Author: Pratt, Charles, Lord Camden Title: An Inquiry into the Nature and Effect Of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, The great Bulwark of British Liberty, Both at Common Law, and under the Act of Parliament. And Also Into the Propriety of Explaining and Extending that Act [etc.]. The Second Edition Publisher: Printed for C. Henderson under the Royal Exchange [etc.], London, 1758. Description: The uncommon second edition of the principal (if brief) work of Charles Pratt, later Lord Camden, designed to support his legislation seeking to expand the coverage of habeas corpus to all (not merely penal) instances of illegal confinement Condition: Modern 1/4 speckled calf, gilt, some browning and paper repairs, else a good copy, 30 pages; seven copies in ESTC, none in a law library List No: 84-97 Book No.: W-73529 Price: $ 750.00
Author: Prendergast, Harris Title: The Law Relating to Officers in the Army Publisher: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, Military Library, Whitehall, London, 1849. Description: First edition of a rare work written by the Lincoln's Inn barrister who undertook a similar work on naval officers, with chapters on prize and booty, criminal liabilities, rank and pay, courts martial and much else; one copy in OCLC, two in RLIN Condition: Original limp embossed crimson cloth, gilt-lettered, a trifle strained yet a pretty copy, the edges and endpapers marbled List No: 84-98 Book No.: W-73913 Price: $ 350.00
Author: Title: Three Learned Readings Made upon three very usefull Statutes: The First, By . . . Sir James Dyer [of Wills] . . . The Second, By Sir Iohn Brograve [Concerning Jointures] . . . The Third, By Thomas Risden [of Forcible Entry] [etc.]. Wing D2929 Publisher: Printed for W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, London, 1648. Description: Only edition of each reading (all 16th century) and the only instance in which several Inns of Court readings were jointly published, the first (by James Dyer) recently termed by Dr. Baker "the distinguished exposition of the Statute of Wills" Condition: Modern calf, gilt, definite browning, margins cut close; a usable copy List No: 84-106 Book No.: W-73558 Price: $ 1500.00
Author: Reeve, Tapping Title: The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body Publisher: Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816. Description: First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield Condition: Contemporary calf, very worn, some browning; a just usable copy List No: 84-107 Book No.: W-73489 Price: $ 750.00
Author: Title: Judicial Appointments. A Letter to the Right Honourable Baron Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor [etc.] Publisher: Bosworth & Harrison, 215, Regent Street, London, 1857. Description: A rare reformist tract with a decidedly populist slant, proposing that the judges of the county courts (then established for some ten years) were a fertile source for appointment to the central courts at Westminster; no copy in COPAC, OCLC or RLIN Condition: Disbound, the stitching loose, a just usable copy; 16 pages List No: 84-108 Book No.: W-74058 Price: $ 250.00
Author: Title: The Trial of Jane Butterfield for the Wilful Murder of William Scawen, Esq; At the Assizes held at Croydon . . . Before the Right Honourable Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe . . . Taken in Short-Hand, By Joseph Gurney and William Blanchard. A New Edition. Folio Publisher: Printed for W. Owen . . . and G. Kearsly . . . in Fleet-street, London, 1775. Description: A case of many twists in which the victim had sought to seduce and then raped the defendant, then "made amends" by providing for her education, fell into ill-health and was nursed and then allegedly poisoned by her, the jury quickly acquitting Condition: Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, definite browning, else a good wide-margined copy; with the half-title List No: 84-112 Book No.: W-73593 Price: $ 750.00
Author: Selden, John Title: Opera Omnia . . . Collegit ac Recensuit; Vitam Auctoris, Praefationes, & Indices adjecit, David Wilkins [etc.]. Three Volumes in Six Publisher: Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis J. Walthoe [and 21 others], Londini, 1726. Description: Still the only edition of Selden's works, a fit tribute to the man whose name Maitland chose to grace the Selden Society and whose output (in Holdsworth's words) "astonished his own contemporaries and astonishes us"; with the frontispiece Condition: Contemporary panelled calf, quite worn, rebacked in vellum, some damage to one board and a bit of staining, ex-library, else a clean usable set List No: 84-114 Book No.: W-73748 Price: $ 2750.00
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