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
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
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
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
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
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
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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