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- Author:
- Bellewe (ed.), Richard
- Title:
- Ascvns Nouell cases de les ans et temps le Roy, H.8. Ed.6. & la Roygne Mary, Escrie ex la graund Abridgement, composed per Sir Robert Brooke . . . disperse en les Titles. Mes icy collect sub ans [etc.]. S.T.C. 3821.5; Beale R479; Cowley 72; not in Baker
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio, London, 1578.
- Description:
- The work containing portions of the first Inns of Court reading to be printed, Justice Frowyk's lecture on Prerogative Regis, preceding by several decades the the first (in 1635) located in J.H. Baker's "Readings and Readers in the Inns of Court"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, blind centered lozenges, joints just cracking but very firm, an exceptionally clean copy with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78989
- Price:
- $ 1350.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, reports of cases, Inns of Court
- Author:
- Gold, Joseph
- Title:
- Convertible Currency Clauses under Present International Monetary Arrangements
- Publisher:
- George Washington University, Washington, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, 32 pages; reprinted from Volume 13 of the University's Journal of International Law and Economics
- Book No.:
- W-91683
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- banks, international law
- Author:
- Title:
- Diversite de Covrtes lour iurisdictions et alia necessaria et vtilia. S.T.C. 10953; Beale T129; McKerrow & Ferguson 53
- Publisher:
- Nicholas Hill for Henry Smith?, London, 1545.
- Description:
- The rare, final edition (and the only Smith printing) of one of just a handful of early English legal tracts, treating of royal and other courts, including King's Bench, the Common Bench, Chancery, the Exchequer, and the Marshalsea inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, light browning, else a very good copy with ample margins and the occasional early annotation, four copies in ESTC; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78988
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Annual Report 1993
- Publisher:
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Washington, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 124 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30854
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Gold, Joseph
- Title:
- Substitution in the International Monetary System
- Publisher:
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, 62 pages; reprinted from Case Western's Journal of International Law, Volume 12
- Book No.:
- W-91682
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- banks, international law
- Author:
- Levy, Leonard W.
- Title:
- The Establishment Clause, Religion and the First Amendment
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1986.
- Description:
- A work praised by the likes of Erwin Griswold, Richard B. Morris, and Philip B. Kurland, asserting that the First Amendment does in fact erect a wall between church and state preventing governmental assistance to religious bodies
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-64623
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Religion, Bill of Rights
- Author:
- Title:
- The Abridgement of the Boke of Assises, lately p[er]used ouer & corrected. & nowe newlye imprynted by Rycharde Tottle, the last daye of September An. Do. 1555. Cum priuilegio. S.T.C. 9605; Beale R53; Cowley 49?
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Fletestrete . . . by Richard Tottel [etc.], London, 1555.
- Description:
- One of only four early abridgements of the Year Books (with Brooke, Fitzherbert and Statham), in this case of the Book of Assizes, the unique year book which, in Milsom's words, "reports processes we do not otherwise see, on circuit, before juries"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf neatly repaired, centered blind lozenges, early ownership signatures, an extensive gloss throughout on ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78987
- Price:
- $ 4250.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, Year Books, juries, trials
- Author:
- Gold, Joseph
- Title:
- The Fund Agreement in the Courts, XV
- Publisher:
- International Monetary Fund, Washington, 1980.
- Description:
- Reprinted from International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, Vol. 26, No. 3
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, 24 pages; reprinted from Volume 27, No. 3 of the Fund's Staff Papers
- Book No.:
- W-91681
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics, international law
- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine (Now Lord Erskine), When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treasons. Second Edition [with] Speeches of Lord Erskine When at the Bar. Five Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Ridgway [etc.], London, 1812-1816.
- Description:
- A compendium of Erskine's greatest speeches, including his first major case defending Captain Baillie, and his defenses of Lord Gordon, the Dean of St. Asaph, Thomas Paine, James Hadfield, and a host of others, together with much related material
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, the spines extra gilt, marbled edges, pastedowns, and endpapers, an especially well-preserved, even luscious set
- Book No.:
- W-78986
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, FRANCE, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Consideration of the Proposal for an Increase in the Resources of the Bank. Proceedings. Special Meeting of the Board of Governors
- Publisher:
- Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy; 29 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91680
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- banks, international law
- Author:
- Jong, Fang-Ling
- Title:
- Book Paradise
- Publisher:
- Guangaxi Normal University Press, Guelin, 2005.
- Description:
- First mainland China edition of Ms Jong's second work, uniquely exploring the Western book world through an Asian's eyes; though its text is in Chinese, its color photography is unmatched in any language with an emphasis on the eccentric and charming
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, new; 254 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77016
- Price:
- $ 30.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, CHINA
- Author:
- Black, Eugene R.
- Title:
- The Diplomacy of Economic Development
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown and black cloth, a clean ex-library copy
- Book No.:
- W-30851
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- diplomacy
- Author:
- Ross, Walter
- Title:
- Lectures on the Practice of the Law of Scotland; in Two Volumes [complete]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bell & Bradfute, and Elphingston Balfour, Edinburgh, 1792.
- Description:
- First edition of Ross's estimable work, described by David Walker as "very learned" and "the first attempt to make Scottish conveyancing understandable . . . of high authority and cited many times in argument, in judgment and in legal writing"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, quite rubbed and marked, else a very good, wide-margined copy; one copy in North America in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77245
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Pound, Roscoe
- Title:
- The Law of the Land. Not in Setaro [compare Setaro 151]
- Publisher:
- Knight Printing Co., Fargo, 1927.
- Description:
- Dean Pound's address delivered to the North Dakota Bar Association in September, and reprinted in at least six other publications, this reprint seemingly not located in Setaro, which does find a similar reissue, though with a different caption title
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, the recto of the first page unevenly browned, else well preserved; 11 pages
- Book No.:
- W-78984
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- American Law
- 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:
- Miller, Glenn W.
- Title:
- American Labor and the Government
- Publisher:
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1948.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Tan cloth, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-30622
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- An Index to the Records, with Directions to the several Places where they are to be found. And Short Explanations of the different Kinds of Rolls, Writs, &c. To which is added A List of the Latin Sir-Names, and Names of Places [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by P. Uriel, in the Inner Temple Lane, London, 1775?.
- Description:
- The rare final edition of the work (variously attributed to Sir Joseph Ayloffe or John Strachy) providing the 18th century location of the great mass of England's public records; with a list of Latin surnames and placenames in English translation
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, a very good crisp copy, with the errata and advertising leaves; no copy in OCLC, three in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77244
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- English Law
- Author:
- Ashe, Thomas
- Title:
- Abridgment des tovts les Cases reportez alarge per Monsieur Plowden, ouesque, les Exceptions al pleadings & leur Responses, les Resolutions des matters in Ley, & touts auters principal matters surdants sur les arguments de mesmes [etc.]. S.T.C. 20037
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Ianae Yetsweirt. Cum Priuilegio, London, 1597?.
- Description:
- First edition of the first abridgement of the first named English reports, undertaken by the pioneer of this genre of legal literature, in Holdsworth's words "a great maker of indices and abstracts"; with the preface cancelled in most copies
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, rubbed and somewhat marked, some blanks a bit frayed, else quite clean and fresh, without A4 (?blank); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78983
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, 16TH CENTURY, reports of cases
- Author:
- Anson, William R.
- Title:
- Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in its Relation to Contract. Nineteenth edition
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1945.
- Description:
- The foremost elementary treatise devoted to the English law of contract, one of Anson's two principal works, now having gone through over twenty editions since its first appearance in 1879
- Condition:
- Worn and varnished; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-40618
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- contracts, Agency
- Author:
- Stienstra, Donna and Joe S. Cecil
- Title:
- The Role of Staff Attorneys and Face-to-Face Conferencing in Non-Argument Decisionmaking
- Publisher:
- Federal Judicial Center, Washington, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 67 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30621
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Guernsey, R.S.
- Title:
- Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet:--The Burial of Ophelia
- Publisher:
- AMS Press, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- The facsimile reissue of the paper read before The Shakespeare Society of New York on June 9, 1885, and then published by Brentano Bros for the Society
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-78982
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Shakespeare, Ecclesiastical Law, law of burial
- 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:
- Wu, John C.H.
- Title:
- Fountain of Justice, A Study in the Natural Law
- Publisher:
- Sheed and Ward, London, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-78981
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- The Complete Parish-Officer; Containing The Authority and Duty of High Constables, Petty Constables [Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors], To which is added the Office of Constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon. The Twelfth Edition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for S. Birt [and two others] [etc.], London, 1750.
- Description:
- A rare edition of one of Jacob's earliest works and conceivably his most popular, reaching a 16th edition by 1772, with Bacon's tract on constables appended, this the only work other than Bacon's own to contain it; one copy in ESTC, none in COPAC
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-77241
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- poor law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- A Booke of certaine Canons, concernyng some parte of the discipline of the Churche of England. In the yeare of our Lord 1571. S.T.C. 10063
- Publisher:
- Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, London, 1571.
- Description:
- A rare printing of the 1571 canons, describing the duties of bishops, deans of churches, archdeacons, churchwardens, preachers, and schoolmasters, inter alia, concluding with the sentence of excommunication; two copies in ESTC in this country
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, lightly browned, else quite crisp with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78980
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Watkin, Thomas G. (ed.)
- Title:
- Legal Record and Historical Reality, Proceedings of the Eighth British Legal History Conference, Cardiff, 1987
- Publisher:
- Hambledon Press, London, 1989.
- Description:
- Thirteen essays, including those on witchcraft in early modern England and 17th century Virginia, freedom of the seas, Roman legal categories in the early common law and the social and legal history of gaming, among others
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19754
- Price:
- $ 60.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Stern, Carl
- Title:
- Die Kaufmannischen Lieferungsgeschafte und die gebrauchlichsten Klauseln beim Handelskauf unter Berucksichtigung der Aufwertungsfrage und wichtiger Notverordnungen
- Publisher:
- J. Bensheimer, Mannheim, 1924.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, embrowned and a little pencilling, sound; 158 pages
- Book No.:
- W-52778
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- GERMANY
- Author:
- Acret, James (ed.)
- Title:
- California Mechanics' Liens & Other Remedies
- Publisher:
- California Continuing Education of the Bar, Berkeley, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-50090
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- California
- Author:
- Boscawen, William
- Title:
- A Treatise on Convictions on Penal Statutes
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Moore. . .and Henry Watts [etc.], Dublin, 1792.
- Description:
- First Dublin edition, appearing in the same year as the first London, of Boscawen's pioneering treatise, examining the summary powers of justices of the peace to try and convict without a jury, a subject neglected by Burn and others in earlier works
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, front joint just cracking, somewhat rubbed, yet a very good, well preserved copy
- Book No.:
- W-13867
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- criminal law, justices of peace
- 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:
- Burby, William E.
- Title:
- Handbook of the Law of Real Property
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1943.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original maroon buckram, somewhat browned, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-91678
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Real Property
- Author:
- Salvadori, Massimo
- Title:
- NATO, a Twentieth-Century Community of Nations
- Publisher:
- D. Van Nostrand Company, New York, 1957.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A paperback original rebound in red cloth, ex-library, sound
- Book No.:
- W-30849
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- international law, diplomacy
- Author:
- St. Germain, Christopher]
- Title:
- The Exact Abridgement of that Excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of John More Esquire [etc.], London], 1630.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked in morocco; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-55310
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY, Abridgements
- Author:
- Gore, Montague
- Title:
- A Letter to His Grace the Duke of Wellington . . . on the Present State of the Country
- Publisher:
- James Fraser, Regent Street, London, 1840.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, else clean, presentation copy ("With the Author's / compts" on the front wrap); 56 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91676
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- B., T.
- Title:
- A Few Words of Friendly Caution to the Tories in the Two Houses of Parliament
- Publisher:
- Painter, 342, Strand [and] Benjamin Hall, High-Street, London [and] Birmingham, 1844.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, else a good copy; 41 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91675
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Orders and Directions, Together with a Commission for the Better Administration of Justice . . . How, and by whom the Lawes and Statutes tending to the reliefe of the Poor . . . and the reformation of Disorders . . . are executed [etc.]. S.T.C. 9252.4
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1630.
- Description:
- The Book of Orders of Charles I, part of the "exceptionally elaborate" first efforts to establish a highly organized system of local government, this printing the sole (of three) to name the individual privy councillors and their responsibilities
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, gilt, light browning, the top margin cut a bit close, else very fresh, with the first blank "A"; the Taussig copy [as in S.T.C.]
- Book No.:
- W-78978
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- legal reform, poor law, justices of peace
- Author:
- Sunstein, Cass R.
- Title:
- After the Rights Revolution, Reconceiving the Regulatory State
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a very slightly chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-77238
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law
- Author:
- Lambard, William
- Title:
- Eirenarcha: or of The Office of the Iustices of Peace, in two Bookes: Gathered 1579 and now reuised, and firste published, in the 14 yeare of the peaceable reigne of our gratious Queene Elizabeth. S.T.C. 15163; Beale T387
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Ra: Newbery, and H. Bynnemann [etc.], London, 1581.
- Description:
- First edition of the work for which Lambard is best remembered, his seminal work on justices of the peace "which must be placed at the head of that long list of books . . . which stretch from the seventeenth to the twentieth century"
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered vellum, well rubbed and worn, remains of ties, yet exceptionally clean with generous (?large paper) margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78977
- Price:
- $ 5000.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- Author:
- Pomeroy, Dwight A.
- Title:
- Cases on Business Law
- Publisher:
- South-Western Publishing Company, Cincinnati, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn but sound
- Book No.:
- W-16409
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law
- Author:
- Branch, Thomas
- Title:
- Principia Legis & Aequitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions, and Memorable Sayings in Law and Equity. And the Latin Maxims and Rules Translated, by John Richardson, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. Fifth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed J. & W.T. Clarke, Law Booksellers . . . Lincoln's Inn, London, 1824.
- Description:
- Final edition of the substantial and successful, alphabetically arranged, collection of maxims, numbering over 2,000, which "contains more law and more useful matter than any one book of the same size which can be put into the hands of the student"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, joints rubbed, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77237
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- maxims, Legal Prints
- Author:
- Harrington, James
- Title:
- The Art of Law-Giving: in III Books. The First Shewing the Foundations . . . of all the kinds of Government. The Second, Shewing the . . . Commonwealths of Israel and of the Jews. The Third, Shewing a Model fitted unto the present State [etc.]. Wing H806
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher, at the three Gilt Cups [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The only early edition of the work which J.G.A. Pocock numbered among Harrington's "most ambitious", appearing soon after his 'Oceana' and in part its forceful abridgement, propelling Harrington into "the mainstream of national political argument"
- Condition:
- Early 3/4 calf, rubbed, front hinge strained but firm, imprint shaved and top and bottom margins cut close, the main text unaffected; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75410
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- jewish law, jurisdiction, political theory
- Author:
- Fitzherbert, Anthony
- Title:
- La Nowelle Natura breuium du Iudge tresreuerende Monsieur Anthonie Fizherbert dernierement renue & corrige per laucteur [bound with] Thomas Littleton, Les Tenures du monsieur Littleton, ouesque certein cases addes [etc.]. S.T.C. 10962 and 15746
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Tottelli [imprints vary], London, 1581 & 1583.
- Description:
- Two works central to early English law, each of the highest authority, here bound together and glossed (the Littleton's paper format so designed) with the signatures of Thomas and Robert Thornton, conjecturally father and son Lincoln's Inn barristers
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, remains of clasps, partly interleaved and the Littleton printed in larger format, extensively glossed; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78976
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- Procedure, Real Property
- Author:
- Blume, William Wirt
- Title:
- American Civil Procedure
- Publisher:
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 1955.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Maroon cloth, a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-30842
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Procedure
- Author:
- Pomeroy, Dwight A.
- Title:
- Cases on Business Law. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- South-Western Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1941.
- Description:
- A revision mandated by the New Deal legislation enacted during the mid to late 1930's, with materials added on social security and labor law, and an entirely new chapter on bankruptcy, prompted in part by the Chandler Act
- Condition:
- Rubbed and faded, title and other pages creased, yet a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-16408
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Casebooks
- Author:
- Paul, G.O.
- Title:
- Observations on the State of the Glocester Infirmary . . . Offered to the Consideration of the Special General Court Held on the 22d of November, 1796 [with] [Report of the Court in Response in August 1797 and a List of Contributions and Contributors]
- Publisher:
- Printed [by] the President and Governors Present [and] N.p., Gloucester?, 1796 & 97.
- Description:
- A rare example of the pioneering work of Paul, "typify[ing] the eighteenth-century justice at his best", complementing his efforts at prison and lunacy reform as inspired by the works of Blackstone, John Howard, and Cesare Beccaria
- Condition:
- Original printed self wraps, reinforced, 64+11+12 pages, with the half-title; two copies of the first, one of the second, in ESTC in this country
- Book No.:
- W-77235
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Health Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Environmental Quality, The Fourth Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 499 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30620
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- environmental law
- Author:
- Deazley, Ronan, Martin Kretschmer et al (eds.)
- Title:
- Privilege and Property, Essays on the History of Copyright
- Publisher:
- OpenBook Publishers, Cambridge, 2010.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated yellow wraps, a very good copy; 438 pages
- Book No.:
- W-78973
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- copyright
- Author:
- Title:
- Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea, Ordained and Established by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England; For the Regulating and better Government of the Navies, Fleets and ships of War, and Armies by sea of the Commonwealth of England [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, London, 1652.
- Description:
- The rare official printing of the act regulating the English navy, passed by the House of Commons in 1649 and here printed, crafted by Robert Blake ("Father of the Royal Navy"), listing thirty-nine offences and their punishments; five copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern vellum backed boards, interleaved, definite browning, but sound, bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron on the front pastedown; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78972
- Price:
- $ 1150.00
- Category:
- war, international law, maritime law, Acts
- Author:
- Silveira, Alipio
- Title:
- Interpretation of Law as Regards Social-Political Regime
- Publisher:
- N.p., Sao Paolo, 1941?].
- Description:
- A condensed English translation of the author's work originally published in Porteguese; with a foreword by Eduardo Espinola, Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court and a dedication to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Condition:
- Wraps, ex-Library of Congress, embrowned but usable; 42 pages
- Book No.:
- W-50083
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- jurisdiction
- Author:
- Title:
- Baron and Feme. A Treatise of Law and Equity, Concerning Husbands and Wives. Of Marriages, Bastardy, the Privileges of Feme Coverts . . . What Things of the Wife accrue to the Husband by the Marriage . . . Of a Feme Sole Merchant [etc.]. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E[lizabeth] and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1738.
- Description:
- Final, expanded edition of the first eighteenth century treatise on the English law of women, and only the second of its kind ever to appear, comprehensive in scope, treating of contracts, wills, separate maintenance, and criminal matters inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, rebacked, a bit rubbed, light browning, else quite clean with ample margins and the advertising leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78970
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- women's law
- Author:
- Title:
- Labor Laws of the State of California [etc.]
- Publisher:
- California State Printing Office, Sacramento, 1922.
- Description:
- The labor laws complemented by the appropriate provisions of the four principal codes (including the Penal Code), supplemented by digests of the law and reported decisions
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, worn but sound; 292 pages
- Book No.:
- W-42207
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- California, labor law
- Author:
- Blume, William Wirt
- Title:
- American Civil Procedure
- Publisher:
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 1955.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42200
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Procedure
- 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:
- Perkins, John
- Title:
- A Profitable Booke of Master Iohn Perkins, felow of the Inner Temple treating of the lawes of England. S.T.C. 19637 [variant]; Beale T.423
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Fleestreete [sic] . . . by Richarde Tottell, London, 1581.
- Description:
- A late sixteenth century edition of one of the classics of English land law, one which Holdsworth paired with Littleton's Tenures and which Coke termed "wittily and learnedly composed", first appearing in Latin in 1528, this edition in Law French
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, blind-centered lozenges, rebacked, worn, joints rubbed, but a good wide-margined copy, with extensive early glosses throughout
- Book No.:
- W-55304
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Real Property
- Author:
- Baker, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Selected Readings and Commentaries on Magna Carta 1400-1604
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 2015.
- Description:
- Professor Baker's selection of Inns of Court readings on Magna Carta (a "source . . . which has lain almost entirely unnoticed"), plus Sir Edward Coke's unpublished essay on Chapter 29, providing a new dimension to the story of the Great Charter
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-78752
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Hunt, Thomas
- Title:
- The Honours of the Lords Spiritual Asserted: And Their Priviledges To Vote in Capital Cases in Parliament Maintained by Reason and Precedents. Collected out of the Records of the Tower And the Journals of the House of Lords. Wing H3755. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Braddyll, and are to be Sold by Robert Clavel etc, London, 1679.
- Description:
- The first work of Hunt, the Gray's Inn barrister and "sophisticated polemicist" who was to gain fame (and be subject to arrest for seditious libel) in opposing the divine right of kings and believing that unlawful magistrates were rightfully resisted
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, light browning, the margins cut close, just affecting some page numbers and one catchword and the word "Finis"; 32 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76288
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Hepburn (ed.), H.P.
- Title:
- Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of the State of California in the year 1853
- Publisher:
- T. & J.W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, Philadelphia, 1855.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-13855
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- California, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Communications and International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1988.
- Description:
- The complete four-part Senate subcommittee hearings conducted for over a year, together with its report of December, 1988, focusing largely on the Caribbean and Central and South America; with John Kerry as its Chair and Daniel Moynihan a member
- Condition:
- Original printed green wraps, a very good set in five volumes [complete]
- Book No.:
- W-91668
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- drugs, international law
- Author:
- Haight, Charles S. and Arthur M. Marsh
- Title:
- Questions and Answers for Bar-Examination Review. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Baker, Voorhis & Company, New York, 1909.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original tan buckram, contrasting crimson and black morocco labels, gilt lettered, showing definite wear, but a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-91667
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Letowski, Janusz (ed.)
- Title:
- Administration in People's Poland
- Publisher:
- Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, Wroclaw, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps; 276 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30838
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- administrative law, POLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Bancroft Library at 100: A Celebration 1906-2006
- Publisher:
- Bancroft Library, Berkeley, 2006.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled green wraps, 353 items in 95 pages; well-preserved
- Book No.:
- W-91665
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act to amend and render more effectual, in His Majesty's Dominions in America . . . An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for . . . extending the Provisions of the said Act to His Majesty's Marine Forces in America [15 Geo III c.15]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan [etc.], London, 1775.
- Description:
- A rare separate printing of the extension of the Quartering Acts to marine forces as well as those on land, increasing the existing tensions with the American colonies, and ultimately one of the grievances stated in the Declaration of Independence
- Condition:
- Modern green wraps, title + pages 383-406, light browning, else well-preserved with ample margins; four copies in ESTC, one in England
- Book No.:
- W-76282
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, military law
- 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:
- Bohun, William
- Title:
- Declarations and Pleadings In the most usual Actions brought in the several Courts of King's-Bench and Common-Pleas at Westminster, viz Scandal of Peers . . . Slander of Common Persons . . . Case For Non-feasance and Negligences, Mal-fesances and Torts
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1733.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Bohun's several works following the 1732 act requiring that English be used in the Royal courts--and an early work using the word 'torts' in its title, distinguishing between negligence as nonfeasance and torts as malfeasance
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, later handwritten label, the boards slightly bowed and the spine inkstained, else especially fresh; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78967
- Price:
- $ 225.00
- Category:
- Procedure, torts, libel and slander
- Author:
- Title:
- Arbitration/Big Case: ABC's of Dispute Resolution
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association, Washington, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 156 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30832
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- arbitration
- Author:
- Pearson, J.D. (ed.)
- Title:
- Papers on Oriental Library Collections [Bibliotheca Asiatica 8]
- Publisher:
- Inter Documentation Company, Zug, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-91660
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Six Autograph Letters signed, from Wait Talcott to his wife, Elizabeth, written while Talcott was in Washington D.C. before the United States Supreme Court, having been sued by Cyrus McCormick for patent violations, fourteen pages in total
- Publisher:
- Privately Written, Washington, 1858.
- Description:
- The case said to have "lifted Lincoln into a Presidential candidate", these letters written by Talcott (who had retained Lincoln as his lawyer) while attending the argument before the Court, providing the funds for Lincoln's ensuing Senate candidacy
- Condition:
- Blank sheets measuring about 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, horizontal folds and very light browning, altogether extremely well preserved in a clear hand
- Book No.:
- W-78964
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- the Presidency, patents
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for Taking away the Fee of Damage Cleere
- Publisher:
- Printed by Edward Husband and John Field [etc.], London, 1650.
- Description:
- The broadside officially publicizing the act of the Commonwealth Parliament abolishing the vexatious fee of court called damage cleer or damna clericorum, in which court clerks had been entitled to an automatic 10% of all judgments
- Condition:
- Attractively matted; with the Commonwealth seal, black-letter
- Book No.:
- W-42994
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- legal ephemera, courts, Interregnum
- Author:
- Title:
- Typed Letter Signed on State of New York, Division of State Racing Commission Letterhead, from Herbert Bayard Swope as its Chairman to Justice Louis D. Brandeis at his home address on California Street in Washington D.C., one page dated May 15, 1940
- Publisher:
- Privately Written, Albany?, 1940.
- Description:
- A straightforward letter, though seemingly with a light, even amusing touch, in which Swope ("the greatest reporter of his time") informs Brandeis that the special card of admission to all New York race courses formerly sent him had been abolished
- Condition:
- Two horizontal folds, in blue ink, well preserved with Swope's signature clean and legible
- Book No.:
- W-78963
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Law of Horses
- 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:
- Halkerston, Peter
- Title:
- A Treatise on the History, Law, and Privileges of the Palace and Sanctuary of Holyroodhouse [etc.]
- Publisher:
- MacLachlan and Stewart, 62, South Bridge [etc.], Edinburgh, 1831.
- Description:
- Only edition of the work written by the lawyer who served as the bailie of the Abbey, founded in 1128 (its palace still the residence of Queen Elizabeth II one week a year), appearing when its sanctuary remained important for debtors
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, crimson morocco label, gilt, a very good clean copy, with the bookplate of Hew Dalrymple on the front pastedown
- Book No.:
- W-77220
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Thorne, Samuel E., et al. (eds.)
- Title:
- Year Books of Richard II, 6 Richard II 1382-1383
- Publisher:
- The Ames Foundation, Cambridge, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-61576
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Year Books, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo Tertio [and] XIII & XIV [and] Anno Regni Annae Reginae Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Primo [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb [&c], London, 1702.
- Description:
- The acts of William's final parliaments and Anne's first, including the act requiring Jews to support their Protestant children, "the avowed purpose of which was to assist the conversion of the Jews", largely unsuccessful but not repealed until 1865
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered panelled sheep, rubbed, some browning, else well-preserved, with the four page table of statutes; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78751
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- jewish law, Acts
- 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:
- 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:
- Halhed (ed. and trans.), Nathaniel Brassay
- Title:
- A Code of Gentoo Laws, or Ordinations of the Pundits. From a Persian Translation, Made From the Original, Written in the Shanscrit Language
- Publisher:
- n.p., London, 1776.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work in English describing the principles of Hindu jurisprudence, digesting Sanscrit law; translated by Halhed, the English orientalist and the first European to perceive the philosophical affinities of Sanscrit and Latin
- Condition:
- Contemporary boards, rebacked, a lovely ?large-paper copy
- Book No.:
- W-65854
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- hindu law, INDIA, Asian law
- Author:
- Firth, C.H. (intro.).
- Title:
- Stuart Tracts 1603-1693
- Publisher:
- Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Facsimile selections from Arber's 19th century "English Garner"
- Book No.:
- W-42781
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hargrave, Francis
- Title:
- Collectanea Juridica. Consisting of Tracts Relative to the Law and Constitution of England. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, London, 1791-92.
- Description:
- One of two works which Holdsworth termed Hargrave's "principal service to legal history", a rich and diverse selection of forty previously unpublished tracts from his extraordinary collection ultimately purchased and deposited in the British Library
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, ex-library, with the ownership signature of Sir Robert Gifford, Baron Gifford, and the bookplate of Henry Bickersteth, Baron Langdale
- Book No.:
- W-74675
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. New Edition, Edited by John Allan Mallory [etc.]. Ten Volumes
- Publisher:
- Estes & Lauriat, Opposite Old South, Boston, 1870's?].
- Description:
- The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language", beginning with the Anglo-Saxon chancellors and continuing through the 19th century
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, gilt, worn, some hinges cracked; a good working set
- Book No.:
- W-69059
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- Author:
- Scholberg, Henry (comp.)
- Title:
- South Asia Biographical Dictionary Index. Two Volumes [complete]. Biblotheca Asiatica 19
- Publisher:
- Inter Documentation Company, Zug, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good set in the dustjackets
- Book No.:
- W-91658
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1938, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Rules, Regulations, Orders and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1939.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, one hinge loose, yet quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-91086
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Sims, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Selections from the Records of the Government of India 1849-1937 [India Office Library and Records, British Library, London]
- Publisher:
- Inter Documentation Company, Zug, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustwrapper; Bibliiotheca Asiatica 21
- Book No.:
- W-91657
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Berman, Edward
- Title:
- The Massachusetts System of Savings-Bank Life Insurance. Bulletin No. 615
- Publisher:
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, Washington, 1935.
- Description:
- The elaborate report of the life insurance reform initiated by Louis Brandeis as a young Boston lawyer, one "that always remained closest to his heart"; its later expansion into a work published in 1936 Brandeis called "a thrilling book"
- Condition:
- Original printed green wraps, ex-Library of Congress duplicate, else a very good copy; 113 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76275
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- insurance law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Kane, William Everett
- Title:
- Civil Strife in Latin America: A Legal History of U.S. Involvement
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A sound copy in a faded dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30828
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- LATIN AMERICA
- Author:
- Lee, Oey Hong
- Title:
- Power Struggle in South-East Asia. With accompanying collection of 70 selected documents on 11 microfiches
- Publisher:
- Inter Documentation Company, Zug, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-91656
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 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:
- Miller, Justin
- Title:
- Handbook of Criminal Law
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1934.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17049
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Clementson, George B.
- Title:
- The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen, With Table of Contents and List of Cases
- Publisher:
- Callaghan & Co., Chicago, 1895.
- Description:
- Original edition of the first legal treatise devoted to cycling and bicyclists (or "wheelmen", as they were then called), written by a Wisconsin lawyer seeking to define with some care and precision cyclists' evolving rights and liabilities
- Condition:
- Original yellow cloth, rubbed, front hinge cracking but sound, inartful gift inscription on the first blank, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76272
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Law of Bicyclists
- Author:
- Title:
- The Great Boke of Statutes [Part 5, 1-15 Henry VIII] [1510-1523] [through] Statutes made in the parliament . . . in the xxxvii yere of the reygne of . . . Henry the eyght [37 Hen VIII] [1545] [with the Table]. Sixteen Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- J. Rastell [1]; R. Redman [1]; T Berthelet [14] [imprints vary], London, 1530-1551.
- Description:
- A complete collection of the legislation of the parliaments of Henry VIII, most contemporary, one unique, and many rare, including those of the years of the Reformation Parliament, the break with Rome, and the establishment of the Anglican Church
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind panelled unlettered calf, repaired but sturdy and very clean, bookplate of Edward Shnayerson; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78959
- Price:
- $ 20000.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament
- Author:
- Title:
- The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand. Collected, and with an Introduction and Notes, by Irving Dilliard. First Edition, Third Printing [and] The Spirit of Liberty [one of 375 copies, privately printed by Leonard F. Bahr]
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf [and] Adagio Press, New York [and] Harper Woods, 1952 & 1964.
- Description:
- Presentation copy of the only collection of Hand's essays and addresses, "To George F. Goodyear [fellow Harvard Law graduate and upstate New Yorker] / in the belief that the / performance will realize / the promise / Learned Hand / Sep 29, 1952"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt [and] printed stapled wraps, both works now housed in a specially designed folding case and cloth box; quite attractive
- Book No.:
- W-75615
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Bill of Rights, constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill. Part 2--Criminal Aspect [only]. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary [of the United States Senate], Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1961.
- Description:
- Three days of testimony (May 2, 4, and 5, 1961), with appearances by Abe Krash, Judge Alexander Holtzoff, and Professor Kenneth A. Pye, among several others
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled self-wraps, the front wrap somewhat soiled, else a good usable copy; pages 549-825
- Book No.:
- W-91652
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- insanity, constitutional law
- 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:
- Haldeman-Julius, Marcet
- Title:
- The Story of a Lynching, An Exploration of Southern Psychology
- Publisher:
- Haldeman-Julius Monthly, Girard, 1927.
- Description:
- "I read the Haldeman-Julius Monthly and Quarterly diligently. I hear of them wherever I go. I really believe that there is no one in the country who is doing anything like the good for freedom of thought and action that you are doing"-Clarence Darrow
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy; the August issue, Volume VI, No. 3, with the Darrow testimonial at the top of the front wrap
- Book No.:
- W-75612
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Higgs, Joseph
- Title:
- A Guide to Justices; Or Modern English Precedents, for the Direction of Justices of Peace and their Clerks, In making out Warrants, Mittimus's, Recognizances, Supersedeas's, Affidavits, Informations, . . Not being in any Book Extant [etc.]. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for S. Wirt [and three others], London, 1750.
- Description:
- The rare final edition of Higgs' work, arranged alphabetically, with the forms and text intermixed, based on his several decades as Clerk of the Peace in Gloucestershire, with an emphasis on excise, game, poor, and tithes; four copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, a bit rubbed and strained, the joints just cracking but firm, a very good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-77216
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- Author:
- Title:
- De Termino Michaelis Anno primo Henrici sexti [through] De termino Trinitais Anno XX Henrici sexti [1422-1442]. Fourteen volumes bound in one. S.T.C. 9617; 9624; 9631; 9637.5; 9642; 9648; 9651; 9658; 9664; 9669; 9676; 9681; 9687; 9691.5
- Publisher:
- Pynson (9); Berthelet (2); Middleton (2); Redman (1), London, 1503-47.
- Description:
- An extensive collection of fourteen early separately printed year books reporting cases from the first half of the reign of Henry VI, all but one recorded in the Short Title Catalogue (under "BHP"), with the majority printed by Richard Pynson
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, rebacked, ex-Bath Public Library, some worming and marginal fraying, else sturdy with early annotations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78750
- Price:
- $ 45000.00
- Category:
- Year Books
- Author:
- Kahn, Douglas
- Title:
- Sum and Substance of Federal Income Tax. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Josephson Center for Creative Educational Services, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized printed wraps, some ink highlighting; 568 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30820
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- taxation
- Author:
- Swinburne, Henry
- Title:
- A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes . . . Compiled of such lawes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this Realme, nor derogatorie to the Prerogative Royall [etc.]. STC 23547.3; not in Beale
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Windet, London, 1591.
- Description:
- The unique variant printing (dated 1591) of the first work on the English law of wills, and the first work by an Englishman on English canon law, praised by J.H. Baker as "a model of clarity" and by David Yale as "a full and accomplished treatise"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered lozenges, rebacked, somewhat rubbed and chipped, light browning and some staining, else well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78951
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- Wills
- Author:
- Title:
- Iniunccions geuen by the moste excellent prince, Edward the sixte, by the grace of God, kyng of England, Fraunce and Irelande . . . To all and singuler his louyng subiectes, as well of the Clergie, as of the Laietie. S.T.C. 10090.3
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Richard Grafton [etc.], London, 1547.
- Description:
- The first efforts to reform the English church under Edward VI, the popular reception of which remains debated, with the requirement of clergy celibacy ended, church property defaced or destroyed, chantries abolished and processions banned inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern boards, the joints frayed and beginning to crack, but sound, some browning, elaborate contemporary gloss, Goyder bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78950
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Leather Bound Law Books - about 20 volumes
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-70385
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Dowling, Noel T.
- Title:
- Cases on Constitutional Law. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Foundation Press, Inc., Brooklyn, 1946.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn, extensive underlining, a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-52548
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, constitutional law
- Author:
- Teichman, Jenny
- Title:
- Illegitimacy; An Examination of Bastardy
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-52742
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Family Law
- Author:
- Goebel, Jr., Julius
- Title:
- Felony and Misdemeanor, A Study in the History of Criminal Law. Volume I [all published]
- Publisher:
- The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 1937.
- Description:
- Original edition of a classic, praised by Plucknett as "a book of great distinction", part of a larger work Goebel never completed and giving us "the best and most complete treatment in English of European criminal procedure"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, in a chipped dustjacket, bookplate removed, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-70384
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, dark ages
- Author:
- Kirsop, Wallace
- Title:
- Buying Law Books in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
- Publisher:
- Centre for the Book, Monash University, Melbourne, 2003.
- Description:
- A cultured, suggestive, and seemingly pioneering, lecture on the market for law books in Melbourne from about 1840 to 1900, noting the early predominance of auctions and discussing principal collectors, both institutional and private
- Condition:
- Printed pink stapled wraps, a bit spotted, else well-preserved, 23 pages; one of 200 copies
- Book No.:
- W-71327
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- AUSTRALIA, Bibliography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Prichard, M.J.
- Title:
- The Army Act and Murder Abroad
- Publisher:
- Stevens and Sons Limited [for the Cambridge Law Journal], London, 1954?].
- Description:
- Condition:
- Reprinted from the November issue, a bit crinkled; 10 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62504
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- military law, criminal law
- Author:
- Howard, Jr., J. Woodford
- Title:
- Courts of Appeal in the Federal Judicial System, A Study of the Second, Fifth, and District of Columbia Circuits
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a very good copy; 415 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74666
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- courts, appeals
- Author:
- Vold, Lawrence
- Title:
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Sales
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minn., 1949.
- Description:
- Second edition
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19521
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, law of sales
- Author:
- Thurston, Gavin
- Title:
- Coroner's Practice
- Publisher:
- Butterworth and Co. (Publishers), London, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, gilt, rubbed, ex-H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd Medical & Scientific Lending Library, with its elaborate bookplate; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91649
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- coroners
- Author:
- Title:
- Treaties in Force, A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 1969. Department of State Publication 8432
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized sewn wraps, a bit worn, the head of the spine chipped, ex-Msg. Gleason Library, but a usable copy; 376 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91647
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- international law, diplomacy
- 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:
- Jong, Fang-Ling
- Title:
- My Love Affair with Bookshops. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- In Chinese], Taiwan?], 2007.
- Description:
- The third 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, a very good copy in the dustjacket, with the errata slip and several post cards laid in; copy 063 of 1,000 inscribed by the author
- Book No.:
- W-76262
- Price:
- $ 60.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, CHINA
- Author:
- Keeton, Robert E.
- Title:
- Venturing to do Justice, Reforming Private Law
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-51799
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- privacy
- Author:
- Canfield (eds.), George F. Canfield and I. Maurice
- Title:
- Cases and Other Materials on Private Corporations
- Publisher:
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17036
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, corporations
- Author:
- Carr, Cecil (ed.)
- Title:
- Pension Book of Clement's Inn
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, rubbed and marked, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-60708
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same [5 Geo III c.12] [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Mark Baskett [etc.], London, 1765.
- Description:
- The first (and the official) printing of the Stamp Act, calling forth the iconic objections of the colonies, leading to a coalesced Sons of Liberty, a decade of debate, and, ultimately, the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, the sewing loose, else a very good, untrimmed copy preserved in a modern folding case; title + 279-310 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76260
- Price:
- $ 11500.00
- Category:
- American Revolution, colonies, Acts, Parliament
- Author:
- Burby, William E.
- Title:
- Law Refresher
- Publisher:
- Parker and Company, Los Angeles, 1946.
- Description:
- A work designed to capture the entirety of the law in one volume, whether for bar review purposes or those of the general practitioner; with an extensive table of cases and a good index arranged by principal subject matters
- Condition:
- Worn and a bit shaken, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-17035
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Ackerman, Bruce
- Title:
- We the People. Volume one, Foundations
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-77207
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
- Author:
- Vold, Lawrence
- Title:
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Sales
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1941.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52541
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, law of sales
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, Branched into a double Tract: The One Containing a Collection of some principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law [and] The Other The Use of the Common Law [etc.]. S.T.C. 1134; Gibson 193. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of Iohn Moore Esq., London, 1630.
- Description:
- First edition of Bacon's most famous legal work, and the first collection in English of the maxims of English law, part of Bacon's larger scheme to systematize and reform the law, and part of a much more extensive collection of his maxims now lost
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, rubbed, the spine snagged, some browning, one blank defective, else well preserved with exceedingly ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78946
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- maxims, jurisprudence
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Important Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artistes, from 15th to 20th Century, The Library of Margaret and Stanley Winkelman
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 2007.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed oversized wraps, a very good copy, 142 lots in 76 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91640
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Stephenson, Andrew
- Title:
- A History of Roman Law, With a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1912.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, rubbed, the spine somewhat dull, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-78945
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- roman law
- Author:
- Berger, Curtis J.
- Title:
- Cases and Materials on Housing. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, oversized, a bit rubbed, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-30812
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Proehl, Paul O. [Ed.]
- Title:
- Legal Problems of International Trade
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Gray cloth, a bit inked, and one hinge weak; but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-30811
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Pepinsky, Harold E. (ed.)
- Title:
- Rethinking Criminology
- Publisher:
- Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 160 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90429
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Braucher, Robert and Arthur Sutherland
- Title:
- Commercial Transactions, Selected Statutes
- Publisher:
- The Foundation Press, Mineola, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Front hinge badly cracked, else a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-17033
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law
- Author:
- Amos, Sheldon
- Title:
- The Science of Law
- Publisher:
- Henry S. King & Co., 65 Cornhill, and 12 Paternoster Row, London, 1874.
- Description:
- First English edition of Amos's most successful work, written while he was Professor of Jurisprudence in University College, London, the chair held by Austin, whose influence with that of Bentham is evident throughout
- Condition:
- Original red decorated cloth, the spine somewhat darkened and its top taped, else a very good copy; The International Scientific Series Volume X
- Book No.:
- W-78943
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, philosophy of law
- Author:
- Title:
- Incipit Tabula huius libri [Abbreuiamentum statuorum]. S.T.C. 9514; Duff 376; Beale S40; Cowley 3
- Publisher:
- Explicit abbreuiamentum statutorum Impressum per Ricardum Pynson, London, 1499.
- Description:
- Second edition of the first abridgment of the English statutes, "a great improvement on the 1481 edition", the first to be printed by Pynson and one of only two statutory abridgments of English law (the other the 1481 edition) printed before 1500
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 calf, rubbed, light browning, a few leaves darkened, Signet Library gilt crests and Eric Sexton bookplates; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78942
- Price:
- $ 35000.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, Acts
- Author:
- Stryker, Lloyd Paul
- Title:
- Courts and Doctors
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company, New York, 1932.
- Description:
- A serious work, Stryker having been General Counsel of the Medical Society of the State of New York, with a separate part devoted to malpractice, and chapters to abortion and contraception
- Condition:
- Original maroon cloth, gilt, the spine rubbed; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60706
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Kyd, Stewart
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Corporations. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, London, 1793-94.
- Description:
- Only edition of a pathbreaking treatise, and the only treatise of its kind to appear in the eighteenth century, praised by Holdsworth as "a very complete and learned work [and] a remarkably able pioneer treatise on this subject"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf, rebacked, the original spines laid down, some foxing to the second title page and following, else very clean; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-78940
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- corporations
- Author:
- Goldstein, Robert D.
- Title:
- Mother-Love and Abortion, A Legal Interpretation
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-47119
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, abortion
- Author:
- Parry, Edward Abbott
- Title:
- The Drama of the Law
- Publisher:
- T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, nicked at the top of the spine, yet sound
- Book No.:
- W-63155
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Gambia. Ordinances Enacted in the Year 1963
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Limp russet cloth, badly dampstained and warped; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90699
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances, Rules, Regulations, Orders, etc., of the Gambia, 1961
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Limp red cloth, worn and dampstained, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-90698
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-68099
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. Seven Volumes
- Publisher:
- Fred. D. Lynn & Company, Publishers, Jersey City, 1881.
- Description:
- One of Lord Campbell's two principal works, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest through the early 19th century; with the two volume continuation by Sir Joseph Arnould and the seventh volume index to the whole
- Condition:
- Original olive-green cloth, gilt, a bit of wear and some browning, but a good, sound set
- Book No.:
- W-71317
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances, Rules, Regulations, Orders, etc., of the Colony of the Gambia, 1950
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1950.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Limp red cloth, much worn, but sound; ex-British Library
- Book No.:
- W-90697
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances, Rules, Regulations, Orders, etc., of the Colony of the Gambia, 1949
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1949.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Limp blue cloth, dampstained but sound; ex-British Library
- Book No.:
- W-90696
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Title:
- Ordinances, Rules, Regulations, Orders, etc., of the Colony of the Gambia, 1948
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1948.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Limp brown cloth, dampstained but sound; ex-British Library
- Book No.:
- W-90695
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Mann, Golo
- Title:
- The History of Germany Since 1789, translated from the German by Marian Jackson
- Publisher:
- Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, New York, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-11142
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- GERMANY
- Author:
- Title:
- Gambia. Ordinances, Rules and Regulations. 1940-43
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1940-43.
- Description:
- Chronologically arranged
- Condition:
- Blue buckram, gilt, a sound copy; ex-Middle Temple Library
- Book No.:
- W-90693
- Price:
- $ 200.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Harris, George
- Title:
- The True Theory of Representation in a State; or, The Leading Interests of the Nation, Not the Mere Predominance of Numbers, Proved to Be Its Proper Basis
- Publisher:
- Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, London, 1857.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern black cloth, a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-60703
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- political theory
- Author:
- Title:
- Argument of Clarence Darrow In the Case of the Communist Labor Party in the Criminal Court, Chicago. Hunsberger 130 [erroneously stating the work to contain Darrow's 1912 bribery trial argument]
- Publisher:
- Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago, 1920.
- Description:
- Darrow's powerful argument supporting freedom of speech, anticipating Holmes' dissent in Gitlow, defending twenty men arrested in an infamous 'Palmer Raid'; "seldom [have I] seen a case where I believed so heartily that I am right as this"
- Condition:
- Original light-gray printed wraps, chipped but sound; 116 pages
- Book No.:
- W-67438
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- communist law, freedom of speech, Radicals, constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Gambia. Ordinances, Rules and Regulations. 1935-39
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1935-39.
- Description:
- Chronologically arranged
- Condition:
- Blue buckram, gilt, a good sound copy; ex-Middle Temple Library
- Book No.:
- W-90692
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Title:
- Gambia. Ordinances, Rules and Regulations. 1929-1934
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1929-34.
- Description:
- Chronologically arranged, with each year preceded by a subject index
- Condition:
- Blue buckram, gilt, a good sound copy; ex-British Library
- Book No.:
- W-90691
- Price:
- $ 300.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Veale, E.W.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Great Red Book of Bristol. Introduction (Part I). Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval Bristol [with] Text (Parts I-III). Four Volumes. Mullins 42.2, 42.4, 42.8 and 42.16 [A fourth Part of Text was published in 1953]
- Publisher:
- Bristol Record Society, Bristol, 1931.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth-backed boards, a bit rubbed, ex-library, else a good sound set; the Society's Publications Volumes II, IV, VIII, and XVI
- Book No.:
- W-74653
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Trial Court Performance Standards, With Commentary [Commission on Trial Court Performance Standards, A joint project of the National Center for State Courts and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, United States Department of Justice]
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a trifle rubbed, else a very good copy; 41 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91639
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Gambia Ordinances, 1923-1928
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Bathurst, 1923-28.
- Description:
- Chronologically arranged, and preceded by numeric and subject indices
- Condition:
- Blue buckram, a good sound copy; ex-British Library
- Book No.:
- W-90690
- Price:
- $ 300.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Gambia
- Author:
- Lister, John (ed.)
- Title:
- West Riding Session Rolls, 1597/8-1602; Prefaced by Certain Proceedings in the Court of the Lord President and Council of the North, in 1595. Mullins 71.3
- Publisher:
- The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, n.p., 1888.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blind and gilt embossed brown cloth, hinges just cracking, ex-library, else a good copy; Record Series Volume III
- Book No.:
- W-74652
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Peterson, Mark, Syam Sarma and Michael Shanley
- Title:
- Punitive Damages, Empirical Findings
- Publisher:
- Rand Corporation, The Institute for Civil Justice, Santa Monica, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy; 125 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91638
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Stott, Jr., E. Keith, Theodore J. Fetter, et al
- Title:
- Rural Courts, The Effect of Space and Distance on the Administration of Justice
- Publisher:
- National Center for State Courts, Denver, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, the spine somewhat sunned, else a very good copy; 113 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91637
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- courts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Jeffrey Young Collection
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 197 lots in 112 pages; with the prices realized list, somewhat crinkled, laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91636
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Beck, Theodric Romeyn
- Title:
- Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. Second Edition, with Notes, and an Appendix of Original Cases and the Latest Discoveries. By William Dunlop
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Anderson, Medical Bookseller [etc.], London, 1825.
- Description:
- The first English edition of Beck's most important work, "the first authoritative book on medical jurisprudence published in the United States", reaching a twelfth edition later in the century--"remarkably comprehensive [and] clearly . . . written"
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary boards, an early rebacking in morocco, quite rubbed, but a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76253
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Medical Jurisprudence
- Author:
- Swinburne, Henry
- Title:
- A Treatise of Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts: Wherein All the Questions relating to that Subject are ingeniously Debated and Resolved. Wing S6260. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell at the Peacock [etc.], London, 1686.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work on the English law of marriage, and one of Swinburne's two major works, written (in J.H. Baker's words) in "a felicitous informal style [contributing to] a reputation plac[ing] him in the ranks of the famous"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, very light browning, else quite crisp, with the bookplate of Charles Hedges dated 1702; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78939
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- marriage, women's law
- Author:
- Peake, Thomas
- Title:
- A Compendium of the Law of Evidence. Cohen 5092
- Publisher:
- Published by Thomas & Thomas, Walpole, 1804.
- Description:
- The first of the 19th century evidence treatises, influential upon Bentham (whose 'Rationale' was published in 1827) and commended by him, elsewhere described as "embod[yimg] considerable original thought and research, and . . . long in high repute"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, some browning; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-67430
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Evidence
- Author:
- Jones, Stephen R.G.
- Title:
- The Economics of Conformism
- Publisher:
- Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a slightly crinkled dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-91633
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Fitzherbert, Anthony
- Title:
- La Graunde Abridgement. Three Volumes [complete] [with the ?Wyer setting of the title page of volume 3]. S.T.C. 10954; Cowley 6; Beale R456, R458, and R459. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Rastell and Wynkyn de Worde, London, 1516.
- Description:
- The magisterial first edition of "the decisive book--the book that 'made' the Common Law", containing over 13,000 abridged case-notes in some 263 titles and digesting hundreds of years of medieval case law, including those cases otherwise lost
- Condition:
- Modern calf, the first title with the woodcut and text only, small loss on its verso, some dampstaining and strengthened margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77990
- Price:
- $ 35000.00
- Category:
- Abridgements
- 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:
- Parsons, Robert
- Title:
- An Answere to the Fifth Part of Reportes Lately set forth by Syr Edward Cooke . . . Concerning The ancient & moderne . . . lawes of England, which do apperteyne to Spirituall Power & Iurisdiction [etc.]. S.T.C. 19352 (cancel title)
- Publisher:
- Imprinted with licence [by F. Bellet], St. Omers, 1606.
- Description:
- Only edition of the polemic which Laski called "an attempt of great importance to show how the common law leaves room for the Pope", challenging Coke's reports of decisions limiting the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and to Coke's response
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, label lacking, definite browning, margins cut close (no text affected), else sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78937
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- A Colloquy on Motor Vehicle and Traffic Law
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, a sound copy; 124 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30804
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- law of automobiles
- Author:
- Heaney, Donald
- Title:
- Valuation of Property for Highways Under Eminent Domain
- Publisher:
- Automotive Safety Foundation, Washington, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, a sound copy; 108 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30803
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- law of automobiles, law of highways
- Author:
- Trusler, John
- Title:
- A Summary of the Constitutional Law of England, Being an Abridgement of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knt, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. Not in Eller; Laeuchli 123
- Publisher:
- W. Sleater, No. 28, and W. Colles, No. 17, Dame-street, Dublin, 1790.
- Description:
- The only Irish edition of the first abridgment of Blackstone, the earliest of three abridgments to appear in the 18th century, designed "to make Blackstone's Commentaries useful to all Classes of People"; uncommon, three copies in ESTC in the USA
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 leather over boards, somewhat rubbed and chafed, some browning, but sound, with the advertising leaf preceding the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78935
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Lamb, Charles M.
- Title:
- Land Use Politics and Law in the 1970s
- Publisher:
- George Washington University, Washington, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 85 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30802
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- environmental law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. . . . and Others; for the Murder of Pat. Ran. M'Donnell, and Charles Hipson . . . Also, The Trial of John Gallagher and Others, for an Assault on Geo. Rob. Fitzgerald [etc.]. Second Edition. O'Higgins 4.147.b&c
- Publisher:
- Printed by P. Byrne, 108, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1786.
- Description:
- The final episode in the life of a county Mayo scion "noted for his gallantry, his recklessness, and his duels", who abducted his brother, was betrayed by his father, left for dead in a prison attack, and here tried for murder for which he was hanged
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, the joints cracking and tender but holding, else attractive; with the armorial bookplate of Viscount Bulkeley dated 1785
- Book No.:
- W-74469
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, IRELAND
- 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:
- Catalogue of Printed Books Including Law , Victorian Literature and Art Reference Books [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sotheby & Co. at 115 Chancery Lane . . . (Hodgson's Rooms), London, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps; 72 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44568
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Pound, Roscoe
- Title:
- Law and Laws in the Twentieth Century, Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Law Quadrangle of the University of Michigan. Setaro 215 n.3
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Law School?, Ann Arbor, 1935?.
- Description:
- The rare separate printing of Dean Pound's 1934 address, reprinted from "Dedicatory Exercises of the Law Quardrangle", with four plates illustrating the Law Quadrangle, including several of the law library, reproduced; two copies in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original blue oversized wraps, slightly faded and chipped, pages 25-46; with four plates reproduced
- Book No.:
- W-78933
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- education
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Printed Books Including Law Books
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps; 75 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44567
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Greenleaf, Simon
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. Volume I. Cohen 5059 [A second volume was published in 1846, and a third volume in 1853]
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little & James Brown [etc.], Boston, 1842.
- Description:
- First edition of the first volume of Greenleaf's seminal treatise, grouped by Roscoe Pound with the great early American legal texts "as a significant force in our legal development", becoming the pre-eminent American work on evidence until Wigmore
- Condition:
- Original sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, scraped and quite rubbed, front joint starting but firm, some very light foxing, else a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-78932
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Evidence, Evidence
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Printed Books Including Law Books, Comprising The Property of . . . Messrs. Lawrence, Graham & Co., Manchester Incorporated Law Library Society . . . and Other Properties [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sotheby & Co. at 115 Chancery Lane . . . (Hodgson's Rooms), London, 1975.
- Description:
- The sale held on December 12, 1974, 517 lots, of which the first 91 are legal in nature, primarily antiquarian law; with the prices realized list taped into the front of the catalogue
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps; 69 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44566
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Auction Catalogues, Dealer, Bibliography
- Author:
- Tur, Richard and William Twining (eds.)
- Title:
- Essays on Kelsen
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat faded dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-78931
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- biography, philosophy of law
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Printed Books On Law, Natural History, Science and Medicine [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps, worn but sound; 44 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44565
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Fifoot, C.H.S.
- Title:
- Frederic William Maitland, A Life
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1971.
- Description:
- Praised by John Dawson as "the first full biography of Maitland", drawing upon Fifoot's earlier edition of Maitland's letters, upon unpublished family papers, and upon the reminiscences of Maitland's one surviving daughter; Studies in Legal History
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-44563
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- The Antitrust Laws, A Basis for Economic Freedom, A Staff Report to the Antitrust Subcommittee. . .of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled, printed wraps, worn but sound; 109 pages
- Book No.:
- W-52728
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Anti-trust
- Author:
- Bell, H.E.
- Title:
- Maitland, A Critical Examination and Assessment
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1965.
- Description:
- A fine biography of Maitland, rivalling Fifoot's, and possibly better capturing Maitland's character, with two chapters on the History of English Law, another on Domesday, a third on the Year Books, and an appendix on Maitland as a teacher
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-44562
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Fifoot (ed.), C.H.S.
- Title:
- The Letters of Frederic William Maitland
- Publisher:
- Selden Society [Supplementary Series, Volume 1], London, 1965.
- Description:
- All of Maitland's letters of substance insofar as Fifoot could locate them, exactly 500 in number, disclosing that Maitland was as felicitous and engaging a correspondent as he was an author; superbly edited
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, a bit faded, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-62303
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, MEDIEVAL, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Pleas of the Crown
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.
- Description:
- The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable generalizations on the records of the Royal courts
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a bit rubbed and marked, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-70368
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- courts, criminal law, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Skene, John
- Title:
- Regiam Majestatem Scotiae, Veteres Leges et Constitutiones, Ex Archivis Publicis, Et Antiquis Libris Manuscriptis Collectae [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Excudebat Thomas Finlason, Edinburgh, 1609.
- Description:
- The first edition in Latin of what has recently been termed "the principal treatise of medieval Scots law", gathered together with other important Scots legal sources, the use of which over the centuries through the 15th continues to be debated
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, quite worn, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-53380
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Acts
- 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 Ordinances of the Colony of Fiji, Enacted During the Year 1963 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Suva.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth, a bit dusty, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90688
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Fiji
- Author:
- Title:
- The Prerogatives of the King, and the Rights of the People. The Terms and Measures of Both. Of Power and Duty. The Laws of God, and of Man. The Doing as you would be Done by. Schism is Anarchy
- Publisher:
- The Observator [Printed for Joanna Brome [etc.]], London, 1683.
- Description:
- The December 12 issue of "arguably the court's most powerful weapon in the contest for public allegiance", cast in the form of a dialogue between the Observator and a Trimmer, exploring in a sophisticated, even slick, way the most fundamental matters
- Condition:
- Broadsheet, double-column, about 8 x 13 inches, untrimmed
- Book No.:
- W-65829
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- political theory, Newspapers
- Author:
- Title:
- The Ordinances of the Colony of Fiji, Enacted During the Year 1962 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Suva.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth, a bit dusty, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90687
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Fiji
- Author:
- Title:
- The Ordinances of the Colony of Fiji, Enacted Between the 16th April, 1955 and the 31st December, 1955 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Suva.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth, a bit dusty, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90686
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Fiji
- Author:
- Bryce, William Gordon (prep.)
- Title:
- The Laws of Fiji, Containing the Ordinances of Fiji and Subsidiary Legislation Thereunder [etc.] Four volumes
- Publisher:
- C.F. Roworth Ltd., London, 1956.
- Description:
- Volumes 1 through 4 only (of six); complete for ordinances
- Condition:
- Tan buckram, showing wear, but still a sound set
- Book No.:
- W-90685
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Fiji
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- The Third Part of the Institutes Of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall causes [bound with] The Fourth Part of the Institutes . . . Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. Wing C4961 and C4930. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed at London by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman, London, 1648.
- Description:
- Second editions of both parts, in which Coke first examines exhaustively and with a comprehensiveness not previously attained the criminal law of England, and then the English law courts, including Star Chamber, King's Bench, and Chancery, inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-ruled calf, ?later label lacking, rubbed, but very good copies, with both portraits before the titles
- Book No.:
- W-77989
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. State of Selangor. Enactments Passed in Council in 1909, Together with Rules, Etc., Published During 1909
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1910.
- Description:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, worn but still sound
- Book No.:
- W-90683
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. State of Selangor. Enactments Passed in Council in 1908, Together with Rules, Etc., Published During 1908
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1908.
- Description:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a bit worn, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90682
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- A True Account of The Horrid Murther Committed upon His Grace, The Late Lord Archbishop of Saint Andrews, Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland . . . With a Detection Of the Lyes Published in a late Scandalous Relation of the Murther [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by T.N. for Andrew Forrester . . . in Kingstreet, London, 1679.
- Description:
- The sole contemporary account of the tragic end of the still controversial James Sharp, the Archbishop of Saint Andrews, "shot and stabbed . . . to death before his daughter Isabella's eyes", ending a life of much religious dispute and contradiction
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound; title + 3-7 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76248
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Religion, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. State of Selangor. Enactments Passed in Council in 1907, Together with Rules, Etc., Published During 1907
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1907.
- Description:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90681
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Boyum, Keith O. and Sam Krislov (eds.)
- Title:
- Forecasting the Impact of Legislation on Courts [Panel on Legislative Impact on Courts, Committee on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council]
- Publisher:
- National Academy Press, Washington, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a very good copy; 217 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91629
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- courts, legal reform
- Author:
- Gaylin, Willard
- Title:
- Partial Justice
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-13814
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Shakespeare
- Author:
- Burn, Richard
- Title:
- The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Twenty-Second Edition: With many Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, By John King, of the Inner Temple [etc.]. In Five Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed by A. Strahan . . . for T. Cadell [etc.], London, 1814.
- Description:
- The most popular work on English local government ever to appear, described by Holdsworth as one of the four most important treatises of the 18th century, this the last but one to be prepared by Dr. Burn, with 30 editions (by 1869) to be published
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, gilt, ex-library, else a good clean set
- Book No.:
- W-72862
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- Author:
- Rastell, William (comp.)
- Title:
- A Collection in English, of the Statutes nowe in force, continued from the beginning of Magna Charta, made in the 9 yeere of the reigne of King H.3. vntill . . . the 23 yeere of the Reigne of our gracious Queene Elizabeth [etc.]. S.T.C. 9315; Cowley 77
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Christopher Barker . . . 1583 [colophon], London, 1583.
- Description:
- One of Rastell's two significant contributions to legal literature, in John Baker's words "ambitious . . . a valuable reference [and of] enormous success", arranging the statutes alphabetically and far surpassing all previous efforts
- Condition:
- Modern calf, the original covers mounted, margin of title repaired (no text affected), minor marginal worming, yet a very good copy (the Taussig copy)
- Book No.:
- W-77985
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Abridgements, Bibliography, Bibliography
- Author:
- Hand, Learned
- Title:
- The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand. Collected, and with an Introduction and Notes, by Irving Dilliard
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1952.
- Description:
- A marvelous presentation copy, to Edith Finch, Countess Russell, the fourth and last wife of Bertrand Russell, and a longtime friend of both Learned and Fanny Hand--"To Edith Finch / Whose unsullied / spirit shines for all / those who love her"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-74641
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Bill of Rights, constitutional law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Title:
- Darwin's Century: The Jeremy Norman Collection of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Portraits concerning the Theory of Evolution in the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 431 lots in 159 pages; with the prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91627
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Brooke, Robert
- Title:
- La Graunde Abridgement, Collect & escrie per le Iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, Chiualier, nadgairs chiefe Iustice del comon banke [bound with] La Secounde part du Graund Abridgement [etc.]. Two volumes in one [complete]. S.T.C. 3827; Beale 469 & 470
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Richardi Totell, London, 1573.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the two great early abridgments of English law, providing access to the centuries of Year Book cases and medieval legal sources otherwise virtually inaccessible; a massive work with over 20,000 entries arranged alphabetically
- Condition:
- Early calf, rebacked, the original unlettered spine laid down, light browning, else quite clean and wide-margined; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77984
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- Abridgements
- Author:
- Wood, Thomas
- Title:
- An Institute of the Laws of England; or, the Laws of England in their Natural Order, according to Common Use . . . To which is prefixed, Some Thoughts concerning the Study of the Laws of England, &c. by the same Author. Fourth and Third Editions. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.] [imprints vary], London, 1728.
- Description:
- A rare variant edition of Wood's treatise, the principal work examining English law between Finch and Blackstone, with his "Thoughts" in which he "made a strong plea for the inclusion of the common law into the curriculum at Oxford and Cambridge"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, somewhat worn and marked, else quite clean and well-preserved; six copies in ESTC, including this, the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77983
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence
- Author:
- Title:
- Seventy-six Important Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts from the library of the late David Solomon Sassoon Sold by Order of the Trustees
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1994.
- Description:
- The fifth sale of manuscripts from the Solomon Collection, following those in Zurich in 1975-78 and in New York in 1981-84
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 134 pages; with the prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91624
- Price:
- $ 17.50
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Practising Attorney: or, Lawyer's Office. Comprehending The Business of an Attorney in all its Branches [etc.]. The Fourth Edition. Volume I [only]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1737.
- Description:
- Condition:
- The boards lacking, a bit of foxing, a usable working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-16978
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Phillimore, Joseph (ed.)
- Title:
- Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Arches and Prerogative Courts of Canterbury, and in the High Court of Delegates: Containing the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir George Lee [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Saunders and Benning, Law Booksellers . . . 43, Fleet Street, London, 1833-32.
- Description:
- George Cruikshank's set of the only reports of an advocate of Doctors Commons to be printed, taken from the years when Lee was its President, with Cruikshank's bold ownership signatures and an original light pencil sketch said to be his in volume one
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 crimson morocco over cloth boards, somewhat rubbed, else a clean and appealing set
- Book No.:
- W-76242
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland, as Administered in England and America; with Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Second Edition. Cohen 2556
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1847.
- Description:
- The received edition of the commentary whose substance was at the heart of 'Swift v. Tyson', decided by a unanimous court whose opinion Story delivered, this edition expanded and based on Story's manuscript alterations and additions left at his death
- Condition:
- Original sheep, quite rubbed and scraped, but sound, a good clean copy now housed in a modern cloth box
- Book No.:
- W-77980
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Weinreb, Lloyd L.
- Title:
- Criminal Process, Cases, Comment, Questions. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- The Foundation Press, Inc., Mineola, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41219
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Casebooks
- Author:
- Title:
- The Medical Library of Warren G. Smirl, M.D.
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 384 lots in 86 pages; with the prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91622
- Price:
- $ 17.50
- Category:
- Author:
- Booysen, H. (ed.)
- Title:
- South African Yearbook of International Law. Volume 4
- Publisher:
- University of South Africa, Pretoria, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-51773
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Author:
- Burnett, Gilbert
- Title:
- The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench. Wing B5828
- Publisher:
- Printed for William Shrowsbery, at the Bible in Duke-Lane, London, 1682.
- Description:
- First reissue of one of the few early, contemporary biographies of an English judge or lawyer, still "the main source of personal details" of our knowledge of Hale and, in Holdsworth's words, "the best life"; with the frontispiece
- Condition:
- Contemporary gilt panelled goatskin morocco, skilfully repaired, the spine extra gilt, marbled pastedowns, quite a pretty copy
- Book No.:
- W-53376
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography, Inns of Court
- Author:
- Lusk, Harold F. and William B. French
- Title:
- Law of the Real Estate Business. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, 1975.
- Description:
- A lucid, very useful exposition; this third edition had gone through six printings (this one) within 18 months of its original appearance
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41213
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Real Property
- Author:
- Page, Sir Leo
- Title:
- The Young Lag, A Study in Crime
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1950.
- Description:
- Twenty-three case studies, followed by Page's extensive conclusions and proposals for reform
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-63135
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Sanders, Wiley Britton
- Title:
- Juvenile Courts in North Carolina
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1948.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-21687
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Keeton, Robert E.
- Title:
- Venturing to do Justice, Reforming Private Law
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-12865
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- privacy
- Author:
- Title:
- Tanganyika Territory. Ordinances Enacted During the Year 1937, with an Appendix Containing Proclamations, Rules, Regulations, Orders and Notices
- Publisher:
- Government Printer, Dar es Salaam, 1938.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library, cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-91085
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- Woman Suffrage [with] Shall the World's Fair Be Open on Sunday? [with] The Eight Hour Day. Hunsberger 4, 4a and 5
- Publisher:
- The Sunset Club, Chicago, 1893].
- Description:
- Three of Darrow's very earliest recorded public appearances, including his advocacy of woman suffrage, all debated at the Sunset Club, the organization which "turned out to be Darrow's university [and] constituted the greatest education of his life"
- Condition:
- Original dark maroon cloth, gilt, showing wear and somewhat faded and strained, the back cover spotted, but a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73693
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- women's law, labor law
- Author:
- Cator, Geoffrey Edmund
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Annual Report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Perak for the Year 1937
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1938.
- Description:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, worn and discolored, but quite usable; 164 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90678
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Urofsky, Melvin I.
- Title:
- A Conflict of Rights, The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54312
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, Acts Passed During the Year 1965
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth screw-binder, disbound, dampstained, and badly warped
- Book No.:
- W-90677
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- The Robbins Collection
- Publisher:
- University of California School of Law, Berkeley, 1991.
- Description:
- An informational brochure about the Robbins Collection
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, 11 pages; illustrated
- Book No.:
- W-57653
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, Acts Passed During the Year 1965
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth screw-binder, dampstained and disbound; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90676
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Sweet and Maxwell's Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Seven Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- John Rees, London, 1989-91.
- Description:
- Still the pre-eminent legal bibliography of the English-speaking world and the former British Empire, excluding only this country post-Independence, with individual volumes devoted to Ireland and Scotland; each volume also available separately
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-69929
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, roman law, SCOTLAND, English Commonwealth, IRELAND, CANADA
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, Acts Passed During the Year 1964
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth screw-binder, dampstained and disbound; yet usable
- Book No.:
- W-90675
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Owen, Henry
- Title:
- The Administration of English Law in Wales and the Marches. A Dissertation Read before the Regius Professor of Civil Law in the Schools at Oxford on the Thirty-first day of January, 1900
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, London, 1900.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original buckram printed oversized boards, worn and unevenly darkened, ex-King's College, University of London, with its bookplate; a presentation copy
- Book No.:
- W-74637
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- WALES
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1969
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1970.
- Description:
- Ex-British Library
- Condition:
- Blue cloth screw binder, warped and disbound; yet usable
- Book No.:
- W-90674
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Punke, Harold H.
- Title:
- Social Implications of Lawsuits over Student Hairstyles
- Publisher:
- Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, 1973.
- Description:
- With the stamp of The Civil Liberties Review on the front free endpaper and, laid in, a letter from the publisher to the Review's Managing Editor accompanied by a press release
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a bit rubbed; a review copy
- Book No.:
- W-65815
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- education
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1968
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1969.
- Description:
- Ex-Middle Temple Library
- Condition:
- Blue cloth screw-binder, disbound and badly dampstained; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90673
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Calhoun, George M. and Catherine Delamere
- Title:
- A Working Bibliography of Greek Law
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1927.
- Description:
- The first volume in Harvard Series of Legal Bibliographies edited by Eldon James, then the Law School's librarian, who provides a general preface; with an introduction by Roscoe Pound, terming the work a "painstaking achievement"
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, rubbed, the spine quite dull; usable
- Book No.:
- W-65814
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- greek law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceeding upon the Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King, In the Court of King's Bench [together with seventeen related works]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Buckley in Amen-Corner [imprints vary], London, 1722-23.
- Description:
- An extensive sammelband collecting the essential contemporary works documenting the failed Jacobite uprising of 1722, leading to the trial and execution of Layer (and others) and the banishment of Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, staining to some works and some browning, yet altogether easily usable; further details gladly provided
- Book No.:
- W-76239
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1967
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, dampstained and disbound; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90672
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1966
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Yellow cloth, dampstained and warped; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90671
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Henderson, Jr., John B.
- Title:
- American Diplomatic Questions
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company, New York, 1901.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, gilt, the spine sunned and front hinge cracked, ex-Joseph M. Gleason Library with its bookplate, a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-91619
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1965
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Yellow cloth, dampstained and warped; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90670
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Roebuck, Derek
- Title:
- Early English Arbitration
- Publisher:
- Holo Books, Oxford, 2008.
- Description:
- The continuation of Dean Roebuck's pioneering works on arbitration in the Western world, here providing us with the first history of how disputes were handled in England from Roman times until the Norman Conquest, using all surviving original sources
- Condition:
- Original cloth in the dustjacket, as new
- Book No.:
- W-74632
- Price:
- $ 80.00
- Category:
- arbitration
- Author:
- Title:
- The California Supreme Historical Society Yearbook. Volume 2
- Publisher:
- Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1997.
- Description:
- The Society's 1995, with an oral history of Justice Raymond L. Sullivan conducted by Gordon Bakken, an essay on Justice Sullivan's opinions in 'Serrano' and 'Westbrook', and Peter Reich's essay on Hispanic water law in California since 1850
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy; 219 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91618
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- California
- Author:
- Title:
- Whole of the Proceedings at the Assizes at Shrewsbury . . . in the Cause of the King on the Prosecution of William Jones, Attorney at Law, Against the Rev. William Davies Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph. For a Libel. McCoy S342
- Publisher:
- Printed by H. Goldney, No 15, Paternoster Row, London, 1784.
- Description:
- The trial at which Erskine uttered one of his greatest jury arguments, seeking to establish the bedrock principle empowering the jury (rather than the court) to determine seditious libel, ultimately to be embodied eight years later in Fox's Libel Act
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a very good clean copy, without the 1/2 title if called for
- Book No.:
- W-77975
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, freedom of press
- Author:
- Title:
- Autograph Letters, Music Manuscripts and Books from the Novello Collection
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1996.
- Description:
- The collection of the Novello family, important in Britain's musical history, with material pertaining to Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Dvorak and "the most important collection of letters of Elgar ever to appear for sale at auction"
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, 148 lots in 43 pages, a very good copy; with the prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91617
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Purvis, J.S. (ed.)
- Title:
- Bridlington Charters, Court Rolls and Papers, XVIth-XIXth Century. Being a Selection of Documents Illustrating the History of Bridlington under the Rule of the Lords Feoffees
- Publisher:
- A. Brown & Sons, Limited, London, 1926.
- Description:
- Presentation copy ("To J R E / in happy memory / by the author / JSP / January 1927"), possibly J.R. Earnshaw whom the editor thanks in his preface for the use of his collection of maps and plans and other materials
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, rubbed and a bit shaken, ex-library, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-91445
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Johns, C.H.W.
- Title:
- Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
- Publisher:
- The Legal Classics Library, Birmingham, 1987.
- Description:
- One of Johns' most substantial works, written while he was lecturer in Assyriology at Queens' College, Cambridge, with his extensive commentary accompanying his English translation
- Condition:
- The facsimile reissue of the original 1904 edition; modern leather
- Book No.:
- W-67413
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- ancient law
- 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:
- Cooper, Thomas
- Title:
- Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence. Including Farr's Elements of Medical Jurisprudence [and three other works], A Digest of the Law Relating to Insanity and Nuisance . . . To Which Is Added . . . Erskine's Speech for James Hadfield [etc.]. Cohen 8761
- Publisher:
- Published by James Webster, No. 24, South Eighth Street [etc.], Philadelphia, 1819.
- Description:
- Only edition of Cooper's pioneering work, the first on forensic medicine published in this country, reprinting several important English and continental works (Farr, Dease, Male and Haslam) and adding his own notes and a digest of insanity law
- Condition:
- Contemporary tree calf, rubbed, rebacked with contrasting crimson and black morocco labels, gilt, considerable foxing and browning; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76234
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Medical Jurisprudence
- Author:
- Bigelow, John
- Title:
- The Folly of Building Temples of Peace with Untempered Mortar: The Necessity of Building Temples of Peace with Tempered Mortar
- Publisher:
- B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1910.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, ex-Joseph M. Gleason Library with its bookplate, the back board a bit marked, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91615
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- The President of Presidents. Or, One General President for Common Assurances by Deeds: Wherein there is contained an Extract or Abridgment of all the Readings and Presidents thereof extant. Of singular use and profit to all men. Wing S3209. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Hills for Humphrey Tuckey [etc.], London, 1655.
- Description:
- First edition of Sheppard's most successful work in which (as counsel to Cromwell) he prophetically proposed reforming English land law, essentially calling for a standardized form of conveyancing which could then be registered throughout the realm
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf, title and three other leaves strengthened in their margins, considerable browning, with a number of early annotations; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-77970
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- conveyancing, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- The Parish Registers of Abinger, Wotton, and Oakwood Chapel, Co. Surrey. Surrey Record Society, Number XXV. Mullins 63.9
- Publisher:
- Surrey Record Society, Guildford, 1927.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth-backed printed boards, somewhat rubbed, ex-library, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91612
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Callcott, Mary Stevenson
- Title:
- Russian Justice
- Publisher:
- Macmillan, New York, 1935.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-51768
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- CARIBBEAN, criminal law, prisons, SOVIET UNION
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- Lex Constitutionis: or, the Gentleman's Law. Being A Compleat Treatise of all the Laws and Statutes relating to the King and the Prerogative of the Crown; the Nobility; and House of Lords . . . And Also, An Introduction to the Common Law of England [etc]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling . . . for B. Lintot, London, 1719.
- Description:
- First edition of a work for which Jacob claimed he had consulted over one hundred authorities, praised by Holdsworth as "a learned book . . . the idea of making such a book was original; and the main features of the constitution are set out"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, extra gilt, gilt crests ("Mea Gloria Fides"), rubbed, the lower spine just chipped, else clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78916
- Price:
- $ 1350.00
- Category:
- English Law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Heeramaneck Collection of Indian Sculpture, Paintings and Textiles
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, New York, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, well-preserved, with the prices realized laid in; 224 lots
- Book No.:
- W-91610
- Price:
- $ 17.50
- Category:
- Author:
- Dalton, Michael
- Title:
- The Countrey Justice; Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace, As well in as out of their Sessions . . . Now again Enlarged with . . . the Statutes of King Charles I and His Majesty King Charles II [etc.]. Wing D146. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1666.
- Description:
- A mid-17th century edition of the pre-eminent work on justices of the peace, first published in 1618 and ultimately appearing in some twenty editions by 1790, this edition the first to treat of the justices in as well as out of their sessions
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, rubbed, some browning (some leaves moreso than others), else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78915
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, criminal law
- Author:
- Roseman, Ronald, David Splitt, & W. Anthony Fitch
- Title:
- The Resolution of Detainers for Federal and State Prisoners
- Publisher:
- American University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1971.
- Description:
- The second in a series of community handbooks to be published by the Institute for Studies in Justice and Social Behavior at the law school; with a foreword by its director, Nicholas N. Kittrie
- Condition:
- Original oversize tan stapled wraps, a very good copy, typescript, 29 pages; no print copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-78914
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Splitt, David, John Browne and W. Anthony Fitch
- Title:
- Post-Conviction Relief for Federal Prisoners: Motions to Vacate Sentences Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255
- Publisher:
- American University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1973.
- Description:
- The first in a series of community handbooks to be published by the Institute for Studies in Justice and Social Behavior at the law school; with a foreword by its director, Nicholas N. Kittrie
- Condition:
- Original oversize stapled blue wraps, typescript, a very good copy, 23 pages; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-78913
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Butler, J. Douglas and David F. Walbert (eds.)
- Title:
- Abortion, Medicine, and the Law
- Publisher:
- Facts On File Publications, New York, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46149
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- abortion
- 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:
- Moskovitz, Myron
- Title:
- Winning an Appeal, A Step-by-Step Explanation of Hos to Prepare and Present Your Case Efficiently and with Maximum Effectiveness, with a Sample Brief. Revised Edition
- Publisher:
- Michie Company, Charlottesville, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a very good copy; 163 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30499
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- appeals
- Author:
- Title:
- Directory of Specialized American Bookdealers 1987-1988, Prepared by the staff of American Book Collector
- Publisher:
- Moretus Press, Inc., New York, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64864
- Price:
- $ 47.50
- Category:
- Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1964
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Yellow cloth, dampstained and disbound; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90669
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, State Laws Passed During the Year 1963
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Yellow cloth, dampstained but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90668
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, States Subsidiary Legislation 1967
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, dampstained but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90667
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Mariae Primo. Actes made in the Parliament begonne and holden at Westminster the v daye of October [with four additional volumes of the subsequent parliaments of Mary and Philip & Mary] [1553-1558]. S.T.C. 9440.8; 9444; 9448.7; 9451; and 9457.6
- Publisher:
- John Cawood [imprints vary], London, 1554-67.
- Description:
- Contemporary printings of all five parliaments of Mary and of Philip & Mary, as papal authority once more briefly prevailed in England and the burning of Protestant heretics resumed, four of the five volumes Taussig copies listed in S.T.C.
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 and 3/4 calf over marbled boards, lightly rubbed, one lower margin trimmed, else clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78747
- Price:
- $ 5000.00
- Category:
- Acts
- Author:
- Oddo, Gilbert L.
- Title:
- Freedom and Equality, Civil Liberties and the Supreme Court
- Publisher:
- Goodyear Publishing Co., Santa Monica, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, somewhat marked and spotted, the spine faded and some foxing to the fore-edge, else a good clean copy; 396 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74629
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- civil liberties, Supreme Court, Casebooks
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, States Subsidiary Legislation 1966
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, a bit dampstained, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90666
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, States Subsidiary Legislation 1963
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, a little warped, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90665
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, States Subsidiary Legislation 1962
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1963.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90664
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Huat, Yap Thiam (comp.)
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya, States and Settlements Subsidiary Legislation 1956
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-90663
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Liber Placitandi. A Book of Special Pleadings: Containing Precedents of Pleas in Abatement, Declarations, Barrs, Replications, Rejoynders, Demurrers, Issues, and Judgments, In the now most Common and Ordinary Actions [etc.]. Wing L1951A. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Place, and T. Basset [and thirteen others], London, 1674.
- Description:
- A pioneering work, "[t]he first book to classify torts as a separate category in the modern sense" in John Baker's words, distinguishing between nuisance, deceit, conversion, and negligence, all as part of "Actions sur le Case sur Torts General"
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 brown calf over cloth boards, the title somewhat dusty, light browning, but a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77968
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- pleading, torts
- Author:
- Title:
- Malasia, Federal Subsidiary Legislation 1967
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, dampstained and disbound; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90662
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- AMH/88, Accreditation Manual for Hospitals
- Publisher:
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Chicago, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, perforated for ring-binder; 343 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30490
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- medicine
- 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:
- Malasia, Federal Subsidiary Legislation 1966
- Publisher:
- Kuala Lumpur, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, dampstained and disbound; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90661
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- The Astor Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Twenty Manuscripts from the celebrated collection of William Waldorf Astor (1849-1919), First Viscount Astor, from the Library at Cliveden
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated sewn wraps, well-preserved; 124 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91609
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury; As it was Argued before His Majesties Justices of the Kings Bench . . . Being upon his Confinement in the Tower . . . With a Speech of this Worthy Earl, pleading his own Case, and the Liberty of the Subject. Wing C883
- Publisher:
- Printed by K.P. for C.R., London, 1679.
- Description:
- Only edition of Shaftsbury's unsuccessful attempt to secure his release from the Tower of London on a writ of habeas corpus, "a very powerful argument . . . den[ying] . . . commit[ment] to indefinite imprisonment on a general warrant"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, upper right hand corner of the title torn away, just touching the 'e' of 'Case', else a clean, untrimmed copy; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76227
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, habeas corpus
- Author:
- C., J. (comp.)
- Title:
- Thesaurus Brevium. Or a Collection of Approved Forms of Writs, and Pleadings to those Writs, and Entries of those Writs and Pleadings . . . and of Absolute Necessity for all Practisers in the Common Law [etc.]. The Second Edition. Wing C76. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher [etc.], London, 1687.
- Description:
- The final, much expanded edition ("not one Writ Printed from the [first edition] but with Corrections") appearing the same year as the final edition of the Register of Writs, and of clear use to Foley, Second Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, morocco label, rubbed, rear joint cracking but firm, else well preserved, with the bookplate of Richard Foley
- Book No.:
- W-77966
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- pleading
- Author:
- Huat, B. Lee Tian (comp.)
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya, Federal Subsidiary Legislation 1956
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1957.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the front board bent, but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-90660
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Ames, James Barr and Jeremiah Smith
- Title:
- A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts. Second Edition [of Volume One]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review Publishing Association, Cambridge, 1893-1900.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, very worn, hinge cracked, underlining; a working set
- Book No.:
- W-65278
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- admiralty, Casebooks, maritime law, reports of cases, torts
- Author:
- Plowden, Edmund
- Title:
- Les Commentaries, Ou Reportes . . . de diuers cases esteant matters en ley, & de les Arguments sur yceux [etc.] [bound with] La Second Part de les Reports, ou, Commentaries [etc.]. S.T.C. 20045 & 20047.5; Beale R490. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] In Aedibus Thomae Wight [2] Companie of Stationers, London, 1599 & 1610.
- Description:
- Early editions of both parts of Plowden's pathbreaking Commentaries, the reports marking the break with the Year Books and providing (in the words of Dr. Baker) "the conception of a law report as a reasoned exposition of the law, with learned gloss"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, repaired, later paper label, the first title dusty, else particularly clean with occasional notations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77965
- Price:
- $ 2000.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Property From the Estate of Mrs. Duncan Phillips Saturday, April 19, 1986
- Publisher:
- Phillips, New York, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a very good copy, 54 pages, 485 lots
- Book No.:
- W-91607
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Johnson, Kenneth M.
- Title:
- The Bar Association of San Francisco, The First Hundred Years 1872/1972
- Publisher:
- Bar Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1972.
- Description:
- A work of some biographical value, with discussion and mention of other California and San Francisco bar groups, including the State Bar, Queen's Bench, the Barristers' Club, the Lawyers Club, and the State Judicial Council
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy in a considerably rubbed dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-77964
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, American Indian Law, Bench and Bar, California, San Francisco
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, and Guaranties of Notes, and Checks and Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Second Edition. Cohen 2562
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little & James Brown [and] Stevens and Norton [etc.], Boston [and] London, 1847.
- Description:
- Story's last Commentary, here based in part on his posthumous manuscript notes, completing his "grand effort to create an American commercial common law suitable both to the needs of the new capitalism and to the values of the old republicanism"
- Condition:
- Original polished sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else a very good, clean copy now housed in a modern cloth box
- Book No.:
- W-77962
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Negotiable Instrum, Bills and Notes, Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Austin, John
- Title:
- The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1832.
- Description:
- First edition of Austin's first major work, of pervasive impact on Anglo-American law over much of the last two centuries, one which, in the words of H.L.A. Hart (who edited the 'Province' in 1954), "established the study of jurisprudence in England"
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, a trifle rubbed, neatly rebacked, all edges marbled, crimson morocco label, gilt, well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-76222
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Rastell, William (comp.)
- Title:
- A Collection of all the Statutes, from the beginning of Magna Charta vnto this present yeare of our Lord God 1579. newlye augmented, and diligentlie perused [etc.]. S.T.C. 9314; Beale S66; Cowley 75
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, London, 1579.
- Description:
- One of Rastell's two significant contributions to legal literature, and the first edition of his work to translate his selections into English; in John Baker's words "ambitious . . . a valuable reference", surpassing all previous efforts
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind panelled calf (Oldham 775), front joint cracked, else well preserved, with the Somerhill Library bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78746
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Abridgements, Bibliography, Bibliography
- Author:
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Title:
- The Common Law
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1881.
- Description:
- First edition, second issue of Holmes' tour de force, described by Professor Howe as "an originating venture", crediting Holmes as "the first of the English and American lawyers to attempt something like a full-scale study of the common law"
- Condition:
- Original russet cloth, gilt, showing some wear, former gift inscriptions, else a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-77961
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, law and photography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Arbeitsgesetzbuch der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, mit Einfuhrungsgesetz, Textausgabe mit Sachregister
- Publisher:
- Staatsverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed, sewn wraps, some wear and embrowning; 94 pages
- Book No.:
- W-42939
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- GERMANY
- Author:
- Title:
- The Chess Library of the Late Richard John Ford, Esq., Comprising over 2,000 Volumes, Including a Complete Set of the British Chess Magazine, 1881-1985 . . . [and] three volumes signed by Robert Fischer [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Phillips, Son & Neale, London, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled illustrated wraps, well-preserved, 357 lots in 29 pages; with the prices realized laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91603
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Papaconstantine, George A.
- Title:
- Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Greece
- Publisher:
- Publications "Omega" D. Kyriakides, Thessaloniki, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 131 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30612
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- GREECE
- Author:
- Hickes, George
- Title:
- The Spirit of Fanaticism: Exemplify'd in the Tryals of Mr. James Mitchel . . . and Major Thomas Weir . . . who was Burnt between Edinburgh and Leith April the 11th, 1670 . . . Written by an Advocate of the Civil Law of Scotland. Straus p.212
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- First Curll edition of the account of the trial of Thomas Weir, "one of Scotland's most famous wizards", strangled and burned for witchcraft, incest with his sister (who was hanged) and stepdaughter, bestiality with mares and cows and adultery
- Condition:
- Early 1/4 black morocco over decorated boards, a portion of the spine lacking, some browning and foxing, a somewhat fragile but usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76221
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, adultery, witchcraft, Gay and Lesbians, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Ano Reg. Iacobi . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster . . . in the first yeere of the Raigne [with] the third yeere [with] the fourth yeere [with] the seventh year [with] the 21st yeere. S.T.C. 9500; 9502.5; 9505; 9506.5; 9507. Folio
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Barker [imprints vary], London, 1604-24.
- Description:
- A rare collection of the statutory compilations containing all the legislation enacted by Parliament during the reign of James I (save three subsidies), including the foundational acts concerning witchcraft (in 1604) and monopolies (in 1624)
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered blind lozenges, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, else quite bright, with the Earl de Grey West Park bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78907
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, Intellectual Property, patents, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- James Richards, Plaintiff-Petitioner against Fowler, Crum & Gardner, Defendant-Respondent. Brief for Defendant-Respondent [in the] Supreme Court of the United States
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed red wraps, double-spaced typescript signed in ink, iv+27 pages; a bit smudged, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91601
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, civil rights, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W.
- Title:
- Equity, Also The Forms of Action at Common Law, Two Courses of Lectures. Edited by A.H. Chaytor [and] W.J. Whittaker
- Publisher:
- At the University Press, Cambridge, 1909.
- Description:
- First edition of the lectures on equity delivered by Maitland at Cambridge for some eighteen years, an "inimitable guide to [an] intricate subject", with his lectures on the forms of action, said to have been "the best of all his lecture courses"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, quite rubbed and worn, joints cracking, just usable
- Book No.:
- W-78906
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- equity, pleading
- Author:
- Hamilton, Kimberly A. (ed.)
- Title:
- Migration and the New Europe
- Publisher:
- Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a very good copy; 95 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30611
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- immigration, EUROPE
- Author:
- Title:
- Manuscripts, Maps, Rare Books, Prints and Paintings The Property of B. Altman & Co. Fifth Avenue at 34th St. New York
- Publisher:
- Phillips, New York, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a few inkmarkings, else a very good copy, 570 lots in 74 pages; with the venue announcement slip laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91600
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 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:
- Returna Brfvivm [Brevium]. S.T.C. 20901; Beale T225
- Publisher:
- Impressum . . . Per me Robertum Redman [etc.], London, 1541.
- Description:
- A rare printing of the medieval tract deemed essential by Holdsworth "because the whole of the local government was carried on under judicial forms, and by means of writs original or judicial"; this edition perhaps printed by Redman's widow Elizabeth
- Condition:
- Modern crimson morocco, gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles (a Riviere binding?), joints rubbed, else quite pretty; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78904
- Price:
- $ 2750.00
- Category:
- Procedure
- Author:
- Title:
- Judges of the United States
- Publisher:
- Bicentennial Committee of the Judicial Conference of the U.S., Washington, 1978.
- Description:
- Warren Burger's copy, with his bookplate ("Ex Libris Warren E. Burger", bearing the Supreme Court's gilt seal) on the front pastedown; the Chief Justice had served as the Committee's Honorary Chair, and in that capacity provides the work's foreword
- Condition:
- Black cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-69000
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Cosin, Richard
- Title:
- An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall . . . Respectiuelie submitted to the graue iudgements of the reuerend Iudges and other Sages of the Common lawe: of Iudicious Professors of the Viuill lawe [etc.]. S.T.C. 5821; Beale T249
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1593.
- Description:
- The much expanded, final edition of Cosin's most important work, "the standard defence of the jurisdiction of the church courts and high commission" and a major contribution to his distinguished career at the apex of the ecclesiastical court system
- Condition:
- Later calf, quite rubbed, light browning, the top margin cut close (a few running heads affected, but not legibility), sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78903
- Price:
- $ 1650.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Harmon, Nolan
- Title:
- The Famous Case of Myra Clark Gaines
- Publisher:
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1946.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth backed boards, spine dulled; sound
- Book No.:
- W-50016
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, 19TH CENTURY, criminal law
- Author:
- Gross, Charles
- Title:
- A Bibliography of British Municipal History including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation
- Publisher:
- Burt Franklin, New York, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- The facsimile reprint of the original 1897 edition
- Book No.:
- W-10165
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, Parliament, Law Merchant
- Author:
- Title:
- Environment Reporter, Cases. Thirteen Volumes
- Publisher:
- Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, 1970-1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Volumes 1-13 in the original green cloth; sound
- Book No.:
- W-48818
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- environmental law, Casebooks
- Author:
- Vertin, James R. (ed.)
- Title:
- Management Skills for Investment Managers Seminar
- Publisher:
- Institute for Chartered Financial Analysts, New York, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 62 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30489
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics, securities
- Author:
- McBaine, James P.
- Title:
- California Evidence Manual. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1960.
- Description:
- A work glossing the California Evidence Manual, which had first been published in 1945, starting with the applicable constitutional provisions, if any, then code sections, followed by the textual exegesis; with the 1963 pocket part
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-63115
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Evidence, California
- Author:
- Title:
- The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh, A Penal Exile in Australia 1825-1844
- Publisher:
- Jonathan Cape, London, 1929.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, showing wear; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-61512
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- AUSTRALIA, Transportation, 19TH CENTURY, criminal law
- Author:
- Clark, Charles
- Title:
- A Summary of Colonial Law, The Practice of the Court of Appeals from the Plantations, and of the Laws and Their Administration in All the Colonies; With Charters of Justice, Orders in Council [etc.]. Castle 504; Ragatz p.377
- Publisher:
- S. Sweet . . . A Maxwell . . . Stevens & Sons [etc.], London, 1834.
- Description:
- Clark's painstakingly prepared treatise, termed both an "invaluable legal work" and "a basic, respected text on the legal operation of the British colonial system", still the starting point for the study of Britain's colonial legal regimes
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary 3/4 calf, quite rubbed, chipped crimson morocco label, gilt, front joint cracked, else a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-73675
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth
- Author:
- Vertin, James R. (ed.)
- Title:
- Managing the Investment Professional
- Publisher:
- Institute for Chartered Financial Analysts, New York, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 95 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30488
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics, securities
- Author:
- Rossiter, Clinton
- Title:
- The American Presidency
- Publisher:
- Hamish Hamilton, London, 1957.
- Description:
- With an introduction by D. W. Brogan
- Condition:
- The fore-edge stained, else a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-21667
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 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:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya, Subsidiary Legislation and Other Legal Notifications, 1949
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1950.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the hinges going; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90658
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Vertin, James R. (ed.)
- Title:
- Improving the Investment Decision Process: Applying Economic Analysis to Portfolio Management
- Publisher:
- Institute for Chartered Financial Analysts, New York, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 95 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30486
- Price:
- $ 30.00
- Category:
- economics, securities
- 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:
- Fogler, H. Russell and Darwin M. Bayston (eds.)
- Title:
- Improving the Investment Decision Process: Quantitative Assistance for the Practitioner - and for the Firm
- Publisher:
- Institute for Chartered Financial Analysts, New York, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 107 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30485
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- economics, securities
- Author:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya, Subsidiary Legislation and Other Legal Notifications, 1947
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90656
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King. A Proclamation for restraint of excessiue Carriages, to the destruction of the High Wayes. S.T.C. 9050
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1635.
- Description:
- The rare proclamation imposing limits of one ton, four horses and five oxen upon carriages, with offenders to be reported to the Attorney General, violations considered "general nuisances [to be] severely punished"; one copy in this country in ESTC
- Condition:
- Two sheets about 10x14 inches, staining and browning, repair to one lower margin (no text affected) now housed in a buckram folder; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78742
- Price:
- $ 2000.00
- Category:
- law of highways
- Author:
- Besharov, Douglas J.
- Title:
- Criminal and Civil Liability in Child Welfare Work: The Growing Trend
- Publisher:
- Nat'l Legal Resource Cent. for Child Advocacy and Protection, Washington, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, quite discolored, but very sound; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30484
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State Enactments, Passed During the Year 1958
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Red cloth, quite worn and warped; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90655
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Twelfth Annual Report of Hon. Homer G. Powell, Chief Justice, Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
- Publisher:
- N.p, n.p, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, detaching; 31 pages plus fold-out group portrait
- Book No.:
- W-63110
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- 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:
- 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:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State and Settlement Enactments, Passed During the Year 1956
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90653
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Lovelass, Peter
- Title:
- The Law's Disposal of a Person's Estate Who Dies Without Will or Testament . . . To Which Is Added The Disposal of a Person's Estate, By Will and Testament; Containing An Explanation of the Mortmain-Act [etc.]. The Seventh Edition, with large Additions
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, and sold by Whieldon [and others] [etc.], London, 1792.
- Description:
- An early edition of a work becoming the most popular of its kind for over a half-century, very accessible--"a good straightforward account"--expanded from its initial purpose (treating only of intestacy) to those with the foresight to draw wills
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, the joints just cracking, but quite firm, a very good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-76219
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Wills
- Author:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State and Settlement Enactments, Passed During the Year 1955
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1957.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90652
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Berger, Raoul
- Title:
- Congress v. The Supreme Court
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969.
- Description:
- Devoted to judicial review, and largely historical in approach; with an appendix devoted to Dr. Bonham's case
- Condition:
- Private ownership stamps on the edges, a bit bowed, else quite clean; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-19516
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Congress
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for the further Preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons [and twenty-eight other acts relating to transportation and similar matters]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [imprints vary], London, 1720-1881.
- Description:
- An extensive collection of Parliamentary statutory law covering the century and more when transportation was a systematic means of criminal punishment, first to America and then to Australia, beginning in 1717 and lasting until the mid 1800's
- Condition:
- Disbound but sound, the first with a separate title, the remainder with drophead titles, occasional browning, but good copies
- Book No.:
- W-74614
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Transportation
- Author:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State and Settlement Enactments, Passed During the Year 1953
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1953.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the front hinge weak, but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-90651
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Lambarde, William
- Title:
- Archaionomia, Sive De Priscis Anglorum Legibus libri, Sermone Anglico, vetustate Antiquissimo, aliquot ab hinc seculis conscripti, Nunc demum, magno Jurisperitorum, & amantium Antiquitatis omnium commodo, etenebris in lucem vocati. Wing A3605. Folio
- Publisher:
- Ex Officina Rogeri Daniel, celeberrimae Academiae [etc.], Cantabrigiae, 1644.
- Description:
- Lambarde's first work, and only the second printed in Old English with Anglo-Saxon type, first published in 1568, in the words of Felix Liebermann crediting Lambarde as "a pioneer in an unknown land", as he translated the Anglo-Saxon laws into Latin
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, the joints cracking but firm, a good copy; with a bifolium laid in discussing degrees of honor and titles; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77956
- Price:
- $ 1400.00
- Category:
- Anglo-Saxon law, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State and Settlement Enactments, Passed During the Year 1951
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1952.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the front hinge weak, but quite usable
- Book No.:
- W-90650
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Hamilton, F.A.P.
- Title:
- The Law Relating to Charities in Ireland: With Forms, Precedents, and the Statutes Connected Therewith. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
- Publisher:
- E. Ponsonby, 116, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1881.
- Description:
- The principal work of Pollock, King's Inn barrister (and grandson of Chief Baron Pollock), and the received edition of the first comprehensive treatise on the Irish law of charities, bringing together (and analyzing) the Acts of 1844, 1867, and 1871
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, quite worn and somewhat stained, a number of annotations, some substantive (including two inserted leaves); sound
- Book No.:
- W-74612
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- poor law, IRELAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Statutes of the State of Nevada Passed at the Thirty-second Session of the Legislature 1925
- Publisher:
- State Printing Office, Carson City, 1925.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17782
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Nevada
- 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. The Third Edition. Baumgartner 3 [calling for 22 plates, all of which are present here, many folding]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington, 1784.
- Description:
- Howard's masterwork, displaying the enormous empirical data upon the treatment of prisoners amassed by him just as the major reforms of English criminal law began, this edition completely revised and much expanded following Howard's journeys in 1780
- Condition:
- Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, minor staining to the free endpapers, occasional foxing, else clean and wide-margined; without the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77954
- Price:
- $ 700.00
- Category:
- criminal law, New York, prisons, Procedure
- Author:
- Title:
- Statutes of the State of Nevada Passed at the Twenty-first Session of the Legislature 1903
- Publisher:
- State Printing Office, Carson City, 1906.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, hinges loose, quite worn; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-17781
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Nevada
- Author:
- Title:
- Statutes of the State of Nevada Passed at the Twentieth Session of the Legislature 190l
- Publisher:
- State Printing Office, Carson City, 1906.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, stained, very worn and rubbed; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-17780
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Nevada
- Author:
- Bentham, George
- Title:
- Essai sur la Nomenclature et la Classification des Principales Branches d'Art-et-Science; Ouvrage Extrait du Chrestomathia de Jeremie Bentham
- Publisher:
- Bossange Frerres, Libraires, rue de Seine, No 12, Paris, 1823.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the work published under the name of Jeremy Bentham's nephew ("who worked extensively on his uncle's papers on logic and based on them a work of his own"), in which he translated those portions of Chrestomathia devoted to the subject
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed marbled boards, a bit of foxing, but a very good copy; with the half-title, a folding frontispiece and three tables on two folding leaves
- Book No.:
- W-76213
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Scobell (comp.), Henry
- Title:
- A Collection of Acts and Ordinances Of General Use, made in the Parliament Begun . . . 1640 [to] 1656 . . . Examined by the Original Records; And now printed by Special Order of Parliament [in two parts] [complete]. Wing E873. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Hills and John Field [etc.] [imprint varies], London, 1658-57.
- Description:
- One of the principal contemporary sources for the legislative enactments under Oliver Cromwell, and chronologically the most comprehensive, of particular importance given the enactments' exclusion from editions of statutes of the realm
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered polished calf, light browning, the Evelyn [and Taussig] copy, with Evelyn's bookplate and the Christie's auction slip laid in
- Book No.:
- W-77952
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, Interregnum
- Author:
- Bristol, John, Lord Bishop of
- Title:
- A Sermon Preach'd before the Society Corresponding with the Incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English Protestant Working Schools in Ireland [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by J. Oliver, London, 1752.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Embrowned and disbound, tears to many leaves; a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-51749
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- education, IRELAND, Religion
- 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:
- Title:
- Report from the Commissioners Appointed by his Majesty to Execute the Measures Recommended by a Select Committee of the House of Commons Respecting the Public Records of the Kingdom . . . With an Account of Their Proceedings [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Ordered, by the House of Lords, to be Printed, London], 1812.
- Description:
- The first major report of the Records Commissioners, summarizing the impressive progress made in the twelve years since the Commission's formation in preserving and publishing England's great store of public records; with many plates, some folding
- Condition:
- Morocco backed boards, worn, the joints cracked; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-50934
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Mayo, Joseph
- Title:
- A Guide to Magistrates with Practical Forms for the Discharge of Their Duties Out of Court. To Which are Added Precedents For the Use of Prosecutors, Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Escheators, Clerks. . .Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Chas. H. Wynne, Richmond, 1860.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, much pencilling, embrowned; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-56683
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Britton, William Everett
- Title:
- Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes
- Publisher:
- Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 194l.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn wraps, crudely reinforced with tape; much pencilling; usable
- Book No.:
- W-63106
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes
- 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:
- Federation of Malaya. Federal Ordinances and State and Settlement Enactments, Passed During the Year 1950
- Publisher:
- Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the joints splitting, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-90649
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Katz, Sanford N.
- Title:
- Child Snatching, The Legal Response to the Abduction of Children
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association, Chicago, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a bit faded and worn, but sound; 206 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30477
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law, Family Law
- Author:
- Schroeder, Theodore
- Title:
- "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press
- Publisher:
- Da Capo Press, New York, 1972.
- Description:
- The facsimile reissue of the 1911 edition, with a new and substantial introduction by Jerold S. Auerbach, who quotes with approval the description of Schroeder as "probably the most prolific champion of free speech and press in American history"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, showing wear; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-58281
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- freedom of speech, obscenity
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1935 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1935
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the hinges detaching; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90648
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Deering, James H. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California
- Publisher:
- Bancroft Whitney Company, San Francisco, 1899.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, usable only; pocket-size
- Book No.:
- W-55878
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Acts, California
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1934 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1934
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1935.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90647
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Perloff, Harvey S. and Lowdon Wingo (eds.)
- Title:
- Issues in Urban Economics
- Publisher:
- Resources for the Future, Washington, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 668 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30475
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- economics
- 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:
- Lang, Andrew G.
- Title:
- Estate Agency Law and Practice in New South Wales. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Law Book Company Limited, Sydney, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a good copy; 513 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30474
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Real Property, AUSTRALIA
- Author:
- Morland, Nigel
- Title:
- An Outline of Scientific Criminology
- Publisher:
- Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A bit worn, the spine lightly faded, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-14436
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1932 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1932
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1933.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90645
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Vanderbilt, Arthur T.
- Title:
- Improving the Administration of Justice--Two Decades of Development, Presented as the Third in the Series of Robert S. Marx Lectures [at the University of Cincinnati College of Law]
- Publisher:
- College of Law, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 1957.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, gilt, rubbed and marked, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75263
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1931 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1931
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90644
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- A Study of the Iron and Steel Industry in Latin America. Volumes I and II
- Publisher:
- United Nations, New York, 1954.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Bound as one volume; a scuffed but sound ex-library copy
- Book No.:
- W-30472
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- LATIN AMERICA
- Author:
- Boone, Charles T.
- Title:
- Pleading Under the Codes
- Publisher:
- Sumner Whitney & Co., San Francisco, 1885.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, usable; pocket-size
- Book No.:
- W-55877
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- pleading, codification
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1930 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1930
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1931.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90643
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1930 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1930
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1931.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, cocked but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90642
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Howard, A.E. Dick
- Title:
- Toward the Open Society in Central and Eastern Europe
- Publisher:
- University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1995.
- Description:
- Reprinted from the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 16
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 71 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30471
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- freedom of press, EUROPE
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1929 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1929
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1930.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90641
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- International Symposium on Packaging, Economic Development, and the Environment
- Publisher:
- Institute of Packaging Professionals, Herndon, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, sound, but with numerous markings in ink
- Book No.:
- W-30470
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- international law, environmental law
- Author:
- Title:
- Inauguration de l'Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 1972.
- Description:
- The ceremonies and addresses inaugurating the organization originally established in 1959 under the name of the Centre National d'Etudes Judiciarires, upon the occasion of the move to its new quarters and its re-naming; no copy in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original oblong printed stapled illustrated wraps, well-preserved, 56 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74603
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1926 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1926
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1927.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, one signature loose; usable
- Book No.:
- W-90640
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Dunlap, M.E.
- Title:
- Abridgment of Elementary Law [etc.]
- Publisher:
- F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., St. Louis, 1892.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, spine defective, a working copy; pocket-size
- Book No.:
- W-55876
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, education
- Author:
- Dalrymple, David, Lord Hailes]
- Title:
- A Catalogue of the Lords of Session, from the Institution of the College of Justice, in the year 1532. With Historical Notes. Quarto
- Publisher:
- N.p., Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The first revision, significantly expanded, of the first effort to provide biographical detail of the Scots judiciary, undertaken by Lord Hailes, advisor to James Boswell and to whom Dr. Johnson is said to have turned "on any matter of Scottish law"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a clean copy with ample margins. 18+42 pages; one copy in a law library in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76204
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- biography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Smith, John William
- Title:
- A Compendium of Mercantile Law. A New Edition. Greatly Enlarged and Revised Throughout from the Last English Edition. By James P. Holcombe and William Y. Gholson. Cohen BEAL 2449
- Publisher:
- D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway [etc.], New York, 1850.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sheep, contrasting crimson and black morocco labels, gilt, rubbed, definite foxing, else a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-76202
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law
- Author:
- Gaffney, Paul Lawrence
- Title:
- Ronald Dworkin on Law and Interpretation. A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the School of Philosophy Of the Catholic University of American In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed, District of Columbia, 1990.
- Description:
- The copy of Dr. Gaffney's doctoral thesis presented to the Director of his thesis committee, Antonio S. Cua, anticipating Dr Gaffney's 1996 monograph on Dworkin, "Ronald Dworkin on Law As Integrity: Rights As Principles of Adjudication"
- Condition:
- Original oversized blue buckram, gilt, double-spaced typescript, 309 pages, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-77940
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Khan, Zillur R. and A.T.R. Rahman
- Title:
- Provincial Autonomy & Constitution Making, The Case of Bangladesh
- Publisher:
- Green Book House, Dacca, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn, the binding strained; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-51730
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- BANGLADESH, Asian law, federalism
- Author:
- Stein, Eric and Thomas L. Nicholson (eds.)
- Title:
- American Enterprise in the European Common Market, A Legal Profile
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Volume one (only) of two
- Book No.:
- W-56676
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- international law, EUROPE
- 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:
- Gaylin, Willard
- Title:
- Partial Justice, A Study of Bias in Sentencing
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56671
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Burn, Richard
- Title:
- The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. Four Volumes. Twentieth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by A. Strahan . . . for T. Cadell [and others], London, 1805.
- Description:
- An uncommon edition of the most popular work on English local government, and the first not to have been edited by either Richard Burn or his son, appearing as the office's power had begun to wane; one copy in COPAC, two in this country in OCLC
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, crimson morocco labels, gilt-ruled and lettered, an especially well-preserved set
- Book No.:
- W-73657
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- Author:
- Title:
- U.S. Participation in the UN. Report by the President to the Congress for the Year 1974
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a good copy; 478 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91298
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- United Nations
- Author:
- Vervliet, Jeroen
- Title:
- The Peace Palace Library Centennial, The Collection as a Mirror of the Historical Development of International Law, 1904-2004
- Publisher:
- Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 2004.
- Description:
- The catalogue celebrating the centenary of the Peace Palace Library, established together with the Peace Palace itself through the munificence of Andrew Carnegie, with chapters on the library's history, its Grotius collection, and much else
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated sewn wraps, as new; 58 pages
- Book No.:
- W-73443
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- international law
- Author:
- Ramirez, J. Isidro
- Title:
- La Paz del Chaco, La Defensa de la Linea de Hitos y el Comite de Tres
- Publisher:
- Imprenta Ferrari Hmos, Buenos Aires, 1942.
- Description:
- Presentation copy "Al Doctor Robert D. Harvard, Agregado / Cultural de la Ambajada de los Esta / dos Unidos de Aemrica, como testi / monio de respet y aprecio / Asuncion 30 de Novembre de 1945 / Luis Ramirez"
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, browned, the back wrap detaching, a usable copy only; 335 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91297
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Vause, W. Gary
- Title:
- Labor Arbitration in State and Local Government
- Publisher:
- Center for Employment Relations and Law, Tallahassee, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps; 214 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30468
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- labor law, arbitration
- Author:
- Cosgrove, Richard A.
- Title:
- The Rule of Law, Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian Jurist
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1980.
- Description:
- The first biography of Dicey, "the most influential constitutional authority of late Victorian and Edwardian England, whose 'Law of the Constitution' became a classic, and who restored the Vinerian Chair of English Law at Oxford to eminence
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a few pages creased, else a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-73654
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Meadows, [Sir P[hilip]]
- Title:
- Narrative of the Principal Actions Occurring in the Wars Betwixt Sweden and Denmark. Before and after the Roschild Treaty . . . Together With A View of the Swedish and Other Affairs . . . with Relation to England [etc.]
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- A modern Xerographic reprint of the London edition of 1677, in flexible red wraps; a scholar's working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-70175
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- SWEDEN, DENMARK, international law
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1925 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1925
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1926.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90639
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Horwill, Herbert W.
- Title:
- The Usages of the American Constitution
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Glasgow, 1925.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, quite worn and cocked; a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-91295
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1924 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1924
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1925.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, worn but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90638
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Getman, Julius G. and Jerry R. Anderson
- Title:
- Myths and Assumptions in Labor Law, The Role of Empirical Research
- Publisher:
- Bureau of National Affairs, Washington, 1972.
- Description:
- Unit Six of Labor Relations and Social Problems, A Course Book
- Condition:
- Wraps, a good copy, hole-punched for ring binding; 160 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30466
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1923 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1923
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1924.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the spine badly damaged; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-90637
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Holman, Frank E.
- Title:
- Story of the "Bricker" Amendment (The First Phase)
- Publisher:
- Committee for Constitutional Government, New York, 1954.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn blue wraps, browned and showing wear, but usable; 179 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91293
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1922 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1922
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1923.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, discolored but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90636
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Bledsoe, A.J.
- Title:
- Business Law for Business Men, State of California. . .Sixteenth Edition
- Publisher:
- The Tribune Press, Oakland, 1938.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56819
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- California, Commercial Law, corporations
- Author:
- Title:
- Pour supprimer ce crime: La Guerre. Plan Henri-Demont de 1908, Developpe et Propose aux Allies en 1918
- Publisher:
- Union Universelle: "Pour Supprimer Ce Crime: La Guerre", Paris, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, showing some wear, but quite usable; 274 pages, with a large folding plan or poster, protesting La Guerre
- Book No.:
- W-91292
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- 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:
- Vining, Joseph
- Title:
- The Authoritative and the Authoritarian
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-14425
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Plateau, A Quarterly [Volume 12, number 1 through Volume 25, number 4, lacking two issues]
- Publisher:
- Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, Flagstaff, 1939-54.
- Description:
- A long run of a superb journal, the official publication of the Society and its museum (The Museum of Northern Arizona), founded in 1928 and devoted to the scientific resources of northern Arizona and their preservation in situ; sixty issues in total
- Condition:
- Original stapled printed wraps, generally in good condition
- Book No.:
- W-91291
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Arizona
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1921 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1921
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1922.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90634
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Roycroft
- Publisher:
- The Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1922.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn illustrated wraps, some wear and a bit fragile, but a usable copy; the December, 1922 issue [volume XI, No. 4]
- Book No.:
- W-91290
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Kent, James
- Title:
- Commentaries on American Law. Four Volumes. Cohen 5398
- Publisher:
- Published by O. Halsted [etc.] [imprint varies], New-York, 1826-30.
- Description:
- First edition of a pre-eminent work of American law, praised by Story and, in Lawrence Friedman's words, "immediately [becoming] the standard general treatise on law in the United States", devolving on Kent the sobriquet of "The American Blackstone"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, lightly rubbed and some light foxing, else a very good set, once that of Francis Granger, with his ownership signature in all volumes
- Book No.:
- W-77939
- Price:
- $ 6500.00
- Category:
- American Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1920 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1920
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1921.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, the front hinge starting, yet usable
- Book No.:
- W-90633
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Whitcomb, Debra, et al.
- Title:
- An Exemplary Project, Stop Rape Crisis Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Publisher:
- Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, a bit sunned; 96 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90498
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Rape, women's law, Louisiana
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Year Books of Edward II. 1&2 Edward II. A.D. 1307-1309. Volume I [The Year Books Series, Volume I]
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1903.
- Description:
- Maitland's dazzling, pioneering effort commencing the Selden Society's Year Books Series, speculating on the origin and purpose of the Year Books and containing his essay which, in John Baker's words, "is still the best introduction to Law French"
- Condition:
- Later blue buckram, gilt, a bit rubbed, occasional light pencilling in the introduction, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-69773
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Year Books, MEDIEVAL, 14TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1919 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1919
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1920.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, sound
- Book No.:
- W-90632
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal and Condemnation of Sir John Friend . . . For Conspiring to Raise Rebellion in These Kingdoms . . . Who upon full Evidence was found Guilty of High-Treason, at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Brabazon Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons [etc.], London, 1696.
- Description:
- The penultimate instance under English law (the last the next day) in which a defendant was charged with treason and hanged without benefit of counsel, Friend arraigned just two days before Parliament enacted enabling legislation
- Condition:
- A good copy, in a modern 1/4 calf gilt over marbled boards
- Book No.:
- W-59212
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Wills, Antoinette
- Title:
- Crime and Punishment in Revolutionary Paris
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press, Westport, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-12683
- Price:
- $ 22.50
- Category:
- FRANCE, 18TH CENTURY, criminal law
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- A Grand Abridgment of the Common and Statute Law of England . . . Very usefull and beneficiall for all persons whatsoever that desire to have any knowledge in the said Laws. In Four Parts [in Two Volumes, Complete]. Wing S3188; Cowley 167. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. Flesher, J. Streater, and B. Twyford [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- Sheppard's last work and, with his earlier abridgment (upon which this work is based), a pioneering one, the first to be in English and the first, in Holdsworth's words, to consist of "scientifically constructed treatises on all branches of the law"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, ex-library, some foxing and browning, yet still a good usable set
- Book No.:
- W-77937
- Price:
- $ 3000.00
- Category:
- Abridgements
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1918 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1918
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1919.
- Description:
- With the Federated Malay States Index to the Civil Procedure Code, 1918, laid in
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-90631
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Bruce, Isabel Campbell and Edith Eickhoff
- Title:
- The Michigan Poor Law, Its Development and Administration with Special Reference to State Provision for Medical Care of the Indigent. Edited with an Introductory Note and Selected Court Decisions by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1936.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy, with the ownership signature of Ruth E. Hyde dated 1936; Social Service Monographs, Number Twenty-three
- Book No.:
- W-77936
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- poor law, medicine, Michigan
- Author:
- Title:
- Federated Malay States. Enactments Passed During the Year 1917 and Rules Thereunder, Together with Rules, Etc., Under Enactments Passed Prior to 1917
- Publisher:
- F.M.S. Government Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1918.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, worn but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90630
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, MALAYSIA
- Author:
- Clark, William L.
- Title:
- Handbook of Criminal Law. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1915.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17763
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- corporations, criminal law
- Author:
- Goldschmidt, Verner
- Title:
- Retlig Adfaerd, En Analyse af Retsmyndigheders Adfaerd med Eksempler Saerlig fra den Kriminelle Retspleje i Gronland. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- C.A. Reitzels Forlag, Kobenhavn, 1957.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sewn wraps, a bit chipped, but quite a good set
- Book No.:
- W-51724
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Library Book Catalog, Author Catalog
- Publisher:
- United States Department of Justice, Washington, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, a bit discolored, but sound; 170 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90497
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Stubbs, William]
- Title:
- The Crown Circuit Companion. First American Edition; Into Which Has Been Incorporated the Work Formerly Published under the Name of the Crown Circuit Assistant. Both Works Have also Been Carefully Revised [etc.]. Cohen 8342
- Publisher:
- Published by R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, No. 1 City-Hotel, Broadway, New-York, 1816.
- Description:
- Only American edition of the 'Bible' for any English lawyer practising criminal law "in the country", away from the central courts in Westminster, arranged by subject; with a table specifying felonies clergyable and non-clergyable
- Condition:
- Modern recycled linen cloth, gilt, heavily foxed, a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-46104
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Sakmyster, David
- Title:
- Twilight of the Fifth Sun
- Publisher:
- Dragon Moon Press, Calgary, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy, inscribed by the author on the title; with a copy of a book review of the work laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91288
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Andrew M'Kinley, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 18th Day of July 1817, for Administering Unlawful Oaths
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.], Edinburgh, 1818.
- Description:
- Only report of the trial which Lord Cockburn called "extraordinary . . . one of the most striking I ever witnessed in a court of justice", in which the first crown witness admitted having been promised a reward by the prosecution for his testimony
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed, the title and last leaf dusty, else a good copy; 70 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76989
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Interim Status: The Release, Control, and Detention of Accused Juvenile Offenders Between Arrest and Disposition
- Publisher:
- Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, 1980.
- Description:
- Part of the efforts of the Institute of Judicial Administration of the American Bar Association to establish Juvenile Justice Standards; with the Addendum of Revisions in the 1977 Tentative Draft
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91287
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Crawford, Otho
- Title:
- Cases and Materials: Evidence for Police
- Publisher:
- University Press of America, Lanham, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue printed wraps, typescript, well-preserved; 59 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91286
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category: