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- Author:
- Hargrave, Francis
- Title:
- Collectanea Juridica. Consisting of Tracts Relative to the Law and Constitution of England. Two Volumes [complete] [with the "A Register of Law Publications" of 32 and 26 pages in the first and second volumes, respectively, not found in all sets]
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, London, 1791-92.
- Description:
- One of two works which Holdsworth termed Hargrave's "principal service to legal history", a rich and diverse selection of forty previously unpublished tracts from his extraordinary collection ultimately purchased and deposited in the British Library
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, much rubbed, joints just cracking but quite firm, labels lacking, else very clean and bright; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79486
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Star Chamber, Bibliography
- Author:
- Title:
- Foure Statutes, Specially selected and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all Iustices and other Officers of the Peace . . . Together with a Proclamation, a Decree of Starre-chamber, and certaine Orders [etc.]. S.T.C. 9341
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, London, 1609.
- Description:
- First edition of over a dozen acts, orders, and other official acts, as James I confirmed Elizabethan legislation on the poor, soldiers, vagabonds, the plague, new buildings in London, and related Star Chamber proceedings involving Coke and Ellesmere
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, some browning, else quite crisp, printed in black letter, with the first Signature A blank before the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79926
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Acts, poor law, London, Star Chamber
- Author:
- Booth, William
- Title:
- The Compleat Sollicitor, Performing His Duty: and Teaching his Clyent . . . in His Majesties Superior Courts at Westminster: As in the Mayors Court, Court of Hustings, and other Inferior Courts, both in the City of London, and elswhere [etc.]. Wing B3738A
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1666.
- Description:
- First edition of the first substantial treatise expressly devoted to the English solicitor, with chapters on all royal courts, the Exchequer, the Court of Requests, the Sheriffs Court, the Marshalsea, the Star Chamber, and the Court of Admiralty
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt, signature effaced on the title, light browning and some staining, else sound, with the first blank (chipped); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79664
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- courts, London, sheriffs, prisons, Star Chamber, admiralty, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Title:
- A Decree Lately made in the High Court of Starre-Chamber, after consultation had among the Iudges . . . And also a Confirmation of that Decree by His Sacred Maiestie; together with His Maiesties Command that the same be Printed [etc.]. S.T.C. 7755
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Barker . . . And by the Assignes of Iohn Bull, London, 1633.
- Description:
- Only printing of the first of but three Star Chamber decrees to be printed, prohibiting practices among suppliers of food and drink, including bakers, tavern owners and victuallers, regulating horsemeat, and outlawing houses of gaming, inter alia
- Condition:
- ?Original stabbed self wraps with the blank "A", "For the Council Chamber" on the ?supplied rear wrap, now housed in a folding case, the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79494
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- Star Chamber, Liquor & Drink, Gambling
- Author:
- Title:
- A Decree of Starre-Chamber: Concerning Inmates, and diuided Tenements, in London or three miles about: Made the fourteenth of February last past. 1636 [1637]. S.T.C. 7756
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1637.
- Description:
- The decree central to "the most considerable, continuous, and best documented experiment in environmental control in the Common Law tradition", an opportunity lost with the Star Chamber's abolition in 1641, not to be revived until the 19th century
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, the title just shaved (touching the "A"), light browning, else crisp, with the colophon and initial "A" blank leaves; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79533
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- Star Chamber, poor law, environmental law, London
- Author:
- Lambard, William
- Title:
- Archeion, or, A Discourse Upon the High Courts of Justice in England . . . Newly Corrected, and enlarged according to the Authors Copie. S.T.C. 15144
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. P[urslow] for Henry Seile [etc.], London, 1635.
- Description:
- The work which led Lambard to be called "the prince of legal antiquaries" and one of the few contemporary examples of a constitutional analysis of the English courts, with substantial portions devoted to Star Chamber and to Parliament, respectively
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked, Daniel Fleming's copy with his signature, ?shelf-mark, and ?his occasional notation, crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79784
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- courts, Star Chamber, Parliament
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