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- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- De Sepultura. Wing S4924. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Young, and are to bee sold by [two others], London, 1641.
- Description:
- First edition of Spelman's last work, part of his singular effort--as "chief architect [of] one of the great experiments in reform of the Stuart governments"--leading the commission inquiring into excessive fees charged by officials of all kinds
- Condition:
- Some browning and staining, a number of early careful marginal annotations, disbound; 38 pages, with both the first and last blanks
- Book No.:
- W-73459
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- Glossarium Archaiologicum, Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula [etc.]. Third edition. Cowley 178 (variant); Wing S4926. Folio
- Publisher:
- Excudebat Tho. Braddyll, & Prostant apud Georg. Pawlett [etc.], London, 1687.
- Description:
- The best edition of the work which Holdsworth calls "the earliest dictionary of early legal and historical terms constructed upon sound principles" and the basis for Spelman's studies begun earlier in the century on English law and its history
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf, title neatly repaired, engraved frontispiece strengthened at the inner margin, some dustiness, else a clean usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-73863
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries
- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- Glossarium Archaiologicum, Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula [etc.]. Third edition. Cowley 178 (variant) (with "auctior" in the edition statement); Wing S4926. Folio
- Publisher:
- Excudebat Tho. Braddyll, & Prostant apud Georg. Pawlett [etc.], London, 1687.
- Description:
- The best edition of the work which Holdsworth calls "the earliest dictionary of early legal and historical terms constructed upon sound principles" and the basis for Spelman's studies begun earlier in the century on English law and its history
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled, panelled vellum blind-tooled and gilt lozenges, front joint repaired, some wear and bowing, attractive; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78035
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries
- Author:
- Spelman, Henry
- Title:
- Of the Law Terms: A Discourse Written by The Learned Antiquary, Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Wherein The Laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to the Subject, are fully explained. Wing S4929
- Publisher:
- Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, in Westminster Hall, London, 1684.
- Description:
- Spelman's paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, tracing the origins of holding court only at certain times of year and on certain days, noting in particular the influence which canon law seemingly had upon the formation of English law terms
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, crimson morocco label, gilt, somewhat rubbed and scraped, else amply margined and well-preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78055
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- roman law, Anglo-Saxon law, greek law, jewish law, courts
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