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- Author:
- St. John, Oliver
- Title:
- Mr St-John's Speech to the Lords in the Upperhouse of Parliament: January 7, 1640. Concerning Ship-Money. S.T.C. 21589.3 [variant, with "L. Finches sollici-tation only, &" on E1 and "SPEECH" on the first page of text]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed Anno Domini, 1640 [i.e. 1641] [by Elizabeth Purslowe], London, 1641.
- Description:
- St. John's ultimately successful argument in one of the great constitutional cases of English legal history, circumscribing the King's prerogative to declare a national emergency (and to tax the country at large) without Parliamentary consent
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, the title a bit dusty, else quite clean and bright with occasional contemporary notations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79694
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Nomination of Simon E. Sobeloff. Report together with Minority Views. Senate Executive Rept. No. 8, 84th Congress 2d Session
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1956.
- Description:
- The rare Senate report on the nomination of Simon Sobeloff to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, over the objections of James O. Eastland and Olin D. Johnston, given Sobeloff's role, as Solicitor General, in implementing Brown v Board of Education
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, 24 pages; four copies in OCLC, none in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-79740
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- courts, Discrimination, constitutional law
- Author:
- Swindler, William F.
- Title:
- The Constitution and Chief Justice Marshall
- Publisher:
- Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1978.
- Description:
- The biography designed to provide background material for the film series 'Equal Justice Under Law'; with an introduction by Warren Burger, portions of whose Bentham Club lecture on 'Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury' is appended
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-70783
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other bishops] [with] The Tryals of Henry Cornish, Esq; for Conspiring the Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion [etc.]. Wing P3555A and T2250. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for Thomas Basset [2] Printed . . . by George Croom, London, 1689 & 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the great cases of English law, confirming Parliament's right to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation, coupled with the trial of the London sheriff whose execution "secured his place in the pantheon of whig martyrs"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum slightly bowed, the title pages quite darkened, the portrait of the bishops trimmed and repaired, a working copy; with the errata slip
- Book No.:
- W-78150
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Bacon, Nathaniel
- Title:
- An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With A Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments . . . from some Manuscript Notes of John Selden. Wing S2428
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Starkey [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The work establishing the reputation of Bacon, the half-brother of Francis Bacon, probably based on notes collected by John Selden, highly influential and "argu[ing] with unrelenting force an anti-royalist ideology of enormous political power"
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled, panelled calf, rebacked, somewhat rubbed and scraped and some browning, mainly lightish, else a very good crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-77069
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Cooley, Thomas M.
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1868.
- Description:
- First edition of Cooley's magnum opus, a work admired by Holmes and used by him in his undergraduate course on constitutional law at Harvard, described by his principal biographer as "the most fecund source of laissez faire constitutional principles"
- Condition:
- Modern sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, some markings and an occasional notation, else a very good copy; with an eight page Little Brown catalogue
- Book No.:
- W-75017
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal [of the Seven Bishops] [with] Atkyns, An Inquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes [with] Atkyns, The Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament [with] Langhorne, King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws
- Publisher:
- Imprints vary; Wing S564, A4138, A4141, and L396, all folios, London, 1687-89.
- Description:
- Four works central to English constitutional law and the Glorius Revolution, establishing the right of Parliament to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the portrait and two advertising leaves (one repaired), generally clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79360
- Price:
- $ 1000.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Frankfurter, Felix and Harry Shulman (eds.)
- Title:
- Cases and Other Authorities on Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. Revised Edition. National Casebook Series
- Publisher:
- Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 1937.
- Description:
- Revised edition of the casebook anticipating issues of judicial self-restraint enduringly important to Justice Frankfurter, and exhibiting "the breadth of reading, maturity of thought, and imaginative use of material" long hallmarks of his thinking
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, very worn but clean, with much underlining and notations and the ownership signature of Charles W. Davis, a Harvard Law graduate
- Book No.:
- W-79828
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, constitutional law, courts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Parliamentary Opinions of Lord Mansfield, Sir Dudley Ryder, Mr. Charles Yorke, Mr. William Beckford, &c. On the Choice of a Regency or Regent; with Other Discussions on That Interesting Question
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, London, 1788.
- Description:
- Part of the debate during the mental incapacity of George III (no provision for succession having been made), publishing a series of arguments bruited when the 1751 Regency Bill, providing for his own succession while a minor, had been enacted
- Condition:
- Disbound, one leaf torn with loss of several words on its verso (but not the sense); 46 pages plus the advertising leaf
- Book No.:
- W-71544
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- insanity, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Opinions of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, In the Case of the Proprietors of Charles River Bridge vs. The Proprietors of Warren Bridge and Others. Delivered at the January Term of the Court, at Washington, 1837. Cohen 11595
- Publisher:
- Otis, Broaders and Co., Boston, 1837.
- Description:
- The only separate printing of one of "the three great constitutional decisions of the Taney Court's first term", with Daniel Webster for the appellants, the Court circumscribing exclusive property rights perceived to conflict with the public good
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 sheep over marbled boards, discreetly ex-library, a bit of foxing, else well-preserved; uncommon, one law library holder in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-75108
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
- Author:
- Hargrave, Francis
- Title:
- Collectanea Juridica. Consisting of Tracts Relative to the Law and Constitution of England. Two Volumes [complete] [with the "A Register of Law Publications" of 32 and 26 pages in the first and second volumes, respectively, not found in all sets]
- 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:
- Tullock, Gordon
- Title:
- Trials on Trial, The Pure Theory of Legal Procedure
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47353
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law, trials, economics
- Author:
- Hargrave, Francis
- Title:
- Collectanea Juridica. Consisting of Tracts Relative to the Law and Constitution of England. Two Volumes [complete] [with the "A Register of Law Publications" of 32 and 26 pages in the first and second volumes, respectively, not found in all sets]
- 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:
- Contemporary calf, much rubbed, joints just cracking but quite firm, labels lacking, else very clean and bright; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79486
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Star Chamber, Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- Debates in the Congress of the United States on the Bill for Repealing the Law "For the More Convenient Organization of the Courts of the United States;" During the First Session of the Seventh Congress [etc.]. Cohen 1203
- Publisher:
- Printed by Whiting, Leavenworth and Whiting, Albany, 1802.
- Description:
- The record of "[t]he profound constitutional questions embedded" in the debates resulting in the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, restoring that of 1789, ultimately leading to Marbury v Madison and the role of judicial review in this country
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, rebacked, considerable foxing and browning, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77407
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Somers, John
- Title:
- A Brief History of the Succession, Collected out of the Records, and the Most Authentick Historians. Written for the Satisfaction of the Earl of H.[Halifax]. Wing S4638. Folio. [With line 5 of the title ending "and the"]
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1680.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the earliest writings of the future Lord Chancellor, vigorously defending the right of Parliament to participate in determining royal succession, "review[ing] in detail the history of the crown's descent, from earliest times"
- Condition:
- Modern light-green wraps, definite browning, a bit of marginal fraying to the first leaf, else a good copy; 19 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76888
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Kalven, Jr., Harry
- Title:
- A Worthy Tradition, Freedom of Speech in America
- Publisher:
- Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-66849
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, freedom of speech
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16019
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- His Maiesties Declaration, Touching his proceedings in the late Assemblie and Conuention of Parliament. S.T.C. 9241. Quarto [with the front blank signature "A" preceding the title]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill [etc.], London, 1622.
- Description:
- James I defence of his dissolution of the Parliament of 1621, Coke having had his books and papers seized and been imprisoned in the Tower, leading "to a constitutional confrontation with the king over [the Commons] privilege of free speech"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 green morocco over marbled boards, the spine very lightly faded, light browning, the top margin cut a bit close, yet crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79536
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Parliament, English constitutional law, freedom of speech
- Author:
- Title:
- A Conference Desired by the Lords and Had by a Committee of both Houses, Concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects. Discoursed by . . . Master Selden [and] Sir Edward Cooke. With the Objections . . . and the Answers. Wing E1284C
- Publisher:
- Printed by A.N. for Mathew Walbancke, and Richard Best [etc.], London, 1642.
- Description:
- The all-important first portion of the debates leading up to the Petition of Right, recording the arguments and authorities of Coke, Digges, Littleton, and Selden, Sir Robert Heath's objections as Attorney General, and their answers in response
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 unlettered calf over marbled boards and edges, some browning and staining, but crisp with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79652
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament
- Author:
- Hand, Learned
- Title:
- The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand. Collected, and with an Introduction and Notes, by Irving Dilliard. First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1952.
- Description:
- Presentation copy--"To Isabel Roberts [co-Director of the American Academy in Rome] / To whom I owe more / than she will ever guess / Learned Hand / May 22, 1954", reflecting Judge Hand's special affection for Italy, "the love of my mature years"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket; with Isabel Roberts' ownership signature, dated July, 1952 at Rome on the first blank
- Book No.:
- W-73475
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Bill of Rights, constitutional law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Pitts, Jesse R. and Olivier Zunz (eds.)
- Title:
- The Tocqueville Review, La Revue Tocqueville, Volume 7, 1985/86
- Publisher:
- Tocqueville Society, Charlottesville, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30322
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, constitutional law, philosophy of law, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Curtis, George Ticknor
- Title:
- History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States; With Notices of Its Principal Framers. Two Volumes. Compare Cohen 2799
- Publisher:
- Harper and Brothers, New York, 1861.
- Description:
- An early reissue of the principal work of Curtis, a student of Story's and one of Webster's literary executors, expanded by him towards the end of the century to include subsequent developments, here focusing exclusively on the Constitution's origins
- Condition:
- Original embossed cloth, gilt, lightly worn but generally quite clean and attractive; Charles E. Wyzanki's set, though without his ownership signature
- Book No.:
- W-75355
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, biography
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17299
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Tullock, Gordon
- Title:
- Trials on Trial, The Pure Theory of Legal Procedure
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48940
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law, trials, economics
- Author:
- Leach, John
- Title:
- The Speech of John Leach, Esq. M.P. In the Committee of the Whole House, upon the State of the Nation . . . upon the Question of Limitations to the Royal Authority in the Hands of the Regent. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Ridgway, 170, Piccadilly [etc.], London, 1811.
- Description:
- The rare edition of the historically grounded speech in which, following the madness of George III, Leach "distinguished himself in the Regency debates", reviewing from the 14th century forward the constitutional limits to be imposed upon a regency
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, occasional light marginal staining, else a very good copy, with the half-title; no copy in this country in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-76397
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- insanity, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Compare Eller 231 [citing an unseen variant of 48 pages, our copy the 44 page printing]; Laeuchli 539 [this variant]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.
- Description:
- Part of the Wilkes controversy, invoking the common law as the source of the House of Common's power to expel a member, the "substantial work [which] has been credited to Jeremiah Dyson [and] Blackstone", its author now thought to be Owen Ruffhead
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, light browning, the margins cut somewhat close (no text affected), without the half title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78792
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- His Maiesties Declaration to All His louing Subiects, Of the causes which moued him to dissolue the last Parliament. Published by his Maiesties speciall command. Not in S.T.C. [the variant printing with "Declaration" spelled correctly]. ESTC S122629
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill [etc.], London, 1629.
- Description:
- The dissolution by Charles I of the parliament which had secured the Petition of Right in large part through Sir Edward Coke's efforts, to result in prerogative rule only for the succeeding decade and then to the turmoil of the 1640's and Cromwell
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, some browning, the top margin cut close affecting a few running heads, without the first and last blanks; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79551
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Meredith, William
- Title:
- Letter to Dr. Blackstone, By the Author of the Question Stated. To which is prefixed, Dr. Blackstone's Letter to Sir William Meredith. Eller 259
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Woodfall, Charing Cross [etc.], London, 1770.
- Description:
- Part of the debate whether John Wilkes should sit in Parliament, and most embarrassing for Blackstone, accused of saying one thing in his 'Commentaries' and another as a Member of Parliament, in Ian Doolittle's words "caught leaden-footed in debate"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a very good crisp copy; with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77718
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- law of elections, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Wambaugh, Eugene
- Title:
- A Selection of Cases on Constitutional Law. Four Volumes
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1914-15.
- Description:
- The casebook prepared by Wambaugh for his course at Harvard in the subject matter area, constitutional law, for which he is remembered, particularly his "perceptively sound estimates of the direction of the movement of Supreme Court adjudications"
- Condition:
- Cloth boards, quite worn, some pencilling, yet clean and usable
- Book No.:
- W-10808
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Casebooks
- Author:
- Smith, Thomas
- Title:
- De Republica Anglorum. The maner of Governement or policie of the Realme of England, compiled by . . . Thomas Smyth Knight, Doctor of both the lawes, and one of the principal Secretaries vnto . . . King Edward . . . and Queene Elizabeth. S.T.C. 22858
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, anno Domini 1584, London, 1584.
- Description:
- Second edition of the first English treatise on comparative constitutional law, highly regarded by Maitland, who adjudged that the work "will be quoted and transcribed so long as men take any interest in the history of the English constitution"
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, a trifle browned with a trace of marginal staining, headlines occasionally just shaved, with the Ehrman bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79418
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Comparative Law
- Author:
- Jackson, Robert H.
- Title:
- Full Faith and Credit, The Lawyer's Clause of the Constitution
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1945.
- Description:
- The third annual Cardozo Lecture, delivered by Justice Jackson on the fourth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, on the clause of the Constitution in which he believed deeply--"the foundation of any hope we may have for a national system of justice"
- Condition:
- Original maroon cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-72157
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
- 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:
- Tuesday the 27th of December 1659. Resolved, &c. That on the fifth day of January next, this House will take into Consideration the Cases of all absent Members [and seven other Proclamations]. Steele 3142; 3144; 3146; 3147; 3152; 3157; and 3159
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater [imprints vary], London, 1659-60.
- Description:
- Eight rare or uncommon proclamations documenting Parliament's actions during the tumultuous months when England faced a military takeover, avoided with the restoration of Charles II and "ensur[ing] the future of parliamentary government in England"
- Condition:
- Seven broadsides, each about 8x12 inches, some browning and irregularity, several with partial tears, but all textually complete; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79345
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament
- Author:
- Staunford, William
- Title:
- An Exposicion of the kinges prerogatiue collected out of the great abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and other old writers of the lawes of Englande . . . Whereunto is annexed the Proces to the same Prerogatiue appertaining. S.T.C. 23213; Beale T491. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprynted . . . in fleet strete . . . by Rychard Tottel [etc.], London, 1567.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the first English legal treatises of substance to focus on a discrete subject area of the law, in this case the powers of the King upon such matters as marriage, wardship, idiots, lunatics, escheats and wrecks, among others
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, definite staining throughout, moreso at the end, two leaves repaired with loss; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-59198
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Fortescue, John
- Title:
- The Difference Between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy; As it more particularly regards the English Constitution . . . Faithfully Transcribed from the MS. Copy in the Bodleian Library . . . Published with some Remarks by John Fortescue-Aland [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Bowyer in White-Fryars, for E. Parker [etc.], London, 1714.
- Description:
- First edition of "the earliest constitutional treatise written in the English language", one of Fortescue's major works, written by him in the 1470's, its modern edition (by Charles Plummer) published under the title 'The Governance of England'
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled, panelled, Cambridge style calf, the joints cracked and repaired, new endpapers, else clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79331
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- 15TH CENTURY, Comparative Law, English constitutional law, Parliament, political theory
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Caroli . . . At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 18. day of Iune, Anno Dom. 1625. in the first yeere of the Reigne of our most gracious Souereigne Lord, Charles . . . And there continued [etc.]. S.T.C. 9509. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Barker, & John Bill [etc.], London, 1630 (1629).
- Description:
- One of only two contemporary printings of the legislation of Charles' first Parliament, its dissolution leading to the Petition of Right, "terminat[ing] the opening scene in the long tragedy that ended twenty-four years later upon the scaffold"
- Condition:
- Modern boards, some browning and staining, without the two subsidies acts and the first blank, else usable with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79475
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- The Jurisdiction of the Lords House, or Parliament, Considered According to Antient Records. To Which is Prefixed by . . . Francis Hargrave, Esq. an Introductory Preface, Including a Narrative of the Same Jurisdiction from the Accession of James the First
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies . . . in the Strand, London, 1796.
- Description:
- Sole edition of Hale's principal contribution to English constitutional law, praised by Maitland and Holdsworth ("a striking testimony to Hale's mastery of records"), proposing what were to become the modern judicial powers of the House of Lords
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, well preserved with notations and markings principally in lightish pencil throughout; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79393
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Parliament, House of Lords, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald
- Title:
- The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government. First Indian Impression
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1977.
- Description:
- The copy from the library of Archibald Cox, the seemingly unrecorded Delhi printing of his four Chichele Lectures delivered at Oxford, with the publisher's transmittal slip tipped in (noting 800 copies printed); no copy in OCLC, RLIN, Hollis or COPAC
- Condition:
- Original cloth, somewhat worn, in a worn and defective dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-73784
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, legal reform, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Not separately listed in Eller, who also does not list the London variant printings of 1769; compare Eller 231. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.
- Description:
- Blackstone's passionate invocation of the common law as the source of the House of Common's power to expel a member, and his principal contribution to English constitutional law outside the Commentaries; not seen by Eller and surprisingly uncommon
- Condition:
- Modern calf, very light browning, a good, wide-margined copy, with the half-title; 44 pages
- Book No.:
- W-67958
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- 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:
- Lawyers Guild Review. Volume 1, Number 1 through Volume 20, Number 4 [complete except for two issues]
- Publisher:
- National Lawyers Guild, Washington and New York, 1940-1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, showing wear, some wraps detached, else a good set
- Book No.:
- W-72777
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- civil liberties, constitutional law
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the Antiquities and Laws of England. Third Edition. Eller 240; Lauechli 553
- Publisher:
- Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1771.
- Description:
- The most complete edition of Blackstone's legal essays, said in part to be responsible for his appointment as Solicitor General, and including his famed essay on (and text of) Magna Carta, "of the first importance for the constitutional lawyer"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the boards rubbed and marked, the first and last blanks somewhat foxed and dusty, else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78133
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Family Law, jurisprudence, marriage, Magna Carta, English constitutional law
- 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 patterned dark-red cloth, the spine gilt-lettered, somewhat rubbed and some browning, the occasional pencil markings, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-76301
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- communist law, freedom of speech, Radicals, constitutional law
- Author:
- Ginger, Ann Fagan (ed.)
- Title:
- Human Rights Casefinder 1953-1969, The Warren Court Era, Citations to Federal, State, and Unreported Opinions on: Civil Liberties, Due Process, Civil Rights, Law of the Poor
- Publisher:
- Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Library, Berkeley, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed wraps, the front wrap marked and dusty, else a good copy; 281 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74565
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, civil rights, poor law, constitutional law
- Author:
- Bacon, Nathaniel
- Title:
- An Historical Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England . . . From the first Times till the Reigne of Edward the third [with] A Continuation . . . Until the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. ?ESTC R473664 [not R8530 or R10585]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Matthew Walbancke at Grays-Inn-Gate [imprints vary], London, 1647 & 1651.
- Description:
- A possibly unique printing of the work establishing the reputation of Bacon, Francis Bacon's half-brother, the constitutional history of England whose early publication was suppressed, leading to the still disputed claim of Selden's association
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, the rear joint cracking but firm, else a good copy, with the bookplate of John Francis Neylan; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78788
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- A Vindication of the Right of Election against the Disabling Power of the House of Commons, Shewing That Power to Be Contrary to The Principles of the Constitution . . . and Not Warranted by The Law and Usage of Parliament [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Woodfall, at Charing-Cross [etc.], London, 1769.
- Description:
- Only edition of a tract written during the height of the Wilkes controversy, acknowledging the authority of both Montesquieu and, particularly, Blackstone, whose "Commentaries" and his "Case of the Late Election" are cited on several occasions
- Condition:
- Modern gray stabbed wraps, ex-library, else a very good copy; 72 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77510
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament, law of elections
- Author:
- Title:
- Brief Deductions Relative to the Aid and Supply of the Executive Power, According to the Law of England. In Cases of Infancy, Delirium, or Other Incapacity of the King. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Debrett, London, 1788.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards; a very nice, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-47595
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- insanity, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Twysden, Roger
- Title:
- The Commoners Liberty: Or, The English Mans Birth Right. Wing T3550
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, London, 1648.
- Description:
- First edition of the first published work entirely by Twysden (bracketed with Selden and Spelman as the century's foremost historians) drawing on sources from Magna Carta forward and reflecting his "deep commitment to due process and the rule of law"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, discreetly ex-library, the top margin cut a bit close (all text legible), light browning; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79585
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Crosby, Alexander L.
- Title:
- The Rape of the First Amendment
- Publisher:
- Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, New York, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, illustrated; 21 pages
- Book No.:
- W-47807
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Bill of Rights, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Lieber, Francis]
- Title:
- Final Report and Address of the President. Report of Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting
- Publisher:
- Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1866.
- Description:
- The final salvo of the Society which Lieber helped found and which he served as President, Lieber observing that it had "contributed no inconsiderable share in bringing about one of the greatest national acts in all history"--Lincoln's re-election
- Condition:
- Original stabbed, printed wraps, well preserved; 13 pages
- Book No.:
- W-56306
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, CIVIL WAR, political theory
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