jacob, G[iles] [1686-1744]. Lex Constitutionis: Or, The Gentleman's Law. Being, A Compleat Treatise of All the Laws and Statutes Relating to the King, And the Prerogative of the Crown; The Nobility, And House of Lords; House of Commons; Officers of State; The... More
![Provinciale [Prouinciale] Seu Constitutiones Anglie cum Summariis. William Lyndwood, William Lyndewood.](/pictures/thumb/61706.JPG?v=1517389387)
A Principal English Treatise on Canon Law [Lyndwood, William (c.1375-1446)]. [Badius, Josse (1462-1535), Editor]. Provinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie cum Summariis Atq[ue] Iustis Annotationibus: Honestis Characteribus: Summaq[ue] Accuratione Rursum Impresse. [Paris: Printed by Andreas Bocard at the University of Paris, May 28, 1501]. Collation: a8 b6, c-g8 h6 i-q8 r6 s-z8... More
With a Full-Page Allegorical Frontispiece by Albrecht Durer Featuring Lady Justice, Her First Appearance in a Book [Nuremberg]. [Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)]. Reformacion der Stat Nuremberg. [Nuremberg: Fridrichen Peypus, 1522]. [xxxvi], 30, 208 ff. Folio 12" x 8" (30.5 x 20 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped reversed calf (with traces of gilt stamping)... More
Interesting Napoleonic-Era Treatise on Maritime and Commercial Law Piantanida, Luigi. Della Giurisprudenza Marittima-Commerciale Antica e Moderna. Milan: Dalla Stamperia e Fonderia di Gio. Giuseppe Destefanis (Volume I); Dalla Stamperia e Fonderia di Giuseppe e Paolo Fratelli Veladini (Volumes II-IV), 1806-1808. Four volumes. Does not have the portrait frontispiece of author... More
Early English Edition of Pufendorf's Law of Nature and Nations Pufendorf, Samuel von [1632-1694]. Barbeyrac, Jean [1674-1744], Prefatory Discourse. Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. Written in Latin by the Baron Puffendorf. Done Into English by Basil Kennet. Carefully Corrected, with Two Tables. To Which Are Added... More
"Light Reading for the Gold Hunter on His Voyage Around the Horn" Rockwell, John A(rnold) [1803-1861]. A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law, in Relation to Mines, and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California, Texas and New Mexico; and in the Territories Acquired under the Louisiana and Florida... More
![Mare Clausum [1st ed] Bound With De Successionibus & 3 Other Works. John Selden, Dionysius Vossius, Daniel Heinsius.](/pictures/thumb/64494.JPG?v=1517389467)
The First Major English Text on International Law Selden, John [1584-1654]. Mare Clausum Seu de Domino Maris Libri Duo. Primo, Mare, ex Jure Naturae Seu Gentium, Omnium Hominum non Esse Commune, Sed Dominii Privati seu Proprietatis Capax, Pariter ac Tellurem, Esse Demonstratur. Secundon, Serenissimum Magnae Britanniae Regem Maris Circumflui, ut... More
Attractive Third Edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution, The Last Edition Published Before the Civil War Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. [Bennett, E.H., Editor]. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution... More
Masters of Rhodesia and South Africa Stuff (Assumed to be Pseudonym of Henry Charles Seppings-Wright [1850-1937]). Empire Makers and Breakers: A Scene at the South Africa Committee, 1897. Supplement to Vanity Fair, November 25, 1897. 13-1/2" x 19-1/2" Color lithograph, attractively matted and glazed in recent wood frame with gilt... More
Watercolor Caricature of Sir Edward Sugden [Sugden, Sir Edward (1781-1875)]. A Chancellor in 1832!. 7-1/2" x 11" watercolor on board, attractively matted. Great Britain, Possibly Ireland, 1835?. Toning, a few minor waterstains, small inkstain near bottom right corner, otherwise fine. $1,250. * Possibly intended as the basis for a lithograph... More
![The Tryal of Spencer Cowper, Esq [and Two Related items]. Trial, Spencer Cowper, Defendant.](/pictures/thumb/64643.JPG?v=1517389470)
"The Murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout, A Quaker" [Trial]. Cowper, Spencer [1669-1728], Principal Defendant. The Tryal of Spencer Cowper, Esq; John Marson, Ellis Stevens, And William Rogers, Gent. Upon an Indictment for the Murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, At Hertford Assizes, July 18, 1699... More
![Super Authenticis. [Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 3 March 1489]. Angelo Degli Ubaldi, Angelus de Ubaldis.](/pictures/thumb/62321.JPG?v=1517389405)
A Notable Commentary on the Authentica Ubaldi, Angelo Degli [c.1327-1400]. [Super Authenticis]. [Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 3 March 1489]. Collation: a-e8. 39 of 40 ff. Folio a1, a blank, lacking, otherwise complete. Text in parallel columns. Folio 15-1/2" x 11-1/2" (40 x 30 cm). Modern paper-covered boards (illustrated with copies... More
Deluxe Folio Edition with 39 Color Portraits [Vanity Fair]. Spy (Sir Leslie Ward [1851-1922]), and Others. The Book of the Bench: With Thirty-Nine Reproductions in Color by "Spy" and Other Cartoonists. London: James Mackenzie Limited, [1909]. Unpaginated. 39 tipped-in color portrait plates. Folio (13" x 10 1/2"). Original vellum, gilt... More
A Knotty Point Vautier, Benjamin [1829-1898]. A Knotty Point-Submitting a Case to the Family Lawyer. Colored reproduction of a woodcut from Harper's Weekly, November 21, 1874. N.p.: S.n. Glazed 17-1/4" x 14-1/2" colored image in attractive, high-quality 21-1/4" x 17-1/4" imitation wood frame. $150. * Vatier was a Swiss genre... More