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Rare and Scholarly Books on the Law




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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
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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
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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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Author:      Selva, Joannis de
Title:       Tractatus de beneficio cum summariis ante unamquamque questionen
             accommodatis [etc.]
Publisher:   Impressusque in aedibus Joannis Davidis [etc.] [colophon],
             Lugduni, 1531.
Description: A rare edition of one of the two principal works of Selva, the
             Counseler Clerk in Parliament of Paris whose views are quoted with
             approval by Gierke and then by Maitland; one copy in RLIN, not in
             the British Museum (French) Catalogue, nor in Adams
Condition:   Modern crimson morocco, title and one leaf strengthened; sound
List No:     84-115    Book No.:  W-57790        Price: $    1250.00
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Author:      Simpson, A.W.B.
Title:       A History of the Common Law of Contract, the Rise of the Action of
             Assumpsit
Publisher:   Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975.
Description: A seminal work, examining the evolution of contract law until
             1677, Morris Arnold observing "[f]or the first time students of
             the common law can hope for a reliable and reasonably complete
             doctrinal history of the common law of contracts"
Condition:   Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
List No:     84-120    Book No.:  W-74042        Price: $     150.00
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Author:      Spelman, Henry
Title:       Glossarium Archaiologicum, Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina,
             Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula [etc.]. Third
             edition. Cowley 178 (variant); Wing S4926. Folio
Publisher:   Excudebat Tho. Braddyll, & Prostant apud Georg. Pawlett [etc.],
             London, 1687.
Description: The best edition of the work which Holdsworth calls "the earliest
             dictionary of early legal and historical terms constructed upon
             sound principles" and the basis for Spelman's studies begun
             earlier in the century on English law and its history
Condition:   Modern 3/4 calf, title neatly repaired, engraved frontispiece
             strengthened at the inner margin, some dustiness, else a clean
             usable copy
List No:     84-121    Book No.:  W-73863        Price: $     650.00
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Author:      Sutherland, Donald W. (ed.)
Title:       The Eyre of Northamptonshire, 3-4 Edward III A.D. 1329-1330. Two
             Volumes [complete]
Publisher:   Selden Society, London, 1983.
Description: Professor Sutherland's final work, a masterful edition evincing
             the qualities--"clarity of thought, respect for evidence, a
             forthright style, and, above all, sparkles of historical
             imagination"--that had become the hallmarks of his scholarship
Condition:   Blue cloth, gilt, a very good set; the Society's annual volumes 97
             and 98 for the years 1981 and 1982, respectively, and part of its
             Year Book Series
List No:     84-127    Book No.:  W-73937        Price: $      65.00
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Author:      Haldeman-Julius, Marcet
Title:       Clarence Darrow's Defense of a Negro. Not in Hunsberger
Publisher:   Haldeman-Julius Monthly, Girard, 1926.
Description: The principal contemporary account of the second Sweet trial other
             than newspaper reports, vivid, perceptive and extensive, Darrow's
             closing argument called by Frank Murphy--the presiding judge--"the
             greatest experience of my life"
Condition:   Original printed stapled wraps, quite browned, the wraps chipped
             and almost detaching; a fragile, just usable copy
List No:     84-128    Book No.:  W-73828        Price: $     125.00
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Author:
Title:       Defence of the Rev. Charles Voysey, B.A., Vicar of Healaugh, on
             the Hearing of the Charges of Heresy Preferred against Him in the
             Chancery Court of York, on the 1st December, 1869. Not in McCoy
Publisher:   Trubner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row, London, 1869.
Description: The uncommon argument made in his own defense by Voysey, the
             religious reformer who, deprived of his living by the Privy
             Council, established the Theistic church, rejecting all "creeds,
             biblical inspiration . . . and the divinity of Christ"
Condition:   Original wraps, disbound, the rear wrap lacking, ex-library, else
             a crisp copy, 48 pages; two copies in OCLC in this country,
             neither in a law library
List No:     84-129    Book No.:  W-73958        Price: $     150.00
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