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- Author:
- Title:
- The Address Of the Honourable the House of Commons: Presented to His Majesty On Thursday the 25th day of April, 1689. With His Majesty's Answer Thereunto. Wing E2514. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, and Thomas Newcomb [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The official and sole London printing of the Commons address offering full support (with William's acceptance) for a declaration of war on France, following the arrival of James II from France in Ireland in mid-March, with war in fact declared May 7
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, title (verso blank) plus two pages, three folds, one manuscript notation, clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79605
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Parliament, English Law, military law, IRELAND, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- Repertoire General des Causes Celebres Anciennes et Modernes, Redige par une Societe d'Hommes de Lettres, sous la Direction de B. Saint-Edme [etc.]. Deuxieme Serie--Tome III [and IV] [only]
- Publisher:
- Louis Rosier, Editeur, Paris, 1854.
- Description:
- The first volume devoted to the Girondins and Philippe Egalite, with the second to eight matters, including several women, among them Madame Bolard and the Comtesse du Barri
- Condition:
- Marbled boards, rebacked in cloth, the front board detached; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-91737
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- La Constitution Francoise; Presentee au Roi par l'Assemblee Nationale, le 3 Septembre 1791. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- De l'Imprimerie de Baudouin [and] Chez J. Debrett dans Piccadilly, Paris [and] London, 1791.
- Description:
- The second edition of seemingly the sole printing in French in the English speaking world of France's first constitution, containing as its preface the Declaration of the Rights of Man adopted in 1789, with Louis XVI's acceptance appended
- Condition:
- ?Original sewn self-wraps, disbound, a good clean copy; 78 pages
- Book No.:
- W-79205
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- Author:
- Wills, Antoinette
- Title:
- Crime and Punishment in Revolutionary Paris
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press, Westport, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-12683
- Price:
- $ 22.50
- Category:
- FRANCE, 18TH CENTURY, criminal law
- Author:
- Martin, Benjamin F.
- Title:
- Crime and Criminal Justice Under the Third Republic, The Shame of Marianne
- Publisher:
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-57099
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, 19TH CENTURY, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- Bibliographie Pratique d'Ouvrages de Droit, Jurisprudence Economie Politique Sociologie [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Librairie du Recueil Sirey 22, Rue Soufflot, Paris, 5e, Paris, 1932.
- Description:
- The annual catalogue, arranged by subject and extensive, exclusively new books; with an index by author and another by subject
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, quite embrowned and fragile; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-17403
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- Author:
- Pitts, Jesse R. and Olivier Zunz (eds.)
- Title:
- The Tocqueville Review, La Revue Tocqueville, Volume 7, 1985/86
- Publisher:
- Tocqueville Society, Charlottesville, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30322
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, constitutional law, philosophy of law, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Suleiman, Ezra N.
- Title:
- Private Power and Centralization in France, The Notaires and the State
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987.
- Description:
- Professor Suleiman's exploration of the role and power in modern France of the notaires, that group of lawyers (still powerful) which has been unflatteringly described as "one of the relics of the ancien regime"
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-55950
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- notaries, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- Social Security in France
- Publisher:
- La Documentation Francaise, Paris.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a bit curled, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-30562
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- Author:
- Reinhardt, Steven G.
- Title:
- Justice in the Sarladais, 1770-1790
- Publisher:
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1991.
- Description:
- Professor Reinhardt's thorough exploration of the three principal criminal justice systems (popular, seigneurial, and royal) co-existing in a remote, poor district in late 18th century France, detailing the sure transition to royal predominance
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-57350
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- Essays on the Spirit of Legislation . . . Containing Observations on the Political Systems at present pursued in various Countries of Europe, for the Advancement of those essential Interests [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Nicoll . . . and G. Robinson [etc.], London, 1772.
- Description:
- First edition in English of the three essays honored by the Societe Oeconomique de Berne, the pioneering institution founded in 1759 and devoted to the ideals of the Enlightenment, "seeking reforms [both] in economy and society"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, the first blank and title a bit chipped (no text affected), some browning, else quite sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-74849
- Price:
- $ 575.00
- Category:
- agriculture, Commercial Law, Acts, legal reform, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- The Priviledges and Practice of Parliaments in England. Collected out of the Common Lawes of this Land. Seene and allowed by the Learned in the Lawes. Commended To the High Court of Parliament now Assembled. S.T.C. 7749 ["Tranquillitie" setting]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed [by B. Alsop and T. Fawcett] 1628, London, 1628.
- Description:
- First printing (one of two settings) of a tract which appeared during transforming events over much of the course of the century, followed by printings in 1640, 1641 and 1680; with comparisons and contrasts drawn from France and Germany
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf gilt lettered, some browning, a trace of marginal worming, without the first blank, the top margin cut close, sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79987
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Parliament, FRANCE, GERMANY, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Address of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons Assembled in Parliament, to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, Presented by the Right Hononourable [sic] The Lord Marquis of Halifax . . . with His Maiesties Most Gracious Answer [etc.]. Wing E1186
- Publisher:
- Printed by James Partridge, Matthew Gillyflower [and one other], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The mutual exchanges of support between Parliament (its legal status now regularized) and William as the Irish revolution gained force, with the Dutch having declared war on France and England to do so in early May; one copy in ESTC in North America
- Condition:
- Order to print leaf + title + 2 + 7 pages, disbound, some light browning and some staining to the lower margin, else clean & complete; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79603
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Glorious Revolution, English Law, military law, IRELAND, Holland, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- Pour supprimer ce crime: La Guerre. Plan Henri-Demont de 1908, Developpe et Propose aux Allies en 1918
- Publisher:
- Union Universelle: "Pour Supprimer Ce Crime: La Guerre", Paris, 1932.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, showing some wear, but quite usable; 274 pages, with a large folding plan or poster, protesting La Guerre
- Book No.:
- W-91292
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- Author:
- Craufurd, Quentin
- Title:
- The History of the Bastile: With a Concise Account of the Late Revolution in France. To Which Is Added, An Appendix, Containing, among other Particulars, An Enquiry into the History of the Prisoner with the Mask
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, London, 1790.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, the front board detached and the rear joint cracked, else a clean copy, with the half title and the elaborate folding plan
- Book No.:
- W-78522
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, prisons
- Author:
- Colquhoun, Patrick
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors By which Public and Private Property and Security are . . . injured and endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for Their Prevention. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by H. Baldwin and Son . . . for Joseph Mawman [etc.], London, 1800.
- Description:
- The penultimate, much enlarged edition of Colquhoun's pioneering treatise, "a major work of permanent value [and] the first in the English language . . . on the subject of police", leading to the establishment of London's professional police force
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, light browning, else a very good copy; the variant first printing with the colophon at index end only
- Book No.:
- W-77078
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, FRANCE, Police, London
- Author:
- Title:
- Inauguration de l'Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 1972.
- Description:
- The ceremonies and addresses inaugurating the organization originally established in 1959 under the name of the Centre National d'Etudes Judiciarires, upon the occasion of the move to its new quarters and its re-naming; no copy in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original oblong printed stapled illustrated wraps, well-preserved, 56 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74603
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- FRANCE
- Author:
- Gardy, Frederic
- Title:
- Bibliographie des Oeuvres Theologiques, Litteraires, Historiques at Juridiques de Theodore de Beze
- Publisher:
- Librairie E. Droz, Geneve, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40803
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Wills, FRANCE, Bibliography
- Author:
- Boureau, Alain
- Title:
- The Lord's First Night, The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64883
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- women's law, Sexuality, FRANCE, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Gracious Speech to the Lords & Commons, Together with the Lord Chancellor's, At the opening of the Parliament, On the 8th day of May, 1661. Wing C3017. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1661.
- Description:
- The speech in which Charles II announces his proposed marriage to Catherine of Braganza, cementing England's relations with Portugal and France as against Spain, the potential religious conflict (Catherine a Roman Catholic) skilfully downplayed
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, definite browning, the title's lower right blank corner torn away, else usable, with the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80070
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Parliament, marriage, PORTUGAL, international law, FRANCE, SPAIN, Religion
- Author:
- Berenson, Edward
- Title:
- The Trial of Madame Caillaux
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55903
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, criminal law, trials
- 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:
- Bourdet-Pleville, Michel
- Title:
- Justice in Chains, From the Galleys to Devil's Island
- Publisher:
- Robert Hale, London, 1960.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19470
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, prisons, trials, FRANCE
- Author:
- Gravdal, Kathryn
- Title:
- Ravishing Maidens, Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed illustrated wraps, warped but usable; 192 pages
- Book No.:
- W-51304
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, MEDIEVAL, women's law, criminal law
- Author:
- Cobbett
- Title:
- Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
- Publisher:
- R. Bagshaw, London, 1809.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Thirty two volumes of 34, lacking volumes 32 and 33, but with volume 34, the index volume
- Book No.:
- W-51170
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, trials
- 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:
- Rapley, Robert
- Title:
- A Case of Witchcraft, The Trial of Urbain Grandier
- Publisher:
- McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-66657
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, FRANCE, witchcraft
- Author:
- Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy
- Title:
- Jasmin's Witch
- Publisher:
- George Braziller, New York, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41186
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, witchcraft
- 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:
- Guillais, Joelle
- Title:
- Crimes of Passion, Dramas of Private Life in Nineteenth-century France
- Publisher:
- Routledge, London, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-68280
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Bindman, David
- Title:
- The Shadow of the Guillotine, Britain and the French Revolution. With Contributions by Aileen Dawson and Mark Jones
- Publisher:
- British Museum Publications, London, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn oversize illustrated wraps, a bit worn, but a good copy; 232 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71232
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Legal Art, 18TH CENTURY, FRANCE, trials
- Author:
- Dunne, Gerald T.
- Title:
- Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster, New York, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-43063
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography, FRANCE, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Dunoyer, Alphonse
- Title:
- The Public Prosecutor of the Terror, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville
- Publisher:
- Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1930.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-52038
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography, FRANCE, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Kaplan, Alice
- Title:
- The Collaborator, The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-68903
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Laughton, Bruce
- Title:
- Honore Daumier
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60431
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, Legal Art, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Mickel, Emanuel J.
- Title:
- Ganelon, Treason, and the 'Chanson de Roland'
- Publisher:
- Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-65621
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, MEDIEVAL, criminal law, trials, Poetry
- Author:
- Cobbett, William and T.B. Howell (eds.)
- Title:
- Complete Collection of State Trials, And Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time [title varies]. Thirty Four Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- R. Bagshaw [imprint varies], London, 1809-28.
- Description:
- Still the received edition, from Becket's trial in the 12th century to Thistlewood's in 1820, in Holdsworth's words "an invaluable collection of nearly all the important criminal trials and constitutional cases . . . bearing upon public law"
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco, somewhat rubbed and faded, but still attractive, Sir Richard Muir's set, with his two bookplates, before and after his knighthood
- Book No.:
- W-80270
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Ribner, Jonathan P.
- Title:
- Broken Tablets, The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-56274
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- education, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY, Legal Art, FRANCE
- Author:
- Herz, Ruth
- Title:
- The Art of Justice, The Judge's Perspective
- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing, Portland, 2012.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; with the February 15, 2013 Times Literary Supplement review by Gary Watt (slightly stained) laid in
- Book No.:
- W-77637
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Legal Art, FRANCE
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
- Author:
- Padoa Schioppa, Antionio (ed.)
- Title:
- The Trial Jury in England, France, Germany 1700-1900
- Publisher:
- Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1987.
- Description:
- Five essays, including two by John H. Langbein and Thomas A. Green, both on the English criminal trial jury on the eve of the French Revolution, complemented by Bernard Schnapper's essay on the French jury in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, a trifle rubbed, 304 pages; Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History, Volume 4
- Book No.:
- W-80318
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- juries, trials, GERMANY, FRANCE, English Law
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