July 2, 2019
Download PDF of A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Canon, Civil, Common, Ecclesiastical & Roman Law
Dictionary of Roman Law and Legislation with 24 Plates Agustin, Antonio [1517-1586]. Orsino, Fulvio [1529-1600], Editor. Lipsius, Justus [1547-1606]. De Legibus et Senatusconsultis Liber: Adiunctis Legum Antiquarum & Senatusconsultorum Fragmentis, Cum Notis Fuluii Ursini, Multo Quam Antea Emendatius, Additis Etiam Locorum Quorundam Notis: Cum Duobus Indicibus Locupletissimis: Adiectus est Iusti..... More
The First Post-Civil War Code with an Anti-Miscegenation Law [Alabama]. Stone, Geo[rge] W. Shepherd, J[ohn] W[esley]. The Penal Code of Alabama; Prepared by Geo W. Stone and J.W. Shepherd, And Adopted by the General Assembly at the Session of 1865-6; Together with the Other Criminal Laws Now in Force. Published..... More
Legal Broadside from the Ancien Regime [Broadside]. [France]. Arrest du Conseil D'Etat du Roi, Portant Reglement pour la Perception des Droits de Petit-Scel, & De Ceux des Presentations & Defauts des Causes Entre Marchands, Qui Seront Jugees dans les Jurisdictions Ordinaires. Du 23 Avril 1765. Aix: Chez le Veuve de..... More
Spanish-Language Edition of the 1862 California Session Laws [California]. Splivalo, Augusto D., Translator. Las Leyes de California, Dadas Durante la Sesion Decimatercia de la Legislatura, 1862; Que Principio el Lunes, Dia Seis de Enero, Y Finalizo el Jueves, Die Quinca de Mayo. Sacramento: Benj. P. Avery, 1862. xxxv, 445, [1]..... More
Jus Divinum or Jus Divinum Regum? Carter, John. Vindiciae Decimarum. Of Tithes, A Plea for the Ius Divinum. Drawne from the Text. London: T. Cotes, 1640. (iv), 56 pp. First leaf blank. Quarto (7" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title to..... More
A 1694 Proposal to Reform the Taxation of Maritime Cargoes [Crosfeild, Robert]. Truth Brought to Light: Or, The Corrupt Practices of Some Persons at Court Laid Open. Whereby Their Majesties, And the Kingdom, Have Been Prejudiced Near One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds this Year; Besides Other Evils that Have..... More
A Choice Signed Limited First Edition of Darrow's Story of My Life Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. The Story of My Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. viii, [iv], 465 pp. Color portrait frontispiece with tissue overlay. Seventeen plates, text illustrations to pp. 283 and 429. Publisher's quarter cloth over laid-paper..... More
"A Ryghte Pedantique ande Mangleinge Publication" [Dubois, Edward (1774-1850)]. Old Nick's Pocket-Book; Or, Hints for "A Ryghte Pedantique Ande Mangleinge" Publication, To be Called "My Pocket-Book." By Himself. London: Printed by J. Moyes, 1808. 112 pp. Lithographed folding 16-1/4" x 11" frontispiece. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/4"). Original publisher boards, rebacked..... More
A Distinguished Legal Philologist Godefroy, Jacques [1587-1652]. Trotz, Christian Hendrik [1703-1773], Editor. Opera Juridica Minora, Sive Libelli, Tractatus, Orationes, & Opuscula Rariora & Praestantiora, Quibus Continentur Selectae, non Modo in Jure, Sed & Omni Antiquitate Romana, & Graeca, Jus Antiquum Inlustrante, Materiae. Quae Simul Inservire Poterunt Thesauri Juris Supplemento. Omnia..... More
Scarce Treatise on the Roman Law of Confiscation Guazzini, Sebastiano. Tractatus De Confiscatione Bonorum, Hac Recenti Editione Lugdunensi, Infinitis Prope Mendis, Quibus Antea Scatebat, Expurgatus, & Nativo Candori Restitutus: Cum Summariis, Et Indicibus Accuratissimis. Lyons: Sumpt. Joannis Antonii Huguetan, & Soc., 1676. [iv], 134, [26] pp. Main text in parallel..... More
Sem's Account of a Notable Treason Trial [Trial]. Sem [Gorsat (Goursat), Georges (1863-1934)]. Bolo, Paul [d. 1918], Defendant. Affaire Bola-Pacha: 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. 68 lithographic images on 24 sheets and a sheet of captions in a printed wrapper housed in a printed folder. 12-1/2"..... More
An Important Analysis of Spanish Colonial Law Solorzano Pereira, Juan de [1575-1655]. De Indiarum Jure. Sive de Justa Indiarum Occidentalium Inquisitione, Acquisitione, & Retentione. Cum Duplici Indice, Primo Librorum & Capitum; Altero Rerum Notabilium Absolutissimo. Editio Novissima ab Innumeris, Quibus Priores Deformatae Erant, Mendis Emaculata, opera et Studio. Madrid: In..... More
Highway Robbery [Trial]. Laidly, William, Defendant. Authentick Coppie of the Tryal of Scot and Mackpherson, Anno 1712: Laid Before the House, Pursuant to Their Lordships Order for that Purpose, 18 Aprilis, 1737. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1737. 33, [1] pp. Folio (12-1/2" x 8"). Later quarter morocco over cloth..... More
1830 French Pamphlet on Laws Dealing with the Wine Trade Urbin-Gautier, Charles-Rosalie Mis d.' Projet d'un Droit Unique d'Inventaire sur les Vins, Examine du Tresor, Des Proprietaires et du Commerce. Paris: Tourneux, Libraire/Orleans: Imprimerie de Danicourt-Huet, 1830. 28 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain wrappers. Wrapper beginning..... More