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- Author:
- Dyer, James
- Title:
- Cy Ensvont Ascvns Novel Cases collectes per le iades tresreuerend Iudge, Mounsieur Iaques Dyer, chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Ove Divers Resolvtions & Iudgements dones sur solempne Arguments & auec graund deliberation [etc.]. S.T.C. 7390.5. Folio
- Publisher:
- Imprinted for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1621.
- Description:
- An early edition of Dyer, one of two named reports (with Plowden) to appear in the 16th century, of particular value, in Dr. Baker's words, for the "quotations from manuscript reports and readings, many of which are now known only from this source"
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, top panel of spine repaired, modern typescript labels, some browning and a bit of staining, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-74928
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Siderfin, Thomas
- Title:
- Les Reports des Divers Special Cases Argue & Adjudge en le Court del Bank le Roy Et Auxy en le Co.Ba. & L'Exchequer En les premier dix ans apres le Restauration . . . Le Roy Charles le II [with] le Second Part . . . En les Ans 1657, 1658, & 1659. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge [etc.], London, 1683-84.
- Description:
- First editions of both parts of the reports of Siderfin, praised by Burke as "a reporter of much authority" and by Roger North for "his ability, and his probity", containing cases (most unusually) from both the Interregnum and the Restoration
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-ruled calf, somewhat rubbed, else a very good, exceptionally fresh set; with a single sheet bearing a contemporary ?index laid in
- Book No.:
- W-76801
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Dyer, James
- Title:
- Cy ensuont ascuns nouel cases Collectes per le iades tresreuerend Iudge, Mounsieur Iasques Dyer, chiefe Iustice del common banke, Ore primierment publies & imprimies [etc.]. S.T.C. 7388(b) [this, the Taussig copy]; Beale R481
- Publisher:
- in Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, Ianuarii primo [etc.], London, 1585.
- Description:
- First edition of Dyer, one of two named reports (with Plowden) to appear in the 16th century, of particular value, in Dr. Baker's words, for the "quotations from manuscript reports and readings, many of which are now known only from this source"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, original spine laid down, occasional light staining, repairs to first blanks, else exceptionally bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78371
- Price:
- $ 5000.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Bunbury, William
- Title:
- Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer, From the Beginning of the Reign of King George the First, Until the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second . . . published . . . by his Son in Law, George Wilson, Serjeant at Law. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for D. Browne [and three others], London, 1755.
- Description:
- First edition of the reports ultimately termed "authoritative" and (in Holdsworth's words) "almost the only regular set of reports of cases decided in the court of Exchequer", prepared by the highly regarded Wilson from his uncle's manuscript
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, the Macclesfield copy of the work dedicated to the first Lord Macclesfield's nephew, Thomas Parker, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
- Book No.:
- W-79823
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- La Huictme Part des Reports . . . des diuers Resolutions & Jugements donez sur solennes arguments & auec grand deliberation & conference des trereuerends Iuges & Sages de la Ley, de cases en ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 5513 variant 2. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London, 1611.
- Description:
- First edition of the eighth part of Coke's Reports, in whose preface he discusses at length the ancient laws of England, seeking to establish their pre-Conquest existence (by citation to historical authority) and the books in which they may be found
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some staining, mainly lightish and marginal, else a good copy with the occasional annotation; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78233
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Levinz, Creswell
- Title:
- A Collection of Select and Modern Entries of Declarations, Pleadings, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments, &c. Referring to Cases in Sir Creswell Levinz's Reports; The Judgment of the Court being added to each President [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1702.
- Description:
- Only edition of Levinz's "Entries", published the year following his death, as were his Reports, designed to accompany them, and reflecting his talents as a pleader, "for which [in Holdsworth's words] he was eminently well fitted"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-tooled, unlettered calf, a bit of staining and some minor marginal worming, else a very good clean copy; without the portrait
- Book No.:
- W-77849
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- books of entry, reports of cases
- Author:
- Burrow, James
- Title:
- A Series of the Decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon Settlement-Cases; from The Death of Lord Raymond in March 1732 . . . including Lord Chief Justice Ryder's Time and the first Twelve Years of Lord Mansfield's. Two Volumes [complete]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Worrall and B. Tovey, near Lincoln's Inn, London, 1768.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary reverse calf, worn, joints cracking, yet a fresh set
- Book No.:
- W-65417
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- poor law, justices of peace, reports of cases
- Author:
- Plowden, Edmund
- Title:
- Les Commentaries . . . de diuers cases esteants matters en ley, & de les Arguments fur yceux [etc.] [bound with] Cy ensuont certeyne Cases [Part Two]. . . Ouesque vn Table en fine de cest Lieur [by W. Fleetewood] [etc.]. STC 20041 and 20046.3. Folio
- Publisher:
- In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli [imprints vary], London, 1578-79.
- Description:
- Second edition of the first part and the first edition of the second part, with Fleetwood's Tables, marking the break with the Year Books and providing (in the words of Dr. Baker) "the conception of a law report as a reasoned exposition of the law"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-panelled calf, centered lozenges, two leaves duplicated in part two, first title slightly trimmed, else very fresh; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78817
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Shower, Bartholomew]
- Title:
- Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged, upon Petitions, and Writs of Error.
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan [etc.], London, 1698.
- Description:
- First edition of the first reports of cases in the House of Lords, appearing when it had become the final court of appeal; the reports were found to be a breach of privilege, resulting in no further reports for almost a century
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, front joint cracking, else quite desirable
- Book No.:
- W-16953
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Parliament, reports of cases, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Winch, Humphrey
- Title:
- Reports of That Reverend and Learned Judge, Sir Humphry Winch Knight; Sometimes one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas. Containing many Choice Cases, and excellent matters touching Declarations, Pleadings . . . in points of Law [&c.]. Wing W2964
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell [etc.], London, 1657.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the reports partly attributed to Winch, commended by Bacon for his "quickness, industry, and despatch", in English, translated from the unpublished original in Law French, reporting cases from 1621 to 1625, the year of Winch's death
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite rubbed, the spine a bit chipped, ?later printed paper label, else very clean and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79939
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Miller, John
- Title:
- An Inquiry into the Present State of the Statute and Criminal Law of England
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1822.
- Description:
- The rare work written by a Lincoln's Inn barrister, expanding upon his influential rebuttal of the Report from the Select Committee on Criminal Laws, amounting (in Radzinowicz's words) to what "may well be called the 'Counter-Report'"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rebacked, a trifle worn, but well-preserved; three copies in OCLC, none in North America
- Book No.:
- W-75970
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, criminal law, Acts
- Author:
- Harding, Alan (ed.)
- Title:
- The Roll of the Shropshire Eyre of 1256
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1981.
- Description:
- Volume XCVI for the Year 1980
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-62934
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, reports of cases
- Author:
- Salkeld, William
- Title:
- Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer. The Fourth Edition . . . by Knightley d'Anvers . . . And the Pleadings now first done into English. Two Volumes in One
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn, London, 1742.
- Description:
- Salkeld's respected reports, published under the supervision of Lord Hardwicke, praised by Holdworth, and often found in early American libraries (Jefferson and John Adams, inter alia); a third volume "not designed for publication" appeared later
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, some dustiness, small loss to the last index leaf, else a good clean copy, with a number of careful, substantive annotations
- Book No.:
- W-70565
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, reports of cases
- Author:
- Kelyng, John
- Title:
- A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown, Adjudged and Determined . . . With Directions for Justices of the Peace and Others . . . From the Original Manuscript, under his own Hand [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Isaac Cleave, next Door to Serjeants-Inn [etc.], London, 1708.
- Description:
- First edition of the first reports exclusively devoted to English criminal law, reflecting Kelyng's career both while a criminal lawyer and after becoming Chief Justice of King's Bench; seen posthumously through the press by Lord Holt
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, embrowning; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-66169
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, criminal law
- Author:
- Bigelow, Lewis
- Title:
- A Digest of Pickering's Reports, Volumes II-VII Being a Supplement to the Digest of the Previous Volumes of the Massachusetts Reports
- Publisher:
- Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, Boston, 1830.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-43708
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- digests, Massachusetts, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Cases Decided in the District and Circuit Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District, and also a Case Decided in the District Court of Massachusetts, Relative to the Employment of British Licenses on board of Vessels of the United States
- Publisher:
- Published by Redwood Fisher, No. 30, South Fourth-Street, Philadelphia, 1813.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original stabbed wraps (lacking), foxing, untrimmed; 91 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62291
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, maritime law, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- Le Tierce Part des Reportes del Edward Coke Lattorney Generall le Roigne, de diuers Resolutions & Iudgements donnes auec graund deliberation, per les tresreuerend Iudges, et sages de la ley, de cases et matters en ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 5499. Folio
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Wight, London, 1602.
- Description:
- The rare variant first edition of part three of Coke's Reports and the last part to contain what Plucknett has called Coke's "choicest cases", after which the methodology and presentation of the Reports change significantly; with line 4 ending "Ge-"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, light marginal staining, else very clean with ample margins and occasional early notations; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78738
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Ashe, Thomas
- Title:
- Vn General Table, a touts les seueral Liures de les Reports de le darreine tresreuerend Iudge, Sir Edward Coke . . . Ouesq[ue] deux Catalogues Alphabetical, Lun de les principal Cases, lauter de touts les general Titles . . . des dits Reports. S.T.C. 5526
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Statio[ners], London, 1618.
- Description:
- The much expanded second edition of the first abridgement of Coke's reports, now covering all eleven parts, undertaken by Thomas Ashe, the pioneer of this genre of legal literature and, in Holdsworth's words, "a great maker of indices and abstracts"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt lettered, generally clean with good margins, ownership signature of Richard Levinge dated 1652 on the title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79403
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, reports of cases
- Author:
- Plowden, Edmund
- Title:
- Les Comentaries . . . de dyuers cases esteantes matters en ley, & de les Argumentes fur yceux [etc.] [bound with] Cy ensuont certeyne Cases . . . Ouesque vn Table en fine de cest Lieur [etc.]. STC 20040 and 20046.7; Beale R484, R486a, R487, and R488. Folio
- Publisher:
- In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli [imprints vary], London, 1571-84.
- Description:
- First edition of the first part and the second edition of the second part, with Fleetwood's Tables, marking the break with the Year Books and providing (in the words of Dr. Baker) "the conception of a law report as a reasoned exposition of the law"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, light browning, one title trimmed, two facsimile leaves, else well-preserved with early annotations; Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78352
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16019
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Hall, Jona. Prescott
- Title:
- Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the City of New York
- Publisher:
- Oliver Halsted, New York, 1831.
- Description:
- The first volume (of 2) of the first reports of cases for this court. Original sheep, very worn, but sound
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-13396
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, New York
- Author:
- Peake, Thomas
- Title:
- Cases Determined at Nisi Prius, in the Court of King's Bench
- Publisher:
- Printed for P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1795.
- Description:
- The first nisi prius reports, that is, those technically scheduled for Westminster unless first ('nisi prius') heard in the country, where in fact most were, the fiction dating as far back as Bracton and the basis of England's assize system
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed and a bit chipped, embrowning; sound
- Book No.:
- W-61287
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- Les Reports de Edward Coke L'attorney generall le Roigne [bound with] Le Second Part des Reportes [bound with] Le Tierce Part des Reportes [bound with] Le Quart Part des Reportes [etc.]. S.T.C. 5493.4; 5496; 5499.2; 5502.3
- Publisher:
- In aedibus Thomae Wight, London, 1601-04.
- Description:
- Second editions of the first four parts of Coke's Reports, containing his choicest cases, all printed during the first half of the first decade of the 17th century, as the Reports were just appearing; all printed by Thomas Wight, their first printer
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, small hole to first title (no text affected), some staining, but generally very clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78246
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- criminal law, reports of cases
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17299
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Sayles, G.O. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Cases in The Court of King's Bench Under Edward III
- Publisher:
- Selden Society, London, 1965.
- Description:
- The Selden Society's annual volume 82, with Professor Sayle's lengthy introduction and 19 appendices prefacing the cases
- Condition:
- Ex-library, else a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-46817
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 14TH CENTURY, reports of cases
- Author:
- Savile, John
- Title:
- Les Reports de Sir Iohn Savile Chevalier, Nadgairis Baron de l'Exchequer, Divers Special Cases cybien en le Court de Common Bank, Come l'Exhequer En le Temps de Royne Elizabeth [etc.]. Wing S778. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for George Pawlet, and are to be sold by Robert Vincent, London, 1688.
- Description:
- The reissue of the reports attributed to Savile, barrister, reader, serjeant at law and, ultimately, a baron of the Exchequer, with his reports devoted in significant part to that court; with both the imprimatur leaf and the advertising leaf
- Condition:
- Early 1/4 calf over cloth, crimson morocco label, gilt, rubbed, with Theron Metcalf's clipped ownership signature, dated 1818, on the front pastedown
- Book No.:
- W-79847
- Price:
- $ 140.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Exchequer
- Author:
- Dyer, Jaques
- Title:
- Les Reports des Divers select matters & Resolutions des Reverend Judges & Sages del Ley . . . Collect & Report per tres-Reverend Judge, Sr. Jaques Dyer . . . Ove Deux Novel Tables [etc.]. Wing D2926. Folio
- Publisher:
- Excudebant Johannes Streater & Henricus Twyford [etc.], London, 1672.
- Description:
- The final issuance of the first edition of Dyer, included in the top-most echelon of early named reporting and, in Dr. Baker's words' "second only to the Yearbooks as a source of authority"; no copy with this imprint in ESTC
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, quite worn, ex-library, definite browning, occasional (informed) early annotations; a serviceable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-70680
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Acts, reports of cases, Acts
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite scraped, yet sound and crisp
- Book No.:
- W-11432
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite scraped, yet sound and crisp
- Book No.:
- W-11432
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite scraped, yet sound and crisp
- Book No.:
- W-11432
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite scraped, yet sound and crisp
- Book No.:
- W-11432
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Bellewe, Richard
- Title:
- Les Ans du Roy Richard le Second. Collect' Ensembl' hors les Abridgments de Statham, Fitzherbert et Brooke [etc.]. Beale R478; S.T.C. 1848
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Robinson dwelling in Fewter lane [etc.], London, 1585.
- Description:
- Original edition of the sole reports from the late fourteenth century reign of Richard II, culled from the the three major early English abridgments, termed "rare" by Winfield and "excessively rare" by Wallace, not to be reprinted until 1869
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt-lettered, quite browned, yet crisp and wide-margined; with the index before the text and without the colophon leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77020
- Price:
- $ 2750.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Abridgements, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries, the financially important and controversial court which flourished for over a century after its formation by Henry VIII
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked; sound
- Book No.:
- W-48291
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries, the financially important and controversial court which flourished for over a century after its formation by Henry VIII
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked; sound
- Book No.:
- W-48291
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries, the financially important and controversial court which flourished for over a century after its formation by Henry VIII
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked; sound
- Book No.:
- W-48291
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries, the financially important and controversial court which flourished for over a century after its formation by Henry VIII
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked; sound
- Book No.:
- W-48291
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- 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:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- La Sept Part des Reports . . . des diurs Resolutions & Iudgements done sur solemne arguments, & auec grand deliberation & conference des tresreuerend Iudges & Sages de la Ley, de cases in ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 5512. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers, London, 1629.
- Description:
- An early edition of the seventh part of the "Reports", containing in its preface Coke's rejoinder to the polemic levelled against his speech and charge at the Norwich assises, and beginning with Coke's famed report of "Calvin's Case"
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some staining, else a good copy with ample margins and the occasional early marginalia; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78221
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Croke, George
- Title:
- The Reports of Sir George Croke Knight; Late, One of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench; and Formerly, One of the Justices of the Court of Common Bench . . . Revised, and published in English, By Sir Harebotle Grimston [etc.]. Wing C7014. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.S. and are to be sold by the Stationers of London, London, 1657.
- Description:
- One of two first printings of the part of Croke's Reports first to be published, covering all of the reign of Charles I, "approached . . . within the tradition of Plowden and Coke" and reflecting Croke's habits of study perfected over fifty years
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-ruled unlettered calf, rubbed, the joints just cracking and the spine varnished, a usable copy; with the portrait
- Book No.:
- W-78065
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Ashe, Thomas
- Title:
- Epieikeia: Et Table generall a les Annales del Ley, per quel facilment troueres touts les cases contenus in yceux; queux concerne le exposition des Statutes per Equitie [etc.]. S.T.C. 840
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of the Stationers, London, 1609.
- Description:
- Only edition of Ashe's much praised work, its introduction [in English] "a highly intelligent discourse on the nature of equity in English law", capturing from the year books and reported cases instances in which statutes have been extended equitably
- Condition:
- Modern dark calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, red edges, three circular library stamps, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79324
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- equity, Year Books, reports of cases
- Author:
- Jacob, Giles
- Title:
- The New Law Dictionary . . . Carefully Abridged . . . And particularly Referring To all the Law-Reports, and Acts of Parliament . . . Whereto is added, A curious Catalogue or Register of the Year-Books and Reports, with the Times of their Publication
- Publisher:
- Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for R. Ware [and twelve others], London, 1743.
- Description:
- The uncommon (and sole) abridgment of Jacob's masterpiece, his original work far different from previous dictionaries, this abridgment undertaken by Jacob himself, with a special effort made to render it "easy, clear, and familiar"
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, somewhat rubbed, else a very good clean copy; eight copies in ESTC, one in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-77706
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries, Abridgements, reports of cases, Acts, Year Books
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- La Size Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chiualer, chiefe Iustice del Common banke: des diuers Resolutions & Iudgements dones sur solemne arguments, & auec grand deliberation & conference des tresreuerend Iudges & Sages de la Ley [etc.]. S.T.C. 5509.5
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London], 1607.
- Description:
- First edition variant of the part of Coke's reports in which he begins to draw upon contemporary material and in which he continues his observations, begun in the preface to the second part of his Reports, on the ancient laws and customs of England
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over boards, discreetly ex-library, light browning, extensive marginal gloss, a very good copy; rare, one copy in ESTC in the USA
- Book No.:
- W-72757
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Hutton, Richard
- Title:
- The Reports Of . . . Sir Richard Hutton Knight; Sometimes one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Containing many Choice Cases, Judgments, and Resolutions, in Points of Law, In the severall Raignes of King James and King Charles [etc.]. Wing H3843. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by T.R. for Henry Twyford, and Thomas Dring [etc.], London, 1656.
- Description:
- First edition of the reports of Hutton (the righteous judge famous for his opinion in the Shipmoney case), including inter alia the trial and execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, all translated into English from Hutton's manuscript in Law French
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, a good clean copy with the ownership signature of William Cortyon and ?his manuscript notes throughout; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79966
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Baggett, W.T. (ed.)
- Title:
- Pacific Coast Law Journal. Containing All the Decisions of the Supreme Court of California...the Leading Decisions of the United States Circuit and Disctrict Courts of California, important Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Vol. V No. 25
- Publisher:
- W.T. Baggett & Company, Publishers, San Francisco, 1880.
- Description:
- Individual issue, represented as superior to the official reports, providing all decisions whether or not designated for publication, and noting those cases decided without written opinions or otherwise not reported
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, soiled but otherwise a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91877
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- California, reports of cases
- Author:
- Jenkins, David
- Title:
- Eight Centuries of Reports: or, Eight Hundred Cases Solemnly Adjudged in the Exchequer-Chamber, or, Upon Writs of Error. Publish'd Originally in French and Latin . . . Now carefully Translated, with the Addition of many Thousand References [etc.]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1734.
- Description:
- First edition in English of Judge Jenkins' Reports, by far spanning a greater time period than any other reports (from the 13th through the 17th centuries), with a case dating to 1220, significantly earlier than the earliest printed Year Book case
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over decorated boards, occasional very light foxing and browning, else well-preserved, with the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78019
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- taxation, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Law of Actions: Being An Exact, Brief and Methodical Collection of all adjudg'd Cases out of all the Reports of the Law to this Day; And likewise from Roll's Abridgment [with] the Reason that Rules it Render'd obvious to the meanest Capacity [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Nutt . . . for John Hartley [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- A rare work devoted almost entirely to action on the case, as it began "to produce the modern categories under which our substantive law is grouped", contrasting tort and contract, with much on slander, assumpsit and "doing, not doing, or misdoing"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-ruled calf, rubbed, the label largely lacking, a bit of browning and staining, yet generally well preserved; six copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-74382
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- contracts, torts, Procedure, Abridgements, reports of cases, libel and slander
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- Les Reports de Edward Coke . . . de diuers Resolutions, & Judgements donnes auec graund deliberation, per les tresreuerendes Iudges, & sages de la ley, de cases & matters en ley [etc.]. Parts 1-13 in seven volumes [complete] [titles vary]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers [Part I] [imprints vary], London, 1607-59.
- Description:
- A complete collection of the most famous of all reports of English law, in John Baker's words "of excellent quality . . . hav[ing] the distinction of being cited simply as 'The Reports'", all in first or early editions or first edition variants
- Condition:
- Contemporary and modern calf and 3/4 calf, the bindings varied but at most lightly rubbed, together a well-preserved collection; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78205
- Price:
- $ 10000.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Sayles, G.O. (ed.)
- Title:
- Select Cases in The Court of King's Bench Under Edward III
- Publisher:
- Bernard Quaritch, London, 1965.
- Description:
- The Selden Society's annual volume 82, with Professor Sayle's lengthy introduction and 19 appendices prefacing the cases
- Condition:
- Front board quite creased; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60643
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 14TH CENTURY, reports of cases
- Author:
- Coke, Edward
- Title:
- La Sept Part des Reports . . . des Divers Resolutions & Judgments donez sur solemnes Arguments, & avec graund deliberation & conference des Tres-reverend Judges & Sages de la Ley [etc.]. Wing C4955. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkyns, Esquires [etc.], London, 1697.
- Description:
- The last 17th century edition of the seventh part of the "Reports", containing in its preface Coke's rejoinder to the polemic levelled against his speech and charge at the Norwich assises, and beginning with Coke's famed report of "Calvin's Case"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-panelled calf, gilt, rubbed, joints cracking but quite firm, some foxing and browning, yet a crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-70946
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
- Author:
- Farresley?, Thomas
- Title:
- Modern Cases, Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, in The Second and Third Years of Queen Anne, in the Time when Sir John Holt sate Chief Justice there . . . Review'd and Corrected . . . By W.B. Esq; The Third Edition. Folio
- Publisher:
- London, Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [for seven others], 1733.
- Description:
- A rare edition of the reports compiled by a Middle Temple barrister, devoted exclusively to early years of the reign of Queen Anne (1703-1705), later in the century to be included in Danby Pickering's and then in Thomas Leach's "Modern Reports"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label gilt, somewhat rubbed, the spine varnished, else a very good copy with ample margins; four copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-79473
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- reports of cases
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