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- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Innes of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Second edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Rober, John Martin [etc.], London, 1671.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the six plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, embrowning; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60145
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Granta, The Magazine of New Writing. Sixty Eight non-consecutive issues from Issue 7 to Issue 147
- Publisher:
- Granta Books, London, 1983-2017.
- Description:
- A long non-consecutive run of sixty seven issues, including the issues of Young British Novelists and Authors (#s 7, 81, and 123), Young American Novelists (#s 54, 97, and 139), Young Spanish Language Novelists (#113), and New Irish Writing (#135)
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps in very good condition
- Book No.:
- W-80249
- Price:
- $ 340.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature
- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Inns of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Third edition. Wing D2490
- Publisher:
- Printed for Christop. Wilkinson [and two others] [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the 7 plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, ex-library, the front board detached and the title and first leaf loose; with the armorial bookplate of Charles, Viscount Bruce
- Book No.:
- W-74934
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
- Publisher:
- Annual Register, London, 1798.
- Description:
- A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
- Condition:
- Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
- Book No.:
- W-80391
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Title:
- The Jewish Review of Books. Number 1, Spring 2010
- Publisher:
- Bee.Ideas, LLC., New York, 2010.
- Description:
- The first issue of the Review, with main articles by Shlomo Avineri, Hillel Halkin, Dara Horn, and Michael Weingrad, and reviews by Adam Kirsch (on Rebecca Goldstein's '36 Arguments for the Existence of God') and ten others, two readings, and more
- Condition:
- Original oversized stapled illustrated wraps, a very good copy; 51 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80417
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- jewish law
- Author:
- Title:
- Photograph of the Court, the frame measuring some 14 x 18 inches, the image 9 x 13 inches, a formal pose, all of the justices in their judicial robes, five standing with four behind, with the embossed stamp of Harris & Ewing in the lower left-hand corner
- Publisher:
- Harris & Ewing, Washington, 1916-21].
- Description:
- An early 20th century formal photograph of the Court taken during Brandeis's first years as a Justice, clearly revealing his youthful appearance, with Justice Holmes to the left of Chief Justice White, with his glorious mustache in full bloom
- Condition:
- Matted and framed, the frame somewhat scuffed and the photograph somewhat faded, but the features of all of the Justices still clear and distinct
- Book No.:
- W-74250
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, law and photography, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Fourth [sic] Edition. Eller 6
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Exshaw [and others; imprint varies], Dublin, 1771.
- Description:
- A very early Dublin-printed, pirated edition (the second) of Blackstone's classic work, appearing during the same year as the first American edition, and the first in Ireland in which all four volumes were published during the same year
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, a few repairs, new labels; a sound set
- Book No.:
- W-60114
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, English Law
- Author:
- Leigh Fermor, Patrick
- Title:
- George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A. Trypanis
- Publisher:
- American College of Greece, Athens, 1999.
- Description:
- Leigh Fermor's public letter praising the translation of the Odyssey into Cretan Greek, the translation stated by Leigh Fermor as unique as a modern translation from the ancient Greek, undertaken by Leigh-Fermor's comrade-in-arms during World War II
- Condition:
- Original tan cloth, lightly sunned, else well preserved, the front board printed in red and black; one of 300 copies bound in cloth
- Book No.:
- W-80453
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature, GREECE
- Author:
- Baker, J.H.
- Title:
- Criminal Justice at Newgate 1616-1627: Some Manuscript Reports in the Harvard Law School
- Publisher:
- The Irish Jurist, Dublin, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original stapled self wraps, an off-print from Volume VIII of The Irish Jurist, lightly worn else a very good, clean copy; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-45299
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, criminal law, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- Crime and Criminals, An Address Delivered to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail. Hunsberger 92 [Darrow observes in his preface to this reissue that "I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form"]
- Publisher:
- Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago, 1913.
- Description:
- An uncommon reissue of one of Darrow's early and most electrifying speeches, delivered in 1902, "shock[ing] most citizens, but delight[ing] most inmates, a few of whom thought he was too radical", Darrow concluding "[t]here should be no jails."
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated stapled wraps, a bit worn, the rear wrap just chipped and with some staining, and the Book Omnorium San Francisco stamp
- Book No.:
- W-80468
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- criminal law, legal reform
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence, & Victor S. Yarros
- Title:
- The Prohibition Mania. A Reply to Professor Irving Fisher and Others. Hunsberger 212
- Publisher:
- Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
- Description:
- Darrow's sole book length work on a subject which long preoccupied him, and to which he devoted two chapters in his autobiography, describing its effects as "a reign of terror, intimidation, violence, and bigotry unprecedented in the modern world"
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, the front board and spine gilt-lettered,some wear and light fading, but overall a good copy, internally quite clean and fresh
- Book No.:
- W-80491
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Liquor & Drink
- Author:
- Burke, Edmund
- Title:
- A Discourse on the Study of the Law, read in the public schools at Oxford, Oct. 24, 1758. Octavo [the first of the reviews "of all the important books on law" which were written by Burke for the Annual Register between 1758 and 1765]
- Publisher:
- Annual Register, London, 1758.
- Description:
- Burke's review of the first edition of Blackstone's "Discourse", praising it as "a solid, judicious, and elegant oration", reflecting their jointly held belief that the study of law should seek to achieve much more than a practical apprenticeship
- Condition:
- Original seven pages, disbound, light browning, else well preserved, with good margins; pages 452-458
- Book No.:
- W-80497
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- education, English Law
- Author:
- Snyder, William L
- Title:
- The Geography of Marriage, or Legal Perplexities of Wedlock in the United States
- Publisher:
- G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York and London, 1889.
- Description:
- First edition of Snyder's comprehensive work on American marriage law, with chapters on divorce, forbidden marriages, marriage of children, miscegenation, and bigamy, inter alia, with a final chapter devoted to his state-by-state analysis and summary
- Condition:
- Original brown cloth, gilt lettered, decorated endpapers and pastedowns, a very good copy; with the errata slip and with the bookplate of F.A. Carle
- Book No.:
- W-80511
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage
- Author:
- Bazyar, Shida
- Title:
- The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran. Translated by Ruth Martin. Advanced Reading Copy. June 2025 [so stated on the front wrap]
- Publisher:
- Scribe, Melbourne, London, Minneapolis, 2025.
- Description:
- The back wrap additionally stating: "Please note that these proofs are uncorrected and that changes may be made to the text. Before quoting any material in a review, please check it against a finished copy of the book"
- Condition:
- Original blue printed wraps, a very good copy, 266 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80513
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Law and Literature, IRAN
- Author:
- Douglas, William O
- Title:
- Autograph note signed on a Supreme Court notecard from Justice Douglas to former Justice Louis Brandeis thanking him for his help on issues in an enclosed slip opinion written by Justice Douglas in a case involving financial conflicts of interest
- Publisher:
- Description:
- The note confirming the friendship and mutual interests of Douglas and Brandeis, to continue after Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court and reflecting their views as in Douglas's "Democracy and Finance" and Brandeis's "The Curse of Bigness"
- Condition:
- Original stiffish notecard, well preserved, entirely in the hand of Justice Douglas, the accompanying slip opinion with one vertical crease
- Book No.:
- W-80518
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Commercial Law
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