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- Author:
- Tourtoulon, Pierre De
- Title:
- Philosophy in the Development of Law
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Co., New York, 1922.
- Description:
- With a preface by Morris R. Cohen, who had supplied a copy of the original French edition to Holmes, causing him to describe it to Pollock as "the bread of life . . . I haven't for a long time read a book that embodies so many things that I believe"
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, worn and dampstained, but still usable
- Book No.:
- W-30971
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Hollis, Christopher
- Title:
- The Homicide Act, The First Thorough Examination of How the Homicide Act Has Been Working in Practice
- Publisher:
- Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-14027
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Richardson, Robert
- Title:
- The Attorney's Practice in the Court of King's Bench: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Practice of that Court . . . With Variety of useful and curious Precedents in English, settled or drawn by Counsel [etc.]. Sixth Edition. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed by His Majesty's Law-printers [etc.], London, 1776.
- Description:
- The edition appearing while both Blackstone and Mansfield were on the bench, praised by Holdsworth as a "better and a more orderly account" than its predecessors, its second volume largely comprised of forms attributed to the lawyers creating them
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, definite browning and foxing , a sound usable set only
- Book No.:
- W-76006
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- English Law
- 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:
- Rostow, Eugene V.
- Title:
- A National Policy for the Oil Industry
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1948.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A bit rubbed, and a little pencilling, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-47765
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- economics, oil and gas law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Contentes of this boke. Fyrste the boke for a Justice of peace. The boke that teacheth to kepe a court Baron, or a lete [and] a courte hundred. The boke[s] called returna Brevium [and] Carta Foedi [and] the kynge's Escheker [etc.]. S.T.C. 14877
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Bertheleti [imprints vary], London, 1544.
- Description:
- The collection of highly practical treatises designed for justices of the peace, sheriffs, bailiffs and other local officials, this being the edition selected by Holdsworth as representative, its contents termed "a useful handbook [and] essential"
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, all edges gilt, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Huntington Library duplicate, quite clean and even luscious; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79387
- Price:
- $ 6750.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Every Man Law Books, courts, Exchequer, sheriffs, Forms & Form Books
- Author:
- Title:
- Summary of Provisions of Taft-Hartley Act
- Publisher:
- President of the International Typographical Union, Indianapolis, 1947.
- Description:
- The text of the Taft-Hartley Act, prefaced by an extensive analysis of it, seemingly quite dispassionate and objective, by the American Federation of Labor's general counsel's office
- Condition:
- Printed self-wraps; 36 pages
- Book No.:
- W-43350
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Title:
- Hindsight and Foresight: Planning to Protect and Guide Special Neighborhoods
- Publisher:
- Exploring the Metropolis, Inc., New York, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed stapled wraps, a good copy; 80 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30267
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Zoning Law
- Author:
- Heale, William
- Title:
- An Apologie for Women. Or an Opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his assertion . . . That it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives [with] Henry Swinburne, A Treatise on Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, worn, ex-library, a usable copy only, the 1608 and 1686 editions in facsimile; Classics of English Legal History
- Book No.:
- W-77901
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- women's law
- Author:
- Smith, Thomas
- Title:
- The Commonwealth of England, And the Maner and Gouernement thereof . . . With new Additions of the chiefe Courts in England, And the Offices thereof [etc.]. S.T.C. 22863. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke [etc.], London, 1612.
- Description:
- The first English treatise on comparative constitutional law and politics, highly regarded by Maitland, who adjudged that the work "will be quoted and transcribed so long as men take any interest in the history of the English constitution"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, the top margin cut close affecting the "The" of the title, some browning, else crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79618
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- political theory, Comparative Law
- Author:
- Farnam, Henry W.
- Title:
- Bibliography of the Department of Economics and Sociology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, 1914.
- Description:
- Part of the Institution's monumental undertaking to develop its "Contributions to American Economic History", for which the Department was organized into twelve divisions, with monographs, articles, and unpublished monographs listed accordingly
- Condition:
- Original brown printed sewn wraps, a bit crinkled and ex-library, but sound; 19 pages + an addendum slip pasted to the front wrap not noted in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-72530
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, economics, law and sociology
- Author:
- Toch, Hans
- Title:
- Police, Prisons, and the Problem of Violence
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit soiled, but quite sound; 142 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90119
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law
- Author:
- Wade, John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gaming, Forgery . . Also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London; And . . . the Causes of the Increase of Crime &c.
- Publisher:
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by one of the foremost early 19th century radicals and reformers, John Wade, grouped in importance with William Cobbett and 'Orator' Hunt, and a great admirer of Bentham, who provided funds to establish Wade's newspaper
- Condition:
- Modern green cloth, ex-library, one preliminary leaf loose, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77344
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Police, women's law, Gambling, Forgery, prisons
- Author:
- Wade, John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gaming, Forgery . . Also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London; And . . . the Causes of the Increase of Crime &c.
- Publisher:
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by one of the foremost early 19th century radicals and reformers, John Wade, grouped in importance with William Cobbett and 'Orator' Hunt, and a great admirer of Bentham, who provided funds to establish Wade's newspaper
- Condition:
- Modern green cloth, ex-library, one preliminary leaf loose, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77344
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Police, women's law, Gambling, Forgery, prisons
- Author:
- Azuni, D[ominique] A[lbert]
- Title:
- The Maritime Law of Europe. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed by George Forman, 64, Water-Street, for I. Riley & Co., New-York, 1806.
- Description:
- First edition in English of Azuni's treatise, influential upon the law of prize, well-known for its analysis of the Rhodian sea laws and the Consolato del Mare, and one of several works bearing upon American efforts to codify international law
- Condition:
- Contemporary tree calf, adequately rebacked, some staining; usable
- Book No.:
- W-65385
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- international law, maritime law
- Author:
- Azuni, D[ominique] A[lbert]
- Title:
- The Maritime Law of Europe. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed by George Forman, 64, Water-Street, for I. Riley & Co., New-York, 1806.
- Description:
- First edition in English of Azuni's treatise, influential upon the law of prize, well-known for its analysis of the Rhodian sea laws and the Consolato del Mare, and one of several works bearing upon American efforts to codify international law
- Condition:
- Contemporary tree calf, adequately rebacked, some staining; usable
- Book No.:
- W-65385
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- international law, maritime law
- Author:
- Title:
- Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Labor Legislation
- Publisher:
- United States Department of Labor, Washington, 1940.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Sewn wraps, a bit worn, but generally well preserved; 109 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44445
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- labor law
- Author:
- Pound, Roscoe
- Title:
- The Revival of Comparative Law. Setaro 176
- Publisher:
- Tulane University College of Law, New Orleans, 1930.
- Description:
- The rare separate printing of the substance of Dean Pound's address delivered at the annual convention of the Louisiana Bar Association in Monroe, Louisiana, April 26, 1930; three copies in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original green stapled wraps, a very good copy, reprinted from the Tulane Law Review, Volume V, Number 1 of December 1930
- Book No.:
- W-79168
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Comparative Law
- Author:
- Stewart, Bryce M.
- Title:
- Canadian Labor Laws and the Treaty [of Versailles]
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1926.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth, ex-Mechanics Institute Library, worn, but sound and usable
- Book No.:
- W-46655
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- CANADA, labor law, international law
- Author:
- Stewart, Bryce M.
- Title:
- Canadian Labor Laws and the Treaty [of Versailles]
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1926.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Cloth, ex-Mechanics Institute Library, worn, but sound and usable
- Book No.:
- W-46655
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- CANADA, labor law, international law
- Author:
- Salvadori, Massimo
- Title:
- NATO, a Twentieth-Century Community of Nations
- Publisher:
- D. Van Nostrand Company, New York, 1957.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A paperback original rebound in red cloth, ex-library, sound
- Book No.:
- W-30849
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- international law, diplomacy
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- History of the Common Law [etc.] [with] An Analysis of the Civil Part of the Law. The Fourth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for T. Cadell [etc.], London, 1779.
- Description:
- The best early edition of Hale's classic works, prepared by Charles Runnington who (in Holdsworth's words) "prefixed a life of Hale, and added very extensive notes"; Hale's 'Analysis', though not called for by the title page, is appended
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, a bit embrowned, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-66012
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, witchcraft, sheriffs, justices of peace, poor law, English Law
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- History of the Common Law [etc.] [with] An Analysis of the Civil Part of the Law. The Fourth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for T. Cadell [etc.], London, 1779.
- Description:
- The best early edition of Hale's classic works, prepared by Charles Runnington who (in Holdsworth's words) "prefixed a life of Hale, and added very extensive notes"; Hale's 'Analysis', though not called for by the title page, is appended
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, a bit embrowned, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-66012
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, witchcraft, sheriffs, justices of peace, poor law, English Law
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- History of the Common Law [etc.] [with] An Analysis of the Civil Part of the Law. The Fourth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for T. Cadell [etc.], London, 1779.
- Description:
- The best early edition of Hale's classic works, prepared by Charles Runnington who (in Holdsworth's words) "prefixed a life of Hale, and added very extensive notes"; Hale's 'Analysis', though not called for by the title page, is appended
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, a bit embrowned, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-66012
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, witchcraft, sheriffs, justices of peace, poor law, English Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twenty-Third Congress of the United States
- Publisher:
- N.p., [Washington], [1834].
- Description:
- With an appendix containing the text of treaties with Russia, Chile, and eight Indian tribes
- Condition:
- A soiled but usable copy, original wraps absent, but signatures still firmly sewn; edges trimmed
- Book No.:
- W-91165
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Acts, indian law
- Author:
- Trumbull, Benjamin
- Title:
- An Appeal to the Public, Especially to the Learned, with Respect to the Unlawfulness of Divorces, in All Cases, Excepting Those of Incontinency [etc.]
- Publisher:
- J. Meigs, New-Haven, 1788.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern wraps, definite embrowning, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-63567
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- divorce, women's law
- Author:
- Dowling, Noel T.
- Title:
- Cases on Constitutional Law. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Foundation Press, Inc., Brooklyn, 1946.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn, extensive underlining, a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-52548
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, constitutional law
- Author:
- Mainwaring, Thomas
- Title:
- A Reply to an Answer to the Defence of Amicia, Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester
- Publisher:
- Printed for S. Lowndes [etc.], London, 1673.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern blind-ruled calf, quite attractive
- Book No.:
- W-49583
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, women's law
- Author:
- Cooley, Roger W.
- Title:
- Illustrative Cases on Damages. A Companion Book to Hale on Damages (2d Ed.)
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1913.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original tan buckram, quite rubbed, a usable copy; Hornbook Case Series
- Book No.:
- W-91499
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, Law of Damages
- Author:
- Title:
- White Collar Crime, Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate...[etc.] Parts 1 and 2
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 214 and 200 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90530
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- humor, legal reform, Law and Literature, Legal Ethics, White Collar Crime
- Author:
- Wolfgang, Marvin E., et al. (comps.)
- Title:
- Domestic Criminal Violence, A Selected Bibliography
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, a bit wrinkled, but quite sound; 363 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90124
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Family Law, Mare Island Case, marriage, Bibliography
- Author:
- Wolfgang, Marvin E., et al. (comps.)
- Title:
- Domestic Criminal Violence, A Selected Bibliography
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps, a bit wrinkled, but quite sound; 363 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90124
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Family Law, Mare Island Case, marriage, Bibliography
- Author:
- Moore, John Norton
- Title:
- Law and the Indo-China War
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A sound copy in a rubbed dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-30926
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Vietnam, war, international law
- Author:
- Hutton, Richard
- Title:
- The Young Clerks Guide: Or, An Exact Collection of choice English Presidents . . . For all sorts of Indentures, Letters of Atturney, Releases, Conditions [bound with] The Second Part Of the Young Clerks Guide [etc.]. Wing H3849A and Not in Wing
- Publisher:
- Printed for Humphrey Tuckey at the black spread Eagle [both works, London, 1658 & 1657.
- Description:
- Rare editions (one seemingly unrecorded) of the spectacularly popular handbook attributed to Hutton, the righteous judge famous for his opinion in the Shipmoney case, with some forty editions recorded in ESTC by 1689--one and no copies in ESTC here
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt-lettered, discreetly ex-library, the first work lacking three gatherings, else quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78422
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Every Man Law Books, Forms & Form Books
- Author:
- Swindler, William F.
- Title:
- The Constitution and Chief Justice Marshall
- Publisher:
- Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1978.
- Description:
- The biography designed to provide background material for the film series 'Equal Justice Under Law'; with an introduction by Warren Burger, portions of whose Bentham Club lecture on 'Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury' is appended
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-70783
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International. Studies on International Fiscal Law, Volume LXXb, International Double Taxation of Inheritances and Gifts
- Publisher:
- International Fiscal Association, Rotterdam, 1985.
- Description:
- In English, French, and German
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a clean ex-library copy; 574 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30545
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- international law, Wills, taxation
- Author:
- Title:
- A Rape Bibliography, With Special Emphasis on Rape Research in Canada
- Publisher:
- Solicitor General of Canada, Ottawa, 1979.
- Description:
- Bilingual edition, in English and French
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, the spine nicked, but still sound; 130 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90143
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Rape, women's law, Bibliography, CANADA
- Author:
- Morland, Nigel
- Title:
- An Outline of Sexual Criminology
- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing Co., New York, 1967.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-15700
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other bishops] [with] The Tryals of Henry Cornish, Esq; for Conspiring the Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion [etc.]. Wing P3555A and T2250. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for Thomas Basset [2] Printed . . . by George Croom, London, 1689 & 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the great cases of English law, confirming Parliament's right to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation, coupled with the trial of the London sheriff whose execution "secured his place in the pantheon of whig martyrs"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum slightly bowed, the title pages quite darkened, the portrait of the bishops trimmed and repaired, a working copy; with the errata slip
- Book No.:
- W-78150
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Bacon, Nathaniel
- Title:
- An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With A Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments . . . from some Manuscript Notes of John Selden. Wing S2428
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Starkey [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The work establishing the reputation of Bacon, the half-brother of Francis Bacon, probably based on notes collected by John Selden, highly influential and "argu[ing] with unrelenting force an anti-royalist ideology of enormous political power"
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled, panelled calf, rebacked, somewhat rubbed and scraped and some browning, mainly lightish, else a very good crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-77069
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Crime and the Abuse of Power: Offences and Offenders beyond the Reach of the Law?
- Publisher:
- International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation, Milan, 1980.
- Description:
- Contributions to the Sixth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit soiled, but a sound copy; 95 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90355
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law
- Author:
- Austin, John
- Title:
- The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. Second Edition [with] Lectures on Jurisprudence. Being the Sequel to "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined." To Which Are Added Notes and Fragments . . . Published from the Original Manuscripts. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1861-63.
- Description:
- First and second editions of both of Austin's major works, of pervasive impact on Anglo-American law over the last two centuries and, in the words of H.L.A. Hart (who edited the 'Province' in 1954), "established the study of jurisprudence in England"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, extra gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, very worn, one board detached, several labels lacking, some chipping and tape; a working set
- Book No.:
- W-72462
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law
- Author:
- Blashfield, De Witt C.
- Title:
- Cyclopedia of Automobile Law, A Complete Encyclopedic Treatment of the Law of Automobiles [etc.]. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- Vernon Law Book Company, Kansas City, 1927.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn and rubbed, the spines faded, but a usable set
- Book No.:
- W-42184
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- law of automobiles
- Author:
- Chappel, Capt. Samuel
- Title:
- A Diamond or Rich Jewel, To the Common-wealth of England, For inriching of the Nation; being necessary for the use of all Marchants and Tradesmen, and advantagious to the poor: Wherein is declared a way [with eight reforms proposed]. Wing C1955. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Clowes, against the Lower Pump in Grubstreet, London, 1651.
- Description:
- Sole edition of Chappel's only work, an idiosyncratic tract written from debtor's prison, but proposing some real reforms, including a national bank, an insurance fund (to protect against pirates), expansion of the fishing trade, and cheap salt
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, gilt, definite browning, top margin cut close, without the coat of arms preceding the title, textually complete; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79909
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- legal reform, banks, bankruptcy, economics, poor law, insurance law, law of piracy, English Commonwealth
- Author:
- Chappel, Capt. Samuel
- Title:
- A Diamond or Rich Jewel, To the Common-wealth of England, For inriching of the Nation; being necessary for the use of all Marchants and Tradesmen, and advantagious to the poor: Wherein is declared a way [with eight reforms proposed]. Wing C1955. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Clowes, against the Lower Pump in Grubstreet, London, 1651.
- Description:
- Sole edition of Chappel's only work, an idiosyncratic tract written from debtor's prison, but proposing some real reforms, including a national bank, an insurance fund (to protect against pirates), expansion of the fishing trade, and cheap salt
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, gilt, definite browning, top margin cut close, without the coat of arms preceding the title, textually complete; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79909
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- legal reform, banks, bankruptcy, economics, poor law, insurance law, law of piracy, English Commonwealth
- Author:
- Chappel, Capt. Samuel
- Title:
- A Diamond or Rich Jewel, To the Common-wealth of England, For inriching of the Nation; being necessary for the use of all Marchants and Tradesmen, and advantagious to the poor: Wherein is declared a way [with eight reforms proposed]. Wing C1955. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Clowes, against the Lower Pump in Grubstreet, London, 1651.
- Description:
- Sole edition of Chappel's only work, an idiosyncratic tract written from debtor's prison, but proposing some real reforms, including a national bank, an insurance fund (to protect against pirates), expansion of the fishing trade, and cheap salt
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, gilt, definite browning, top margin cut close, without the coat of arms preceding the title, textually complete; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79909
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- legal reform, banks, bankruptcy, economics, poor law, insurance law, law of piracy, English Commonwealth
- Author:
- Title:
- The "Dick" Bill [named after the Association's President, Charles Dick] and Comments. H.R. 11,654 "A Bill to Promote the Efficiency of the Militia and for Other Purposes". To Supersede the Archaic Militia Laws Enacted in 1792
- Publisher:
- Interstate National Guard Association, Brooklyn, 1902.
- Description:
- The rare tract in support of the successful compromise legislation linking the National Guard to the United States Army "in ways considered visionary"; with an ?unrecorded form letter from the Association's Executive Committee urging support laid in
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled green wraps, somewhat worn, but sound, 30 pages, Publication No.4; two copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-79049
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- military law, Congress
- Author:
- Stephenson, Andrew
- Title:
- A History of Roman Law, With a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1912.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, rubbed, the spine somewhat dull, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-78945
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- roman law
- Author:
- Liktorius, Alvita and David J. Stang
- Title:
- Altruism, Bystander Intervention, and Helping Behavior: A Bibliography
- Publisher:
- N.p., 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 44 photocopied pages
- Book No.:
- W-90236
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Bibliography
- Author:
- Chappell, Duncan, et al.
- Title:
- Criminal Investigation: A Selective Literature Review and Bibliography
- Publisher:
- Criminology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 1981.
- Description:
- States "Not for publication, citation, or further distribution."
- Condition:
- Plastic spiral-bound wraps; 78 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90283
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Bibliography
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