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Author: Benedict, Erastus C.
Title: The American Admiralty, Its Jurisdiction and Practice, With
Practical Forms and Directions. Cohen 1568
Publisher: Banks, Gould & Co. Law Booksellers [etc.], New York, 1850.
Description: First edition of the foremost American treatise on admiralty law,
the "work [which] outstripped all its competitors, and became
firmly fixed as an authority", first appearing during the half-
century when Benedict was a leader of the admiralty bar
Condition: Modern goat morocco, contrasting crimson and black morocco labels,
gilt, some foxing, browning and staining, else a good copy
List No: 84-7 Book No.: W-74048 Price: $ 1500.00
Author: Bentham, Jeremy
Title: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Volume 12, January 1824 to
June 1828. Edited by Luke O'Sullivan and Catherine Fuller [The
Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, General Editor Philip
Schofield]
Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006.
Description:
Condition: Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy
List No: 84-8 Book No.: W-73853 Price: $ 100.00
Author: Burn, Richard
Title: The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. Four Volumes.
Twentieth Edition
Publisher: Printed by A. Strahan . . . for T. Cadell [and others], London,
1805.
Description: An uncommon edition of the most popular work on English local
government, and the first not to have been edited by either
Richard Burn or his son, appearing as the office's power had begun
to wane; one copy in COPAC, two in this country in OCLC
Condition: Contemporary polished calf, crimson morocco labels, gilt-ruled and
lettered, an especially well-preserved set
List No: 84-13 Book No.: W-73657 Price: $ 1500.00
Author:
Title: Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual
Message of the President to the . . . Congress [title varies].
Eighteen Volumes [further details gladly provided]
Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861-69.
Description: A good run for the decade of the Civil War and its aftermath, from
the Thirty-Seventh through the Fortieth Congresses, including the
Appendix on the Lincoln Association, some bearing the signature of
?J.G.B. Davis, an Assistant Secretary of State
Condition: 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, the boards loose or detached and
the spines perished, but the text block sound; a working set
List No: 84-18 Book No.: W-73909 Price: $ 1500.00
Author: Clark, Charles
Title: A Summary of Colonial Law, The Practice of the Court of Appeals
from the Plantations, and of the Laws and Their Administration in
All the Colonies; With Charters of Justice, Orders in Council
[etc.]. Castle 504; Ragatz p.377
Publisher: S. Sweet . . . A Maxwell . . . Stevens & Sons [etc.], London,
1834.
Description: Clark's painstakingly prepared treatise, termed both an
"invaluable legal work" and "a basic, respected text on the legal
operation of the British colonial system", still the starting
point for the study of Britain's colonial legal regimes
Condition: ?Contemporary 3/4 calf, quite rubbed, chipped crimson morocco
label, gilt, front joint cracked, else a clean copy
List No: 84-19 Book No.: W-73675 Price: $ 1250.00
Author: Clode, Charles M.
Title: The Militia (Voluntary Enlistment) Act, 1875, With an Introduction
and Notes
Publisher: Printed under the Superintendence of HMSO, London, 1875].
Description: The act which "embraced all the provisions which relate to the
militia of the three kingdoms", essentially creating, for the
first time, a national militia raised by voluntary enlistment;
with the gloss of both Clode and A.J. Wood, who framed the Act
Condition: Original red cloth boards, gilt, somewhat worn and marked,
slightly strained, yet a usable copy, xiii+32 pages; rare, no copy
in OCLC or RLIN
List No: 84-20 Book No.: W-73704 Price: $ 450.00
Author:
Title: The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen
Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay
[etc.] [with] Acts and Laws, Of His Majesty's Province of the
Massachusetts-Bay [etc.] [with one further act] Cushing 343-345,
349
Publisher: Printed by B. Green . . . for Benjamin Eliot [etc.], Boston, 1726-
27.
Description: Among the earliest collected laws of the Province, preceded only
by those of 1699 and 1714, together with the Province's Charter
and then supplemented by the laws for the immediately succeeding
session held in the year of the laws' publication
Condition: Contemporary panelled sheep, quite worn and somewhat bowed, the
rear board detached and the front loose, some foxing, else a crisp
desirable copy
List No: 84-23 Book No.: W-53448 Price: $ 6500.00