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- Author:
- Meriton, George
- Title:
- An Exact Abridgment of all the Publick Printed Irish Statutes now in Force . . . Together with An Abridgment of such English Statutes . . . as have been Enacted and made since Sir Edward Poyning's Law, relating to the Kingdom of Ireland [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by and for Andrew Crook [and two others], Dublin, 1700.
- Description:
- First edition of the first comprehensive abridgment of the Irish statutes and those of England applying to Ireland, compiled by the prolific English lawyer who had removed to Ireland and been granted a law degree from the University of Dublin
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint cracked but holding, a sound clean copy, with the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78716
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Abridgements
- Author:
- 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:
- 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:
- Davies, John
- Title:
- Historical Tracts . . . To Which Is Prefixed a New Life of the Author, from Authentic Documents
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Porter, for Mess. White, Gilbert [etc.], Dublin, 1777.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary tree calf, the covers abraded, else a fresh copy
- Book No.:
- W-65326
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- IRELAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Caroli Regis, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Decimo et undecimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Dublin, the foureteenth day of Iuly in the tenth year of the Raigne of our most gracious Soveraigne Lord, Charles [etc]. STC 14137
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by the Society of Stationers, Dublin [a false imprint, i.e. London], 1636.
- Description:
- The only London printing of the legislation enacted by the Irish Parliament during the reign of Charles I, seventy-one acts in total, beginning with the six subsidies granted to the King, increasing Parliamentary demands leading to its dissolution
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning, else a very good copy with a number of contemporary annotations in the margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78476
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, in the United Kingdom . . . As Far As Relates to Ireland. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 March 1819. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1819.
- Description:
- Arranged by county, reporting particulars for over ninety institutions, including number of prisoners, their gender and whether under or over seventeen, whether debtor or criminal, and the allowances of food, money, and clothing, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, the fore-margins cut close, but the sense preserved, else a very good copy, 21 pages; no copy in OCLC in the USA
- Book No.:
- W-77192
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- prisons, IRELAND
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, in the United Kingdom . . . As Far As Relates to Scotland. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 March 1819. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1819.
- Description:
- Arranged by county, reporting particulars for over eighty institutions, including the number of prisoners, their gender and whether under or over seventeen, whether debtor or criminal, and the allowances of food, money, and clothing, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, the fore-margins cut close, but the sense preserved, else a very good copy, 21 pages; three copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77195
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- prisons, IRELAND, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Lee, Edward
- Title:
- The Statute-Law of Ireland Common-Placed. Or, A General Table of all Publick Printed English and Irish Acts of Parliament now in Force and Use in Ireland . . . from Magna Charta . . . Containing, The full Purport of All the English Statutes [etc.]. 2d Ed
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by Geo. Grierson [etc.], Dublin, 1735.
- Description:
- A rare work, organizing Irish and pertinent English statute law alphabetically, providing the purport of both, and represented as the first work to include English statutes enacted prior to Poyning's Law [of 1495]; no copy in a law library in ESTC
- Condition:
- Blind-panelled calf, lightly rubbed, contemporary news cuttings tipped in, one blank loose, else a very good crisp copy; with the suscribers' list
- Book No.:
- W-77506
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Acts, Abridgements, digests
- Author:
- Walsh, Thomas
- Title:
- History of the Irish Hierarchy, With the Monasteries of Each County, Biographical Notices of the Irish Saints, Prelates, and Religious. Compiled from the Most Authentic Records, Foreign and Domestic
- Publisher:
- D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 164 William Street [etc.], New York, 1857.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original embossed cloth, badly worn, ex-library; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-30033
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Ecclesiastical Law
- 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:
- 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:
- Barry, James, Baron Santry
- Title:
- The Case of Tenures Upon the Commission of Defective Titles, Argued By all the Iudges of Ireland. With their Resolution, and the Reasons of their Resolution. S.T.C. 1531. Folio
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by the Society of Stationers [etc.], Dublin, 1639.
- Description:
- A work central to the debate over the fundamental principles of English feudalism, agreeing with Coke and Selden and opposed to Henry Spelman, who was mainly responsible (in J.G.A. Pocock's words) for "the feudal revolution in English historiography"
- Condition:
- Later sheep backed boards, staining to the first and last leaves, else quite clean, well-margined and untrimmed; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78251
- Price:
- $ 2250.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Real Property, conveyancing
- Author:
- Bolton, Richard
- Title:
- A Justice of Peace for Ireland: Consisting of Two Books; The First, declaring the Exercise of That Office . . . The Second, setting forth the Form of Proceeding in Sessions . . . Also, Some Precedents of Committals, Convictions . . . and Warrants [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Leathley, and T. Moore . . . and O. Nelson [etc.], Dublin, 1750.
- Description:
- The received edition of the first Irish legal treatise, originally published in 1638, shortly before Bolton was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, this edition expanded by the barrister Michael Travers to encompass the intervening century
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, else a very good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-76308
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, justices of peace, criminal law
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