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- Author:
- Lechford, Thomas
- Title:
- Plain Dealing or News from New England. With an Introduction and Notes by J. Hammond Trumbull
- Publisher:
- J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, 1867.
- Description:
- The first book written by a lawyer practising in this country, this the last and best edition
- Condition:
- 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, gilt, joints tender, else nice
- Book No.:
- W-51934
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- colonies, New England, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Brown (comps.), C.R., P.A. Maxwell & L.F. Maxwell
- Title:
- A Sweet and Maxwell's Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 3. Canadian and British-American Colonial Law From Earliest Times to December, 1956
- 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 Canada until 1956 and to the United States during its colonial period; other volumes and the entire set also available
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new, in the glassine dustjacket; the facsimile reissue of the second edition of 1957
- Book No.:
- W-61436
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, Bibliography, biography, CANADA, colonies, Pennsylvania
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act to amend and render more effectual, in His Majesty's Dominions in America . . . An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for . . . extending the Provisions of the said Act to His Majesty's Marine Forces in America [15 Geo III c.15]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan [etc.], London, 1775.
- Description:
- A rare separate printing of the extension of the Quartering Acts to marine forces as well as those on land, increasing the existing tensions with the American colonies, and ultimately one of the grievances stated in the Declaration of Independence
- Condition:
- Modern green wraps, title + pages 383-406, light browning, else well-preserved with ample margins; four copies in ESTC, one in England
- Book No.:
- W-76282
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, military law
- Author:
- Lechford, Thomas
- Title:
- Plain Dealing or News from New England
- Publisher:
- J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, 1867.
- Description:
- The first book (here in its last and best edition) written by a lawyer practising in this country, originally appearing in London in 1642; one of 35 Royal Quarto copies signed by the publishers
- Condition:
- Later blue buckram, a bit dusty, but quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-40182
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- colonies, New England, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- Reasons for a Registry: Shewing briefly The great Benefits and Advantages that may accrew to this Nation thereby. And Likewise Reconciling those mistaken Inconveniences which many have conceived thereof. Wing R486. 4to
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Harper . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1678.
- Description:
- Part of the centuries' long debate, first bruited by Henry VIII, whether to require registration of title or of conveyances (or of neither), not finally resolved in England until the mid-19th century and, comprehensively, the 20th century
- Condition:
- Modern boards, printed paper label, browned, else quite sound with untrimmed edges and both blanks, the first chipped and soiled; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79651
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- colonies, Connecticut, conveyancing, Real Property
- Author:
- Zinman (intro.), Michael
- Title:
- Several Laws and Orders Made At the Generall Court . . . Held at Boston the 11th of May 1670. And at the Generall Court held by Adjournment the 12th day of October, 1670
- Publisher:
- The Haydn Foundation, Ardsley, 1987.
- Description:
- The facsimile reissue of the only known copy of these Massachusetts Bay Colony session laws, only recently rediscovered; with a brief introduction by Mr. Zinman, speculating about other missing laws whose existence are suggested by these
- Condition:
- Printed, sewn, oversized wraps; six pages
- Book No.:
- W-13145
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act to amend and render more effectual, in His Majesty's Dominions in America . . . An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters [5 Geo III c.33]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Mark Baskett . . . and . . . Assigns of Robert Baskett, London, 1765.
- Description:
- A rare separate printing of the first Quartering Act, leading to increased tension with the American colonies, disputed by them as mandating taxation without representation and subventioning a standing army in peacetime; one copy in England in ESTC
- Condition:
- General title + pages 579-596, light browning, disbound, else a very good untrimmed copy with generous margins
- Book No.:
- W-76116
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, military law
- Author:
- Lechford, Thomas
- Title:
- Plain Dealing or News from New England
- Publisher:
- J.K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, 1867.
- Description:
- The first book (here in its last and best edition) written by a lawyer practising in this country, originally appearing in London in 1642; one of 35 Royal Quarto copies signed by the publishers
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16954
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- colonies, New England, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- An Abstract of All the Acts Passed In the Fifth Session of the Seventh Parliament of Great Britain, and the Fifth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord King George the Second. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1732.
- Description:
- A rare example of an annual, official publication abstracting the just enacted Parliamentary legislation, in this case, some thirty-three acts, including two affecting justices of the peace and several pertaining to colonies in this hemisphere
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, some browning and foxing, else a sound copy, with the final leaf itemizing separately printed, available acts; four copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76939
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Acts, Abridgements, justices of peace, colonies
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for restraining and preventing several unwarrantable Schemes and Undertakings in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America [14 Geo II c.37]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1741.
- Description:
- The extension to the American colonies of the famous act passed in the midst of the South Sea Bubble economic crisis of 1720, the original act described by Maitland as one which "seems to scream at us from the statute book"; no copy in the UK in ESTC
- Condition:
- ?Original sewn wraps, disbound, title page + pages 683 to 687, a very little marginal staining, else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79435
- Price:
- $ 325.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, fraud, Law and the stockmarket
- Author:
- Schwartz, Bernard [et al.]
- Title:
- Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling, Law and the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America
- Publisher:
- Huntington Library, San Marino, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60283
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, 18TH CENTURY, Wills, colonies
- Author:
- Title:
- The Enduring Fascination with Salem Witchcraft
- Publisher:
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Volume 110, Part 2 of the Society's Proceedings
- Book No.:
- W-71050
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, colonies
- Author:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles
- Title:
- The Devil's Disciples, Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-65123
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials, 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Levin, David (ed.)
- Title:
- What Happened in Salem? Documents Pertaining to the 17th-Century Witchcraft Trials. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, 1950.
- Description:
- Originally part of the materials tried out in the English A course at Harvard, here separately published after that course's supersession; with a preface by Theodore Morrison, who taught the Harvard course
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, definitely worn, some pencilling, sound; 198 pages
- Book No.:
- W-59283
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- colonies, Massachusetts, witchcraft, trials
- Author:
- Karlsen, Carol F.
- Title:
- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- Publisher:
- W.W. Norton, New York, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48466
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, New England, colonies
- Author:
- Kawashima, Yasuhide
- Title:
- Igniting King Philip's War, The John Sassamon Murder Trial
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a bit scuffed, else a very good copy; 201 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71673
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY, colonies, New England, American Indian Law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws
- Publisher:
- Privately printed for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1890.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-51619
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- Bibliography, biography, colonies, SCOTLAND
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