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- 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:
- Oliver, Frederick Scott
- Title:
- Alexander Hamilton, An Essay on American Union [this copy with the inscription "From Louis D. Brandeis / Jan 31 1913" on the first free endpaper and with the calling card of Brandeis ("Mr. Louis D.Brandeis") laid in]
- Publisher:
- G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1912.
- Description:
- Oliver's influential biography of Hamilton, a substantial quotation from which Brandeis provides in his address "The Living Law" in early 1916, immediately following which he then unreservedly characterizes Hamilton as "an apostle of the living law"
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, a bit rubbed and the spine dull, light circular stain to the front board, else quite a good fresh copy
- Book No.:
- W-80397
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Important Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Steam-Boat Case, Delivered by chief justice Marshall, March 2, 1824. Gibbons v. Ogden [the March 27, 1824 issue, pp. 49-64 (complete) (Marshall's opinion taking up most of the issue)]
- Publisher:
- Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, 1824.
- Description:
- Marshall's famed opinion establishing freedom of interstate commerce throughout this country, an "opinion which has done more to knit the American people into an indivisible Nation than any other one force in our history, excepting only war"
- Condition:
- Original printed self wraps, disbound, light browning, else a good sound copy now protected in a modern cloth folding case; Vol. XXVI Whole No. 654
- Book No.:
- W-80426
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
- Author:
- Glasser, Martin
- Title:
- The Judicial Philosophy of Felix Frankfurter [in the Review's first volume, with Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek two of the three Editorial Advisors, the Review to be republished by the Liberty Fund; no copy of this original review in a law library in OCLC]
- Publisher:
- New Individualist Review, Chicago, 1962.
- Description:
- An essay highly critical of Frankfurter's doctrine of judicial restraint, invoking de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill, stating that Frankfurter "personifies the Court's efforts to prostrate itself at the feet of the popular branches of government"
- Condition:
- Original printed, stapled wraps, a very good copy, now preserved in a cloth folding case; the Winter 1962 issue
- Book No.:
- W-80427
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Grimes, Harlan
- Title:
- Justice? [one result of Grimes's efforts, as described below, was, shockingly, his disbarrment from practising law in Oklahoma, this perversion of justice never remedied despite several attempts by Grimes to be reinstated]
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed, Dallas, 1959.
- Description:
- A rare work written by a crusading, anti-corruption lawyer who revealed widespread bribery in the Oklahoma Supreme Court, leading to the establishment of Oklahoma's Judicial Nominating Commission; one copy in OCLC (at the Library of Congress)
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, very slightly rubbed, else a near fine copy; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80429
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Oklahoma, Legal Ethics, Bench and Bar, fraud
- 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:
- Murphy, Frank
- Title:
- Typed letter signed, a bifolium on The Attorney General Letterhead, Washington, with Murphy's additional personal remarks in his hand in blue ink, addressed to Alex Dow at 2000 Second Avenue in Detroit Michigan
- Publisher:
- No publisher, Washington, 1939.
- Description:
- The letter thanking Dow, a mentor and inspirer of Henry Ford, upon Murphy's appointment as Attorney General, Murphy's handwritten additions reflecting their friendship and mutual interests in reform in Detroit, of which Murphy had served as mayor
- Condition:
- One horizontal fold, a few smudges not affecting legibility, else quite well preserved, with the embossed blind seal of the U.S. Department of Justice
- Book No.:
- W-80423
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- legal reform, Michigan, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Hand, Learned
- Title:
- A Tribute to Benjamin Nathan Cardozo [appearing in the first issue--Volume 1, Number 1--of the Committee's "Contemporary Jewish Record"]
- Publisher:
- American Jewish Committee, New York, 1938.
- Description:
- Judge Hand's "beautiful tribute" upon the death of Justice Cardozo, originally broadcast over station WHN in New York on July 19, 1938 and published here for the first time, a later modified version appearing in several law reviews the following year
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a trifle worn, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-80424
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- jewish law, Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Marshall, John
- Title:
- "The Events of My Life". An Autobiographical Sketch by John Marshall. Introduction by William H. Rehnquist. Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and John C. Dann [based on the manuscript here edited "to represent the original as faithfully as possible"]
- Publisher:
- Clements Library and Supreme Court Historical Society, Ann Arbor and Washington, 2001.
- Description:
- The work which Edward Corwin called "far and away the most important writing by Chief Justice Marshall concerning himself", his effort prompted by a request from Justice Story, the manuscript essentially unknown until 1932 when sold by the family
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled oversized wraps, with six full page illustrations, 30 pages, a fine copy now housed in a custom cloth folder
- Book No.:
- W-80418
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Mason, Alpheus Thomas
- Title:
- Variations on the Liberal Theme, Mr. Justice Brandeis
- Publisher:
- Brandeis Lawyers' Society, Philadelphia, 1947.
- Description:
- The address given to the Society by Mason, Brandeis's principal early biographer, reviewing the political definition of 'liberal' from Lincoln to both Roosevelts and to Holmes, finding Holmes and Brandeis both liberals, but fundamentally different
- Condition:
- Original cloth backed printed paper wraps, a trifle worn, else a good clean copy, 14 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80421
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- political theory, jewish law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Wolfson, Richard F.
- Title:
- Book Review of 'Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes' by Felix Frankfurter
- Publisher:
- Indiana Law Journal, Volume 23, Indianapolis, 1948.
- Description:
- A seemingly unrecorded separate printing of the review of Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture delivered in 1947, in whose preparation "I shall use the light that is shed by the decisions of Holmes, Brandeis and Cardozo on statutory construction"
- Condition:
- Original stapled self wraps, pages 381-385, some uneven browning, else quite sound, now carefully preserved in a cloth folding case; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-80422
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Students, Teachers Find an Hour to Remember Justice Frankfurter [in the March 11, 1965 issue, noting that over 600 members of the faculty, students, and friends had attended the February 26 memorial service presided over by Dean Erwin Griswold]
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Record, Vol. 40 No. 5, Cambridge, 1965.
- Description:
- Portions of the remarks delivered at the memorial service for Justice Frankfurter, including those of Austin Wakeman Scott (who had known the Justice from his days in the Law School in the first decade of the century) and Paul Freund inter alia
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled self wraps, one page crinkled, else a good copy, now housed in a modern cloth folding case; no copy separately recorded in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-80420
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Douglas, William O.
- Title:
- A Living Bill of Rights [with a copy of a typescript carbon letter from Douglas to Epstein (from the Douglas Papers in the Library of Congress) in which Douglas compares the suspension of habeas corpus in our Civil War to South African legislation]
- Publisher:
- Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1961.
- Description:
- Presentation copy to David Epstein, the South African lawyer with whom Douglas had corresponded about civil rights there and in this country in the year following publication, "For / Hon David H Epstein / from his friend / and admirer / Wm O Douglas"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; with a copy of a typescript letter copy from Douglas to Epstein dated September 22, 1962, laid in
- Book No.:
- W-80419
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Bill of Rights, Supreme Court, Inscribed or Presentation Copy, habeas corpus, SOUTH AFRICA
- Author:
- Senior, William
- Title:
- Tutor and Pupils: Talks about Twelve Law Maxims
- Publisher:
- The "Law Notes" Publishing Offices, 25 & 26 Chancery Lane, W.C., London, 1891.
- Description:
- The rare, only edition of Senior's first work, tracing legal maxims in England as far back as Saint German, with Senior naming his tutor 'Solon', stating the maxims in Latin and then discussing them in English--the maxims "to be received as gospel"
- Condition:
- Original morocco backed printed boards, somewhat rubbed, the back board partly darkened, else quite clean; five copies in OCLC, none in North America
- Book No.:
- W-80415
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- maxims
- Author:
- Branch, Thomas]
- Title:
- Principia Legis & Aequitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions and Memorable Sayings in Law and Equity
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for J. Worrall [etc.], London], 1753.
- Description:
- First edition of the substantial and successful collection of maxims, numbering over 1,500, which "contains more law and more useful matter than any one book of the same size which can be put into the hands of the student"; with sources stated
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed, joints cracking but firm and the head of the spine just chipped, else exceptionally clean; with the advertising leaf
- Book No.:
- W-80365
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- maxims, Legal Prints
- Author:
- Title:
- Judicial Ditch Notice. State of Minnesota, County of Meeker. District Court, Twelfth Judicial District. In the Matter of the Judicial Ditch Proceedings now Pending in Meeker Court, Minnesota, and known as Judicial Ditch No. 3
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, Litchfield?, 1916.
- Description:
- Conjecturally a unique survival of a common notice sent to landowners potentially affected by the creation of a judicial ditch authorized under Minnesota legislation designed to drain low-lying land; no copy of any Minnesota judicial notice in OCLC
- Condition:
- Broadside about 4 1/4x11 inches, four folds, very well preserved, in the original court envelope addressed by hand in ink to N J Anderson of Dassel
- Book No.:
- W-80388
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Orwell, George
- Title:
- The Complete Poetry. Compiled and presented by Dione Venables with an introduction by Peter Davison [the editor of 'The Complete Works of George Orwell']
- Publisher:
- Published by Finlay Publisher for The Orwell Society, London, 2015.
- Description:
- The long overdue gathering of the verse of George Orwell, who "scattered poetry throughout his work in every conceivable form", instructively glossed by Dione Venables, who was instrumental in the founding of The Orwell Society in 2011
- Condition:
- Original printed green wraps, as new, one of 500 copies of the first printing of the first edition, with the errata slip pasted in at page 57; 63 pages
- Book No.:
- W-78428
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Poetry
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