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- Author:
- Duncan, G.I.O.
- Title:
- The High Court of Delegates
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971.
- Description:
- The only modern monograph on the court which, for three centuries, replaced the Pope as the ultimate arbiter of most English ecclesiastical matters, its jurisdiction assumed by the Privy Council in 1833; Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a bit rubbed, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71609
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Real Property, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Salkeld, William
- Title:
- Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer. The Fourth Edition . . . by Knightley d'Anvers . . . And the Pleadings now first done into English. Two Volumes in One
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn, London, 1742.
- Description:
- Salkeld's respected reports, published under the supervision of Lord Hardwicke, praised by Holdworth, and often found in early American libraries (Jefferson and John Adams, inter alia); a third volume "not designed for publication" appeared later
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, some dustiness, small loss to the last index leaf, else a good clean copy, with a number of careful, substantive annotations
- Book No.:
- W-70565
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, reports of cases
- Author:
- Swatland, Andrew
- Title:
- The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-59642
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Lechford, Thomas
- Title:
- Plain Dealing or News from New England. With an Introduction and Notes by J. Hammond Trumbull
- Publisher:
- J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, 1867.
- Description:
- The first book written by a lawyer practising in this country, this the last and best edition
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, gilt, joints tender, else nice
- Book No.:
- W-51934
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- colonies, New England, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Firth, C.H. (intro.).
- Title:
- Stuart Tracts 1603-1693
- Publisher:
- Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Facsimile selections from Arber's 19th century "English Garner"
- Book No.:
- W-42781
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Lane, Jane
- Title:
- Titus Oates
- Publisher:
- Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1949.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, a bit worn and foxed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-63512
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Lechford, Thomas
- Title:
- Plain Dealing or News from New England
- Publisher:
- J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, 1867.
- Description:
- The first book (here in its last and best edition) written by a lawyer practising in this country, originally appearing in London in 1642; one of 35 Royal Quarto copies signed by the publishers
- Condition:
- Later blue buckram, a bit dusty, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-40182
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- colonies, New England, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Amos, Andrew
- Title:
- The Great Oyer of Poisoning: the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, in the Tower of London, and Various Matters Connected therewith, from Contemporary Mss.
- Publisher:
- Richard Bentley, London, 1846.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, front board detached, rear board lacking, definite staining and embrowning; a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-51385
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, Law & Hist of Printg, trials
- Author:
- Caesar, Julius
- Title:
- The Ancient State, Authoritie, and Proceedings of the Court of Requests. 2. Octob. 1596. S.T.C. 4341. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by the deputies of C. Barker, London, 1597.
- Description:
- Only edition of the principal work of the most prominent civil lawyer of his generation, his "learned historical essay" (in Sir John Baker's words), part of the long struggle between the common lawyers, Coke first among them, and the civilians
- Condition:
- Modern calf, some staining mainly to the upper margin, cut somewhat close, catchwords occasionally affected (legibility maintained); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78873
- Price:
- $ 2250.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Johnson, et al (eds.), Robert C.
- Title:
- Commons Debates 1628. Five Volumes [of six]
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977-83.
- Description:
- Five (of six) volumes of the definitive edition of the debates and proceedings in the House of Commons in this historic Parliament, undertaken by the Yale Center for Parliamentary History; without volume five
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, gilt, a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-77649
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Parliament, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Parry, Edward Abbottt
- Title:
- The Overbury Mystery, a Chronicle of Fact and Drama of the Law
- Publisher:
- T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., London, 1926.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Quite worn; a sound copy only
- Book No.:
- W-17317
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- McNeill, William Arnott
- Title:
- The Administration of Scotland. With Special Reference to the Justice of Peace System. 1603 - 1625
- Publisher:
- N.p., Glasgow, 1934.
- Description:
- McNeill's doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Glasgow in 1934, comprehensively examining the introduction of the justice of the peace system into Scotland, with a number of both authorial and third-party pencil notations throughout
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco over cloth boards, gilt-lettered, single-spaced typescript, a very good copy, 391+146 pages; one copy (the same) in OCLC and COPAC
- Book No.:
- W-77855
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, justices of peace, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Zinman (intro.), Michael
- Title:
- Several Laws and Orders Made At the Generall Court . . . Held at Boston the 11th of May 1670. And at the Generall Court held by Adjournment the 12th day of October, 1670
- Publisher:
- The Haydn Foundation, Ardsley, 1987.
- Description:
- The facsimile reissue of the only known copy of these Massachusetts Bay Colony session laws, only recently rediscovered; with a brief introduction by Mr. Zinman, speculating about other missing laws whose existence are suggested by these
- Condition:
- Printed, sewn, oversized wraps; six pages
- Book No.:
- W-13145
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Postema, Gerald J. (ed.)
- Title:
- Matthew Hale on the Law of Nature, Reason, & Common Law
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-79439
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, natural law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Davies, Godfrey and Mary Frear Keeler (eds.)
- Title:
- Bibliography of British History, Stuart Period, 1603-1714. Second edition
- Publisher:
- At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-63501
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, 17TH CENTURY, Bibliography
- Author:
- Wynne, William
- Title:
- The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins, Judge of the High-Court of Admiralty, And Prerogative Court of Canterbury . . . [with] the Resolution of many difficult and curious Points in the Common and Civil Law, Law of Merchants and of Nations [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for Joseph Downing, in Bartholomew Close [etc.], London, 1724.
- Description:
- A "literally gigantic" work and the best early source for the life and works of Jenkins, "easily the greatest of the civilians of his day" in Holdsworth's words, brought together by Serjeant Wynne who "was to Jenkins as Boswell was to Johnson"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-panelled calf, quite worn, rebacked and repaired, some browning and dustiness, ex-library, yet a good crisp set; with the portrait
- Book No.:
- W-72749
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- biography, admiralty, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Leach, Thomas
- Title:
- Modern Reports; Or, Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer [etc.]. Fifth Edition. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson [etc.], London, 1793.
- Description:
- The first three volumes of the reports, covering most of the second half of the 17th century from the Restoration through the Glorious Revolution
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed and well worn, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-48046
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, reports of cases
- Author:
- Earwaker, J.P. (ed.)
- Title:
- The Constables' Accounts, Manor of Manchester, from the Year 1612 to the Year 1647, and from the Year 1743 to the Year 1776. Printed . . . from the Original Books of Accounts in [the City of Manchester's] Possession. Three Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- J.E. Cornish, 16, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, 1891-.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Three-quarter vellum over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, rubbed, ex-library, else a good sound set
- Book No.:
- W-91387
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- criminal law, 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Lechford, Thomas
- Title:
- Plain Dealing or News from New England
- Publisher:
- J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, 1867.
- Description:
- The first book (here in its last and best edition) written by a lawyer practising in this country, originally appearing in London in 1642; one of 35 Royal Quarto copies signed by the publishers
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16954
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- colonies, New England, 17TH 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:
- Chan, Mary
- Title:
- Life into Story, The Courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman
- Publisher:
- Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-68068
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, women's law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Glasier, Gilson G. (ed.)
- Title:
- Autobiography of Roujet D. Marshall, Justice of Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin. Two volumes
- Publisher:
- Democrat Printing Company, Madison, 1923.
- Description:
- A bit worn, but a very good set, with a complimentary card from the judge's executors laid in
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16349
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY, biography, justices of peace, Wisconsin
- 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:
- Dolan, Frances E.
- Title:
- Dangerous Familiars, Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a bit scratched, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-66532
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- women's law, 17TH CENTURY, witchcraft, criminal law
- Author:
- Skelton, Leona J
- Title:
- Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700
- Publisher:
- Routledge, London, 2016.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated boards, a very good copy; Perspectives in Economic and Social History
- Book No.:
- W-80085
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Health Law
- Author:
- Fissell, Mary E.
- Title:
- Vernacular Bodies, The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-74886
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, women's law, witchcraft
- Author:
- Boguet, Henry
- Title:
- An Examen of Witches Drawn from various trials of many of this sect in the district of Saint Oyan de Joux commonly known as Saint Claude in the county of Burgundy including the procedure necessary to a judge in trials for witchcraft
- Publisher:
- Frederick Muller, London, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-48126
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, FRANCE, trials
- Author:
- Wedgwood, C.V.
- Title:
- Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford 1593-1641, A Revaluation
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-71594
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography, 17TH CENTURY, trials, impeachment, criminal law
- Author:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles and N.E.H. Hull
- Title:
- Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41034
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- impeachment, 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Caraman, Philip
- Title:
- Henry Garnet, 1555-1606 and the Gunpowder Plot
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, in the dustjacket; usable
- Book No.:
- W-48754
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, biography, trials, biography, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Caraman, Philip
- Title:
- Henry Garnet, 1555-1606 and the Gunpowder Plot
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, in the dustjacket; usable
- Book No.:
- W-48754
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, biography, trials, biography, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Clifton, Robin
- Title:
- The Last Popular Rebellion, The Western Rising of 1685
- Publisher:
- Maurice Temple Smith, London, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41911
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, international law, trials
- Author:
- Todd, Janet and Elizabeth Spearing (eds.)
- Title:
- Counterfeit Ladies, The Life and Death of Mal Cutpurse, The Case of Mary Carleton
- Publisher:
- New York University Press, New York, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-57713
- Price:
- $ 58.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, criminal law, women's law
- Author:
- Comfort, W.W. (trans.)
- Title:
- The Clermont Assizes of 1665, A Merry Account of a Grim Court. Being a Translation of Abbe Flechier's Memoires sur les Grands Jours d'Auvergne
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1937.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, yet a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-70391
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Korshin, Paul J. (ed.)
- Title:
- Studies in Change and Revolution, Aspects of English Intellectual History 1640-1800
- Publisher:
- Scolar Press, Menston, 1972.
- Description:
- Includes B.J. Rahn's "A Ra-Ree Show -- A Rare Cartoon: Revolutionary Propaganda in the Treason Trial of Stephen College"
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, quite sound; 282 pages
- Book No.:
- W-68297
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- trials, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- The Enduring Fascination with Salem Witchcraft
- Publisher:
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Volume 110, Part 2 of the Society's Proceedings
- Book No.:
- W-71050
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, colonies
- Author:
- Geis, Gilbert and Ivan Bunn
- Title:
- A Trial of Witches, A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution
- Publisher:
- Routledge, London, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64306
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles
- Title:
- The Devil's Disciples, Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-65123
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials, 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Rosenthal, Bernard
- Title:
- Salem Story, Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 286 pages
- Book No.:
- W-59640
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, trials, witchcraft
- Author:
- Hill, Frances
- Title:
- A Delusion of Satan, The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
- Publisher:
- Doubleday, New York, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Bound galleys; 248 pages
- Book No.:
- W-58040
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Fox, Sanford J.
- Title:
- Science and Justice; The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17805
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Massachusetts, witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Gibson, William
- Title:
- James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops
- Publisher:
- Palgrave, Houndmills, 2009.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-78527
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, 17TH CENTURY, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Godley, Eveline (ed.)
- Title:
- The Trial of Count Konigsmarck
- Publisher:
- Peter Davies, London, 1929.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-44649
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, GERMANY, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Fortier, Mark
- Title:
- The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Britain and America
- Publisher:
- Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, 2015.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue printed illustrated boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-80218
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- equity, 18TH CENTURY, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
- Title:
- What Gunpowder Plot Was
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press, Publishers, New York, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- The facsimile reissue of the original 1891 edition
- Book No.:
- W-64034
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hay, Malcolm V.
- Title:
- The Jesuits and the Popish Plot
- Publisher:
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1934.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, somewhat worn, ex-library, yet a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-61585
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, 17TH CENTURY, Religion
- Author:
- Inderwick, F.A.
- Title:
- The Interregnum (A.D. 1648-1660), Studies of the Commonwealth Legislative, Social, and Legal
- Publisher:
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd., London, 1891.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, very worn, binding detaching; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-60425
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, legal reform, trials
- Author:
- Hill, L.M.
- Title:
- Bench and Bureaucracy, The Public Career of Sir Julius Caesar, 1580-1636
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1988.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-Francis Bacon Library, else a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-61629
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, biography, Holocaust, trials
- Author:
- Horsmanden, Daniel
- Title:
- The New York Conspiracy
- Publisher:
- Beacon Press, Boston, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41723
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY, Discrimination, divorce, New York, trials
- Author:
- Kawashima, Yasuhide
- Title:
- Igniting King Philip's War, The John Sassamon Murder Trial
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a bit scuffed, else a very good copy; 201 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71673
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY, colonies, New England, American Indian Law
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