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- Title:
- A Declaration of His Maiesties Royall pleasure, in what sort He thinketh fit to enlarge, Or reserue Himselfe in matter of Bountie [The "Book of Bounty"]. S.T.C. 9223.2 [the 'Cure' variant]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker, Printer to the King [etc.], London, 1610.
- Description:
- First edition of James's famed 'Book of Bounty', anticipating the seminal Statute of Monopolies of 1624 and its "foundation of the patent law of the present day", preserving the rights of inventors but otherwise greatly restricting Royal prerogative
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, light browning, else very clean and crisp, with the first blank signature "A"; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79708
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Hutton, Richard
- Title:
- The Third Part Of the Young Clerks Guide: Or, a further Collection of Choice English Presidents For Indentures of Settlement, of Exchange, of Bargains and Sales . . . Declarations of Trust, Assignments . . . and sundry others of the newest form. Wing H3847
- Publisher:
- Printed for Humphrey Tuckey at the black spread Eagle [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The rare first edition variant of the penultimate part of the spectacularly popular handbook attributed to Hutton, the righteous judge famous for his opinion in the Shipmoney case, with some forty editions recorded in ESTC by 1691; one copy in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly repaired, title and next leaf chipped (no text affected), some notations, clean and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79711
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Every Man Law Books, Forms & Form Books
- Author:
- Strickland, Stephen Parks (ed.)
- Title:
- Hugo Black and the Supreme Court, A Symposium. With a foreword by Charles L. Black
- Publisher:
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1967.
- Description:
- A dual presentation copy--"To Fred Gale / The best interviewer I've / ever encounted, with thanks / and knd regards / Steve Strickland / August 11, 1977" [and] signed on the dedication page "from Tamara", Steve Strickland's wife, the work's dedicatee
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn, faded, and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-79773
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Title:
- Iniunctions giuen by the Queenes Maiestie. Anno Dom. 1559. The first yeere of the Raigne of our Soueraign Lady Queene Elizabeth. Cum Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. S.T.C. 10110. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by assignment of Robert Barker [per S.T.C.], London, 1600.
- Description:
- The final early printing of the injunctions issued in July 1559, supplementing the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity enacted in Elizabeth's first parliament and "complet[ing] the settlement of religion upon which the Church of England is based"
- Condition:
- 19th century brown morocco, a Zaehnsdorf binding, lightly rubbed, extra gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, some browning; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79712
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Fitzherbert, John
- Title:
- Here begynneth a ryght frutefull matter: and hath to name the boke of Surueyinge & improuementes. S.T.C. 11013; Beale T353a [three copies in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Wyllyam Copland. for Rychard Kele, London, 1550?.
- Description:
- A rare edition of the first English work on surveying, appearing over most of the 16th century, its scope very broadly defined to include "estate management, cartography, measurement, valuation, urban development, building design and quality control"
- Condition:
- Modern blind tooled calf, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, title darkened, some staining to leaves 30 to 52, lacking leaves 49 and 51, else sound
- Book No.:
- W-79710
- Price:
- $ 2250.00
- Category:
- surveying
- Author:
- Conset, Henry
- Title:
- The Practice of the Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Courts. To which is added, A Brief Discourse of the Structure and Manner Of forming the Libel or Declaration. Wing C5901
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Basset, and are to be sold by Will. Hensman [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work in English on the practice and procedure of England's church courts, in John Baker's words "a vernacular edition" expanding upon Francis Clarke's treatise (in Latin) published from a corrupt text earlier in the century
- Condition:
- Early polished calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, one lower margin cut away, else clean with the errata; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79713
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Advice to a Certain Lord High Chancellor, Twelve Judges, 600 Barristers . . . and 30,000 Attornies! . . . Strongly Recommended to All Gentlemen Who Wish to Know the Law; and to All Clients Whose Persons or Fortunes Are in the Power of Lawyers
- Publisher:
- Printed for P. Byrne, A. Grueber [and six others], Dublin, 1792.
- Description:
- Only Irish edition of a humorous expose of the chicaneries, sharp practices, and shifty tricks of the law, thinly disguised as "advice", purportedly written by a former chimney sweep and pickpocket turned lawyer after serving time in Newgate
- Condition:
- Modern black cloth, gilt lettered, some staining, mainly marginal, else clean and usable, with the half title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79707
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- humor, biography, prisons
- Author:
- Title:
- The Young Clerk's Magazine: or English Law-Repository: Containing A Variety of the most useful Precedents of . . . Bonds, Bills, Recognizances . . . Gifts, Grants, Leases . . . To which is added The Doctrine of Fines and Recoveries [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling . . . for C. Hitch &c, London, 1740.
- Description:
- A rare, early edition of a work published much of the 18th century, providing guidance on conveyancing matters in the largest sense (including marriage contracts, wills, and charterparties) encompassing all public business; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern unlettered 1/4 calf over boards, a trifle strained and with some staining, mainly marginal, else clean with the two plates; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79704
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Every Man Law Books, Forms & Form Books, conveyancing, marriage, maritime law
- Author:
- Brook, Robert
- Title:
- The Reading Of that famous Lawyer Sr. Robert Brook Kt. Upon the Statute of Limitations, 32.H.8. Cap.2. Wing B4897. Sowerby 2012 [Jefferson's copy imperfect]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Hen. Twyford . . . in the Middle-Temple, London, 1647.
- Description:
- One of the few Inns of Court readings ever printed, of which John Baker locates some two dozen, and the only such upon the important Henrician reform enacting the first statute of limitations (in 1540) enhancing the certainty of title to property
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked, light browning, margins of title and a few other leaves chipped, the advertising leaf from ?Callis's Reading pasted in
- Book No.:
- W-79705
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, Readings, Procedure, Real Property
- Author:
- Wildman (ed.), John
- Title:
- The Case of the Armie Truly stated, together with the mischiefes and dangers that are imminent, and some sutable remedies. Humbly proposed by the Agents of five Regiments of Horse . . . unto his Excellency, Sir Thomas Fairfax [with his answer]. Wing W2168
- Publisher:
- Printed in the yeare, 1647, London, 1647.
- Description:
- Among the most famous of the Leveller tracts, leading to The Agreement of the People and the Putney Debates, with proposals for universal male suffrage, freedom of conscience, and equality before the law, all to be mooted by Charles I's execution
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, light browning, else crisp and clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79701
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- military law, English constitutional law, Radicals
- Author:
- Title:
- The Young Clerk's Magazine: or English Law-Repository: Containing A Variety of the most useful Precedents of . . . Bonds, Bills, Recognizances . . . Gifts, Grants, Leases . . . To which is added The Doctrine of Fines and Recoveries [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling . . . for J. Hodges &c, London, 1740.
- Description:
- A rare, early edition of a work published much of the 18th century, providing guidance on conveyancing matters in the largest sense (including marriage contracts, wills, and charterparties) encompassing all public business; one copy in ESTC in the UK
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, a bit scraped, the spine rubbed, ?label lacking, else quite clean with good margins and the two plates; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79741
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- Every Man Law Books, Forms & Form Books, conveyancing, marriage, maritime law
- Author:
- Harrington, James
- Title:
- The Art of Law-Giving: in III Books. The First Shewing the Foundations . . . of all the kinds of Government. The Second, Shewing the . . . Commonwealths of Israel and of the Jews. The Third, Shewing a Model fitted unto the present State [etc.]. Wing H806
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher, at the three Gilt Cups [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The only early edition of the work which J.G.A. Pocock numbered among Harrington's "most ambitious", appearing soon after his 'Oceana' and in part its forceful abridgement, propelling Harrington into "the mainstream of national political argument"
- Condition:
- Modern blind ruled sheep, black morocco label double gilt ruled and lettered, somewhat rubbed, else clean and with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79703
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- jewish law, jurisdiction, political theory
- Author:
- Noy, William
- Title:
- A Treatise of the Principal Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of This Nation [etc.]. The Fourth Edition [with] ?John Doddridge, A Treatise of Particular Estates [with] T.H., Certain Observations Concerning a Deed of Feoffment. Wing N1456
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Collins [and four others] [imprints vary], London, 1677.
- Description:
- An early edition of three works introducing a student to English law, including the most popular of all early works devoted to English legal maxims, an elementary view of real property (doubtfully attributed to John Dodderidge), and a primer on deeds
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled sheep, neatly rebacked, quite clean and bright, with the final two blanks and the first blank Signature A; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79706
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- maxims, conveyancing, Real Property, introductory law
- Author:
- Zouche, Richard
- Title:
- Quaestionum Juris Civilis Centuria. In Decem Classes Distributa. Non minus ad Legum Generalium Cognitionem, quam ad studiosorum Exercitationem, accommodata. Wing Z24
- Publisher:
- Excudebat Gul: Hall, Impensis Thomae Robinson, Oxford, 1659.
- Description:
- First edition of the last work to be published in the lifetime of Zouche, capping his career as (in Holdsworth's words) "the earliest English writer on Jurisprudence", set in the form of question and response, and introducing the student to law
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, very light browning, else quite clean with good margins and an occasional notation; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79702
- Price:
- $ 1450.00
- Category:
- international law, civil law
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