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- Author:
- Walker, James M.
- Title:
- The Theory of the Common Law
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1852.
- Description:
- Original edition of Walker's probing effort to compare Roman law and common law, a principal part of his contribution to the civilian writers who "stand as an example of the highest intellectual attainments reached by antebellum American lawyers"
- Condition:
- Original sheep, rubbed, the joints just cracking, else an exceptionally clean, bright copy
- Book No.:
- W-73218
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- roman law, philosophy of law
- Author:
- Zouch, Richard
- Title:
- Elementa Jurisprudentiae Definitionibus, Regulis & Sententiis selectioribus Juris Civilis, Illustrata; Accesserunt Descriptiones Juris & Judicii, Sacri, Militaris, et Maritimi
- Publisher:
- Sumptibus Joh. Nevilsoni, Amsterdam, 1652?.
- Description:
- The first joint printing of four works of the noted English civilian repeatedly praised by Holdsworth, who terms the first work "the best specimen of the literature on the theory of law" and Zouche "the earliest English writer on jurisprudence"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, blind ruled and decorated, rubbed, later paper label hand lettered, red edges, very clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79566
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- jurisdiction, roman law, maritime law, military law
- Author:
- Story, W W.
- Title:
- A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem
- Publisher:
- Colby and Rich, Boston.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41520
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- roman law
- 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:
- Hallifax, Samuel
- Title:
- An Analysis of the Civil Law, In Which a Comparison Is Occasionally Made between the Roman Laws and Those of England. A New Edition . . . Being the Heads of a Course of Lectures Publicly Read in the University of Cambridge by John William Geldart [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by . . . John Smith, Printer to the University [etc.], Cambridge, 1836.
- Description:
- The foremost 18th century lectures on Roman law delivered in England in the edition prepared by James Geldhart, one of Hallifax's successors as Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge, and influential upon Sir Henry Maine, Geldart's successor
- Condition:
- Original green embossed cloth, gilt, the spine somewhat faded and a bit crinkled, its bottom just snagged, yet a good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-75217
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- roman law
- Author:
- Selden, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Fleta, Seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL . . . Accedit Tractatulus vetus . . . Fet Assavoir . . . Subjungitur etiam Joannis Seldeni ad Fletam Dissertatio Historica [etc.]. Wing F1290
- Publisher:
- Typis M.F. Prostant apud Guil. Lee, & Dan. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1647.
- Description:
- First and best early edition of Fleta, written in the late 13th century, with Selden's Dissertation upon it, called a "sophisticated survey of the history of Roman law in medieval Europe and England [and] his most mature piece of scholarship"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the joints cracked but firm, light browning, else clean with good margins but not aesthetically pleasing
- Book No.:
- W-80102
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, English Law, prisons, roman law
- Author:
- Title:
- Explicatio in Zoesy Digesta. Manuscript, closely but quite legibly written in one hand, approximately 650 pages, in Latin, commencing "Corpus Juris civilis Romani, quatuor habet partes principales"
- Publisher:
- No scribe or scholar stated, No place stated, 16??.
- Description:
- The manuscript seemingly summarizing the Roman law learning of Hendrik Zoesius, the Dutch legist who wrote and lectured on both the Institutes and the Digest, four books in fifty-two titles, with paragraphs keyed to numbered ?paragraphs in the margin
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, a bit rubbed, morocco label ("Explicat a Zoesy"), the spine hand lettered "Manuscript 17th Century", some staining; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75648
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- roman law, Manuscripts, Holland
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