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- Author:
- O'Brien, Ignatius
- Title:
- The Reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1913-1918, A Life in Cork, Dublin, and Westminster. Edited and Introduced by Daire Hogan and Patrick Maume
- Publisher:
- Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2021.
- Description:
- The memoir written, dictated, and corrected by O'Brien, undertaken by him in the 1920's as Lord Shandon (as he had become) based on two manuscripts bequeathed by him, offering the insights of a self-made Irish lawyer in the late 19th century forward
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; Volume 31 in the Irish Legal History Series
- Book No.:
- W-80374
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, biography
- Author:
- Smith, Charlotte Watkins
- Title:
- Carl Becker, On History and the Climate of Opinion
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-20121
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- political theory, biography
- Author:
- Wiener, Frederick Bernays
- Title:
- Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) [published in printed form in the 1965 Year Book of the American Philosophical Society]
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 1965.
- Description:
- Colonel Wiener's memorial to the Justice (delivered before the American Philosophical Society) whom he had first met as a student at Harvard Law School in 1928 and who "had a tremendous effect on me", one that lasted throughout his life
- Condition:
- Typescript, double-spaced, stapled at the upper left hand corner, the last page now detached, housed in a modern protective cloth sleeve; 17 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76744
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Inns of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Third edition. Wing D2490
- Publisher:
- Printed for Christop. Wilkinson [and two others] [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the 7 plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, ex-library, the front board detached and the title and first leaf loose; with the armorial bookplate of Charles, Viscount Bruce
- Book No.:
- W-74934
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Dunne, Gerald T.
- Title:
- Joseph Story, The Great Term--1837
- Publisher:
- Saint Louis University Law Journal, St. Louis, 1969.
- Description:
- The rare, separate printing of the eleventh in a series of essays written by Mr. Dunne, subsequently to appear, as revised, in his biography of Justice Story ("Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court"), published the following year
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, unevenly faded, now preserved in a cloth folding case, 23 pages, from the Fall issue, Volume 14, No. 1; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-78434
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Ziegler, Benjamin Munn
- Title:
- The International Law of John Marshall, A Study of First Principles
- Publisher:
- The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1939.
- Description:
- Original edition of Ziegler's first work, based on his Harvard doctoral dissertation of 1935, with much on Grotius and Vattel, and on Kent and Story, and with chapters on war (two), piracy, the slave trade, treaties, and extradition, inter alia
- Condition:
- Original cloth, somewhat rubbed and darkened, else a very good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-80375
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- international law, biography, Supreme Court, law of piracy, law of slavery
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter . . . As Delivered to the Grand Jurors of the District of Massachusetts, and to the Members of the Suffolk Bar, At the opening of the Court in Boston, Published at Their Joint Request [etc.]. Cohen 1975
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Eliot, Boston, 1816.
- Description:
- Story's eulogy of the Boston lawyer whom he characterized in his 'Autobiography' as "at the head of the Massachusetts Bar, and truly princeps inter pares" and whom Story later chose, in his Dane lecture, as a role model for students in the law school
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, quite browned, last leaf repaired (text legible), now preserved in a modern 3/4 calf case; uncommon, four copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77583
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Harvard College. Class Day, June 21, 1861
- Publisher:
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- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42384
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Myers, Richard O.
- Title:
- Famous Forensic Scientists. 5-Sir Thomas Stevenson 1838-1908. Reprinted From Medicine, Science, and the Law January 1962
- Publisher:
- Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd., London.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed stapled wraps; 4 pages
- Book No.:
- W-61411
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography, forensic medicine
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