First Complete American Edition of Adams's Landmark Study of America's Constitutions Adams, John [1735-1826]. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778. Philadelphia: Printed by Budd..... More

"Supplies a Chasm in the Printed Year Books" Bellew(e), Richard, Compiler. Les Ans du Roy Richard le Second Collect' Ensemble' Hors de les Abridgments de Statham, Fitzherbert et Brooke. London: Imprinted by Robert Robertson, Dwelling in Fewter Lane Neere Holborne, 1585. [viii], 326 [i.e. 342], [6] pp. Collates complete. Octavo..... More

With a Section on Canon-Law Jurisprudence Bonacina, Martino [1585-1631]. Tractatus Tres de Legibus, De Peccatis, Et de Praeceptis Decalogi: In Quorum Primo Agitur de Legibus in Genere, & in Specie, & de iis Que Pertinent ad Legem Praeceptivam, & Poenalem, & ed eius Cessationem Agitur Etiam de Dispensationibus, & de..... More

"Cut Out for a Sawyer but Made Up a Lawyer" [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. Beware! Important Caution. Beware of a Pair of Bipeds, That Have Lately Escaped, The One from Jail, The Other "Cut out for a Sawyer but Made Up a Lawyer," From the Weddington Lane-Menagerie, And are Now Haunting..... More

A Pair of Conjugate Broadsides [Broadside]. [Death]. [Murder]. [New York]. A Poem of the Distressing and Afflictive Death of the Rev. Josiah M. Muspratt, Who Was Killed in an Awful Manner; Being Caught in the Machinery of Whitesborough Factory, Carried up to the Floor Above by His Arm, Where it..... More

Burn's Marine Insurances, A Roosevelt Family Association Copy Burn, John Ilderton [1774?-1848]. A Practical Treatise or Compendium of the Law of Marine Insurances. London, Printed: New-York, Re-Printed, for H. Caritat by G. & R. Waite, 1801. xiv, [2], 235 pp. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 4"). Contemporary sheep with later rebacking, blind..... More

First Edition of Coke's Landmark Commentary on Magna Carta and "English Liberties" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient, And Other Statutes; Whereof you May See the Particulars in a Table Following. London: Printed by M...... More

An Important Early American Treatise on the Legal Rights of Married Women Cord, William H. A Treatise on the Legal and Equitable Rights of Married Women: As Well as in Respect to Their Property and Persons as to Their Children. With an Appendix of the Recent American Statutes and the..... More

Darrow Discusses Prohibition with a Colleague Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. [Black, Forrest R]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Black, On the Letterhead of the Hotel Fenway, Denedin, Florida, February 26, [1931]. Single 10-1/2" x 7-1/4" sheet. Some toning, two horizontal fold lines, light soiling to upper right hand corner, otherwise fine. [With]..... More

An Uncommon Nineteenth-Century Law Dictionary English, Arthur. A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law. Washington, DC: Washington Law Book Co., 1899. [iv], 979 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Small folio (10" x 6-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering..... More

Advice for Law Students Fulbeck(e), William [1560-1603]. Stirling, T.H. A Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law: Wherein is Shewed, What Things Ought to be Observed and Used of Them That Are Addicted to the Study of the Law, And What, on the Contrary Part, Ought to be..... More

Grotius on Roman-Dutch Law Grotius, Hugo [1583-1645]. Groenewegen van der Made, Simon van [1613-1652], Notes. Maasdorp, A.F.S. [1847-1931], Translator. The Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence of Hugo Grotius: With Notes by Simon van Groenewegen van der Made, And References to van der Keesel's Theses and Schorer's Notes. Cape Town: J.C. Juta..... More

Legal Guide for "Gentlemen of All Ranks" in a Well-Preserved Contemporary Binding 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;..... More

Portrait Photograph of Lyndon Johnson Inscribed To Supreme Court Justice and UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg Johnson, Lyndon Baines [1908-1973]. [Goldberg, Arthur (1908-1990)]. [Photograph of Johnson Inscribed to Goldberg]. N.p., N.d. (1965?). 8" x 10" color portrait photograph, printed credit in the image at bottom left, glazed and framed in tasteful..... More

Uncommon Large-Paper Edition of the Code and Related Works with Important Notes by Denis Godefroy Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Godefroy, Denis [1549-1622], Editor and Annotator. Codicis Dn. Justiniani Sacratissimi Principis PP. Aug. Repetitae Praelectionis Libri XII. Postrema Editio Prioribus Auctior et Emendatior. Frankfurt: Sumptibus Societis. Imprimebat..... More

1494 Edition of Distinguished Commentary on Canon Law Koelner de Vanckel, Johannes. Summarium Textuale et Conclusiones Super Sextum et Clementinas [et Decretales Extravagantes Johannis XXII]. [(Cologne): Johann Koelhoff, the Younger, 1494]. [290] ff. Two parts, each with title page. Part I dated 1 February 1494, Part II dated 24 March..... More

Littleton's Tenures in English Littleton, Sir Thomas [1402-1481]. Littletons Tenures in English, Lately Perused and Amended. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1621. 142, [2] ff. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind ornaments and lettering piece to spine, edges rouged, endpapers..... More

Printed in Letters of Gold - "The Most Magnificent of All Editions" [Magna Carta]. [Whittaker, John, Publisher]. Magna Carta: Regis Johannis XV. Die Junii Anno Regni XVII. A.D. MCCXV. London: Apud Johannis Whittaker, 1816. 12 ff. Folio (17" x 14"). Contemporary gilt-tooled morocco, textured-cloth central panels to boards, the front..... 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 Rhode Island Debt Claim from 1728 [Manuscript]. Wanton, Joseph [1705-1780]. [Autograph Legal Document, Signed, Bristol, Rhode Island, July 5, 1728]. Single 12-1/4" x 7-1/2" leaf, franked below signature, docketed on verso ("Joseph Wanton's Release"). Light browning, horizontal and vertical creases, wax seal at signature, some separation along fold lines..... More

1646 Study of Laws Concerning the Blind, Mute and Deaf Michalorius, Blasius (Micalorio, Biagio). Tractatus de Coeco, Surdo et Muto. In Quo ipsorum Miseria, Quid Scire, Atque Addiscere Possint, Quos Contractus Celebrare, Num Magistratus Gerere, An in Ultimis Voluntatibus Disponere, Et Plura Alia Huiuscemodi Secundum Germanam Variarum Legum, Ac Imperatorum..... 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

Vast Early-Eighteenth Century Collection of Legal Maxims for Attorneys Pistorius, Georg Tobias. Thesaurus Paroemiarum Germanico-Iurisdicarum, Teutsch-Juristischer-Sprichworter-Schatz, In quo Mille et Quod Excurrit Germanorum Dicteria, Cum Primis Iuris, Recensentur, Et Quidem Eius Centuria Prima [-Decima]. 10 volumes in one. Imprint varies. Part I, IV, V, Leipzig: Typis Joh. Casp. Mulleri, 1716;..... More

The First Published Compilations of the Laws of St. Kitts and the Leeward Islands [Saint Kitts]. Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Island of St. Christopher; From 1711, to 1735, Inclusive. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1739. x, 182 pp. [Bound with] An Abridgment of the Acts of Assembly, Passed..... More

Kinges Prerogative with Numerous Contemporary Annotations Staunford, Sir William [1509-1558]. An Exposicion of the Kinges Prerogative Collected Out of the Great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and Other Olde Writers of the Lawes of England. Whereunto is Annexed the Proces to the Same Prerogative Appertaining. [London: Imprinted...in Fleete-Strete Within Temple Barre...By..... More

Attractive Victorian Courtroom Scene Stephanoff, James, After. Reynolds, S.W., Engraver. The Court of Claims, In the Painted Room of the Palace of Westminster. London: Published by Sir George Naylor, [c. 1824]. Attractively glazed and matted 16" x 13-1/2" aquatint in handsome 27-1/2" x 15" wood frame. Light toning to margins..... More

The Model for Mr. Jaggers in Dickens's Great Expectations [Trial]. Harmer, James [1777-1853]. [Holloway, John (d. 1807), Defendant]. [Haggerty, Owen (d. 1807), Defendant]. Murder of Mr. Steele: Documents and Observations Tending to Shew a Probability of the Innocence of John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, Who Were Executed on Monday the..... More

Plots Against the English Crown [Trials]. [Great Britain]. [Plots Against the Crown]. The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex, And Henry Earl of Southampton, At Westminster the 19th of February, 1600. And in the 34th Reign of Queen Elizabeth: For Rebelliously Conspiring and Endeavouring the Subversion of..... More

A Rare Layman's Guide Based on Blackstone Trusler, John [1735-1820]. A Concise View of the Common Law and Statute Law of England, Carefully Collected from the Statutes and Best Common Law Writers, And Systematically Digested. London: Printed for the Author, [c.1780-1781]. [iv], 388, [16] pp. With a two-page catalogue of..... More

Eighteenth-Century Engraving of the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn Vertue, George [1684-1756]. Lincoln's-Inn Chappel, Being Erected at the Expence of the Hon.ble Gentlemen of this Inn by a Plan of Mr. Inigo Jones [London]: S.n., 1751. 9-1/2" x 15-1/2" copperplate engraving, handsomely matted and glazed, margins trimmed closely, image mounted on..... More

Heavily Annotated Copies of Four Year Books from the Reign of Henry VI [Year Books]. [Henry VI, King (1421-1471)]. De Termino Michaelis Anno XXXVII. Henrici Sexti. [London: Imprinted...by Rychard Tottel the I. Daye of June in the Yere of Our Lord. 1575]. 38 ff. [Bound with] De Termino Michaelis Anno..... More