Author: Landheer, B. and J.L.F. van Essen (comps.) Title: Fundamentals of Public International Law. [Selective Bibliographies of the Library of the Peace Palace I] Publisher: A.W. Sijthoff's Publishing Company, Leiden, 1953. Description: Condition: Original printed sewn wraps, showing wear, ?ex-library, yet a good usable copy; 85 pages List No: 84-69 Book No.: W-73736 Price: $ 125.00
Author: Title: Eleven ledger-style notebooks, each about 8 x 10.5 inches, the Harvard Law School student notes of Walter Hoffman, several thousand pages altogether, in ink in a single, legible hand, with many paper slips, mainly case summaries, tipped in Publisher: Cambridge, 1920-22. Description: Extensive student notes, each page vertically divided, two-thirds with class notes, one-third ?later review summaries, very elaborately and clearly reflecting the continuing hold of Langdell's methodology at Harvard Law in the early twentieth century Condition: 3/4 maroon cloth over buckram, somewhat worn, some bindings strained, one binding partly detached, but quite usable List No: 84-72 Book No.: W-73596 Price: $ 850.00
Author: Bellewe (ed.), Richard Title: Ascvns Nouell cases de les ans & temps le Roy, H.8. Ed.6. & la Roygne Mary, Escrie, ex la graund Abridgement, composed per Sir Robert Brooke . . . disperse en les Titles. Mes icy collecte sub ans [etc.]. S.T.C. 3823; Beale R480; not in Baker Publisher: Imprinted . . . within Temple Barre . . . by Richard Tottill, London, 1587. Description: The work containing portions of the first Inns of Court reading to be printed, Justice Frowyk's lecture on Prerogative Regis, preceding by several decades the the first (in 1635) located in J.H. Baker's "Readings and Readers in the Inns of Court" Condition: Later 1/2 sheep over marbled boards, quite worn, some browning and staining, the margins cut close occasionally affecting sidenotes; a usable copy List No: 84-73 Book No.: W-73859 Price: $ 3500.00
Author: Lutter, Marcus, Ernst C. Stiefel et al (eds.) Title: Der Einfluss deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland ["The Influence of German Emigrants on Legal Development in the United States of America and in Germany"] Publisher: J.C.B. Mohr, Tubingen, 1993. Description: The fruits of the Bonner Symposium, forty-two contributions, twenty in English, in homage to those who escaped the Nazis "to make major contributions to American legal culture", including Albert Ehrenzweig, Ernst Freund, and Hans Kelsen, inter alia Condition: Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket List No: 84-75 Book No.: W-73525 Price: $ 125.00
Author: Title: The Reading of M[r]. Robert Brook, Serieant of the Law, and Recorder of London, Upon the Stat[ute] of Magna Charta, Chap. 16 [sic; 17]. Wing B4896 Publisher: Printed by M. Flesher, and R. Young [etc.], London, 1641. Description: The first Inns of Court reading to be printed, and one of two printed readings glossing any clause of Magna Carta, devoted to high treason, murder, manslaughter, robbery, and other felonies, with a concluding lecture upon criminal procedure Condition: Modern calf, gilt, definite browning, margins cut close; a usable copy List No: 84-77 Book No.: W-73557 Price: $ 1500.00
Author: Marsden, Reginald G. (ed.) Title: Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty, The High Court of Admiralty (A.D. 1547-1602) Publisher: Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1897. Description: The first attempt by the Selden Society to examine the contribution of the civilians to English legal history, in this second volume (of two) examining their efforts during "the greatest activity of the High Court of Admiralty" Condition: Original blue cloth, gilt, somewhat worn and browned, but a good copy; the Society's Volume XI for the year 1897 List No: 84-81 Book No.: W-73628 Price: $ 175.00
Author: Noy, William Title: The Compleat Lawyer: Or, A Treatise Concerning Tenures & Estates in Lands of Inheritance for Life, and Chattels Real and Personal. And How any of them may be Conveyed in a Legal Form, By Fine, Recovery, Deed or Word [etc.]. Wing N1446 Publisher: Printed For S.S. and are to be sold by W. Jacob [etc.], London, 1670. Description: An unusually cast work by Noy, attorney general and one of the finest lawyers of his day, numbering Hale and Maynard among his pupils, with a first part in question and answer format, and a second expository; with a prefatory account of Noy's life Condition: Early calf, extensively restored and very worn, ex-library, some browning and early underlining, yet a crisp, usable copy; without the portrait List No: 84-85 Book No.: W-71467 Price: $ 650.00
Author: Title: Obituary Notice of Robert Patterson, LL.D. Late President of the American Philosophical Society Publisher: N.p., Philadelphia?], 1824?]. Description: The rare memorial offered in tribute to Patterson, who had served as the Society's President from 1819 until his death in 1824, succeeding Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in that post; no copy located in OCLC, one in RLIN, at the Society Condition: One sheet folded (four pages), the original stab holes present, foxed, yet quite sound List No: 84-90 Book No.: W-73949 Price: $ 150.00
Author: Petyt, William Title: Miscellanea Parliamentaria: Containing Presidents 1. Of Freedom from Arrests. 2. Of Censures. . . . Besides other Presidents and Orders of a various Nature, both of the House of Lords and Commons [etc.]. Wing P1948A Publisher: Printed for T. Basset . . . and J. Wickins . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1680. Description: Petyt's first effort as an "assiduous student of English historical records", this work (in G.L. Elton's words) "preserv[ing] vital documents . . . which would otherwise be lost" and leading to his appointment as Keeper of the Tower records Condition: Modern black morocco, gilt, the title dusty, some browning, ex- library, a usable copy List No: 84-91 Book No.: W-73968 Price: $ 450.00
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