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- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, Branched into a double Tract: The One Containing a Collection of some principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law [and] The Other The Use of the Common Law [etc.]. S.T.C. 1134; Gibson 193. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of Iohn Moore Esq., London, 1630.
- Description:
- First edition of Bacon's most famous legal work, and the first collection in English of the maxims of English law, part of Bacon's larger scheme to systematize and reform the law, and part of a much more extensive collection of his maxims now lost
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, rubbed, the spine snagged, some browning, one blank defective, else well preserved with exceedingly ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78946
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- maxims, jurisprudence
- Author:
- Title:
- The Pleadings, Arguments, and Other Proceedings In the Court of Kings-Bench upon the Quo Warranto, Touching the Charter of the City of London; With the Judgement entred thereupon [etc.]. Wing P2528. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold [by three others], London, 1696.
- Description:
- The arguments in one of the most famous cases in English law, the "shattering judgment" (in John Baker's words) seizing London's corporate liberty into royal hands, reversed by act of parliament under William III as part of the Glorious Revolution
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 green morocco over green boards, some browning else quite sound with occasional notations and the leaf before the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79975
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- London, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Fortescue, John
- Title:
- De Laudibus Legum Angliae . . . Translated Into English (With the Original Latin), Illustrated with the Notes of Mr. Selden, and Great Variety of Remarks, Relative to the Antiquities, History, and Laws of England [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Evans, Near York Buildings, Strand, London, 1775.
- Description:
- A work placed "among the classics of English constitutional theory" and the first work to elucidate the nature of the Inns of Court and that of trial by jury; with a new English translation by Francis Gregor, who adds an extensive preface
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, crimson morocco label double gilt ruled and lettered, red edges, especially clean and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79980
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, juries, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Arguments upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus, In the Court of Kings Bench. Wherein, Are learnedly discussed, not onely the severall Branches of the said Writ, but also many Authorities as well of the Common as Statute Law [etc.]. Wing A3649. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by M.F. for W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1649.
- Description:
- The arguments in one of the leading cases in the history of habeas corpus, leading directly to the Petition of Right and its famous clause that "[n]o freeman was to be imprisoned or detained", closely circumscribing the King's power to impair liberty
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, gilt lettered, light browning, margins cut close (text unaffected), else well preserved with the first blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79981
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- habeas corpus, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- Reliquiae Spelmannianae. The Posthumous Works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. Relating to the Laws and Antiquities of England. Published from the Original Manuscripts. With the Life of the Author [etc.]. Wing S4930. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed at the Theater for Awnsham and John Churchill [etc.], Oxford, 1698.
- Description:
- First edition of Spelman's many works on the laws and antiquities of England, confirming Maitland's high opinion of his scholarship, who grouped him with Selden ("in Selden and Spelman England produced two explorers of whom she might well be proud")
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind panelled sprinkled calf, the front joint just cracking but quite firm, with the frontispiece and folding tables; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79970
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, English Law
- Author:
- Wiseman, Robert
- Title:
- The Law of Laws: Or, The Excellency of the Civil Law, Above all other Humane Laws Whatsoever. Shewing of how great use and necessity the Civil Law is to this Nation. Wing W3113. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.G. for Royston, at the Angel in Ivy-Lane, London, 1656.
- Description:
- First edition of the sole legal work of Wiseman, the civil lawyer and reformer, "the lone advocate of replacing the common law with the civil law", including the abolition of legal precedent and of primogeniture, while preserving the use of torture
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled sheep, somewhat rubbed, crimson morocco label, quite clean and crisp, the title printed in red and black; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79982
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- civil law, legal reform, Real Property, English Law
- Author:
- Fortescue, John
- Title:
- De Laudibus Legum Angliae . . . Hereto are Added the two Sums of Sir Ralph de Hengham . . . commonly call'd Hengham Magna, & Hengham Parva. With Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham, by that Famous and Learned Antiquarie John Selden. Wing F1613
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, Eliz. Flesher and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1672.
- Description:
- A work which has been placed "among the classics of English constitutional theory", written in the late 15th century, this edition bearing Selden's notes; with the Latin text and English translation and much on the Inns of Court and on trial by jury
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, the boards gilt ruled, neatly rebacked, crimson morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, quite clean and fresh; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79976
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, 15TH CENTURY, Inns of Court, juries
- Author:
- Title:
- Complete Juryman: Or, a Compendium of the Laws relating to Jurors: viz. Of Grand Juries, Of Petit Juries . . . the Constable's Duty in preparing Lists of Persons qualified to serve . . . Various Methods of Trial . . . Evidence, Witnesses, Verdicts [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Murphy in Skinner Row, Dublin, 1774.
- Description:
- The rare, first Dublin edition of an early work on the English jury, well-written and thoroughly documented, its anonymous author clearly persuaded of the jury's great value to English justice, yet discussing it objectively; three copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, somewhat marked, the title with a small hole just affecting the imprint, else quite and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79968
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- juries
- Author:
- Frankfurter, Felix and Nathan Greene
- Title:
- The Labor Injunction
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company, New York, 1930.
- Description:
- The copy presented by Frankfurter to James M. Landis, who with Frankfurter having co-authored 'The Business of the Supreme Court'; from the estate of Landis's daughter, Ellen Landis Mckee, with occasional substantive notations in ?Landis's hand
- Condition:
- Original cloth, rubbed, the spine dull, else quite sound, presentation copy--"JML [James M Landis] / from / FF" in dark ink on the front free endpaper
- Book No.:
- W-79972
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- labor law, Manuscripts, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- To Mr. Justice Holmes on His Ninetieth Birthday
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1931.
- Description:
- The issue of the Review commemorating Justice Holmes' 90th birthday, with contributions by Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Frederick Pollock, Roscoe Pound, Charles Evans Hughes, Lord Sankey, and Theodore F.T. Pluckett, inter alia
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, somewhat worn, stained and chipped, former owner's name on the front wrap, a sound usable copy; the March 1931 issue
- Book No.:
- W-79974
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Tenants Law: Or, the Laws of Landlords, Tenants, and Farmers [on eleven subjects]. Useful for all Landlords, Tenants, Farmers, Stewards, Agents, Solicitors and others, concerned in the buying, selling, or letting Estates. The Sixteenth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers: For T. Waller [etc.], London, 1768.
- Description:
- The penultimate eighteenth century edition of the most popular early work on the subject, much expanded from its 17th century predecessors, reflecting England's unique position among European countries with its great amount of cultivated, leased land
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf blind decorated and ruled, crimson morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, especially clean and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79969
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- landlord and tenant, agriculture, Real Property
- Author:
- Title:
- The Supreme Court of the United States, Its Beginnings & Its Justices 1790-1991. Preface by William H. Rehnquist. Foreword by Warren E. Burger
- Publisher:
- Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Washington, 1992.
- Description:
- Presentation copy from one Chief Justice to the descendant of another -- "For Ian Marshall Cooper / Great, great, great great / Grandson of the / Great Chief justice / John Marshall / With best wishes / for the years ahead / Warren E Burger"
- Condition:
- Original printed oversized illustrated boards, well preserved and lavishly produced
- Book No.:
- W-79978
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Title:
- Omnia Comesta a Bello. Or, An Answer Out of the West to a Question Out of the North . . . in which the Trading Talent of the Nation hath been lyed up . . . for want of which, all Persons in England . . . have languished of a deep Consumption. Wing O290A
- Publisher:
- Printed in the Year, 1667, London, 1667.
- Description:
- A no-holds-barred critique of monies concentrated in and devoted to the Church of England, quoting Francis Bacon "that the Treasure and Moneys in a State be not gathered into a few hands, for otherwise a State may have a great Stock and yet starve"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, definite browning, margins cut close (no loss) and a bit chipped, else quite usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79963
- Price:
- $ 375.00
- Category:
- Radicals, English Law, Religion
- Author:
- Bridgman, John
- Title:
- Reports of That Grave and Learned Judge, Sir John Bridgman, Knight; Serjeant at Law, Sometime Chief Justice of Chester. To which are added Two Exact Tables, the one of the Cases, and the other of the Principal Matters therein contained. Wing B4487. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed By Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford [and two others], London, 1659.
- Description:
- Sole edition of Bridgman's only work, translated into English from Bridgman's manuscript in Law French, devoted to the later years of the reign of James I, with an emphasis on Bridgman's own arguments in court before he was created Serjeant in 1623
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, a bit rubbed and marked and the boards very slight bowed, else exceptionally clean with excellent margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79961
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Dingley, Somerville
- Title:
- The Parish Officer's Companion; or, a New and Complete Library of Parish Law: Containing the whole Duty of Churchwardens, Overseers, Constables, Headboroughs, Tithingmen, Surveyors of the Highways, and other Subordinate Officers [etc.]. ESTC N12401
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author; And Sold by G. Lister . . . Old Bailey, London, 1786.
- Description:
- The rare only edition of Dingley's sole independent work, complementing the appendix which he prepared for Burn's Justice, designed partly "to be a Check upon those Parish Officers who are too assuming, and over-act their Part"; three copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, clean and usable, with a contemporary note on the front pastedown confirming this copy's return in 1796; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79967
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, church, poor law, law of highways, criminal law
- Author:
- Hutton, Richard
- Title:
- The Reports Of . . . Sir Richard Hutton Knight; Sometimes one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Containing many Choice Cases, Judgments, and Resolutions, in Points of Law, In the severall Raignes of King James and King Charles [etc.]. Wing H3843. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by T.R. for Henry Twyford, and Thomas Dring [etc.], London, 1656.
- Description:
- First edition of the reports of Hutton (the righteous judge famous for his opinion in the Shipmoney case), including inter alia the trial and execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, all translated into English from Hutton's manuscript in Law French
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, a good clean copy with the ownership signature of William Cortyon and ?his manuscript notes throughout; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79966
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Pound, Roscoe
- Title:
- The Judicial Office in America, Address of Honorable Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School of Harvard University, Before the Virginia State Bar Association at Hot Springs, Virginia July 31 1929. Setaro 167
- Publisher:
- Richmond Press, Richmond, 1929.
- Description:
- The rare address originally delivered by Dean Pound before the Bigelow Association of Masters of Law at its November 14, 1928 meeting held in the rooms of the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and here delivered the summer following
- Condition:
- Original printed brown stapled wraps, a very good copy, 16 pages; three copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-79977
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- courts, Virginia
- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- Reflections on Gaming, Annuities, and Usurious Contracts. The Second Edition. ESTC T1507
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Davies . . . J. Bew . . . and T. Walter [etc.], London, 1777.
- Description:
- Erskine's first work, contending that the three subjects he treats are interrelated, are morally tainted, and should be closely regulated, proposing that reform legislation be enacted which would retroactively void or limit occurrences of all three
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, with Francis Maseres's ownership signature and his extensive notes and corrections throughout; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79897
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Gambling, law of usury, contracts, insurance law
- Author:
- Martin, Benjamin F.
- Title:
- Crime and Criminal Justice Under the Third Republic, The Shame of Marianne
- Publisher:
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-57099
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, 19TH CENTURY, FRANCE
- Author:
- Wingate, Edmund
- Title:
- The Bodie of the Common-Law of England . . . Whereunto is also annexed certain Tables containing a Summary of the whole Law, for the help and delight of such Students as affect Method [bound with] A Summary of the Common-Law of England [etc.]. Wing 3008A
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for H. Twyford [etc.] [2] Printed anno salutis [etc.], London, 1662.
- Description:
- Wingate's ambitious attempt to examine the fundamental principles of English law generally and philosophically, largely dependent on Finch and serving as a bridge to Blackstone, with the 'Summary' setting forth the law in 47 analytical tables
- Condition:
- Contemporary double blind ruled unlettered calf, rubbed, the back board frayed, else quite clean and crisp in original state; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79960
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English Law, jurisprudence
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Laws of England. Four Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016.
- Description:
- The edition which will now become the standard scholarly edition, tracing the changes made by Blackstone in the eight editions which appeared during his lifetime (between 1765 and 1778) and the ninth on which he was working at his death in 1780
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new in the dustjackets, still wrapped in the publisher's clear plastic
- Book No.:
- W-78843
- Price:
- $ 195.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Winch, Humphrey
- Title:
- Reports of That Reverend and Learned Judge, Sir Humphry Winch Knight; Sometimes one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas. Containing many Choice Cases, and excellent matters touching Declarations, Pleadings . . . in points of Law [&c.]. Wing W2964
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell [etc.], London, 1657.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the reports partly attributed to Winch, commended by Bacon for his "quickness, industry, and despatch", in English, translated from the unpublished original in Law French, reporting cases from 1621 to 1625, the year of Winch's death
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite rubbed, the spine a bit chipped, ?later printed paper label, else very clean and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79939
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Gracious Speech To both Houses of Parliament, On Wednesday, February the 18th 1662 [1663]. Being the first day of their meeting after their Prorogation. Wing C3048; ESTC R5549. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1663.
- Description:
- The speech made by Charles II at the opening of the fourth session of the Cavalier Parliament, his "great effort . . . to relieve peaceful nonconformists and Catholics", to fail utterly , religious toleration not achieved, even in part, until 1688
- Condition:
- ?Original printed self wraps, disbound, reinforced at the margin, some browning, but sound, title + pages 3-6 + colophon leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79951
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Selden, John
- Title:
- Table-Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq; or His Sense of various Matters of Weight and high Consequence; Relating especially to Religion and State. The Second Edition. Wing S2438. Octavo
- Publisher:
- Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head [etc.], London, 1696.
- Description:
- Second edition of Selden's most popular work, whose notes according to Sir Frederick Pollock "may still be read with profit" and whose title suggests "the classic Moots of the English Bar, in which the 'table' always played a great part"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the armorial bookplates of John Peyto Verney and Robert John Verney, Lords Willoughby de Broke; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79945
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature
- Author:
- Philipot, John
- Title:
- The Catalogue of the Chancellors of England, The Lord Keepers of the Great Seale; and the Lord Treasurers of England. With a Collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolles. S.T.C. 19846. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed at London by Tho. Cotes [etc.], London, 1636.
- Description:
- Only edition of the first effort exclusively devoted to recording England's Lord Chancellors and related officials, anticipating Dugdale and Cooke, and beginning with the Lord Chancellor serving under King Ethelbald in the early eighth century
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over paper boards, the title a bit spotted, else very clean, with the coat of arms on A4v but not that on N1r; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79943
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, equity
- Author:
- Ravenscroft, Edward
- Title:
- The English Lawyer; A Comedy: Acted at the Royal Theatre. Wing R2211 [erroneously attributing the play to George Ruggles, from whom Ravenscroft freely adapted this play]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.M. for James Vade . . . in Fleet street, London, 1678.
- Description:
- First edition of the damning satire of lawyers written by Ravenscroft, a Notable Middle Templar who "had few if any superiors among his contemporaries in farce", featuring the lawyer, Ignoramus, and his two clerks, Dulman and Pecus, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, some browning and foxing, mainly lightish, else quite crisp and with the last blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79948
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature, humor
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, Branched into a double Tract: The One Containing a Collection of some principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law [and] The Other The Use of the Common Law [etc.]. S.T.C. 1136; Gibson 195. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by [R. Young for] the Assignes of Iohn More Esquire, London, 1639.
- Description:
- Bacon's most famous legal work, and the first collection in English of the maxims of English law, part of Bacon's larger scheme to systematize and reform the law, and part of a much more extensive collection of his maxims never published and now lost
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, somewhat rubbed and marked, the top of the spine just chipped, else very clean and crisp, with the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79898
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- maxims, jurisprudence, English Law
- Author:
- Molloy, Charles
- Title:
- De Jure Maritimo et Navali: or, a Treatise of Affairs Maritime an d of Commerce. In Three Books. The Eighth Edition, with many valuable Additions. ESTC T96880
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Walthoe, over against the Royal Exchange [etc.], London, 1744.
- Description:
- The most popular of all the early works on maritime law, published for over a century, written by Molloy, a member of both Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn, and "the first important English common lawyer to write a book about the law merchant"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, browning, once the copy of Theodore Frelinghuysen, New Jersey Senator and NYU Chancellor, with his ownership signature
- Book No.:
- W-79959
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- maritime law, Commercial Law
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards, And other Courts at Westminster, in the Reigns of the late Kings, King James and King Charles [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc.]. Wing M688. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled unlettered sheep, rubbed, the spine ends just chipped, very light browning, else quite well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79942
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
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