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

The "Celebrated" First Digest of the Laws of Colombia [Colombia]. Pombo, Lino de [1797-1862], Editor. Recopilacion de Leyes de la Nueva Granada, Formada I Publicada en Cumplimiento de la Lei de 4 de Mayo de 1843 I por Comision del Poder Ejecutivo por Lino de Pombo, Miembro del Senado. Contiene..... 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

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

Should We Revive Trial by Battle? Kendall, E[dward] A[ugustus] [1776?-1842]. An Argument for Construing Largely the Right of an Appellee of Murder, To Insist on His Wager of Battle, And Also for Abrogating Writs of Appeal. Humbly Addressed to the Judges of His Majesty's Courts of Law and Both Houses..... 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

Manitoba Statutes, 1871-1887 [Manitoba]. Statutes of Manitoba [1871-1887]. Winnipeg: Printed by Coldwell and Cunningham, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1871, 1873-1887. 12 books in all. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Later quarter cloth or calf, moderate to heavy shelfwear, backstrips lacking from two volumes, several boards loose, internally clean..... More

Diary of a Prominent Yonkers, New York, Lawyer, Judge and Politician [Manuscript]. Scrugham, William Warburton [1820-1867]. [Diary of William Warburton Scrugham]. [Yonkers, NY, February 1, 1844--March 31, 1845]. 19, [120] pp. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 3-3/4"). Quarter sheep over marbled boards, printed paper title panel to front board (reading Diary for..... More

Consilia by an Important Paduan Jurist Menochio, Giacomo [1532-1607]. Consilia Sive Responsorum. Liber Tertius; Nunc Primum in Lucem Editus. Quorum Quidem Responsorum (Ea Sunt Argutia, Eruditione, Atque Elegantia) Velut ex Oraculo Prudenter, Sciteq; Dicta, Facile Quisque Legendo Iudicibit. Et si Quis Libri Utilitatem, Vel Scriptoris vim Ingenii Atque Solertiam Spectet..... More

By an Important Reformer and Opponent of Capital Punishment Montagu, Basil [1770-1851]. Thoughts Upon the Abolition of the Punishment of Death, In Cases of Bankruptcy. London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1821. 71 pp. 12mo. (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into later library buckram, calf lettering piece and..... More

Important Early Study of Ancient Athenian Law Petit (Petitus), Samuel [1594-1643]. Leges Atticae. Sam. Petitus Collegit, Digessit, et Libro Commentario Illustravit. Opus Iuris, Literarum, Et Rei Antiquariae Studiosis Utilissimum, VIII. Libris Distinctum, In Quo Varii Scriptorum Veterum Graecorum et Latinorum Loci Explicantur et Emendantur. Paris: Sumptibus Coroli Morelli, 1635. [xii]..... More

A Fine View of the Royal Excise Office from 1810 Rowlandson, Thomas [1756-1827]. Pugin, Augustin Charles [1762-1832]. Excise Office, Broad Street. London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, February 1, 1810. Attractively glazed and matted 11" x 9" aquatint in handsome 15-1/2" x 13-1/2" wooden frame, small plaque to center of..... 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