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- Author:
- Whetstone, Ann
- Title:
- Scottish County Government in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Publisher:
- John Donald, Edinburgh, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54274
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded; without the plate, if called for
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded; without the plate, if called for
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Dalrymple, David, Lord Hailes]
- Title:
- A Catalogue of the Lords of Session, from the Institution of the College of Justice, in the year 1532. With Historical Notes. Quarto
- Publisher:
- N.p., Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The first revision, significantly expanded, of the first effort to provide biographical detail of the Scots judiciary, undertaken by Lord Hailes, advisor to James Boswell and to whom Dr. Johnson is said to have turned "on any matter of Scottish law"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a clean copy with ample margins. 18+42 pages; one copy in a law library in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76204
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- biography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of Trial of the Issues, in the Action of Damages for Libel in the Beacon, James Gibson . . . Pursuer, Against Duncan Stevenson . . . Defender
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable [etc.], Edinburgh, 1822.
- Description:
- With both Francis Jeffrey and Henry Cockburn representing the pursuer, or plaintiff, and successfully so, the jury finding in their favor in all respects, with a damage award accordingly
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco, extra gilt; very attractive
- Book No.:
- W-49225
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Maxwell (comps.), Leslie F. and W. Harold
- Title:
- Sweet and Maxwell's Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 5. Scottish Law to 1956. Together with a list of Roman Law Books in the English Language. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- John Rees, London, 1990.
- Description:
- The volume of the pre-eminent legal bibliography of the English-speaking world and the former British Empire devoted to Scotland, with a list of works in English on Roman law appended
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new, in the glassine dustjacket; the facsimile reissue of the second edition of 1957
- Book No.:
- W-70868
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, SCOTLAND, roman law
- Author:
- Bayne, Alexander
- Title:
- Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland
- Publisher:
- Printed for, and sold by Gideon Crawfurd Bookseller [etc.], Edinburgh, 1748.
- Description:
- Second (and last) edition of the second legal treatise on Scots criminal law, written by Bayne for his students at the University of Edinburgh where he was the first occupant of the chair of Scots law; rare, ESTC locating three copies in this country
- Condition:
- Modern black cloth, gilt, light browning, else a very good, crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-79116
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, criminal law
- 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:
- Title:
- The Acts Made in the First Parliament of Our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles [I] [through] Acts Done and past in the Third Session Of the second Triennall Parliament Of . . . Charles the II [etc.]. Eight Works in One Volume. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Young [etc.] [imprints vary], Edinburgh, 1633-49.
- Description:
- An unbroken record of the Scots Parliament during the two decades leading up to the Protectorate, once the copy of Sir James Hope, Lord Hopetoun, the lawyer and political radical who became the sole Scot to serve on Cromwell's Council of State
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, the front joint cracking but holding, some browning; the Hopetoun copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown
- Book No.:
- W-76407
- Price:
- $ 1200.00
- Category:
- Acts, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Chambers, William
- Title:
- An Address on the Assimilation of the Laws of England and Scotland [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by John Greig & Son, Old Physic Gardens, Edinburgh, 1862.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern wraps, crimson morocco label, serviceable; 24 pages
- Book No.:
- W-57843
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Comparative Law
- Author:
- Skene, John
- Title:
- Regiam Majestatem Scotiae, Veteres Leges et Constitutiones, Ex Archivis Publicis, Et Antiquis Libris Manuscriptis Collectae [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Excudebat Thomas Finlason, Edinburgh, 1609.
- Description:
- The first edition in Latin of what has recently been termed "the principal treatise of medieval Scots law", gathered together with other important Scots legal sources, the use of which over the centuries through the 15th continues to be debated
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, quite worn, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-53380
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of James Wilson, for High Treason, With an Account of His Execution at Glasgow, September 1820 . . . Now Respectfully Submitted to the Consideration of the Reformers of Glasgow, By . . . The Exposer of the Spy System [Peter Mackenzie]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Published by Muir, Gowans, & Co. [etc.], Glasgow, 1832.
- Description:
- Three accounts of Wilson's trial, one of three individuals executed for participating in the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, later discovered by Mackenzie to have been instigated by government agents, leading to the pardon of all the other insurgents
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 48 pages; five copies in OCLC, one in Scotland
- Book No.:
- W-77513
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, criminal law, Radicals
- Author:
- Duncan (ed.), Archibald
- Title:
- The Acts of Robert I, 1306-1329
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1988.
- Description:
- Volume 5 in the series Regesta Regum Scottorum, the definitive edition of the Acts of the Sovereigns of Scotland between 1153 and 1424
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42022
- Price:
- $ 130.00
- Category:
- 14TH CENTURY, Acts, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Bell, Robert
- Title:
- Report of a Case of Legitimacy, Under a Putative Marriage, Tried before the Second Division of the Court of Session in February 1811
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bell & Bradfute . . . and Butterworth & Son, Edinburgh, 1825.
- Description:
- A rare case in which an heiress married privately while underage, years later marrying again to an unknowing second husband, their sole child challenged as illegitimate; with the arguments of counsel (including Francis Jeffrey) reproduced at length
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, crimson morocco label, gilt, ex-library, some browning and foxing, else a good untrimmed copy
- Book No.:
- W-74457
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- Books, Maps, Postcards and Law Books To be Sold by Auction Wednesday 15th February at 11:00 am [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Phillips Scotland, Edinburgh, 1989.
- Description:
- Fourteen law lots (lots 207 to 220, closing the sale), almost exclusively long runs of Scottish law, well over 100 volumes in several instances, primarily twentieth century, but with nineteenth century works as well, from 1811
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, two ink notations on the front wrap, else a good copy; 220 lots in 23 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74712
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, in the United Kingdom . . . As Far As Relates to Scotland. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 March 1819. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1819.
- Description:
- Arranged by county, reporting particulars for over eighty institutions, including the number of prisoners, their gender and whether under or over seventeen, whether debtor or criminal, and the allowances of food, money, and clothing, inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, the fore-margins cut close, but the sense preserved, else a very good copy, 21 pages; three copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77195
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- prisons, IRELAND, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Kames, Henry Home, Lord
- Title:
- Principles of Equity. Corrected and Enlarged in a Second Edition. Folio. Sowerby 1717
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar . . . and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1767.
- Description:
- The first work devoted exclusively to equity in Scotland, "probably Kames's most important contribution to legal theory" in Professor Walker's words, praised by Jefferson (who had this and two other editions), Benjamin Franklin, and Lord Mansfield
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, some browning and staining, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71513
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- equity, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Balfour, James
- Title:
- Practicks: Or, A System Of the more ancient Law of Scotland
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas and Walter Ruddimans, for A. Kincaid [etc.], Edinburgh, 1754.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the most important of all works of Scots law, written in the late 16th century and compared to Justinian's Digest by Professor Walker, who calls it "the earliest extant general compendium of the post-medieval law of Scotland"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 1/2 calf, worn, rebacked, a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-66718
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- National Library of Scotland: Advocates' Library, Notable Accessions up to 1925, a Book of Illustrations
- Publisher:
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1965.
- Description:
- One of two catalogues celebrating the notable accessions over the centuries to the National Library of Scotland, which traces its founding to the library formed by the Faculty of Advocates in the 1680's; with over 120 plates, most full page
- Condition:
- Original printed, sewn wraps; well printed
- Book No.:
- W-18435
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Cockburn, William
- Title:
- The Clerk's Assistant in the Practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts: Containing the Method of Proceedings there. Extracted from The best Books of Practice, And more regularly and clearly laid down than has hitherto been done [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Main, in Dame-Street, Dublin, 1753.
- Description:
- The rare first Dublin edition of a comprehensive work, praised by Holdsworth as "clear and concise", treating of criminal causes, divorce, guardians, libel and defamation, marriage (several chapters), and wills inter alia; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning and new endpapers, else quite crisp and well-preserved, with the subscribers list; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79075
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- biography, Ecclesiastical Law, SCOTLAND, marriage, divorce, libel and slander, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Printed Books, Law Books, & Postcards, To be Sold by Auction, Wednesday 12th November 1986 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Phillips Scotland, Edinburgh, 1986.
- Description:
- Fifty-eight law lots (lots 22 to 26 and 101 to 152), principally Scottish law from the early 18th to the 20th century, sometimes in long runs in excess of 100 volumes, together with several lots of trials from the first half of the 19th century
- Condition:
- Original blue printed stapled wraps, 274 lots and 33 pages, notations on the front wrap and elsewhere, else a very good copy; with the prices realized
- Book No.:
- W-74526
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet. In Four Parts, with a General Index [bound with] Rules and Regulations for the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Use of the Society, Edinburgh, 1826-37.
- Description:
- All four parts plus the index of the most extensive early catalogue of the Signet Library, issued at the close of the period when the Library was establishing itself among the first rank of British libraries; with the Library's rules appended
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over patterned cloth, rebacked, the original spine laid down, speckled edges, some rubbing and foxing, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-76644
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- A Letter to the Hon. Fox Maule, M.P. Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons, Appointed to Enquire into the Administration of the Law of Scotland, on Some Points Connected with the Subject of that Enquiry
- Publisher:
- Sold by Adam & Charles Black. Printed by Forrester & Ruthven, Edinburgh, 1840.
- Description:
- A rare, able and thorough critique, and a principal source relied upon in modern scholarship on mid-19th century judicial reform efforts in Scotland [see Philippson, The Scottish Whigs and the Reform of The Court of Session 1785-1830 pp. 167-70]
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, the title dusty and partly detached, a usable copy only, 51 pages; two copies in COPAC, three in OCLC, one in Scotland
- Book No.:
- W-78392
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- The Actis and Constitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland maid in Parliamentis haldin be . . . Kingis Iames the First, Secund, thrid, Feird, Fyft, and in tyme of Marie now Quene of Scottis [with acts of two other Parliaments]. S.T.C. 21876a, 21881, and 21883
- Publisher:
- [1] Robert Lekpreuik [2 and 3] Iohne Ros, Edinburgh, 1566 & 1575.
- Description:
- First edition variant issue of the first collected laws of Scotland, beginning with the statutes passed at the first parliament of James I in 1424 through 1566, the year of publication, preserving part of the original record otherwise lost
- Condition:
- Modern panelled morocco, extra-gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, title just trimmed, some staining, ex-Skene Library; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79002
- Price:
- $ 7500.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Acts
- Author:
- Gurney, Joseph John
- Title:
- Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England, In Company With Elizabeth Fry; With some General Observations on the Subject of Prison Discipline. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.], Edinburgh, 1819.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original decorated boards, ex-library, crudely rebacked in cloth, the word 'Notes' excised from the title; a sound working copy
- Book No.:
- W-91349
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Elchies, Patrick Grant, Lord
- Title:
- Decisions of the Court of Session, From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754, Collected and Digested into the Form of a Dictionary, By Patrick Grant of Elchies, Esq. . . . Edited from the Original Manuscript by William Maxwell Morison [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Editor, Edinburgh, 1813.
- Description:
- The reissue of the decisions undertaken by "the best reporter of Scotch decisions", with the reports found in the first volume complemented by Lord Elchies' notes contained in the second, this edition also forming part of Morison's great Dictionary
- Condition:
- ?Later 3/4 calf over cloth boards, contrasting crimson and black morocco labels, gilt, somewhat rubbed, but a good usable set
- Book No.:
- W-72853
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Alexander M'Laren, and Thomas Baird, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh . . . for Sedition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Robertson, 132. High Street [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.
- Description:
- The first of many 19th century sedition trials, with Jeffrey and Cockburn jointly representing Baird; Cockburn subsequently described Jeffrey's speech "of the highest order of excellence, [t]here has been no such speech in such a case in Scotland"
- Condition:
- Modern maroon pebbled cloth, the title dusty; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-65943
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- trials, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of Patrick Mackay of Scourie, Esq
- Publisher:
- N.p., Printed in the Year, 1732.
- Description:
- A rare work, describing in great detail -- from Mackay's point of view -- the events forcing him to flee Scotland so as to avoid creditors (and his arrest) in a series of botched commercial transactions involving him, his brother, and a third party
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, some browning, the title and last leaf moreso, else a good copy, 49+71 pages; one copy in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76883
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- National Library of Scotland: Notable Accessions Since 1925, a Book of Illustrations
- Publisher:
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1965.
- Description:
- One of two catalogues celebrating the notable accessions over the centuries to the National Library of Scotland, which traces its founding to the library formed by the Faculty of Advocates in the 1680's; with 120 plates, most full page
- Condition:
- Original printed, sewn wraps, very nice; about 120 pages
- Book No.:
- W-18436
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Banks, T.C. and Ephraim Lockhart
- Title:
- A Disquisition on the Right of Jurisdiction in Peerage Successions, Particularly the Peerage of Scotland; Contained in Letters to the Right Honourable the Lord K-------: With an Appendix. Second Edition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, London, 1830.
- Description:
- An uncommon part of the curious career of the Inner Templar T.C. Banks, who established a Dormant Peerage Office and mixed real scholarship with the defense of flimsy and even fraudulent (as here) peerage claims; five copies in OCLC, none in England
- Condition:
- Modern patterned crimson cloth, gilt, ex-library, but a clean copy; 118 pages
- Book No.:
- W-72088
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Peerage Law, Comparative Law, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- Dundonnell Cause. Report of the Trial by Jury, Thomas Mackenzie against Robert Roy, Esq. W.S.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Daniel Lizars, at . . . the New North Briton [etc.], Edinburgh, 1830.
- Description:
- A tribute to the talents of Henry Cockburn, who secured a Scotch verdict for his client against charges that he had swindled an estate from the weak-minded Mackenzie; with Cockburn's jury address and the exchanges between counsel well-reported
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, else a good, sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-56200
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, insanity, Wills
- Author:
- Arnot, Hugo
- Title:
- A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland, From A.D. 1536, to 1784. With Historical and Critical Remarks. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author; By William Smellie, Edinburgh, 1785.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work devoted exclusively to Scots criminal law, collected and examined by Arnot, himself an advocate, with chapters on treason and murder, piracy, incest, adultery, blasphemy and witchcraft, among others
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, all edges marbled, a bit rubbed and scraped and unevenly faded, yet an appealing, attractive copy
- Book No.:
- W-76210
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- criminal law, SCOTLAND, trials
- 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:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- A Speech Delivered . . . In the lower House of Parliament . . . concerning the Article of Naturalization of the Scottish Nation. Wing B326; Gibson 203
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, London, 1641.
- Description:
- Only edition of Bacon's "great Parliamentary speech", leading to his appointment as Solicitor General in 1607 when Coke became Attorney General, "as closely argued and as substantial and cogent . . . as anything he propounded in policy"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled and lettered, some browning, with both first and last blanks and excellent margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79366
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Ayloffe, Joseph
- Title:
- Calendars of the Ancient Charters, and of the Welch and Scotish Rolls, Now Remaining in the Tower of London . . . to Which are Added Memoranda Concerning the Affairs of Ireland [and an] Account of the State of The Public Records [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Benjamin White, at Horace's Head, in Fleet Street, London, 1774.
- Description:
- The well-regarded work for which Ayloffe is best remembered, with an introduction (attributed principally to Thomas Astle) ably tracing at length the history and neglect of the Public Records; with four attractive copper plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary diced calf, joints cracking, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-41334
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, WALES
- Author:
- Ross, Walter
- Title:
- Lectures on the Practice of the Law of Scotland; in Two Volumes [complete]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bell & Bradfute, and Elphingston Balfour, Edinburgh, 1792.
- Description:
- First edition of Ross's estimable work, described by David Walker as "very learned" and "the first attempt to make Scottish conveyancing understandable . . . of high authority and cited many times in argument, in judgment and in legal writing"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, quite rubbed and marked, else a very good, wide-margined copy; one copy in North America in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77245
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Andrew M'Kinley, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 18th Day of July 1817, for Administering Unlawful Oaths
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.], Edinburgh, 1818.
- Description:
- Only report of the trial which Lord Cockburn called "extraordinary . . . one of the most striking I ever witnessed in a court of justice", in which the first crown witness admitted having been promised a reward by the prosecution for his testimony
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed, the title and last leaf dusty, else a good copy; 70 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76989
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis
- Title:
- Three Speeches of The Right Honorable, Sir Francis Bacon Knight, then his Majesties Sollicitor Generall . . . Concerning the Post-Nati, Naturalization of the Scotch in England, Union of the Lawes of the Kingdomes [etc.]. Wing B337; Gibson 206
- Publisher:
- Printed by Richard Badger, for Samuel Broun [etc.], London, 1641.
- Description:
- Much of the fruits of Bacon's first major post (as Solicitor General to James I), "an important step in the development of his jurisprudence" and in forming his theory of natural law, all expressions of James' proposed union of England and Scotland
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, double blind ruled, gilt ruled and lettered, somewhat browned, else well preserved with excellent margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79407
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Comparative Law, natural law, jurisprudence
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of James Stuart . . . Before the High Court of Justiciary, At Edinburgh . . . With an Appendix of Documents
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.], Edinburgh, 1822.
- Description:
- The trial for murder arising from the duel in which James Boswell's eldest son was killed, with Stuart privileged to have defending him both Jeffreys and Cockburn, the latter of whom later remarked "No Scotch trial in my time excited such interest"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, a very good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-49227
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Hickes, George
- Title:
- The Spirit of Fanaticism: Exemplify'd in the Tryals of Mr. James Mitchel . . . and Major Thomas Weir . . . who was Burnt between Edinburgh and Leith April the 11th, 1670 . . . Written by an Advocate of the Civil Law of Scotland. Straus p.212
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- First Curll edition of the account of the trial of Thomas Weir, "one of Scotland's most famous wizards", strangled and burned for witchcraft, incest with his sister (who was hanged) and stepdaughter, bestiality with mares and cows and adultery
- Condition:
- Early 1/4 black morocco over decorated boards, a portion of the spine lacking, some browning and foxing, a somewhat fragile but usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76221
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, adultery, witchcraft, Gay and Lesbians, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Jeffrey, Francis
- Title:
- Peter and His Enemies
- Publisher:
- William P. Nimmo, 2 South St David Street [etc.], Edinburgh, 1859.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Disbound, lightly browned, but sound; 31 pages
- Book No.:
- W-69721
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Law and Literature, legal reform
- Author:
- Hope, Thomas
- Title:
- Practical Observations Upon divers titles of the Law of Scotland, Commonly called Hope's Minor Practicks . . . To which is subjoined, An Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the Time of the Reformation [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed: And Sold by A. Davidson in the Parliament-house [etc.], Edinburgh, 1734.
- Description:
- The rarer early edition of one of Hope's two "historically significant writings [and] the first narrative text on some topics of Scots law", extensively glossed; with the account of Scotland's religious houses appended, the only edition containing it
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rebacked, quite worn and browned; sound
- Book No.:
- W-69239
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Actis and Constitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland maid in Parliamentis haldin be the . . . Kingis Iames the First, Secund, thrid, Feird, Fyft, and in tyme of Marie now quene of Scottis [with acts of two other Parliaments]. S.T.C. 21875, 21881, 21883
- Publisher:
- [1] Robert Lekpreuik [2 and 3] Iohne Ros, Edinburgh, 1566 & 1575.
- Description:
- The rare first edition of Scotland's first collected laws, first identified by Davidson (whose copy this was), including statutes subsequently removed, printing the acts of Scotland from 1424 to 1566; no copy in ESTC outside the United Kingdom
- Condition:
- Eighteenth century calf, joints cracking but holding, the John Davidson / Broxbourne copy with Davidson's ownership signature; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79001
- Price:
- $ 12500.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Acts
- Author:
- Title:
- Printed Books, Law Books, Maps, Atlases and Postcards, to be sold by auction Wednesday 7th December 1994 [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Phillips Scotland, Glasgow, 1994.
- Description:
- Thirteen law lots (lots 174 to 186, closing the sale), almost exclusively long runs of Scottish law, well over 100 volumes in several instances, primarily twentieth century, but with nineteenth century works as well, from 1821
- Condition:
- Original blue printed stapled wraps, 186 lots and 18 pages, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-74450
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of Trial in the Action of Damages for Crim. Con. Poor Alexander Bell, Teacher, Dundee, versus William Murray, Now or Lately Rector of the Dundee Academy . . . Containing a Discussion upon the Law of Intercepted Correspondence
- Publisher:
- N.p., Edinburgh?], 1834.
- Description:
- A trial ingeniously hinging on the admissibility of a letter said to have been sent by the wife to her alleged paramour, never received by him, showing clearly the judicial disabilities frequently suffered by women in cases involving sexual issues
- Condition:
- Modern canvas backed marbled boards, ex-library?, sound; 63 pages
- Book No.:
- W-64090
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal conversatn, trials, SCOTLAND, Evidence
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- A Serious Address to the People of Great Britain. In which the Certain Consequences of the Present Rebellion, Are fully demonstrated. Necessary to be perused by every Lover of his Country, at this Juncture
- Publisher:
- Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater noster Row, London, 1745.
- Description:
- First edition of Fielding's first (of three) anti-Jacobite tracts appearing soon after the Rebels took Edinburgh, reflecting his zeal in that cause and "calculated to . . . rouse them [the public] to defend their Constitution and religion"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, gilt, occasional very light foxing, else well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79260
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Millar, Jun, John
- Title:
- Elements of the Law Relating to Insurances
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Bell . . . And G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Edinburgh, 1787.
- Description:
- Only edition of the principal work of John Millar's eldest son, himself an advocate, a major contribution to insurance law, particularly marine insurance, treating of both English and Scots law, with Lord Mansfield's decisions "hold[ing] first place"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, gilt ruled and lettered, rubbed, else quite clean, with the errata, including one pasted in addition to p.52; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79541
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- insanity, maritime law, Scopes trial, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Hope, Thomas
- Title:
- Minor Practicks, Or, A Treatise of the Scottish Law . . . To which is subjoined [Alexander Bayne], A Discourse on the Rise and Progress of the Law of Scotland [etc.] [and a third work] [without the leaf before the second title, sometimes lacking]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Mr. Thomas Ruddiman; and Sold by Mr. Will. Monro, Edinburgh, 1726.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Hope's two "historically significant writings [and] the first narrative text on some topics of Scots law"; Bayne's appended Discourse was written while he was the first Professor of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, gilt, title dusty and reinforced; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-69192
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Nicolson, William
- Title:
- Leges Marchiarum, or Border-Laws, Containing Several Original Articles and Treaties, Made and Agreed upon by the Commissioners of the Respective Kings of England and Scotland . . . From the Reign of Henry III to the Union [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Mess. Hamilton and Balfour [etc.], London, 1747.
- Description:
- The documentary record gathered together by the Bishop of Carlisle, the respected antiquary and churchman, in support of the union of Scotland and England, the main text covering well over three centuries and the appendix an even greater time span
- Condition:
- Modern unlettered 1/4 calf over boards, somewhat strained, ex-Aberdeen Advocates Library; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77553
- Price:
- $ 375.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND
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