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- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Gulielmi III Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiverniae, Septimo [and Octavo]. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Two and twentieth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1695. In the Seventh Year of the Reign [etc.]. Not in Wing. Folio.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb [&c], London, 1696.
- Description:
- The Parliament enacting legislation resulting in "one of the great monetary events in history" and the adoption of the gold standard, crucially involving the views of John Locke, with its philosophical and financial consequences still debated
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, a variant not in ESTC, with certain of the first 14 title pages dated 1696 [compare ESTC R223064]; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79743
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Acts, economics, Bench and Bar, Coining, legal reform
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Concerning the Reconstruction of 'The Aramaic Gospels'. Reprinted from the "Bulletin of the John Rylands Library," Vol. 29, No. 1, July 1945
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1945.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, somewhat dusty, else a good untrimmed copy, 39 pages; "with the compliments of the author"
- Book No.:
- W-74138
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- ancient law, Religion
- Author:
- Fleming, Thomas J.
- Title:
- Take the Hatred Away, and You Have Nothing Left
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association Section of Criminal Justi, Washington, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed boards, showing some wear, but a usable copy; the December issue
- Book No.:
- W-72183
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, Michigan, Discrimination
- Author:
- Townsend, William C. (ed.)
- Title:
- Modern State Trials. Revised and Illustrated, With Essays and Notes. In Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1850.
- Description:
- The set of English State Trials continuing and complementing Cobbett and Howell, undertaken by the Lincoln's Inn bencher with a "keen interest in legal history" and with his lengthy introductory essays, all of the trials previously uncollected
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, quite rubbed, two joints splitting, ex-Joseph M. Gleason Library with its markings; a clean working set
- Book No.:
- W-74804
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Sullivan, Robert
- Title:
- The Disappearance of Dr. Parkman
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1971.
- Description:
- An account of the 1850 Boston Parkman-Webster murder trial, bringing to light documents discovered 120 years after Webster's hanging that illuminate the strange trial proceedings
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18658
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Appeasement or Resistance, And Other Essays on New Testament Judaism
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987.
- Description:
- Four of Professor Daube's always scintillating essays, the last of which (the title's essay) may be viewed as complementing his 'Collaboration with Tyranny'; with a second essay on 'Temple Tax', and another on the 'Old Testament in the New'
- Condition:
- Presented "To Charlie Moche / in profound gratitude / for encouragement and help / in good and difficult times / February 1988 / from David"
- Book No.:
- W-71504
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Davis, Bertram H.
- Title:
- A Proof of Eminence, The Life of Sir John Hawkins
- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56640
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of the Proceedings . . . for Taking, Examining and Stating the Publick Accounts [and for] An Act for Preventing Occasional Conformity [and] The Bill Entituled, An Act for preventing Occasional Conformity [etc.]. ESTC T18742; T18744; T141213
- Publisher:
- [1 and 2] Charles Bill; [3] Edward Jones [imprints vary], London, 1703.
- Description:
- Three works central to the controversy on occasional conformity, sparked by Daniel Defoe's "Enquiry" and here reaching its height, ultimately imposing significant penalties [10 Anne c.6] on nonconformists and Catholics taking 'occasional' communion
- Condition:
- Contemporary mottled calf, joints rubbed, small cracks to their upper portions, some browning and marginal staining, else very sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80281
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Religion, Parliament, Acts
- Author:
- Daube, David and Calum Carmichael
- Title:
- The Return of the Divorcee
- Publisher:
- Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 1993.
- Description:
- The lecture given by Professor Daube (with that of Professor Carmichael) upon the establishment of a Fellowship of Jewish Law at Oxford, examining with the lightest touch the Dueteronomic prohibition of a divorcee returning to her first husband
- Condition:
- Original light-blue stapled printed wraps, well-preserved; 28 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71985
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, divorce
- Author:
- Donald, David
- Title:
- Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-60884
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY, civil rights
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Ancient Hebrew Fables. The Inaugural Lecture of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Delivered in Corpus Christi College 17 May 1973
- Publisher:
- At the University Press, Oxford, 1973.
- Description:
- Professor Daube's insightful discussion of the three fables found in the Old Testament and six others from Rabbinic sources with no known precursors in other literatures, noting their manifold relations to freedom and civil disobedience
- Condition:
- Presentation copy ("Warm regards, David") on the inside front wrap, to Philip Rieff, the noted psychologist, with his ownership signature on the title
- Book No.:
- W-70711
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, Law and Literature, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- The Exodus Pattern in the Bible
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber, London, 1963.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, one line underlined; sound, in a torn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-69307
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- ancient law, Religion
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism
- Publisher:
- Arno Press, New York, 1973.
- Description:
- Presentation copy of Professor Daube's Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion delivered at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1952 "In gratitude to / Mr and Mrs Marshall Houts / David Daube / 25 February 1981"
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, the spine quite worn and faded; sound
- Book No.:
- W-67613
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Religion, hebrew law, ancient law
- Author:
- Donald, David
- Title:
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-57852
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY, CIVIL WAR, law of slavery
- Author:
- Taylor, Lawrence
- Title:
- A Trial of Generals, Homma, Yamashita, MacArthur
- Publisher:
- Icarus Press, South Bend, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-44921
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- JAPAN, trials, Nuremberg, PHILIPPINES, military law
- Author:
- Tager, Alexander B.
- Title:
- The Decay of Czarism, The Beiliss Trial, A Contribution to the History of the Political Reaction During the Last Years of Russian Czarism [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1935.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, rubbed, but a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-47974
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- RUSSIA, jewish law, trials
- Author:
- Delachenal, R.
- Title:
- Histoire des Avocats au Parlement de Paris 1300-1600
- Publisher:
- E. Plon, Nourrit & Cie., Paris, 1885.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40828
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, biography, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Civil Disobedience in Antiquity
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1972.
- Description:
- Professor Daube's intellectual romp of a high order, delivered as his Messenger Lectures during the Vietnam War, treating of non-violent civil disobedience in antiquity, including that of women, of children and slaves, and of religious minorities
- Condition:
- Original cloth, the front board warped, else a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-69044
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- civil liberties, ancient law
- Author:
- Dabney, William M. and Marion Dargan
- Title:
- William Henry Drayton and the American Revolution
- Publisher:
- University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1962.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52172
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, South Carolina, biography
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Ancient Jewish Law, Three Inaugural Lectures
- Publisher:
- E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-69251
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- jewish law, ancient law
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, 1965.
- Description:
- Professor Daube's Riddell Memorial Lectures, in which he "leaves it to the reader to draw parallels with the modern world", and with great insight examines a number of exquisitely difficult and real moral dilemmas historically posed by Rabbinic law
- Condition:
- Presentation copy "To William Braude [the most scholarly of Reform Rabbis] / in admiration and affection / from David Daube / 12 May 1966 / All Souls"
- Book No.:
- W-73241
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- jewish law, ancient law
- Author:
- Title:
- Concise Dictionary of American Biography
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's sons, New York, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy, in quite a worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-40559
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Some Comparative Law--Furtum Conceptum
- Publisher:
- Printed by Jos. Waibel, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1937.
- Description:
- One of Professor Daube's earliest writings, pursuing a theme to loom large in his oeuvre--the existence of similar legal phenomena across cultures and centuries--here exemplified in the case of theft and hot pursuit
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, somewhat faded, 30 pages; reprinted from the Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, volume XV, 1936
- Book No.:
- W-70784
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- ancient law, criminal law
- Author:
- Davis, Thomas [ed.]
- Title:
- The Speeches of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran
- Publisher:
- Henry G. Bohn, London, 1847.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Later cloth, a few pages loose; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-60417
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, biography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Ap-Robert, John
- Title:
- The Younger Brother His Apologie, or a Fathers Free Power disputed, for the disposition of his Lands . . . to his Sonne . . . as right Reason, the Lawes of God and Nature, the Civill, Canon, and Municipall Laws of this Kingdome doe command. S.T.C. 717
- Publisher:
- Printed by Iohn Lichfield for Edward Forrest, Oxford, 1635.
- Description:
- An uncommon reissue of a work appearing through most of the 17th century, contending that the law of primogeniture may (and should) be departed from where family circumstances so dictate or a father so wishes; one copy in North America in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, the title somewhat browned, else well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80277
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- JAPAN, Real Property, Wills, Family Law
- Author:
- Jenkins, David
- Title:
- The Works Of the Eminemt and Learned Judge Jenkins upon Divers Statutes Concerning the King's Prerogative and the Liberty of the Subject. Now Reprinted from the Original Authentick Copy, Written and Published by himself, when Prisoner in Newgate. Wing J579
- Publisher:
- Printed by Samuel Roycroft, for Samuel Heyrick . . . in Holborne, London, 1681.
- Description:
- The principal collection of Jenkins' political and constitutional theory, almost all written while he was imprisoned during the Interregnum, ably defending the King in Parliament, and both reflecting Coke and anticipating the Glorious Revolution
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, rebacked, neat tear in one leaf [D3], else quite clean with good margins and the frontispiece; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80278
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, MEDIEVAL, WALES, English Commonwealth, Glorious Revolution
- Author:
- Thomas, D. Aneurin (ed.)
- Title:
- The Welsh Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs, The Trial Documents of Saint Richard Gwyn and of the Venerable William Davies
- Publisher:
- University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original crimson cloth, a bit dusty, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-65786
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- WALES, 16TH CENTURY, trials, Religion
- 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. Eller 231 [citing the University of Chicago Library copy of 48 pages, as here]. 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 marbled stabbed wraps, light browning, the half-title a bit dusty, else a good, generously margined copy, 48 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77790
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- D'Anvers, Knightley
- Title:
- A General Abridgment of the Common Law, Alphabetically Digested under Proper Titles . . . With Three Tables: The First, Of the several Titles. The Second, Of the Names of the Cases. And the Third, Of the Matter under General Heads. Two Volumes. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for . . . John Walthoe [etc.] [imprints vary], London, 1705-13.
- Description:
- First edition of D'Anvers' translation into English of the abridgment of Henry Rolle, "[i]ts scientific method . . . far in advance of anything that had preceded it", carried forward to the letter "E" and further supplemented but never completed
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, a trifle rubbed, occasional light foxing and browning, a very good set, compare Cowley 192; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77796
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Abridgements
- Author:
- Rastell, William (comp.)
- Title:
- A Collection in English of the Statutes now in force, continued from the beginning of Magna Charta, made in the 9 yere of the Reigne of King H.3. untill . . . the 7 yere of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King James [etc.]. S.T.C. 9324; Cowley 112. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London, 1611.
- Description:
- One of Rastell's two significant contributions to legal literature, in John Baker's words "ambitious . . . a valuable reference [and of] enormous success", arranging the statutes alphabetically and far surpassing all previous efforts
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, light browning and a bit of marginal staining, else a very good, clean, tall copy; no copy in a law library in ESTC; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77827
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Abridgements, Bibliography, Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- A Booke of Proclamations, published since the beginning of his Maiesties most happy Reigne ouer England . . . Untill this present Moneth of Febr. 3. Anno Dom. 1609. S.T.C. 7759
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1610.
- Description:
- First edition of a controversial work, viewed by the House of Commons as demonstrating James's attempt to effect unilaterally by proclamation acts requiring Parliamentary consent, leading to the voiding of those contended to be especially grevious
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked, quite rubbed, some marginal worming; with an ?unrecorded "Books printed or sold by William Leak"; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78271
- Price:
- $ 2250.00
- Category:
- English Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Mariae Primo. Actes made in the Parliamente begonne and holden at Westminster the seconde daye of Apryll [1554] in the firste yeare of the reygne of oure moste gratious Soueraygne Ladye, Marye [until] the v daye of Maye [etc.]. S.T.C. 9443.5
- Publisher:
- Excusum . . . in aedibus Iohannis Cawodi . . . Mense Maio [etc.], London, 1554.
- Description:
- A rare, contemporary printing of the legislation of Mary's second parliament, the final parliament during which she reigned as sole monarch, including the act [c.2] specifying in great detail the terms of the marriage between her and Philip of Spain
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, else a good, very crisp copy with ample margins; no copy in ESTC outside the British Isles
- Book No.:
- W-79136
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- Acts, marriage
- Author:
- Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Title:
- Bloody Dawn, The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, New York, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58803
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- law of slavery, 19TH CENTURY, trials, Pennsylvania
- Author:
- Weisenburger, Francis P.
- Title:
- The Life of John McLean, A Politician on the United States Supreme Court
- Publisher:
- Ohio State University Press, columbus, 1937.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn, ex-library; back hinge cracked. A working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-14097
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Forensic Eloquence. Sketches of Trials in Ireland for High Treason . . . Including The Speeches of Mr. Curran at Length [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Published by G. Douglas, Bookseller, Baltimore, 1804.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, one joint cracking, some foxing; sound
- Book No.:
- W-59563
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, trials, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-1989 Bicentennial Edition The Copntinental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the United States From the First Through the One Hundredth Congresses [etc]
- Publisher:
- United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41513
- Price:
- $ 82.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Arjava, Antti
- Title:
- Women and Law in Late Antiquity
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-62778
- Price:
- $ 68.00
- Category:
- ancient law, women's law
- Author:
- Newmyer, R. Kent
- Title:
- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Statesman of the Old Republic
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-72006
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Shipman, Marlin
- Title:
- "The Penalty is Death", U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions
- Publisher:
- University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2002.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; a review copy
- Book No.:
- W-73436
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, women's law, capital punishment, Newspapers
- Author:
- Thayer, James Bradley
- Title:
- John Marshall
- Publisher:
- Da Capo Press, New York, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56379
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Coxe, Robert Davison
- Title:
- Legal Philadelphia, Comments and Memories
- Publisher:
- William J. Campbell, Philadelphia, 1908.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, ex-library; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-61613
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Pennsylvania, biography
- Author:
- Christman, Margaret C.S.
- Title:
- The First Federal Congress 1789-1791
- Publisher:
- Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington City, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41485
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, Congress, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Senior, William
- Title:
- Naval History in the Law Courts, A Selection of Old Maritime Cases
- Publisher:
- Longmans, Green, and Co. Ltd., London, 1927.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, showing definite wear and pencilling, but sound; C.R.N. Winns' copy, noting his Cambridge Review of the work
- Book No.:
- W-70572
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- admiralty, trials
- Author:
- Salter, Kenneth W.
- Title:
- The Trial of Dan White
- Publisher:
- Market and Systems Interface, Inc., El Cerrito, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Paperback original, some wear and markings, else a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-69269
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, San Francisco
- Author:
- Cochrane, J.A.
- Title:
- Dr. Johnson's Printer, The Life of William Strahan
- Publisher:
- Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, ex-library, in a worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-64118
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Carmichael, Calum M. (ed.)
- Title:
- Essays on Law and Religion, The Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David Daube
- Publisher:
- The Robbins Religious and Civil Law Collection, Berkeley, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed green boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-72849
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- ancient law, roman law, jewish law, Religion
- Author:
- Ronalds, Francis S.
- Title:
- The Attempted Whig Revolution of 1678-1681
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1937.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, much worn, but usable; 202 pages
- Book No.:
- W-69986
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Bietenholz, Peter G. (Ed.)
- Title:
- Contemporaries of Erasmus, A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volume III, N-Z
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-11991
- Price:
- $ 80.00
- Category:
- biography, renaissance
- Author:
- Warner, Hoyt Landon
- Title:
- The Life of Mr. Justice Clark
- Publisher:
- Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, worn, ex-Library of Congress; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-69928
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, Ohio
- Author:
- Chisholm, John
- Title:
- Sir Walter Scott as a Judge His Decisions in the Sheriff Court of Selkirk
- Publisher:
- W. Green & Son, Edinburgh, 1918.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40837
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, SCOTLAND, sheriffs, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Casto, William R.
- Title:
- Oliver Ellsworth and the Creation of the Federal Republic
- Publisher:
- Second Circuit Committee on History and Commemorative Events, New York, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 151 pages
- Book No.:
- W-61039
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, 18TH CENTURY, constitutional law
- Author:
- Cannon, Garland
- Title:
- The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones, Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52214
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Tribe, Laurence
- Title:
- American Constitutional Law. First Reprinting
- Publisher:
- The Foundation Press, Inc., Mineola, 1978.
- Description:
- The work which made Tribe's name and led Erwin Griswold to say "[i]t may well be that no book, and no lawyer not a member of the Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law"
- Condition:
- Original red buckram, gilt, a former owner's name on the fore-edge, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-73860
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Posner, Richard A.
- Title:
- Cardozo, A Study in Reputation
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990.
- Description:
- The uncorrected page proof of Judge Posner's "elegant study", the first substantial, scholarly examination of Cardozo, revising and expanding upon his Cooley lectures delivered at the University of Michigan Law School in November, 1989
- Condition:
- Printed illustrated wraps, a trifle worn; 150 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62486
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Shapiro, Adam R.
- Title:
- Trying Biology, The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-77929
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, education
- Author:
- Cook, Stanley A.
- Title:
- The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi
- Publisher:
- Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, quite worn, some underlining; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-62566
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law
- Author:
- Bietenholz, Peter G. (Ed.)
- Title:
- Contemporaries of Erasmus, A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volume II, F-M
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60860
- Price:
- $ 80.00
- Category:
- biography, renaissance
- Author:
- Wentworth, Thomas
- Title:
- The Office and Duty of Executors: Or, A Treatise directing Testators to Form, and Executors to Perform their Wills and Testaments according to Law . . . And now enlarged with a Supplement . . . by H. Curson of the Inner Temple
- Publisher:
- Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for [six others], London, 1720.
- Description:
- An early seventeenth century edition of the first treatise on executors written from a common law (as opposed to an ecclesiastical law) standpoint, praised by Holdsworth ("a good and popular book") and published well into the 19th century
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, else well preserved with ample margins and the final advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80268
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- Wills
- Author:
- Irving, H.B.
- Title:
- The Life of Judge Jeffreys
- Publisher:
- Longmans, Green, & Co., New York, 1898.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Reddish-brown cloth, showing wear, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-18221
- Price:
- $ 95.00
- Category:
- biography, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- O'Grady, Hugh
- Title:
- Strafford and Ireland, The History of His Vice-Royalty with an Account of His Trial. Two volumes
- Publisher:
- Hodges, Figgis & Co., Dublin, 1923.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A worn but usable set in the original blue cloth
- Book No.:
- W-68061
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Murphy, Bruce Allen
- Title:
- Wild Bill, The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas, America's Most Controversial Supreme Court Justice
- Publisher:
- Random House, New York, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, advance uncorrected proofs; 692 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71056
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Raschhofer, Hermann
- Title:
- Political Assassination, The Legal Background of the Oberlander and Stashinsky Cases
- Publisher:
- Fritz Schlichtenmayer, Tubingen, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, worn and embrowned, but usable; 231 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48537
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- SOVIET UNION, trials, jewish law
- Author:
- Cole, G.D.H.
- Title:
- The Life of William Cobb. With a Chapter on "Rural Rides" by the late F.E. Green
- Publisher:
- Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1924.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Crimson cloth, worn, the spine dull; usable
- Book No.:
- W-61513
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY, legal reform
- Author:
- Milne, Doreen J.
- Title:
- The Results of the Rye House Plot and their Influence upon the Revolution of 1688 [in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society]
- Publisher:
- Offices of the Royal Historical Society, London, 1951.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, in a defective glassine dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-66592
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Ross, John M.
- Title:
- Trials in Collections, An Index to Famous Trials Throughout the World
- Publisher:
- Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41707
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Beaulieu, Paul-Alain
- Title:
- Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000.
- Description:
- Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts Volume XIX
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-69908
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- ancient law
- Author:
- Smith, Roger
- Title:
- Trial By Medicine, Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-44647
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, medicine, trials, insanity, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Rabinowitz, Ezekiel
- Title:
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, The Zionist Chapter of His Life
- Publisher:
- Philosophical Library, New York, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58634
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, jewish law
- Author:
- Buchanan, A. Russell
- Title:
- David S. Terry of California, Dueling Judge
- Publisher:
- Huntington Library, San Marino, 1956.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-54915
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- California, 19TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Burke, Richard
- Title:
- A Charge Delivered to the Grand-Jury, at a Session of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, For the City, and County of the City of Bristol, Held at the Guildhall there, On Saturday the 6yh of April, 1793 [etc.] [no copy in a law library in ESTC]
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Rudhall:-- and sold by J. Norton [etc.], Bristol and London, 1793.
- Description:
- Sole, rare edition of the charge by the Lincoln's Inn barrister and brother of Edmund Burke, its printing due to the latter's contribution, "a stinging contrast between the proclaimed goals of the French revolutionaries and the contrary results"
- Condition:
- Modern stabbed marbled wraps, a small hole in one leaf and with the repaired half title (legibility preserved), else quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80254
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Grand Jury Charges, English constitutional law, obscenity, FRANCE
- Author:
- Teitelbaum, Gene
- Title:
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis: A Bibliography of Writings and Other Materials on the Justice
- Publisher:
- Fred B. Rothman & Co., Littleton, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Blue cloth, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-69319
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- English Literature and History. Auction, Monday, 16 December, 1996 . . . in the Aeolian Hall, Bloomfield Place, London [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sotheby's, London, 1996.
- Description:
- The sale at which the Fairhurst Papers were dispersed, including several important documents pertaining to the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, documents which had in the ensuing century passed through the hands of John Selden
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps; 204 pages
- Book No.:
- W-64112
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, 16TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Schreiber, Mark
- Title:
- The Dark Side, Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals
- Publisher:
- Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-71637
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- JAPAN, criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Chief Justices of England From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Tenterden
- Publisher:
- John Murray, London, 1874.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Four volumes
- Book No.:
- W-40755
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Vose, Clement E.
- Title:
- Caucasians Only, The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases. Third Printing
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-70778
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Discrimination, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Friedman, Stephen J. (ed.)
- Title:
- An Affair With Freedom, A Collection of His Opinions and Speeches Drawn from His First Decade as a United States Supreme Court Justice
- Publisher:
- Atheneum, New York, 1967.
- Description:
- With a special emphasis upon the Bill of Rights, including Justice Brennan's James Madison Lecture 'The Bill of Rights and the States', and contributions by Earl Warren and Erwin Griswold, accompanied by a foreword by Arthur J. Goldberg
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60727
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Jones (ed.), Gareth
- Title:
- The Sovereignty of the Law, Selections from Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1973.
- Description:
- With the emphasis on Blackstone's views on natural law, on teaching law in the universities, on religious toleration and the reform of criminal law, and on constitutional issues; with a substantial and perceptive introduction by Professor Jones
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-63715
- Price:
- $ 95.00
- Category:
- biography, 18TH CENTURY, English Law
- Author:
- Pollard, Joseph P.
- Title:
- Mr. Justice Cardozo, A Liberal Mind in Action
- Publisher:
- The Yorktown Press, New York, 1935.
- Description:
- With a foreword by Roscoe Pound, who ranks Cardozo among the ten outstanding judges in American judicial history, arranging him with Marshall, Kent, Story, John Bannister Gibson, Lemuel Shaw, Thomas Ruffin, Thomas Cooley, Charles Doe, and Holmes
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58100
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Bernstein, M., F. Garcia Martinez and J. Kampen
- Title:
- Legal Texts & Legal Issues, Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the International Organization of Qumran Studies, Published in Honour of Joseph M. Baumgarten
- Publisher:
- E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64269
- Price:
- $ 184.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law
- Author:
- Jones, William
- Title:
- An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots. With a Constitutional Plan of Future Defence . . . To which is now added A Speech on the Nomination of Candidates to represent the County of Middlesex, 9th Sept. 1780, &c. Second Edition. ESTC T69326
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Dilly, in The Poultry, London, 1782.
- Description:
- The expanded edition of Jones' first legal and political polemic, arising out of the Gordon Riots, invoking the spirit of Selden, Locke and Milton in his proposals to avoid martial law and defend the realm civilly via a version of the posse comitatus
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, light browning, without the half title, else well preserved with the margins untrimmed; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80256
- Price:
- $ 375.00
- Category:
- military law, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Greenwood, William
- Title:
- A Bouleuterion. Practical Demonstration of County Judicatures. Wherein is amply explained the Judicial and Ministerial Authority of Sheriffs and Coroners. Together with the Original, Jurisdiction, and Method of keeping all Countrey Courts. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Place, and Sold by William Jacob [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- A rare edition of among the most popular works on sheriffs, coroners, and local courts, first published in 1659 and reaching a ninth edition in 1730, no copy in Wing nor in ESTC, with Sweet and Maxwell misidentifying it as the eighth edition
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning with a bit of light marginal staining on the last leaves, else quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80272
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- sheriffs, coroners, courts
- Author:
- Chambers, Robert
- Title:
- A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. New Edition. . .by Thomas Thomson. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- Blackie and Son, Paternoster Row, London, 1869.
- Description:
- Condition:
- 3/4 green cloth, joints cracked; a working set
- Book No.:
- W-47618
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, biography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Brigance, William Norwood
- Title:
- Jeremiah Sullivan Black, A Defender of the Constitution and the Ten Commandments
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1934.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-44316
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Pennsylvania
- Author:
- Sauer, Elizabeth
- Title:
- Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2005.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-74087
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Bonner, Robert J.
- Title:
- Evidence in Athenian Courts
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1905.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, back wrap lacking, ex-library, 98 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62782
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- ancient law, Evidence
- Author:
- Robinson, Jacob
- Title:
- And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight, The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Arendt's Narrative
- Publisher:
- Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy, in a worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-61256
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, jewish law, criminal law
- Author:
- Wilmot, Edward Coke
- Title:
- A Succinct View of the Law of Mortgages. With an Appendix, Containing a Variety of Scientific Precedents of Mortgages. ESTC T73270
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Clarke and Son, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1798.
- Description:
- The rare, first, and only 18th century edition of Wilmot's sole work, designed "to present a general Outline of the established Doctrines relative to Mortgages", illuminating the precedents set forth in the Appendix; one copy in ESTC in North America
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, ex Catholic Church Library, without the inserted asterisked pages, else well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80264
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- mortgages
- Author:
- Reynolds, E.E.
- Title:
- The Trial of St Thomas More
- Publisher:
- P.J. Kenedy and Sons, New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy in a worn and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-49415
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Read, Donald
- Title:
- Peterloo, The 'Massacre' and its Background
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-45217
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- pleading, 19TH CENTURY, trials, Radicals
- Author:
- Umbreit, Kenneth Bernard
- Title:
- Our Eleven Chief Justices; A History of the Supreme Court in Terms of Their Personalities
- Publisher:
- Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1938.
- Description:
- Condition:
- worn, the spine dull, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-16578
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Chambers, Sir Robert
- Title:
- A Course of Lectures on the English Law Delivered at the University of Oxford 1767-1773 . . . Composed in Association with Samuel Johnson. Edited by Thomas M. Curley. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1986.
- Description:
- The first publication of the lectures of Chambers, who succeeded Blackstone as the second Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford; with a fine scholarly introduction demonstrating (among much else) Samuel Johnson's collaboration in the work's preparation
- Condition:
- A very good set, in the original crimson cloth, gilt
- Book No.:
- W-64161
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography, New York, English Law, jurisprudence
- Author:
- Tyler, Samuel
- Title:
- Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Publisher:
- John Murphy and Company, Baltimore, 1872.
- Description:
- Long the standard biography of Taney, called "authoritative", though written by Taney's most intimate friend, and definitely partisan
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-50014
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Sayer, Joseph
- Title:
- The Law of Costs. ESTC T115470 [three copies only in North America]
- Publisher:
- Printed by H. Woodfall and W. Strahan [for two others], London, 1768.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work on this important, practical area of law, praised by Holdsworth as "a comprehensive little book", treating of both civil and criminal law as "a considerable body of law on this subject" (Holdsworth again) had developed
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, manuscript label on the front board, else quite clean with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80269
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Procedure, courts
- Author:
- Birrell, Augustine
- Title:
- Sir Frank Lockwood, A Biographical Sketch
- Publisher:
- Smith, Elder, & Co, London, 1898.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-40694
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Fall, Anna Christy
- Title:
- The Tragedy of a Widow's Third
- Publisher:
- Irving P. Fox, Boston, 1898.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green buckram, cocked and worn, but still a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-63562
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- women's law
- Author:
- Flexner, Bernard
- Title:
- Mr. Justice Brandeis and the University of Louisville
- Publisher:
- University of Louisville, Louisville, 1938.
- Description:
- With a complimentary card from Justice Frankfurter laid in, two lines, typed, "With the compliments of / Felix Frankfurter"
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, quite dusty and creased, usable; 86 pages
- Book No.:
- W-57772
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Kentucky, Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
- Title:
- Life and Correspondence of John Duke Lord Coleridge Lord Chief Justice of England
- Publisher:
- William Heinemann, London, 1904.
- Description:
- 2 volumes
- Condition:
- Worn and stained, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-19503
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Brandeis, Louis D.
- Title:
- Business a Profession
- Publisher:
- Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, 1933.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41085
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, jewish law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Binney, Charles Chauncey
- Title:
- The Life of Horace Binney, With Selections From His Letters
- Publisher:
- J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1903.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, front hinge cracking, yet quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-18227
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Pennsylvania, biography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- An Answer To the severall Petitions Of late exhibited to the High Court of Parliament, And to his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell, By the poor Husband-men, Farmers, and Tenants . . . of England, for the taking away of Tithes, paid to Priests [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J.M. and J.A. at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, London, 1652.
- Description:
- One of two subjects of proposed major reform during the Commonwealth (the other the reform of the law), neither accomplished until the 19th century, this tract defending the existing, compulsory payment of tithes to support the established church
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 crimson morocco, definite browning but sound, with the Fairfax of Cameron bookplate, Wing A3446, the Second Impression; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80276
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- Religion, agriculture, landlord and tenant, poor law, Parliament, English Commonwealth, legal reform
- Author:
- Robinson, Thomas
- Title:
- The Common Law of Kent: or, the Customs of Gavelkind. With an Appendix Concerning Borough-English. ESTC T100327
- Publisher:
- Printed by R. and B. Nutt, and F. Gosling [etc.], London, 1741.
- Description:
- First edition of the principal work on the custom of gavelkind, peculiar to Kent and possibly an Anglo-Saxon survival, providing for partible inheritance and thus significantly different from the English law of primogeniture introduced by the Normans
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the signatures of Walter Field and Charles Hadwell and the booklabels of the latter and James Hobbs; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80271
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- gavelkind
- Author:
- Bicknell, John W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen, 1864-1904. Two volumes
- Publisher:
- Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60983
- Price:
- $ 130.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Shami, Jeanne (ed.)
- Title:
- John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon
- Publisher:
- Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-60980
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, Religion, 17TH CENTURY, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Tompkins, Dorothy Campbell [compiler]
- Title:
- The Supreme Court of the United States: A Bibliography
- Publisher:
- University of California, Berkeley, 1959.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, somewhat faded and some embrowning, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-40976
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Bederman, David J
- Title:
- International Law in Antiquity
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-70810
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- international law, ancient law
- Author:
- Bietenholz, Peter G. (Ed.)
- Title:
- Contemporaries of Erasmus, A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volume I, A-E
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40933
- Price:
- $ 80.00
- Category:
- biography, renaissance
- Author:
- Rubenstein, Joshua and Vladimir P. Naumov (eds.)
- Title:
- Stalin's Secret Pogrom, The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Translated by Laura Esther Wolfson
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Book No.:
- W-72172
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- SOVIET UNION, jewish law, trials
- Author:
- Rogers, Deborah D.
- Title:
- Bookseller as Rogue: John Almon and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Publishing
- Publisher:
- Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-67181
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Butler, William Allen
- Title:
- A Retrospect of Forty Years, 1825-1865, Edited by His Daughter Harriet Allen Butler
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1911.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, worn and faded, yet sound
- Book No.:
- W-47185
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Tushnet, Mark (ed.)
- Title:
- Thurgood Marshall, His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences. Foreword by Randall Kennedy
- Publisher:
- Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, a bit bumped, else a very good copy; 548 pages
- Book No.:
- W-72614
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Speeches of Lord Campbell, at the Bar, and in the House of Commons; with an Address to the Irish Bar as Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Publisher:
- Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1842.
- Description:
- The only collection of Campbell's speeches, and the first of his works to be published, followed in the ensuing two decades by his Lives of the Chief Justices and Lord Chancellors
- Condition:
- Later cloth, worn, on label defective; sound only
- Book No.:
- W-60420
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Butler, Pierce
- Title:
- Judah P. Benjamin
- Publisher:
- George W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1907.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn, the front joint cracked, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-54264
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, jewish law
- Author:
- Cromartie, Alan
- Title:
- Sir Matthew Hale, 1609-1676, Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Description:
- The first substantial, modern biography of Hale, long overdue, examining three principal aspects of Hale's thought and career, the first of which encompasses Hale as lawyer and judge; Cambridge Studies in Early American British History
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-59644
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Campbell, John, Lord
- Title:
- Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham, Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1869.
- Description:
- First edition of the separately issued completion of Campbell's famed biography of England's Lord Chancellors, controversial from its publication, yet (in Holdsworth's words) "an important source for the legal history [of] Campbell's own time"
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40703
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Soodalter, Ron
- Title:
- Hanging Captain Gordon, The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader
- Publisher:
- Atria Books, New York, 2006.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket, with the publisher's publicity materials laid in
- Book No.:
- W-73877
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, law of slavery, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Browne, Douglas G.
- Title:
- Sir Travers Humphreys, A Biography
- Publisher:
- George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in a somewhat spotted dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-62559
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- MacKinnon, Frank Douglas
- Title:
- The Murder in the Temple and Other Holiday Tasks
- Publisher:
- Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, London, 1935.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, quite worn and frayed, a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-72190
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 18TH CENTURY, Inns of Court, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Herzog, Peter E. (ed.)
- Title:
- Harmonization of Laws in the European Communities, Products Liability, Conflict of Laws, and Corporation Law
- Publisher:
- University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1983.
- Description:
- Fifth Sokol Colloquium
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30887
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- conflict of laws, corporations
- Author:
- Boegehold, Alan L., et al
- Title:
- The Lawcourts at Athens, Sites, Buildings, Equipment, Procedure, and Testimonia. The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Volume XXVIII
- Publisher:
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-70715
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- ancient law, Legal Architecture, GREECE
- Author:
- Martin, Edward Sandford
- Title:
- The Life of Joseph Hodges Choate, As Gathered Chiefly from His Letters. Two volumes in one
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927.
- Description:
- A good, primary source, with much on Choate's New York law practice in the late 19th century, preceded by his lengthy (136 page), previously unpublished autobiography
- Condition:
- Original cloth, showing definite wear; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-41094
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Brown, William Garrott
- Title:
- The Life of Oliver Ellsworth
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, rubbed, ex-library; clean and usable only
- Book No.:
- W-61313
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Clarkson, Paul S. and R. Samuel Jett
- Title:
- Luther Martin of Maryland
- Publisher:
- The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-57853
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, Maryland, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Cairns, John W. and Olivia F. Robinson (eds.)
- Title:
- Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparitive Law and Legal History
- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing, Portland, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-68691
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- ancient law
- Author:
- Story, William W. (ed.)
- Title:
- Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US, and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1851.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41456
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Cobbett, William
- Title:
- Peter Porcupine in America, Pamphlets on Republicanism and Revolution
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60236
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Rohrkasten, Jens (ed.)
- Title:
- The Worcester Eyre of 1275
- Publisher:
- The Worcestershire Historical Society, Worcester, 2008.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75146
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, 13TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Phillips, Mary E.
- Title:
- Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, The American Sculptor and Author, Being Incidents and Anecdotes Chronologically Arranged [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1897.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, rubbed and faded, the pages uncut
- Book No.:
- W-60658
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Spraggs, Gillian
- Title:
- Outlaws and Highwaymen, The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher:
- Pimlico, London, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, well-preserved; 372 pages
- Book No.:
- W-70952
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Roper, R.S. Donnison
- Title:
- A Treatise upon the Law of Legacies
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Exshaw, 98, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1800.
- Description:
- The rare, only Dublin edition of the first work of Roper (a Gray's Inn barrister), "commended by Lord Eldon, Story, and Kent", and seemingly the first treatise devoted exclusively to legacies at English law; no copy in ESTC or COPAC
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, very light browning and foxing, else quite well preserved and with the half title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80265
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Wills
- Author:
- Baker, J.H.
- Title:
- Manual of Law French. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1990.
- Description:
- The first manual of Law French to appear since the 18th century, much expanded from the first edition, with a glossary, an introduction to Law French, a bibliography of aids to interpretation, and etymological notes and source references
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-80287
- Price:
- $ 145.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries, legal dress
- Author:
- Warren, Charles
- Title:
- The Supreme Court in United States History
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1922.
- Description:
- Still the classic work on the Court, described by Holmes in a letter to Pollock as a "piece de resistance" and (to Laski) as "truly admirable [and] first rate", Pollock separately reviewing it as "an indispensable companion and book of reference"
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40972
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws
- Publisher:
- Privately printed for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1890.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-51619
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, biography, colonies, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Scudi, Abbie Turner
- Title:
- The Sacheverell Affair
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1939.
- Description:
- Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Volume 456
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46249
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Brooks, Aubrey Lee and Hugh Lefler (eds.)
- Title:
- The Papers of Walter Clark
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1948.
- Description:
- Two volumes
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52805
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, biography, North Carolina, The South
- Author:
- Crawford, Patricia
- Title:
- Denzil Holles 1598-1680: A Study of His Political Career
- Publisher:
- Royal Historical Society, London, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18448
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Pringle, Henry F.
- Title:
- The Life and Times of William Howard Taft. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Archon Books, Hamden, 1964.
- Description:
- A work described as "one of the best biographical studies of a Supreme Court justice", praised by Mark DeWolfe Howe as "wholly admirable and exhaustive", based in significant part on the 500,000 documents in the Taft Papers at the Library of Congress
- Condition:
- The facsimile reissue of the original 1939 edition; a clean set
- Book No.:
- W-62505
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, the Presidency
- Author:
- Simpson, Joseph
- Title:
- Reflections on the Natural and Acquired Endowments, Requisite for the Study of the Law. And the Means to be used in the Pursuit of it. By a Barrister at Law [quoting Cicero]. ESTC T68879
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Worral . . . and T. Waller, in Fleet street, London, 1764.
- Description:
- First edition of Simpson's instructive treatment of what makes a good lawyer, anticipating Blackstone, the first volume of whose Commentaries appeared the following year, with chapters on judgment, elocution, study, and choice of books, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning, mainly lightish, else well preserved, with a few informed, contemporary notations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80263
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- education
- Author:
- Lutwyche, Edward
- Title:
- The Reports and Entries of Sir Edward Lutwyche, Kt. Serjeant at Law, and late one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas . . . Composed in a plain and easy Method, and made very useful for Student and Practisers of the Common Law. By W. Nelson
- Publisher:
- Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1718.
- Description:
- William Nelson's translation of the reports contained in Lutwyche's mammoth work, together with a summary of certain of the pleadings, arranged "old style" by subject matter, this the folio edition, one of two to appear in 1718
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, occasional very light browning, the Macclesfield copy, with its South Library bookplate on the front pastedown
- Book No.:
- W-80284
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- books of entry, reports of cases
- Author:
- March, John
- Title:
- March's Actions for Slander and Arbitrements. The First, Being A Collection . . . of what Words are Actionable in the Law . . . and of the Nature of A Libel. The Other, A Discourse, shewing what Arbitrements are good in Law [etc.]. Wing M573
- Publisher:
- Printed for Elizabeth Walbancke . . . in Grayes-Inn Lane, London, 1674.
- Description:
- The expanded edition of a pioneering work, rightly claiming to be the first treatise on two separate subject matters--slander (and libel) and arbitration--and, in Holdsworth's words, "an able attempt to extract some general principles from the cases"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, very light browning, else quite clean with the bookplates of the Earl of Roden and Rob Jocelyn; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80252
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- libel and slander, torts, arbitration
- Author:
- Horne, Andrew
- Title:
- The Booke Called, The Mirrour of Justices: Made By Andrew Horne. With the Book, called, The Diversity of Courts, And Their Jurisdictions. Both translated out of the old French into the English Tongue. Wing H2789. Octavo
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London for Matthew Walbancke at Graies Inn gate, London, 1646.
- Description:
- First edition in English of a unique medieval law book, a bemused Maitland wondering whether its author was a "lawyer, antiquary . . . pedant, faddist [or] romantic" and called by Plucknett "certainly the most fantastic work in our legal literature"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked, Daniel Fleming's copy, with his ownership signature, shelf mark, price paid, and notes and underlings; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79802
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, legal reform
- Author:
- Worrall, John (comp.)
- Title:
- Bibliotheca Legum: Or, A Compleat List of All the Common and Statute Law Books of this Realm . . . giving an Account of their several Editions, antient Printers, Dates, and Price, and wherein they differ. A New Edition, with Improvements [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Worrall and B. Tovey . . . near Lincoln's Inn, London, 1768.
- Description:
- Worrall's famed bibliography of English law, the last edition to appear during his lifetime, and the first to provide a selection of the law books relating to Ireland, with Worrall's cogent observations and comparison of editions found throughout
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked, the boards blind decorated and double ruled, with the advertising leaf bound before the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80251
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, Dealer, SCOTLAND, IRELAND
- Author:
- Style, William
- Title:
- Regestum Practicale: Or, the Practical Register, Consisting of Rules, Orders, and Observations concerning the Common-Laws, and the Practice thereof . . . particularly applicable to the Proceedings in the Upper-Bench [etc.]. Wing S6102; Cowley 141
- Publisher:
- Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams, at the Talbot [etc.], London, 1657.
- Description:
- First edition of a popular work (and the only edition to appear during the Interregnum), called by John Baker "a useful guide to modern practice decisions, collected at a time when the law reports were somewhat thin or non-existent"
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite rubbed, some foxing, moreso to the first and last leaves, else sound and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80248
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- pleading, Interregnum, reports of cases
- Author:
- Bathe, Henry de [Henry of Bath]
- Title:
- The Charter of Romney Marsh; or the Laws and Customse of Romney Marsh . . . Very useful for all Professors of the Law . . . and other Land-holders within Romney Marsh, Bedford Level, and all other Marshes, Fenns, and Sea Borders [etc.]. Wing B1133
- Publisher:
- Printed by S.R. for Sanuel Keble at the Turks Head in Fleetstreet, London, 1686.
- Description:
- The final early edition of the seminal 13th century charter governing Romney Marsh, its underlying principles (as Coke was later to state) applying to all of England, its provisions largely credited to the efforts of de Bathe, an eminent Royal judge
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked, very light browning and like staining to the fore-edge, with the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80247
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- water law, environmental law
- Author:
- Ter Meulen, Jacob
- Title:
- Bibliographie des Ecrits sur Hugo Grotius Imprimes au XVIIe Siecle
- Publisher:
- Martinus Nijhoff, La Haye, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, a bit bowed, else a very good copy, with the bookplate of Dr Theo Venn and his occasional pencil notations in the margins
- Book No.:
- W-79528
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, international law, 17TH CENTURY, Holland
- Author:
- Title:
- Tenants Law: Or, the Laws of Landlords, Tenants, and Farmers [on eleven subjects]. Useful for all Landlords, Tenants, Farmers, Stewards, Agents, Solicitors and others, concerned in the buying, selling, or letting Estates. The Thirteenth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for T. Waller [etc.], London, 1750.
- Description:
- A mid eighteenth century edition of the most popular early work on the subject, much expanded from its seventeenth century predecessors, reflecting England's unique position among European countries with its great amount of cultivated, leased land
- Condition:
- Contemporary double blind ruled and decorated calf, crimson morocco label gilt, a tiny crack to the rear joint, else very clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80245
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- landlord and tenant, agriculture, Real Property
- Author:
- Woodward, Josiah
- Title:
- An Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners . . . to Persons of all Ranks, to Be Zealous and Diligent in Promoting the Execution of the Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery [etc.] [with the Abstract of the Penal Laws]. Wing W3512; ESTC R31843
- Publisher:
- Printed for B. Aylmar, at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill [etc.], London, 1699.
- Description:
- First edition of the highly popular work of Woodward, the first historian of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, confirming his reputation as seeking society's moral reformation, with his writings to be reprinted throughout the 18th century
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary gilt panelled mottled calf, the joints just cracking but very firm, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, very pretty; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80246
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion, legal reform
- Author:
- Ashe, Thomas
- Title:
- Un Perfect Table a Touts les Severall Livers del Reportes de Sir Edward Coke . . . Ouesque un Catalogue de touts le cases in larguments de les principall cases [with an] Alphabeticall collection de touts . . . texts del Latine [etc.]. S.T.C. 5525
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Company of Stationers, London, 1606.
- Description:
- First edition of the first abridgement of Coke's reports, undertaken by Thomas Ashe, the master and pioneer of this genre of legal literature ("a great maker of indices and abstracts", in Holdsworth's words); arranged alphabetically by subject
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, the boards with gilt initials ("R B"), manuscript label at the bottom of the spine, very fresh; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80243
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, reports of cases
- 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:
- Schwartz, Bernard [et al.]
- Title:
- Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling, Law and the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America
- Publisher:
- Huntington Library, San Marino, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60283
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, 18TH CENTURY, Wills, colonies
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Law Tracts. Two Volumes. Eller 238
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, London, 1762.
- Description:
- The first collected edition of any of Blackstone's works, four in number, with the second volume devoted entirely to his pathbreaking essay on Magna Carta, accompanied by his painstakingly edited texts of it, its confirmations, and other works
- Condition:
- Modern sprinkled calf, gilt, lightly browned, else a very good set, with both plates and the reproduced royal seals; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-76149
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- 13TH CENTURY, English Law, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Bellewe, Richard
- Title:
- Les Ans du Roy Richard le Second. Collect' Ensembl' hors les Abridgments de Statham, Fitzherbert et Brooke [etc.]. Beale R478; S.T.C. 1848
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Robinson dwelling in Fewter lane [etc.], London, 1585.
- Description:
- Original edition of the sole reports from the late fourteenth century reign of Richard II, culled from the the three major early English abridgments, termed "rare" by Winfield and "excessively rare" by Wallace, not to be reprinted until 1869
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, unevenly darkened, variant with the Lincoln's Inn arms on the title's verso, without the colophon if called for; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79127
- Price:
- $ 2000.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Abridgements, 16TH CENTURY
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