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- Author:
- Carr, Cecil
- Title:
- George James Turner 1867-1946
- Publisher:
- Geoffrey Cumberlege, London, n.d..
- Description:
- The eulogy appearing in the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XL, testimony to the efforts of Maitland's principal collaborator in the editing of the Year Books for the Selden Society, initiated by Maitland shortly before the century's turn
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, worn but sound; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-10774
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Cooke, Edward
- Title:
- Chronica Juridicalia: Or, A General Calendar of the Years of . . . the several Kings of England . . . Together with A Chronological Table of the Names of all the Lord Chancellors . . . Justices of the Kings-Bench and Common Pleas [etc.]. ESTC R10158
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Sawbridge . . . and T. Simmons [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of the expansion of Dugdale's listings of the chancellors, judges, law officers, king's serjeants and others, extending (in Holdsworth's words) "a very valuable piece of work, which, for all time, will be useful to legal historians"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, rebacked, early paper label, some browning; with A1 blank, but without the plate amd portrait if called for
- Book No.:
- W-74827
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- 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:
- 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:
- Foss, Edward
- Title:
- The Judges of England; With Sketches of their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts at Westminster from the Time of the Conquest. Nine Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans [and] John Murray, London, 1848-64.
- Description:
- Still the standard treatise on the English judiciary's history, in Holdsworth's words "a great work . . . throughout based on the best authorities" with over 1,500 biographies covering the course of eight centuries, from the Norman Conquest to 1864
- Condition:
- Original brown embossed cloth, gilt, the spines lightly sunned, the occasional blemish here and there, a very little foxing; a very good clean set
- Book No.:
- W-77808
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- Bailey, S.J.
- Title:
- Sir Percy Henry Winfield, 1878-1953
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, 9 pages; Proceedings of the British Academy
- Book No.:
- W-10078
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Carr, Cecil
- Title:
- George James Turner 1867-1946
- Publisher:
- Geoffrey Cumberlege [for the British Academy], London, n.d..
- Description:
- The eulogy appearing in Volume XL of the Academy's Proceedings, testimony to the efforts of Maitland's principal collaborator in the editing of the Year Books for the Selden Society, a project initiated by Maitland shortly before the century's turn
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, unevenly browned but sound; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-61842
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- 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:
- 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:
- Harvard College. Class Day, June 21, 1861
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42384
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Bailey, S.J.
- Title:
- Sir Percy Henry Winfield, 1878-1953
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, 9 pages; Proceedings of the British Academy
- Book No.:
- W-61688
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Cooke, Edward
- Title:
- Chronica Juridicalia: Or, A General Calendar of the Years of . . . the several Kings of England . . . Together with A Chronological Table of the Names of all the Lord Chancellors . . . Justices of the Kings-Bench and Common Pleas [etc.]. ESTC R10158
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Sawbridge . . . and T. Simmons [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of the expansion of Dugdale's listings of the chancellors, judges, law officers, king's serjeants and others, extending (in Holdsworth's words) "a very valuable piece of work, which, for all time, will be useful to legal historians"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the dedication leaf just trimmed (legibility preserved), without the plate and portrait if called for; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79863
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- East, Edward Hyde
- Title:
- A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed by A. Strahan . . . for J. Butterworth [etc.], London, 1803.
- Description:
- Only English edition of East's principal work, the first substantial treatment of English criminal law following Blackstone's, one which "won immediate authority" and based in large part on eleven manuscripts upon which East labored for some years
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, the title pages and last leaves browned (more at the edges), else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79498
- Price:
- $ 600.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, New York
- 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:
- 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
- Author:
- Title:
- An Exact List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal . . . Also a Compleat Alphabetical Double List of I. The Counties, Cities and Boroughs . . . II. The Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses . . . To which is added, The Trustees for Georgia [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. Cave at St. John's Gate, London, 1734-35.
- Description:
- A rare list of those serving in Parliament, complemented by the names and places of abode of the trustees for the Georgia colony (established by Royal charter in 1732), including James Oglethorpe and the Earl of Egmont, and their commissioners
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed, neatly rebacked, the margins cut close, but legibility not affected, a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-76112
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- biography, Parliament, Georgia
- Author:
- Coote, Charles
- Title:
- Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Eminent English Civilians, With an Historical Introduction Relative to the College of Advocates, and an Enumeration of the Whole Series of Academic Graduates Admitted to That Society [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sold by G. Kearsley, Fleet-Street, London, 1804.
- Description:
- Only edition of a rare work and "the only work entirely devoted to the subject" [the history of the English Civilians] written and compiled by Dr. Coote (himself a member of Doctors' Commons) and "his most distinctive work"; six copies in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original marbled wraps, very worn, spine perished, a fragile copy in original state, the edges untrimmed and partly uncut; with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-79280
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Doctors Commons, biography
- 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:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, Who suffered on Account of the late Riot in the Strand. In Which The Law regarding these Offences, and the Statute of George the First, commonly called the Riot Act, are fully considered
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katherine-street in the Strand, London, 1749.
- Description:
- First edition of Fielding's controversial work, arguing that the unfortunate Penlez, probably drunk, was rightfully hanged following his theft of linen from a brothel, itself ransacked by irate sailors; with the press marks confirming a first edition
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, "Grange Hill" in gilt on the front board, gilt edges, pretty; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78201
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, Acts, ancient law, Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, education, legal ephemera, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, law and prostitution, roman law, Supreme Court, trials, women's law
- 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:
- Herbert, William
- Title:
- Antiquities of the Inns of Court and Chancery; Containing Historical and Descriptive Sketches Relative to Their Original Foundation, Customs, Ceremonies, Buildings, Government. With a Concise History of English Law. Embellished with Twenty-Four Plates
- Publisher:
- Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; J. Storer [etc.], London, 1804.
- Description:
- One of the few early works on the Inns of Court and the only one from the early 19th century singled out for mention by Holdsworth; with several prefatory chapters on English law, its judges and courts, types of trial, and 24 engravings
- Condition:
- Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a large paper copy (210x270mm), two bookplates and a modern signature; handsome
- Book No.:
- W-79990
- Price:
- $ 675.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, English Law, biography, courts, trials
- Author:
- Collins, Arthur
- Title:
- The Life Of that Great Statesman William Cecil, Lord Burghley . . . To which is added, His Character by the Learned Camden . . . With Memoirs of the Family of Cecil, Faithfully collected from Records, Manuscripts, and other Authorities. ESTC T144847
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Gosling . . . and Thomas Wotton [etc.], London, 1732.
- Description:
- Only edition of the highly regarded biography of Cecil, the great statesman and "right arm" of Elizabeth, this seemingly a unique copy with an early portrait of Cecil inserted as a frontispiece, below which his authentic signature is pasted
- Condition:
- Modern crimson morocco, extra gilt, the joints somewhat rubbed, yet quite luscious, possibly large paper, ?signature of Lord Thurlow; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80174
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- biography, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Heathcote, Ralph
- Title:
- The Irenarch: Or, Justice of the Peace's Manual. Addressed to the Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leicester . . . To which is prefixed a Dedication to Lord Mansfield By Another Hand [with] a contemporary review in eight pages
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated [?Payne] [and] The Monthly Review, London, 1774.
- Description:
- Heathcote's sole legal work, this edition the first to include his lengthy (75 page) essay in part critical of Lord Mansfield, imploring him that he consider the arguably contrary views of Plato, Littleton, Coke, Eden, and, in particular, Junius
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, the spine somewhat sunned, browning to title and last leaf, else clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80303
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- biography, justices of peace
- Author:
- Baker, Liva
- Title:
- Felix Frankfurter [with four signed, handwritten, personal, informal cards and letters from Liva Baker to "Peg", together with a chipped page announcing Baker's delivering the Seventeenth Annual Meeting Lecture to The Supreme Court Historical Society]
- Publisher:
- Coward-McCann, New York, 1969.
- Description:
- Presentation copy--"Mr. Bloomfield [conjecturally Maxwell Bloomfield] / You and I are probably / the only people who / have read this. / Thank you. You / made my week. / Liva Baker / 5-3-83"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, occasional markings and notations (by Liva Baker?), a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-80359
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
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