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- Author:
- Title:
- A Brief Method of the Law. Being an Exact Alphabetical Disposition of all the Heads Necessary for a Perfect Common-Place. Useful to all Students and Professors of the Law; Much wanted, and earnestly desired [etc.]. Wing B4435A. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignees of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- Only edition of an ingenious effort to rescue the law student otherwise (in Holdsworth's words) "thrown upon his own resources" in learning the law, providing 1,622 heads under which the law (and the student's common-place book) could be organized
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, an occasional light marginal stain, else quite crisp now preserved in a folding buckram case; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78298
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- introductory law, education
- Author:
- Title:
- The Federal Cases, Comprising Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Federal Reporter, Arranged Alphabetically [etc.]. Thirty Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1894.
- Description:
- The original edition of the massive effort (over 18,000 cases in total) to bring together the decisions of the federal courts other than the Supreme Court for almost a century, from 1789 to 1880, when the Federal Reporter began to be published
- Condition:
- Original sheep, quite worn, ex-library, some spines defective, boards loose or detached, one lacking; a working set
- Book No.:
- W-72472
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Case of Tho. Dangerfield: With Some Remarkable Passages that happened At the Tryals of Elizabeth Cellier the Popish Midwife, and the Earl of Castlemain, At the Kings-Bench-Bar . . . Before Sir Will. Scroggs Kt, Lord Chief Justice [etc]. Wing D184A. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, London, 1680.
- Description:
- One of several tracts written by Dangerfield, the "matchless rogue" who falsely invented the Meal Tub Plot, was tried for libels against James II, sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, and was accidentally killed as he was being returned to prison
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, disbound, light browning, else a good crisp copy; 38 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77413
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Human Rights and Population from the Perspectives of Law, Policy and Organization
- Publisher:
- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, the title page detached, but usable; 101 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30672
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- human rights, international law
- Author:
- Baggett, W.T. (ed.)
- Title:
- Pacific Coast Law Journal. Containing All the Decisions of the Supreme Court of California...the Leading Decisions of the United States Circuit and Disctrict Courts of California, important Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Vol. 3 No. 11
- Publisher:
- W.T. Baggett & Company, Publishers, San Francisco, 1879.
- Description:
- Individual issue, represented as superior to the official reports, providing all decisions whether or not designated for publication, and noting those cases decided without written opinions or otherwise not reported
- Condition:
- Self-waps; edges chipped, edges browned but otherwise a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91882
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- California, reports of cases
- Author:
- Carr, Cecil T. (ed.)
- Title:
- Pension Book of Clement's Inn
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch, London, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Selden Society, Volume 78 for the Year 1960; somewhat worn
- Book No.:
- W-17302
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law, Inns of Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Malayan Union and Federation of Malaya, Subsidiary Legislation and Other Legal Notifications, 1948
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1956.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90657
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Wilcock, James
- Title:
- A Challenge Sent to Master E.B. A Semi-Separatist From the Church of England. Now published by the author, J. W. Wing 2117.
- Publisher:
- James Wilcock, London, 1641.
- Description:
- A pamphlet attacking Edward Bright's political, religious and personal convictions as a separatist for which he was stripped of his title as a vicar in Kent during a tribunal held to question protestants who refused to engage in prayer against Scots
- Condition:
- Self-wraps, smudged title page; pages closely trimmed but not affecting text
- Book No.:
- W-91849
- Price:
- $ 200.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Forcible Rape, Police Volume I. A National Survey of the Response by Police
- Publisher:
- United States Department of Justice, Washington, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 103 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90135
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Rape, women's law
- Author:
- Stiles, Henry Reed
- Title:
- Bundling, Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America
- Publisher:
- Privately Issued for Subscribers Only, n.p., n.d..
- Description:
- A lighthearted yet serious look at bundling, the practice of sharing beds while clothed, as a matter of necessity and of courtship, with the principal emphasis on colonial America
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, joints fraying; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-67213
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- marriage, women's law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California. . .1875-76
- Publisher:
- State Printing Office, Sacramento, 1876.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, reinforced with tape; front board detached
- Book No.:
- W-59731
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- California, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- Judicial Education Programs Quarterly Summary, March-July, 1990
- Publisher:
- JERRITT Project, East Lansing, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed wraps; 231 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30630
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- education
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. The Laws of Kenya. Noter-Up Service, Prepared from Kenya Ordinances, 1960. Issue No. 1 of 1960
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Nairobi, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, stapled wraps, soiled and wrinkled, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90907
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Kenya
- Author:
- Title:
- Tasmania. Statutory Rules Made During the Year 1975
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Hobart, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Orange buckram, a bit dusty, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-91099
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, AUSTRALIA, Tasmania
- Author:
- Title:
- Decisions of Courts Affecting Labor . . . Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin Number 224
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1917.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, quite worn, ex-library, a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-19928
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Annual Reports on the Education Departments of Nigeria, for the Year 1915
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Lagos, 1916.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, stapled wraps, the spine damaged, but still usable
- Book No.:
- W-90968
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, NIGERIA, education
- Author:
- Tribe, Laurence H.
- Title:
- Structural Due Process
- Publisher:
- Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Cambridge, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a bit strained, else a very good copy; in the Spring 1975 issue, Volume 10, Number 2
- Book No.:
- W-92055
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Stenton (ed.), Doris Mary
- Title:
- Pleas Before the King or His Justices 1198-1212. Volume IV Rolls or Fragments of Rolls From the Years 1207-1212
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch, London, 1967.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, else a good fresh copy
- Book No.:
- W-46819
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Meyer, Ernst Christopher
- Title:
- Nominating Systems: Direct Primaries versus Conventions in the United States
- Publisher:
- Published by the Author, Madison, 1902.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original russet cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77554
- Price:
- $ 27.50
- Category:
- law of elections
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Modern First Editions and Presentation Copies, Comprising The Property of the late Michael Travers, The Property of the late Raymond Toole Stott, The Property of S.M.K. Cooper, Esq., of S. Harrison, and of G.J. Kilbride [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green printed stapled wraps, a trifle faded, else a very good copy, 362 lots; with the estimates and prices realized lists laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91744
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno xxxv. Reginae Elizabethae. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the xix day of Februarie, in the fiue and thirtieth yeere [1593] of the Reigne of . . . Ladie Elizabeth . . . were enacted as followeth. S.T.C. 9491 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by the Deputies of Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1593.
- Description:
- The parliament enacting severe punishments upon Puritan sectaries ("a vicious act" in G.R. Elton's words), potentially leading to exile or hanging [c.1] and, separately, forbidding Catholics from moving more than five miles from their homes [c.2]
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning and some staining (mainly marginal), without the subsidies and pardon; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79416
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Uganda Protectorate. 1952. Ordinances and Subsidiary Legislation, Containing Orders in Council, Rules, Regulations, Proclamations, Orders, Notices, Native Laws, Etc.
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Uganda.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, tan buckram, sound
- Book No.:
- W-91129
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Uganda
- Author:
- Young [Yonge], Walter
- Title:
- A Vade Mecum, Or, Table, Containing the Substance of such Statutes; Wherein Any one, or more Justices of the Peace are inabled to Act . . . Together With an Epitome of Mr. Stamford's Pleas of the Crown. The Seventh Edition [etc.]. Wing Y96; not in Cowley
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, and are to be sold by H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1663.
- Description:
- Final edition of, so far as I can determine, the first and only early abridgment of an English criminal law treatise, Parliament having "ordered it to be printed for public use", its first part detailing in double columns both offences and penalties
- Condition:
- Modern blind panelled calf, quite clean and well preserved, contemporary manuscript jury foreman instructions on the second blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79714
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Abridgements, justices of peace
- Author:
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Title:
- Speeches
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1900.
- Description:
- Presentation copy to "Mrs Fairfax Harrison [nee Hetty Cary, of Virginia landed gentry, kinswoman of the Carrs, Jeffersons and Randolphs and wife of the President of the Southern Railway] / from her friend & servant / O W Holmes / February 28 1905"
- Condition:
- Original printed buff boards, somewhat darkened and rubbed, but a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-74790
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances of the Nyasaland Protectorate for the Year Ended 31st December, 1931
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Zomba, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, soiled but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90987
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Nyasaland
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- Lex Mercatoria: Or, the Merchant's Companion. Containing all the Laws and Statutes Relating to Merchandize . . . Privateers, Piracy . . . With An Introduction, setting forth the Laws of Nature and of Nations, Dominion of the Sea [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1729.
- Description:
- The final, expanded edition of the first general treatise devoted to the law merchant to be written by a common law lawyer, adding a chapter on the sea laws of Oleron and Rhodes and another as a dictionary devoted to law and mercantile terms
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, else quite clean and well-preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78934
- Price:
- $ 1150.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, international law, natural law, law of piracy
- Author:
- Title:
- Reasons for a Registry: Shewing briefly The great Benefits and Advantages that may accrew to this Nation thereby. And Likewise Reconciling those mistaken Inconveniences which many have conceived thereof. Wing R486. 4to
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Harper . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1678.
- Description:
- Part of the centuries' long debate, first bruited by Henry VIII, whether to require registration of title or of conveyances (or of neither), not finally resolved in England until the mid-19th century and, comprehensively, the 20th century
- Condition:
- Modern boards, printed paper label, browned, else quite sound with untrimmed edges and both blanks, the first chipped and soiled; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79651
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- colonies, Connecticut, conveyancing, Real Property
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1941. Vol. XX, (New Series)
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Nairobi, 1942.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, green buckram, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90832
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Kenya
- Author:
- Title:
- The H.A. Darbee Collection of Angling Books
- Publisher:
- Oinonen Book Auctions, Sunderland, MA, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, 200 lots in 29 pages; with prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-92129
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Title:
- Law of Actions: Being An Exact, Brief and Methodical Collection of all adjudg'd Cases out of all the Reports of the Law to this Day; And likewise from Roll's Abridgment [with] the Reason that Rules it Render'd obvious to the meanest Capacity [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Nutt . . . for John Hartley [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- A rare work devoted almost entirely to action on the case, as it began "to produce the modern categories under which our substantive law is grouped", contrasting tort and contract, with much on slander, assumpsit and "doing, not doing, or misdoing"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning, ex-library, else a sound copy with the blank before the title page; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78801
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- contracts, torts, Procedure, Abridgements, reports of cases, libel and slander
- Author:
- McNeill, William Arnott
- Title:
- The Administration of Scotland. With Special Reference to the Justice of Peace System. 1603 - 1625
- Publisher:
- N.p., Glasgow, 1934.
- Description:
- McNeill's doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Glasgow in 1934, comprehensively examining the introduction of the justice of the peace system into Scotland, with a number of both authorial and third-party pencil notations throughout
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco over cloth boards, gilt-lettered, single-spaced typescript, a very good copy, 391+146 pages; one copy (the same) in OCLC and COPAC
- Book No.:
- W-77855
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, justices of peace, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- Liber quorundam Canonum disciplinae ecclesiae Anglicanae. Anno 1571. S.T.C. 10037.5 [variant 2 with the cancel slip]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Day, London, 1571.
- Description:
- The first Latin printing comprising a second part of the revised 39 Articles of 1563, "established [by Elizabeth I] as the doctrinal foundations of the Church of England", to which clergy were ordered to subscribe by Act of Parliament in 1571
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, lightish staining, the lower margin cut close (no text affected), else clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79405
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Fortescue, John
- Title:
- A Learned Commendation of the politique Lawes of England: wherein, by most pithie reasons and euident demonstrations, they are plainely proued farre to excell . . . the Ciuil Lawes of the Empire [and] all other Lawes of the World [etc.]. S.T.C. 11196
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Wight, and Bonham Norton, London, 1599.
- Description:
- Second reissue of the first English translation of a work placed "among the classics of English constitutional theory", written in the late 15th century, highly popular, and the first work to examine extensively trial by jury and the Inns of Court
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed, with the signature of Edmund Prideaux [?Cromwell's Attorney General], a very good copy with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79146
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, political theory, juries
- Author:
- Greiner, Nadine
- Title:
- The Nuremberg Minds Revealed: An Evaluation of Psychopathy and Psychopathology in the Nazi War Criminals' Rorschach Records
- Publisher:
- Privately Published, San Francisco?, 1992.
- Description:
- Dr Greiner's doctoral dissertation submitted to The Professional School of Psychology, its primary purpose "to ascertain whether the Nuremberg war criminals' Rorschach records reveal significant psychopathic disturbance"; no copy in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original maroon oversized buckram, gilt lettered, mainly double spaced typescript, 330 pages, a small tape repair to the spine, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-79588
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Nuremberg
- Author:
- Title:
- First Interim Report of the Special Study Commission on Juvenile Justice
- Publisher:
- California State Printing Office, Sacramento, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, worn and stained, but quite usable; 41 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90335
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Chadbourn, James H. and A. Leo Levin
- Title:
- Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure
- Publisher:
- Foundation Press, Inc., Brooklyn, 1961.
- Description:
- Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, noted criminologist and authority on all aspects of social deviance: "With best wishes, J.H. Chadbourn, May 21, 1965
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, a bit dusty, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90223
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- civil law, civil law
- Author:
- Bloomenthal, Harold S.
- Title:
- 1980 Securities Law Handbook
- Publisher:
- Clark Boardman Co., New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit scuffed and faded, but sound; 274 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30479
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- securities
- Author:
- Title:
- Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations. Tentative Draft No. 2
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 124 pages
- Book No.:
- W-26029
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- corporations
- Author:
- Huat, B. Lee Tian (comp.)
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya, Federal Subsidiary Legislation 1952
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1954.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90659
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Dickinson, Edwin DeWitt
- Title:
- The Equality of States in International Law
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1920.
- Description:
- A work based on Professor Dickinson's doctoral dissertation under George Grafton Wilson at Harvard, praised on its appearance for its realistic thesis--that equality in international law is one of states' equal capacity, not a factual equality
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, gilt, the spine faded, else a very good copy; Harvard Studies in Jurisprudence, Volume III
- Book No.:
- W-78414
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Printed Books Including Property of the late R.J. Hampson
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 1999.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a bit faded, 394 lots in 58 pages; with prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91958
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Title:
- A Study of the Construction and Enforcement of the Federal Antitrust Laws
- Publisher:
- Temporary National Economic Committee, Washington, 1941.
- Description:
- The 38th monograph in the Committee's vast Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power, one of the few directly focusing upon the antitrust laws, written by Milton Handler and appearing while Thurman Arnold was head of the Antitrust Division
- Condition:
- Original orange printed sewn wraps, well-preserved; 106 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74229
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Anti-trust, economics, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- J.H. Lucas, Plaintiff and Respondent, vs. Pio Pico, Defendant and Appellant. On appeal from the Seventeenth Judicial District Court for Los Angeles County
- Publisher:
- Mirror Printing, Binding and Ruling, Los Angeles, 1879.
- Description:
- Two briefs and transcript on appeal from a court order against Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, demanding that he honor a promissory note in addition to interest due
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, spotting and smudged, otherwise very good; 33+5+3 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91838
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Proclamations, Rules and Regulations. Vol. XIV (New Series)
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Nairobi, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, tan buckram, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90864
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Kenya
- Author:
- Paluka, Frank
- Title:
- The Three Voyages of Captain Cook
- Publisher:
- Beta Phi Mu, Pittsburgh, 1974.
- Description:
- The tenth chapbook of Beta Phi Mu, the national library science honorary fraternity, undertaken by Frank Paluka, head of Special Collections at Iowa, who had served with the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56707
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Beatrix Potter: The Doris Frohnsdorff Collection, Wednesday, 16 April 1997
- Publisher:
- Christie's, New York, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original illustrated printed wraps, a very good copy, 89 pages, 331 lots
- Book No.:
- W-91550
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Pearson, Edmund Lester
- Title:
- Studies in Murder
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Black cloth, gilt, quite worn but sound
- Book No.:
- W-44822
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California and Amendments to the Codes, Passed at the Extra Session of the Thirty-Ninth Session of the Legislature, 1911
- Publisher:
- Bancroft-Whitney Company, San Francisco, 1912.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, quite worn, the spine loose, but the text-block sound; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77103
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- California, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- Journal of the Forensic Science Society
- Publisher:
- The Forensic Science Society, London and Harrogate, 1970-75.
- Description:
- Six volumes of the Society's publication, Volume 10 through Volume 15, complete save one issue
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, well-preserved
- Book No.:
- W-91193
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Medical Jurisprudence, criminal law, forensic medicine
- Author:
- Arnot, Hugo
- Title:
- A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland, From A.D. 1536, to 1784. With Historical and Critical Remarks. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author; By William Smellie, Edinburgh, 1785.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work devoted exclusively to Scots criminal law, collected and examined by Arnot, himself an advocate, with chapters on treason and murder, piracy, incest, adultery, blasphemy and witchcraft, among others
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, all edges marbled, a bit rubbed and scraped and unevenly faded, yet an appealing, attractive copy
- Book No.:
- W-76210
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- criminal law, SCOTLAND, trials
- Author:
- Riser, R. Volney (comp.)
- Title:
- A Goodly Heritage: Judges and Historically Significant Decisions of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Preface by W. Harold Albritton. Introduction by Edwin C. Bridges. Edited by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. and David I. Durham
- Publisher:
- University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, 2010.
- Description:
- A worthy selection of the correspondence and judicial decisions of the eleven judges who sat on the Court from its inception in 1804 until the appointment of Frank Johnson in 1955, with a brief biographical essay for each judge; illustrated
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 245 pages; Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library Number Seven
- Book No.:
- W-75655
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Alabama, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for effectually Amending and Repairing the Road leading from Wansford Bridge in the County of Northampton, to the Town of Stamford in the County of Lincoln [21 Geo. II]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Baskett [etc.], London, 1749.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Folio, disbound; title plus 20 pages
- Book No.:
- W-26015
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Rape: Myth and Reality
- Publisher:
- American Association of University Women, Huntington Beach, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, spiral-bound; 53 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90141
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Rape, women's law
- Author:
- Jorgensen, Troels G.
- Title:
- Danmark-Norges Hojesteret 1790-1814
- Publisher:
- Gyldendalske Boghandel, Kobenhavn, 1930.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps, uncut; 171 pages
- Book No.:
- W-42791
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- DENMARK
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances of the Nyasaland Protectorate for the Year Ended 31st December, 1924
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Zomba, 1925.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, soiled but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90980
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Nyasaland
- Author:
- Whately, Richard
- Title:
- Thoughts on Secondary Punishments, in a Letter to Earl Grey. To Which Are Appended, Two Articles on Transportation to New South Wales, and on Secondary Punishments; and Some Observations on Colonization
- Publisher:
- Printed for B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street, London, 1832.
- Description:
- Whately's principal work decrying transportation as a penal method, doing much to bring to the public's attention its deficiencies and contributing towards its lessened application over the ensuing decades
- Condition:
- ?Later cloth-backed boards, paper label, showing some wear, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71807
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Transportation, AUSTRALIA
- Author:
- O'Connor, George W. and Nelson A. Watson
- Title:
- Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime: The Police Role
- Publisher:
- International Association of Chiefs of Police, Washington, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, discolored but sound; 135 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90253
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for the Setling of the Postage of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September, Anno Domini 1656. Wing E1124. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Hills and John Field [etc.], London, 1657.
- Description:
- The fundamental act passed by the Second Protectorate Parliament (which included Scottish and Irish MP's) extending the reach of the post office to Scotland and Ireland, to be re-enacted on similar terms in 1660 following the Restoration
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, some browning, the inner margin a bit chipped, else quite usable, title + 8 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78384
- Price:
- $ 1350.00
- Category:
- Post Office, Acts
- Author:
- Heale, William
- Title:
- An Apologie for Women. Or an Opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his assertion . . . That it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives [with] Henry Swinburne, A Treatise on Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, worn, ex-library, a usable copy only, the 1608 and 1686 editions in facsimile; Classics of English Legal History
- Book No.:
- W-77901
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- women's law
- Author:
- Polich, J. Michael, et al.
- Title:
- Strategies for Controlling Adolescent Drug Use
- Publisher:
- Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 196 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90033
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- drugs, Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Parry, Edward Abbottt
- Title:
- The Overbury Mystery, a Chronicle of Fact and Drama of the Law
- Publisher:
- T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., London, 1926.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Quite worn; a sound copy only
- Book No.:
- W-17317
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- Child Abuse Procedures -- The Child's Viewpoint
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre, London, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, well-preserved; 21 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90085
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Pufendorf, Samuel
- Title:
- De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem Libri Duo. Selectis Variorum Notis, maximeq; propriis illustravit, celeberrimi buddei Historiam Juris Naturalis Notis adauctam praemisit, Indicemq subjunxit Tho. Johnson [etc.]. Editio Tertia
- Publisher:
- Impensis Gul. Thurlbourn [for five others], London, 1748.
- Description:
- One of Pufendorf's principal works, appearing in the Carnegie Endowment's Classics of International Law as "The Duty of Man and Citizen", exploring natural law and the notion of duty underpinning "the entire system of private and public law"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, all edges gilt, light foxing and browning, some offsetting of the portrait on the title page; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-79459
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Tribe, Laurence H. and Michael C. Dorf
- Title:
- On Reading the Constitution
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket; with Harry N. Scheiber's review in the New York Times Book Review of March 17, 1991 laid in
- Book No.:
- W-92065
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Burch, John C.
- Title:
- Book of Pleadings Adapted to the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, with Full References to the Civil and Political Codes
- Publisher:
- Occidental Pub. Co., San Francisco, 1885.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-57941
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- California
- Author:
- Title:
- Codigo de Procedimientos Civiles para el Distrito Federal y el Territorio de la Baja California
- Publisher:
- Imprenta del Gobierno. . .a Cargo de Jose Maria Sandoval, Mexico City, 1872.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Crimson morocco backed boards, a bit scuffed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-47930
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- California, MEXICO, Acts, Procedure
- Author:
- Title:
- S. Bachman, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. Frank Cathry, John Doe and Richard Doe, Defendants and Respondents. On appeal from the Superior Court of Kern County before judge H.I. Dull
- Publisher:
- Kern Standard Print, Kern City, 1895.
- Description:
- Transcript on appeal in which two defendants provided fictitous names and were absent from trial. The lawsuit was over the value of sheep stolen by the defendants. Attorneys for parties T.M. McNamara, Walter A. Lamar and J.W. Jameson
- Condition:
- Original sewn printed wraps, wear and tear to spine, good copy; 24 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91804
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony of Mauritius. Customs Tariff Ordinance (No. 26 of 1954) and Regulations (Government Notice No. 114 of 1954)
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Port Louis, 1954.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, stapled wraps, the spine a bit damaged, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-90929
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MAURITIUS
- Author:
- Title:
- The Carabao's First Seventy Years, 1900-1970
- Publisher:
- The Military Order of the Carabao, Washington, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, the front wrap marked, else quite a good copy; 53 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91249
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- military law
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Proclamations, Rules and Regulations. Vol. V (New Series)
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Nairobi, 1927.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, gray cloth, worn and soiled, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90860
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Kenya
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1930, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Rules, Regulations and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1931.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, dusty but sound
- Book No.:
- W-91078
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Littleton, Thomas
- Title:
- Lyttelton tenures in Englysshe. S.T.C. 15762; Beale T46
- Publisher:
- Prynted . . . in paules churche yearde . . . by Thomas Petyt, London, 1541?.
- Description:
- Among the earliest printings of Littleton in English (preceded by seven other printings in English, two untraced), the work which Maitland called a "lucid and classical book", and Holdsworth denominating it one of the five great books of English law
- Condition:
- Modern blind ruled calf, some lightish staining, else quite clean with good margins, with the signature of Thomas ?Whitle at the end; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79506
- Price:
- $ 4750.00
- Category:
- Real Property
- Author:
- Tiffany, Francis B.
- Title:
- Handbook of the Law of Principal and Agent
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1924.
- Description:
- The second edition, undertaken and thoroughly revised by Richard R.B. Powell
- Condition:
- Tan buckram, soiled but sound
- Book No.:
- W-30830
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Agency
- Author:
- California Law Revision Commission
- Title:
- 1958 and 1959 Reports and Recommendations and Studies
- Publisher:
- Description:
- The annual reports for the ensuing two years, again with recommendations and supporting documents
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-20346
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Lieber, Francis
- Title:
- On Civil Liberty and Self-Government. Third Edition, Revised. Edited by Theodore D. Woolsey
- Publisher:
- J.B. Lippincott and Co., Philadelphia, 1874.
- Description:
- The first appearance of the received edition of "the masterwork of Lieber's maturity", compared in importance with the Federalist, its undertaking by Woolsey to subsequently appear in at least seven further printings as late as 1911
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, rubbed, top of spine chipped, rear hinge cracked; presentation copy from Lieber's widow--"With kind regards / of Mrs Francis Lieber"
- Book No.:
- W-78343
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- civil rights, philosophy of law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Valega, Jose Manuel
- Title:
- Codigo de Comercio, Ley de Quiebras, Concordado, 2a Edicion
- Publisher:
- Azangaro, Lima, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, embrowned but sound; 308 pages
- Book No.:
- W-47311
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- PERU, LATIN AMERICA, Commercial Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Queen's County, ss. The People of the State of New-York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent, To our Sheriff of our County of Queen's, Greeting: We command you that you take [etc.]
- Publisher:
- N.p., Jamaica?, 178?.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oblong printed form, one side, folded and a bit embrowned; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60971
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- New York
- Author:
- Levinz, Creswell
- Title:
- A Collection of Select and Modern Entries of Declarations, Pleadings, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments, &c. Referring to Cases in Sir Creswell Levinz's Reports; The Judgment of the Court being added to each President [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1702.
- Description:
- Only edition of Levinz's "Entries", published the year following his death, as were his Reports, designed to accompany them, and reflecting his talents as a pleader, "for which [in Holdsworth's words] he was eminently well fitted"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-tooled, unlettered calf, a bit of staining and some minor marginal worming, else a very good clean copy; without the portrait
- Book No.:
- W-77849
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- books of entry, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Dundonnell Cause. Report of the Trial by Jury, Thomas Mackenzie against Robert Roy, Esq. W.S.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Daniel Lizars, at . . . the New North Briton [etc.], Edinburgh, 1830.
- Description:
- A tribute to the talents of Henry Cockburn, who secured a Scotch verdict for his client against charges that he had swindled an estate from the weak-minded Mackenzie; with Cockburn's jury address and the exchanges between counsel well-reported
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, else a good, sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-56200
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, insanity, Wills
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Printed Books Including Law Books
- Publisher:
- Sotheby & Co., London, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps
- Book No.:
- W-17208
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Auction Catalogues, Dealer, Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- De Termino Hillarii Anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii Post conquestum septimo [with eight other year books for this reign]. S.T.C. 9553, 9555, 9558, 9561, 9565, 9570, 9573, 9576, and 9579; Beale R1, R4, R7, R10, R14, R18, R21, R24 and R27. Folio
- Publisher:
- Imprints Vary, London, 1516-35.
- Description:
- First editions of nine year books for the earliest reign for which we have early printed year books, printed by among the most famous of English printers (and printers of law), Wynken De Worde, Richard Pynson, Thomas Berthelet, and Robert Redman
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, very worn, worming, the sewing loose, one title lacking, else very bright, housed in a morocco box; the Foyle and Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78310
- Price:
- $ 45000.00
- Category:
- Year Books
- Author:
- Petersilia, Joan
- Title:
- Expanding Options for Criminal Sentencing
- Publisher:
- Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 110 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90357
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Penology
- Author:
- Schneider, Hans Joachim
- Title:
- Das Opfer und sein Tater -- Partner im Verbrechen
- Publisher:
- Kindler Verlag, Munchen, 1979.
- Description:
- Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, noted criminologist and authority on all forms of social deviance: "To my dear friend and colleague Gilbert. Hans"
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 140 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90194
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Department 2, Probate Forms, Decrees and Orders
- Publisher:
- N.p., Los Angeles?, 1915?.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original stapled wraps, quite worn, but usable; 111 pages
- Book No.:
- W-53456
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Probating, Forms & Form Books
- Author:
- Title:
- Government of Palestine. Ordinances, Regulations, Rules, Orders and Notices, Annual ... for 1937. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Press, Jerusalem.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, dusty and worn, yet still a sound set
- Book No.:
- W-91015
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, PALESTINE
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Bracton's Note Book, A Collection of Cases Decided in the King's Courts During the Reign of Henry the Third, Annotated by a Lawyer of That Time, Seemingly by Henry of Bratton. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- William S. Hein & Co., Inc., Buffalo, 1999.
- Description:
- One of Maitland's earliest works and one which Vinogradoff called "a model of its kind", privately printed at Maitland's expense, and providing us with the raw data upon which Bracton worked in constructing his famed treatise
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, as new; the facsimile reissue of the privately printed 1887 edition
- Book No.:
- W-75587
- Price:
- $ 240.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Brydall [Bridall], John
- Title:
- Speculum Juris Anglicani, Or, A View of the Laws of England, As They are divided into Statutes, Common-Law and Customs: Incidentally, Of the Customs appertaining to the Famous City of London, never before Printed [etc.]. Wing B5267
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, Eliz. Flesher and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1673.
- Description:
- Only edition (of two variant printings) of Brydall's first introductory treatise on English law, to be followed by his 'Enchiridion Legum' later in the year, "clearly written; and . . . doubtless useful to the students for which they were intended"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, somewhat stained, neatly rebacked, the top margin cut a bit close (no text affected), else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79287
- Price:
- $ 1400.00
- Category:
- English Law, Acts, London
- Author:
- Title:
- Acts Amendatory of the Codes of California. . .1877-8
- Publisher:
- F.P. Thompson, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento, 1878.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48997
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Acts, California
- Author:
- Title:
- 150 Rare & Important Maps & Atlases From the Mark Babinski Collection
- Publisher:
- Swann Galleries, New York, 2005.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, color illustrations, a very good copy; 168 lots
- Book No.:
- W-92007
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Title:
- The Lawyer's Magazine, Or, Attorney's and Solicitor's Universal Library . . . Containing, Whatever is useful, instructive, or entertaining, in The Theory or Practice of the Laws of England [etc.]. Second Edition of Volume One. Two Volumes [all published]
- Publisher:
- Printed by his Majesty's Law Printer, For William Owen [etc.], London, 1761-62.
- Description:
- A rare set of the first English legal periodical, its contents both theoretical and practical, including "A Tract on the Unreasonableness of the Laws of England, in Regard to Wives", seemingly the first effort to reform the English law of women
- Condition:
- [1]Contemporary 1/4 calf, rubbed, joints cracked and a bit strained; [2] modern 1/4 calf; browning in both volumes, two leaves in facsimile; usable
- Book No.:
- W-75753
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Law Periodicals, English Law
- Author:
- Schockman, H. Eric (comp.)
- Title:
- The Perfecting of Los Angeles: Ethics Reform on the Municipal Level
- Publisher:
- Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 142 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30652
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- legal reform
- Author:
- Finlason, William
- Title:
- A Few Words on the Law, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Ought to Be: With Special Reference to County Courts Suits, and Actions at Law
- Publisher:
- V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1850.
- Description:
- An uncommon tract written by a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple and special pleader who served for almost a half century as The Times legal reporter, contending that the rules of pleading should apply in the newly established county courts
- Condition:
- Original ?self-stabbed wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 31 pages; six copies in OCLC, one in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-76905
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- pleading, courts
- Author:
- Berry, Michael (ed.)
- Title:
- The B Bookman, An Annual Packed with Features, Book Trade News and a Usueful Diary
- Publisher:
- Rare Books and Berry, Chesterfield, 2012.
- Description:
- The first volume of an annual which held great promise, but which with this initial issue (or perhaps a second?) did not continue, with contributions by Ian McKay, Christopher Ondaatje, Sheila Markham (an interview), Brian Lake, and many others
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy; 142 pages + the diary
- Book No.:
- W-91790
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Holt, Francis Ludlow
- Title:
- The Law of Libel: in Which is Contained a General History of This Law in the Ancient Codes, and of Its Introduction, and Successive Alterations, in the Law of England [&c]. First American, from the Second London Edition . . . by Anthony Bleecker. Cohen 10934
- Publisher:
- Published by Stephen Gould, Law Bookseller [etc.], New-York, 1818.
- Description:
- Only American edition of the first treatise published in this country on the law of libel (and on torts in general), with a preliminary historical treatment followed by Holt's principal analysis, arranged by type of libel; not in McCoy
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, neatly blind and gilt-tooled, some browning and some marginal staining, but a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73944
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- libel and slander
- Author:
- Stigler, George
- Title:
- The Pleasures and Pains of Modern Capitalism. Thirteenth Wincott Memorial Lecture delivered at the Royal Society of Arts [etc.]. Foreword by Graham Hutton
- Publisher:
- Institute of Economic Affairs [for The Wincott Foundation], London, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed pink stapled wraps, a bit crinkled, but quite sound; 23 pages
- Book No.:
- W-72679
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics
- Author:
- Title:
- The Ordinances of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Enacted During the Year 1964, Together with the Legal Supplement, 1964
- Publisher:
- R.L. Gribble, Publisher to the Government..., Suva.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, a little dusty, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-90570
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands, Acts, English Commonwealth, Solomon Islands
- Author:
- Title:
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. Federal Offenses and Offenders, White Collar Crime
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled leaflet; 8 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90510
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime
- Author:
- Hazard, Geoffrey C. (ed.)
- Title:
- Law and the Changing Society. The American Assembly, March 14-17, 1968. Participants' Edition
- Publisher:
- Center for Continuing Education, Chicago, 1968.
- Description:
- Stated "Not for release"
- Condition:
- Spiral-bound wraps, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-30422
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- law and sociology, education
- Author:
- Lambard, William
- Title:
- Eirenarcha: Or of The Office of the Justices of Peace [etc.] [bound with] The Dueties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace [etc.]. S.T.C. 15169 and 15152; Beale T395 and T386
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Wight, and Bonham Norton, London, 1599.
- Description:
- The last sixteenth century editions (and the last to appear during Lambarde's lifetime) of the pre-eminent early works on justices of the peace and other inferior local officials, the fruits of Lambarde's experience in the former capacity
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, somewhat rubbed, else well-preserved and especially crisp; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78793
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Revised Laws of the State of California; in Four Codes: Political, Civil, Civil Procedure and Penal. Civil Code
- Publisher:
- D.W. Gelwicks, State Printer, Sacramento, 1871.
- Description:
- The rare proposed civil code prepared by the Commissioners and adopted the following year, still the fundamental basis for California's civil law; with the marvelous folding chart of California's civil code following the title; two copies in OCLC
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rebacked, original labels laid down, new front free endpaper and pastedown, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-79152
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, California, criminal law, legal reform
- Author:
- Saltern, George
- Title:
- Of the Antient Lawes of great Britaine. S.T.C. 21635
- Publisher:
- Printed [by Edward Allde] for Iohn Iaggard [etc.], London, 1605.
- Description:
- Only edition of the tract written by a Middle Temple barrister, appearing as the union of England and Scotland was contested, "unique in its singular focus on demonstrating the existence of a British common law tradition from the mists of antiquity"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum, the title slightly darkened with its lower margin cut close (no text affected), the Huth copy with his bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78905
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Anglo-Saxon law, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Title:
- Modern Literature and Illustrated Books From the Ben Sackheim Collection
- Publisher:
- Swann Galleries, New York, 2001.
- Description:
- Original printed stapled wraps, 364 lots in unnumbered pages
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91992
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Title:
- Improving the Process of Appointing Federal Judges: A Report of the Miller Center Commission on the Selection of Federal Judges
- Publisher:
- Miller Center of Public Affairs, Charlottesville, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 42 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30340
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Procedure
- Author:
- Watson, Andrew S.
- Title:
- Psychiatry for Lawyers
- Publisher:
- International Universities Press, New York, 1968.
- Description:
- With a foreword by David L. Bazelon
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47264
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- law and psychiatry
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Unfair Competition. Tentative Draft No. 4
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26079
- Price:
- $ 17.50
- Category:
- torts, trusts and estates, Anti-trust
- Author:
- Cabrera, Raimundo
- Title:
- Cuba y sus Jueces (Rectificaciones Oportunas). Decima Edicion Aumentada con Notas y un Apendice. Obras Completas del Dr. Raimundo Cabrera
- Publisher:
- Ricardo Veloso, Editor, Libreria Cervantes, Havana, 1922.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Later amateurish leather, the original rather worn and chipped wraps bound in; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-91393
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- CUBA, legal reform
- 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
- Book No.:
- W-74058
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- equity, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of George W. Congdon for the Murder of Christopher G. Wilcox [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sidney S. Rider, Providence, 1884.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-74943
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- trials, Rhode Island, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Johns Hopkins University Studiew in Historical and Political Science, Volume LIV
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1936.
- Description:
- Printed wraps
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-22971
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Bevill, Robert
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Homicide, and of Larceny at Common Law
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Clarke and Son, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1799.
- Description:
- Only edition of the only work written by an Inner Temple barrister, part of his larger project never achieved, this the copy presented to Lord Kenyon, then Chief Justice of King's Bench, the presentation reading "Kenyon 17 Dec 1799 from the author"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, else in original state with untrimmed (and generous) margins, exceptionally clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79540
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Thompson, D.R., Peter Morrish and Ian McLean
- Title:
- Proceedings in the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, An Index of Practice and Procedure
- Publisher:
- Barry Rose, Chichester, 1979.
- Description:
- With the Criminal Appeal Act 1968, Chapter 19 (36 pages in wraps) and Statutory Intruments, 1968 No. 1262, Criminal Procedure, England and Wales, The Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 (stapled wraps, 36 pages, ex-Royal Courts of Justice) laid in
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, gilt, well-preserved; presentation copy from Master Thompson
- Book No.:
- W-91516
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Second, Property. Donative Transfers. Tentative Draft No. 11
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26050
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- corporations
- Author:
- Title:
- Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, Law and Explanation
- Publisher:
- Commerce Clearing House, Chicago, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a good copy; 536 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30757
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- taxation
- Author:
- Trimble, William Raleigh
- Title:
- American Attitudes Towards Catholic Church-State Relations, 1870-1891. A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Social Sciences in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts, Department of History
- Publisher:
- N.p., Chicago, 1944.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized crimson cloth, gilt, unevenly faded, but a good copy; double-spaced, carbon typescript, 155 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91510
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony of Mauritius. A Collection of Proclamations and Government Notices Published During the Year 1939
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Port Louis, 1940.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, sewn wraps, badly wrinkled, yet usable
- Book No.:
- W-90925
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MAURITIUS
- Author:
- Title:
- Ashanti and Northern Territories Ordinances, 1907-1909
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Three years of ordinances -- 12 pertaining to Ashanti, and eight to the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast -- with handwritten chronological and alphabetical indices bound in
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, folio, dampstained but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90789
- Price:
- $ 200.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gold Coast, Ashanti
- Author:
- Frederick, J. George
- Title:
- A Handbook of Commercial Law. Little Blue Book No. 1074
- Publisher:
- Haldeman-Julius Publications, Girard, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed stapled wraps, a bit worn, but well-preserved; 64 pages
- Book No.:
- W-66414
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Hindsight and Foresight: Planning to Protect and Guide Special Neighborhoods
- Publisher:
- Exploring the Metropolis, Inc., New York, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed stapled wraps, a good copy; 80 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30267
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Zoning Law
- Author:
- Kato, Ichiro, Nobuo Kumamoto, et al (eds.)
- Title:
- Environmental Law and Policy in the Pacific Basin Area
- Publisher:
- University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustwrapper; with a complimentary slip from the Japan Center for Human Environmental Problems laid in
- Book No.:
- W-74871
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- environmental law, JAPAN
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California. . .1867-8
- Publisher:
- D.W. Gelwicks, State Printer, Sacramento, 1868.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, reinforced with tape; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-56182
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- Acts, California
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno secundo et tertio, Edovardi Sexti [1549]. Actes made in the session of this present Parliament, holden upon prorogation at Westminster . . . in the second yeare of our most dread soueraign Lorde Edwarde the vi [etc.]. Beale S224a; S.T.C. 9426
- Publisher:
- Richardvs Graftonvs [i.e. Richard Tottel], London, 1570?.
- Description:
- The Parliament whose first act "produced the first Prayer Book of the Church of England", ushered in by its Act of Uniformity, thus beginning the Edwardian Reformation in religion, to be supplemented by the act [c.21] permitting priests to marry
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, minor worming, else well preserved with ample margins, the second setting of Fii; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79210
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion
- Author:
- Schwind, Hans-Dieter, et al.
- Title:
- Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- Publisher:
- Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, a very good copy; 555 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90397
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1939, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Rules, Regulations, Orders and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1940.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, one hinge loose
- Book No.:
- W-91087
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Knutsson, Johannes
- Title:
- Labeling Theory, A Critical Examination
- Publisher:
- National Council for Crime Prevention, Stockholm, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 117 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90243
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- law and sociology
- Author:
- Title:
- The Office of Generall Remembrance. Of Matters of Record, created by his Maiesties Letters Patents for ease of his Subiects in their searches . . . Is kept in Cursitors Court, right ouer against Lincolnes Inne in Chauncery Lane [etc.]. S.T.C. 18788
- Publisher:
- Printed by G. Eld for the Rememberances Generall [etc.], London, 1617.
- Description:
- Only edition of a pathbreaking and broadly conceived effort to achieve the registration of a great variety of matters, including wills and transactions affecting land, ultimately unsuccessful, anticipating similar aims only realized centuries later
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, some browning and staining, yet crisp, with the elaborate folding table detailing the scheme of registrations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79252
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- State Trials for High Treason. Containing the Trial of Thomas Hardy, to Which Is Prefixed Lord Chief Justice Eyre's Charge to the Grand Jury . . . Taken in Short-hand by a Student in the Temple
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by J. Robertson, No. 4, Horse-Wynd, Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- An uncommon edition reporting "one of the great speeches of [Erskine's] career", securing Hardy's acquittal in the first major treason trial of 1794, as the French Revolution's effects swirled throughout England; eight copies in RLIN, none in England
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, light pencilling, without the portrait; sound
- Book No.:
- W-69409
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Parker, Charles H. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Civil Practice Act of the State of California, As Amended, With Notes and References, and an Appendix [etc.]
- Publisher:
- H.H. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco, 1863.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42515
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- pleading, California
- Author:
- Ellis, Charles Thomas
- Title:
- Practical Remarks, and Precedents of Proceedings in Parliament; Comprising the Standing Orders of Both Houses . . . Relative to the Applying for, and Passing, Bills [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by B'McMillan . . . Sold by Messrs. Brooke and Rider [&c], London, 1802.
- Description:
- First edition of a pioneering work, written by an Inner Templar thoroughly reviewing the process by which private bills are enacted in Parliament, focusing on several diverse subjects, including divorce, inclosure, turnpikes, bridges, and small debts
- Condition:
- Original boards, rebacked, printed paper label, a bit strained and a little foxing, else a good unsophisticated copy, untrimmed and partly uncut
- Book No.:
- W-76428
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Parliament, Acts
- Author:
- Hinde, Robert
- Title:
- The Modern Practice of the High Court of Chancery, Methodized and Digested in a Manner Wholly New . . . from the original Bill to the Decree; Comprising a System of Practical Knowledge, According to the Course of the Court as at present established
- Publisher:
- Printed for Messrs. E. Lynch, G. Burnet, W. Colles [etc.], Dublin, 1786.
- Description:
- Hinde's novel scheme (noted by Holdsworth) to analyze equity 'chronologically', that is in the order a Chancery lawsuit would take; with a considerable portion devoted to examination of witnesses, the hearing itself, and related writs and documents
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, quite rubbed, joints cracked but holding, else a clean usable copy; with the bookplate of Eric Poole
- Book No.:
- W-74571
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- equity, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Policy, March 1988
- Publisher:
- United States Department of State, Washington, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue wraps, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-30157
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- international law, diplomacy
- Author:
- Stephen, Henry John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions; Comprising a Summary View of the Whole Proceedings in a Suit at Law
- Publisher:
- Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, Law Booksellers [etc.], London, 1824.
- Description:
- First edition of Stephen's classic and influential work, one which John Baker calls "the first reasoned treatise" written on the principles of pleading, confirming Serjeant Stephen's view of them as "one of the finest products of human intellect"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over cloth boards, gilt, the title and next leaf and the last two leaves somewhat worn and marked, else a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-76374
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- pleading
- Author:
- Maine, Henry Sumner
- Title:
- Ancient Law, Its Connection With the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1861.
- Description:
- First edition of Maine's magnum opus, a work recently described as "[n]ext only to Blackstone . . . the most durable work of jurisprudence in the English language", influential upon Holmes, who confessed to Laski it "fed [my] philosophical passion"
- Condition:
- Original 3/4 morocco over boards, quite rubbed, ?ex-library, browning and occasional notations and markings; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-73410
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- ancient law
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue 709 Books by and About Women Offered for Sale by Argosy Book Store Inc.
- Publisher:
- Argosy Book Store Inc., New York, 1982.
- Description:
- Original printed stapled wraps, slightly soiled, with address label and post office markings on back and two small pieces of tape, one each on front and back, 777 items in 46 pages
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91988
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Sutton, Ralph and N.P. Shannon
- Title:
- Sutton and Shannon On Contracts. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Butterworth and Co., London, 1944.
- Description:
- A good, straightforward, elementary work, continuing the treatise of Pease and Latter, with useful notes and commentary
- Condition:
- Quite worn and varnished, underlined; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-40617
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- contracts
- Author:
- Monaghan, Henry P.
- Title:
- Foreword: Constitutional Common Law [The Supreme Court, 1974 Term]
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- In the November 1975 issue, Volume 89 Number 1, original printed sewn wraps, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-92109
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- Pleas of the Crown. Or a Brief, but Full Account of Whatsoever can be found Relating to that Subject. Wing H253
- Publisher:
- Printed for Richard Tonson . . . and Jacob Tonson [etc.], London, 1678.
- Description:
- First edition of the precis of Hale's masterpiece (which was to be published in 1736), the work for which (in Maitland's words) "[n]o man of his age was better . . . equipped for the task [and] none had a wider or deeper knowledge of the materials"
- Condition:
- 3/4 calf over marbled boards, very clean and crisp, with both the imprimatur and advertising leaves and leaf B1 not a cancel; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79815
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Ordinances of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Enacted During the Year 1967, Togther with the Legal Supplement, 1967
- Publisher:
- J.C. Butler, Publisher to the Government..., Suva.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-26114
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands, Acts
- Author:
- Church, W.S.
- Title:
- Legal and Business Forms
- Publisher:
- Bender-Moss Company, San Francisco, 1911.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original buckram, worn, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-55321
- Price:
- $ 30.00
- Category:
- Forms & Form Books, Probating
- Author:
- Tawney, R.H.
- Title:
- The American Labor Movement and Other Essays
- Publisher:
- St. Martin's Press, New York, 1979.
- Description:
- An impressive selection, the title essay never before published, coupled with an even lengthier series of essays on Elizabethan justices of the peace and wages, and Tawney's Earl Grey Memorial Lecture on The Condition of China, among others
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-45530
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Uganda Protectorate. 1957. Ordinances and Subsidiary Legislation, Containing Orders in Council, Rules, Regulations, Proclamations, Orders, Notices, Native Laws, Etc.
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Uganda.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, tan buckram, worn but still sound
- Book No.:
- W-91132
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Uganda
- Author:
- Booth, William
- Title:
- The Compleat Sollicitor, Performing His Duty: and Teaching his Clyent . . . in His Majesties Superior Courts at Westminster: As in the Mayors Court, Court of Hustings, and other Inferior Courts, both in the City of London, and elswhere [etc.]. Wing B3738A
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1666.
- Description:
- First edition of the first substantial treatise expressly devoted to the English solicitor, with chapters on all royal courts, the Exchequer, the Court of Requests, the Sheriffs Court, the Marshalsea, the Star Chamber, and the Court of Admiralty
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, signature effaced on the title, light browning and some staining, else sound, with the first blank (chipped); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79664
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts, London, sheriffs, prisons, Star Chamber, admiralty, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Title:
- The Laws of Gibraltar, Annual Volume for 1922
- Publisher:
- William Miles, Gibraltar, 1922.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90713
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gibraltar
- Author:
- Title:
- The Federal Revenue System: Facts and Problems
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1956.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 201 pages
- Book No.:
- W-31123
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- taxation
- Author:
- Becker, Joseph M.
- Title:
- The Problem of Abuse in Unemployment Benefits, A Study in Limits
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1953.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Gray buckram, a sound copy in a chipped and faded dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90483
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Facts and Suggestions Respecting the Masters' Offices [in the Court of Chancery]
- Publisher:
- V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1841.
- Description:
- A rare tract written during the decades-long debate over the reform of the court of chancery, including (as here) the role to be played by the court's masters, whose offices were ultimately abolished in 1852; two copies in OCLC in North America
- Condition:
- Original light-green printed wraps, disbound, the rear wrap lacking, else clean, 46 pages; presentation copy to Hastings Russell
- Book No.:
- W-77041
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- equity, legal reform
- Author:
- Mackellar, Jean
- Title:
- Le Viol, l'Appat et le Piege
- Publisher:
- Petite Biblioteque Payot, Paris, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 244 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90080
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Rape, women's law, criminal law
- Author:
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Title:
- Yankee From Olympus, Justice Holmes and His Family
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56913
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue 97 Including Books from the Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
- Publisher:
- Forest Books, Grantham.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, 656 items in unnumbered pages; a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-92132
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California and Amendments to the Codes . . . 1899
- Publisher:
- Bancroft-Whitney, San Francisco, 1899.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, reinforced with tape; usable
- Book No.:
- W-59714
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Acts, California
- Author:
- Seasongood, Murray
- Title:
- Local Government in the United States, A Challenge and an Opportunity
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1933.
- Description:
- Seasongood's Godkin lectures at Harvard, with several tables, one folding
- Condition:
- Quite a good copy, largely uncut, in a very worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-16892
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- legal reform
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Agency, as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Cohen 1628
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1839.
- Description:
- First edition of the first of Story's four Commentaries devoted to commercial law, encompassing in his visionary and expansive analysis both maritime jurisprudence and private international law, with a substantial examination of Roman and civil law
- Condition:
- Modern morocco, gilt, margins of title strengthed (not affecting the text), some foxing, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75712
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Agency
- Author:
- Fremlin, Ronald H. (ed.)
- Title:
- Modern Judicial Administration, A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
- Publisher:
- National College of the State Judiciary, Battle Creek, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46043
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- administrative law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Mittermaier, C[arl] J[oseph] A[nton]
- Title:
- Tratado de la Prueba en Material Criminal o Exposicion Comparada de los Principios en Materia Criminal y de sus Diversas Aplicaciones en Alemania, Francia, Inglaterra, Etc., Etc.
- Publisher:
- Hijos de Reus, Editores, Madrid, 1906.
- Description:
- Sixth edition translation of Mittermaier's text on evidence in criminal trials, with a particular focus on Germany. The translator, a noted jurist and scholar, staunchly asserts an anti-Positivist stance in the introduction. No copies on OCLC, 3/2015
- Condition:
- Sheepskin boards with decorated endpapers; pages toned and slightly foxed
- Book No.:
- W-91840
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Westerman, Gayl S.
- Title:
- The Juridical Bay
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, New York, 1987.
- Description:
- The first major examination of Article 7 of the "Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone"
- Condition:
- Oxford Monographs in International Law, Volume One
- Book No.:
- W-46148
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Bigelow, Melville M.
- Title:
- The Law of Bills, Notes, and Checks. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1928.
- Description:
- Revised and enlarged by William Minor Lile
- Condition:
- Tan buckram, a bit dingy, but quite a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-30313
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Negotiable Instrum, Wills
- Author:
- Title:
- The Contentes of this booke. Fyrste the Booke for a Iustice of peace. The boke that teacheth to kepe a courte Baron, or a lete. The booke teachynge to kepe a courte hundred. The boke called returna Brevium [etc.]. S.T.C. 14883; Beale T154
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Fletestreet . . . by Richard Tottil [etc.], London, 1559.
- Description:
- The collection of highly practical treatises designed for justices of the peace, sheriffs, bailiffs and other local officials first printed by Pynson in 1505, including (as well as those above) Novae Additiones, Carta Foedi and Exchequer Ordinance
- Condition:
- Modern calf, extensive but unobtrusive worming, repairs; sound
- Book No.:
- W-65998
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Every Man Law Books, courts, Exchequer
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California Passed at the Nineteenth Session of the Legislature, 1871-2
- Publisher:
- T.A. Springer, State Printer, Sacramento, 1872.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, a bit worn, ex-Superior Court Alameda County, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77105
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Acts, California
- Author:
- Lief (ed.), Alfred
- Title:
- Public Control of Business, Selected Opinions by Harlan Fiske Stone
- Publisher:
- Howell, Soskin and Company, New York.
- Description:
- Prefaced by Lief's biographical sketch, the opinions accompanied by Lief's introductory notes
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-22985
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Wiener, Frederick Bernays
- Title:
- Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) [published in printed form in the 1965 Year Book of the American Philosophical Society]
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 1965.
- Description:
- Colonel Wiener's memorial to the Justice (delivered before the American Philosophical Society) whom he had first met as a student at Harvard Law School in 1928 and who "had a tremendous effect on me", one that lasted throughout his life
- Condition:
- Typescript, double-spaced, stapled at the upper left hand corner, the last page now detached, housed in a modern protective cloth sleeve; 17 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76744
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Keeton, G.W.
- Title:
- Trial for Treason
- Publisher:
- MacDonald and Company, London, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-45956
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Semmel, Herbert
- Title:
- New Approaches in the Law of Civil Procedure
- Publisher:
- The Foundation Press, Inc., Mineola, 1970.
- Description:
- Social Justice Through Law Series
- Condition:
- Printed, stapled wraps, rubbed but still sound; 194 pages
- Book No.:
- W-31011
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil law, Procedure
- Author:
- Archbold, John Frederick
- Title:
- Peel's Acts, With The Forms of Indictments, etc. and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them [bound with] Henry Cary, The Statute, 9 Geo. IV. Cap. 31. Relative to Offences Against the Person . . . Also the Statute, 9 Geo. 4. Cap. 32 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- William Benning, Law Bookseller and Publisher [imprints vary], London, 1828.
- Description:
- Archbold's admirable and extensive gloss of two of Sir Robert Peel's "four most important statutes relating to criminal law", coupled with Cary's equally careful treatment of the third; both works rare, two copies and one copy in OCLC in the USA
- Condition:
- Original sheep, the front joint loose, else an attractive example of a "circuit binding", enclosing the entire work and fastened with a cloth string
- Book No.:
- W-76297
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, Evidence
- Author:
- Title:
- Maria S. de Sanchez, Plaintiff and Respondent, Vs. The Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, A Corporation, Defendant and Appellant. On appeal from the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Judge W.H. Clark
- Publisher:
- H.M. Lee & Bro., Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
- Description:
- Three briefs and transcript on appeal from a judgement granting the plaintiff ownership over a contested tract of land that was occupied by an Episcopalian church. Attorneys W. Pollard, Henry Bleecker, Cochran & Williams, S.M. White and George White
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps in very good condition; 109+36+5+75 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91842
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Innes of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Second edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Rober, John Martin [etc.], London, 1671.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the six plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, embrowning; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60145
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Lambarde, William
- Title:
- A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Collected and written . . . in the yeare, 1570 . . . and nowe increased by the addition of some things which the Authour him selfe hath observed [etc.]. STC 15175.5
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . for Ralphe Newberie . . . in Fleetestreet [etc.], London, 1576.
- Description:
- The rare first edition variant of the first English county history, "pioneer[ing] the writing of local history" in England, praised as based on wide and critical reading and "packed with learned information [and] eminently readable"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, the spine extra gilt, red edges, well preserved and with good margins, with the map, one copy in ESTC in North America; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78727
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Marcus, Maeva and James R. Perry (eds.)
- Title:
- The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800. Volume One, Part 1, Appointments and Proceedings [and] Volume One, Part 2, Commentaries on Appointments and Proceedings. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1985.
- Description:
- Presentation set of the initial volumes in the work which has transformed the study of the Court's first decade--"For Nancy Matthews [an assistant editor] with appreciation for all your work on this volume Maeva Marcus [and] I concur Warren E Burger"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good set in the dustjackets, one slightly chipped
- Book No.:
- W-79550
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Jong, Fang-Ling
- Title:
- My Love Affair with Bookshops. Fourth Edition
- Publisher:
- Vista Publishing, Taipei, 2013.
- Description:
- The fourth and updated edition of a special work first appearing in 1997 and, though its text is in Chinese, affording a view of Western bookshops through its color photography that is umatched in any language, emphasising the eccentric and charming
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, new, the first Taipei paperback printing
- Book No.:
- W-78003
- Price:
- $ 30.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, CHINA
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXV Henrici Octaui. Actes made in the session of this present Parliament holden upon prorogation at Westminster [with] Anno XXVI [with] Anno XXVII [with] Anno XXVIII [1534-1536]. S.T.C. 9384.5, 9389.5, 9393.5, 9396.5; Beale S160, S167, S173, S179
- Publisher:
- T. Powell [and] T. Marsh, London, 1562-1575?.
- Description:
- The legislation central to the English Reformation under Henry VIII, including that confirming the final break with Rome and Henry as legally the Church of England's Supreme Head, dissolving the monasteries, and establishing the Act of Succession
- Condition:
- Modern panelled calf, lightly rubbed, else well preserved, the Goyder copy with his bookplate and dated ownership signature (1947); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78956
- Price:
- $ 4750.00
- Category:
- Acts, Ecclesiastical Law, legal reform
- Author:
- Leach, William
- Title:
- First A Safegard and a Stay for Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Serjeants at Mace, and such Officers. Or Their Well doings Justified, and their Evill actings Abolished . . . Thirdty [sic] And for Honest Executors and Administrators from paying [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. Cotes, in the Year 1652, London, 1652.
- Description:
- A rare tract written by the Middle Templar whose works "together outlined a programme for the reform of the entire English legal system", here focusing on local officials, executors, administrators, and maritime law; one copy in ESTC, none in the UK
- Condition:
- Recent 1/4 vellum interleaved, repairs to the lower margins, the text legible, with the Fairfax of Cameron bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78708
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- legal reform, sheriffs, Wills, maritime law
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Printed Books Comprising Sporting Books Industry, Engineering & Transport, Cosmetics, Victorian Literature, Law Books, and Other Subjects
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1975/76.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16257
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, Dealer
- Author:
- Pound, Roscoe
- Title:
- The Etiquette of Justice [and twenty-seven other essays and addresses]
- Publisher:
- V.p., v.p., 1908-61.
- Description:
- An extensive collection of Roscoe Pound's writings and addresses covering virtually his entire working life on a great many subjects; from the library of Arthur Suzman, the noted South African lawyer and reformer; further details gladly provided
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, one leaf detached in two instances, some browning, but generally well-preserved
- Book No.:
- W-75002
- Price:
- $ 2000.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Tietjen, Randall (ed.)
- Title:
- In the Clutches of the Law, Clarence Darrow's Letters
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 2013.
- Description:
- More than 500 letters brought together over twenty years, meticulously edited and glossed, and destined to materially change our views of Darrow, in the words of Michael Tigar--"one of the three best books on Clarence Darrow ever published"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-77129
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- biography, Radicals, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Dodson, Michael
- Title:
- The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt. Sometime One of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Johnson and Co. St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1811.
- Description:
- The sole contemporary account of the estimable lawyer and judge of unquestioned integrity "to whom Lord Mansfield readily turned for advice" and whom John Baker recently characterized as "perhaps the greatest criminal lawyer of the [18th] century"
- Condition:
- Modern black cloth, definite foxing and embrowning, else a good usable copy; with the frontispiece
- Book No.:
- W-55768
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Leather Bound Law Books - about 20 volumes
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-70385
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Powell, Thomas
- Title:
- The Attourney's Academy: Or, The Manner and forme of proceeding practically, vpon any Suite, Plaint or Action whatsoeuer, in any Court of Record whatsoeuer, within this Kingdome: Especially, in the Great Covrts at Westminster [etc.]. S.T.C. 20163. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed [by George Purslowe] for Beniamin Fisher [etc.], London, 1623.
- Description:
- First edition variant of Powell's pioneering work on the practice in the Royal and other courts, in John Baker's words "[t]he first printed treatise on common-law procedure", with much on Chancery, Common Pleas, Star Chamber, and the Exchequer
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, front blank and title repaired (legibility preserved) and a bit dusty, else quite crisp with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79173
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- pleading
- Author:
- Willett, T.C.
- Title:
- Criminal on the Road, A Study of Serious Motoring Offences and Those Who Commit Them
- Publisher:
- Tavistock Publications, London, 1964.
- Description:
- With a foreword by Hermann Mannheim, who compliments Dr. Willett's "pioneer research"; published in the series International Library of Criminology, Delinquency and Deviant Social Behaviour
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-10803
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Malynes, Gerard
- Title:
- Consuetudo, vel, Lex Mercatoria: Or, The Ancient Law-Merchant [including] I. The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England II. The Ancient Sea Laws of Oleron, Wisby, and the Hanse-Towns III. The Sovereignty of the British Seas [etc.]. Not in Wing. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Basset . . . and E. Smith, at the Bible [etc.], London, 1686.
- Description:
- The rare, final edition of "the first work on the Merchant Law in England", vastly expanded to include the works of many other writers, including John Buroughs, John Collins, Guy Miege, and Richard Zouch, each with its separate or divisional title
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over rubbed marbled boards, an early label laid down, some browning, else well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78075
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- international law, maritime law, admiralty
- Author:
- Hopkins, Andrew
- Title:
- A Working Paper on White Collar Crime in Australia
- Publisher:
- Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed stapled wraps
- Book No.:
- W-90554
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime, AUSTRALIA
- Author:
- Title:
- The History Of the Most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in Capital Cases, viz, Heresy . . . Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy . . . by the unusual Methods of Ordeal, Combat, and Attainder [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Bell in Cornhill; J. Pemberton [etc.], London, 1715-16.
- Description:
- First edition of the first English work to collect both important trials of state and sensational criminal cases, with the emphasis upon the mode of proof; some three dozen trials in all, including those of Anne Boleyn, Lord Audley and Captain Kidd
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, gilt, light browning, else a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-77027
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Reeve, Tapping
- Title:
- The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery. With an Essay on the terms, Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body
- Publisher:
- Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven, 1816.
- Description:
- First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school, at Litchfield
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55365
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, infants, master, Connecticut, equity, Probating
- Author:
- Title:
- (1)The History of Science & Medicine Books from the inventory of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Booksellers (2) Fine Books from the inventory of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Booksellers (3) The Reference Libraries of Zietlin & Ver Brugge, Booksellers
- Publisher:
- Swann Galleries Inc., New York, NY., 1988.
- Description:
- Good Condition. Original stapled wraps. Price realized sheets.1095 Lots. 288 pages
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91997
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Laws of Gibraltar, Annual Volume for 1929
- Publisher:
- Isadore Galluli, Gibraltar, 1929.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, pebbled cloth, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90720
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gibraltar
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King. Trustie and welbeloued, wee greete you well: Although there be nothing more against our minde then . . . any course that may breed in our subiects the least doubt of our vnwillingnes to throw any burthens vpon them [etc.]. STC 91751.3(2ba)
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Barker?, London, 1604.
- Description:
- A rare example of the 'requests' by James I early in his reign for loans to be repaid the following year, in this case Peter Gleave of Norfolk, whose loan was in fact repaid, though three years late; with both the loan and its repayment noted by hand
- Condition:
- One sheet, about 9x14 inches printed in civilite type, repairs at the margins affecting the manuscript acknowledgements; two copies in STC in the USA
- Book No.:
- W-78534
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations. Proposed Final Draft
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26036
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- corporations
- Author:
- Nims, Harry D.
- Title:
- Pre-Trial
- Publisher:
- Baker, Voorhis and Company, New York, 1951.
- Description:
- Prepared at the suggestion of the pre-trial committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-10555
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Procedure
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, The Law Governing Lawyers. Tentative Draft No. 6
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26046
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- corporations
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Joseph Wall, Esq. Late Governor of Goree, for the Wilful Murder of Benjamin Armstrong, A Serjeant of the African Corps, At the Old Bailey, On Wednesday, January 20, 1802. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by A. Macpherson, Russell court . . . for J. Lee [etc.], London, n.d..
- Description:
- A seemingly unrecorded edition of the trial and execution of Wall, who had sentenced Armstrong without trial to the inhuman (and deadly) punishment of 800 rope lashes; no copy in OCLC or COPAC denoted a third edition and with this pagination
- Condition:
- Modern calf-backed boards, the title and last leaf darkened, else a good copy; 22 pages, with the jury charge in smaller type following page 18
- Book No.:
- W-79148
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, military law
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted ... for repairing and widening the Road from that Part of Chatham which lies next to the City of Rochester, to Saint Dunstan's Cross near the City of Canterbury in the County of Kent [17 George II]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1743.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Folio, disbound but clean; title plus 8 pages
- Book No.:
- W-26005
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Bond, John
- Title:
- A Complete Guide for Justices of Peace, According to the best Approved Authors. In Two Parts. The First containing the Common and Statute Laws of England, Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. The Second consisting of . . . Precedents. Wing B3567A
- Publisher:
- Printed, and are to be Sold by W. Freeman . . . in Fleet-street, London, 1687.
- Description:
- One of four editions of the sole work of Bond, a Gray's Inn bencher (and ancient), expressly patterned on Dalton and thus, indirectly, designed to convey the authoritative content of Brooke, Coke, Crompton, Fitzherbert, Lambarde, and Staunford
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, a very little marginal staining, else quite clean and crisp, with the imprimatur leaf preceding the first title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79353
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- Author:
- Clanchy, M.T. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Roll and Writ File of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1973.
- Description:
- Selden Society Volume XC for the Years 1972-3
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52471
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 13TH CENTURY, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Jennings, Ivor
- Title:
- Cabinet Government. Third edition
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, binding strained, in a worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-63310
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1935, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Rules, Regulations, Orders and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, the spine damaged, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-91083
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Title:
- Juvenile Justice Standards, Standards Relating to Appeals and Collateral Review, Approved by the House of Delegates, American Bar Association, 1978. Charles Z. Smith, Chairman of Drafting Committee II, Michael Moran, Reporter
- Publisher:
- Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a trifle worn, but a good copy, 48 pages; printed for the Institute of Judicial Administration and the American Bar Ass'n
- Book No.:
- W-91713
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Crime and Delinquency Research in Selected European Countries
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, very lightly dampstained, but sound; 21 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90492
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Juvenile Law, EUROPE
- Author:
- Lile, W.M.
- Title:
- Notes on Bigelow's Bills, Notes and Checques (2nd Edition)
- Publisher:
- N.p., 1914.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, worn but usable; 71 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30969
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Title:
- The Library of Horace N. Pym (1844-1896)
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 376 lots in 81 pages; with the prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91632
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Autographs including Anne Frank correspondence Thomas A. Edison family archive
- Publisher:
- Swann Galleries, New York, 1988.
- Description:
- Very Good Condition. Original Printed Wraps. Includes price realized sheet. 250 lots. 52 pages.
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91999
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1912 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1912
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1913.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90625
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Government of Palestine. Ordinances, Annual Volume for 1925 [and] Ordinances, Annual Volume for 1926
- Publisher:
- Government of Palestine.
- Description:
- Two volumes bound as one
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, blue buckram, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-91010
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, PALESTINE
- Author:
- Title:
- California Corporations Code and Corporate Securities Rules
- Publisher:
- Parker and Son Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, somewhat worn, but quite sound; 458 pages
- Book No.:
- W-17038
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- California, corporations, securities
- Author:
- Title:
- Acts Passed at the First Session of the Nineteenth Congress of the United States
- Publisher:
- Peter Force, North C Street, Washington, 1827.
- Description:
- Appendix includes the text of a treaty with the Federation of the Centre of America and four separate Indian treaties
- Condition:
- Original blue wraps, much worn and discolored, the signatures still sewn, but the paper backstrip disintegrating, and rear wrap defective; pages uncut
- Book No.:
- W-91157
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Acts, indian law, LATIN AMERICA, Central America
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- Englands Balme: or, Proposals By way of Grievance & Remedy; Humbly presented to His Highness and the Parliament: Towards the Regulation of the Law, And better Administration of Justice [etc.]. Wing S3183
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Cottrel, for Hen: Fletcher [etc.], London, 1657.
- Description:
- Sheppard's greatest work, called "the most comprehensive design for the reform of English law and society published in the seventeenth century" and, by John Baker, "a coherent programme of reform [which] seems remarkably prophetic"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, repair to the bottom of the spine, new endpapers and ?new label, else a good copy with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78850
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- Acts, legal reform, Acts
- Author:
- Muga, Erasto
- Title:
- Crime in a Kenyan Town, A Case Study of Kisumu
- Publisher:
- East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn yellow wraps, 113 pages, one page underlined; with the bookmark of Prestige Book - Sellers & Stationers, Nairobi, laid in
- Book No.:
- W-75618
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- AFRICA, Kenya
- Author:
- Dean, T.A.
- Title:
- Somers [Print]
- Publisher:
- n.p., n.d.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46521
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Legal Prints
- Author:
- Heath, Robert
- Title:
- Maxims and Rules of Pleading; in Actions Real, Personal, and Mixt, Popular, and Penal: Describing the Nature of Declarations, Pleas, Replications, Rejoynders, and all other Parts of Pleading . . . from the Manuscript of Sir Robert Heath [etc]. Wing H1340
- Publisher:
- Printed for Abel Roper, at the Mitre near Temple-Bar, London, 1694.
- Description:
- First edition of Heath's treatise, published after his death and based on his law notes and on the Year Books, Littleton, Dyer and Plowden, and patterned on Sir Matthew Hale's edition of Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium; with the imprimatur leaf
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, front joint just cracking but firm, spine varnished, later label, ex-LA County Law Library, light browning; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-79162
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- maxims, pleading
- Author:
- Title:
- Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations. Council Draft No. 7
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 220 pages, plus appendix
- Book No.:
- W-26027
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- corporations
- Author:
- Stuart, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Records of the Priory of the Isle of May
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Society [of Antiquaries of Scotland] by R. Clark, Edinburgh, 1868.
- Description:
- An exceptionally well edited account of the early religious presence on the Isle of May, located in the firth of Forth on Scotland's east coast, founded by King David of Scotland in the late 12th century; with several impressive facsimiles
- Condition:
- Original cloth, quite rubbed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-42030
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- law and sociology, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence S.
- Title:
- A Persian Pearl and Other Essays. Hunsberger 44
- Publisher:
- C.L. Ricketts, Chicago, 1902.
- Description:
- First reissue of Darrow's first work, the only existing collection of Darrow's critical writings, taking its title from Darrow's essay on 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' and informing Darrow's world-view (and his philosophy of law) throughout his life
- Condition:
- Original cloth-backed decorated boards, showing wear, else a good copy with untrimmed edges and partly printed in red and black
- Book No.:
- W-15187
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature
- Author:
- Haskins, George Lee and Herbert A. Johnson
- Title:
- Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801-15, Volume II [of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, History of the Supreme Court of the United States]
- Publisher:
- MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy of the first edition
- Book No.:
- W-77149
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- President's Task Force on Victims of Crime. Final Report
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a clean, sound copy; 144 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90205
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Victimology
- Author:
- Baker, J.H. and D.E.C. Yale (eds.)
- Title:
- A Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1987.
- Description:
- The expansion of the Society's 1960 Guide, adding an account of its first 100 years, a survey by subject-matter of its publications, and summaries of the Supplementary Series volumes and those annual volumes published since 1960; illustrated
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-67620
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Marvell, Thomas B.
- Title:
- Appellate Courts and Lawyers, Information Gathering in the Adversary System
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press, Westport, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47509
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- courts
- 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
- Book No.:
- W-73593
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Bultena, Louis
- Title:
- Deviant Behavior in Sweden
- Publisher:
- Exposition Press, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A sound copy in a worn and dingy dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90341
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Social Deviance, SWEDEN
- Author:
- Dubanksky, Mindell
- Title:
- The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Wrok of Alice C. Morse
- Publisher:
- Grolier Club, New York, 2008.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed and decorated wraps, as new in the original plastic wrap
- Book No.:
- W-91808
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized printed wraps; 763 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30928
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Watson, Richard A. and Rondal G. Downing
- Title:
- The Politics of the Bench and the Bar, Judicial Selection Under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1969.
- Description:
- An empirical examination of the Nonpartisan Court Plan, adopted in Missouri in 1940, and at the time of writing in use in 18 states
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-63097
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Wharton, Francis and Moreton Stille
- Title:
- Preface to a Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence. Not in Cohen
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, George Street above Eleventh, Philadelphia, 1855.
- Description:
- The rare tribute to Dr. Stille, in memory of his all too early death at age 32, reprinting the preface to the work which Francis Wharton and he had just published, describing his brief life and scholarship; with three memorial resolutions appended
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a clean copy, 6+1 pages; one copy in OCLC of six pages, apparently not containing the seventh unnumbered page found here
- Book No.:
- W-77701
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Medical Jurisprudence
- Author:
- Lambarde, William
- Title:
- Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Iustices of Peace [bound with] The Dvties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be adioyned, the seuerall offices of Church Ministers &c. STC 15172/15158
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1610.
- Description:
- Early seventeenth century editions of Lambarde's two major works on justices of the peace and their complementary local officers, including surveyors of highways, overseers of the poor and destroyers of "noisome fowle and vermin"
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, the first blanks frayed and the top margin cut a bit close, else quite fresh with the text block sound and tight; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79549
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Ecclesiastical Law, poor law, law of highways, law of nuisance
- Author:
- Title:
- Panama Es Soberana en la Zona del Canal, Segunda Conferencia Interamericana sobre Aspectos Juridicios de la Independencia Economica, Panama 16-21 Junio 1975
- Publisher:
- N.p., Panama, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a bit rubbed, but sound; 80 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30211
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- PANAMA, LATIN AMERICA
- Author:
- Prendergast, Harris
- Title:
- The Law Relating to Officers in the Army
- Publisher:
- Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, Military Library, Whitehall, London, 1849.
- Description:
- First edition of a rare work written by the Lincoln's Inn barrister who undertook a similar work on naval officers, with chapters on prize and booty, criminal liabilities, rank and pay, courts martial and much else; one copy in OCLC, two in RLIN
- Condition:
- Original limp embossed crimson cloth, gilt-lettered, a trifle strained yet a pretty copy, the edges and endpapers marbled
- Book No.:
- W-73913
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- military law, courts martial
- Author:
- Title:
- Vn Abridgement de touts les Cases, reportes per Mounsieur Iasqves Dyer. S.T.C. 7387
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1609.
- Description:
- Final edition of the first abridgement of Dyer's reports, published coterminously with the reports themselves, one of the two named reports of the 16th century (with Plowden's), in Dr. Baker's words, "an essential possession for every law student"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked, the foremargin of the title just chipped (text not affected), occasional marginal notations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79575
- Price:
- $ 675.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, reports of cases
- Author:
- Hedderwick, T.C.H.
- Title:
- The Sale of Food and Drugs. The Acts of 1875 and 1879 (With Notes of the Reported Cases Decided Since the Acts Became Law)
- Publisher:
- Eyre and Spottiswoode . . . East Harding Street, E.C., London, 1894.
- Description:
- First edition of a rare work by a Middle Temple barrister elaborately glossing the first major legislation regulating the adulteration of food and drugs, an effort first begun in 1860; with a special section devoted to the adulteration of milk
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, a trifle worn, else a very good copy, 101 pages; two copies in OCLC in this country
- Book No.:
- W-77695
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Leininger, Joseph E. and Bruce Gilchrist (eds.)
- Title:
- Computers, Society and Law, The Role of Legal Education
- Publisher:
- American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Montvale, 1973.
- Description:
- The proceedings of the conference of the American Federation of Information Societies, held in June, 1973
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, oversized; 264 pages
- Book No.:
- W-57060
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- education, computers & law
- Author:
- Title:
- British Military Occupation of Samoa. Proclamations 1 through 41 and Proclamation 43
- Publisher:
- [British Military Occupation Printer], Apia Samoa, 1914-17.
- Description:
- A lengthy run of the first official proclamations issued by the British Military Occupation, often multilingual, following New Zealand's first action in World War I, its expeditionary force capturing German Samoa in late August 1914
- Condition:
- Broadsheets and broadsides, some folding, a few marginal chips, typically informally folded, else well-preserved
- Book No.:
- W-77264
- Price:
- $ 3750.00
- Category:
- NEW ZEALAND, GERMANY
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1927. Vol. VI, (New Series)
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Nairobi, 1927.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, brown buckram, a bit darkened, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90820
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Kenya
- Author:
- Tushnet, Mark V.
- Title:
- Following the Rules Laid Down: A Critique of Interpretivism and Neutral Principles
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the February 1983 issue, Volume 96 Number 4, pages 781 to 827; the first page and pages 823 to 827 have small coffee stains
- Book No.:
- W-92077
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Wertheim, W.F. and H.J. Brasz
- Title:
- Corruptie
- Publisher:
- Van Gorcum and Company, Assen, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, the spine a bit frayed, but still sound; 68 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90546
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime, law and sociology
- Author:
- Fowler, Edith Henrietta
- Title:
- The Life of Henry Hartley Fowler, First Viscount Wolverhampton, G.C.S.I
- Publisher:
- Hutchinson & Co., London, 1912.
- Description:
- The principal biographical source for the successful solicitor and politician who served as the President of the Incorporated Law Society in 1901 (this being their copy) and whose firm (Fowler, Langley and Wright) still practices in Wolverhampton
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, gilt, quite rubbed, ex-Incorporated Law Society, a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-75110
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Banks, T.C. and Ephraim Lockhart
- Title:
- A Disquisition on the Right of Jurisdiction in Peerage Successions, Particularly the Peerage of Scotland; Contained in Letters to the Right Honourable the Lord K-------: With an Appendix. Second Edition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, London, 1830.
- Description:
- An uncommon part of the curious career of the Inner Templar T.C. Banks, who established a Dormant Peerage Office and mixed real scholarship with the defense of flimsy and even fraudulent (as here) peerage claims; five copies in OCLC, none in England
- Condition:
- Modern patterned crimson cloth, gilt, ex-library, but a clean copy; 118 pages
- Book No.:
- W-72088
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Peerage Law, Comparative Law, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- George A. Ralphs, Executor of the Will of Kimball Hardy, Deceased, Respondent, vs. Mrs. L.E. Hensler, Appellant, J. Irving Weed, Defendant. On appeal from the Superior Court of Los Angeles County before judge Waldo York
- Publisher:
- Chas. W. Palm Co. Print, Los Angeles, 1895.
- Description:
- Two briefs and transcript from an appeal seeking to reverse previous judgement denying a new trial. Ralphs is the founder of the Ralphs supermarkets in Southern California and Hardy is mentioned in early genealogies of California.
- Condition:
- Original sewn printed wraps, light ink smudging, very good copies; 52+30+7 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91783
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Ano Regni Iacobi . . . At the second Session of Parliament . . . in the third yeere of the raigne of our most gracious Soueraigne Lord Iames . . . proroged until the 18 of Nouember next following 1606 [etc.]. S.T.C. 9502 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1606.
- Description:
- The acts of the parliament following the foiled Gunpowder Plot and the attempted assassination of James I, making it high treason for Catholics to obey Rome, prohibiting their practise of law or medicine, and imposing other severe restrictions [c.4]
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, the title's woodcut and some running heads shaved, some browning, else sound, without the subsidies acts; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79519
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Federal Civil Practice
- Publisher:
- California Continuing Education of the Bar, Berkeley, 1961.
- Description:
- Ten essays, covering the ground from jurisdictional requirements through pre-trial, trial and appeal, with a certain 9th Circuit flavor and four (forms, statutes and rules, cases, and subject) helpful indexes
- Condition:
- Original cloth, the spine faded, else quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-50211
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- pleading
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony of the Gambia. Ordinances, Rules, Regulations, and Orders. 1916-1922
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1916-22.
- Description:
- Chronologically arranged, and preceded by a subject index
- Condition:
- Blue buckram, gilt, a good sound copy; ex-British Library
- Book No.:
- W-90689
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Title:
- The American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice Report to the House of Delegates Recommendation Resolves that the American Bar Assosication: Urgest the Supplementay Extradition Treaty with the United Kingdom, signed on June 25, 1985, b
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Good Condition;14 pages stapled
- Book No.:
- W-91964
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- banks, Bench and Bar, Commercial Law, IRELAND
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Agency, as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Eighth Edition, Revised, with Additions. By Nicholas St. John Green
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1874.
- Description:
- The only edition of the only treatise undertaken by Green, friend of Holmes and fellow member of the Metaphysical Club, whose "extraordinary power of [revealing] warm and breathing truth" was perceived by Peirce and equally esteemed by Holmes
- Condition:
- Original brown embossed cloth, the spine a bit chipped and the front joint just cracking (but firm), else a good clean copy housed in a modern box
- Book No.:
- W-75907
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Agency
- Author:
- Hopkins, Albert L.
- Title:
- Autobiography of a Lawyer
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed, Chicago, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, a good copy; inscribed by the author
- Book No.:
- W-63602
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Holt, Francis Ludlow
- Title:
- The Law of Libel: in Which is Contained a General History of This Law in the Ancient Codes, and of Its Introduction, and Successive Alterations, in the Law of England [&c]. First American, from the Second London Edition . . . by Anthony Bleecker. Cohen 10934
- Publisher:
- Published by Stephen Gould, Law Bookseller [etc.], New-York, 1818.
- Description:
- Only American edition of the first treatise published in this country on the law of libel (and on torts in general), with a preliminary historical treatment followed by Holt's principal analysis, arranged by type of libel; not in McCoy
- Condition:
- Original sheep, rubbed, the top of the spine somewhat chafed, ?merchant's blind stamp on title, some foxing, but a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77799
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- libel and slander
- Author:
- Cassing, James H. and Steven L. Husted (eds.)
- Title:
- Capital, Technology, and Labor in the New Global Economy
- Publisher:
- American Enterprise Institute, Washington, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-30238
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics, Science and the law, labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Laws Concerning Travelling . . . [Of] Robbery . . . Of Land Carriage . . . Of Innkeepers . . . Of Water-Carriage . . . Of negotiating Bills of Exchange . . . Of the Currency of Money . . . Of the Laws for regulating Hackney-Coaches [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling . . . for J. Brown [etc.], London, 1718.
- Description:
- Only edition of what appears to be the first comprehensive work on the English law of travellers and travelling, well-reflecting its then precarious and dangerous nature, starting with robbery, innkeepers (and extortion), and fencing of stolen goods
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered blind decorated calf, rubbed, spine ends just chipped, else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79442
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Transportation, law of highways, Bills and Notes
- Author:
- Phayer, Thomas
- Title:
- A Booke of Presidentes exactly written in maner of a Register, newlye Imprynted and corrected . . . mete for all such persons to knowe, as desire to learne the forme and maner howe to make al maner of euydences and instrumentes [etc.]. STC 3329; Beale T430
- Publisher:
- Ex officina Richardi Graftoni, London, 1546.
- Description:
- A rare, very early edition of the first named work of its kind, in Holdsworth's words "a comprehensive collection of all manner of documents", much enlarged from previous editions with over 150 additional pages; three copies in ESTC, one imperfect
- Condition:
- Modern morocco, the original blind-stamped boards remounted, ex-library, the title quite darkened, light browning, but quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78413
- Price:
- $ 6500.00
- Category:
- conveyancing, Real Property
- Author:
- Montagu, Basil (comp.)
- Title:
- The Opinions of Different Authors upon the Punishment of Death. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809-12.
- Description:
- First editions of the first two volumes of Montagu's valuable compilation (a third volume appeared in 1813), part of his sustained effort to abolish capital punishment; with extracts from Bentham, Blackstone, Montesquieu and John Howard, inter alia
- Condition:
- Original boards, one volume rebacked, the second with its spine chipped, else good, unsophisticated, untrimmed copies with generous margins
- Book No.:
- W-76304
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- capital punishment
- Author:
- Sanders, Francis Williams
- Title:
- An Essay on the Nature and Laws of Uses and Trusts. Including a Treatise on Conveyances at Common Law; and Those Deriving Their Effect from the Statute of Uses
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. and R. Brooke, London, 1791.
- Description:
- First edition of the principal work of the Lincoln's Inn barrister who later served on the Real Property Law Commission, "a professional treatise of deservedly high repute", singled out by Roscoe Pound for its influence in this country's early years
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 crimson morocco, gilt-lettered, a bit strained and some light pencilling, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-74134
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trusts and estates
- Author:
- Madox, Thomas
- Title:
- The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer . . . Together with . . . the Ancient Dialogue concerning the Exchequer . . . and A Dissertation concerning the most Ancient Great Roll of the Exchequer [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Matthews; and Sold by Robert Knaplock [etc.], London, 1711.
- Description:
- First edition of Madox's masterwork, the first comprehensive treatment of the Royal Exchequer, called by Maitland "beautiful . . . one of the greatest historical works of the last [18th] century"; George Woodbine's copy, with his ownership signature
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, front board lacking, as are two leaves (pp 355-58) never bound in, preliminary leaves loose; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-75209
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- taxation
- Author:
- Cunningham, Timothy
- Title:
- The Law of Highways and Turnpike Roads; . . . I. What shall be deemed a Highway; to whom the Freehold and Soil of the Highway belong . . . II. All the Acts of Parliament Now in Force . . . III. Variety of Precedents relative to the Execution of the Acts &c.
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall [etc.], London, 1773.
- Description:
- The rare, only edition of one of some twenty works by the Middle Temple barrister and antiquary, and his sole work devoted exclusively to the law of highways, his scholarship elsewhere praised by Holdsworth; one copy in ESTC, none in North America
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, label lacking, margins of index cut close (legibility preserved), inkspot to title, clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79644
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- law of highways
- Author:
- Goodrich, Herbert F.
- Title:
- Handbook of the Conflict of Laws
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1938.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-15143
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- conflict of laws
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. The Laws of Kenya. Noter-Up Service, Prepared from Kenya Ordinances, 1958. Issue No. 2 of 1958
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Nairobi, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-British Library, stapled wraps, very stained and worn; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90904
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Kenya
- Author:
- Title:
- Jurisprudence Symposium
- Publisher:
- Georgia Law Review, Athens, 1977.
- Description:
- Fourteen contributions including those by H.L.A Hart, Kent Greenawalt, Edgar Bodenheimer, Ronald Dworkin, and Gerald J. Postema
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, somewhat worn and creased, else a very good copy; the September 1977 issue, Volume 11, Number 5
- Book No.:
- W-92026
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Bryce, William Gordon (prep.)
- Title:
- The Laws of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Revised Edition
- Publisher:
- C.F. Roworth Ltd., London, 1952.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Tan buckram, a bit soiled, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Solomon Islands
- Author:
- Phillipps, S. March
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. Volume the Second
- Publisher:
- Gould and Banks, New York, 1823.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Volume Two only
- Book No.:
- W-41331
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Evidence
- Author:
- Bloomenthal, Harold S. and Samuel Wolff
- Title:
- Emerging Trends in Securities Law, 1995-96 Edition
- Publisher:
- Clark Boardman Co., New York, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a bit worn, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91700
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- securities
- Author:
- Title:
- Strategy for Peace, Eighteenth Conference Report
- Publisher:
- Stanley Foundation, Muscatine, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 79 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30795
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- international law, Arms control
- Author:
- Valticos, Nicolas
- Title:
- Traite de Droit Du Travail
- Publisher:
- Librarie Dalloz, Paris, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16719
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- international law, labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, Estate and Gift Tax Hearings, Statements of Public Witnesses. March 16, 1976
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 258 pages
- Book No.:
- W-31132
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- taxation
- Author:
- Greenwood, Ashley Martin (prep.)
- Title:
- The Laws of Gibraltar, Supplement to the Laws of Gibraltar. Three volumes
- Publisher:
- Gibraltar Garrison Library Committee, Gibraltar, 1963.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, buckram binders, dented but still sound
- Book No.:
- W-90741
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gibraltar
- Author:
- Vining, Joseph
- Title:
- The Authoritative and the Authoritarian
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56133
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Bowstead, William
- Title:
- A Digest of the Law of Agency. Eleventh Edition
- Publisher:
- Sweet and Maxwell, London, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn and varnished, the front joint cracking; a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-40619
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Agency
- Author:
- Leach, William
- Title:
- The Bribe-Takers of Jury-Men Partiall, Dishonest, and Ignorant Discovered and Abolished; and Honest, Judicious, Able, and Impartiall Restored; And their equall Election to Try Causes, and Find Inquests [etc.]. Wing L772. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. Cotes, London, 1652.
- Description:
- A rare tract, one of many written by Leach as he joined prominent legal reformers such as William Sheppard and Matthew Hale during the Interregnum, here focusing on the jury, proposing a secret ballot among many other reforms; five copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern board-backed cloth, bowed, the leaves mounted with repairs to the lower corners (all text legible), quite usable if no more; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78200
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- juries, legal reform
- Author:
- Pulton, Ferdinando
- Title:
- De Pace Regis et Regni, viz. A Treatise declaring which be the great and generall Offences of the Realme . . . as Treasons, Homicides, and Felonies, Menaces, Assaults, Batteries, Ryots, Routs, Vnlawfull assemblies [etc.]. S.T.C. 20497. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1615.
- Description:
- The penultimate edition of the first work on English criminal law written in English, exceptionally thorough, called by Holdsworth "comprehensive and well arranged", with extensive (even exhaustive) references and sidenotes complementing the text
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, a bit rubbed, rebacked, some fore-margins cut close, but legibility preserved, particularly clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78368
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Deed of Settlement of the Northamptonshire Union Bank, Established under the Authority of an Act of Parliament . . . To Which Is Appended an Abstract of the Act. Capital, 537,500 [pounds sterling] in 21,500 Shares [etc.]
- Publisher:
- T.E. Dicey, Mercury Office, Northampton, 1880?.
- Description:
- The rare work setting forth the settlement deed establishing the bank in 1836, reconstructing the private banking business of John and Samuel Percival, following the enactment of the act (7 Geo IV c.46) regulating banking copartnerships in England
- Condition:
- Original pebbled cloth, somewhat worn and spotted and a bit strained, but a good clean copy; one copy in OCLC and COPAC only, with a different collation
- Book No.:
- W-77131
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- banks
- Author:
- Pigou, A.C.
- Title:
- Essays in Applied Economics
- Publisher:
- Frank Cass & Co., London, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy in a faded and torn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30463
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- economics
- Author:
- Stewart, Julie (ed.)
- Title:
- Working Papers on Inheritance in Zimbabwe [Working Paper No.5]
- Publisher:
- Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project, Harare, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed illustrated pink wraps, some browning, but well-preserved, 124 pages, single-spaced typescript
- Book No.:
- W-71347
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- AFRICA, Wills, Zimbabwe
- Author:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State and Settlement Enactments, Passed During the Year 1957
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90654
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- National Library of Scotland: Notable Accessions Since 1925, a Book of Illustrations
- Publisher:
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1965.
- Description:
- One of two catalogues celebrating the notable accessions over the centuries to the National Library of Scotland, which traces its founding to the library formed by the Faculty of Advocates in the 1680's; with 120 plates, most full page
- Condition:
- Original printed, sewn wraps, very nice; about 120 pages
- Book No.:
- W-18436
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Cunningham, Timothy
- Title:
- A New Treatise on the Laws For Preservation of the Game: Containing All the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, and Judgments concerning it . . . The Second Edition, with the Addition of the late Fish-Act [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers, And Sold by M. Thrush &c, London, 1766.
- Description:
- The rare, expanded edition of one of some twenty works by the Middle Temple barrister and antiquary, and his sole work on the game laws, his works elsewhere praised by Holdsworth, with much on deer, fish, hares, hawks, and partridges, inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, the front joint cracked but quite firm, a very good clean copy with the advertising leaf; three copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-79183
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- game law
- Author:
- Meriton, George
- Title:
- An Exact Abridgment of all the Publick Printed Irish Statutes now in Force . . . Together with An Abridgment of such English Statutes . . . as have been Enacted and made since Sir Edward Poyning's Law, relating to the Kingdom of Ireland [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by and for Andrew Crook [and two others], Dublin, 1700.
- Description:
- First edition of the first comprehensive abridgment of the Irish statutes and those of England applying to Ireland, compiled by the prolific English lawyer who had removed to Ireland and been granted a law degree from the University of Dublin
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint cracked but holding, a sound clean copy, with the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78716
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Abridgements
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- La Size Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chiualer, chiefe Iustice del Common banke: des diuers Resolutions & Iudgements dones sur solemne arguments, & auec grand deliberation & conference des tresreuerend Iudges & Sages de la Ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 5509.5
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London], 1607.
- Description:
- First edition variant of the part of Coke's reports in which he begins to draw upon contemporary material and in which he continues his observations, begun in the preface to the second part of his Reports, on the ancient laws and customs of England
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over boards, discreetly ex-library, light browning, extensive marginal gloss, a very good copy; rare, one copy in ESTC in the USA
- Book No.:
- W-72757
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Defence of Brigadier General W. Hull. Delivered before the General Court Martial, of Which Major General Dearborn was President, at Albany . . . To which are prefixed, The Charges against Brigadier General Hull, as Specified by the Government
- Publisher:
- Published by Wells and Lilly, Court-Street, Boston, 1814.
- Description:
- One of two contemporary accounts of the still debated conduct of Hull in surrendering Detroit to the British in 1812 without a shot being fired; sentenced to be shot, Hull was spared by Madison in view of his courageous Revolutionary War services
- Condition:
- Modern paper-backed blue boards untrimmed, an unsophisticated copy
- Book No.:
- W-17687
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Military Law Review. Volumes 75 to 83 plus Volumes 107 and 117 and the Bicentennial Issue (of 1975), lacking Volumes 77 and 79
- Publisher:
- Department of the Army, Washington, 1975-1987.
- Description:
- A short run of ten issues, including the valuable Volume 81, a "vicennial" cumulative index for volumes 1 through 80, with four indices, by author, subject, title, and book review; single issues for a sawbuck, the index and bicentennial issues apart
- Condition:
- Original wraps, a bit worn, but well-preserved
- Book No.:
- W-91261
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- military law
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books and Historical Manuscripts including Property of the late Greta Calmann and Property of the lateProfessor Christine Fell
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 1999.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Good Condition Original Printed Wraps includes price realised shees ; 524 lots 121 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91967
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Title:
- The Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow Part One-Four
- Publisher:
- Christie's, New York, 2013.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth in pictorial dustjackets, 899 lots, 1160 pages
- Book No.:
- W-92092
- Price:
- $ 37.50
- Category:
- Author:
- Lewis, George Cornewall
- Title:
- On Foreign Jurisdiction and the Extradition of Criminals
- Publisher:
- John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, London, 1859.
- Description:
- A pioneering work praised by Holdsworth written by the Middle Templar who was "one of Austin's distinguished disciples", theoretically analyzing extra-territorial criminal jurisdiction, including that applicable in instances of piracy and of slavery
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, resewn and repaired, uncut and untrimmed, discreetly ex-library, else a good copy; 78 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74710
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- criminal law, international law, law of slavery, law of piracy
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Not separately listed in Eller, who also does not list the London variant printings of 1769; compare Eller 231. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.
- Description:
- Blackstone's passionate invocation of the common law as the source of the House of Common's power to expel a member, and his principal contribution to English constitutional law outside the Commentaries; not seen by Eller and surprisingly uncommon
- Condition:
- Modern calf, very light browning, a good, wide-margined copy, with the half-title; 44 pages
- Book No.:
- W-67958
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Would You Have the U.S. Supreme Court "Curbed and Bridled?"
- Publisher:
- Chicago Committee to Defend Democratic Rights, Chicago, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- 8.5" x 14" sheet, folded into quarters
- Book No.:
- W-44512
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Radicals
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Bailments, With Illustrations from the Civil and the Foreign Law. Cohen 2451
- Publisher:
- Hilliard and Brown, Booksellers to the University, Cambridge, 1832.
- Description:
- First edition of Story's first commentary, as he began his effort to establish an American applied legal science, "[s]uperbly organized, lucidly written, comprehensive in breadth [and] rang[ing] from the Codes of Justinian to the American frontier"
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, gilt, some foxing and browning and the occasional marking and notation, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75176
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- bailments
- Author:
- Avins, Alfred
- Title:
- New Light on the Legislative History of Desertion Trhough Fraudulent Enlistment: The Decline of the United States Court of Military Appeals
- Publisher:
- Minnesota Law Review, Minneapolis, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, offprinted from Volume 46 of the Review; pages 69-116
- Book No.:
- W-78291
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- military law, fraud
- Author:
- Clarke, F.W.
- Title:
- The Elements of Chemistry
- Publisher:
- D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1884.
- Description:
- Written by the chemist of the United States Geological Survey, with a first part devoted to inorganic chemistry, and a second to organic chemistry; Appletons' Science Text-Books
- Condition:
- Original embossed pebbled cloth, gilt, a bit rubbed and a very little pencilling, ex-library (no external markings), else quite a good, fresh copy
- Book No.:
- W-91221
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal [of the Seven Bishops] [with] Atkyns, An Inquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes [with] Atkyns, The Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament [with] Langhorne, King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws
- Publisher:
- Imprints vary; Wing S564, A4138, A4141, and L396, all folios, London, 1687-89.
- Description:
- Four works central to English constitutional law and the Glorius Revolution, establishing the right of Parliament to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the portrait and two advertising leaves (one repaired), generally clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79360
- Price:
- $ 1000.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Pierce Egan's Account of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt [with] Pierce Egan, Recollections of John Thurtell, Who Was Executed at Hertford . . . For Murdering Mr. W. Weare . . . Being an Appendix to his Account of the Trial [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Knight & Lacey, Publishers, 24, Paternoster-Row, London, 1824.
- Description:
- The account of "England's most literary murder", attracting Carlyle, Dickens, Lamb, and Thackeray (among many others), "effectively the first instance of trial by newspaper", and providing a wide-open look at the seamier aspects of Regency society
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf-backed boards, quite rubbed, the spine varnished, some browning, yet a crisp copy, 105+44 pages and seven plates
- Book No.:
- W-77515
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Legal Rights of Persons with Epilepsy, A Survey of State Laws and Administration Policies Relating to Persons with Epilepsy, with a Special Section on Model Legislation. 1976 Edition
- Publisher:
- Epilepsy Foundation of America, Washington, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, rather discolored, but a sound copy; 156 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30482
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Discrimination, medicine
- Author:
- Lowenfels, Lewis D.
- Title:
- Selected Articles Under the Federal Securities Laws
- Publisher:
- N.p., 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-30426
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- securities
- Author:
- Schneider, Hans Joachim
- Title:
- Viktimologie, Wissenschaft vom Verbrechensopfer
- Publisher:
- J.C.B. Mohr, Tubingen, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 311 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90193
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Victimology, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California, Passed at the Fifteenth Session of the Legislature, 1863-4
- Publisher:
- O.M. Clayes, State Printer, Sacramento, 1864.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, worn and stained, the boards detaching; usable
- Book No.:
- W-61470
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Acts, California
- Author:
- Jong, Fang-Ling
- Title:
- My Love Affair with Bookshops [Second Edition]
- Publisher:
- The Earth Geographic Publishing & Technology Co., Taipei, 2002.
- Description:
- The expanded edition of a special work first appearing in 1997 and, though its text is in Chinese, affording a view of Western bookshops through its color photography that is umatched in any language, with an emphasis on the eccentric and charming
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new in the dustjacket, signed by the author in English and Chinese on the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77275
- Price:
- $ 60.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, CHINA
- Author:
- Navasky, Victor S.
- Title:
- Kennedy Justice
- Publisher:
- Atheneum, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Somewhat worn, one hinge cracking, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-12407
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- legal reform
- Author:
- Grimwood-Jones, Diana and Paul Auchterlonie (eds.)
- Title:
- Middle East and Islam, A Bibliographical Introduction, Revised and Enlarged Edition [with] Supplement 1977-1983 [Two Volumes] [Bibliotheca Asiatica 15 and 20]
- Publisher:
- Inter Documentation Company, Zug, 1979 & 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, very good copies in the dustjackets
- Book No.:
- W-91662
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Landis, Carney and M. Marjorie Bolles
- Title:
- Textbook of Abnormal Psychology
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Company, New York, 1946.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Quite worn, underlining; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-21145
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Siegel, David S. and Susan (comps.)
- Title:
- The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Pacific Coast States
- Publisher:
- Book Hunter Press, Yorktown Heights, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps; 474 pages
- Book No.:
- W-57555
- Price:
- $ 18.95
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- St. Germain, Christopher]
- Title:
- Two Dialogues in English, between a doctour of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England, of the Grounds of the said Laws, and of Conscience. Wing S317
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, Eliz. Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1673.
- Description:
- The first classic of English equity and the first work on legal philosophy written in England, here in a late 17th century edition, published some 150 years after its first appearance
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed; a serviceable copy
- Book No.:
- W-16150
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- equity
- Author:
- Cowell, John
- Title:
- Institutiones Iuris Anglicani, Ad Methodum et Seriem Institutionum Imperialium compositae & digestae [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Cura & Impensis Guilielmi Fitzeri, Frankfurt, 1630.
- Description:
- The first reissue of "one of the truly rare books of English legal literature", a potential precursor to Bacon and Bentham's plans to reform and codify English law, its first edition predating Coke as the first English institutionalist legal treatise
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered vellum, marked and unevenly darkened, definite browning, yet a sound usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76350
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- civil law
- Author:
- Francis, Richard
- Title:
- Maxims of Equity, Collected From, And proved by Cases, out of the Books of the best Authority, in the High Court of Chancery [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E[lizabeth] and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1727.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the earliest, and certainly the most attractive, works on English legal maxims, stating the maxims in simple, elegant terms, then illustrating their specific application with supporting case authority and accompanying analysis
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, slightly browned and dusty, else well-preserved, untrimmed and with excellent margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78157
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- equity, maxims, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Title:
- W.R. Rogers, plaintiff and respondent, vs. A.R. Schulenburg, C.T. Chadwick, and T.J. Daley, defendants and appellants
- Publisher:
- Stenhouse & Co., Book and Job Printers, San Diego, 1895.
- Description:
- Two briefs and transcript on appeal before the Supreme Court of the State of California from San Diego county before judge George Puterbaugh. Lawyers for the parties include E.W. Britt and T.H. Ward.
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, very good copies; 30+13+9 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91764
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Waters, William R. and Thomas A. Bausch (eds.)
- Title:
- Ethics and Economics: Retrospect and Prospect
- Publisher:
- Association for Social Economics, Milwaukee, 1982.
- Description:
- Review of Social Economy, Vol. XL, No. 3, December 1982
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps
- Book No.:
- W-90539
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics
- Author:
- Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques]
- Title:
- Principes du Droit Politique. Two Volumes in One. 12mo
- Publisher:
- Chez Zacharie Chatelain, Amsterdam, 1751.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the two principal works of Burlamaqui "demonstrably, a primary source of the theory voiced in the Declaration of Independence", written with considerable lucidity and clarity of thought
- Condition:
- Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, endpapers marbled, quite a pretty copy, this the duodecimo issuance, a quarto edition published simultaneously
- Book No.:
- W-43486
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- political theory, natural law
- Author:
- Hawley, Donna Lea
- Title:
- The Annotated 1990 Indian Act, Including Related Treaties, Statutes and Regulations
- Publisher:
- Carswell Company, Toronto, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Maroon cloth, a bit dusty, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-30557
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- CANADA, American Indian Law
- Author:
- Garcia Cruzado, Servando
- Title:
- Gonzalo Garcia de Villadiego, Canonista Salmantino del Siglo XV
- Publisher:
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Roma, 1968.
- Description:
- Volume 20 in the series Cuadernos del Instituto Juridico Espanol
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, a bit worn, but quite a good copy; 287 pages
- Book No.:
- W-55164
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 15TH CENTURY, biography, SPAIN, canon law
- Author:
- Title:
- Wm. A. Witte, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. R.B. Taylor, Defendant and Respondent. On Appeal from the Superior Court of Riverside County before Judge J.S. Noyes
- Publisher:
- Gazette Press, Anaheim, 1895.
- Description:
- Three briefs and transcript on appeal. Attorneys for parties H.W. Chynoweth and E.W. Freeman
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, slight tear to top of spine, minor ink smudges, very good copies; 13+4+8+6 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91770
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Johnson, et al (eds.), Robert C.
- Title:
- Commons Debates 1628. Five Volumes [of six]
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977-83.
- Description:
- Five (of six) volumes of the definitive edition of the debates and proceedings in the House of Commons in this historic Parliament, undertaken by the Yale Center for Parliamentary History; without volume five
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, gilt, a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-77649
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Parliament, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1933 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1933
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1934.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the hinges weak, but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-90646
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Canning (ed.), William
- Title:
- Gesta Grayorum: Or, The History Of the High and mighty Prince, Henry Prince of Purpoole . . . Duke of High and Nether Holborn . . . Together with A Masque as it was presented . . . for the Entertainment of Q. Elizabeth [etc.]. Wing C444; cf. Gibson 401
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Canning, at his Shop in the Temple-Cloysters, London, 1688.
- Description:
- The sole early edition of the "solemn revel" performed at Gray's Inn in 1594, one of two Elizabethan Inns of Court revels to survive, conjecturally attributed in part to Francis Bacon and long associated with Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors"
- Condition:
- Modern crimson morocco, gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light browning, else well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79305
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, Shakespeare, Theatre, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast, Containing All Legislation Enacted During the Year 1946
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Department, Accra, 1947.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, gray boards, worn and stained, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90751
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gold Coast, GHANA
- Author:
- Title:
- Transactions of the Medico-Legal Society [with its successor journal] The Medico-Legal Journal
- Publisher:
- Balliere, Tindall and Cox [and] Dramrite Printers Limited, London, 1908-77.
- Description:
- An exceptionally long run, from Volume 5 through Volume 26 of the Transactions (its last volume) and then the first 45 volumes of the Journal, though lacking eight early volumes of the Transactions; fifty-nine volumes in total
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, gilt, through Volume 33 of The Medico-Legal Journal, original wraps thereafter, generally well-preserved
- Book No.:
- W-91196
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- medicine, forensic medicine
- Author:
- Nizer, Louis
- Title:
- New Courts of Industry, Self-Regulation under the Motion Picture Code, Including an Analysis of the Code
- Publisher:
- The Longacre Press, Incorporated, New York, 1935.
- Description:
- Presentation copy of Nizer's first work, a serious, substantial analysis of the Motion Picture Code, the longest of 600 prompted by the pressures of the N.R.A., the presentation on the front blank "To / Harry Decker / with many regards / Louis Nizer"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, showing definite wear, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-69819
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Media Law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Epstein, Laurily Keir (ed.)
- Title:
- Women and the News
- Publisher:
- Hastings House, New York, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90369
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- women's law, Media Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances and Other Official Acts Published by the Government of Malta and Its Dependencies. From the 1st January 1872, to the 31st December 1874
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Malta, 1876.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, quite worn, one board detached; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90912
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Malta
- Author:
- Atkyns, Robert
- Title:
- An Enquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes. Together with Some Animadversions upon A Book writ by Sir Edw. Herbert, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Entituled, A short Account of the Authorities in Law [etc.]. Wing A4138
- Publisher:
- Printed for Timothy Goodwin . . . in Fleet-street, London, 1689.
- Description:
- First edition of a work central to the political theory of the Glorious Revolution, rebutting the Royalist claim that the King alone might dispense with laws as he saw fit, and propounding that only both King and Parliament jointly may do so
- Condition:
- Modern blind-tooled goatskin, definite browning, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-69249
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Citizens Study Committee on Judicial Organization, Report to Governor Patrick J. Lucey, January 1973
- Publisher:
- By the Committee, Madison, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated oversized wraps, a very good copy; 417 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91616
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform, Isle of Wight
- Author:
- Title:
- Uganda Protectorate. 1932. Ordinances and Subsidiary Legislation, Containing Orders in Council, Rules, Regulations, Proclamations, Orders, Notices, Native Laws, Etc.
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Uganda.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, stained but sound
- Book No.:
- W-91110
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Uganda
- Author:
- Title:
- Laws and Resolutions Passed by the Legislature of 1883-84 at Its Extra Session
- Publisher:
- James J. Ayers, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento, 1885.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, ex-El Dorado Court, quite well preserved
- Book No.:
- W-61480
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- California, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- Constructing an Index of Delinquency, A Manual
- Publisher:
- Center of Criminological Research, University of Penn., Philadelphia, 1963.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized stapled wraps, a bit faded, but sound; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90360
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Direct Primary Law with the Official Forms Prepared by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General
- Publisher:
- State Printing Office, Sacramento, 1914.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps, the front wraps almost detached; 104 pages
- Book No.:
- W-43108
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- California
- Author:
- McCall, George J.
- Title:
- Observing the Law: Applications of Field Methods to the Study of the Criminal Justice System
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, darkened and stained, but quite sound; 208 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90372
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, law and sociology
- Author:
- Title:
- Government of Palestine. Ordinances, Annual Volume for 1927 [and] Ordinances, Annual Volume for 1928
- Publisher:
- Government of Palestine.
- Description:
- Two volumes bound as one
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, blue buckram, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-91011
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, PALESTINE
- Author:
- Cohen, Morris R. and Ernest Nagel
- Title:
- An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method
- Publisher:
- Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1934.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, rather worn, and marked with much pencilling
- Book No.:
- W-90777
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- The New Law Dictionary . . . Carefully Abridged . . . And particularly Referring To all the Law-Reports, and Acts of Parliament . . . Whereto is added, A curious Catalogue or Register of the Year-Books and Reports, with the Times of their Publication
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for R. Ware [and twelve others], London, 1743.
- Description:
- The uncommon (and sole) abridgment of Jacob's masterpiece, his original work far different from previous dictionaries, this abridgment undertaken by Jacob himself, with a special effort made to render it "easy, clear, and familiar"
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, somewhat rubbed, else a very good clean copy; eight copies in ESTC, one in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-77706
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries, Abridgements, reports of cases, Acts, Year Books
- Author:
- Title:
- Revised Single Negotiating Text
- Publisher:
- Department of State, Washington, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, tab-divided; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-31076
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- international law, maritime law
- Author:
- Title:
- UCLA Law Review. 31 Volumes
- Publisher:
- Los Angeles, 1953-84.
- Description:
- A complete run from the Review's inception in 1953 through 1984; with the 1952-53 Intramural Law Review (its brief predecessor), plus two copies of the index to volumes 1-5. Volumes 1-7 bound, wraps thereafter, some of whose spines are defective
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-25064
- Price:
- $ 620.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, M.A.: A Cento of Criticism. High Court of Common Sense. Special Jury Case. Trinity Sessions, 1823
- Publisher:
- E. Brain, London, 1823.
- Description:
- A battered ex-library copy, without the title, plate, and half-title, but textually complete in 96 pages, recording the satirical mock trial; with a number of informed pencil notations throughout
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91709
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- humor, Religion, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Terrorism and the Violence of the State
- Publisher:
- European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Hamburg, 1979.
- Description:
- Working Papers in European Criminology No. 1
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 86 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90149
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Terrorism
- Author:
- Title:
- Caution. Whereas, a great number of Young Persons having accustomed themselves to assemble together in this neighbourhood on Snnday [sic] Afternoons in a noisy and disorderly manner [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Lomas, Printer, Bristol, [1824?].
- Description:
- An attractive broadside, measuring about 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches, sternly issuing a 'caution' to the younger generation, who will "be punished with utmost rigour of the Law" should they perpetuate their unacceptable Sunday afternoon behavior
- Condition:
- A little wear, but generally well preserved; blind owner's stamp
- Book No.:
- W-47705
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- legal ephemera, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Reasons Against a Registry for Lands, &c. Shewing briefly, The great Disadvantages, Charges and Inconveniences that may accrue to the whole Nation in general thereby . . . In answer to a late Book Entituled, Reasons for a Registry [etc.]. Wing R466
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Wilkinson, and T. Burrel . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1678.
- Description:
- Part of the centuries' long debate, first bruited by Henry VIII, whether to require registration of title or of conveyances (or of neither), not finally resolved in England until the mid-19th century and, comprehensively, the 20th century
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, rubbed and marked, gilt ruled and lettered, light browning, but quite clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79690
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Real Property, conveyancing, Registration
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- La Huictme Part des Reports . . . des diuers Resolutions & Jugements donez sur solennes arguments & auec grand deliberation & conference des trereuerends Iuges & Sages de la Ley, de cases en ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 5513 variant 2. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London, 1611.
- Description:
- First edition of the eighth part of Coke's Reports, in whose preface he discusses at length the ancient laws of England, seeking to establish their pre-Conquest existence (by citation to historical authority) and the books in which they may be found
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some staining, mainly lightish and marginal, else a good copy with the occasional annotation; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78233
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Mackenzie, George
- Title:
- Obsrvations Upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, as to Precedency [bound with] The Science of Herauldry, Treated as a part of the Civil Law, and Law of Nations [etc.]. Wing M186 and M204. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Edinburgh, 1680.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Later boards, rebacked, quite worn, without the frontispiece to the first work and with 25 (of 30) plates and the folding frontispiece of the second
- Book No.:
- W-77196
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- international law, law of heraldry
- Author:
- Witt, Nathan
- Title:
- Supplement to Landis' Cases on Labor Law 1934-1937
- Publisher:
- The Foundation Press, Chicago, 1937.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17728
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Allen, Marian C. (comp.)
- Title:
- Drug and Narcotic Investigation
- Publisher:
- FBI Academy Library, Quantico, 1993.
- Description:
- A representative selection of materials either owned or on order bby the library, inclusion of a work not to be represented as an endorsement by the Bureau
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled oversized (8 1/2 x 11) wraps, typescript, a very good copy, 13 pages; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-92033
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Goodinge, Thomas
- Title:
- The Law against Bankrupts: or, a Treatise Wherein the Statutes against Bankrupts are Explained, by Several Cases, Resolutions, Judgments and Decrees, both at Common Law and in Chancery [etc.]. Wing G1099B
- Publisher:
- Printed for Richard Southby, at the Golden-Fleece [etc.], London, 1694.
- Description:
- The uncommon first edition of the first English treatise on the law of bankruptcy and, in Holdsworth's words, the first work of its kind marking "the only contribution [on commercial law] that can clearly be ascribed to [t]he common lawyers"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed and slightly bowed, elaborately rebacked in gilt, a very good, clean copy with excellent margins
- Book No.:
- W-76493
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- bankruptcy, Commercial Law
- Author:
- Title:
- The International Flow of Private Capital, 1946-1952
- Publisher:
- United Nations Department of Economic Affairs, New York, 1954.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps rebound in cloth-backed boards; a sound ex-library copy
- Book No.:
- W-31022
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics
- Author:
- Title:
- The Statutes of California and Amendments to the Codes. . .1883
- Publisher:
- James J. Ayers, Supt. State Printing, Sacramento, 1883.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, reinforced with tape; usable
- Book No.:
- W-59700
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- California, Acts
- Author:
- Partridge, Samuel
- Title:
- Seven Charges Given to Grand Juries, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
- Publisher:
- Sold by Lackington, Allen, and Co., London, 1809.
- Description:
- A rare sammelband, bringing together seven grand jury charges, four on sedition and related matters and two on alehouses, the first dedicated to Edmund Burke, together with his response in acceptance; four copies in OCLC, one in this country
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, light browning, else a usable copy, with the half-title and with two additional leaves between pages 17 and 19; 59 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76228
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, justices of peace
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Annae Reginae Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Sexto. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Twenty third Day of October, Anno Dom, 1707. In the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, London, 1708.
- Description:
- The legislation enacted at the third session of Anne's first parliament, including the act (still partly in force) establishing the Protestant line of succession [c.7] and the regulation of foreign coins in America [c.30]; with the table of all acts
- Condition:
- Contemporary panelled mottled calf, rebacked, definite browning and foxing, else a good copy, with the signature of Thomas Lund, Mayor; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78836
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, Religion, economics
- Author:
- Title:
- Collection of Conventions (1951-1988)
- Publisher:
- Hague Conference on Private International Law.
- Description:
- Bilingual edition, in English and French
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, a good sound copy; 355 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30775
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Leys, W.C.S. and J.F. Northey
- Title:
- Commercial Law in New Zealand. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Butterworths, Wellington, 1978.
- Description:
- With two (of four) parts devoted to contracts, and the fourth to insolvency
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19989
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- NEW ZEALAND, Commercial Law
- Author:
- Lay, S. Houston and Howard J. Taubenfeld
- Title:
- The Law Relating to Activities of Man in Space
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56205
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- space law
- Author:
- Carr, Cecil T. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, A.D. 1530-1707
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1913.
- Description:
- The work which Maitland invited Carr to undertake for the Selden Society, containing several dozen previously unpublished charters, its introduction called by J.H. Beale "a valuable contribution . . . good law, good history and good reading"
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy; volume XXVIII for the Society's Year 1913
- Book No.:
- W-74677
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- corporations, 16TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; With Various Papers Relative to the Plague: Together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of Those in Great Britain and Ireland. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [& three others], London, 1789.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Howard's two major works, "the first survey . . . which had ever appeared", supplemented by Howard's further observations on prisons, providing the empirical bases for the first modern reforms of both prisons and hospitals
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, the original spine (worn) laid down, the front hinge cracked and the title a bit loose; a good copy with the plates
- Book No.:
- W-77811
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law, legal reform
- Author:
- Horn, David R. (ed.)
- Title:
- Papers from a Conference on Ferromanganese Deposits on the Ocean Floor
- Publisher:
- National Science Foundation, Washington, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a good copy; 293 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30337
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- mining law, maritime law
- Author:
- Robinson, Thomas
- Title:
- The Common Law of Kent: or, the Customs of Gavelkind. With an Appendix Concerning Borough-English. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers, for P. Uriel [etc.], London, 1788.
- Description:
- The principal work on the custom of gavelkind, peculiar to Kent and significantly different from the English law of inheritance and intestacy, providing much comparative value; first published in 1741, Robinson's work appeared as late as 1897
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, some foxing, yet still attractive
- Book No.:
- W-49506
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- gavelkind
- Author:
- Bigelow, Robert P. (ed.)
- Title:
- Computers and the Law, An Introductory Handbook
- Publisher:
- Commerce Clearing House, Inc., New York, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, the spine faded; 150 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51884
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, computers & law
- Author:
- Wooddeson, Richard
- Title:
- A Brief Vindication of the Rights of the British Legislature; In Answer to Some Positions Advanced in a Pamphlet, Intitled, "Thoughts on the English Government, Letter the Second," [etc.] [with the half-title not noted in RLIN]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Luke Hansard . . . for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London, 1799.
- Description:
- Only edition of the last work of Wooddeson, whose abilities have bracketed him with Blackstone, and who indeed held the Vinerian chair at Oxford as Blackstone did, "a remarkable production" responding to John Reeve's ultra-monarchist sentiments
- Condition:
- Modern wraps, a very little dusty, but a good clean copy; 41 pages
- Book No.:
- W-18133
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Parliament
- Author:
- Howard, John
- Title:
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. Third Edition [with] An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe [with] The Appendix. Baumgartner 3, 21, and 28. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington and London, 1784-91.
- Description:
- Presentation copies of both of Howard's major works, displaying the enormous empirical data amassed by him, to provide the bases for the first modern reforms of both prisons and hospitals; with the rare first issue of the appendix to the 'Lazarettos'
- Condition:
- Contemporary diced panelled calf, rebacked, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, very good copies; with the forty-five plates, many elaborately folding
- Book No.:
- W-76702
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, New York, prisons, Procedure, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Title:
- Government of Palestine. Ordinances, Regulations, Rules, Orders and Notices. Annual Volume for 1937. Volume I, Ordinances
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Press, Jerusalem.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, showing wear, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-26099
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- PALESTINE, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of Patrick Mackay of Scourie, Esq
- Publisher:
- N.p., Printed in the Year, 1732.
- Description:
- A rare work, describing in great detail -- from Mackay's point of view -- the events forcing him to flee Scotland so as to avoid creditors (and his arrest) in a series of botched commercial transactions involving him, his brother, and a third party
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, some browning, the title and last leaf moreso, else a good copy, 49+71 pages; one copy in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76883
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Essays on the Spirit of Legislation . . . Containing Observations on the Political Systems at present pursued in various Countries of Europe, for the Advancement of those essential Interests [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Nicoll . . . and G. Robinson [etc.], London, 1772.
- Description:
- First edition in English of the three essays honored by the Societe Oeconomique de Berne, the pioneering institution founded in 1759 and devoted to the ideals of the Enlightenment, "seeking reforms [both] in economy and society"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, the first blank and title a bit chipped (no text affected), some browning, else quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-74849
- Price:
- $ 575.00
- Category:
- agriculture, Commercial Law, Acts, legal reform, FRANCE
- Author:
- Frankfurter, Felix
- Title:
- The Conditions for, and the Aims and Methods of, Legal Research
- Publisher:
- Iowa Law Review, Iowa City, 1930.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Reprinted from the year's second issue; yellow wraps, 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62296
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- San Francisco Savings Union, Plaintiff and Respondent, Vs. J.W. Lee, et al, Defendants, A.C. Bowlin, Apellant. From the Superior Court of Tulare County, Judge Wm. W. Cross
- Publisher:
- Daily Times Print, Visalia, 1897.
- Description:
- Two briefs and transcript on appeal from judgement ordering the seizure of a land tract along with the right to 3/4 of the goods it yields. Attorneys W.W. Middlecoff and T.H. Ward
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, wear to spine, otherwise in very good condition; 37+30+21 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91844
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Cohen, Julius
- Title:
- The Political Element in Legal Theory: A Look at Kelsen's Pure Legal Theory
- Publisher:
- Yale Law Journal, New Haven, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the November 1978 issue, Volume 88 Number 1, pages 1 to 38
- Book No.:
- W-92080
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Krasnegor, Norman A.
- Title:
- Cigarette Smoking as a Dependence Process
- Publisher:
- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, 1979.
- Description:
- NIDA Research Monograph 23
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 194 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90011
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- drugs
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of the Departmental Committee on Proceedings before Examining Justices
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, worn but usable; 31 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90348
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Arndt, Christian O. and Samuel Everett (eds.)
- Title:
- Education for a World Society: Promising Practices Today
- Publisher:
- Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A sound copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30691
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- education
- Author:
- Title:
- Guidelines for Domestic Relations Cases, Before Donald B. King, Judge of the Superior Court, San Francisco
- Publisher:
- Recorder Publishing Co., San Francisco, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled tan wraps, well-preserved; 42 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91278
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- domestic relations, trials, San Francisco, California
- Author:
- Title:
- Managing Early HIV Infection
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, 1994.
- Description:
- Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians #7
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 36 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30456
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- medicine
- Author:
- Title:
- International Investment Law Conference
- Publisher:
- American Society of International Law, Washington, 1956.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, plastic spiral-bound; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-31158
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Chamberlayne, Edward]
- Title:
- Englands Wants: or, Several Proposals Probably beneficial for England, Humbly offered to the Consideration of all Good Patriots in both Houses of Parliament. Wing C1841
- Publisher:
- Printed for, and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor, in Amen-Corner, London, 1685.
- Description:
- Chamberlayne's seventy-five point program for the reform of the English polity, first appearing shortly after the Restoration and here issued a few years before the Glorious Revolution; with a great many prescient proposals still of value
- Condition:
- The title trimmed (but legible), bound in a new 1/4 calf
- Book No.:
- W-43988
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Real Property, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- A Conversation with Secretary Ray Marshall, Inflation, Unemployment, and the Minimum Wage
- Publisher:
- American Enterprise Institute, Washington, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 27 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30751
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- economics
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1924, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Orders-in-Council, Rules and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1925.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-91073
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Title:
- Domestic Corporation Laws of Alabama
- Publisher:
- N.p., 1924.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, a good sound copy; 102 pages
- Book No.:
- W-31062
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- corporations, Alabama
- Author:
- Title:
- Uganda Protectorate. 1934. Ordinances and Subsidiary Legislation, Containing Orders in Council, Rules, Regulations, Proclamations, Orders, Notices, Native Laws, Etc.
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Uganda.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, stained but sound
- Book No.:
- W-91112
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Uganda
- Author:
- Frankfurter, Felix
- Title:
- The Supreme Court in the Mirror of Justices, Being the First Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Law School [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Privately printed, Philadelphia?], 1957?].
- Description:
- A major lecture by the Justice, focusing on the history of the Court and the qualities necessary to serve upon it; inscribed "For Fritz, with the hope / that his generosity in / clearing the track was / not frustrated, and / the regards of FF"
- Condition:
- Printed green stapled wraps, well-preserved; 21 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62031
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Cooley, Thomas M.
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1868.
- Description:
- First edition of Cooley's magnum opus, a work admired by Holmes and used by him in his undergraduate course on constitutional law at Harvard, described by his principal biographer as "the most fecund source of laissez faire constitutional principles"
- Condition:
- Modern sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, some markings and an occasional notation, else a very good copy; with an eight page Little Brown catalogue
- Book No.:
- W-75017
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- constitutional law
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- A Review of the Statutes, Both Ancient and Modern; Especially Concerning the Practick Part of the Law . . . To which is prefix'd, A Compleat Table; shewing in what Statutes Justices of the Peace are concerned: Whether One or more [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Nutt . . . for D. Browne [and two others], London, 1715.
- Description:
- The uncommon first edition of Jacob's first or second work, alphabetically digesting and glossing English statute law by subject, and so anonymously launching a career which was to establish his "lasting reputation . . . based on his legal writings"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, slightly strained, occasional minor marginal staining, else a very good crisp copy; seven copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77678
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, justices of peace
- Author:
- Weeks, Alvin G.
- Title:
- Massasoit of the Wampanoags, With a Brief Commentary on Indian Character; and Sketches of Other Great Chiefs, Tribes and Nations; Also a Chapter on Samoset, Squanto and Hobamock, Three Early Native Friends of the Plymouth Colonists
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed, Fall River, 1920.
- Description:
- The copy stated to have been presented to "The Honorable Oliver Wendell Holmes, Esquire" in appreciation for his contribution towards the erection of a memorial to Massasoit, with Holmes' purported ownership signature (not genuine) on the first blank
- Condition:
- Original orange cloth, gilt, a bit of wear and light browning, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-72997
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Northrop, William B. and John B. Northrop
- Title:
- The Insolence of Office, The Story of the Seabury Investigations
- Publisher:
- G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, very worn; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-10539
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- Historia Placitorum Coronae. The History of the Pleas of the Crown . . . First American Edition. With Notes and References to Later Cases by W.A. Stokes and E. Ingersoll of the Philadelphia Bar. Two Volumes [complete]. Cohen 3704
- Publisher:
- Robert H. Small, 25 Minor Street, Philadelphia, 1847.
- Description:
- First American edition of the masterpiece of one of England's greatest judges and scholars of legal history, in Maitland's words "[n]o man of his age was better . . . equipped for the task [and] none had a wider or deeper knowledge of the materials"
- Condition:
- Later tan buckram, contrasting crimson and black labels, gilt, crinkling to some of the pages, else a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-78012
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- pleading, criminal law
- Author:
- Walthoe (comp.), John
- Title:
- A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of this Realm. With Some others relating thereunto . . . Alphabetically digested under proper Heads. With An Account of the Best Editions, and Common Prices they are now Sold at
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.N. for J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters &c, London, 1714.
- Description:
- Walthoe's first law-book catalogue, and the first to appear in the 18th century, largely based in turn on the pioneering catalogue of Thomas Bassett, to whom "belongs the distinction of compiling and publishing the first bibliography of English law"
- Condition:
- Modern mottled calf, title darkened, some browning, else crisp with a 1790 gift inscription and the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79275
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Bibliography
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increase of Robers, ec. With Some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street [etc.], London, 1751.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18199
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, Acts, ancient law, Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, education, legal ephemera, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, law and prostitution, roman law, Supreme Court, trials, women's law
- Author:
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Title:
- On the Liberty of the Press and Public Discussion and other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal. Edited by Catherine Pease-Watkin and Philip Schofield
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2012.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy; The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Law, Penology, and Criminal Law
- Book No.:
- W-78469
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, freedom of press, SPAIN, PORTUGAL
- Author:
- Ashe, Thomas
- Title:
- Epieikeia: Et Table generall a les Annales del Ley, per quel facilment troueres touts les cases contenus in yceux; queux concerne le exposition des Statutes per Equitie [etc.]. S.T.C. 840
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of the Stationers, London, 1609.
- Description:
- Only edition of Ashe's much praised work, its introduction [in English] "a highly intelligent discourse on the nature of equity in English law", capturing from the year books and reported cases instances in which statutes have been extended equitably
- Condition:
- Modern dark calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, red edges, three circular library stamps, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79324
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- equity, Year Books, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Magna Charta, cum statutis, tum antiquis, tum recentibus, maximopere, animo tenendis nunc demum ad vnum, tipis aedita per Richardum Tottell S.T.C. 9280; Beale S19
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Richard Tottell, the 8. day of Marche 1576, London, 1576.
- Description:
- A pioneering printing of Magna Carta, introducing recent statutes, providing references to Rastell's Collection (and even improving and adding to it), and containing a new preface, all to be followed in the main in subsequent editions
- Condition:
- Modern calf, double blind ruled and gilt lettered, very light browning, else well preserved with generous margins and occasional notes; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79400
- Price:
- $ 5500.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gold Coast, GHANA, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Weaver, John D.
- Title:
- Warren, The Man The Court The Era
- Publisher:
- Little Brown, Boston, 1967.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-10853
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Summary of Provisions of Taft-Hartley Act
- Publisher:
- President of the International Typographical Union, Indianapolis, 1947.
- Description:
- The text of the Taft-Hartley Act, prefaced by an extensive analysis of it, seemingly quite dispassionate and objective, by the American Federation of Labor's general counsel's office
- Condition:
- Printed self-wraps; 36 pages
- Book No.:
- W-43350
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1944, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Rules, Regulations, Orders and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1945.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-91092
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- Le Reading del Mon Seignior Coke, Sur Lestatute de 27 E[dward] I [1299]. appelle Lestatute de Finibus Levatis [etc.]. Quarto. Wing C4943
- Publisher:
- Excudebat T.R. Sumptibus G. Lee, D. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1662.
- Description:
- First edition (and the only separate issuance) of Coke's only published reading, twenty-three lectures given by him at Lyons Inn shortly after he was called to the bar, and a rare example of a lecture's text delivered before an Inn of Chancery
- Condition:
- Modern calf, the spine gilt-lettered, especially crisp and well-preserved, with the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78653
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Readings, Inns of Court, Real Property
- Author:
- Title:
- Orders deuised by the especiall commandement of the Queenes Maiestie, for the reliefe and stay of the present dearth of Graine wihin the Realme; Sent from the Court at Greenewich abroad into the Realme . . . by her Maiesties Priuie Counsell. S.T.C. 9194
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1587.
- Description:
- The pathbreaking Privy Council orders issued following the 1586 famine seeking to ensure the public food supply, regulating with minute care and prompt reporting quantities permitted each family and prices for the excess to be brought to market
- Condition:
- Modern calf, elaborately gilt, slightly bowed, front joint just cracking but very firm; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79135
- Price:
- $ 2000.00
- Category:
- poor law
- Author:
- Lopez y Gonzalez de Cano, Ramon
- Title:
- Antecedentes de la Carta Magna. Discurso Leido en la Universidad Central en el Acto Solemne de Recibir la Investidura de Doctor en la Facultad de Filosofia. (Seccion de Admnistracion.)
- Publisher:
- Imprenta y Estereotipia de M. Rivadeneyra, Madrid, 1859.
- Description:
- The rare doctoral dissertation of Lopez, praising Magna Charta ("the only formula for liberty possible in our own national venture"), and suggesting the influence of Magna Charta beyond England; one copy in OCLC at the National Library of Spain
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, paper label printed in manuscript, showing some wear, but quite sound, 15 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91825
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Magna Carta, SPAIN
- Author:
- Title:
- The Annual Volumes of the Selden Society. Volumes 1 through 132 [together with] Supplementary Series (selected volumes) [together with] Annual Lectures (selected) [together with] related ephemera [detailed listing on request]
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1887-2015.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt, varying wear, some volumes ex-library, but overall a good, sound set
- Book No.:
- W-61134
- Price:
- $ 7500.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, English Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1931, and Subsidiary Legislation. Two volumes
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, dusty but usable
- Book No.:
- W-91079
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Welford, Richard Griffiths
- Title:
- The Influences of the Game Laws . . . Evidence Taken Before a Select Committee . . . on the Game Laws . . . and An Address to the Tenant Farmers of Great Britain by John Bright [etc.] [bound with] John Lewis Ricardo, The Anatomy of the Navigation Laws
- Publisher:
- 1] R. Groombridge and Sons [2] Charles Gilpin, London, 1846 & 1847.
- Description:
- The work which Bright published at his own expense, proposing the abolition of the game laws, following shortly after his association with Richard Cobden, bound with a similar effort by his fellow M.P., John Ricardo, to abolish the navigation laws
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled edges, somewhat strained, label lacking, else usable; no copy of Ricardo's work in OCLC in the USA
- Book No.:
- W-76820
- Price:
- $ 200.00
- Category:
- game law, maritime law
- Author:
- Title:
- Criminology -- A Bibliography. Research and Theory in the United States, 1945-1972
- Publisher:
- Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, Philadelphia, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, faded and a bit soiled, with a few ink markings; 159 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90421
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Annual Volumes of the Laws of the Northern Region of Nigeria, 1959. Volume One only
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Kaduna, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, the hinges a bit weak, but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-90933
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, NIGERIA
- Author:
- Redmond, Mary
- Title:
- The Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act 1976 and the Constitution
- Publisher:
- The Irish Jurist, Dublin, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed stapled wraps, a very good copyy, pages 1-35; from Volume XIII new series 1978, Part 1
- Book No.:
- W-92011
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, criminal law
- Author:
- Fiss, Owen M.
- Title:
- Foreword: The Forms of Justice [The Supreme Court, 1978 Term]
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- In the November 1979 issue, Volume 93 Number 1, original printed sewn wraps, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-92113
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Tebbs, H.V.
- Title:
- Essay on the "Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce, and on the Criminal Character and Punishment of Adultery, by the Ancient Laws of England and other Countries"
- Publisher:
- Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington [etc.], London, 1822.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 morocco, joints cracking, discreetly ex-library, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-48031
- Price:
- $ 225.00
- Category:
- adultery, women's law
- Author:
- Title:
- Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. Annual Report for the Year 1908 on the Education Department
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Lagos, 1909.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, stapled wraps, quite worn, the rear wrap detached
- Book No.:
- W-90961
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, NIGERIA, education
- Author:
- Horne, Andrew
- Title:
- La Somme appelle Mirroir des Justices: vel Speculum Iusticiariorum, Factum per Andream Horne . . . Horne mihi cognomen, Andreas est mihi nomen. Wing H2790
- Publisher:
- Printed by E.G. for Matthew Walbanke and Richard Best [etc.], London, 1642.
- Description:
- First edition of a unique medieval law book, a bemused Maitland wondering whether its author was a "lawyer, antiquary . . . pedant, faddist [or] romantic" and called by Plucknett "certainly the most fantastic work in our legal literature"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, crimson morocco label, double gilt ruled and lettered, light browning, else well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79660
- Price:
- $ 900.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories, and Togoland Under British Mandate. 1936
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Accra, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, red cloth, dampstained but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90795
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gold Coast, Ashanti, GHANA
- Author:
- Mun, Thomas
- Title:
- A Discourse of Trade, from England vnto the East Indies: Answering to diuerse Obiections which are usually made against the same. S.T.C. 18255; ESTC S101128. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Pyper, London, 1621.
- Description:
- First edition of Mun's first and highly influential work, contending that a nation's balance of trade is the most important condsideration determining its prosperity, earning him the reputation as "one of the key economic writers of the Stuart age"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, definite browning, lacking the first and last blanks and the title in facsimile, the margins cut close, textually complete; the Taussig cop
- Book No.:
- W-79799
- Price:
- $ 8000.00
- Category:
- economics
- Author:
- Sloss, Peter F.
- Title:
- Alice's Adventures in Jurisprudencia. Illustrated by Sally Richardson
- Publisher:
- Borogove Press, Belvedere, 1982.
- Description:
- A must for any Lewis Carroll fan, and indeed anyone else wondering what it would be like if Humpty Dumpty were Chief Justice, written by the San Francisco lawyer said by a colleague to be "the most creative and brightest attorney I ever worked with"
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, illustrated, 87 pages, as new, the remainder of the unsold copies purchased by us directly from the author, Peter Sloss, in 1998
- Book No.:
- W-63644
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- humor, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Banner, Richard
- Title:
- A Treatise of Simony. Wherein is enquired, How far the Practice of Buying and Selling of Presentations, so common in this Kingdom, may come under the Notion of it [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Watts in Bow-street, Covent Garden, London, 1716.
- Description:
- A rare tract condemning simony (the form of ecclesiastical corruption said to have been named after Simon Magus), relying on Coke, Gibson, and Lyndwood, inter alia, and associating simony with both perjury and breach of trust; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, resewn and repaired, lightish staining and pencil underlining, margins cut close (legibility preserved), else a good copy; 42 pp
- Book No.:
- W-76188
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Pound, Roscoe
- Title:
- Uniformity of Commercial Law on the American Continent. Se