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- Author:
- Lane, Thomas
- Title:
- The Student's Guide through Lincoln's Inn: Containing an Account of That Honourable Society, the Forms of Admission, Keeping Terms, Performing Exercises, Call to the Bar. And other useful Information. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed fo T. Lane, by Ellerton and Henderson [etc.], London, 1814.
- Description:
- A guide for "gentlemen desirous of being acquainted with the rules by which the societies of the inns of court are regulated"; with an engraved frontispiece of Lincoln's Inn and two plates of facsimile signatures of notable individuals
- Condition:
- Original paper backed boards, untrimmed, the front board detached with its paper label chipped and the binding splitting; a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-91856
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court
- Author:
- Dalton, Michael
- Title:
- The Countrey Justice: Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace Out of Their Sessions . . . To which is now added, The Duty and Power of Justices of Peace in their Sessions [and] An Abridgment . . . of all Statutes [so] relating [etc.]. Wing D148
- Publisher:
- Printed by H. Sawbridge, S. Roycroft, and W. Rawlins [etc.], London, 1682.
- Description:
- A late 17th century edition of the pre-eminent work on justices of the peace for well over a century, first published in 1618 and ultimately appearing in at least 20 editions by 1790; with extensive discussions of both civil and criminal law
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, ex-library, some browning, yet a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73371
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- 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; Beale T423
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Fletestreete . . . by Richarde Tottel [etc.], London, 1581.
- Description:
- An early 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", with a significant portion devoted to the law affecting women, including dower
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, portions of the original spine laid down, bookplate of Viscount Granville and much gloss; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79574
- Price:
- $ 1350.00
- Category:
- Real Property, women's law, Dower
- Author:
- Title:
- The Law of Obligations and Conditions, or An Accurate Treatise, wherein is contained the whole Learning of the Law concerning Bills, Bonds, Conditions, Statutes, Recognizances . . . Being a Work necessary for all that Study the Law [etc.]. Wing A3972
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Walthoe . . . in Vine Court, Middle Temple, London, 1693.
- Description:
- Only edition of a highly specialized work, represented as the first to be largely devoted to obligations and conditions only, attributed to Thomas Ashe, but seemingly impossibly so, given the mid to late 17th century authorities cited and relied upon
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, quite rubbed and somewhat spotted, some browning, else clean and usable with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79562
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- pleading, Commercial Law, introductory law
- Author:
- White, G. Edward
- Title:
- The Rise and Fall of Justice Holmes
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Law Review, Chicago, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the Fall 1971 issue, Volume 39 Number 1, pages 51 to 77
- Book No.:
- W-92063
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Nader, Ralph
- Title:
- Freedom from Information: The Act and the Agencies
- Publisher:
- Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Cambridge, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a bit strained, else a very good copy; the January 1970 issue, Volume V Number 1
- Book No.:
- W-92053
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Vetter, Jan
- Title:
- The Evolution of Holmes, Holmes and Evolution
- Publisher:
- California Law Review, Berkeley, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from Volume 72, pages 343 to 368
- Book No.:
- W-92062
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Zouch, Richard
- Title:
- Elementa Jurisprudentiae Definitionibus, Regulis & Sententiis selectioribus Juris Civilis, Illustrata; Accesserunt Descriptiones Juris & Judicii, Sacri, Militaris, et Maritimi
- Publisher:
- Sumptibus Joh. Nevilsoni, Amsterdam, 1652?.
- Description:
- The first joint printing of four works of the noted English civilian repeatedly praised by Holdsworth, who terms the first work "the best specimen of the literature on the theory of law" and Zouche "the earliest English writer on jurisprudence"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, blind ruled and decorated, rubbed, later paper label hand lettered, red edges, very clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79566
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- jurisdiction, roman law, maritime law, military law
- Author:
- Rogat, Yosal and James M. O'Fallon
- Title:
- Mr. Justice Holmes: A Dissenting Opinion-The Speech Cases
- Publisher:
- Stanford Law Review, Stanford, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the July 1984 issue, pages 1349 to 1406
- Book No.:
- W-92061
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Tribe, Laurence H.
- Title:
- Structural Due Process
- Publisher:
- Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Cambridge, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a bit strained, else a very good copy; in the Spring 1975 issue, Volume 10, Number 2
- Book No.:
- W-92055
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Defensio Legis: Or, The Whole State of England Inquisited and Defended for General Satisfaction. By a Person of Honour. Wing D822A
- Publisher:
- Printed for, and are to be sold by George Savile [etc.], London, 1674.
- Description:
- The rare variant printing of an idiosyncratic analysis of law and equity and much else, its criticisms ("Sophistical Cavils or idle Belches against the Common Law") stated and then responded to (and disposed of); one copy in North America in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern brown morocco, gilt lettered, the joints a bit rubbed, ex-library, else quite clean and crisp, with the errata; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79573
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Tenants Law: A Treatise very Useful for Tenants & Farmers Of all Kindes, And all other persons whatsoever [including] between Landlord and Tenant, and Tenant and Tenant . . . Also, The Parish Law, as to Poor, Apprentices, Bastardy [etc.] Wing T51A
- Publisher:
- Printed for Samuel Speed, at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet, London, 1666.
- Description:
- The rare first edition of the first English legal treatise titled "Tenants Law" and only the second on the English law of landlord and tenant, treating of leases, rents, distresses and replevin inter alia (as well as parish law); three copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly repaired, with manuscript notes on the final blank and the signature of Daniel Dickinson dated 1666; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79565
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- agriculture, landlord and tenant
- Author:
- Houseman, Alan W
- Title:
- Equal Protection and the Poor
- Publisher:
- Rutgers Law Review, Newark, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy; reprinted from the Summer 1977 issue, Volume 30, Number 4, pages 887 to 906
- Book No.:
- W-92056
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Read, David
- Title:
- Lawyers and Doctors; Orphans and Guardians: A Plea for the Better Legislative Protection of Medical Men and Helpless Patients: The Law of Medical Fees, and a Scheme for Appointing Medical Assessors
- Publisher:
- Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, London, 1870.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, a very good copy; uncommon, six copies in OCLC, none in an academic law library
- Book No.:
- W-70694
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- medicine, infants
- Author:
- Kaplan, Benjamin
- Title:
- Encounters with O.W. Holmes, Jr.
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the June 1983 issue, Volume 96, Number 8, pages 1828 to 1852, stapled and worn
- Book No.:
- W-92059
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Taverner, Richard?
- Title:
- Institutions or principall groundes of the Lawes and statutes of England, newly and very truely corrected and amended with many newe and goodlye addicions, verye profitable for all sortes of people to knowe [etc.]. S.T.C. 9294; Beale T279
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . within Temple Barre . . . by Rycharde Tottyl, London, 1570.
- Description:
- An uncommon edition of one of the most popular of 16th century English law books, seemingly the first work designed to convey in layman's terms (and in English) the essence of English private law in all aspects; two copies in ESTC in North America
- Condition:
- Modern brown calf, gilt, two library stamps, else very clean and fresh with considerable red underlining throughout; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79568
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- English Law
- Author:
- Johns, Andrew L. (ed.)
- Title:
- A Companion to Ronald Reagan
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, 2015.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Boards, a very good copy in a chipped dust jacket
- Book No.:
- W-92052
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Tussman, Joseph and Jacobus tenBroek
- Title:
- The Equal Protection of the Laws
- Publisher:
- California Law Review, Berkeley, 1949.
- Description:
- stapled and worn
- Condition:
- Extracted from the September 1949 issue, Volume XXXVII, Number 3, pages 342 to 382, stapled and worn
- Book No.:
- W-92057
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Bond, John
- Title:
- A Compleat Guide for Justices of Peace . . . Containing the Common and Statute Laws relating to the Office of a Justice of the Peace [and] the most Authentick and Useful Precedents . . . now Revised, Corrected . . . by J.W. of the Middle Temple
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1707-1706.
- Description:
- The rare variant printing of a comprehensive treatise, arranged by subject alphabetically in both parts, with a prefatory discussion of the powers and duties of the justices of the peace; all copies in ESTC with different language in their titles
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed and marked, rebacked, the original blanks, somewhat chipped, laid in, else quite clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79567
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- justices of peace
- Author:
- Howe, Mark DeWolfe
- Title:
- The Positivism of Mr. Justice Holmes
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the February 1951 issue, Volume 64 Number 4, pages 529 to 546
- Book No.:
- W-92060
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of Section on Reform of the Jury System. Allen G. Wright, William Denman, Alexander D. Keyes, J.F. Bowie, Members of Section
- Publisher:
- Bar Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1910.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-92051
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Developments in the Law-International Environmental Law
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1991.
- Description:
- Following the introduction there are five major sections: State Liability and Procedural Norms, Creation of International Environmental Agreements, Assent to and Enforcement of International Environmental Agreements, and two others
- Condition:
- Extracted from the May 1991 issue, Volume 104, Number 7, pages 1484 to 1640; a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-92054
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Gunther, Gerald
- Title:
- The Supreme Court 1971 Term; Foreward: In Search of Evolving Docterineon a Changing Court: A Model for a Newer Equal Protection
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Extracted from the November 1972 issue, Volume 86, Number 1, pages 1 to 48, stapled and worn, underlining in pen on a few pages, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-92058
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Hughes, William
- Title:
- Hughes's Quaeries. Or, Choice Cases for Moots, Containing Several Points of Law, not Resolved in the Books. Being very Useful for the Students of the Common Lawes [etc.]. Wing H3329. 12mo
- Publisher:
- Printed for George Dawes, and are to be sold at his Shop [etc.], London, 1675.
- Description:
- The only early modern collection of mooted cases, continuing a tradition existing before the Inns of Courts were established, setting forth the facts, the issues, and (sometimes tentatively) the conclusions, often reminiscent of 20th century pedagogy
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt ruled and lettered, new endpapers, some browning, else clean and usable, with good margins and the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79569
- Price:
- $ 675.00
- Category:
- education, Inns of Court
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King, A Proclamation, For putting the Laws in Execution against Papists and Non-Jurors, and for Commanding all Papists, and reputed Papists, to depart from the Cities of London and Westminster, and from Ten Miles of the same [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett . . . And by the Assigns [of Two Others], London, 1722.
- Description:
- A rare proclamation continuing the persecution of Roman Catholics (who "were legally little better than pariahs") confiscating their horses and arms and confining them to a five mile radius of their homes; two copies in ESTC, neither in North America
- Condition:
- Two broadsides joined, measuring about 16x24 inches, some marginal worming, a hole at one fold affecting several words, else complete; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79563
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Religion, criminal law
- Author:
- Kyd, Stewart
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Awards
- Publisher:
- Printed for S. Crowder . . . and B.C. Collins [etc.], London, 1791.
- Description:
- First edition of a work which Holdsworth groups among the foremost English legal treatises of the eighteenth century, describing it as "the best book on this subject [and] a learned book", including an historical emphasis from the Year Books onwards
- Condition:
- Contemporary paper backed boards, printed paper label, lightly worn, else especially fresh in original state, the edges untrimmed; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79580
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- arbitration
- Author:
- Bohun, William
- Title:
- Institutio Legalis: Or, An Introduction to the Study and Practice of the Laws of England . . . I. The Practice of the Court of King's Bench. II . . . of Common Pleas. III. The Nature of all Actions . . . IV. The Order and Method of Pleading. 3rd Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [for five others], London, 1724.
- Description:
- The penultimate edition of the work which Holdsworth singles out of all the books "which set out to teach students the elements of the law of procedure and pleading", with its minute instructions for conducting litigation and for preparing a record
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered blind tooled and decorated calf, quite rubbed, joints cracking but holding, else very clean and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79564
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, introductory law, English Law, pleading
- Author:
- Title:
- In Memoriam-Roger John Traynor
- Publisher:
- California Law Review, Berkeley, 1983.
- Description:
- Eight contributions including those by Warren E. Burger, Henry J. Friendly, Stanley Mosk, Walter V. Schaefer, and Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a very good copy; the July 1983 issue, vol. 71 no. 4
- Book No.:
- W-92021
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Meriton, George
- Title:
- Land-Lords Law . . . Being A Collection of several Cases in the Law concerning Leases, Distresses, Replevins, Rescous, Waste and several other Matters which often happen between Land-Lord and Tenant [etc.]. Wing M1802
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of John More, London, 1665.
- Description:
- The rare first edition of the first work on the English law of landlord and tenant, especially important to the history of English land law, reflecting England's unique position among European countries in the amount of land cultivated by leasehold
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, rebacked, new endpapers, some worming and paper repairs, but sturdy and usable, six copies in ESTC; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79074
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- landlord and tenant
- Author:
- Powell, John Joseph
- Title:
- An Essay upon the Learning of Devises, from Their Inception by Writing to Their Consummation by the Death of the Devisor
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Jones, 86, Dame-Street, Dublin, 1791.
- Description:
- The rare first Irish edition of Powell's treatise, one of two by him (the other his pioneering work on powers) which Holdsworth calls "equally able", both fruits of Powell having been a pupil of Charles Fearne; no copy in ESTC in the United Kingdom
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked in cloth, the original label laid down, a trace of foxing, else clean and quite usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79560
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Wills
- Author:
- Title:
- Orders Appointed by His Maiestie to be straitly obserued, for the preuenting and remedying of the dearth of Graine and Victuall: With His Maiesties Proclamation, declaring His Royall pleasure and further Commandement therein. S.T.C. 9250.7
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1630.
- Description:
- The continuation of the effort (based on those begun in the reign of Elizabeth I) to regulate the food supply, requiring, inter alia, that corn be sold only in an open market and that justices be present to ensure fair prices for the poor and others
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, very clean with excellent margins, the first blank "A" and signature of Robert Gordone; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79559
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- poor law, Food
- Author:
- Title:
- Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall; Treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York . . . and the rest of the Bishops and Clergie . . . And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties Licence in their severall Synods [etc.]. S.T.C. 10080
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Barker . . . And by the Assignes of John Bill, London, 1640.
- Description:
- Charles I's wrongheaded effort at church reform, ostensibly anti-Catholic, but immediately widely opposed, particularly its infamous "etcetera oath", its ambiguous language seemingly demanding absolute allegiance to the church and so to Charles
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco, the Phillipps' copy with its booksticker and signature "A" blank on which are several "&c" in manuscript; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79558
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Greiner, Nadine
- Title:
- The Nuremberg Minds Revealed: An Evaluation of Psychopathy and Psychopathology in the Nazi War Criminals' Rorschach Records
- Publisher:
- Privately Published, San Francisco?, 1992.
- Description:
- Dr Greiner's doctoral dissertation submitted to The Professional School of Psychology, its primary purpose "to ascertain whether the Nuremberg war criminals' Rorschach records reveal significant psychopathic disturbance"; no copy in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original maroon oversized buckram, gilt lettered, mainly double spaced typescript, 330 pages, a small tape repair to the spine, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-79588
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Nuremberg
- Author:
- Title:
- His Highness the Prince of Orange His Letter to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Assembled at Westminster, In this Present Convention, January 22 1688/9. [Number 1 of 4 printed, signed "Will.H.P. d' Orange"]. Wing W2358. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Partridge and Matthew Gillyflower, London, 1689.
- Description:
- William's letter sent on the day the Convention convened, urging the consideration of his Declaration and "to lay the Foundations of . . . your Laws, and Your Liberties", he and Mary then to accept the Declaration of Rights the following February 13
- Condition:
- Four pages, disbound, chip to the bottom edge and a small hole in the title (no text affected), light browning, else sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79561
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- The Clerk's Remembrancer: Containing All Sorts of Small and Useful Precedents: with Proper Directions in Conveyancing: And the Compleat Methods of Practice in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and the High Court of Chancery [etc]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1730.
- Description:
- The rare, final and expanded edition of one of Jacob's earliest works, and his first on the practice in the royal courts, launching a career establishing his "lasting reputation . . . based on his legal writings"; five copies in ESTC, one in the UK
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked, gilt lettered and quite clean and bright, with the two advertising leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79553
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- conveyancing, courts, equity, Procedure
- Author:
- Title:
- A Law Grammar; Or, an Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence. Containing Rudiments and Illustrations of 1. The Laws of Nature [and twenty-five other subjects]
- Publisher:
- Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson [and three others], London, 1791.
- Description:
- Only London edition of an ambitious work, with a chapter on law terms (essentially a law dictionary), a lengthy treatment of maxims (some 158 in number), and an examination of Roman and civil law, maritime law, and forest and game law, inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, rubbed, joints just cracking but quite firm, clean and usable, without the half-title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79555
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries, maxims, jurisprudence, legal dictionaries, legal dictionaries, roman law, game law, Natural Resources
- Author:
- Walthoe (comp.), John
- Title:
- A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-Books of this Realm . . . With An Account of the Best Editions, and Common Prices for which they are now Sold [bound with] A Catalogue of Modern English Books, in Divinity, History, Law [and three other subjects]
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for J. Walthoe [2] Sold by J. Walthoe, Jun [etc.], London, 1722 & ?1723.
- Description:
- Two rare Walthoe catalogues, the first (on law books) being the fourth of six Walthoe catalogues to appear in the 18th century, and the second being the first issued under its title; six copies of the first and one copy of the second in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, a bit rubbed and bowed, some browning, else quite clean and sound with good margins; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79556
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, Dealer & Auction Catalogues
- Author:
- Title:
- The Constitution of Northern Ireland Being the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 as Amended Prepared for the Clerk of the Parliaments of Northern Ireland in the Statutory Publications Office Stormont, Belfast
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Belfast, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a bit faded, a few marginal notes, else very good condition; 60 pages
- Book No.:
- W-92047
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Norden, John
- Title:
- The Surveiors Dialogue, Very profitable for all men to peruse, but especially for all Gentlemen . . . that shall either haue occasion, or be willing to buy or sell Lands . . . with the manner and Methode of keeping a Court of Suruey [etc.]. S.T.C. 18640a
- Publisher:
- Printed for I. Busby . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1610.
- Description:
- An uncommon edition of a classic work, prepared by a royal surveyor who "made numerous contributions to cartography of a very high interest", the dialogue varying between a lord or bailiff and a surveyor; three copies in this country in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, some browning, the lower margin of the title chipped (no text affected), with the first blank "A" and errata; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79554
- Price:
- $ 1650.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Cole, Charles Nalson (comp. and intro.)
- Title:
- A Collection of Laws Which Form the Constitution of the Bedford Level Corporation, Together with An Introductory History thereof
- Publisher:
- Printed by H. Woodfall and W. Strahan . . . for C. Bathurst [&c.], London, 1761.
- Description:
- Only edition of the sole early compilation of the corporation created in 1663 to manage the draining of the Great Fen (or Bedford Level), some 300,000 acres in east central England, undertaken by the Inner Temple barrister who served as its registrar
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, presentation copy ("from the author"), with the bookplate of Lord Walsingham, clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79557
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- water law, environmental law
- Author:
- Meriton, George
- Title:
- A Guide to Surveyors of the High-Ways, Shewing The Office and Duty of such Surveyors . . . Collected and gathered Out of public Acts of Parliament . . . out of the Year-Books, and other Books of the Municipal Laws of this Kingdom [etc.]. Wing M1799
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft [etc.], London, 1694.
- Description:
- Only edition of the first treatise devoted exclusively to the law of highways and their surveyors, this copy uniquely containing the separate, seemingly unrecorded eight page advertisement (with some loss) of 100+ books printed for William Crooke
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered, blind ruled sheep, quite rubbed, but clean and sound, with the imprimatur leaf, one blank corner of which is torn away
- Book No.:
- W-79291
- Price:
- $ 700.00
- Category:
- law of highways
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Alternately, you may order by sending an e-mail note, or by contacting us directly by phone or FAX.
If you do send a FAX, please make sure to include your full shipping address, a credit card number and expiration date, and the "Order No" of the volumes you would like. Also, please make sure to leave a phone number so that we can contact you in the event we encounter any problems filling your order.
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Questions, comments, inquiries??? Please write us!rarelaw@meyerbos.com
Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.
2141 Mission Street, Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone : (415) 255-6400
Fax : (415) 795-3982
E-mail: rarelaw@meyerbos.com
URL : http://www.meyerbos.com
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