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: 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
Author: Piergiovanni, Vito (ed.) Title: From Lex Mercatoria to Commercial Law [Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History, Volume 24] Publisher: Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2005. Description: Ten essays devoted to the history of the Lex Mercatoria and its relation to commercial, maritime, and international law, including those by Daniel R. Coquillette (on Justice Story), Charles Donahue, Jr., and Alain Wijffels, all save one in English Condition: Original printed sewn wraps, as new; 290 pages, one illustration List No: 84-92 Book No.: W-73840 Price: $ 105.00
Author: Powell, John Joseph Title: A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages. The Second Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Author Publisher: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers; for P. Uriel [etc.], London, 1787. Description: The rare, first revision of the first substantial treatise on the law of mortgages, dedicated to Charles Fearne, and in Holdsworth's view "systematic and well-arranged . . . attain[ing] a high standard of learning"; one copy in North America in ESTC Condition: Original sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, quite rubbed, joints cracked, definite foxing and embrowning; a fragile but usable copy List No: 84-96 Book No.: W-74024 Price: $ 450.00
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