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- 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:
- 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:
- De Lolme, Jean Louis
- Title:
- The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government: In Which It Is Compared, Both with the Republican Form of Government, and the other Monarchies of Europe [etc.]. Cohen 2754 [mis-citing the Evans number, which is Evans 24263]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Hodge & Campbell, and Sold at Their . . . Book-Stores, New-York, 1792.
- Description:
- Only American edition of a classic treatment of the English constitution and of comparative constitutional law, said to have prompted Bentham's remark that "Our Author [Blackstone] has copied: but Mr. de L'olme has thought"
- Condition:
- Contemporary mottled sheep, rubbed, joints cracking, yet an appealing copy
- Book No.:
- W-64240
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND, Comparative Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Basilika. The Works of King Charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other Papers concerning the Differences Betwixt His said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament . . . as also of His Tryal [etc.]. 2d Edition. Wing C2076
- Publisher:
- Printed for Ric. Chiswell . . . in St Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1687.
- Description:
- The vast work begun by the well-regarded antiquary, William Fulman, and then completed by Richard Perrinchief, with the aid of materials supplied by Silus Titus; with the Eikon Basilica and its additional title page and two-page plate ending the work
- Condition:
- Contemporary panelled calf, gilt, the joints cracked and repaired and the spine varnished, else a good clean copy with the four plates, two folding
- Book No.:
- W-77851
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Most Gracious Speech, Together with the Lord Chancellors, To the Two Houses of Parliament, at Their Prorogation, On Monday the Nineteenth of May, 1662. Wing C3170. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed, by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1662.
- Description:
- The speeches which evidenced Charles II's failure to achieve a measure of religious toleration, with the first session of the Cavalier Parliament prorogued and Machiavelli invoked ("an Author much studied . . . in this Kingdom") as a warning
- Condition:
- ?Original printed self wraps, disbound, definite browning, sound and usable, 23 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79875
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND, Parliament, Religion, ITALY, political theory
- Author:
- Title:
- Criminal Law Revision Committee Eleventh Report Evidence (General)
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original Printed Sewn Wraps : Good condition some chips on spine
- Book No.:
- W-91950
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND
- Author:
- Challis, Thomas M.
- Title:
- Government Majorities. Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P., on the New Ministerial Device for the Subversion of Local Self-Government
- Publisher:
- Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, London, 1851.
- Description:
- A rare tract unsuccessfully opposing the removal of Smithfield Market from its ancient location, the Removal Act passed the next year, with the live cattle market relocated to a new site at Copenhagen Fields in Islington
- Condition:
- Original self-wraps, disbound (though the sewing remaining), light browning, a usable copy, eight pages; one copy in OCLC, none in this country
- Book No.:
- W-91501
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND
- 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:
- Karlsen, Carol F.
- Title:
- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- Publisher:
- W.W. Norton, New York, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48466
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, New England, colonies
- 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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