September 28, 2021
Highlights in this list include:
"Nobilitie of the Realme" [Bird, William]. Judge Dodaridge, His Law of Nobility and Peerage. Wherein the Antiquities, Titles, Degrees, And Distinctions; Concerning the Peeres and Nobility of this Nation, Are Excellently Set Forth. With the Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen, And Yeomen; And Matters Incident to Them, According to the Lawes and..... More
Laws Relating to the Stuart-Era Nobility Brydall, John [b.1635?]. Jus Imaginis Apud Anglos; Or the Law of England Relating to the Nobility & Gentry. Faithfully Collected and Methodically Digested for Common Benefit. London: Printed for John Billinger, 1675. [xvi], 76, [1] pp. Copperplate frontispiece (arms of Great Britain). Folding table..... More
A Seventeenth-Century Plan to Reform English Law [Chamberlayne, Edward (1616-1703)]. Englands Wants: Or, Several Proposals Probably Beneficial for England, Humbly Offered to the Consideration of All Good Patriots in Both Houses of Parliament. By the Author of The Present State of England. London: Printed for, And Are to be Sold..... More
A Handsome Collection of Texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis - With No Copies this Edition in North America Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. [Mameranus, Nicolaus (1500-1567)], Editor. [Ubaldi, Angelo Degli (d.1492?)], Commentary. [Ubaldi, Baldus Degli (1327?-1400)], Commentary. [Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357)], Commentary. Imperatoris Iustiniani Sacratissimi Principis..... More
Class Portrait of the University of Michigan Law School Class of 1893 [Law Schools]. [University of Michigan]. University of Michigan, Law Class of 1893. [Ann Arbor, c.1893]. 16" x 21-1/2" class composite photograph on 22" x 26" illustration board with printed text, recently backed with masonite board. Light toning and..... More
Annotated Manuscript Copy of the Institutes of Justinian [Manuscript]. [Justinian I (483-565 CE), Emperor of the East]. Justinian Institutiones. [France, c.1700]. 144, [142], 63, [322] ff. Folio (11-1/2" x 8"). Contemporary reversed calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and blind fillets to spine, fragments of thong ties. A few..... More
"Never Printed But Lent Me to Copy" [Manuscript]. Lowndes, William [1652-1724]. A Treatise of Estates & Conveyances by Wm. Lowndes Esqr. Late Secretary of the Treasury. Never Printed but Lent Me to Copy. AD 1712.....Ends Pag[e] 49. Cornwall?, 1699-1718. [iv], 49, [1], 50-62, [5] pp. 11 blank leaves. Quarto (7-3/4"..... More
A Satirical View of "The Hanging Judge" [Page, Sir Francis (1661-1741)]. The Charge of J---- P---- to the Grand Jury of M--x, on Saturday May 22, 1736. London: [S.n.], Printed in the Year 1738. 16 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled..... More