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- Title:
- Anno XXIIII Henrici VIII. Actis made in the Session of this present parliament, holden uppon prorogation at Westmynstre . . . in the xxiiii yere of the reygne of . . . Kynge Henry the VIII [1533] [etc.]. Beale S150; S.T.C. 9377. Folio
- Publisher:
- In Aedibus Thomae Bertheleti Regii Impressoris [etc.], London, 1538.
- Description:
- The Parliament in which the first great step was taken to extinguish papal jurisdiction and power in England, ensuring that Henry's divorce would be determined by Cranmer's archepiscopal court, and leading to Henry's supremacy in the English Church
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, very light browning, else well preserved, five copies in ESTC, one with a mutilated imprint; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78521
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Acts, 16TH CENTURY, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Dudlay, Edmonde
- Title:
- The Tree of Common Wealth . . . Written . . . While a Prisoner in the Tower, in the Years 1509 and 1510, and under Sentence of Death for High Treason. Now first Printed from a Copy of his Manuscript for the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Simms & Co., Manchester, 1859.
- Description:
- The first edition of Dudley's treatise on political theory, curiously printed by the Rosicrucians in the mid-19th century, written in justification of absolute monarchy as Henry VIII was crowned and as Dudley futilely sought to avoid his execution
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco, spine quite chipped, fading, original wraps bound in
- Book No.:
- W-65632
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Religion, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Baker (ed.), J.H.
- Title:
- The Reports of Sir John Spelman Volume I
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1977.
- Description:
- Volume XCIII for the Year 1976
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-62931
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, Frontier Law, legal reform
- Author:
- Samaha, Joel
- Title:
- Law and Order in Historical Perspective, The Case of Elizabethan Essex
- Publisher:
- Academic Press, New York, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-45985
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, criminal law
- 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:
- Modern calf, gilt-lettered, quite browned, yet a crisp wide-margined copy; with the index before the text and without the colophon leaf
- Book No.:
- W-77020
- Price:
- $ 2750.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Abridgements, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- St. Germain, Christopher]
- Title:
- The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire, London], 1638.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52126
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- St. Germain, Christopher]
- Title:
- The Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliae et de conscientia [etc.]. S.T.C. 21560
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Wight, London, 1604.
- Description:
- The second edition in Latin, with Bale's biographical account and St. Germain's will prefacing the text
- Condition:
- Modern calf, some embrowning, well-margined; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-60329
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Lamond, Elizabeth (ed.)
- Title:
- A Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England First printed in 1581 and commonly attributed to W.S
- Publisher:
- At the University Press, Cambridge, 1929.
- Description:
- The reissue of the "most famous of all Tudor social treatises", based principally on the manuscript once in William Lambarde's possession; with a valuable introduction assessing the work and its possible author, now believed to be Sir Thomas Smith
- Condition:
- Original cloth, worn, substantive notations throughout; usable
- Book No.:
- W-69423
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, political theory
- Author:
- Baker, J.H. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Reports of Sir John Spelman. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1976-78.
- Description:
- Two of the most valuable, modern annual volumes of the Selden Society, containing Dr. Baker's seminal essay of some 400 pages (including appendices) on English law between about 1450 and 1600; volume XCIII and XCIV for the years 1976 and 1977
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, gilt, a trifle rubbed, but a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-72366
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, English Law
- 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
- Author:
- St. Germain, Christopher]
- Title:
- The Exact Abridgement of that Excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of John More Esquire [etc.], London], 1630.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked in morocco; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-55310
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY, Abridgements
- Author:
- Title:
- The Exact Abridgement of that Excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student. S.T.C. 21583 ['sold by' variant]
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of John More [etc.], London], 1630.
- Description:
- The only abridgment of Christopher St. Germain's famed treatise, a particularly able effort distilling the equitable principles debated in dialogue between the doctor of divinity and the student of English law in St. Germain's original creation
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, a little dusty, else a good copy with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-46735
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Ireland, Thomas
- Title:
- An Exact Abridgment In English of all the Reports of that Learned and Reverend Judge Sir James Dyer Knight, And sometimes Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas . . . Wherein is contained the very substance of all those Reports at large [etc.]. Wing D2925
- Publisher:
- Printed for Matthew Walbancke, and John Place [etc.], London, 1651.
- Description:
- Only edition of the only abridgment in English of Dyer's Reports (reports Dr. Baker includes as those "second to the Yearbooks as a source of authority"), Ireland's abridgment of Coke's Reports having appeared in 1650; with over 1100 cases digested
- Condition:
- Modern blind and gilt ruled and decorated calf, some browning (moreso to the title), the margins cut close but legibility preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79744
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Abridgements, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Dyer, James
- Title:
- Reports of Cases in the Reigns of Hen. VIII, Edw. VI, Q. Mary, and Q. Eliz. Taken and Collected by Sir James Dyer . . Now First Translated . . . by John Vaillant . . . To this Edition a Life of the Author is Prefixed [etc.]. Three Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Messrs. P. Byrne, J. Moore [and three others], Dublin, 1794.
- Description:
- Best edition, and the first in English, of the 16th century reports among the top-most echelon of early named reporting, "second only to the Yearbooks as a source of authority"; with the able translation of Vaillant, "a model editor for that time"
- Condition:
- Modern buckram, contrasting leather labels, some browning and foxing, occasionally substantial, some margins cut close; a usable set only
- Book No.:
- W-69688
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- St. Germain, Christopher]
- Title:
- The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England. Newly corrected and Imprinted with new Additions. S.T.C. 21582.5
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire [etc.], London], 1638.
- Description:
- An early 17th century edition of the first classic of English equity and the first work on legal philosophy and natural law written in England, "a brilliant, comprehensive and intellectually satisfying attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, ex-library; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-44657
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Blayney, Peter W.M
- Title:
- The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London 1501-1557. Volume I 1501-1546 [only]
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy; 599 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80063
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Greg, W.W. (ed.)
- Title:
- A Companion to Arber. Being a Calendar of Documents in Edward Arberr's Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640. With Text and Calendar of Supplementary Documents
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket, with a contemporary ownership signature together with a contemporary review of the work laid in
- Book No.:
- W-80061
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, 16TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hotson, Leslie
- Title:
- I, William Shakespeare, Do Appoint Thomas Russell, Esquire . . .
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, New York, 1938.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-68899
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, Wills, 16TH CENTURY
- 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:
- Williams, Penry
- Title:
- The Council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I
- Publisher:
- University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in a faded dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-71771
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, WALES
- Author:
- Phillips, J.R.S. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Justices of the Peace in Wales and Monmouthshire 1541-1689
- Publisher:
- University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54835
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY, justices of peace, WALES
- Author:
- Baker, John
- Title:
- The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Volume VI. 1483-1558
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.
- Description:
- The auspicious beginning to Oxford's ambitious new series, this volume written by John Baker, the Series General Editor (and former Literary Director of the Selden Society), "drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished materials"
- Condition:
- Original printed boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-80126
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English Law, 15TH CENTURY, 16TH CENTURY, renaissance
- Author:
- Harrington, Joel F.
- Title:
- Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-59646
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- marriage, 16TH CENTURY, women's law, GERMANY
- Author:
- Title:
- Free Customes, Benefits and Priviledges of the Copyhold Tennants, of the Mannors of Stepny and Hackny in the Countie of Middlesex . . . Before Which is Prefixed an Abstract or Briefe Relation of the Assurance Given . . . said Tennants. S.T.C. 23254
- Publisher:
- At London printed by William Iones, London, 1617.
- Description:
- A rare work, part of the still disputed history of East London, setting forth in great detail the rights, obligations, and limits to copyhold tenure there, here including the names of over 300 tenants; one copy in ESTC in North America
- Condition:
- Contemporary gilt bordered calf, rebacked, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, definite browning, two leaves skilfully repaired; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80115
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- copyright, London, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Saint Germain, Christopher
- Title:
- The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England. Newly corrected and Imprinted with new Additions. S.T.C. 21582.5
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire, London, 1638.
- Description:
- An early 17th century edition of the first classic of English equity and the first work on legal philosophy and natural law written in England, "a brilliant, comprehensive and intellectually satisfying attempt to construct a systematic theory of law"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, later label, the spine quite rubbed with three small holes, a fourth small hole in one leaf, ex Gloddaeth Library; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80120
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- equity, 16TH CENTURY, philosophy of law, natural law
- Author:
- Stretton, Tim
- Title:
- Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64409
- Price:
- $ 59.95
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, women's law
- Author:
- Edwards, Francis
- Title:
- The Marvellous Chance, Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, and the Ridolphi Plot, 1570-1572
- Publisher:
- Rupert Hart Davis, London, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47437
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Davis, Natalie Zemon
- Title:
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1983.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47972
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, FRANCE, trials
- Author:
- Freeman, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman
- Title:
- Courtship, Slander, and Treason, Studies of Mary Queen of Scots, the Fourth Duke of Norfolk, and a Few of their Contemporaries, 1568-1587
- Publisher:
- Maggs Brothers Limited, London, 2019.
- Description:
- With two substantial analyses of, respectively, the trials of Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk and of Mary, Queen of Scots, represented as "for the first time closely examining a range of contemporary printed and manuscript material"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-80187
- Price:
- $ 40.00
- Category:
- biography, 16TH CENTURY, criminal law, libel and slander
- Author:
- Collins, Arthur
- Title:
- The Life Of that Great Statesman William Cecil, Lord Burghley . . . To which is added, His Character by the Learned Camden . . . With Memoirs of the Family of Cecil, Faithfully collected from Records, Manuscripts, and other Authorities. ESTC T144847
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Gosling . . . and Thomas Wotton [etc.], London, 1732.
- Description:
- Only edition of the highly regarded biography of Cecil, the great statesman and "right arm" of Elizabeth, this seemingly a unique copy with an early portrait of Cecil inserted as a frontispiece, below which his authentic signature is pasted
- Condition:
- Modern crimson morocco, extra gilt, the joints somewhat rubbed, yet quite luscious, possibly large paper, ?signature of Lord Thurlow; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80174
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- biography, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Blaustein, Albert P. and Roy M. Mersky
- Title:
- The First One Hundred Justices, Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States
- Publisher:
- Archon Books, Hamden, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40980
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, Bibliography, London, Supreme Court, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar et all
- Title:
- Thomas More's Trial by Jury, A Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of Documents
- Publisher:
- Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2013.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy; 240 pages
- Book No.:
- W-79661
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, 16TH CENTURY, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Clarkson, Paul S. and Clyde T. Warren
- Title:
- The Law of Property in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Drama
- Publisher:
- The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1942.
- Description:
- A work praised by Max Radin as presenting "important and valuable data for the history of law [examining] the extent to which legal ideas and institutions were part of the intellectual possessions of Englishmen" at the turn of the 17th century
- Condition:
- Ex-The Francis Bacon and Huntingon Libraries; a very good copy, in a supplied dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-59529
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Shakespeare, Law and Literature, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Kornstein, Daniel J.
- Title:
- Kill All the Lawyers? Shakespeare's Legal Appeal
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994.
- Description:
- The attempt to make Shakespeare the source of serious study of late 20th century legal problems and political philosophy, drawing primarily on over a dozen of the plays
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-66292
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, Law and Literature, Shakespeare
- Author:
- Sokol, B.J. and Mary
- Title:
- Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-73059
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Shakespeare, marriage, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Marshburn, Joseph H and Alan R Velie
- Title:
- Blood and Knavery, A Collection of English Renaissance Pamphlets and Ballads of Crime and Sin
- Publisher:
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41489
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 16TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Edgerton, Samuel Y.
- Title:
- Pictures and Punishment, Art and Criminal Prosecution during the Florentine Renaissance
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1985.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60407
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Legal Art, criminal law, ITALY, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Loades, D.M.
- Title:
- The Oxford Martyrs
- Publisher:
- Stein and Day, Publishers, New York, 1970.
- Description:
- A superior, scholarly study of the mid-sixteenth century heresy trials of Bishops Ridley and Latimer and Archbishop Cranmer, whose subsequent executions as the Oxford Martyrs were to preserve the Anglican church
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54051
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Religion, 16TH CENTURY, trials
- 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:
- 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:
- Fell, A. London
- Title:
- Bodin's Humanistic Legal System and Rejection of "Medieval Political Theology"
- Publisher:
- Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, Publishers, Boston, 1987.
- Description:
- Volume three of the series 'Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56635
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 16TH CENTURY, biography, philosophy of law, FRANCE
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