Rare 1530 Printing of the Summa Azonis that Features a Vignette of Azo Lecturing to Students Azo, Portius [1150-1235]. Summa Azonis. Summa Perutilis Excellentissimi Iuris Monarche Nuperrime Maxima Diligetia Castigata, Additoque Novo Repertorio quo Facilius que Studiosissimus Quisque Requirit Occurrere Possint. Lyons: Constantin Fradin, 1530. [xiv], 373 ff. Main text... More
"The Unhappy Men Were Perfectly Resigned to Their Fate" [Broadside]. [Executions]. [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Last Dying Speeches of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, William Davidson, J.T. Brunt, And Arthur Tidd, Who Were Hanged, Quartered, And Beheaded, This Morning at Newgate for High Treason. [London]: Thomas, Printer, 6 Denmark Court, Exeter Change... More
Considers the Status of Women Under the Roman Law of Inheritance and Succession Gaudenzi, Paganino [1595-1649]. Liber De Iustinianaei Seculi Moribus Nonnullis cum Eiusdem Dissertatione de Successione Foeminarum. Iuxta Editionem Floernetinam. Strasbourg: Typis & Sumptibus Friderici Spoor, 1654. [viii], 134, [16] pp. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4"). Later thick-paper (cartonage) boards... More
A Scarce Treatise on the Customary Law Of a Region of the Netherlands Goris, Lambert [d. 1651]. Commentatio ad Tres & Viginti Priores Titulos Reformatae Consuetudinis Velaviae Ejusque Orae ad Ripam Isulae Fluminis, Partium Ducatus Gelriae & Comitatus Zutphaniae, Cum Translatione Latina Textus Vernaculi: In Qua, A Caeteris Ejusdem Provinciae... More
An Interesting View of the American Legal Community in 1852 [Law Journal]. Livingston, John, Editor. United States Monthly Law Magazine. [New York: United States Monthly Magazine Office, 1852]. Volume 6, No. 1 (July, 1852), Volume 5, No. 1 (January, 1852), Volume 5, No. 2 (February, 1852), Volume 4, No. 4... More
A Court Document in Kent's Hand, Signed by Kent [Manuscript]. Kent, James [1763-1847]. [Court Document in Kent's Hand, Signed by Kent]. [New York]: February 5, 1806. 4 pp. 12-3/4" x 8-1/4" bifolium, docketed on verso of second leaf. Horizontal fold lines, a few with minor tears, light browning and minor... More
A Statement of Parliamentary Principles to the People of North Wales Middleton (Myddelton), Sir Thomas [1586-1666]. A Declaration Published by Sir Thomas Middleton Knight, Serjeant-Major-Generall, And Vice-Admirall for the Sixe Counties of North-Wales. Setting Forth the Illegality and Incongruity of a Pernicious Oath and Protestation, Imposed upon Many Peaceable Subjects... More
Scarce 1641 Tract Calling for the Reform of Laws Concerning Inheritance and Succession N.N. A Treatise Concerning Estates Tayle, And Discents of Inheritance. Written by N.N. And Published by I. Sherman, of Lincolnes Inne: Gen. London: Printed for Iohn Grove, 1641. [ii], 42, [i.e. 43], [1] pp. Lacking first leaf... More
1719 Compilation of New York Laws Printed in London by John Baskett [New York (Colony)]. Acts of Assembly Passed in the Province of New-York, From 1691, To 1718. London: Printed for John Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1719. xv, 292 pp. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary calf... More
![Tractatus de Miserabilium [Bound with] De Restitutorio Interdicto. Giovanni Antonio Novario, Orazio Barbato.](/pictures/thumb/67559.JPG?v=1517958504)
Rare Treatises On Poor Laws and Possession Novario, Giovanni Antonio. Tractatus de Miserabilium Personarum Privilegiis, In Quo Complures Singulares Materiae ad Earum Favorem in Usu Forensi Quotidianae, & Frequentes, Tum Iuxta Iuris Communis, Quam Municipalis Regni Dispositionem, Supremorum Totius Orbis Tribunalium, Placita Accurate, Exacteq; Dilucidantur: Opus Sane Practicabile, Curiosum, Necessarium... More
A Historical Review and Defense of the King's Right to Tax His Subjects in Order to Support the Queen Prynne, William [1600-1669]. Aurum Reginae; Or a Compendious Tractate, And Chronological Chronological Collection of Records in the Tower, And Court of Exchequer Concerning Queen-Gold: Evidencing the Quiddity, Quantity, Quality, Antiquity, Legality... More
The Constitutional Danger Posed by a "New Lurking Pretender" [Ridpath, George (d.1726)]. Parliamentary Right Maintain'd or the Hanover Succession Justify'd. Wherein The Hereditary Right to the Crown of England Asserted &c. Is Consider'd, in III. Parts. The Ist. Examins the Plea from Scripture. The II. That from the Laws &... More
Notable Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Treatise on Marriage and Marriage Law Sanchez, Tomas [1550-1610]. Soarez, Emanuel Laurentius, Editor. Compendium Totius Tractatus de S. Matrimonii Sacramento. Ab Emanuele Laurentio Soares Ulyssiponesi, Presbytero Theologo, Alphabetice Breviter Dispositum. Cologne: Sumptibus Petri Henningii, 1624. [xxiv], 455 pp. 12mo. (5-1/4" x 3-1/4"). Contemporary vellum with lapped edges... More
![The Tryal of William Stayley [bound with] 11 Related Trials, 1678-80. Trials, Popish Plot.](/pictures/thumb/67600.JPG?v=1517958506)
A Contemporary Collection of Twelve Popish Plot Trials and a Related Broadside [Trials]. [Popish Plot]. Stayley, William [d. 1678], Defendant. The Tryal of William Stayley, Goldsmith; For Speaking Treasonable Words Against His Most Sacred Majesty: And Upon Full Evidence Found Guilty of High Treason, And Received Sentence Accordingly, On Thursday... More
Town-Gown Relations in Seventeenth-Century Oxford [University of Oxford]. [Harrington, James (1664-1693)]. [Langbaine, Gerard (1609-1658)]. A Defence of the Rights and Priviledges of the University of Oxford: Containing, 1. An Answer to the Petition of the City of Oxford. 1649. 2. The Case of the University of Oxford; Presented to the... More
Impressive Compilation of Early English Laws Based on Spelman's Codex Legum Veterum Wilkins, David [1685-1745]. Spelman, Henry [1564?-1641]. Leges Anglo-Saxonicae Ecclesiasticae & Civiles. Accedunt Leges Edvardi Latinae, Guilielmi Conquestoris Gallo-Normannicae, Et Henrici I. Latinae. Subjungitur Domini Henr. Spelmanni Codex Legum Veterum Statutorum Regni Angliae, Quae ab Ingressu Guilielmi I. Usque... More