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30 Recent Acquisitions: Antiquarian and Scholarly
Two Rare English Items that Address Abolition and the Expansion of Public Education
1. [Alexander, William (1768-1841)]. The Powers of Britain. Respectfully Addressed to the Legislature and the People of the United Kingdom. York: Printed for the Author, 1813. 30 pp. [Bound with] Brougham, Henry [1778-1868]. Report of the Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Leeds' Mechanics' Institution, On the 20th September, 1830: Including the Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. Corrected by Himself. [Leeds, 1830]. 16 pp.
Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent marbled wrappers, printed paper title panel to front, extra engraved portraits of Lord Hood and Lord Brougham inserted, unrelated clippings from newspaper pasted to verso of half-title, to title pages, one covering bibliographical data of the Report, portrait of Brougham and foot of p. 16 of the Report. Moderate toning, light foxing in a few places. Brief annotations in early hand to title page of Report and a few other places, interior otherwise clean. $350.
* Only editions located. The Powers of Britain is a poem extolling the triumphs of the Royal Navy. Among other topics, it celebrates its actions against the slave trade. The Report, apparently the fifth based on the annotation in our copy, features a speech by Lord Brougham supporting the expansion of public schools and other forms of educational support for skilled workers. OCLC locates 16 copies of Powers worldwide, no copies of the Report.
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Complete Set of Aspinall's Reports
2. Aspinall, James P., Editor. [Aspinall, Butler, Editor]. [Aspinall, John Bridge, Editor]. [Hutchinson, Geoffrey, Editor]. Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law; Containing all the Decisions of the Courts of Law and Equity in the United Kingdom and Selections from the more important Decisions in the Colonies and the United States [1870-1943]. Volumes: 1-17, 19: London: Horace Cox [and other Publishers], 1873-1943. Volumes 18 and 20: Reprint. Buffalo, NY: Dennis & Co., N.d. 20 volumes in all. Complete set. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto (10" x 7-1/2").
Later tan buckram, except Volumes 18 and 20, which are a darker shade, lettering pieces to spines. Moderate shelfwear and soiling, light toning to text, tears to 12 leaves in Volume XI, 2 with edgewear, mended with archival tape. Ex-library. Locations labels to spines, stamps to edges, stamps and library marks to endleaves and title pages. $300.
* One of the great maritime reporters, Aspinall's valuable series of case reports of British, Irish and international cases include full-text cases cover such subjects as abandonment, arbitration, bankruptcy, carriage of goods and passengers, conflict of laws, enemy ships, loss, insurance, negligence, perils of the sea, personal injury, sale of goods, salvage and war. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:77.
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"A Book of First Class Importance"
3. Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. The Compleat Copy-Holder, Wherein is Contained a Learned Discourse of the Antiquity and Nature of Mannors and Copy-Holds: Being a Guide and Direction for Surrenders, Presentments, Admittances, Forfeitures, Customes, &c. Whereunto in Newly Added the Relation Between the Lord of a Mannor and the Copy-Holder his Tenant: By that Worthy Lawyer Charles Calthrop of Lincolnes-Inne Esquire. Together, With the Forme of Keeping of a Copy-Hold Court and Court Baron: Also, Two Tables Newly Added. London: Printed for W. Lee and D. Pakeman, At the Turkes-Head, And the Rainebow, 1650. [8], 179, [3], 76, [6], 51, [1] pp. Leaf O4 (pp. 103-104) is a bound-in facsimile. The Relation Between the Lord of the Mannor and the Copy-Holder and The Order of Keeping a Court Leet and court Baron have title pages and separate paginations. Quarto (7" x 5-1/2").
Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style with raised bands, lettering piece and gilt ornaments, hinges mended, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Moderate rubbing and a few scuffs and nicks to boards, corners worn. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining to head of text block (above text), some edgewear to preliminaries and final few leaves of text. Early owner signature to front pastedown, interior otherwise clean. $350.
* Third edition. A "book of first class importance" according to Jenks, it marks the final triumph of the King's Courts over the feudal courts, virtually putting an end to feudal jurisdiction in England. It was regarded, together with Coke's edition of Littleton, as one of the leading text-books on land law and conveyancing during the 17th and 18th centuries. Jenks, History of English Law 73, 82. English Short-Title Catalogue R893.
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Striking Image of Darrow Taken Near the End of His Life
4. Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. [9-1/2" x 6" Black-and-White Press Portrait Photograph]. [New York: Associated Press, March 16, 1938.
Margins removed, minor edgewear, stamps to verso. $100.
* This striking full-face image was taken near the end of Darrow's life. The date on this image suggests that it was printed for an obituary; Darrow died on March 13, 1938.
The Lawyers Light
5. Doderidge (Doddridge), Sir John [1555-1628]. The Lawyers Light: Or a Due Direction For the Study of the Law; For Methode, Choyce of Books Moderne, Selection of Authours of More Antiquitie, Application of Either, Accommodation of Divers Other Useful Requisits. All Tending to the Speedy and More Easie Attayning of the Knowledge of the Common Law of this Kingdome. With Necessary Cautions Against Certaine Abuses or Oversights, Aswell in the Practitioner as Student. Written by the Reverent and Learned Professor Thereof, I.D. To Which is Annexed for the Affinitie of the Subject, Another Treatise, Called the Use of the Law. London: Benjamin Fisher, 1629. [xvi], 119 pp. Complete first part of a two-part work. Quarto (7" x 5-1/2").
Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt ornaments to spine. Woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Toning, light soiling and edgewear to title page, internally clean. $450.
* Only edition. Sir John Dodderidge, or Doddridge, a judge during the reign of Charles I, was a formidably learned jurist who was both a common lawyer and a civilian who held a D.C.L. from Cambridge. Held in high esteem by Holdsworth, he is best known for English Lawyer: Describing a Method for the Managing of the Laws of this Land (1631). He may also be the actual author of William Sheppard's The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances (1648), though this is still a matter of debate. Complete in itself, The Lawyers Light is the first part of a two-part work. The second, not present in this copy, is titled The Use of the Law, an anonymous work attributed sometimes to Sir Francis Bacon. English Short-Title Catalogue S109766.
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The First Substantial English Treatise on Juries and Evidence
6. D[uncombe], G[iles]. [Euer, Samson, Attributed]. Tryals per Pais: Or, The Law of England Concerning Juries by Nisi Prius &c. Newly Revised and Much Inlarged, With an Addition of Precedents, And Forms of Challenges, Demurrers upon Evidence, Bills of Exception, Pleas Puis le Darrein Continuance, &c. The Third Edition Corrected and Amended. To Which is now Added, A Farther Treatise of Evidence. Together With a New and Exact Table to the Whole Matter. Very Useful and Necessary for All Lawyers, Attornies and Other Practicers, Especially at the Assises. By G.D. of the Inner-Temple, Esq. London: Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, Esquires, for John Walthoe, 1695. [xxiv], 416, [24] pp. Includes one-page publisher list. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2").
Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled baords, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. A few minor nicks, light fading to spine, rear hinge cracked. Title printed within ruled border. Moderate toning to text, "489" in small early hand to front endleaf, interior otherwise clean. A handsome copy. $500.
* Fourth edition. First published in 1665, this is the first substantial English treatise on juries and the law of evidence. A work of authority for more than a century, it went through several editions, the final appearing in 1793. Originally published anonymously, it is sometimes attributed erroneously to Samson Euer. English Short-Title Catalogue R43154.
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1554 Edition of Fitzherbert's Important JP Manual
7. Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony [1470-1538]. The Newe Boke of Iustices of Peace Made by Anthonie Fitzherbard Iudge, Lately Translated Out of Fre[n]ch Into Englishe and Newlye Corrected, the Yere of Our Lorde 1554. [(London): Imprinted at London in Fletestrete Within Temple Barre, at the Signe of the Hande and Starre, by Richarde Tottyll, 1560]. 173, [3] ff. Title page supplied as a laid-in facsimile. Pages 97 and 103 mis-numbered as 82 and 88. Octavo (5-1/4" x 3-1/2").
Recent period-style calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampstaining to fore-edges, light soiling to a few leaves. Early underlining and brief annotations to most leaves, some notes affected by trimming. A unique copy in a handsome binding. $1,500.
* First printed in 1538, Fitzherbert's manual was issued eight more times; its final edition was printed in 1617. Editions beginning in 1583 were edited by Richard Crompton. Despite his efforts, this work was eventually superseded by William Lambard's Eirenarcha (1581). The annotations are mostly glosses and other signs of careful study. ESTC locates 6 copies in the UK, 5 in North America (Georgetown Law School, Harvard Law School, The Newberry Library, University of Michigan Law School, University of Minnesota Law School). OCLC adds the Library of Congress and University of Pennsylvania Law School. English Short-Title Catalogue S4295. Beale, A Bibliography of Early English Law Books T342.
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First Edition of the "First Really Able" Book on the Subject
8. Godolphin, John [1617-1678]. The Orphans Legacy: Or, A Testamentary Abridgment. In Three Parts: I. Of Last-Wills and Testaments. II. Of Executors and Administrators. III. Of Legacies and Devises. Wherein the Most Material Points of Law, Relating to That Subject, Are Succinctly Treated, As Well According to the Common and Temporal, As Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws of This Realm. Illustrated with a Great Variety of Select Cases in the Law of Both Professions, As Well Delightful in the Theorie, As Useful for the Practice of All Such as Study the One, Or Are Either Active or Passive in the Other. London: Printed by E. T. and R. H. And are to be Sold by Joseph Nevill, 1674. [viii], 180, [4], 200-449, [33] pp. With initial imprimature leaf. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2").
Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style with raised bands and lettering piece. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks to boards, heavier rubbing to edges, corners worn, hinges mended, raer pastedown renewed. Very light browning and occasional light dampspotting to text, minor edgewear to preliminaries and final few leaves. Early owner signature to imprimatur leaf, another signature and brief annotation to title page, calligraphic flourish to rear endleaf. An appealing copy. $500.
* First edition. "The first really able books upon ecclesiastical law as a whole were written by Godolphin in the latter half of the seventeenth century. (...) [One of them is his] Orphan's Legacy [which deals with the subject] from the point of view not only of the ecclesiastical law, but also f the common law, and of the rising jurisdiction of the Chancellor" (Holdsworth). The final edition, the fourth, was published in 1701. Holdsworth, A History of English Law V:12. English Short-Title Catalogue R8268.
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Annotated Copy of the Argentinean Civil Code of 1871
9. Greco, Roberto Ernesto, Annotator. [Valez Sarsfield, Dalmacio (1800-1875)]. Codigo Civil de la Republica Argentina y Legislacion Complementaria: Edicion Conforme a las Modificaciones Introducidas por la Ley No. 17.711, E Indice Alfabetico. Buenos Aires: Abeledo-Perrot, [1980]. 1160 pp.
Softbound volume bound into quarter cloth over marbled boards, original front cover mounted to front board. Light shelfwear and soiling, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small inkstamp to verso of title page, card pocket enclosing a list typed notes to rear pastedown. $25.
* Annotated edition of the Argentinean Civil Code written by Velez Sarsfield, which was in force from 1871 and 2015.
First Edition of the First Analytical Study of English Criminal Law
10. [Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676)]. Pleas of the Crown. Or a Brief, But Full Account of Whatsoever can be Found Relating to that Subject. London: Printed for Richard Tonson Under Grays-Inn Gate Next Grays-Inn Lane; And Jacob Tonson, At the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane near Fleetstreet, 1678. [xv], 238, [2] pp. Includes 2 pp. publisher catalogue. Lacking imprimatur leaf. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4").
Later three-quarter calf, lettering piece and blind rules to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to edges, corners bumped and somewhat worn, front hinge cracked, front free endpaper lacking. Title printed within ruled borders. Moderate toning to text, faint dampspotting to margins. Early bookseller description and owner signature to front pastedown, "by Sir Matthew Hale" in fine hand near foot of title page, interior otherwise clean. $950.
* First edition. This landmark study went through seven editions. "Hale was essentially a scientific lawyer. He could view English law as a whole and appreciate the relationship of its various parts. (...) Hale was able to suggest a methodical arrangement of English law, which was at once scientific and practical. (...) Historically [Pleas of the Crown] is interesting as the first attempt to introduce some order into this branch of the law.": Holdsworth, A History of English Law VI:590-91. English Short-Title Catalogue R30719.
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Initiating an Action in New Jersey to Recover a Pre-Revolutionary War Debt Owed to a British Army Officer
11. Harison, Richard [1747-1829]. [Ogden, Aaron (1756-1839)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, to Ogden, Newark, NJ, March 28, 1791]. Single 9-1/2" x 7-1/2" leaf.
Moderate toning, fold lines, minor edgewear, text in neat hand, later annotation to foot of verso. A well-preserved item. $1,000.
* While on business in Newark at the home of Abraham Ogden, U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey (1791-1798), Richard Harison, U.S. District Attorney for the District of New York (1789-1801) writes to Aaron Ogden, New Jersey lawyer, later senator and governor of New Jersey, stating: "I find it necessary that a suit should be commenced for James Stevenson in the circuit Court of the United States for [New Jersey] against the executors of Jacob Ford Jr." Ford had defaulted on a debt of one thousand three hundred pounds owed to James Stevenson, former captain in the British Army, the debt having been incurred prior to the war in 1773. Harrison asks that Aaron Ogden serve a writ in the District Court of New Jersey against the executors, whom he names. Harison was a highly regarded member of the New York Bar. He was the law partner of Alexander Hamilton at the beginning of his legal career and later served often as Hamilton's co-counsel. He was also a pallbearer at Hamilton's funeral and served as second in command to Mayor Richard Varick in Burr's trial for the murder of Hamilton. Aaron Ogden is best remembered as the defendant in the landmark Supreme Court case, Gibbons v. Ogden. He served as a New Jersey senator from 1801-1803 and was that state's governor from 1812-1813. Abraham Ogden [1743-1798] (no relation) was a lawyer and the first U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey.
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Decisions of a Leading Haitian Judge and Jurist
12. Heraux, Edmond [1858-1920]. Requisitoires Prononces par M. Edmond Heraux, Avec le Texte des Arrêts. Corbeil: Imprimerie de Crete, 1896. ix, 395 pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6- 1/2").
Softbound volume bound into recent cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Light toning to text, internally clean. Ex-library. Small inkstamp to title page. $350.
* Only edition. A collection of judicial decisions from 1891 to 1894 by a leading Haitian judge and jurist. OCLC locates 2 copies in North America, both in law libraries (LA County, University of Michigan).
Uncommon Conveyancing Treatise by Giles Jacob
13. Jacob, Giles [1686-1744]. The Accomplish'd Conveyancer. Volume I: Second Edition, Corrected; With Additions. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1726. Volume II: Second Edition, Corrected; With Additions. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1732. Volume III: [First edition]. London: Printed by T. Nutt, 1715. Complete set in three (uniformly bound) volumes. viii, 534, [18]; [ii], 611, [19]; [iv], 526, [30] pp. Volume I and III have one- page publisher advertisements. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4").
Contemporary calf, recently rebacked retaining original spines with raised bands, blind frames and fillets to boards, hinges mended. Light rubbing to boards, some wear to board edges, moderate rubbing to spines, corners bumped. Faint offsetting to preliminaries and final leaves, light toning to interiors. An appealing copy of an uncommon title. $1,500.
* This compilation is the fullest discussion of common-law conveyancing published during the early eighteenth century. It contains an abridgment of the relevant laws, forms, definitions, leading cases and precedents. Like his New Law-Dictionary (1729), this book was published for a mixed audience of practitioners and laymen. Its final two editions, the third and fourth, were published in 1736 and 1750. English Short-Title Catalogue N14966, T137003.
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It Helped to Lay the Foundation of Modern Legal Theory
14. Kitchin, John [c.1520-c.1590]. Jurisdictions: Or, The Lawful Authority of Courts Leet, Courts Baron, Court of Marshalseyes, Court of Pypowder, And Antient Demesne: Together with the Most Necessary Learning of Tenures, And All Their Incidents of Essoyns, Imparlance, View; Of All Manner of Pleadings, Of Contracts, Of the Nature of All Sorts of Actions, Of Maintenance; Of Divers Other Things Very Profitable for All Students of Innes of Court and Chancery: And a Most Perfect Directory for All Stewards of Any the Said Courts. Written by the Methodically Learned John Kitchin of Grays-Inne Esq; And Double Reader. With an Exact Table, Pointing Out all Matter of Consequence Throughout the Whole Work. Wherein is Added the Forms of Several Originall and Judicial Writs Now in Use, Relating to Writs of Error, Writs of False Judgment, And Other Proceedings of Frequent Use in the Courts at Westminster. London: Printed by J. Streater, For Hen. Twyford, And Are to be Sold at His Shop in Vine Court Middle Temple, 1663. [iv], 581, [21], 122, [6] pp. Brevia Selecta; Or, Choice Writs" has separate title page, pagination and index. Octavo (6-1/2 x 4").
Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, raised bands to spine. Light rubbing to boards, somewhat heavier rubbing to extremties, small chips to spine ends, corners bumped, front hinge cracked, front endleaves and rear free endpaper lacking. Titles printed within ruled borders, typographical head-pieces. Light toning to text, faint stains to a few leaves. Tiny early owner signature to head of title page, brief annotation in his hand to p. 529, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy. $450.
* Fourth edition, one of two issues from 1663. By outlining the differences between the previously undivided court, Kitchin, along with Coke, helped lay the foundations of modern legal theory. "Kitchin was doing on a small scale what Coke was doing on a grand scale. Both were representatives of that school of literate Elizabethan lawyers...whose great and enduring work was the adaptation of medieval law and institutions to modern needs. Imagination necessarily played some part in this process of adaptation; and thus they are responsible not only for the enunciation of the rules of modern law, but also for legal and historical theories, the soundness of which was considered by many generations of lawyers and historians to be as incontestable as their statements of law" (Holdsworth). The first edition of Jurisdictions appeared in 1651, its final edition, the fifth, in 1675. Holdsworth, A History of English Law IV:130. English Short-Title Catalogue R217520.
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The First American Treatise on Military Law
15. Macomb, Alexander [1782-1841]. A Treatise on Martial Law, and Courts-Martial; As Practised in the United States on America. Charleston: Printed and Published, for the Author, by J. Hoff, 1809. [ii], 340 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4").
Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing to baords, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint cracked, chipping to head of spine, hinges starting. Moderate toning and light dampstaining to text, occasional faint dampspotting and foxing, chips to edges of a few leaves. Early owner inscription ("Capt. John T. Burgess/ of Cambridge Mass") to front free endpaper, his small inkstamp to title page and a few other leaves. A solid copy of a scarce title. $950.
* First edition. Based on British models, Macomb's treatise considers matters of jurisdiction, apprehension of accused persons, evidence, sentencing, appeals and courts of inquiry. It also contains an extensive appendix with forms, the articles of war and extracts from relevant supporting texts. One of the first officers trained at the military academy at West Point, Macomb was a judge-advocate in the U.S. Army. He was decorated for his conduct in the Battle of Plattsburg during the War of 1812 and ended his career as commander-in-chief of the army, a post he filled with distinction. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 9025.
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1909 Guide to Mexican Law (in English)
16. [Mexico]. Kerr, Robert Joseph, Translator and Editor. A Handbook of Mexican Law, Being an Abridgment of the Principal Mexican Codes. Chicago: Pan American Book Company, 1909. xxxi, 260 pp.
Original cloth, moderate shelfwear and soiling with some wear to spine ends and corners, spine abraded, front hinge cracked, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, inkstamps to title page. $20.
* A guide for American businessmen.
French Translation of the Mexican Commercial Code of 1889
17. [Mexico]. Prudhomme, Henri, Translator and Editor. Code de Commerce Mexicain: Promulgue le 15 Septembre 1889, Mis en Vigueur le 1er Janvier 1890. Paris: A. Durand et Pedone-Lauriel, 1894. lxxxiv, 435 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2").
Stiff printed wrappers bound into recent cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Light browning to text, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small stamp to title page. $75.
* Only edition. "[This translation] appeared soon after the adoption of the code and is useful only as to the original text, which is now two-thirds repealed.": Clagett and Valderrama, A Revised Guide to the Law and Legal literature of Mexico 135.
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Selden on the Jewish Laws of Inheritance
18. Selden, John [1584-1654]. De Successionbus ad Leges Ebraeorum in Bona Defunctorum, Liber Singularis: In Pontificatum, Libri Duo. Leiden: Ex Officina Elseviriorum, 1638. [lx], 428 [i.e. 528] pp. 12mo. (3" x 5").
Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered title to spine, speckled edges. Light soiling, spine ends bumped, corners bumped and lightly worn. Title page, with woodcut Elzevier Solitary Man, printed in red and black, device, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Some toning to text, minor worming to margins in a few places, light soiling to title page. An appealing copy. $750.
* Third edition, augmented and corrected. Text in Latin, some passages in Hebrew. Selden was the first great English jurists to study Jewish law seriously. As noted by the Dictionary of National Biography, Selden's "familiarity with rabbinical literature was such as has been acquired by few non-Israelite scholars; and many details of oriental civilization and antiquities were certainly brought to the knowledge of Europeans for the first time in them." First published in 1631, De Successionibus is a notable exposition of the rabbinical laws of inheritance and succession and laws concerning rabbis. It went through several editions into the eighteenth century. Dictionary of National Biography XVII:1157. Willems, Les Elzevier: Histoire et Annales Typographiques 472.
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The First 76 Years of Selden Society Annual Volumes
19. Selden Society. Annual Series. Vols. 1 to 80 (1887-1963). London: Selden Society, 1887-1963. Original blue gilt stamped cloth, light shelfwear. Ex-library with location labels at foot of spines and stamps, else a very good set. Interiors otherwise clean. Reprint Price USD 7,512. Special $1,495.
* A detailed list of the contents of each volume is available. The Selden Society's principal achievement has been the publication of its annual series, which includes essential source materials of the common law, including law reports dating back to the Middle Ages (known as the Year Books), plea rolls and courts' records, eyre rolls of itinerant justices, select leading cases in the courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Star Chamber, Admiralty, Requests, Exchequer Chamber, and Privy Council; and in local, manorial, ecclesiastical, and mercantile courts. Select charters of trading companies, borough customs, and records of public works show the development of business enterprise and local government. Professional literature, early treatises, formularies, judges' notebooks, and lecturers' readings on statutes show the development of the legal profession, early legal education, the inns of court, and their teaching methods. The publication of English legal materials is an unfinished project! The Selden Society edits, translates, and publishes one volume each year which often contains materials appearing for the first time in print. The contents of each volume are explained and discussed in its introduction; and these introductions therefore represent much of the research and scholarship that has been devoted over the past hundred years to the development of the common law and its institutions.
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Rare "Practical Guide" to the Venezuelan Code of Criminal Procedure
20. Serpa Arcas, H[ector]. Codigo de Enjuiciamiento Criminal (Guia Practica). Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Instituto de Ciencias Penales, 1966. 505 pp.
Quarter cloth over marbled baords, gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear, some toning to text, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small inkstamp to verso of title page. $350.
* Only edition. This is a "practical guide" to the Venezuelan code of criminal procedure in force from 1897 to 2001. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America (Library of Congress, UC-Berkeley Law School, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota Law School).
First Complete Edition of Spelman's Glossarium
21. Spelman, Henry [1564?-1641]. [Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686), Editor]. Glossarium Archaiologicum: Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula; Quae Post Labefactatas a Gothis, Vandalisque;, Res Europaeas, in Ecclesiasticis, Profanisq; Scriptoribus, Variarum Item Gentium Legibus Antiquis Municipalibus, Chartis, & Formulis Occurrunt. Scholiis & Commentariis Illustrata; In Quibus Prisci Ritus Quam-Plurimi, Magistratus, Dignitates, Munera, Officia, Mores, Leges Ipsae, & Consuetudines Enarrantur. London: Apud Aliciam Warren, 1664. [xi], 576 pp. Lacking portrait frontispiece. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (13" x 8-1/2").
Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, rebacked with raised bands and lettering piece, edges rouged, endpapers renewed. A few scuffs to boards, corners worn, hinges cracked, front free endpaper detached. Title page printed in red and black, attractive woodcut head-piece, tail- pieces and decorated initials. Light toning to text, occasional faint dampspotting. Bookplate residue and "SPE 942" in later hand to front pastedown, early owner signature to head of title page, interior otherwise clean. $350.
* First complete edition, and the second to be published. Originally published in 1626, the Glossarium was the earliest English dictionary of legal and historical terms based on philological methods. The product of considerable archival research and consultation with scholars throughout Europe, Spelman's dictionary superseded all previous attempts at legal lexicography. As Holdsworth observes, "It is a great deal more than a law dictionary, being a dictionary of Latin and other words to be found in all the post-classical authors and documents English and foreign....In fact it is a product of that new school of historians and historically minded lawyers." This point is supported by Winfield, who notes its usefulness when interpreting terms used in the Domesday Book. The first edition contains terms from A to L. Unfortunately, Spelman did not live to bring his proposed second volume to print. The second edition, which was edited by Dugdale, is the first with terms from A to Z. Holdsworth, A History of English Law V:402. Winfield, Chief Sources of English Legal History 112. English Short-Title Catalogue R14937.
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Joseph Story's Copy
22. [Story, Joseph (1779-1845)]. [Great Britain] [Court of Chancery]. Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Charles I and to the 20th Year of King Charles II. Being Special Cases, And Most of Them Decreed with the Assistance of the Judges, And All of Them Referring to the Register Books. Wherein are Setled Several Points of Equity, Law and Practice. To Which are Added Learned Arguments Relating to the Antiquity of the Said Court, Its Dignity, Power and Jurisdiction. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires, For John Walthoe, 1693. [xlviii], 288, 88 pp. Octavo (7- 1/2" x 4-1/2").
Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, later owner label to head of spine, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, front hinge just starting. Moderate toning to text, occasional light dampspotting, some leaves have spark burns, clean tear to rear free endpaper, crack in text block between front free endpaper and title page. "J (?) Story" in light pencil to front pastedown, "Joseph Story" and signature of previous owner to head of title page. Ex-library. Small bookplate to of William L. Clements Library, with withdrawn stamp, to rear pastedown. Book housed in a cloth slipcase with chemise and a morocco spine with raised bands and gilt title. Unique. $2,500.
* First edition. It is not surprising that Story owned as copy of this title, an important work that establishing the importance of judicial precedents for cases in equity. It is one of the three collections of chancery reports listed in the 1846 auction catalogue of Story's library. English Short-Title Catalogue R200612. Hoeflich and Beck, Catalogues of Early American Law Libraries: The 1846 Auction Catalogue of Joseph Story's Library 581.
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The First American Trial for Jury Tampering
23. [Trial]. Clough, Ebenezer, Defendant. Hallett, B[enjamin] F[ranklin] [1797-1862], Reporter. Trial for Alledged Embracery, And Challenge of a Juror Decided by Triors. Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Ebenezer Clough. Before the Municipal Court of Boston Judge Thacher, October Term 1833. Boston: Printed by Beals, Homer & Co., 1833. 52 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2").
Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling and a few tiny ink spatters to title page, light toning, foxing to a few leaves. Author inscription "S.D. Parker's from B.H. Hallett" at head of title page, partially affected by trimming, internally clean. $1,750.
* Only edition. Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Ebenezer Clough was the first American trial for jury tampering (embracery). The case against Clough arose from a trial in which Samuel D. Green sued Charles W. Moore and Edward Sever, publishers of a Masonic newspaper, for libeling his moral character. As one would expect, Moore and Severs were Masons. Clough attempted to sway the jury in Green's favor by handing a piece of anti-Masonic literature to one of the jurors and asking him to read and share it with the other jurors. Clough was defended successfully by Hallett, who was drawn to cases involving the rights of individuals against government interference. (He is best remembered for his defense of the legality of the Dorr government in the case of Luther v. Borden.) Hallett presented this copy to Samuel Dunn Parker, prosecutor for the Commonwealth. This is a scarce title. OCLC locates 7 copies in North American law libraries (Harvard, Library of Congress, LA County, New York University, Social Law, US Supreme Court, University of Virginia). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 13715.
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A Hand in the Scuttle?
24. [Trial]. Stocks, Michael [d. 1836], Defendant. Report of the Trial of Michael Stocks, Esq. For Wilful and Corrupt Perjury, At the Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1815, Before the Honourable Sir Alexander Thompson, Knight, Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, And a special jury. Huddersfield [England]: Printed for the Editor, By J. Lancashire, 1815. [iv], 109, [1] pp. Octavo (8" x 5").
Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Moderate toning to text, newspaper article, "Last Moments of Jonathan Martin," pasted over errata list, the verso of p. 109, small newspaper clipping pasted to foot of title page. Early owner annotations to title page and following leaf, light soiling and minor edgewear to final two leaves, interior otherwise clean. $650.
* Only edition, one of two issues, both from 1815. Stocks was accused of stealing and selling 10,000 tons of coal from mines in Northowram, in the West- Riding of Yorkshire, he owned in partnership with two other men. Stocks was not convicted. The trial details the contractual history of the partnership, such contentious matters as the exact legal boundaries of neighboring mines and coal-pits and the nature of written and verbal agreements. Including both edition, OCLC locates 9 copies in North America, 5 in law libraries (Harvard, Library of Congress, Ohio State, University of Georgia, Yale). Not in the British Museum Catalogue.
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"Select Collection" of "Celebrated and Interesting Cases"
25. [Trials]. [Gayot De Pitaval, Francois (1673-1743)]. A Select Collection of Singular and Interesting Histories Together with the Tryals and Judicial Proceedings to Which the Extraordinary Facts Therein Recorded Gave Occasion. Containing Among Others, The History and Tryal I. Of M. De Cinq Mars and M. De Thou, Son to the Celebrated Historian, II. Of Urban Grandier, Who was Condemned and Burnt as a Magician, To Satiate the Revenge of Cardinal Richlieu, III. Of Don Carlos, Son to Philip II., Of Spain, Condemned to Death for Rebellion, Wherein a Just Account is Occasionally Given of the Spanish Court of Inquisition, IV. Of the Czarowitz Alexis, Eldest Son to Peter the Great, Who was Likewise Impeached and Condemned to Death for Conspiracy and Acts of Rebellion Against His Father. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. Two volumes. [ii], iii, [2], 312 pp.; [4], 348 pp. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 3-3/4").
Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt, titles and gilt ornaments to spine. Light rubbing and a few stains to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with some loss along top edges and corners, front hinges cracked, early auction description of this book with contemporary annotation affixed to front pastedown. Some toning to text, light stains to a few leaves in each volume, interiors otherwise clean. $750.
* Only edition. This is a selection of cases, in translation, from the eighteen-volume Causes Celebres et Interessantes (1748-1765). Contents of Volume I: -The History of M. de Cinq Mars, Master of the Horse to Lewis XIII, And of M. de Thou, Son to the Famous French Historian. -The History of the Marchioness de Gange, Who was Barbarously Assassinated by her Husband's Two Brothers. -The History of Urban Grandier, A Clergyman, Who was Condemned and Burnt as a Magician, And Author of the Possession of the Nuns of Loudun. Contents of Volume II. -The History of Renee Corbeau, Who by Her Eloquence Prevented the Execution of a Sentence, Condemning Her Love to Death. -The History of Don Carlos, Son of Philip II, King of Spain, Who was Condemned to Death by his Father. -The History of Alexis Petrowitz the Czarowitz, Presumptive Heir to the Crown of Russia, Who was Condemned to Death by his Father Peter the Great. -The History of Madam Tiquet, Who was Executed for Attempting the Assassination of Her Husband. -The History of the Marchioness de Brinvillier, Condemned to Death for Poisoning Her Father, Her Two Brothers, And Attempting to Poison Her Sister: In which, This Remarkable Question is Discussed: Whether or No [sic] a Confession Written in Order to be Revealed to a Priest, Ought
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Best Edition of Howell's State Trials
26. [Trials]. Howell, T[homas] B[ayly] [1768-1815], Compiler. [Cobbett, William (1763-1835)], Compiler. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to 1783, With Notes and Other Illustrations. Including, in Addition to the Whole of the Matter Contained in the Folio Edition of Hargrave, Upwards of Two Hundred Cases Never Before Collected; To Which is Subjoined a Table of Parallel Reference, Rendering This Edition Applicable to Those Books of Authority in Which References Are Made in the Folio Edition. [With] Howell, Thomas Jones [1793-1858], Compiler. A Complete Collection of State Trials...Continued From the Year 1783 to the Present Time. [And] Jardine, David [1794-1860], Compiler. General Index to the Collection of State Trials. London: T.C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [et. al.], 1814-1828. Thirty-four volumes. Complete set. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6").
Later buckram, red and black lettering pieces to spines. Moderate shelfwear and soiling, heavier soiling to some volumes, chipping to spine labels. Light browning and occasional foxing and light dampstaining, a few volumes have loose or detached leaves, all with some edgewear, bookplates (of binder) to front pastedowns. Ex-library. Location labels and owner labels to spines, stamps to edges and preliminaries. A solid set. $1,750.
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* Fifth and final edition. This edition is considered the best. Holdsworth, for one, considers it "an invaluable collection of nearly all the important criminal trials and constitutional cases, and of some important civil cases, which have some bearing upon public law." As indicated by the title, it incorporates Francis Hargrave's Collection of State Trials (fourth edition), an eleven-volume collection published between 1776 and 1781. The majority of the cases are from the King's Bench, and many are not reported elsewhere. The coverage is chronological from Thomas Becket in 1163 through 1820. According to Sweet & Maxwell and the Harvard Law Catalogue, the first twelve volumes were compiled by William Cobbett. They seem to have drawn this conclusion because Cobbett's name appears on the title pages of early printings. Wallace disputes this claim. He believes that Cobbett was simply a general editor who hired Thomas Howell to do the actual work. This edition was issued between 1809 and 1826. Volumes 1-22 in this set are reprint copies dated 1816. The Table or Parallel Reference is dated 1814. Holdsworth, A History of English Law XII: 130. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:370. Wallace, The Reporters 67-68.
Early Printing of Uruguay's Civil Code
27. [Uruguay]. Codigo Civil de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay. Montevideo: Ferdinand Ybarra, 1879. xxiii, [1], 542 pp. Tipped-in errata leaf. Octavo (8- 1/2" x 5").
Contemporary quarter morocco over pebbled cloth with blind-stamped panels, large gilt arms of Uruguay to front board, Raised bands, gilt title and gilt ornaments to spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and joints, a few stains to boards, corners bumped, hinges partially cracked. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in places, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small inkstamp to title page. A nice copy of a rare title. $300.
* Third edition. With index. Originally published on 1 January 1868, this code is based, for the most part, on the Chilean Civil Code, the Spanish Civil Code and the Code Napoleon, with material drawn from with Roman, canon and Spanish law. OCLC locates 2 copies in North America. (Harvard Law School, UT-Austin).
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The House Prepares to Impeach Nixon
28. [Watergate Investigation]. [United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary]. Statement of Information: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 803, A Resolution authorizing and Directing the Committee on the Judiciary to Investigate Whether Sufficient Grounds Exist for the House of Representatives to Exercise its Constitutional Power to Impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America. May-June 1974. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974. Book I to X (of XII), in 20 books. Original printed wrappers, spine faded, internally clean and bright. $200.
* Contents: book 1. Events prior to the Watergate break-in, December 2, 1971-June 17, 1972.--book 2. Events following the Watergate break-in, June 17, 1972-February 9, 1973.--book 3. Events following the Watergate break-in, June 20, 1972-March 22, 1973. 2 v.--book 4. Events following the Watergate break-in, March 22, 1973-April 30, 1973. 3 v.--book 5. Department of Justice/ITT litigation--Richard Kleindienst nomination hearings. 2 v.--book 6. Political contributions by milk producers cooperatives: the 1971 milk price support decision. 2 v.--book 7. White House surveillance activities and campaign activities. 4 v.--book 8. Internal Revenue Service.--book 9. Watergate special prosecutors; Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry, April 30, 1973-July 1, 1974. 2 v.--book 10. Tax deduction for gift of papers. Our set does not include the final two books: 11. Bombing of Cambodia; 12. Impoundment of funds; Government expenditures on President Nixon's private properties at San Clemente and Key Biscayne.
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Grotius Replied to, And was Influenced By, This Critique of Mare Liberum
29. Welwood, William [fl. 1578-1622]. An Abridgement of All the Sea-Lawes. Gathered Forth of All Writings and Monuments, Which are to be Found Among Any People or Nation, Upon the Coasts of the Great Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. And Specially Ordered and Disposed for the Use and Benefit of all Benevolent Sea-Farers, Within His Majesties Dominions of Great Brittain, Ireland, And the Adjacent Isles Thereof. London: Printed by the Assignes of Ioane Man, and Benjamin Fisher, 1636. [16], 25 [i.e. 253], [2] pp. Lacking final leaf, a blank. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2").
Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Title printed within woodcut typographical border, woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier to outer margins, minor worming to foot of text block through page 75 (just touching a few letters), clean tear to leaf H8 (pp. 111-112), some edgewear to preliminaries. Early owner inscriptions to front endleaf, faint later marks in pencil to some leaves. Ex-library. Small inkstamp to verso of title page. A nice copy of a scarce title. $1,750.
* Second and final edition. First published in 1613, this was the first comprehensive English manual of maritime law. Based in part on Welwood's earlier work, The Sea-Law of Scotland (1590), the first treatise on maritime law written in the British Isles, his Abridgement was a response to a request by King James I to refute an argument in the fifth chapter of Grotius's, Mare Liberum (1609). According to Grotius, the king did not have the right to exclude foreign vessels from fisheries along the British and Irish coasts. Quoting extensively from biblical and Roman sources, Welwood defended the right of a coastal state to control adjacent waters. This was the only critique of Mare Liberum that provoked a reply by Grotius, Defensio Capitis Quinti Maris Liberi Oppugnati a Guilielmo Welwodo (1615, published 1872). Later, Grotius changed his mind about Welwood's critique; in De Iure Belli ac Pacis (1625), he argues that nations are allowed to possess coastal waters. Both editions of the Abridgment are rare in the trade. Only two copies have come up at auction since 1977, both second editions. Feenstra, Robert, Ed., Hugo Grotius, Mare Liberum 1609-2009: Original Latin Text and English Translation xxii-xxiii. English Short-Title Catalogue S119612.
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Zouch on Admiralty Jurisdiction
30. Zouch, Richard [1590-1661]. The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England Asserted, Against Sr. Edward Coke's Articuli Admiralitatis, in XXII Chapter of His Jurisdiction of Courts. London: Printed for F. Tyton and T. Dring, 1663. [xvi], 152 pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4").
Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine, title page re-hinged. Moderate toning to text, light foxing and finger smudges to a few leaves, light soiling and minor edgewear to title page. Ex-library. Faint embossed seal to title page, brief annotations to verso. A nice copy in a handsome binding. $950.
* First edition. The expansion and improvement in English naval power under Cromwell and Great Britain's growth as a maritime power created a demand for works on admiralty law. Also, the controversy between the admiralty and the common law courts for jurisdiction, which culminated during the chief justiceship of Lord Coke, elicited several publications in which the law merchant and the civil law play prominent parts. Along with Godolphin's A View of the Admiral Jurisdiction (1653), Zouch(e)'s treatise was among the first to address this need, and one of the most important. One of England's greatest civilians, he was an advocate of Doctors' Commons, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford. He published treatises on a broad range of legal topics and is renowned for his contributions to international law. Later editions were published in 1683 and 1685. It was also reissued in the 1686 edition of Malynes's Lex Mercatoria. English Short-Title Catalogue R21844.
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