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ADAMS’S DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS London. This work did much to familiarize the European mind to 1 ADAMS, JOHN [1735-1826]. the novel state of things then taking place in America. It includes the opinions of eminent writers on various republics of the world. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the Adams speaks at length about the constitutions of the ancient United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot Greeks and Romans. The half-titles in this edition read History of in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of the Principal Republics in the World. It is possible that a binder discarded them because they appeared to belong to another March, 1778. work. Larned 2687. Sabin 236. Cohen 2735. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1794. Three volumes. 8, xxxii, 392, [1]; [ii], 451, [1]; [ii], 528, [36] pp. Volume I has copperplate portrait frontispiece. Half-titles and frontispiece’s tissue overlay lacking. Octavo (8” x 5”). AN 1850 HANDBOOK FOR ASPIRING LAWYERS Nineteenth-century (or early twentieth-century) three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt ornaments and gilt titles to ANTHON, JOHN [1784-1863]. spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Moderate rubbing to 2 extremities, corners bumped, rear joint and both hinges of Volume III starting. Light toning, occasional light foxing, internally clean. The Law Student, Or Guides to the Study of the Law in Its $4,500. Principles.
SECOND ENGLISH EDITION, GREATLY ENLARGED. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1850. [ii], [3]-384 pp. Includes Written as a series of letters defending limited government, written two-page publisher’s catalogue of “Important New Law Books.” constitutions, and other aspects of American political and legal Octavo (9-1/2” x 6”). institutions. According to Larned, “John Adams, it is safe to say, bestowed more thought on the nature of government, and exerted Contemporary sheep, blind fi llets to boards, raised bands and more infl uence in determining the character of the constitutions lettering piece to spine. Moderate rubbing, boards slightly bowed, adopted during the Revolution by most of the original states, than minor worming to front joint, foot of spine bumped. Moderate any one of his contemporaries.” This important work appeared toning to text, light foxing in a few places. Early owner signatures, in America while the convention for framing a Constitution was of Benjamin Waterhouse, dated Trenton, 1877, to endleaves, interior meeting. Adams’ book advocated the doctrine of the separation of otherwise clean. A nice copy. $500. powers and a legislature of two houses, and greatly infl uenced the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Its timeliness ONLY EDITION. Anthon was a lawyer in New York and the author gave it considerable infl uence during the period of the framing of of several widely used treatises, including American Precedents of the Constitution. Adams was serving at the Court of King James’s Declarations (1802), The Law of Nisi Prius (1809) and An Analytical when he wrote this treatise, thus the fi rst edition was published in Abridgment of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone (1809), an introductory “nutshell” for students. Cohen 8583.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 6 3 chipping to headsof spines,corners bumpedandsomewhat heavier to extremities, afew shallow scuffs to boards, minor fi Contemporary sheep,blindfillets to boards, letteringpieces, blind and afolding “Table of Descents.” 12mo.(6-1/2” x4”). frontispiece, Volume IIhas two plates,a“Table of Consanguinity” Andrews], 1799. Four volumes. Volume Ihasacopperplate portrait From J.Bumstead’s Printing Offi Boston: I. Thomas andE.T. Andrews [Volumes 3and4:Boston: Continued tothePresent Time by John Williams, Esq. of the Author, The Additions by Richard Burn,LL.D. and Last London Edition. Containing theLast Corrections Second American Edition, Carefully Reprinted from the Commentaries ontheLaws of England.In Four Books. WILLIAMS, JOHN [1757-1810], NOTES. BURN, RICHARD [1709-1785], NOTES. BLACKSTONE, SIRWILLIAM[1723-1780].
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“SEE, WHAT AN AWFUL SPECTACLE IS HERE!” VERSE ACCOUNT OF A MURDER-SUICIDE IN PENNSYLVANIA
4 [BROADSIDE]. 5 [BROADSIDE]. [EXECUTION]. [MURDER-SUICIDE]. [BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS]. [PENNSYLVANIA]. [KOPPELBERGER, JOHANNES]. Execution of Powars for the Murder of Timothy Kennedy. Ein Neues Lied von der Mord-Geschichte des Joseph Miller, [Boston, 1820]. 10-1/2” x 8” Broadside. [Boston, 1820]. Text in two Welcher im Januar 1822, Einer Sonntags Nacht Seine columns. Large woodcut vignette depicting Kennedy’s murder Schwangere Frau unde Zwei Kinder auf eine Grausame above text. Art Ermordete, Und sich Selbst Erhing, Welches Alles, Wie man Glaubt, Aus Armuth Geschah...[Running Title]. Moderate browning and faint dampspotting, vertical and horizontal fold lines. Small chip to top edge, minor tears along fold lines. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2 x 10” broadside. Text in three columns $1,500. printed within woodcut border and separated by black rules. THIS ACCOUNT IN VERSE describes a murder case involving Moderate toning and light foxing, fraying and a few chips to edges, two Irish-Americans living in Boston. Michael Powers (or Powars), tear to bottom edge with negligible loss to text. $750. a “ruffi an bold,” killed Kennedy with a broadaxe and buried him in the cellar of his home. He was provoked because Kennedy would THIS SIXTEEN-STANZA “New Song of the Murder-Story of not pay the passage money loaned by Powers to bring him to the Joseph Miller” is attributed to Johannes Koppelberger. It tells the United States. Powers was defended by Daniel Webster, but he sad story of a murder-suicide committed by Miller, a German- could not save his life. OCLC locates 2 copies (American Antiquarian American. The verses say he eloped from Poland with the daughter Society, University of Michigan). Wegelin 1281. of a nobleman in 1817. The couple made their way to Philadelphia and from there to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where Miller found work as a schoolteacher. The job paid poorly and his wife was increasingly homesick. Depressed, Miller killed his pregnant wife, two children with an ax and himself. It was a grisly affair involving an axe and a knife. This poem was quite popular and issued in a number of different broadside formats. According to Vellenreuter, there were, in all, 16 printings. All are rare. OCLC locates 3 copies of our version (American Antiquarian Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, University of Michigan). Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Vellenreuter 13.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 8 6 and police department that forced Jimmy Walker outof offi large-scale investigationof corruption inNew York City’s courts judge. He isfamousas the headof the Seabury Commission, a on the New York State Court of Appeals, when Cardozo was chief husband, was anotableNew York judge.He served with Cardozo to her and they lived together. SamuelSeabury, Maude Richey’s February 1928.Shediedin1929. BenjaminCardozo was very close many visits from the doctor.” Nellie Cardozo suffered astroke in She was greatly pleased.Iamsure they didmore goodfor her than was delightfulof you to send those exquisite fl A WARM THANK-YOU NOTE TO MRS.SEABURY: “It annotation andcaption to verso. $500. to edges,crop marksandminor retouching to image,stamps, [New York: Acme News Agency, October 11,1937].Light wear [ CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N. [With] otherwise fine. soiling and vertical fold line to envelope, which ismissingflap, x 3” transmittal envelope.Horizontal fold line to letter, light Single sheetfolded to form two 6-1/2” x4-1/2” leavesand5” Letterhead, March 1,1928]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Seabury onPersonal [SEABURY, MRS.SAMUEL(RICHEY, MAUDE) (D. 1952)]. CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N.[1870-1938]. 6-1/2” x8-1/2” Black-and-White Photograph of Cardozo { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE CARDOZO TO THE WIFE OF A NOTABLE NEW YORK JUDGE
A WARM THANK-YOU NOTE FROM { N owers to my sister. o 6 THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE ce. ]. ]. 7 organizations. John H.Garfi prominent New York lawyer, worked for severalcharitiesandcivic own decisions.” (Garfi only lossis that we are foreclosed from ananalysisof the judge’s task the rare combination of legalandliterary learning,andour one of America’s outstanding judicialstylists,hebrings to this fi us the thought about the law. “It hasremained for Judge Cardozo to give published in the twentieth century, itchanged the way lawyers N. Cardozo/ April, 1931.” One of the mostimportantlegalbooks with the cordial good/ wishes of anold-time friend./Benjamin FIRST EDITION. The inscriptionreads: “To Caroline Bijur/ hand to front free endpaper, internally clean.$1,500. a Mylar jacket. Inscription signed“BenjaminN.Cardozo” inbold folds mendedon verso with archival tape, which ispreserved in dampstains to cloth,moderatesoilingandedgewear to dustjacket, Cloth industjacket. Moderate shelfwear andafew minor New York: Harcourt, Brace andCompany, [1931].[ix],190pp. Law andLiterature andOther Essaysand Addresses. CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N. 1931) 654. IMPORTANT LEGAL BOOKSOF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY rst real analysisof the literature of the bench.Himself INSCRIBED COPY OF ONEOF THE MOST N o nkel). Bijur [1883-1964], the daughter of a 6 nkel, California Law Review 19(1930- N o 7 {
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THE FIRST SENATE MANUAL TO INCLUDE THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
8 [CONSTITUTION, UNITED STATES]. MCDONALD, W J. JEFFERSON, THOMAS [1743-1826].
Constitution of the United States of America, With the RARE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN IMPRINT Amendments Thereto: To Which are Added the Rules of the WITH SEVEN WOODCUTS Senate, The Joint Rules of the Two Houses, And Jefferson’s [CRIMINALS]. Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Also the Declaration 9 [PENNSYLVANIA]. of Independence and the Articles of Confederation; With Extracts from the Proceedings of the Continental Congress Merkwurdige Criminal-Geschichten, Oder Verhore, Previous to the Declaration of Independence, And Other Gesttandnisse und Hinrichtung Verschiedener Verbrecher: Interesting Matter from Authentic Sources. Printed for the Zusammengetragen und zum Aweytenmale fur die Use of the Senate. Menschheit. Mit Mehrern Abbildungen Geziert.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Offi ce, 1868. [ii], 356 pp. Allentown: Gedruckt und Zuhabenden bey Heinrich Ebner, 1818. [ii], Octavo (8” x 5”). 176 pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Six woodcut plates. 12mo. (7” x 4”).
Contemporary diced morocco, blind frames to boards, gilt title Recent period-style marbled boards, printed paper title label to to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine, title page re-hinged. Moderate browning and foxing to text, corners, some rubbing to spine, chipping to spine-ends, front free chip to foot of fi rst text leaf with minor loss to text, a few leaves endpaper has a presentation inscription from McDonald to Andrew have minor tears, internally clean. A handsomely bound copy of a Wylie. Light toning to text, internally clean. $500. rare title. $750.
THE 1868 SENATE MANUAL is the fi rst to include the ONLY EDITION. Published for the German-American Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratifi ed on July 9, 1868. (The community in Pennsylvania, this book offers a sensational 1867 manual was the fi rst to include the Thirteen, ratifi ed on collection of English and American criminal biographies. These December 6, 1865.) Wylie [1814-1905] was the Judge of the United include Mary Blandy, an English poisoner, and Baker, Brous and States District Court for the District of Columbia. Appointed in Peterson, a trio of pirates tried in Philadelphia. The frontispiece 1863 by President Lincoln, he is remembered for his involvement depicts a rural constable. The others, all rather lurid, illustrate in the case of Mary Surratt, one of the conspirators in the Lincoln crimes by Catherine Hayes, John Gow, Ned Findley, Baker, Brous assassination. and Peterson, Blandy and John Schild. Shaw & Shoemaker and the copies located on OCLC list 6 plates, 1 plate fewer than in our copy. OCLC locates 3 copies (Franklin and Marshall College, Millersville University, Lehigh University). Shaw & Shoemaker 44811.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 10 10 and Prohibition atIts Worst Economic Benefi the mostpart,“ananswer” to three 1926publicationsby Fisher: and Liverightin1927. As indicatedby the title, this bookis,for Others, co-written with Victor S. Yarros andpublishedby Boni to may go,asitisananswer to another work.” Darrow isreferring give it to Liverightif he wants it.Iamnotconfi I amgoingnorth the lastof the monthandIreally think Ishould of a Spectacles (1919). It isareply to advice concerning the publication and literary critic,“free-thinker” andauthor of A FRIENDLY LETTERTO KADISON, the notablepolitical Some edgewear to envelope,otherwisefi transmittal envelopeand transcription affi 18” frame,smallbrassplaquebelow Darrow’s image.Dated photograph of Darrow inattractively mattedandgrazed16”x Letter on6-1/2” x9-1/2” sheetand4-1/2” x6-1/2” portrait Fairhope, AL, March 3rd [1927]. [Autograph Letter, Signed [KADISON, ALEXANDER]. DARROW, CLARENCE [1857-1938]. { The Prohibition Mania: aReply to Professor Irving Fisher and CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE
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FRANKFURTER ALS WITH INTERESTING CONTENT CONCERNING JUDGES
12 FRANKFURTER, FELIX [1882-1965]. FIRST EDITION. The inscription reads: “To Ned French, who/ makes me feel that/ a good railroad/ president is a/ statesman./ [Autograph Letter, Signed, On Harvard Law School Yours sincerely/ Felix Frankfurter/ Algonquin Club/ 16 December Letterhead, Signed F.F. and Dated Sept. 19] c.1935. 1938. Mr. Justice Holmes is Frankfurter’s fi nest statements of his admiration for Holmes. This and other books did much to establish Three-page letter on three 5” x 8” sheets and 5”x 7” portrait Holmes’s posthumous reputation. photograph of Frankfurter in judicial attire in attractively matted and glazed 28” x 14” frame. $1,250.
IN THIS INTERESTING LETTER to an unidentifi ed recipient Frankfurter shares his thoughts on the judicial system and elected judges. “I agree with you altogether that the quality of our judges is fundamental to the quality of our judicial output and I also agree that the method & selection, the tenure & termination of offi ce are most important. Of course I am all against short election terms and recall of judges. My own inclination is strongly, on the whole, for an appointive judiciary particularly with, possibly, an elected C.J. as the administrative head of the whole judicial system...” Frankfurter was a professor at Harvard Law School from 1914 to 1939.
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13 FRANKFURTER, FELIX.
Mr. Justice Holmes and The Supreme Court.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. 137 pp. Frontispiece.
Original, gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, light fading to spine, some fraying to spine ends. Author inscription front free endpaper signed “Felix Frankfurter” in bold hand, interior otherwise clean. $600.
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www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 12 15 14 to title and author nameof front wrapper, internally clean. “391”) to head of front wrapper. Light toning to text, early underlining vertical crease through center of pamphlet,smalllabel(reading to extremities, wrappers partially detachedandlightly edgeworn, Stab-stitched pamphletin printed wrappers. Moderate rubbing 11 pp.Octavo(9-1/4” x6”). Psychiatry, 1883. New York: Reprinted from the American Journal of Neurology and The Case of Maggie Keppel, The Brooklyn Child-Abductor. GRAY, LANDON CARTER. justice of the Supreme Court from 1941 to 1954. Justice. He was attorney generalfrom 1937 to 1941andanassociate attorney generalheading the Tax Division of the Departmentof Frankfurter’s closestfriends.In 1936Jackson was the assistant 1936.” “Bob” isprobably Robert H.Jackson [1894-1954], oneof you my gay devotion&ardent hopes./ Yrs/ Felix/ 18December the river of philosophy./ But‘w Roland for anOliver, butlaw, atleastinmy poor hands,isonly on FIRST EDITION. The inscriptionreads: “Dear Bob/ This isnota signed “Felix,” interior otherwiseclean.$1,250. panel. Warm author inscription,mostlikely to Robert H.Jackson, and moderately soileddustjacket, faintdampstaining to rear Lightly shelfwornclothinmoderately worn andlightly edgeworn Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 114pp. The Commerce ClauseUnder Marshall, Taney and Waite. FRANKFURTER, FELIX.
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philanthropy than are taught by creed or shibboleth.” (10-11). it ought to teach alarger humanity andamore unprejudiced has to meapathos that surpassesabstractconsiderations, and through a veil, mistily, the sportof her heredity andher organism, accordance with her insane vagaries, lookingoutupon the world as the spectacleof this poor creature aimlessly wandering aboutin she ought to beconfi murdered the childasreadily asshehadstolenit,and whilst I think Maggie Keppel, who, inanother phaseof her malady, mighthave I amfully aware of the dangerous tendencies of suchalunaticas trial helped to secure her acquittal for reasons of insanity. “Whilst further observationof her after her arrest and his testimony ather minor theft and was convinced shesuffered from insanity. His had previously observedKeppel after she was arrested from a Selden from the front of her parents’ house inBrooklyn. Dr. Gray Medical Jurisprudence. Keppel abducted three-year-old Lizzie article isbasedonapaper presented to the New York Society of ONLY EDITION ASASEPARATE PUBLICATION. This ned inanasylumfor the rest of her life, yet N o 15 N o 14 {
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APPEALING EARLY EDITION OF THE FEDERALIST
16 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER [1755-1804]. JAMES MADISON [1751-1836]. JOHN JAY [1745-1829].
The Federalist, On the New Constitution; Written in 1788. A New Edition, With the Names and Portraits of the Several Details from No 16 Writers.
Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner, 1818. vi, [7]-504 pp. Lithographed portrait frontispiece of Hamilton, two other plates with portraits of Madison and Jay, both with tissue overlays. Octavo (8-1/2” x 5-1/2”).
EARLY EDITION OF THE FEDERALIST Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, lettering piece and gilt fi llets to spine. Moderate toning, occasional light foxing, faint dampstaining to some leaves, chip to margin of a leaf with 17 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. no loss to text. Early markings to margins of a few leaves, interior MADISON, JAMES. otherwise clean. Ex-library. Small inkstamps to verso of title page JAY, JOHN. and foot of fi nal page. A nice copy in an attractive binding. $1,250. The Federalist, or The New Constitution, Written in the SECOND SINGLE-VOLUME EDITION, a reissue of the Year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: fi rst with plates. With the text of the Articles of Confederation With an Appendix, Containing the Letters of Pacifi cus and the U.S. Constitution. Of the eighty-fi ve essays, John Jay and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; wrote numbers 1-5 and 54, Madison wrote numbers 10, 14, and Also, The Original Articles of Confederation, and the 37-48. Numbers 18-20 were written by all three. The remaining Constitution of the United States, With the Amendments 50 were written by Hamilton. (The author’s name is listed at the end of each essay in this edition.) The essays aimed to encourage Made Thereto. A New Edition. The Numbers Written by ratifi cation of the proposed constitution by New York State, but Mr. Madison Corrected by Himself. were immediately recognized as the most compelling commentary on the most radical form of government the world had yet seen. Hallowell, ME: Glazier, Masters & Smith, 1837. 500 pp. Octavo (9” Most of these essays appeared under the collective pseudonym x 5-1/4”). “Publius” in New York newspapers and journals from October 27, 1787 to early June 1788. The M’Lean brothers published the fi rst Contemporary sheep, gilt fi llets to spine, with lettering piece. edition of The Federalist (along with the text of the Constitution) in Moderate rubbing, front board beginning to separate, rear hinge 1788 as a two-volume set. The present edition follows the text of starting. Toning, occasional light foxing, offsetting to small section the 1802 Hopkins edition, which was the fi rst to include corrections of pp. 324 and 325 from laid-in newspaper clipping. Early owner by Jay and Hamilton. Cohen 2818. Ford 14 (50). signature (of J.A. Ackley) to front pastedown, interior otherwise clean. $400.
LATER EDITION. With index and the text of the U.S. Constitution. The author of each essay is indicated. Cohen 2818.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 14 19 18 that isindeedabond./Learned Hand.” We both see things through/ much the samelenses,I think,/ and THE INSCRIPTION READS:“To Franz M.Oppenheimer,/ $1,000. otherwise clean. inscription to Frank Oppenheimer onfront free endpaper, interior moderately worn dustjacket, largechip to foot of spine. Author New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.xxx,262,[2]pp.Clothin Irving Dilliard. Hand Collected, And With anIntroduction andNotes, by The Spirit of Liberty:Papers and Addresses of Learned HAND, LEARNED for their lucidity andelegance. Second Circuit, from 1924 to 1956.His judgments were renowned of New York from 1904-1924 andajudgeof the Court of Appeals, twentieth century, Hand was ajudgeof the U.S. Southern District Guardians.” One of the mostsignifi Intervene,” “TheFifthandFourteenth Amendments” and“The amendments. It has three chapters,“WhenaCourt Should propriety of judicialefforts to expand the scope of the fi Harvard University in1958, this infl version of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures delivered at With my regards/ Learned Hand/ March 20, 1958. The published FIRST EDITION. The inscriptionreads To RalphGoodman/ internally fresh. $1,500. rear panel. Author inscription to front free endpaper inboldhand, Cloth very goodinmoderately worn dustjacket with lightly soiled Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. v, 82pp. The Billof Rights HAND, LEARNED[1872-1961].
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{ cant American juristsof the unil ok icse the discusses book uential THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE rst ten rst 20 otherwise clean. light foxing. Early owner signature to headof title page, interior edges. Negligible lightsoilingandshelfwear. Moderate toning and Recent quarter clothover paper-covered boards, speckled frontispiece of convicts on treadmill. 12mo.(7”x4”). New York: Printed by SamuelMarks, 1824. viii, [9]-70 pp. Woodcut Criminal Code, For itsImprovement. With Alterations Necessary tobeIntroduced Into Our and Diet. Also, A General View of thePenitentiary System, Health andMorals of theConvicts, With Their Treatment Origin, Construction, Operation, Effects asitRespects the The History of the Tread-Mill, Containing an Account of Its HARDIE, JAMES [1760?-1826?]. OF PRISON TREADMILLS AND PENAL REFORM RARE AMERICAN STUDYRARE AMERICAN N o 18 SOLD N o 19 {
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ONLY EDITION. A fascinating look at the origins of the treadmill and its value to American penology. Devised in England by William Cubitt in 1818, treadmills were used as a more humane punishment and a form of labor for prison inmates. In addition to punishment and discipline, they served to prevent idleness, promote health and generate power for mills. Joining the distinguished chorus of early nineteenth-century prison reformers, Hardie offers valuable insights into the nature of punishment, prison overcrowding, juvenile offenders and the treatment of women (usually prostitutes) who labored on the treadmill. No print copies listed on OCLC. Cohen 4309.
CONGRESSIONAL SPEECHES AGAINST THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
21 [INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830]. [EVARTS, JEREMIAH (1781-1831), EDITOR].
Speeches on the Passage of the Bill for the Removal of the No 21 Indians, Delivered in the Congress of the United States, April and May, 1830. A PROVOCATIVE DEFENSE OF PARLIAMENT’S POWER Boston: Published by Perkins and Marvin, 1830. viii, 304 pp. Octavo TO TAX THE COLONIES (7-1/2” x 4-1/2”). 23 [JENYNS, SOAME (1704-1787)]. Later buckram, gilt title to spine, several signatures unopened. Light rubbing to extremities, a few cracks to text block. Moderate toning The Objections to the Taxation of Our American Colonies, to text, occasional light foxing, minor tears to a few leaves, internally By the Legislature of Great Britain, Briefl y Consider’d. clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamps to title page and rear pastedown. $200. London: Printed for J. Wilkie, In St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1765. 23, [1] pp. Octavo (8” x 5”). ONLY EDITION. A collection of speeches by senators and congressmen, including Davy Crockett, opposing passage of the Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent cloth, gilt title to spine, Indian Removal Bill of 1830. Proposed to Congress by President marbled endpapers. Light shelfwear and soiling, corners bumped. Jackson in December 1830, and enacted in May of that year, it Moderate toning and light foxing to text. Light soiling and early resulted in the removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, annotation, “By Soane Jenyns, Esq., to title page, interior otherwise Muscogee-Creek and Seminole Tribes to territory west of the clean. $1,650. Mississippi. Evarts, the compiler of this volume, was a missionary and early activist for the rights of Native Americans. Sabin 89222. SECOND EDITION, PUBLISHED THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST. (Both editions have identical content.) Jenyns, a Member of Parliament, defends the Stamp Act and, more broadly, Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. Notably testy and dismissive of Colonial grievances, the pamphlet provoked several responses, LANDS DISTRIBUTED AFTER THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830 most notably Consideration on Behalf of the Colonists by James Otis. ESTC T45477. Sabin 36053. 22 [INDIAN REMOVAL ACT]. [SMITH, JAMES F., COMPILER].
The Cherokee Land Lottery, Containing a Numerical List of the Names of the Fortunate Drawers in Said Lottery.
New York: Printed by Harper & Brothers, 1838. [ii], [4], 413, [1], [2] pp. 56 of 59 engraved maps. Octavo (8-3/4” x 5-1/2”).
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ONLY EDITION. Lists the lands distributed by lottery after the Cherokee and other Indian tribes were expelled from Georgia according to the Indian Removal Act of 1830. De Renne 462. Sabin 82790. No 23
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 16 24 ofBiography American Connecticut. One of hispupils was Rutherford B.Hayes. established andranadistinguishedprep schoolinMiddletown, book’s owners,Isaac Webb [1798-1842], a Yale-educated lawyer, Commentaries holdsinEnglishlegalliterature” ( legal literature holdsaplace comparable to that which Plowden’s of law reports publishedin the United States andin American almost immediately. “[Kirby’s] was the fi landmark in American legalhistory, itsimportance was recognized of debate,mostexpertssay Kirby’s volume appeared fi in America, bothin1789. Although their priority isstillasubject in Admiraltyfi inPennsylvania werethe distinguished jurists.Kirby’s Reports andHopkinson’s Judgments Chipman, James Kent, Tapping Reeve, Zephaniah Swift andother FIRST EDITION. With asubscriber list that includesNathaniel law book. interior otherwiseclean. A nice copy of anotableearly American of Joseph Platt,1813,andIsaac Webb, 1827, to headof title page, Crusoe/ EastHaddam” to front free endpaper, other signatures, to marginsof afew leaves.Early owner signature of “Robinson Light browning to text, occasional lightfoxing, faintdampstaining and somewhat worn, boards beginning to separate,butsecure. to spineendsandedgesof letteringpiece, corners bumped blind fi Contemporary sheep,blindframes to boards, letteringpiece and Octavo (8” x5”). Litchfi Some DeterminationsintheSupreme Court of Errors. State of Connecticut. From the Year 1785,toMay, 1788; With Reports of Cases Adjudged intheSuperior Court of the KIRBY, EPHRAIM[1757-1804], REPORTER.
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ACCOUNT BOOK OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LAWYER FROM GARDINER, MAINE
33 [MANUSCRIPT]. [STILPHEN, A[SBURY] C[OKE] (B. 1842)].
Account of Monies Expended from May 1st 1865 to 1880. [Collection and Cash Book].
Gardiner, ME, 1870-1874. [120] pp. Folio (13” x 8”).
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THIS LEDGER RECORDS THE DAILY PRACTICE of a prominent lawyer and businessman who practiced in Gardiner, Maine, a town near Augusta, the state capitol. Stilphin was both a lawyer with a specialty in corporate practice and a dealer in investment securities. He was also the auditor (comptroller) of the Kennebec Central Railroad. The ledger indicates that he devoted most of his time to investment services. Considered a leading citizen of Gardiner, he was active in civic enterprises and held several political offi ces. He was also active as a local historian. Mercantile Publishing Company, Boston, Leading Business Men of Lewiston, Augusta and Vicinity 147.
DOCKET BOOK OF A NOTABLE NINETEETH-CENTURY RHODE ISLAND LAWYER WHO TOOK PART IN THE DORR REBELLION
34 [MANUSCRIPT]. [TITUS, JONAH (1796-1876)]. No 33 [Docket Book of Jonah Titus, Rhode Island Lawyer and Dorrite Attorney General].
[Scituate, RI, May 1836-December 23, 1875]. [400] pp. Folio (13” x 8”).
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TITUS, BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST LAWYER to establish a practice in Scituate, was a leader of the Rhode Island bar. He is remembered for his participation in the Dorr Rebellion of 1841-1842, an attempt to force broader democracy in Rhode Island by establishing a rival state government under “Governor” Thomas Wilson Dorr. Titus was Dorr’s attorney general. The turbulence of that period is not refl ected in this docket book, which lists memoranda of cases, services rendered and fees charged. Also listing personal expenses, this offers a fi ne perspective on the working life of a well-respected attorney with a thriving practice over a 39-year period. Payne, Reminiscences of the Rhode Island Bar 41-43. No 34
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 20 35 important witnesses in this very importantmatter...” bribes, threats andalarms,spiritedaway oneof two or three very that somepersons whose nameare unknown to them haveby present, that ampleproof hasbeengivenbefore them to show we alsolearnhavefl pursued for the arrest andpunishmentof these persons, whom Lorentine Miller, David McCummins and that proper measures be felonious rape,upon the body of Nancy Burns viz., Wm. Harper, satisfi rape case.It reads, inpart:“We the grandjurors...have become THIS APPEARSTO BE ADOCUMENTfrom anunrecorded accompanied by typed transcription. $1,500. minor edgewear. Content insmallhandfi Horizontal fold lines,afew with minor tears, lightbrowning and on verso of second leaf. [Erie County, PA, August 8,1834].4pp.13”x8” bifolium, docketed Rape Case]. [ [PENNSYLVANIA]. [TRIAL]. [MANUSCRIPT]. Grand Jury Presentment Concerning Improprieties a { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE ed that the following personsare alsoguilty of a wicked and “BRIBES, THREATS ANDALARMS”
ed the country. The grandjurors further { lling three pages.Item THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N o 35 36 37 281, 282,283.Cohen 5663. manuscript pagesat the endof Volume IIare anindex.Jumonville state, heisconsidered the father of Louisiana jurisprudence. The system. Appointed attorney-general when Louisiana becamea where heplayed the leadingrole in the reorganization of itslegal career inNorth Carolina. He later moved to the Louisiana territory, lawyer, judge,author, translator, printer andhistorian,hebeganhis important fi provided asystemfor the regulation of slavery. Martin was an from French colonies, bannednon-Catholicpractices there and Code Noir of 1685, which ordered the expulsionof the Jews to the United States and,onpp.601-691of Volume I, the infamous legislature. It contains the treaty ceding the Territory of Louisiana history,fi this was the FIRST EDITION. One of the great landmarksinLouisiana’s handsome set.$3,000. stamps to title pages,hand-lettered inventory numbers to versos. A bit of edgewear to folding leaf, internally clean.Ex-library. Faint edge of Volume II with minor loss to margin(text notaffected), a dampstaining inplaces, worming to middleleavesof the bottom near margins,lightbrowning inplaces, lightfoxing to text. Faint and giltfi Recent period-stylecalf, blindrules to boards, letteringpieces manuscript notesbound to rear of Volume II.Octavo(8” x5”). Louisiane... Folding table in Volume I.Four pagesof contemporary des Actes desLegislatures du Territoire d’Orleans etdel’Etatla facing pages. Added title pageinFrench reading: Digeste General which are suppliedinfacsimile.EnglishandFrench translation on 742; 696;290, 295-513,[3], 107pp. Volume IIIlackingpp.291-294, New Orleans: Printed by Peter K. Wagner, 1816. Three volumes. Resolve of theLegislature. Country andtheLand Claims Therein. PublishedUnder a the Acts of Congress, Relating to theGovernment of the Constitution of theUnited States, And of theState, With Government: Preceded by the Treaty of Cession, The And theOrdinances of theGovernor Under the Territorial Late Territory of Orleans andof theState of Louisiana, A General Digest of the Acts of theLegislatures of the few leaves, internally clean. A well-preserved copy of arare item. vertical crease through center, minor chipsand tears to edgesof a Stapled pamphlet.Light browning andlightedgewear, faint (12” x9”). Seven woodcuts, two full-page.Pictorialfront wrapper. Quarto Minneapolis, MN,December 20, 1895.23pp. Text in three columns. Times. Hayward’s Confession. HAYWARD, HARRY T. [1866-1895]. [GOODSELL, EDWARD H.] [MURDER]. MARTIN, FRANCOIS- RARE ACCOUNT OF A SENSATIONAL MINNEAPOLISMURDER A LANDMARK INLOUISIANA’S LEGAL HISTORY llets to spine.Moderate toning, somewhatheavier gure in the legalhistory of the south. A French-born rst post-territorial digestof the Louisiana Supplement totheMinneapolis XAVIER [1762-1846]. SOLD {
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ONLY EDITION. Hayward convinced Catherine M. Ging to retain the American colonies by granting them a larger role in the to insure her life with a large policy and list Hayward as the British Empire. Thoughts examines the grievances that led to the benefi ciary. He then hired a man to kill her. She was killed, the revolution and supports the demand of the colonists for rights of crime was detected and Hayward was convicted and hanged. The representation. Its appendix prints letters from Benjamin Franklin trial generated a good deal of attention and several publications. to the London Chronicle and to William Shirley, colonial governor Hayward’s Confession was included in copies of the December of Massachusetts. ESTC T50234. Sabin 66647. 20, 1895 issue of the Minneapolis Times. Complete in itself, it is presented as a section of a forthcoming title, Harry Hayward’s Confession and Criminal Life, a “thrilling volume” of “200 pages of sensational matter” advertised on the last page. This book was published in 1896. A clever promotional item. OCLC locates 1 copy (Minnesota Historical Society), no copies of the 1896 book. McDade 462.
1778 PAMPHLET URGING CONCILIATION WITH THE AMERICAN COLONIES
38 PULTENEY, WILLIAM.
Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs with America, And the Means of Conciliation.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pallmall; And T. Cadell in the Strand, 1778. [ii], 1032 pp. Octavo (8” x 5”).
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FIRST REPORT OF THE LANDMARK DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE the commonwealth by promoting enlightened self interest” (Konefsky). Farrar’s comprehensive report contains all material 41 [TRIAL]. related to the case, including the arguments of Webster and Wirt [DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE]. and the opinions of Chief Justice Marshall and Justices Story and FARRAR, TIMOTHY [1788-1874], REPORTER. Washington and texts of related documents. Konefsky, “Dartmouth College v. Woodward” in the Oxford Companion to Law 218-219. Report of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth College Sabin 23887. Cohen 11614. Against William H. Woodward. Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New- Hampshire, November 1817. And on Error in the Supreme FIRST EDITION OF WASHINGTON’S REPORTS, Court of the United States, February 1819. RICHMOND 1790-1799 Portsmouth: Published by John W. Forster, And West, Richardson, 42 WASHINGTON, BUSHROD [1762-1829]. And Lord, Boston, [1819]. [iv], 406 pp. Octavo (9” x 5”). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Original publisher boards, untrimmed edges, rebacked, period style Appeals of Virginia. contrasting paper spine with printed paper title label, preliminaries re-hinged. Light rubbing and minor staining to boards, moderate Richmond: Thomas Nicolson, 1798-1799. Two volumes. [x], 392, rubbing to extremities with wear to corners. Moderate toning and [30]; vii, [1], 302, 19 pp. Errata sheet in Volume I bound between light foxing to text, minor edgewear to preliminaries, minor tears Table of Contents and main text. Octavo (8” x 5”). to margins of a few leaves, small hole near center of Leaf 24 (pp. 177-178) with negligible loss to text. Brief early owner annotation to Contemporary sheep, blind fi llets to boards, lettering pieces and head of Page 1, interior otherwise clean. $1,500. blind fi llets to spines. Moderate rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, corners worn, front board of Volume I just beginning FIRST PUBLISHED REPORT. This is probably the most to separate, insect damage to portions of boards. Moderate important American case concerning the contract right of toning, occasional light foxing, small paper fl aw to pp. 299-300 of corporations. The New Hampshire legislature passed a bill in 1816 Volume II with negligible loss to text. Small early owner signatures that revoked Dartmouth College’s original charter and converted to head of each title page, interior otherwise clean. An appealing the college from a private to a state institution. The college unsophisticated nice set. $450. challenged the constitutionality of this act in the state Supreme Court without success, but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed FIRST EDITION. Covers the years 1790-1796, includes Tables the state’s decision in a landmark opinion based on the contract of Cases and an Index. Gathered when Washington was in practice clause of the Constitution. “By construing the contract clause as a in Richmond, these reports demonstrate his methodical attention means of protecting corporate charters from state interventions, to legal detail. Washington, nephew of President Washington, was Marshall derived a signifi cant limitation on state authority. As a member of the Virginia House of delegates in 1787 (voting for a result, various forms of private economic and social activity ratifi cation of the U.S. Constitution) and later an associate justice of would enjoy security from state regulatory policy. Marshall thus the U.S. Supreme Court from 1798-1829. This was one of the fi rst, encouraged, through constitutional sanction, the emergence of and one of the best, American reporters of the eighteenth century. the relatively unregulated private, autonomous economic actor Marvin 719. as the major participant in a liberal political economy that served
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Cathedral). National Library of Wales, BodleianLibrary, Oxford, Peterborough and 6more copies in the BritishIsles (Cambridge, CashelCathedral, copies inNorth America (Folger Library, University of Minnesota) Library) and1copy inIreland (Trinity College). The Harvard, Library of Congress, Yale) and1copy inGreat Britain(British edition inNorth America, 5inlaw libraries(Columbia, Georgetown, Justice of Common PleasinIreland. OCLC locates8copies of the fi when itbelonged to George Viscount Chaworthof Armagh, Chief pastedown traces partof this book’s ownershiphistory to 1636, editions were publishedin1602and1609. A bookplateon the rear Dyer’s and indexes of reporters. Issued two years after the fi FIRST EDITION. Ashe was highly regarded for his treatises in afew places, internally clean.$950. the book to rear pastedown.Moderate toning to text, lightfoxing Magistrates, Lincoln, andanother plate listingprevious ownersof pastedown, presentation bookplatefrom Hopkinson to the County bumped, later armorialbookplateof William Hopkinson to front bookplates retained. Moderate rubbing to extremities, corners later hand-lettered title label to spine,endpapersrenewed, blind arabesquesandinitials“ER” to boards, raisedbandsand Contemporary calf, rebacked retaining spine,blindrules,central (5” x3-1/2”). London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1588.[viii], 167, [1]ff. Octavo Conteinus inIcel Ore Tarde Compose per T.A. Banke. Per Quel Facilment cy Troveront Toutes Choses Iames Dyer Chivaler, Iades ChiefeIustice delCommon La Table alLieur desReports del Tresreverend Judge Sir [DYER, SIRJAMES (1510-1582)]. A[SHE], T[HOMAS] [FL.1599-1618]. BRITAIN GREAT { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE II Reports1588 table was , this fi Ashe’s ESTC AN EARLY GUIDE TO DYER’S REPORTS
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45 [BILL OF RIGHTS]. arms to title pages, woodcut head-pieces and tail-pieces. Light to [GREAT BRITAIN]. moderate toning to text, light foxing in some places, internally clean. $6,000. “An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, FIRST EDITION OF EACH ACT. These volumes record acts And Settling the Succession of the Crown.” passed during the fi rst six years of the reign of William and Mary. The most notable is the Bill of Rights, offi cially “An Act Declaring [Bound with] the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, And Settling the Succession [163 Parliamentary Acts Issued During Regnal Years 1-6 of of the Crown,” which was passed on 16 December 1689. One of King William III and Queen Mary II]. the great documents of English constitutional history, it is a formal restatement of the Declaration of Right presented by the London: Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1688- Convention Parliament to William and Mary in February 1689 (1688 1690; London: Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas in Old Style dating). It helped to establish the modern constitutional Newcomb, Deceas’d, 1691-1693. Six parts, containing 164 acts, monarchy and was a source for several North American colonial gathered in two volumes, each part has continuous pagination and constitutions and the American Bill of Rights. The other acts, index, each act has a title page. Folio (11” x 7”). though less momentous, are quite interesting because they trace the resolution of the Glorious Revolution and the early years of Contemporary calf, gilt spines with raised bands and lettering William Mary’s reign. The fi rst edition of the English Bill of Rights is pieces. Light rubbing to boards and spine, moderate rubbing to a rare title in commerce. A copy sold at auction in 2014 for $6,750. extremities, corners bumped and lightly worn, a few minor chips Bill of Rights: ESTC R236544. to spine ends, boards beginning to separate but secure. Woodcut
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ofRealme the . Sweet &Maxwell 1:203(6). ofLordBergavennyclaim tothetitle titled polemical 1642essay regarding the legitimacy of Edward Nevill’s law with originalmaterialby Doddridge, was derivedfrom a ONLY EDITION. This book,ageneralhandbookonpeerage light foxing, internally clean.$500. stains to boards, front hinge starting.Moderate toning, occasional to spine.Somerubbing to extremities, lightsoilingandsomeminor Later three-quarter morocco over cloth,gilt title andraisedbands pagination. Octavo(6-1/4” x4”). 1642. [iv], 56,65-114, 139-170, 105-158 pp. Text continuous despite London: Printed for Laurence Chapman, And William Sheares, Majesties Iudges of theKingsBench. Iudicious Lawyer, Sir Iohn Doderidge Knight,One of His Bird. But,Perused andEnlarged by That Learned, And Lawes andCustomes of England.Collected by Master Yeomen, And Matters Incident to Them, According tothe and Priviledges. Also of Knights,Esquires, Gentlemen, And Degrees of theNobility of thisKingdome, With Their Rights The Magazine of Honour; Or, A Treatise of theSeverall DODDRIDGE, SIRJOHN [1555-1628]. BIRD, [WILLIAM]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE
“NOBILITY OF THE REALME” { A Treatise of the Nobilitie ESTC R6100. THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N o 46 47 of Descents inFee-Simple have in 1767.) The contents of the two editionsdiffer. The fi one counts the piratedDublin reissue of the fi published in1771.(There isnoevidence of asecond edition,unless and the Law of Descents inFee-Simple (1759), TheGreat Charter(1759) publication), Essay onCollateral Consanguinity (1750, Blackstone’s fi each of the volumes contains ageneralindex. The works are: An They are reprinted here “withafew corrections andadditions”; early works, severalof which are quiterare in their originaleditions. fi FIRST EDITION. The otherwise clean.$2,500. pages (of John MacPherson, dated1771,andCharlesSwift), interior toning to text, lightfoxing inplaces. Early owner signatures to title in text blockbetween title pagesandfacingendleaves.Moderate endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities, later repairs to cracks raised bands,gilt title andgiltornaments to spines,marbled Nineteenth-century three-quarter morocco over marbledboards, Descents, folding Table of Consanguinity. Octavo(7-3/4” x5”). 8 copperplate facsimiles(of royal seals), copperplate Table of [iv], cxv, [5],135,[9] pp.4parts,each with divisional title page. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1762. Two volumes. [iv], 257, [7]; Law Tracts,In Two Volumes. BLACKSTONE, SIRWILLIAM[1723-1780]. Oxford Press Magna Carta, Carta deForest, Etc. Analysis of the Laws of England AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF BLACKSTONE TEXTS (1757); the “third” doesnothave Considerations onCopyholders (1758), Treatise on rst collected edition, with revisions, of fi . Eller 238.Laeuchli551. (1756) or Observations on the (1759). A “third” edition was rst, which was printed rst, whichwas Treatise on the Law rst doesnot rt legal rst N o ve ve 47 {
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FINAL EDITION OF BLACKSTONE’S TRACTS EARLY ENGLISH TREATISE ON BANKRUPTCY AND FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES 48 BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM. 49 [BLOUNT, THOMAS (1618-1679)]. Tracts, Chiefl y Relating to the Antiquities and Laws of BILLINGHURST, GEORGE, ATTRIBUTED. England. The Judges Resolutions Upon the Several Statutes Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1771. [iv], 353, [3], lxxx, [20] Concerning Bankrupts, With the Like Resolutions on pp. Six parts, each preceded by divisional title page. 8 copperplate the Statutes of 13 Eliz. and 27 Eliz. Touching Fraudulent facsimiles (of royal seals), copperplate Table of Consanguinity, 2 Conveyances. copperplate tail-pieces. Quarto (11-1/4” x 8-1/2”). London: Printed for Henry Twyford, 1676. 206, [2] pp. A second Contemporary calf, gilt rules and inside dentelles to boards, part, beginning on p. 176, has a divisional title page reading The rebacked in period style retaining existing lettering pieces, gilt fi llets Resolutions of the Judges, Upon 13 Eliz. and 27 Eliz. the Statutes and ornaments to spine, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Light Touching Fraudulent Conveyances. Octavo (5-1/2” x 3-1/2”). rubbing to boards, corners bumped and somewhat worn, hinges cracked, small early bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, “Bankrupts” in early to text, light foxing to a few leaves, light offsetting from copperplate hand to fore-edge of text block. A few light scuffs and moderate images, internally clean. $1,500. edgewear to boards, rear board slightly bowed and partially detached, spine abraded with chipping at ends, pastedowns loose “THIRD” AND FINAL EDITION. There is no evidence that and edgeworn, later armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfi eld a second edition was published, unless one counts the pirated to verso of front board, small embossed Macclesfi eld stamp to Dublin reprint of the fi rst edition, which was printed in 1767. Eller head of title page. Moderate toning to text, browning to margins 240. Laeuchli 553. in a few places, faint dampspotting to a few leaves. Early owner signature (of Jacob Ashton, dated 18 July 1681) to front endleaf, “46” in miniscule early hand to foot of title page, interior otherwise clean. $950.
SECOND AND FINAL EDITION. Blount was a member of the Inner Temple. Prohibited to practice at the Bar because he was a Catholic, and blessed with a large private income, Blount turned to legal scholarship, historical studies and lexicography. One of the earliest books on the topic, Judges was originally published in 1670 under Blount’s name with a slightly different title. Both editions of this title are scarce. OCLC locates 12 copies of the 1676 edition in North America, 10 in law libraries. ESTC R4175.
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{ CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE { THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N o 50 N o 51 50 51 ESTC Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 160. Holdsworth HEL XII:175-176. Starnes andNoyes, TheEnglish Abridgments, Digest, Dictionaries andIndexes to the Year 1800 throughout the eighteenthcentury. Cowley, its predecessors, it was reissued inlarger andrevised editions and citations. An immediatesuccess that quickly supplanted language dictionary with entries that include word etymologies and more detailed than itspredecessors. It isalso the fi from “theCoif to the puny-Clerk.” The he would create adictionary useful to everyone in the profession was almostantiquated.” He hoped that by correcting these fl so longhence, that his very Languageandmanner of expression without categorically determining which is the true”; Rastell“wrote the derivationof a Word, settingdownseveral Authors Opinions, In hispreface, heobserved that Cowell “issometimes too prolix in in Cowell’s FIRST EDITION. Blountaimed to correct the defects hefound page, interior otherwiseclean. An appealingcopy. $650. somewhat heavier inplaces. Early owner signature to headof title one betweenfront endleaf and title page.Light toning to text, boards, front jointstartingnear head,afew cracks to text block, Moderate rubbing to extremities, minor scuffi and later letteringpiece to spine,gilt tooling to board edges. Contemporary calf, speckledblindframes to boards, raisedbands black-ruled borders. Folio (11-1/4” x7”). Herringman, 1670. [286]pp. Text printedinparallelcolumns within London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for John Martin andHenry They Properly Occur. Wherein the Words are Used: And Etymologies, Where Law-Books, Charters, Ancient Deeds,andManuscripts, References totheSeveral Statutes, Records, Registers, in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Laws. With Diffi NOMO LEXIKON: A Law-Dictionary. Interpreting Such BLOUNT, THOMAS. rear endleaves, interior otherwiseclean.$600. spark burnsandsmudges to afew leaves. A few brief annotations to Moderate toning to text, minor worming to marginsinafew places, cracked, rear pastedownloose,someedgewear to endleaves. scratches to boards, moderaterubbing to extremities, hinges rules to boards, raisedbands to spine.Lightrubbingandafew Contemporary calf, rebacked retaining existingbackstrip,blind pagination. Octavo(7”x4-1/4”). [4]; 150, [10] pp. Two parts.Each with title pageandindividual London: Printed by T.B. for Hannah Sawbridge,1685.[14],252, Properly Concern the Same. of theMost Authentick andUseful Precedents, Which do the Offi ce of aJustice of Peace. The Second Consisting the Common andStatute Laws of England,Relating to Best Approved Authors. In Two Parts. The FirstContaining A Complete Guide for Justices of Peace, According tothe BOND, J[OHN]. cultandObscure Words and Terms, asare Found Either R19028. Interpreter FIRST EDITIONOF BLOUNT’S DICTIONARY “ADAPTED TO OUR PRESENT AGE” (1607) andRastell’s Termes delaLey (1523). 46.Sweet &Maxwell 1:6(8). Nomo-Lexikon ng andstaining to A Bibliography of rst English- isclearer aws
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FIRST EDITION. Bond thought his manual was necessary to restate the laws and procedures concerning justices, which he felt had been corrupted during the years of the Civil War and Commonwealth. The contents are digested alphabetically by topic. A useful work, it went through three more editions, the last in 1707. All editions are scarce. OCLC locates 5 copies of the fi rst edition in North American law libraries (Harvard, Library of Congress, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Yale). ESTC R35355.
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Examen Legum Angliae: Or, The Laws of England Examined, By Scripture, Antiquity, And Reason. Cujus Author Anagrammatos Est, Ha Nomos Boa Hos Bary.
London: Printed by James Cottrel, 1656. [xvi], 151, [8] pp. Errata leaf lacking. Quarto (7-1/2” x 5-1/2”).
Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fi llets to spine, sprinkled edges. Light rubbing to boards, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, front pastedown loose and edgeworn, following endleaf and rear endleaves lacking, some wear and discoloration to margins of title page and fi nal four leaves. Woodcut head-pieces. Moderate toning to text, minor to margins of a few leaves, Early scribbling to front pastedown, interior otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $1,500. No 53
ONLY EDITION. Legal reform was a priority when the Puritans assumed power during the Interregnum. Among many proposals his Heirs. Of the Trying, Condemning and Execution of a put forward at this time were the establishment of courts for small Crowned Head. Of the Marriage of a Prince and Princess. claims, the conduct of pleading in English, the adoption of civil Of the Detecting Conspiracies Against a Government. Of marriage and abolition of the benefi t of clergy. These points are Subjects Revolting from a Tyrannical Prince. Of Excluding made in Examen Legum Angliae. Other proposals include capital Foreigners from Publick Employments. Of Constituting punishment for adultery and partible inheritance with a double portion for the eldest son. As Haskins has shown, many ideas in Extraordinary Magistrates upon Extraordinary Occasions. this book may have been inspired by the laws of Massachusetts. Of Subjects Anticipating the Execution of Laws. Of “Although Puritans on both sides of the Atlantic turned constantly Tolleration of Religion. Of Peace and War, &c. With The to the guidance of Scripture and drew upon a common fund of Debates, Arguments and Resolutions of the Greatest moral attitudes, the English proposals [recorded in the Examen Statesmen in Several Ages and Governments Thereupon. Legum Angliae] bear so striking a resemblance to the laws in force in Massachusetts that it is tempting to conjecture that copies of London: Printed for James Knapton, 1701. [xvi], 366, [2] pp. Includes the [Massachusetts] Code had reached the hands of the English two-page publisher list. Octavo (7-1/2” x 4-1/2”). reformers. Signifi cantly, the author of the Examen Legum Angliae showed an awareness of colonial developments in referring to the Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised laws of New England ‘collected into a body, and endeavoured to bands and lettering piece to spine. Moderate toning to text, light be made agreeable to the Jews Law morall and juditiall’“ (Haskins). foxing in a few places, browning and edgewear to front endleaf, Published anonymously, this book is usually attributed to “A. Booth.” internally clean. Ex-library. Small inkstamps to title page and a few Some sources say “A. Boon.” See Wing B3738. OCLC locates 9 other leaves. A nice copy in a handsome binding. $850. copies in North American law libraries. Haskins 191. ESTC R38641. ONLY EDITION. Compiled posthumously, this book is a fi ne introduction to the political and legal scholarship of one of the most interesting thinkers of the seventeenth century. Boxhorn, a prominent linguist, historian and political theorist, was a professor INTERESTING ESSAYS ON GOVERNMENT at the University of Leiden. A remarkably prolifi c scholar, his AND PARLIAMENT BY A NOTABLE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH SCHOLAR work stands on the cusp of late-Renaissance humanism and the early-Enlightenment thought epitomized by such philosophers [BOXHORN, MARCUS ZUERIUS as Hobbes and Pufendorf. He admired England’s Parliament and 53 had a keen interest in the history and institutions of English law (1612-1653)]. and government. OCLC locates 9 copies in North American law libraries. ESTC T116021. Arcana Imperii Detecta: Or, Divers Select Cases in Government; More Particularly, Of the Obeying the Unjust Commands of a Prince. Of the Renunciation of a Right to a Crown. Of the Proscription of a Limitted Prince and
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the listof crime,for savagecruelty.” guilty deedlike this before, E’er saw the light of day;Unequall’d in foot of the broadside isaseven-verse poem, which begins:“No omitted because they were “wholly unfi a detailedaccount of the trial, detailsabout the crimeare mostly her testimony astonishedallpresent.” Although the broadside has the witness box, “theclearnessandprecision with which shegave to suffocation.” Emma testifi tried atKingston Assizes where the court was “crowded almost she was raped by the 23-year-old Henry Hughes. The case was in the London borough of Southwark with her littlesister when EMMA COCK WAS GATHERING FLOWERS inafi Some toning, otherwisefine. $850. concludes with seven-verse poem. irons, hangingandprisonaboveof text, untrimmededges. Text three columns enclosedby blackrules,large woodcut vignette of broadside mounted to 19”x13”board with hingedmatte. Text in [London]: G.Smeeton,Printer, 74, Tooley Street., [1834].15”x10” 8 YearsOld. Lane, Southwark, For Violating EmmaCock, A GirlOnly Death thisMorning, At theCounty Goal, Horsemonger The Trial andExecution of Henry Hughes, Who Suffered [LONDON, ENGLAND]. [EXECUTION]. [BROADSIDE]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE “NO GUILTY DEEDLIKE THIS BEFORE, E’ER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY”
ed at the trial. Standing onachair in { t for publication.” At the THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N o 54 eld 55 Library of Congress). for her. OCLC locates2copies worldwide (Harvard Law School, day oldbaby intoacanal.Nobody proposed aninsanity defense been suffering from post-partumdepression, threw her twelve- witnesses were called to prove insanity. Smith, who may have in fi SHAW ANDTOMLINSON APPEARED Some toning andedgewear, otherwisefi of Shaw, Tomlinson andSmith. IX, 6andMatthew XIX,18. Verse poemsat the endof the accounts woodcut vignette of execution fl broadside. Text in three columns enclosedby blackrules,large [London]: G.Smeeton,Printer, 74, Tooley Street., [1834].15”x10” for Execution Last Wednesday, March 19,1834. the Late Staffordshire Spring Assizes, And Were Ordered Infant Child. Who All Three Received Sentence of Deathat Evans, His Sweetheart, Mary Smith, For Drowning Her Oldcroft, Aged 9,Richard Tomlinson, For murdering Mary The Trials of CharlesShaw, Aged 16,For Murdering John [STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND]. [EXECUTION]. [BROADSIDE]. ts of ragesparked by disputesover money. In bothcases “ALL THREE RECEIVED THE SENTENCEOF DEATH...” anked by excepts from Genesis ne. $850. to havemurdered
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57 [BRYDALL, JOHN (B.1635?)].
Jura Coronae. His Majesties Royal Rights and Prerogatives Asserted, Against Papal Usurpations, And All Other Anti- Monarchical Attempts and Practices. Collected Out of the Body of the Municipal Laws of England.
London: Printed for George Dawes, 1680. [xvi], 147, [5] pp. Copperplate frontispiece (of the royal arms of Great Britain). Includes fi ve-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (6-1/2” x 4-1/2”).
Recent period-style calf, blind frames to boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, edges rouged. Light toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, light foxing to a few leaves, internally clean. A handsome copy. $950.
ONLY EDITION. Brydall was a fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford, and a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. A remarkably prolifi c writer, he published 36 legal treatises, and left 30 others in manuscript at the time of his death. All of these are brief, synthetic works. Holdsworth says they are good summaries that are “clearly arranged and based on the leading authorities.” Written near the end of the Stuart Monarchy, Jura Coronae is a strongly monarchist overview of the laws and legal rights reserved by the Crown. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this work. OCLC locates 10 copies in North American law libraries. HEL VI:605. Sowerby 2706. ESTC R36323.
No 56 “YOUNG LOVERS ALL I PRAY ATTEND, WHILE I RELATE A DEED, THE BARE RECITAL OF THE SAME, WILL MAKE YOUR HEARTS TO BLEED.”
CARE SUPPORTS A CONTROVERSIAL DECISION BY KING JAMES II 56 [BROADSIDE]. [EXECUTION]. [CARE, HENRY (1646-1688)]. [SUFFOLK, ENGLAND]. 58 A Vindication of the Proceedings of His Majesties Execution of William Corder, For the Murder of Mary Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Against the Bishop of Martin in the Red Barn. London, And the Fellows of Magdalen-College. [London]: Printed by J. Catnach, 2 Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials, London: Printed by Tho. Milbourn, 1688. [iv], 8, 17-78 pp. Text [1828]. 15” x 20” broadside. Text in fi ve columns separated by black continuous despite pagination. With a preliminary imprimatur leaf. rules, fi ve large woodcut vignettes, three at top of text, two below, Quarto (8-1/4” x 6-1/2”). depicting moments in the history of the crime. All but the hanging scene have captions. Account concludes with a long verse poem. Recent marbled boards, printed paper title panel to front cover, untrimmed edges. Light rubbing to spine. Title printed within Moderate toning, horizontal and vertical fold-lines, some edgewear double-ruled border. Light toning to text, faint dampstain to head and a few chips and minor tears along fold-lines, otherwise fi ne. of title page, internally clean. A handsome copy. $350. $1,500. ONLY EDITION, ONE OF TWO ISSUES FROM 1688. “THE RED BARN MURDER was a notorious homicide In April 1687 King James II interfered in the presidential election committed in Polstead, Suffolk, England in 1827. A young woman, of Magdalen College. The ensuing controversy ended with the Maria Marten, was shot dead by her lover, William Corder. The installation of the pro-Catholic Bishop of Oxford, backed by the two had arranged to meet at the Red Barn, a local landmark, Royal Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as president. The fellows before eloping to Ipswitch. Maria was never heard from again. acquiesced, but this was not enough for the king, who ordered Corder fl ed the scene and, although he sent Martin’s family letters them to admit their wrongdoing and ask for his pardon. Most of claiming she was in good health, her body was later discovered the fellows refused and were ejected and replaced by Catholics. buried in the barn after her stepmother spoke of having dreamt Care supported the King’s actions. For most of his career, Care about the murder. Corder was tracked down in London, where was an opponent of Catholicism and royal power, but he shifted he had married and started a new life. He was brought back to course during the reign of James II, becoming an unoffi cial royal Suffolk, and after a well-publicized trial, found guilty of murder. He propagandist. Though not uncommon, few copies of this title are was hanged at Bury St. Edmonds in 1828; a huge crowd witnessed held in North American law libraries. Counting both issues, OCLC Corder’s execution. The story provoked numerous articles in locates 3 (at Harvard, the Library of Congress and York University). newspapers, and songs and plays. The village where the crime ESTC R202803. had taken place had become a tourist attraction and the barn was stripped by souvenir hunters.”: Wikipedia.
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stand in the background. George13761. Several membersof the House of Lords with padlocked mouths a serpentrepresenting GeorgeIV slithersoutof aholeinitsside. a “bottleof smoke” outof the seatof justice, the Green Bag, while groundless andaperversionof the legalsystem.John Bullpulls supported Caroline’s cause,itdismisses the Billasboth such as this anonymousprint.One of many publications that by oneof the King’s agents. coronation of GeorgeIV. She was certain that she was poisoned trial. Although sheprevailed, shefell illanddied shortly after the a popular favorite.Indeed, her popularity increased during the defeated. Despite the King’s bestattempts,Caroline remained submitted to the House of Commons, where it would havebeen Italy.) The bill was approved by the House of Lords, butit was not Caroline hadanaffair with aservant,BartolomeoBergami, while in Queen Consort anddissolveher marriage.(Thebillalleged that House of Lords inJuly 1820inorder to stripCaroline of the title of the Earlof Liverpoolintroduced The Pains andPenalties Bill to the his ministers to getridof her. After sherefused amonetary offer, accession to the throne brought her back to Britain. The Kingasked Augusta. In 1814Caroline moved to Europe. In 1820her husband’s private residence after the birthof her daughter, Princess Charlotte soon after their marriage,Caroline was eventually banished to a was oneof the mostsensational trials inEnglishhistory. Estranged THE REPUDIATION of Queen Caroline by KingGeorgeIV soiling to margins, colors vivid. A well-preserved copy. 11” x17”hand-colored lithograph. A few chips,minor tears andlight [London]: Publishedby John Fairburn, July 1820. Committee. All aBottle of Smoke!! Or John BullandtheSecret [PAINS ANDPENALTIES BILL]. [CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK (1768-1821)]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE The trial inspired numerous books,pamphletsandephemera,
A BOTTLE OF SMOKE!! { THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE $500. 60 in the same year, alsoinMoscow. According to the 1767. An edition with aparallelGerman translation was published later produced aRussian translation. It was publishedinMoscow in completed. Catherine’s manuscript was written inFrench, andshe the deathpenalty. Unfortunately, her proposed code was never the equality of allmenbefore the law anddenounced torture and with Frederick the Great and Voltaire, the Instruction proclaimed code to replace the 1649Muscovite Code. Revised inconsultation Commission convened by the Empress in1767 to create anew Beccaria, it was compiled asaguidefor the All-Russia Legislative and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire, Montesquieu and undertakings. Infused with the ideasof the French Enlightenment, 1764 and1766.It was amongher mostambitiousand signifi is astatementof legalprinciples written by CatherineIIbetween in North American law libraries.SeeCamus3301. imprint) in1769. OCLC locates12copies of Tatichtchev’s translation Francophone Europe was produced inSwitzerland (with afalse banned inFrance becauseit was too liberal; the fi rst editionin published inFrankfurt andLeipzig in1769. The book was initially the source of Tatichtchev’s translation. The fi FIRST EDITION INENGLISH. The page, annotations to verso. A handsomecopy. $2,500. interior otherwiseclean.Ex-library. Two smallinkstamps to title Occasional markingsandbrief notesinlightpencil to margins, and blindornaments to spine.Moderate toning andfoxing to text. Recent period-stylepaneledcalf, raisedbands,letteringpiece 1/4” x8-1/4”). London: Printed for T. Jefferys, 1768.xxiii,[1],3-258 pp.Quarto (10- Original, In theRussian Language. Rules for ElectingtheCommissioners. Translated from the Manner of Opening theCommission, With theOrder and of All theRussias. To which isPrefixed aDescription of the Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II,Empress to Frame aNew Code of Laws for theRussian Empire: The Grand Instructions totheCommissioners Appointed TATICHTCHEV, MIKHAIL,TRANSLATOR. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA CATHERINE II[1729-1796], FIRST EDITIONOF THE NAKAZINENGLISH N o 60 rst Germanedition was Nakaz ESTC , or Instruction, ESTC N6651. , this was , this was cant {
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THE FIRST EXTENSIVE STUDY OF THE SUBJECT
61 [CORPORATIONS].
The Law of Corporations: Containing the Laws and Customs of All the Corporations and Inferior Courts of Record in England. Treating of the Essentials of, And Incidents to, A Corporation. Of Mayors, Bailiffs, Serjeants, &c. And Their Executing Process. Conusance of Pleas. Actions Brought in Inferior Courts, Declarations Pleadings, Venue, &c. Habeas Corpus, Procedendo, Bail, Errors in the Stile, Declarations, Pleadings, Venire’s &c. Actions Brought by and Against Corporations. Of Grants by Or to a Corporation and of Misnomer in Both. By-Laws Customs, Disfranchisements and Causes of Disfranchisements. Quo Warranto’s, Mandamus’s and Their Returns. Dissolution of Corporations. With the Explication of Several Acts of Parliament Relating to the Same. Together With the Stiles and Titles of Most Corporations in England. Necessary to be Known Not Only by the Stewards, Attorneys, And Other Members of the Body Politick, But by All the Professors of the Common Law.
London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1702. [xxxii], 365, [3] pp. With a half-title and a three-page publisher catalogue. Title printed within double-ruled border. Octavo (7-1/4” x 4-3/4”). No 62 Recent period-style paneled calf, raised bands, blind ornaments and lettering piece to spine. Moderate toning, light foxing in places, chips and minor tears to edges of a few leaves (with no loss to text). Small struck-though early owner signature and small London: Printed for William Sheares, 1637. [584] pp. Text in parallel inkstamp to title page, interior otherwise clean. $1,500. columns within black-ruled borders. Quarto (7-1/2” x 5-1/2”).
ONLY EDITION. Preceded only by William Sheppard’s Of Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, rebacked in period style Corporations, Fraternities and Guilds (1659), a brief duodecimo with raised bands and lettering piece, hinges mended, edges volume, this 1702 work was the only treatise in English published rouged. Moderate rubbing to extremities, a few negligible scuffs to before Stewart Kyd’s Treatise on Law of Corporations (1793- boards, corners bumped. Woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and 1794), which is often cited as the fi rst work on the subject. (Kyd decorated initials. Moderate toning to text, light staining to a few does not seem to have been aware of these earlier books.) The leaves. Early owner annotation to head of title page in small hand, anonymous author mentions Sheppard’s book but dismisses it, another annotation in miniscule later hand to foot of another leaf, claiming that it “extends not to the fortieth part of the matters interior otherwise clean. A handsome copy. $1,000. relating to Corporations (v). He is correct; his book is much more extensive than Sheppard’s and is more an analytical treatise than a SECOND EDITION, one of two issues from 1637. The handbook. This was clearly the author’s ambition: “I have not only Interpreter is considered to be the best law dictionary until Jacob’s shewed the nature of Corporations, and by what words erected, and it is still used by scholars of early English legal documents. but the several sorts thereof. And the power of executing Process Its publication provoked controversy. At a time when Parliament within the Jurisdiction, and the Duties of Offi cers, is matter of Great and crown were vying for power, the Commons disapproved Consideration, which I have not omitted” (v). Pike [1835-1915] was of Cowell’s royalist sympathies, which were evident in such a notable English legal scholar. Hornstein, Review of Corporations defi nitions as “King,” “Parliament,” “Prerogative,” “Recoveries” by Henry W. Ballantine, Columbia Law Review 47/4 (1947) 696. and “Subsidies.” When a joint committee of Lords and Councilors Sweet & Maxwell 1:417 (15), 533 (55). ESTC T116022. reviewed the work, the ensuing controversy nearly halted the affairs of government. What is more, it contained a quotation that criticized Littleton’s scholarship, which angered Sir Edward Coke. THE BEST ENGLISH LAW DICTIONARY James I intervened in fear that his own fi scal interests would not be OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES approved by Parliament. Encouraged by Coke, the king imprisoned Cowell, suppressed the book and ordered all copies burned by a 62 COWELL, JOHN [1554-1611]. public hangman on March 10, 1610. The present edition contains several changes that were made posthumously to placate the The Interpreter: Or Booke Containing the Signifi cation dictionary’s enemies. Despite its stormy reception, The Interpreter of Words: Wherein is Set Foorth the True Meaning remains a useful gloss to Coke’s Littleton and other early legal of All, Or the Most Part of Such Words and Termes, texts. Marke 309-312. Cowley 129. ESTC S108965. as are Mentioned in the Lawe Writers, or Statutes of This Victorious and Renowned Kingdome, Requiring Any Exposition or Interpretation. A Worke not Onely Profi table, but Necessary for Such as Desire Throughly to be Instructed in the Knowledge of Our Lawes, Statutes, and Other Antiquities.
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ESTC the LateRenaissance. Holdsworth, shared by severalconservatives inEnglandandEurope during monarch. This attitude,articulatedby Bodin amongothers, was of arigidly hierarchical “natural”society governedby apowerful a broader scale, Crompton offers legaljustifi in afew howers gainegreat knowledge”(cited inHoldsworth). On applyed, andsocompendiously collected, that amanmay by them his casesare very profi in every man’s hands, which prooveth their generallallowance, Crompton has taken great paynesin this study, andhisbooksare see that its value was recognized almostimmediately:“Master A Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Lawe other casesapplicable to the subject. Turning to William Fulbecke’s be hisprincipal work. It isessentially adigestof the Year Booksand notable juristic works. L’Authoritie etIurisdiction Temple during the reign of Henry VIII and the author of several FIRST EDITION. Crompton was abencher of the Middle leaves, interior otherwiseclean. An appealingcopy. $2,000. one with burn-though, early annotationsandunderlining to afew early owner initialsand struck-through signatures to title page, places, someleaveshavefaintdampspottingor edgewear. Small decorated initials.Moderate toning to text, somewhatheavier in nicks to boards, hingescracked. Woodcut head-pieces and lettering piece to spine.Lightrubbing to extremities, afew minor Later three-quarter calf over marbledboards, raisedbandsand 1/4” x5-1/4”). London: In Aedibus Caroli Yetsweirti, 1594. [iv], 232ff. Quarto (7- Decere Senem. Index, Mitisis Corde Memento, Dicito, Quae Possunt Dicta del Milieu Temple Esquire, Apprentice delLey. SiSeuris Roygne: Nouelment Collect &Compose, Per R.Crompton L’Authoritie etIurisdiction desCourts delaMaiestie dela [CROMPTON, RICHARD (D. 1599)]. assizes for Rochester goal. to transportation. Not listedonOCLC or ESTC charged or Convicted of diverseFelonies.” Savage was sentenced in order to facilitate the Escapeof certain Prisoners in the saidGoal, certain Instruments intohisMajesty’s GoalatMaidstone aforesaid, December, chargedonastrong Suspicionof feloniously conveying committed by S.Stevenson, Esq;(Mayor of Maidstone) the 12thof his clerks. An exampleof oneof the charges:“WilliamSavage, annotations were probably written by Sheriff Sayer or oneof as “Transported,” “Death,” “Not Guilty,” and“Whipt[sic].” The annotations list the sentences passedoneachdetainee,such them while beingheldatRochester Goal,Kent, England. The contemporary manuscript, with detailedchargesheldagainst A LISTOF 40PRISONERS , 36printedand4addedin Sayer Esq./Sheriff.” $1,250. hand, docketed atfoot of p.4:“Kent Calendar/ Lent Assizes 1755/Geo. two tears alongfolds, text annotated throughout incontemporary Moderate toning, three horizontalfold lines,someedgewear with [Rochester: s.n.,1755].4pp.Folio (15” x9-1/2”). On Monday, March 17, 1755.George Sayer, Esq; Sheriff. At the Assizes Held atRochester, For theCounty of Kent, [GREAT BRITAIN]. [CRIME ANDCRIMINALS]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE FIRST EDITIONOF CROMPTON’S SURVEY OF THE COURTS S109077. Beale T328. THE FATE OF 40PRISONERS
table, and apt forapt and thetitleto which theytable, are { History of EnglishLaw IV: 212. cation for the creation ; neither locateany isconsidered to THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE (1600), we N N o 63 o 64 {
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ADVICE FOR ASPIRING LAWYERS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
65 DODDRIDGE, SIR JOHN [1555-1628].
The English Lawyer. Describing a Method for the Managing of the Lawes of this Land. And Expressing the Best Qualities Requisite in the Student, Practizer, Judges and Fathers of the Same.
London: Printed by the Assignes of I. More Esq, 1631. [viii], 271, [1] pp. Quarto (7-1/4” x 5-1/4”).
Contemporary calf, rebacked, raised bands to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, a few shallow scuffs to boards. Woodcut head- pieces and decorated initials. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining to corners of a few leaves. Neat underlining in several places, brief recent notes in faint pencil to a few places. A handsome copy. $2,500.
ONLY EDITION. Doddridge wrote this book to advise aspiring lawyers. Among other points, such as suggested readings and advice concerning personal demeanor, he urges the student to acquire a solid liberal-arts education that emphasizes subjects with practical application, such as logic and etymology. Regarding the specifi cs of legal education, he discusses the best methods of study and information on the sources and principles of English law. Holdsworth said it was the “most notable” book of its kind. As distinguished a jurist as Coke and Bacon, Doddridge was a counselor o of the King’s Bench, a Serjeant for Prince Henry, Solicitor-General, N 66 a Member of Parliament and the author of fi ve important works, all published posthumously. HEL V:397-398. ESTC S109764. the ESTC locate 1 copy (Lambeth Palace Library) and 2 copies of the second edition (British Library, National Library of Scotland). RARE ENGLISH ANTI-DUELING PAMPHLET ESTC T202128.
66 [DUELING]. “THE BEST OF THE OLD TREATISES UPON PLEADING” [GREAT BRITAIN]. 67 [EUER, SIR SAMSON]. A Hint on Duelling: In a Letter to a Friend. A System of Pleading: Including a Translation of the London: Printed for M. Sheepey, 1751. [iv], 22 pp. With a half-title. Doctrina Placitandi; Or, The Art and Science of Pleading: Octavo (8” x 5”). Originally Written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at Law, And Now First Translated From the Obsolete Norman French. Stab-stitched pamphlet in contemporary marbled wrappers. Light Shewing Where, In What Cases, And by What Persons, rubbing, a few creases to wrappers. Moderate toning to text, light Pleas, As Well Personal, Or Mixed, May Be Properly soiling to preliminary leaves and verso of fi nal leaf. Early owner Pleaded; With References to and Extracts from, The Most inscription to head of half-title, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy of a rare title. $2,500. Approved Writers on that Subject, Carefully Digested Under Their Proper Titles, And Brought Into One Collective FIRST EDITION. The author does not want to suppress dueling Point of View. Together With an Introduction, Explaining in all cases, but suggests that the practice could be diminished the Different Terms Made Use of in the Proceedings of substantially by the “The erecting of a proper Court, A Tribunal of Each Respective Court; Also a Preface and Table. Honour,” where aristocratic court offi cers and jurymen “shall sit to prevent the Calamities of which Duelling may be productive, Dublin: Printed by James Moore, 1791. xxii, [18], viii, 534 pp. Octavo or to exact proper penalties of the proper offenders. No longer (8-1/4” x 5-1/4). let Men of Honour be hauled before incompetent judges, whose Stations incapacitate them from sympathizing with the Accused, Contemporary calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Light or entering into the merits of the Case; but let them have the rubbing and a few minor scuffs and inkspots to boards, small white Common Right of Englishmen and be tried by their Peers. No longer stain to top-edge, moderate rubbing to extremities, head of spine let the unfortunate Challenger, but he who made the challenge worn away, corners bumped and lightly worn, front joint starting unavoidable, be punish’d. No longer let a shameful Death be the at ends, front hinge partially cracked. Moderate toning to text, Retribution of an Action which the Voice proclaims it Infamous to somewhat heavier in places, occasional light foxing, spark burns Decline. The Decision of Men of adequate Character and Authority to a few leaves. Early owner signature and annotations to front would in most Cases after Insults received prevent Duels; and free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. $300. where they fail’d, a due-proportioned Punishment judiciously and impartially infl icted would soon lessen the frequency of SECOND AND FINAL EDITION. This anonymously edited the practice” (12-13). A second edition was published in 1752. It pleader is based on Sampson’s Doctrina Placitandi, Ou L’Art et provoked a response by Abraham Clarke entitled, A Home-Thrust Science de Bon Pleading (1677). Marvin says it is “the best of the at Duelling, Intended as an Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intitled, old treatises upon pleading.” OCLC locates 21 copies. Marvin 299. A Hint on Duelling. Both editions of A Hint are rare. OCLC and Sweet & Maxwell 1:268.
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equally important in the American colonies. Thomas Jefferson, for cases atcommon law.” A standard work inGreat Britain,it was accomplished “nothingless than to abridgeallnotesof signifi writers asBrooke andRolle. According to Boersma,Fitzherbert common law inasystematicmanner and was amodelfor such in 1514(or 1516), it was the fi rst seriousattempt to arrange the 13,485 casesunder 263 titles inalphabeticalorder. Firstpublished imposing volumes in the history of Englishlaw, Fitzherbertabridged FIRST TOTTELL EDITION. Arguably oneof the most binding. $5,000. page, interior otherwiseclean. A nice copy inanotably handsome places, later owner signature (of John Purivand) to headof title edgeworn, mounted.Early annotationsandunderlininginsome margin of Fol. 1, title pageof fi light edgewear, tears or dampstaining,early repair to upper woodcut decorated initials.Moderate toning, afew leaveshave borders, architectural printed withinwoodcut pastedown. Titles (of Charles Gresley Arminger of Lichfi gilt ornaments to spine,endpapersrenewed, armorialbookplate contrasting panels to boards, title to front panel,raisedbandsand Recent paneledmorocco, giltrules,corner fl eurons andcentral 1/2” x9”). [i], 128,207ff. Firstandsecond partshave title pages.Folio (13- London: Richard Tottell, 1565. Three partsin two books [i], 379; La Secounde Part duGraund Abridgment... [And] Iammais Devaunt Imprimee. Cases cy Abrydges enlesLivers Dans,Novelment Annote: Nombre delSueil, Per Quel Facilement Poies Trover les Ouesque laCopy Escript etper Ceo Correct: Aueques le Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert,DerniermentConferre La Graunde Abridgement Collecte par leIudge Tresreverend FITZHERBERT, SIRANTHONY [1470-1538]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE THE BOOK THAT “MADE” THE COMMON LAW”
rst part, which islightly soiledand { eld, 1854) mounted to front THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE cant N o 68 69 Sowerby 1776. 128 leavesof the second part.BealeR463, R464. notable difference is that the Bealecopy doesnotinclude the fi differs from our copy, which matches that in the ESTC Journal 51(1957) 100-101. Beale’s record for the second part this work as the “book that ‘made’ the common law.”: Law Library example, ownedacopy from 1577. Graham andHeckel refer to FIRST PUBLISHED IN1534, the A nice copy. $2,500. leaves, along with someunderlining,rear endleaf fi brief annotationsinearly hand to headof title pageandsome text to someleaves.Early owner signature to front free endpaper, occasional discoloration to outer marginsinafew places, soiling within woodcut architectural border. Moderate toning to text, front pastedownloose,afew cracks to text block. Title printed bumped andlightly chipped,front jointjuststartingathead, worm holes,corners bumpedandsomewhat worn, spineends Some rubbing to extremities, minor nicks to boards, afew small to boards, raisedbandsandblindrules to spine, ties lacking. Contemporary paneledcalf, blindfleurons andcentral arabesques colophon]. [xxxii],271ff. Octavo(6-1/2” x4-1/2”). London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1567[i.e. 1576,dateon Imprimee. per Guiliaulme Rastell, &Iammais per Cydeuaunt Choses Notables Contenus en Ycell, Novelment Compose Corrige per Laucteur, Avecques un Table Perfecte des Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert,Denierement Renue &. La Nouvelle Natura Breviu [RASTELL, WILLIAM(?1508-1565)]. [FITZHERBERT, SIRANTHONY]. Beale T348. becoming obsoletein the early sixteenthcentury. Winfi remains signifi editions inLaw French andEnglish, the fi addition of a table. A popular work, it went through numerous on the form andfunctionof writs. Rastell’s revisions include the the authority as well. Compiled from the earlier greatest authority andexcellency”; Blackstoneconsidered itan among the books which heconsidered mostnecessary andof during the reign of Henry VIII. Winfi is amanualof procedure written by aJudge of the Common Pleas Registrum Brevium HIGHLY ESTEEMEDBY COKE AND BLACKSTONE ESTC cant to this day for itsdescriptionsof writs that were S4100. , itincludesseveraloriginalobservations [m] eld notes that “Coke putit du Iudge Tresreverende Nouvelle Natura Brevium nal appearingin1794. It Natura Brevia Detail from lled with notes. ESTC . The most . The S122166. eld 303. eld N and o rst 68
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1554 EDITION OF FITZHERBERT’S IMPORTANT JP MANUAL
70 FITZHERBERT, SIR ANTHONY.
The New Boke of Iustices of Peace Made by Anthonie Fitz Herbard Iudge Lately Translated Out of Fre[n]ch into Englishe and Newlye Corrected.
[London: In Fletestrete Within Temple Barre, At the Signe of the Hande and Starre, by Richarde Tottle], 1554. 173, [3] ff. Octavo (5- 1/4” x 3-1/2”).
Contemporary calf with later rebacking and recornering, raised bands to spines, early owner initials “G.T.” to edges of text block, endpapers renewed, title page and fi nal leaf rehinged. Moderate rubbing to extremities, a few chips to spine ends, some gatoring to boards and spine, hinges cracked. Title printed within woodcut architectural border. Moderate toning and occasional light soiling to text, heavier soiling and edgewear to title page and fi nal two leaves, lower corner lacking from title page with minor loss to woodcut border, faint dampstaining in places. “Henry Rutter” to head of Fol. 1, annotations in early hands to several leaves. An appealing copy. $3,500. No69
FIRST PRINTED IN 1538, Fitzherbert’s manual was issued eight more times; its fi nal 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). Several leaves have legal notes ranging from a phrase to a sentence or two. Other leaves have non-legal comments and doodles. ESTC S4295. Beale T341.
HANDSOME 1584 PRINTING OF FITZHERBERT’S JP MANUAL IN LAW-FRENCH
71 FITZHERBERT, SIR ANTHONY. CROMPTON, RICHARD (FL. 1573-1599), EDITOR.
Loffi ce et Aucthoritie de Iustices de Peace, In Part Collect No 70 per le Tresreverende, Monsier Antho. Fitzherbert, Iades, Un de les Iustices del Common Banke, & Inlarge per Richard Crompton, Un Apprentice de la Commen Ley, & Ore pur Luy Reuyse, Corrygie, & Augment. 1584. A Que est Annex Loffi ce de Vicountes, Baylifes, Escheators, Constables, Coroners, &c. Collect per le Dit Mounsier Fitzherb.
London: By Richard Tottell, [1584]. [xii], 227, [1] ff. Quarto (7-1/2” x 5”).
Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, rebacked retaining spine with raised bands, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Light rubbing to extremities, somewhat heavier rubbing to spine, a few shallow scuffs to boards, corners bumped and lightly worn, pastedowns loose. Title printed within typographical border, woodcut decorated initials. Light toning to text, light soiling to title page, minor edgewear to preliminaries and rear endleaves. Lengthy annotation in court hand to rear endleaf, interior otherwise clean. A handsome copy. $2,000.
LATER EDITION. ESTC S102244. Beale T330.
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JAMES BRADLEY THAYER’S COPY OF “THE FIRST CLASSICAL TEXTBOOK OF ENGLISH LAW” BOUND WITH A LATIN EDITION OF DOCTOR AND STUDENT
74 GLANVILLE, RANULF DE [D. 1190]. tail-pieces and decorated initials. Moderate toning to text, faint dampspotting and foxing in some places, bookseller description Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae, affi xed to front pastedown. Owner signature of James Bradley Tempore Regis Henrici Secundi Compositus, Iusticiae Thayer to front endleaf, neat underlining and brief annotations in later hands to margins of several leaves, including several by Gubernacula Tenente Illustri Viro Ranulpho de Glanvilla Thayer, who annotated the bookseller description on the front Iuris Regni & Antiquarum Consuetudinum eo Tempore pastedown. Two nice wide-margined copies in an attractive Peritissimo. Et Illas Solum Leges Continet & Consuetudines binding. $1,750. Secundum quas Placitatur in Curia Regis ad Scaccarium & Coram Insticiis Ubicunque Fuerint. Qui nunc Imprimitur GLANVILLE: SECOND EDITION; Saint German: later Post 50. Annos a Priori & Prima Impressione, Quia in edition. As Winfi eld has noted, the anonymous Latin text Pluribus Concordat cum Antiquo Libro Legum Scotie attributed to Glanville is the “fi rst classical textbook of English Vocato Regiam Majestatem Precipue in Locis Hoc Signo law.” Completed around 1189, it describes the procedure of the King’s Bench. There is much information pertaining to litigation Notatis *. Cum Diversis Manuscriptis Nuper Examinatis: and includes the texts of approximately eighty writs. Glanville Cum Duplici Indice; Uno Alphabetice in Principio Libri; was a major contribution to the development of the common law Altero Summorum Capitulorum in Fine. tradition, and it was a primary reference for several generations. Coke, to cite a distinguished example, praised it and used it liberally [London: Printed by A. Islip for] Thomas Wight, 1604. [ix], 116, [17] ff. in his Reports. It is still cited today. It also remains useful for its unparalleled insights into the nature of land law and procedure [Bound with] in medieval England. Written originally in Latin in 1523, Dialogus SAINT GERMAN (GERMAIN), de Fundamentis Legum Angliae et de Conscientia, better known CHRISTOPHER [1460?-1540]. by its colloquial English title, Doctor and Student, contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum Angliae et de Conscientia. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the Per Christopherum de Sancto Germano Communiter common law and issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. Seyngerman Confectus, Cuius Mentio est in Principio It was also a key work in the development of equity law. Doctor Secundi Libri Dialogorum Inter Sacrae Theologiae and Student went through numerous editions. An authority well Doctorem et Studentem Legum Angliae. into the eighteenth century, it infl uenced several writers, including Blackstone. James Bradley Thayer [1831-1902], the Royall, and later [London?]: In Aedibus Thomae Wight, 1604. [iv], 73, [3] ff. Weld Professor at Harvard Law School, was the author of several important works on the historical evolution of law. Winfi eld 257. Octavo (5-1/2” x 3-1/2”). Handsome period-style calf, blind rules ESTC S103136, S103137. to boards, blind fi llets to spine. Attractive woodcut head-pieces,
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POPULAR EARLY GUIDE TO THE DAILY PRACTICE OF ENGLISH LAW
76 G.T., OF STAPLE INNE.
The Practick Part of the Law: Shewing the Offi ce of an Attorny, And a Guide for Solicitors in All the Courts of Westminster. Viz. The Courts of Chancery, Kings-Bench, Common-Pleas and Exchequer, With the Manner of Their Proceedings in Any Action Real, Personal or Mixt, From the Original to the Execution. As Also the Practice of the Courts in the City of London, Court of Admiralty, Ecclesiastical Courts, And Other Inferior Courts in the Country. With the Exact Table of Fees of All the Said Courts at Westminster as They Were Delivered Into the House of Commons, With the Abstract of the Parchment and Paper Act by Order of the Queen and Council. With Large Additions by Several Practisers of the Several Courts, And Brought Down to the Year 1702. With a New and Exact Table to the Whole.
London: Printed for the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1702. [viii], 583, [23]; 16; [2], 120, [4] pp. An Abstract of the Act and An Exact Table of Fees have separate title pages, pagination and registers. An exact Table is “The fourth edition, with additions”, with imprint: “Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires; for John Walthoe”; ‘An abstract’ has imprint: “Printed by Charles Bill, And the Executrix of Tho. Newcomb: And sold by J. No 76 Walthoe.” Octavo (7-3/4” x 4-1/2”). rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and somewhat worn, pastedowns loose. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in Recent period-style calf, blind rules and fi llets to boards, raised places, offsetting to margins of preliminaries and rear endleaves. bands and lettering piece to spine. Light toning to text, somewhat Later owner signatures to title pages of Volumes I and II, “2” and “3” heavier in places, chips to corners of a few leaves, light soiling to in later hand to fore-edges of Volume II and III, otherwise clean. title page. A nice copy. $500. An appealing set. $1,500. LATER EDITION of a work fi rst published in 1652, one of two
issues from 1702. This early guide outlines the daily practice of the ONLY EDITION. Hughes, a barrister of Gray’s Inn, conceived law in England. A useful and popular work, it went through several this abridgement as a continuation of a continuation of Robert editions, the fi nal appearing in 1724. ESTC N38435. Brooke’s Graunde Abridgement of English case reports (fi rst edition 1573). “These volumes embrace but a short period, and the “A GOOD AUTHORITY” ON THE ABRIDGEMENTS work is a mere supplement to the earlier Abridgments, but it is a AND A VALUABLE COMPANION TO WINGATE good authority.”: Marvin402. Sweet & Maxwell 1:19 (15).
77 HUGHES, WILLIAM.
The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued. Or, A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the Common-Law of England, Contained in All the Reports Extant, From the First of Elizabeth, to this present Time, By Way of Common-Place. A Work Very Usefull for All Students and Practitioners in the Law. With Two Tables, The One Containing the Names of the Cases, The Other, Of the Matter of Every of the Said Cases. Published in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c.
London: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, 1660-1662. Three Volumes and Appendix in three books. [l], 344, 353-758; [cxii], 759-1268, 1277- 1418, 1423-1576; [cxxviii], 1577-2132, [102], 2133-2418, [64] pp. Text continuous despite pagination. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto (8-1/2” x 6-1/2”).
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T137820. { Detail from (1721). Sweet &Maxwell 1:522 c Englishlegal writer N Every Man His Own o 79 THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE Lex Mercatoria 79 Jenkinsius Redivivus released in1657. While imprisonedhe wrote the tracts collected in London in1645and tried in1647, where he was notably defi indicted for treason by Parliament andimprisonedin the Tower of judge andprominent Royalist during the EnglishCivil War. He was SECOND ANDFINALEDITION.a Welsh Jenkins was nice copy. $300. signature to title page(H.Davenport), interior otherwiseclean. A trimmed andmounted.Moderate toning to text. Early owner bookseller description tipped-in to front pastedown,frontispiece between rear endleaf andfree endpaper, nineteenth-century (?) moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped,partialcrack and giltfi llets to spine,specklededges.Lightrubbing to boards, Later three-quarter morocco over marbledboards, letteringpiece (5-1/2” x3-1/2”). separate dated title page.Copperplate portraitfrontispiece. 12mo. [3] pp. Text continuous despitepagination.Eachselectionhas London: Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, 1681.[xxxvi],81,81-82,82-213, Licentious andIngrateful Age. Arbitrary Proceedings, And SeditiousPamphlets of this All Such, As Would Not beDeludedby theUnparallel’d the Laws of theLand. Very SeasonabletobePerused, By Liberty of theSubject, And What is Treason According to Prerogative of theKing, The Priviledge of Parliament, The 3. 1640. Wherein isPlainly SetForth, The Just Power and Rebellious-Long-Parliament, Beganat Westminster, Nov. Prisoner inthe Tower, andNewgate, By Command of the Truly-Loyal, And Courageous. Judge Jenkins, Whilst a Jenkinsius Redivivus: Or the Works of That Grave, Learned, R13419. Jenkins to the Imputation putUpon His PleainChancery.” Jenkins for the GoodPeople of London” and“The Answer of Judge are: “Lex Terrae,” “The Armies Indemnity,” “TheCordial of Judge JENKINS, DAVID [1582-1663]. WRITTEN “WHILST A PRISONER IN THE TOWER” TRACTS BY A PROMINENT ROYALIST , which was fi , whichwas rst publishedin1648. The tracts N o 79 ant, but ESTC
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COPY OF KITCHIN’S COURT LEETE, ET COURT BARON as their statements of law.” This copy belonged to Thomas Parker FROM LIBRARY OF THOMAS PARKER, FIRST EARL OF MACCLESFIELD [1666-1732], 1st Earl of Macclesfi eld, chief baron of the Court of Exchequer and Lord Chancellor from 1718 to 1725. His markings are mostly pointing hands (manicules). Housed in Shirbirn 80 KITCHIN, JOHN [C.1520-C.1590]. Castle, the library of the Earls of Macclesfi eld was one of the fi nest private libraries in Great Britain. OCLC locates 5 copies of Le Court Leete et Court Baron Collect per Iohn Kitchin de this imprint in North American law libraries (Harvard, Library of Greies Inne un Apprentice in Ley. Et les Cases & Matters Congress, University of Michigan, University of Texas, Washington Necessaries pur Seneschals de Ceux Courts a Scier, University). HEL IV:130. ESTC S3959. Beale T374. & Pur les Students de les Measons del Chauncerie. Ore Novelment Imprimee, & Per le Author Mesme Corrigee, AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND Ouesque Divers Novel Additions, Come Court de Marshalsey; Auncient Demesne, Court de Pipowders, LAMBARD(E), WILLIAM [1536-1601]. Essoines, Imparlance, View, Actions, Contracts, Pleadings, 81 Maintenance, & Divers Auter Matters. Eirenarcha: Or of the Offi ce of the Iustices of Peace, In [London]: In Aedibius Thomae Wight, & Bonhami Norton, 1598. Two Bookes: Gathered 1579. And Now Revised, And First [xii], 289, [3] pp. Octavo (6” x 4”). Published, In the 24. Yeere of the Peaceable Reigne of Our Gratious Queene Elizabeth. Contemporary calf, blind rules and small blind-stamped initials “GW” to boards, raised bands and later lettering piece and small London: Imprinted by Ra. Newbery, And H. Bynnean, 1582. [vii], hand-lettered shelf labels to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, 511, [15] pp. Octavo (6-1/4” x 4-1/2”). a few minor scuffs to boards, corners bumped small tears to head of spine, pastedowns loose, later armorial bookplate of Recent period-style paneled calf, blind fl eurons to inside panels, the Earl of Macclesfi eld to verso of front board, small embossed raised bands and blind ornaments to spine, early hand-lettered Macclesfi eld stamp to head of title page. Moderate toning to text, title to fore-edge of text block. Title printed within woodcut faint dampstaining and soiling to preliminaries, light foxing in a architectural border, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and few places. Early owner signature of Thomas Parker to head of title decorated initials, woodcut arms of dedicatee, Sir Robert Bromley, page, markings and brief annotations in his hand to the margins of facing dedication leaf, large woodcut device to verso of fi nal leaf. several leaves. A nice copy with an interesting association. Light toning to text, some edgewear to endleaves and title page. $1,250. Brief early annotation to front endleaf, interior otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $3,500. LATER EDITION. First published in 1579 Kitchin’s work is an important source of information on local courts and government. SECOND EDITION, one of two issues from 1582. Lambard, By outlining the differences between the previously undivided or Lambarde, a barrister and legal historian, was the keeper court, Kitchin, along with Coke, helped lay the foundations of of records at the Rolls Chapel and the Tower of London. First modern legal theory. “In fact Kitchin was doing on a small scale published in 1581, Eirenarcha is esteemed for its comprehensive what Coke was doing on a grand scale. Both were representatives and systematic account of the organization of local government of that school of literate Elizabethan lawyers...whose great and under the justices of the peace at the end of the sixteenth century. enduring work was the adaptation of medieval law and institutions It was the standard authority for many years and often reprinted. to modern needs. Imagination necessarily played some part in this Like many books of its kind, Eirenarcha offers fascinating insights process of adaptation; and thus they are responsible not only for into the society that produced it. This is evident in the detailed the enunciation of the rules of modern law, but also for legal and indictments for such offenses as murder via witchcraft, raping a historical theories, the soundness of which was considered by child or maid (the age of distinction was ten), hearing a Catholic many generations of lawyers and historians to be as incontestable Mass, practicing usury and operating a bowling alley. Beale T388. ESTC S108154.
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85 MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES LOUIS DE SECONDAT, BARON DE [1689-1755]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. De L’Esprit des Lois was one of [NUGENT, THOMAS (C.1700-1772), TRANSLATOR]. the landmark works of eighteenth-century political science and an immeasurable infl uence on jurisprudence and political thought, The Spirit of Laws. Translated from the French of M. de especially in the Americas. A profound infl uence on the founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, including the framers of the U.S. Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. With Corrections and Constitution, it contained provocative and wide-ranging ideas on Additions Communicated by the Author. the sociology of law, the separation of political powers and the need for checks on a powerful executive offi ce. First published London: Printed for J. Nourse, And P. Vaillant, 1750. Two volumes. in Geneva in 1748, it remains one of the most signifi cant studies viii, [xx], 452; [ii], xvi, 483, [49], Volume II has two-page publisher of political and legal theory ever written. Based on Montesquieu’s advertisement. Octavo (8” x 5”). study of the English Constitution, this work is important as the fi rst work to propose the separation of powers, an idea incorporated Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards, into the U.S. Constitution. “In many ways one of the most raised bands, gilt ornaments and lettering pieces to spines, cracks remarkable works of the eighteenth century”: Carter and Muir 197. in text blocks between front endleaf and title page and fi nal text Sowerby 2325. ESTC T90872. leaf and rear endleaf of each volume. Light toning to text, negligible foxing and faint dampstaining in a few places, internally clean. A desirable set. $6,500.
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front hinge starting at foot, crack in text block between front free FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF PUFENDORF’S LAW OF NATURE AND NATIONS endpaper and following leaf. Light toning to text. Extensive early annotations and a few brief annotations to front endleaves, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy of a scarce title. $350. 90 PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON [1632-1694]. [KENNETT, BASIL, TRANSLATOR]. ONLY EDITION. The Courts of Petty Sessions were established in the 1820s and organized formally by the Irish Petty Sessions Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. Written Act of 1851. Judged by justices of the peace, they were the lowest in Latin by the Baron Pufendorf, Counsellor of State to His courts and handled most of Ireland’s civil and criminal cases. The Late Swedish Majesty, And to the Present King of Prussia. extensive annotation in our copy is the text of an act regulating Translated Into English, From the Best Edition. With a weights and measures (“5 & 6 Wm. IV. C. 63”). OCLC locates 10 Short Introduction. copies, 3 in North America, 1 in a law library (St. Louis University). Sweet & Maxwell 4:65. Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfi eld, For A. and J. Churchil, R. Sare [et al.], 1703. [xxvi], 27, [3], 239, [1], 273-400, 104, 107-231, [1], 143-262 pp. With a fi nal errata leaf. Text continuous despite pagination and UNRECORDED 1882 SCREED register. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (12-1/2” x 8”). AGAINST THE ENGLISH COUNTY COURTS Recent period-style paneled calf, raised bands, blind ornaments 89 POOLEY, EDMUND. and gilt title to spine. Title printed within double-ruled border. Moderate toning to text, minor dampstaining to margins in a few County Courts: What They are and What They Should places, fi nger smudges, minor tears and chips to margins of a few Be. A Useful Treatise for the Public; Shewing the Present leaves. Ex-library. Small inkstamp to title page. A handsome copy. Complete Insuffi ciency of the Procedure of these Courts $5,000. from a Comparison With That of the Superior Courts, And FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of De Jure Naturae et Suggesting Radical Reforms, Before Their Jurisdiction is Gentium, one of two issues by the same publishers from 1703. In Increased, As Contemplated by Legislation. 1662 Pufendorf was appointed to the fi rst modern professorship in natural law (at the University of Heidelberg). In 1670 he became London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, Printers, 1882. 14 pp. Octavo professor of natural law at the University of Lund in Sweden. (8-1/2” x 5-1/2”). First published in 1672, this is his principal work and a landmark in the history of natural and international law. It proposed a Disbound pamphlet. Negligible light browning, some darkening to thorough system of private, public, and international law based edges, especially bottom margin, otherwise fi ne. $350. on natural law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their various divisions, Pufendorf proceeded to a AN UNRECORDED SCREED against the prevailing English discussion of the validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity system of county courts. The author, a solicitor from Chelsea, wrote and innate human reason. The work is signifi cant in part because this pamphlet to infl uence parliamentary reform of the courts. it developed principles introduced by Grotius and Hobbes. Unlike The text is cast in the form of a sixteen-question catechism. For Hobbes, Pufendorf argued that peace, not war, was the state of example, the fi rst question is: “What are County Courts?” Answer: nature, and he proposed that international law was not restricted “County Courts may be defi ned to be certain places of resort to Christendom. As noted by the ESTC, the preface, introduction where judicial protection (either partial or complete) is afforded and errata page are arranged differently in some copies, which to rogues, adventurers, and the impecunious, from what appears gives them the following collation: [viii], 27, [19] or [21], 239, [1], to such persons the harshness of the law as administered in any 273-400, 104, 107-231, [1], 143-262, [2] pp. Sweet & Maxwell other Courts of the land.” No copies located on OCLC or COPAC. 1:597 (72). ESTC N10427.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 48 91 Literary Character Pope’s closely with Henry Fieldingand was oneof the writers satirizedin there for the rest of hislife. An author of somestature, he worked Franklin. He traveled with Franklin to London in1725andremained his career inPhiladelphia, where heassociated with Benjamin writer of literary works, historiesandpoliticalcriticism.He began FIRST EDITIONS. BorninNew Jersey, Ralph was a versatile $1,500. association. verso of title pageof page of front endleaf, “By the ingeniousMr. Ralph”inearly hand to title Mitfordsignatures andChas. (J. Wright, datedNovember 1853) to and checkmarksinPhiles’s hand to someleaves,other owner block, moderate toning to text, lightfoxing inplaces, annotations critical notesby Philes, to rear pastedown. A few cracks to text front pastedown,pocket, with nineleavesof bibliographicaland hinges starting,later owner bookplateof GeorgeP. Philes to Moderate rubbing to extremities, minor gatoring to boards, rebacked andrecornered, gilt titles to spine,marblededges. Octavo (7-3/4” x4-3/4”). Contemporary calf, giltrules to boards, London: Printed for T. Cadell,1795.xxiii,[1],226pp. Character. An Essay ontheManners andGenius of theLiterary D’ISRAELI, ISAAC [1766-1848]. [Bound with] London: Printed for R.Griffiths, 1758.[iv], 68 [i.e.76] pp. Matter by Whom. Regard toBooksellers, The Stage, And thePublic.No The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With it alsoinfl in works by Oliver Goldsmithand Thomas BabingtonMacaulay, the developmentof copyright law. It was reissued in1762.Cited Although itsoldpoorly, it went on to infl with negativefi patronage hasplaced the writer at the mercy of the marketplace, and enduring works. It argues that the decline of aristocratic [RALPH, JAMES (D. 1762)]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE Dunciad. The Case. Ex-library. Shelf label to spine,smallinkstamp to uenced the uenced THE DEVELOPMENT OF COPYRIGHT LAW nancial, artisticandintellectualconsequences. The Case of Authors . It was apopular book that reached itsfourth INDIRECT INFLUENCES ON The Case. Two scarce titles with aninteresting
Essay on the Manners andGeniusof the { isoneof hismostimportant uence literary criticismand THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N o 92 92 and bibliophile.ESTC owner of this volume, was anotablebibliographer, literary critic notable literary scholar andessayist.GeorgeP. Philes,aprevious edition in1828.Its author, the father of the Prime Minister, was a [Bound with] 167. [1]pp.Firstleaf blank. London: Printed by T. Badger for Matthew Wallbanck, 1642.[viii], the Students of the Lawes of England. Translated intoEnglish for the Benefi of the French Records in the 4th.Chap. Also Newly Other Wayes Prevented by ShortCollections. The Recitalls Least the Freedome of the Readers Iudgement Might be the Words of the Chiefest Testimonies are Transcribed, Other Good Authorities, And inS Delegates Yeare-Bookes, Of the Common Law, Statutes & The Register of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, And the Rolls, The Proceedings of the EnglishCourts at Westminster, Rolles, And Journalls Patent, And CloseRolls; The Crowne Selden of the Inner Temple Esquire Out of the Parliament Sit inParliament. Collected (Andof Late Revised) by John The Priviledgesof the Baronage of England, When They SELDEN, JOHN [1584-1654]. the fi in ShirbirnCastle, the library of the Earlsof Macclesfi distinguished jurist, was Lord Chancellor from 1718 to 1725.Housed Severall Degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdome later in1642asTheMagazine of Honour; Or, A Treatise of the edition, with additionsby Sir John Doddridge, was published is the starting pointfor ageneralreview of peeragelaw. A later of Edward Nevill’s claim to the title of Lord Bergavenny. His claim response to acontemporary controversy regarding the legitimacy from lawsuitsduring the sittingof Parliament. Bird’s provided historicalgrounds for such“specialrights”asfreedom the king,itasserted the House of Lords’s power of judicature and tension between the kingandParliament. A work that angered House of Lords to defi specifi volume collects two bookson the nobility that were responses to PRIVILEDGES: FIRSTEDITION; Nobilitie: only edition. This otherwise clean.$650. border. Some toning to text, brief annotations to endleaves,interior to verso of title page. Title pageof leaf, armorialbookplateof Thomas Parker, FirstEarlof Macclesfi embossed Macclesfi bookplate of the Earlsof Macclesfi bowed, scuff to front board, rear pastedownloose,later armorial rubbing to extremities with wear to corners, boards slightly spine, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block.Some boards, later calf rebacking, letteringpiece andblind fi Octavo (5-1/2” x3-1/2”). Contemporary sheep,blindrules to 1642. [iv], 157, [1]pp. Woodcut illustrations(genealogical tables). London: Printed by A.N. for Mathew Walbanke andRichard Best, Contained inthis Treatise. the Barony of Aburgavenny. With a Table of theHeads Statutes asare Incident Hereunto, Upon aDebateof of theBody of theCommon Law, With Mention of Such A Treatise of theNobilitie of theRealme. Collected Out [BIRD, WILLIAM]. nest privatelibraries inGreat Britain. c incidents. Selden’s Priviledges ASPECTS OF ENGLISHNOBILITY eld stamp to headof title pageandfollowing T19997 (Ralph), T10985 (D’Israeli). ne itsrightsduringaperiodof mounting printed withinwoodcut Nobilitie eld to front pastedown,small uch Sort that Frequently was commissioned by the t of Others, As Well as ESTC
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“THE MARROW OF THE LAW” A LANDMARK IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT, A BOOK ADMIRED BY JEFFERSON 93 SHEPPARD, WILLIAM [D. 1675]. 94 SIDNEY, ALGERNON [1622-1683]. The Faithful Councellor: Or the Marrow of the Law in English. In Two Parts. The First, Methodically and Plainly Discourses Concerning Government, By Algernon Sidney, Shewing, How Any Action May be Warrantably Laid in the Son to Robert Earl of Leicester, And Ambassador from the Common Law, For Relief in Most Causes of Wrongs Done; Commonwealth of England to Charles Gustavus King of In Which is Handled Many of the Special and Most Useful Sweden. Publish’d from an Original Manuscript. Carefully Heads of the Law Now in Practice. The Second, By Way of Corrected. To Which is Added, the paper he Deliver’d Appendix, In What Cases, And for What Injuries Relief is to the Sheriffs Immediately Before His Death. And an to be Had in the High Court of Chancery; Wherein is Set Alphabetical Table. Forth Very Much of the Learning Touching the Jurisdiction London: Printed by J. Darby, 1704. [viii], 424 [i.e.420], [48] pp. and Method of Proceedings in That Court. With an Exact Copperplate portrait frontispiece. Folio (12” x 7-1/2”). Alphabetical Table of the Most Material Things Contained in Each Chapter. Published by Authority. Contemporary paneled calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Light rubbing to boards and extremities, some minor nicks London: Printed by R[obert]. W[hite] for E. Dod, N. Ekins, T. and scratches, a bit of edgewear to lettering piece, corners bumped Brewster, and G. Moule, 1651. Part I Only. [vi], 164, 177-368, 553- and lightly worn, front hinge cracked, rear pastedown loose, early 703, [13] pp. Quarto (7-1/4” x 5-1/2”). armorial bookplate to front pastedown (St. Columbs). Light toning, negligible faint dampstaining to a few leaves, internally clean. A Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards and spine. Light handsome copy. $1,000. rubbing to extremities, a few shallow scuffs to boards, joints just starting at ends, corners bumped and lightly worn, front SECOND EDITION. The fi rst edition of this important work pastedown loose, rear endleaves lacking. Moderate toning to text, was published in 1698, fi fteen years after Sidney’s execution for faint dampstaining to foot of text block, faint dampspotting in a treason in 1683. A reply to Filmer’s Patriarcha, the Discourses is few places, edgewear to preliminaries, a few text leave and a few one of the earliest modern statements of republican ideals. He index leaves. Early owner signatures and a small inkstain to title proposes a doctrine of natural justice and governmental order from page, interior otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $1,500. which all institutions vary at their peril. More important, Sidney asserts that a king’s authority is granted by parliament, which has FIRST EDITION. Sheppard’s comprehensive account of the additional power to depose him—controversial ideas indeed common and chancery law procedure is important for being during the Restoration period. Thomas Jefferson, one of several written and published in English, rather than Latin or Law French, individuals infl uenced by this text, described it as “... probably the the language of the courts and the legal profession. Its purpose was best elementary book of the principles of government, as founded political, in the broadest sense, as much as legal, to stabilize the new in natural right which has ever been published in any language; Commonwealth by making its legal system comprehensible to the and it is much to be desired in such a government as ours that it common man and amenable to reform, thereby lending legitimacy should be put into the hands of our youth as soon as their minds to the state and to the legal profession. Digested alphabetically by are suffi ciently matured for that branch of study.” (Sowerby). topic, it is also one of the fi rst legal encyclopedias in English. This Sidney was beheaded by Charles II in part for his involvement in book was reissued in 1653. A second part was published in 1654. the Rye House plot. One of the other charges against him was that Matthews 97-99. ESTC R19496. he had committed treasonable libel in his Discourses, which was still in manuscript at that time. Sowerby III:12. ESTC T113295.
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internally clean. $600. to rear quarter of text, faintdampspotting to a few leaves, spine. Moderate toning to text, negligiblefaintdampstaining Recent calf, blindrules to boards, raisedbandsandgilt title to 3-3/4”). London: Printed for Benj. Alsop, 1682.168pp.Octavo(6” x Government of England Commoners, Who Stand FirmtotheReligion and Ancient Designs Against theLives of Many Protestant Lords and Many Statutes. Published for thePrevention of Popish And theDeclarations of theSameMade inParliament by According totheFundamentals of theEnglishGovernment, And Duty of the Grand Jurys of England.Explained The Security of English-Mens Lives, Or the Trust, Power, ATTRIBUTED]. [SOMERS, JOHN SOMERS, BARON , ESTC in North American law libraries.DNBXVIII:632.Sowerby 2015. offi the in ShirbirnCastle, the library of the Earlsof Macclesfi Earl of Macclesfi summaries. This copy belonged to Thomas Parker [1666-1732], 1st accounts of hislegal work exist today; itisknownmostly through of Lords three years later. DespiteSomers’s importance, few of Exchequer.” ( which, inNovember 1696,hereversed the decisionof the Court elaborate hadever beendelivered in Westminster Hall as that by Court of Exchequer, butonly by petitionof right.No judgmentso just claim,on the technical ground that it was notcognisable in the and research, with nobetter result than to defeat anintrinsically some hundreds of poundsandanimmenseamountof thought II upon the hereditary excise assecurity for advances, heexpended them asassigneesof certain perpetualannuitieschargedby Charles judgment in the court of exchequer for arrears of interest due to the Exchequer Chamber, that of the bankers who hadrecovered of Rights). “In the mostimportantcase which camebefore himin William &andMary andQueen Anne andframer of the EnglishBill was animportant Whig jurist,Lord Chancellor during the reigns of an unfortunate momentinSomers’s otherwisebrilliantcareer. (He ONLY EDITION and the only complete account. This case was Parker) to front free endpaper, interior otherwiseclean.$600. dampstaining (?) to title page.Early owner signature (Thomas a few places, occasional faintdampspotting,lightbrowning and head of title page.Moderate toning to text, somewhatheavier in to front pastedown,smallembossedMacclesfi endleaves, later armorialbookplateof the Earlsof Macclesfi front free endpaper and title page,minor worming to front part of letteringpiece lacking,partialcrackin text blockbetween Some rubbing to extremities with wear to spineendsandcorners, tooling to board edges,raisedbandsandletteringpiece to spine. Contemporary calf, blindrules to boards, blindfi llets to joints,gilt Quarto (8-1/2” x7”). [London]: Printed by E.andR.Nutt, andR.Gosling,1733.[ii],128pp. Chamber, June 23,1696. Judgment intheBankers Case: Deliver’d intheExchequer- The Argument of theLord Keeper Sommers,On His Giving SOMERS, JOHN SOMERS, BARON [1651-1716]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE T79392. nest privatelibrariesinGreat Britain.OCLC locates7copies A LANDMARK WORK ONGRANDJURIES A LOW POINT INSOMERS’SCAREER eld andLord Chancellor from 1718 to 1725.Housed DNB). This decision was reversed by the House
. { THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE ed tm to stamp eld eld was one eldwas eld 97 Statutes. FirstPrinted inthe Year 1681. Declaration of theSameMade inParliament by Many to theFundamentals of theEnglishGovernment, And the Duty of theGrand Juries of EnglandExplained According The Security of Englishmen’s Lives: Or the Trust, Power and SOMERS, JOHN SOMERS, BARON. ESTC by the American founding fathers.Sweet &Maxwell 1:378(34). Bill of Rights(1689). As one would suspect, this book was studied and Mary andQueen Anne andpresided over the framingof the he was Lord Chancellor of Englandduring the reigns of William barrister of the Middle Temple andanimportant Whig statesman, anonymously, this work isattributedinmostsources to Somers. A Earl of Shaftesbury, issuedby CharlesII(a Catholic). Published reject the billof indictmentagainst Anthony Ashley-Cooper, First crown, it was written to support the rightof agrandjury to right. An assertionof the priority of the law over the English hearing before agrandjury of peersasafundamentalEnglish SECONDinfl EDITION. This FIFTH EDITION. ESTC page andp.112,internally clean.$450. spine. Interior notably fresh. Light toning to text, lightsoiling to title calf over marbled boards, raisedbandsandletteringpiece to Stab-stitched pamphletboundintorecent period-stylequarter London: Printed for J. Almon, 1766.112pp.Octavo(8” x5”). R10363. THE RIGHT TO A GRAND JURY T47413. uential pamphletdefi
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CLASSIC STATEMENT 99 SPELMAN, SIR HENRY [1564-1641]. OF ENGLISH LIBERTIES AND WHIG IDEOLOGY Henrici Spelmanni Equit. Anglo-Brit. Archaeologus. 98 [SOMERS, JOHN SOMERS, BARON]. In Modum Glossarii ad Rem Antiquam Posteriorem: [LEWIS, JOHN, EDITOR, AUTHOR OF THE SEQUEL OF Continentis, Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, Et ADVICE TO POSTERITY]. Novatae Signifi cationis Vocabula, Quae Post Labefactatas a Gothis Vandalisq[ue]; Res Europaeas, In Ecclesiasticis A Guide to the Knowledge of the Rights and Privileges of Profanisq[ue]; Scriptoribus; Variarum Item Gentium Englishmen. Containing, I. Magna Charta, with Remarks Legibus Antiquis, Chartis & Formulis Occurrunt Scholiis Thereon; II. The Bishops Curses; III. The Habeas Corpus et Commentariis Illustrata, in Quibus Prisci Ritus quam Act; IV. The Bill of Rights; and, V. The Act Settlement: With Plurimi, Magistratus, Dignitates, Munera, Offi cia, Mores, an Exhortation to the Christian and Independent Clergy, Leges, Et Consuetudines Enrrantur [sic]. the Gentry, Freeholders, and Other Electors of Members to Serve in Parliament. To Which is Added, The Security of London: Apud Johannem Beale, 1626. [vi], 110 [i.e. 164], 177-194, Englishmens Lives: Or, The Trust, Power, and Duty of the 193-250, 241-452 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (11” x 7”). Grand Juries of England. Published in Consequence of the Recommendation of the Author of, Advice to Posterity, In Later three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt his Sequel Thereof. With a Short Prefatory Address to the title to spine, front joint starting at head, hinges cracked. Moderate Public by the Editor. rubbing to boards and extremities, corners bumped. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampstaining to lower half of text block, light foxing to a few leaves. London: Printed for J. Scott, 1757. ix, [1], 254 pp. Includes one-page Later owner signature (of David Leadbetter, 1820) to head of title publisher list. 12mo. (6-1/2” x 4”). page, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy. $1,500. Contemporary calf, lettering piece and gilt fi llets to spine. Negligible FIRST EDITION, ONE OF TWO ISSUES FROM 1626. light rubbing to extremities, corners lightly bumped, early armorial The Glossarium was the fi rst English dictionary of legal and bookplate (of John Cromie) to front pastedown. Light toning to text, historical terms based on philological methods. The product of foxing to a few leaves, early annotations to title page. A notably considerable archival research and consultation with scholars well-preserved copy. $1,250. throughout Europe, it superseded all previous attempts at legal lexicography. As Holdsworth observes, “It is a great deal more FIRST EDITION (of this anonymously edited imprint). First than a law dictionary, being a dictionary of Latin and other words published in 1681, his The Security of Englishmen’s Lives (1681) is to be found in all the post-classical authors and documents English an important tract on juries and one’s right to a jury trial. It went and foreign....In fact it is a product of that new school of historians through numerous editions and was usually printed with the text of and historically minded lawyers” (V:402). This point is supported Magna Carta and other foundational documents of English liberty. by Winfi eld, who notes its usefulness when interpreting terms (This 1757 imprint is one of several variants.) Classic statements used in the Domesday Book. The fi rst edition contains terms from of Whig ideology, many copies were eagerly consumed in the A to L. Unfortunately, Spelman did not live to bring his proposed American colonies on the eve of the Revolution. OCLC locates 9 second volume to print. The second edition, which was edited by copies in North American Law Libraries. ESTC T61073. Dugdale, is the fi rst with terms from A to Z. Cowley lxxxviii, 75 (155). Winfi eld 112. ESTC S123508.
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volume. $1,500. Library of Aberdeen to headof dedicationpage. A handsome Part II,interior otherwiseclean.Ex-library. Inkstamp of Advocates signature (of H. Thomsone) to title pageof Part Iandfi foxing inafew places, minor inkstains to afew leaves.Early owner tail-pieces anddecorated initials.Moderate toning to text, light crack in text blockbetweenpp.[x]and[xi]. Woodcut head-pieces, to corners, title page, which islightly edgeworn,mounted,partial Some rubbing to boards, heavier rubbing to extremities with wear style, raisedbands,giltornamentsandletteringpiece to spine. Folio (12” x 7-1/4”). Contemporary mottledcalf, rebacked inperiod Most Sacred Majesty, 1681.44pp. Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Lords of Council andSessioninScotland. Modus Litigandi,Or Form of Process Observed Before the STAIR, JAMES DALRYMPLE, VISCOUNT OF. [Bound with] individual pagination.[xxii],444;[ii],96,93-192, 189-192 pp. Most Sacred Majesty, 1681. Two parts,each with title pageand Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Laws; And with theCustoms of Neighbouring Nations Originals, andCollated with theCivil,Canon, And Feudal- The Institutions of theLaw of Scotland, Deduced from its [1619-1695]. STAIR, JAMES DALRYMPLE, VISCOUNT OF { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE { “IT REMAINSOF THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY” THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE nal leaf of . R13544. century Scotland. Oxford Companion to Law 331.ESTC of the bestsources of information onprocedure inseventeenth- law.”settle the authority andindefaultof contrary later authority isdeemed to in Roman, canon,andfeudal law (...)remains of the highest rules are derivedfrom their underlyingprinciplesand their sources edition. As Walker haspointedout,“Stair’s [Institutes], in which INSTITUTES: FIRSTEDITION; Modus Litigandi:only Modus Litigandi,ahandbookfor advocates,isone Detail from R226246, N o N 100 o 100 {
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101 STAUNFORD, SIR WILLIAM [1509-1558]. 102 STAUNFORD, SIR WILLIAM.
An Exposicion of the Kinges Prerogative Collected Out of Les Plees del Coron: Divisees in Plusiours Titles & Common the Great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and Other Olde Lieux. Per Queux Home Plus Redement & Plenaireme[n]t Writers of the Lawes of England. Whereunto is Annexed Trovera, Quelq[ue]; Chose que il Quira, Touchant les Ditz the Proces to the Same Prerogative Appertaining. Plees.
[London: Imprinted...in Fleete-Strete Within Temple Barre...By [London]: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1560. [xiv], 198 ff. Quarto (7- Rychard Tottel, 1567]. [i], 85 ff. Quarto (7-1/2” x 5-1/2”). 1/4” x 5-1/4”).
Contemporary calf, small central blind-stamped arms to boards, Eighteenth century calf with later rebacking, panels with corner recently rebacked, raised bands and gilt title to spine. Rubbing to fl eurons to boards, raised bands and gilt title to spine, corners boards with notable wear to corners, rear hinge partially cracked, repaired. Light rubbing to extremities, a few minor scratches to later armorial bookplate (of J.M. Kemble) to front pastedown. boards, corners bumped and lightly worn, hinges starting at ends, Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampstaining, mostly to later armorial bookplate (a letter C beneath a coronet) to front margins. Several leaves have annotations in a contemporary hand, pastedown. Title printed within woodcut architectural border, several are quite extensive. An appealing copy. $2,750. woodcut decorated initials. Some toning to text. Underlining and brief annotations to some leaves in a fi ne early hand, interior FIRST EDITION. Staunford’s Exposicion addresses otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $2,500. discretionary rights enjoyed by the monarchy in foreign policy, domestic affairs, legal and governmental administration, religion SECOND EDITION. First published in 1557, Staunford’s Plees and economic matters. A well-received book that went through is considered a “principal book” by Pollock and Maitland, one that six editions by 1590, it was often bound with copies of Staunford’s enables us “to trace our modern laws of crimes, from the later Plees del Coron. The annotations in our copy range from references middle ages onwards.” Based on Bracton and the Year Books, to the Year Books to long analytical notes. ESTC S117783. Beale T491. Staunford’s treatise is divided into three parts. The fi rst treats offences, the second treats jurisdiction, appeals, indictments, and defenses. The third addresses trials and convictions. Plees was written after Staunford was appointed judge of the common pleas in 1554. Pollock and Maitland, The History of English Law II:448. ESTC S117819. Beale T48.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 54 103 104 N10039. Not in Sweet &Maxwell, which lists the 1784London edition. locates 7copies of this imprint inNorth American law libraries. notable for itsfaithinjuriesanddistrustof government.OCLC case seeking the jury’s right to determineseditiouslibel.It is popularize Erskine’s famousargumentin the Deanof St. Asaph’s Originally publishedin London in1784, this is the fi SECOND EDITION, ANDTHEONLY IRISHEDITION. title, “1785” to foot of title page,interior otherwiseclean.$950. page, minor repair to following leaf. Early owner signature to half- fi piece andblindfi Recent period-stylequarter calf over marbledboards, lettering pp. Octavo(7-1/2” x 4-1/2”). Burton, Byrne, H. Whitestone, Heery andDavis, 1785. viii, 147, [1] Dublin: Printed by Messrs. Moncrieffe, Jenkin, White, Burnet, the Law of Libels. Libels: Together with Remarks ontheOrigin andNature of Observations ontheRightsandDuty of Juries in Trials for Beale T499. Holdsworth HEL V:381. A second edition was publishedin1678. commentaries upon writs and the modernbooksonprocedure.”: that had yet appeared... Historically, itcomes between the older most orderly treatise onprocedure, founded on the Year Books, found its way to aprinter. “It deserved to beprinted,asitis the it for hisownuse. The manuscript,havingbeenlent,eventually might be treated. Theloall chose this title, and wrote a treatise on Staunford illustratedhismeaningby showinghow the Title “Brief” of the abridgmentssimilar to hisstudy of the Title “Prerogative.” be agoodideaif lawyers would write treatises on the other titles Digest owesitsorigin to the suggestionof Staunford that it would FIRST EDITION. An importantearly work on writs, Theloall’s manuscript to the rear endleaves. A handsomecopy. $2,000. other annotationsinsimilar hand to afew other leaves,includinga few leaves,early owner signature andannotations to title page, leaf. Some toning to text, lightsoiling,faintdampstaining to a bumped, crackin text blockbetween title pageandfollowing Recent period-style vellum with lappededges.Spineends dedication and table. Octavo(6” x4”). London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1579. [viii], 424ff. Includes Concernants Eux. Le Digest desBriefesOriginals, Et desChoses THELOALL, SIMON. TOWERS, JOSEPH [1737-1799]. nger smudges to afew leaves,small tear to fore-edge of title { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE IN THE DETERMINATION OF SEDITIOUSLIBEL ESTC AN IMPORTANT EARLY WORK ON WRITS llets to spine,endpapersrenewed. Light toning, S118369.
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REPORT: ONLY EDITION; ARGUMENT, third, fi nal, and 106 [TRIAL]. best edition, one of three editions, all published in 1818. Abraham WIKOFF, HENRY [1813-1884], PRINCIPAL DEFENDANT. Thornton, a bricklayer, “was accused of rape and murder after VANNOUD, LOUIS, DEFENDANT. attending a dance where he became intimate with a gardener’s CAVALLARI, LUIGI, DEFENDANT. daughter named Mary Ashford. They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near Trial of Wikoff, Vannoud, And Cavallari, For a Forced a local footpath. Thornton was tried at the Warwick assizes on 8 Marriage Between Miss Gamble and One of the Accused. August 1817. Since the marks on Mary’s body were not necessarily Before the High Court of Genoa, February 9-10, 1852. inconsistent with Thornton’s claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse, and since the times on the morning in question London: William Shoberl, 1852. 64 pp. Lithograph portrait when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested frontispiece of Wikoff. Octavo (8-1/2” x 5-1/2”). he could not have been with her when she met her death, the jury found him not guilty. (...) Many were convinced of Thornton’s Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Moderate soiling, guilt and he was assailed in local and London newspapers. A rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners. group collected around the Birmingham solicitor William Bedford Light toning to text, foxing to a few laves, internally clean. $750. invoked the old legal process of ‘appeal of murder,’ by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried again for the same ONLY EDITION. An account of one of the sensational trials of offense. This process was generally regarded as obsolete, though the early 1850s. Wikoff, or as he called himself, Chevalier Wikoff, there had been several instances in the eighteenth century. More was an American impresario, occasional European correspondent controversy arose when Thornton came before the court of King’s for the New York Herald and, possibly, a spy for Lord Palmerston. Bench in November 1817 and demanded ordeal by battle, which He was engaged to Jane Catherine Gamble, an English woman. was open to the subject of an appeal of murder but had not been Gamble changed her mind shortly before the wedding and fl ed claimed since Charles I’s reign. After several hearings between to Genoa. Wikoff tracked her down and apparently tricked her November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee into coming along with him to his apartment. Shortly afterwards did have this right. The appeal of murder was dropped. Appeals Gamble fi led a complaint of kidnapping that landed Wikoff in an of murder were abolished in 1819 partly because of this case” Italian jail for 15 months. He was found guilty in an Italian court and (Turner). Unable to lead a normal life, Thornton moved to the U.S. forced to return her letters and “extorted promise of marriage.” and settled in Baltimore. The third edition of Argument is a scarce Ever enterprising, Wikoff responded to the negative publicity with title; Report is rare. In North American law libraries, OCLC locates a memoir entitled My Courtship and Its Consequences (1855), 3 copies (Harvard, UT-Austin, Yale). Turner, Michael J., “Thornton, which became a best-seller. Copies of The Trial of Wikoff are Abraham,” Oxford DNB (online edition). scarce. OCLC locates 7 worldwide: 2 in the British Library and 5 in North American law libraries (Harvard, Library of Congress, University of Georgia, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania).
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THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF VATTEL’S CLASSIC TREATISE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY
108 VATTEL, [EMMERICH] DE [1714-1767]. 109 [W.B., EDITOR]. WILLIAMS, THOMAS [1513?-1566]. The Law of Nations; Or Principles of the Law of Nature: [RISDEN, THOMAS]. Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and [HALE, SIT MATTHEW (1609-1676)]. Sovereigns. A Work Tending to Display the True Interest of Powers. Translated from the French. The Excellency and Praeheminence of the Law of England, Above All Other Humane Lawes in the World. Asserted in Volume I: London: Printed for J. Newbery, J. Richardson [et al.], a Learned Reading Upon the Statute of 35 h. 8. Cap. 6. 1760; Volume II: London: Printed for J. Coote, 1759. Two volumes Concerning Tryals by Jury of Twelve Men, And Tales be in one. xxxvi, 254; [ii], xiv, 170 pp. Quarto (10” x 8”). Circumstantibus. By Thomas Williams, Late of the Inner Temple, Esq; Sometime Speaker of the Commons House Contemporary speckled calf, gilt fi lleting to edges of boards, in Parliament. II. Mr. Risden’s Reading Upon the Statute rebacked in period style retaining existing lettering piece, raised of 21 H. 8. Chap. 19. Of Avowries. III. Judge Hale’s Opinion bands and blind ornaments to spine, edges of text block rouged, hinges mended. Light rubbing to boards, which are slightly bowed, in Some Select Cases. IV. Certain Cases Which Have Been corners bumped and somewhat worn. Volume I title page, with Formerly Mooted by the Society of Greys-Inn. small copperplate vignette, printed in red and black, woodcut head and tail-pieces. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier London: Printed by the Assigns of R. and E. Atkins, Esquires, for in places, some leaves have light foxing. Later owner signature Norman Nelson, 1680. [viii], 170; [ii], 195-318 pp. Four parts, each dated 1836 to front free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. An with title page, continuous pagination in Parts II, III and IV. Octavo appealing copy of a scarce title. $1,500. (7” x 4-1/2”).
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Commentaria in Tres Libros Codicis, Doctissimi Viri Do. Petri Pauli Parisii Cardinalis Admodum Reverendi non Paucis Additionibus Nuper Illustrata, Accurateque Castigata.
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[And] BARTOLO OF SASSOFERRATO. VADIS, BENEDICTUS DE, ANNOTATIONS. LOSEO, ALEXANDER, ANNOTATIONS.
Bartoli Commentaria Super Authenticis, Cum non Paucis Additionibus D. Benedicti de Vadis, & Alexandri Losaei, Nuper Illustrata, Accurateque Castigata, Quae Bibliopola Titulis Necessariis Adornavit.
Lyons: [Compagnie des Libraires de Lyon, Excudebat Claudius Servanius], 1555. 66, [1] ff. Main text in parallel columns with side- notes.
Folio (16” x 11”). Contemporary vellum derived from antiphonal, somewhat later patterned paper added to boards, later hand- lettered title label to spine, endpapers renewed, edges rouged. No 112 Soiled, rubbing to extremities, some wear to fore-edges and corners, chipping to foot of spine, a few chips to head and front joints, hinges starting. Large woodcut printer device to title pages, BARTOLUS ON THE CODE AND AUTHENTICUS woodcut decorated initials. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, some leaves have minor worming and 112 BARTOLO OF SASSOFERRATO [1313-1357]. dampstaining to margins, holes near bottom edges of ff. 27-29 of ALEXANDER DE IMOLA, ANNOTATIONS. Secunda due to iron-gall inkstain with some loss to text, facsimile PARISIUS, PETRUS PAULUS, ANNOTATIONS, copies of these leaves laid-in. Small somewhat later stamp to title EDITOR. page of Prima, faint smudges to a few leaves. An impressive volume containing four scarce imprints. $2,500. Commentaria in Primam Codicis Partem, Cum non Paucis Additionibus D. Alexandri, & Petri Pauli Parisii Nuper BETWEEN 1250 AND 1450 THE POST-GLOSSATORS, a group of legal scholars and teachers in Italy, initiated the Illustrata, Accurateque Castigata: & In Magnam Iurispae. recovery of Roman law texts from the corruptions of the medieval Utilitatem Recogtnita. Glossators. Their efforts to apply Roman law to the jurisprudence of their day also prepared the way for the natural law school of Lyons: [Compagnie des Libraires de Lyon, [Excudebat Claudius the seventeenth century and helped to lay the foundations of the Servanius], 1555. 217 ff. Main text in parallel columns with side-notes. modern state. The greatest member of this group was Bartolus, a practicing lawyer and professor at the University of Perugia. His [BOUND WITH] unrivalled reputation derives from his enormous literary output, BARTOLO OF SASSOFERRATO. much of it dealing with the texts later collected as the Corpus Juris BARBATIUS, ANDREAS, ANNOTATIONS. Civilis. He produced commentaries on most of these texts. The LOSEO, ALEXANDER, ANNOTATIONS. most notable are the ones dealing with the Code and the books PARISIUS, PETRUS PAULUS, ANNOTATIONS, EDITOR. of the Digest; all of them went through numerous editions. The present volume includes all three of commentaries on the Code Commentaria in Secundam Codicis Partem, Domi. Petri. and another commentary of the Authentica, a collection of 134 Pauli Paris. Andreae Pomat. Andreae Barb. Alexan. Losaei constitutions of Justinian. Later included in the Novels of the Additionibus, Multisque Emendationibus, Illustrata, Corpus Juris Civilis, the Authentica was believed to be a collection Accurate, & Multa cum Diligentia Castigata. intended for Byzantine Italy. This assumption is doubted today. Complete in themselves and bibliographically distinct, the titles in our volume are part of a twelve-volume series issued in 1555-1556 Lyons: [Compagnie des Libraires de Lyon, Excudebat Claudius by Lyons’s Compagnie des Libraires. All of these are scarce; few Servanius], 1555. 150 ff. Main text in parallel columns with side-notes. copies are held in North American libraries. These imprints not in Adams or the BMC.
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$2,500. imprint. brief annotations to afew leaves. An appealingcopy of ahandsome few leaves. Smallsomewhatlater stamp to title pageof dampstaining, soilingandlightfoxing inplaces, sparkburns to a initials. Moderate toning to text, somewhatheavier inplaces, Large woodcut printer device to title pages, woodcut decorated 21) of edges andcorners, jointspartially cracked, leavesc4-c5(ff. 20- edges rouged. Soiled,rubbing to extremities with wear to fore- later hand-lettered title label to spine,endpapersrenewed, antiphonal, somewhatlater patternedpaper added to boards, notes. Folio (16” x11”).Contemporary vellum derivedfrom Servanius], 1555.176ff. Main text inparallelcolumns with side- Lyons: [Compagnie desLibraires deLyon, Excudebat Claudius Castigata. non Paucis Additionibus Nuper Illustrata, Accurateque, Viri Do.Petri P. Parisii Cardinalis Admodum Reverendi Commentaria inSecundamDigesti Veteris Partem, Doctis. EDITOR. PARISIUS, PETRUS PAULUS, ANNOTATIONS, BARTOLO, OF SASSOFERRATO. [Bound with] side-notes. Servanius], 1555.242ff. Main text inparallelcolumns with Lyons: [Compagnie desLibraires deLyon, Excudebat Claudius Rerumque Summis Ornata Fidelissimisque Typis Excusa. Barbatiae, Celsi Hugonis acPetri Pauli Parisii Adnotamentis Prima In Digestum Vetus: Alexandri Imolaei, Andraeae PARISIUS, PETRUS PAULUS, ANNOTATIONS, EDITOR. CELSUS, DESCOUSU, ANNOTATIONS. BARBATIUS, ANDREAS, ANNOTATIONS. ALEXANDER DE IMOLA, ANNOTATIONS. BARTOLO OF SASSOFERRATO. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE
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the BMC. held inNorth American libraries. These imprintsnotin Adams or Compagnie desLibraires. All of these are scarce; few copies are part of a twelve-volume seriesissuedin1555-1556 by Lyons’s in themselves andbibliographically distinct, these volumes are 3-XXXVIII, and the Digestum Novum, BookXXXIX-L). Complete the order of their recovery, are the part recovered by the glossators.(Theother sections,listedin comprises BooksI-XXIV, Title 2of the THE DIGESTUM VETUS(VETERIS), OR “OLD PART” Infortiatum, BooksXXIV, Title Detail from Digest. It was the fi N o 113 N o 113 rst {
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DISCUSSES LEGAL ASPECTS OF THEATER AND CARNIVALS
114 BERGER, CHRISTOPH HEINRICH, EDLER HERR VON [1687-1737].
Commentatio de Personis Vulgo Larvis seu Mascheris von der Carnavals-Lust, Critico, Historico, Morali Atque Iuridico Modo Diligenter Conscripta.
Frankfurt: Apud Georg Marc Knochium, [1723]. [xvi], 340, [70] pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece, repeated as vignette at head of main text. 85 leaves of folding plates with 153 numbered illustrations. Complete. Quarto (8” x 6-1/2”).
Contemporary paper-covered boards, early hand-lettered title and private library shelf label to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities, spine darkened, faint dampstain to front board, some scuffi ng to rear board with loss of paper, twentieth- century bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in places. Early owner annotations to front board, front pastedown and free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $2,500.
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ONLY EDITION. Berger was a jurist, state offi cial and student of theatrical history. His Commentatio de Personis Vulgo Larvis seu Mascheris von der Carnavals-Lust is an important work on classical Greek and Roman theater. Berger discusses issues involved in modern performances of classical plays, including masks and costumes, with examples drawn from Terence, which are the subject of the plates. A conscientious jurist, Berger also considers the legal dimension of theatrical performance. About half of the text, pp. 129-340, discusses laws concerning theater, carnivals, acting, costumes and masks in the German states. It is an enlarged edition of the author’s Dissertatio de Iure Personarum, Quasvulgus Larvas, Seu Mascheras, Dictitat, I.E. Vom Carnavalsrecht, his dissertation submitted to the University of Wittenburg in 1720. No copies listed in law libraries on OCLC. Jugler I:63. VD18 1086184X. Detail from No 114
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THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE fteenth century fteenth catesof Popes N o 115 116 Leges a Theodorico Rege Francorum Latae , (Lex Alemannorum, Burgundian, Germanic,Saxon, Salicand RipuarianFrankish law contains criticaleditionsof the principal texts of Frankish, landmark in the recovery of early medievallaw, this volume SECOND EDITION, areissue of the fi $2,500. pastedown. A rare title. leaves, interior otherwiseclean.Ex-library. Bookplate to front places. Early owner annotations to title pageandafew other ends, jointscracked. Light toning, faintdampstaininginafew rubbing, corners bumpedandsomewhat worn, chipping to spine bands andletteringpiece to spine,endpapersrenewed. Moderate Later varnished three-quarter calf over speckledboards, raised (4-1/4” x2-3/4”) divisional title page. Work preceded by general title page.16mo. [ii], 127, [1];95,70, [2];15,[1];119, [1];56pp.Sixparts,each with Paris: ExOfficina Iacobi duPuy, 1573. Veteribus Libris Emendatiores & Auctiores. Alamannorum, Saxonum, Baivuariorum,Ripuariorum,Ex Magno Emendati& Aucti; Item Leges Burgundionum, Christianiss. Regib. Prius Editi &Postremum aCarolo Legem Continentes, A Clodoveo, Childeberto,&Clotario Aurei Venerandaeq’ue Antiquitatis LibelliSalicam DU TILLET, JEAN[D. 1570], EDITOR. A LANDMARK IN THE RECOVERY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL LAW Antiquae Burgundionum Leges rst edition. An important Detail from Antiqua Baivuariorium , Ripuariorum N o 115 {
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Lex and Vetus Lex Saxonum.) The list of topics treated in these Paris: Apud Franciscum Regnault, [1523]. 171, [1] ff. Main text in codes includes commerce, land ownership, inheritance, criminal parallel columns. Quarto (8-1/2” x 6-1/2”). procedure and civil procedure. A French humanist jurist and associate of Cujas, Du Tillet was also the Bishop of Brieuc, later Seventeenth-century sheep, raised bands, lettering piece and gilt Meaux. He edited Ulpian’s Regulae and assisted Cujas with his ornaments to spine. Moderate rubbing to front board with wear edition of the Codex Theodosianus. The fi rst edition of this work to corners, heavier rubbing to rear board and spine, pieces of was issued by Charlotte Guillard in 1550 with a title beginning sheepskin lacking, hinges cracked, a few cracks to text block. Title Libelli Seu Decreta. Excepting the title page and imprint, both page, with four-part woodcut and crible architectural border and editions are identical. And rare. OCLC locates 5 copies of the fi rst large Regnault elephant device, printed in red and black, crible edition in North America (University of Kansas, Library of Congress, initials throughout. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining UC-Berkeley Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Yale), 2 of in places, dampspotting to a few leaves. Early annotations to title the second (Harvard Law School, UC-Berkeley). This edition not page, interior otherwise clean. $2,500. in Adams. A HANDSOME EXAMPLE of Durand’s Repertorium by Regnault. Written in the thirteenth century, it is an alphabetically digested guidebook based on Durand’s great Speculum Judiciale, which was written in 1271 and revised in 1286 and 1291. This work, an encyclopediac survey of civil and canon law and procedure. A NOTABLE LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIA A standard work for centuries, it was esteemed for its clarity, organization and usefulness to scholars and practitioners. It 117 DURAND, GUILLAUME [C.1230-1296]. received commentary by Giovanni Andrea and Baldus de Ubaldis. The Repertorium is a complement to this work. Written by Durand Repertorium Singulare ad Totum Aureum Opus Speculi between 1271 and 1291 and fi rst published in 1474, it offers a topic- Valde Utile et Necessarium ad Praxim Anhelantibus: Et ad by-topic overview of the Speculum with citations. A useful book, it Communem Omniu[m] in Iure Militantiu[m] Utilitate Diebus went through 14 editions during the fi fteenth century. Durand was a French canonist, liturgical writer and Bishop of Mende. OCLC Novissimis: Remoto Obscure Indaginis Pristine Nubilo: locates 2 copies of this imprint in North America (at the Hagley Copaginatum Singularia Dicta: Et que Notatu Digna Sunt Museum and the Maryland State Library). Not in Adams. Co[m]prehendes et Ordine Adeo Facili. Ut Quequid Lector Desideraverit Ictu Oculi Reperiet. Quod in Aliis Bucusq[ue] Impressis Sparsim Querebat. Et Quid Denotent Marginales Illi Numeri. In Principio Terme Pagine Legito.
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North America (University of Michigan Law School).Not in the civillaw of the Holy Roman Empire. OCLC locates8copies, 1in one would expect,itconsiders Roman law and, to alesser extent, this isadissertationdefended at the University of Helmstadt. As ONLY EDITION. Aninteresting study onlawsrelating to sheep, toning to text, lightsoiling to wrappers, internally clean.$250. from aFrench book),card pocket to rear pastedown.Moderate Recent marbledboards over nineteenth-century wrappers (taken 6-1/2”). Helmstadt: ExOffi cina Schnorriana,1745. 70pp.Quarto (8” x Recht. Commentatio deJure Agnorum Vulgo: Von Lammer [LAMMERMANN, JOHANN JACOB, RESPONDENT]. ENGELBRECHT, JO[HANN] WIL[HELM]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE
LAWS CONCERNING SHEEP { THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N N o 120 o VD18. 119 120 119 in North America, noneinlaw libraries.Palau 89491. and 1805. All are scarce. OCLC locates7copies of the fi suggestions to realize them. Other editions were publishedin1792 Fernandez Navarrete supportedmostof the proposals andoffered suppression of religious orders and the abolitionof primogeniture. proposed the promotion of agriculture, tax reductions, the Consejo Real’s report.) Among other suggestions, the committee to modernize the monarchy. (Thebookreprints the text of the de Castilla,acommittee convened by PhilipIII to explore ways Monarquias isacommentary on the proposals by the Consejo Real elaboration of a1621 work, and Secretary to the SpanishKingsPhilip III andPhilipIV. An FIRST EDITION. Fernandez Navarrete was the Royal Chaplain A $1,500. solidcopy of ascarce title. spine, smallinkstamps to title page,brief annotationinink to verso. few places, interior otherwiseclean.Ex-library. Location label to few leaves.Contemporary underliningandbrief annotationsina decorated initialsand tail pieces. Light toning to text, foxing to a somewhat worn. Text printed within ruledborders, woodcut to spineends,front jointstartingathead,corners bumpedand rubbing to extremities, shallow scuffi lettering piece, specklededges,marbledendpapers.Moderate Contemporary mottledcalf, giltspine with raisedbandsand borders. Folio (11” x8”). pictorial title page. Text inparallelcolumns printed within ruled Madrid: EnlaImprenta Real, 1626.[viii], 344pp.Copperplate Tercero. Gran Consulta queelConsejo Hizo alSenor Rey donFelipe Conservacion deMonarquias: Discursos Politicos Sobre la 1632]. FERNANDEZ NAVARRETE, PEDRO [1564- School). Ter Meulen andDiermanse 795. copies inNorth America (Library of Congress, UC-Berkeley Law and information about Neapolitan andItalian law. OCLC locates2 edition, was aNeapolitan theologian. They addphilologicaldetail legal arguments.Somma, who wrote the additionalnotesin this commentary by Grotius. It was intended to serve asa tool for topically digestedselectionof excerpts from Justinian’s Somma’s notes.Firstpublishedin1642, the FlorumSparsio FOURTH ANDFINALEDITION, the only edition with fi dampstaining to rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to text, foxing inplaces, quarter vellum over marbledboards, gilt title to spine.Negligible Original printed wrappers with untrimmededgesboundintolater Octavo (8” x5”). Naples: ExOffi cina Vincentii Manfredii, 1777. [xxiii],378,[4] pp. Editione Notulis Passim Aucta, Et Indicibus Tribus. Geor. ChristianiGebaveri. Insuper hacPrima Neapolitana Florum Sparsio adjusIustinianeum, Cum Praefatione D. [SOMMA, GABRIELE, NOTES]. GEBAUER, GEORG CHRISTIAN[1690-1773]. GROTIUS, HUGO [1583-1645]. EXCERPTS FROMROMANLAW SELECTED BY GROTIUS PROPOSALS TO REFORM THE SPANISH MONARCHY
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HANDSOME REGNAULT IMPRINT WITH COMMENTARIES BY ACCURSIUS
121 [JUSTINIAN I (485-565 CE), EMPEROR REGNAULT’S EDITION OF THE DIGESTUM NOVUM OF THE EAST]. of Justinian’s Digest with notes by Accursius, the great medieval editor of the Institutes, Code and Digest of Justinian. (These are D’AURIGNY, GILLES [D. 1553], EDITOR. printed within the text columns and distinguished from the laws [ACCURSIUS, FRANCISCUS (C. 1185-1263), GLOSSATOR]. by pointing hands.) Summaries of the titles are included as well. The Digest (or Pandects) was commissioned by the Emperor Digesti Novi Textus; Cum Summariis Amplissimis. Justinian in 530 CE. Compiled in three years under the direction of Tribonium, it is a critical edition of writings by Gaius, Ulpian, [Paris]: Venalis Habetur Parisius ex Adverso Sa[n]cti Yuonis in Papinian and 36 other eminent jurisconsults organized by topic. Edibus Francisci Regnault, c.1518]. 300, [28]. Text in parallel The medieval Glossators divided the Digest into three sections, or columns. Octavo (5-1/2” x 3-1/2”). Volumina: the Digestum Vetus, the Digestum Infortiatum and the Digestum Novum. These divisions are based on the order in which Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, raised bands and blind the sections of the Digest were recovered during the thirteenth tooling to spine, early hand-lettered title to text block, corners century. Along with the Institutes, Code and Novels, the Digest mended, ties lacking. Some rubbing to extremities, a few chips is one of the groups of books known collectively as the Corpus to board edges, hinges cracked, later owner bookplate to front Juris Civilis. Its subsequent infl uence on European jurisprudence pastedown. Handsome woodcut title page of Justinian and his is diffi cult to overestimate. OCLC loactes 4 copies of the c. 1518 court, woodcut image repeated at beginning of main text, large Regnault edition in North America, 3 in law libaries (Library of Regnault elephant device to verso of Fol. 300. Title page and text Congress, UC-Berkeley, University of Georgia). Adams J549. printed in red and black, crible initials throughout. Moderate toning, occasional light foxing. Early owner annotations to front pastedown, title page and a few other leaves, interior otherwise clean. $1,950.
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IMPRESSIVE 1508 LYONS IMPRINT OF THE DIGESTUM VETUS
122 JUSTINIAN I, EMPEROR OF THE EAST. ACCURSIUS, FRANCISCUS [C. 1185-1263], GLOSSATOR.
Nova Accuratissimaq[ue] Castigatio Digesti Veteris ta[m] in Textu Q[uam] in Glosa Cu[m] Additione Novissima Q[uam] Plurimo[rum] Summarioru[m]. Una cum Tabulis Tituloru[m] Atq[ue] Legum seu Pandectaru[m] Nuperri me Additis.
[Lyons: Nicolas de Benedictis, 1508]. CCCLVIII ff. Text in parallel columns surrounded by linear gloss. Folio (16” x 11”).
Handsome modern calf blind tooled in period style, raised bands, lettering piece. Light rubbing to extremities, a few nicks to boards, corners bumped and somewhat worn. Text, in a handsome italic font, printed throughout in red and black, woodcut decorated Detail from No 124 initials. Light toning to text, light soiling and some edgewear to fi rst fi ve and fi nal three leaves. Detailed manuscript index to rear EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH LEGAL MANUSCRIPT endleaf and occasional reference numbers to text in miniscule early hand, later reference numbers in pencil by a later hand in 124 [MANUSCRIPT]. some places. A very desirable post-incunable imprint. Rare. [ANYOT FAMILY]. $5,000. Manuscript Law Dictionary. THE DIGESTUM VETUS (OR VETERIS) corresponds to Book 1 to Book 24, Title 2; the Digestum Novum corresponds [Paris, 1718?]. [176] pp. 12mo. (5-1/2” x 3-1/2””). to Book 39 to Book 50; the Infortiatum corresponds to Book 24, Title 3, to Book 38. Accursius, the most important editor of the Contemporary calf, gilt spine with raised bands. Moderate medieval era, arranged the vast body of notes and comments on rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped the Institutes, Code and Digest in a more orderly fashion than his and somewhat worn, joints starting. Text in fi ne hand to rectos predecessors. Known as the Glossa Ordinaria or Magistralis [Great and versos of most leaves, a few leaves blank. Moderate toning, Gloss], it superseded earlier glosses and summaries. Complete in several leaves with folds for easy reference. A wonderful example itself, the 1508 Lyons imprint is also part of an edition of the Digest of an early eighteenth century legal vademecum. $2,850. issued by Benedictis in four parts in 1508 and 1509. OCLC locates 4 copies of its Vetus volume worldwide, none in North America. The ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, and with foldable margins USTC adds three more locations, all in Europe. We located a copy to facilitate the marking of places, the book provides a quick and in North America at the New York Public Library. USTC 143404. simple reference guide to the principle terms and concepts of Roman civil law. All the principle aspects of civil law are covered, EARLY COMMENTARY ON PUFENDORF’S from inheritances and property rights through to contracts and THEORY OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE BY A NOTABLE JURIST martial law. A section also deals with ‘Juris Primordia,” detailing the structure and development of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The 123 KRESS, JOHANN PAUL [1677-1741]. book seems to have been compiled either by or for a member of the Anyot family, according to a note on the front paste-down Liber Commentarius ad Samuelis Pufendorffi i Tractatum (‘dominus Anyot eques, 1718’). While we have been unable to de Habitu Religionis ad Statum. identify the owner precisely, a number of Anyots were active as doctors, lawyers, and watchmakers in the later part of the Jena: Apud Christianum Pohlium, 1712. [xl], 542, [7] pp. Quarto (7- seventeenth century; as a Huguenot family, many left France after 3/4” x 6”). the revocation of the Edict of Nantes to move to England.
Contemporary sprinkled sheep, raised bands, gilt ornaments and lettering piece to spine, speckled edges. Some rubbing to extremities, chip to head of spine, corners bumped and somewhat worn, shallow scuff to rear board, hinges cracked. Moderate toning to text, occasional light foxing. Early owner signature and stamp to title page, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small stamp to title page. A handsome copy of a rare title. SOLD
ONLY EDITION. Pufendorf’s De Habitu Religionis Christianae ad Vitam Civilem outlines a doctrine of religious toleration according to the principles of natural law and offers an argument for the separation of church and state. First published in 1687, it was an infl uential work and a primary source for John Locke’s important Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). Kress was a distinguished jurist, legal writer and professor of law at the University of Helmstadt. His Liber Commentarius is an exposition of De Habitu with analytical commentary. A useful guide, it is also notable as a document of that work’s reception history. OCLC locates 6 copies, none in North America. VD18 11139471. No 124
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[ROMAN LAW]. [MANUSCRIPT]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE { EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LECTURE NOTES ON THE INSTITUTESOF JUSTINIAN THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE Roman law in the lecture hallsof eighteenth-century France. A pleasure to read, itis valuable for itsinsightsinto the reception or indicate it was compiled andboundin the mid-eighteenthcentury. manuscript isnotdated; the binding,paper, inkandhandwriting “Tractatus deUsuris,” which may beacopy or anoriginal work. This course of lectures on the WITH INDEX. Thisisafair copy of studentnotesfrom a $3,950. toning to interior. classical buildingaffi leaves inneatscript, woodcut pedimentfrom anengravingof a bookplate to front pastedown. Text to rectos and versos of most fi xedhead to to Institutes of Justinian. It isfollowed by a rst leaf of main text. Light N o 125 {
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LEGAL ASPECTS OF DEATH No 127
126 MEDICI, SEBASTIANO [D.1595].
VENERABLE ALPHABETICALLY DIGESTED Tractatus Mors Omnia Solvit. Nunc Iterum in Lucem HANDBOOK ON CANON LAW Editus. Nunc Iterum. 127 MILIS, JOANNES NICOLAUS DE [15TH C.]. Florence: In Offi cina Iunctarum, 1580. [viii], 279 [i.e. 269], [3] pp. FERRANDAT, HENRI, EDITOR. Octavo (6” x 4”). [Repertorium Aureum] Repertorium Aureum do Nicolai de Contemporary limp vellum with lapped edges, ties lacking, early hand-lettered title to foot of text block. Moderate rubbing, spine Milis, Repertortorium Admodum Solenne (Quod Merito darkened, a few light stains to boards, vellum just beginning to Opus Singulariu[s] Dictorum Appellant... crack through front pastedown, front hinge starting, small piece clipped from fore-edge of title page. Large Giunta fl eur-de- [Lyons: Jacques Giunta and Jean Flajollet], 1543. [xvi], 396 ff. Octavo lis device to title page and verso of fi nal leaf. Moderate toning, (5-1/2” x 3-3/4”). somewhat heavier in places, light foxing to a few leaves. Two early owner signatures to title page, interior otherwise clean. $1,250. Contemporary limp vellum, early calligraphic title to spine, endpapers renewed, thong ties lacking. Moderate soiling and a few LATER EDITION. Medici was a Florentine jurist and a member minor inkstains to covers, spine darkened, chipping to spine ends. of that city’s dominant family. First published in 1573, Tractatus Title page, with handsome large vignette and Giunta device, printed Mors Omnia Solvit is a treatise on medical and legal aspects of in red and black, large Giunta device to verso of fi nal leaf, woodcut death. It contains extensive references to the literature of Roman, decorated initials. Some toning, faint staining in a few places, civil and canon law. It was a fairly popular work; later editions internally clean. A nice copy. SOLD were published in 1574, 1579, 1580 and 1585. All are scarce today. OCLC locates few copies of any edition in North America, 1 of the WRITTEN IN THE EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY and 1580 edition (At Harvard Law School). EDIT16 CNCE28493. fi rst printed in Rome around 1471, this work was issued with various titles but is generally known as the Repertorium Juris Canonici or Repertorium Aureum. Arranged alphabetically by topic, it is a venerable handbook on canon law for clerics. The identity of the author is uncertain, but most sources attribute authorship to Niccolo di Milis, a 15th-century Franciscan friar from Sardinia. It went through numerous editions, but all are scarce today. OCLC locates 3 copies of this imprint, 1 in North America (at George Washington University Law School). Schulte, Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts 2:299. Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise XII:434.
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 72 129 128 Princes enPotentaten ter Andere Zyde. Nederlanden ter Eenre, Ende Verscheyde Koningen, de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Recueil van de Tractaten, Gemaeckt enGeslotenusschen [NETHERLANDS]. Princeton University). in North America (Harvard Law School,Library of Congress, in 1633. All are scarce. OCLC locates3copies of the fi First publishedin1584, it went through fi treatise on the Roman law of contracts, was hisonly publication. family. FOURTH EDITION. Mozzi was alawyer from anaristocratic brief early annotations to afew leaves. A nice copy. $1,500. moderate toning to text. Early owner initialsanddate to title page, endleaves, front hingecracked, front free endpaper lacking, bumped andlightly worn, worming to pastedownsandrear ties lacking.Moderate rubbing,chipping to foot of spine,corners Contemporary vellum, faintearly hand-lettered title to spine, [lxxxviii], 1176pp.Octavo(6-3/4” x4-1/2”). Cologne: Apud Viduam Ioannis Gymnici, SubMonocerote, 1597. Pagina. Vero, Qui hoc Volumine Continentur, Versa Indicabit Sententiarumque Insignium, Locupletissimus. Tractatus Lectorum Distincti. Accessit Index Verborum, Rerum, Vindicati, Typorumque Varietate adCommodiorem usum Editione Diligenter Recogniti, &a Multis Mendis Veraeq’ue Resolutiones Explicantur. Hac Postrema Pugnantium Opinionum OctogintaConciliationes, Utilissimi, In Quibus Etiam Contrariarum Inter se Tractatus deContractibus ad Theoricam, Praximque MOZZI, PIETRONICCO DOCUMENTS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE INTERESTING COLLECTION OF TREATIES AND RELATED Tractatus deContractibus, aremarkably comprehensive SCARCE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TREATISE ON THE ROMANLAW OF CONTRACTS
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THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE rst edition rst N o 128 130 131 1684 issue). (University of Michigan). Not inDekkers. Sabin68457(citing a dates. OCLC locates6copies inNorth America, 1inalaw library The title pagesor colophons containing the originalimprintsand Dutch andLatin,Dutch andFrench, or Dutch, LatinandFrench. with activitiesinNorth andSouth America. The texts are inDutch, and colonial power. Indeed, many treaties in this collection deal was the era when the United Provinces was amajor commercial Provinces (Dutch Republic) from 25 April 1576 to 15June 1701. This 72 treaties, proclamations andrelated documentsof the United ONLYcollects EDITION (INTHISFORM).volume This page, annotations to verso. A solidcopy. $1,250. clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine,smallinkstamp to title lacking. Later notesinpencil to front endleaf, interior otherwise toning to text, somewhatheavier inplaces, afew thumb tabs Woodcut title-page devices anddecorated initials.Moderate to crack through pastedowns,afew partialcracks to text block. Moderate soiling,chipping to headof spine, vellum beginning Contemporary vellum, later hand-lettered title to spine, ties lacking. tabbed. Quarto (7-3/4” x5-3/4”). each with individualpaginationandpublicationdate. Thumb- The Hague: By Jacobus Scheltus,[1701].72partsinone volume, Accacium deRipoll. Adest Etiam Praxis inCuria Vicarii Decisionibusque Diversos Senatuumper Nobilem Don Praxis Criminalis, Et Civilis,Haec Additionata Juribus BICHI, CELIO [D. 1657]. RIPOLI IMAS,ACACI DE [C. 1475-C.1555]. PEGUERA, LLUYS (LUIS) DE [1540-1610]. Seminary). BMC 18:705 2 of the second (Columbia Law School,Emory Pitts Theological edition inNorth America (at Emory Pitts Theological Seminary), published in1644. Bothare scarce. OCLC locates1copy of the fi and mattersconcerning inheritance. A second edition was discusses the civillaw concerning auctions,pledges,executions FIRST EDITION. Niger was aPaduan lawyer. His treatise title page,interior otherwiseclean.$1,250. places, lightfoxing to afew leaves.Early struck-through signature to decorated initials.Moderate toning to text, somewhatheavier in device, printedinred andblack, woodcut head-pieces and to hingesandpastedowns. Title page, with large woodcut printer lacking, boards slightly bowed,hingescracked, minor worming worming andchipping to spine,upper section(about two inches) hand-lettered title to spine.Moderate rubbingandlightsoiling, Contemporary vellum with early rebacking, raisedbandsandearly columns. Folio (12” x8-1/2”). Venice: Apud Bertanos,1641.[xii],308,[40] pp.Main text inparallel Ingratum Ijs, Qui Varia Delectantur Lectione. Versantibus Apprime Utile, &Necessarium; Nec Futurum Hasta Venditione Facienda Alter. Opus Iudicibus &In Foro Subhastatione, Et deEorumdem Pignorum,Et Aliorum sub Tractatus Duo. DeIudicialis, Et Praetorii Pignoris NIGER, ANTONIUS [D. 1555]. ON AUCTIONS, PLEDGES AND INHERITANCEPLEDGES AND ON AUCTIONS, RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TREATISE ON CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RARE CATALONIAN TREATISE
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Barcelona: Ex Praelo ac Aere Antonii Lacavalleria, 1649. Two THIRD EDITION. A notable commentary on the sections of volumes in one book, each with title page. Title page of second part the Institutes dealing with parricide. Tribonium was the principal has title that begins: Ordo Iudiciarius Causarum Usufrequentium. author of this section. As the title indicates, Ramos argues [12], 303, [1], 305-542; [ii], 543-646 [i.e. 648], [46] pp. Main text in that some of his points are erroneous. The three plates depict parallel columns. Folio (11-1/2” x 8-1/2”). execution scenes. First published in 1628, this book went through four editions, the last in 1752. All editions are scarce. OCLC locates Contemporary limp vellum, early calligraphic title to spine, ties 7 copies of the third edition in North America, 4 in law libraries lacking. Some wear to edges, spine lightly soiled, rear hinge cracked, (Columbia, Harvard, UC-Berkeley, Yale). Roberts 252. front hinge partially cracked, some edgewear to endleaves, a few minor tears repaired with cellotape, remains of thumb-tabs to title THE SPANISH NAVAL CODE OF 1793 page of Part II and index. Large copperplate device to fi rst title page, large woodcut device to second, woodcut head-pieces. Light 133 [SPAIN]. toning to text, light browning in a few places, light foxing to a few [NAVAL LAW]. leaves. Early ownership inscription to Part I title page, brief early annotations to a few leaves, interior otherwise clean. A nice copy Ordenanzas Generales de la Armada Naval. Parte of a scarce title. $1,850. Primara. Sobre la Gobernacion Militar y Marinera de la Armada en General, Y Uso de Sus Fuerzas en la Mar. ONLY EDITION LOCATED. This is an elaborate treatise on civil and criminal procedure according to the civil law of Catalonia Madrid: En la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joaquin Ibarra, 1793. Two and other parts of Spain and canon law. It also includes a selection volumes. [vi], 3-518, 50; [iv], 3-574, liv pp. Complete as issued. of illustrative cases by Ripoli and commentary by Bichi, a member Folio (12” x 8”). of the Rota Romana. Peguera was a member of the Catalonian Senate. A respected jurist with a reputation that extended Contemporary speckled sheep, raised bands, gilt titles and later beyond Spain, several books of his were edited and published typewritten title labels to spine, rouged edges, marbled endpapers. posthumously. OCLC locates no copies in North America. Palau, Scuffi ng to boards, rubbing to extremities with notable wear to Manual del Librero Hispano-Americano 216344. spine ends and corners, boards beginning to separate, but secure. Large copperplate vignettes to title pages and head of dedication of each volumes, copperplate tail-pieces at end of main text of WITH PLATES DEPICTING EXECUTIONS each volume. Light to moderate toning, light foxing, dampstaining and minor worming in places, internally clean. Ex-library. Location 132 RAMOS DEL MANZANO, JUAN labels to spines, small inkstamps to title pages, annotations to FRANCISCO [D. 1668]. versos. $750.
Tribonianus, Sive Errores Triboniani de Poena Parricidii in ONLY EDITION. This code of laws for the Spanish Navy was [¶] Alia Deinde Lex 6. Inst. De Publicis Judiciis. Academica enacted in 1793. Volume I addresses ranks and duties. It includes Analecta. sections on protocol, armaments and signals. Volume II addresses discipline and such matters as food, pay and privileges. Chapter 7 of that volume contains a set of regulations governing voyages Leiden: Apud Janssonios Vander Aa., 1728. [xxxii], 384, [20] pp. to Spanish colonies. Each volume has a subject index and an Three copperplates, two folding. Copperplate text illustrations. appendix containing a glossary of marginal references. The three Quarto (9-1/2” x 7-1/2”). handsome vignettes that appear in each volume were designed by notable Spanish artist Antonio Carnicero [1748-1814]. OCLC Recent period-style calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. locates 7 copies in North American law libraries (Harvard, Library Title page, with large copperplate vignette, printed in red and of Congress, Louisiana State University, Ohio State, UT-Austin, black, copperplate title page with architectural border. Moderate UVA, Yale). Palau 170842, 202627.
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post-incunable volume with an interesting addition. $35,000. post-incunable volume with aninteresting addition. leaves haveannotations,interior otherwiseclean. A handsome leaves, early repairs to fore-edges of the fi dampstaining to marginsinafew places, lightfoxing to afew large woodcut printer device atendsof text. Light toning, faint rounded Gothic type, woodcut decorated initials throughout text, front pastedown.Main title pageprintedinred, text inhandsome bookseller descriptionandowner bookplate (Hans Furstenberg) to 1498 papalbullprintedby Richard Pynson, describedbelow, recent restored atends,claspbucklespresent, pastedownsderivedfrom beveled wooden boards, spine, with raisedbands,carefully Contemporary chainedbinding,blind-paneledhalf-calf over (16-1/2” x11”). in one volume. Main text inparallelcolumns with side-notes.Folio [Venice: Per Baptistamde Tortis, 1514].49, [1],200;106ff. Two parts Franciscum deDoctoribusPatavinum Noviter Editis]. cum Aliis Innumeris Additionibus per Dominum Antonium Domini Fra(n)cisci deCurte ( Novi Parte(m). Cum Apostillis Doctissimo(rum) [Alexander deImola inPrima (m) et ANNOTATIONS. LANDRIANO, BERNARDINO DE. [15TH/16TH.C.], CORTE, FRANCESCO [D. 1495], ANNOTATIONS. TARTAGNI, ALESSANDRO [1424-1477]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE et) Bernardini deLandriano. Et { RELATING TO THE ENGLISHCROWN PRINTEDBY PYNSONIN1498 rst two leaves.Some WITH ENDLEAVES DERIVEDFROM A PAPAL BULL Secunda(m). ff. THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE Doctorum M13152/M1315220. Canterbury Cathedraland the Trier State library. Not inGoff. State Library and two other fragmentary copies in the Library of The OCLC. The bookisnotrecorded in Adams, the BMCor EDIT16. Tartagni imprintand1498papalbullare rare. Neither are listed on There are also two smallholes with minor loss to the text. The 1514 from the leftsideof the document,along with its top four lines. The binder cutitinto two parts. About ten inchesare missing York. The documentissignedby the episcopal notary, John Barett. of Henry VII andhisheirsendorsesmarriage to Elizabethof John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, itconfi printed on vellum on8March 1498by Richard Pynson. Issued by copy isbound with mostof asingle-leaf, single-sidedpapalbull Title 1). These booksdealmostly with property andcontracts. This the fi of the author of severalimportant commentaries on the followed Bartolus.Like hisillustriouspredecessor, he was the Bologna andaleadingmember of the generationof jurists that Tartagnis deImola, was aprofessor of law at the University of LATER EDITION. Tartagni, alsoknownas Alexander de GW rst andsecond partsof the Digest. locates three copies of the papalbull:onein the Cologne In PrimametSecundam. ff. Novi Partem Digestum Novum (Books39-45, rms the succession Code andbooks addresses GW
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N o 135 of 136 neither inNorth America. This editionnotinDekkers. Sapori1:668. OCLC locates2copies ofLATER our 1757edition, EDITION. internally clean.$950. mildly edgeworn.Light toning to text, foxing inafew places, minor worming to hinges,leaf Mm2 (pp. 545-546) detachedand scuffs to boards, front joint startingatends,rear jointcracked, with wear to fore-edges of boards, corners bumped,afew minor title to spine,specklededges.Moderate rubbing to extremities Contemporary quarter calf over marbledboards, giltfi parallel columns. Quarto (10” x7-1/4”). Venice: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1757. [viii], 554, [2]pp.Main text in Nonnullarum Provinciarum Reperiuntu. Additiones hinc Inde exJure Potissimum Consuetudinario Quaestiones Plurimas, Ac Controversias Passim Insertas, IV. Brevis, Analiticus, Methodicus, In quoPraeter Commentarius adInstitutionum Juris Civilis.Libros ANDREAS, VALERIUS, EDITOR. ZOES, HENDRIK. COMMENTARY ON THE INSTITUTESBY A NOTABLE DUTCH HUMANIST
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Mexico City: Imprenta de Galvan a Cargo de Mariano Arevalo, 1829. [ii], xvi, 216 pp. Quarto (8-1/2” x 5-3/4”).
Contemporary sheep, lettering piece and gilt fi llets to spine, speckled edges. Moderate wear to boards, front board detached, EARLY DIGEST OF COLOMBIAN LAW chipping to spine ends. Mexican government stamps to title page and head of main text. Moderate toning to text, minor stains and 137 COLOMBIA, REPUBLIC OF. edgewear to a few leaves, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamp to title page, a few annotations to verso. Cuerpo de Leyes de la Republica de Colombia: Que $500. Comprendre Todas las Leyes, Decretos y Resoluciones Dictados por sus Congresos Desde el de 1821 Hasta ONLY EDITION. With topical index. Contents arranged by el Ultimo de 1827. Reimpreso Cuidadosamente por la month and year. This volume collects laws issued by the Spanish Edicion Oficial de Bogota Publicada en Tres Volumenes. government from January 1811 to September 1821, the period of the Con un Indice Cronologico y Otro Alfabetico de la Mexican War of Independence. This compilation appears to be a historical record rather than a book for lawyers. OCLC locates no Materia de las Leyes. copies in North America. Not in Clagett and Valderrama. Caracas: En la Imprenta de Valentin Espinal, 1840. [iii], XVI, [1], XIX-
XL, [2], 2-592 pp. Octavo (9” x 5-1/2”). THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTION IN 1870
Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards, printed paper title panel to spine. Light rubbing to boards, moderate wear to 139 [MEXICO]. extremities, chipping to spine ends, corners somewhat worn, text [CONSTITUTION]. block partially detached. Moderate toning to text, light foxing and browning in a few places, internally clean. Ex-library. Location Constitucion Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, label to spine, small inkstamp to title page, annotations to verso. Sancionada y Jurada por el Congreso General $500. Constituyente el 5 Dia de Febrero de 1857. Y Coleccion de las Constituciones de los Estados que Forman la THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA, or Gran Colombia, was Confederacion. established by Simon Bolivar in 1819. It included present-day Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador and parts of present-day Brazil. Toluca: Tip. del Instituto Literario, Dirijida por Pedro Martinez, 1870. Internal tensions caused this nation to collapse in 1830-1831. This 657, [3] pp. Octavo (8-1/4” x 5-1/2”). volume is based on a three-volume digest of the nation’s laws issued in 1825. OCLC locates 5 copies in North American law Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised libraries (Harvard, LSU, UC-Berkeley, UT-Austin, Yale). bands, lettering pieces, blind ornaments and early owner label to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, small scuff to rear board. Moderate toning to REVOLUTIONARY-ERA COLLECTION OF SPANISH COLONIAL LAWS FOR MEXICO text, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small inkstamp to title page. A nice copy. $250. [MEXICO]. 138 ONLY EDITION. Mexico’s 1857 constitution remained in force until 1917. It received its fi rst amendment in 1873 and numerous Coleccion de los Decretos y Ordenes de las Cortes de amendments and additions until its repeal, which is why annotated Espana, Que se Seputan Vigentes en la Republica de los editions from are helpful. OCLC locates 8 copies in North American Estados Unidos Mexicanos. law libraries. See Clagett and Valderrama 9-10.
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Lejislatura Constitucional. Aumentada por unaComision Nombrada por laSesta Congreso delEstadoLibre de Yucatan. Corregida y Coleccion deLeyes, Decretos y Ordenes del Augusto [YUCATAN]. [MEXICO]. Michigan). Clagettand Valderrama 50. law libraries(Duke, Harvard, LA County, Tulane, University of a “monumental work.” OCLC locates5copies inNorth American and Clagett Valderrama,cite subjects. is, to between thesetwo This perhaps hismostimportant work to address the relationship law andcivilrights.EstudioSobre Garantias Individuales legal author, isrenowned for his work onMexican constitutional ONLY EDITION. Montiel y Duarte, animportantstatesmanand $350. front pastedown,smallinkstamp to front pastedown. clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine,annotationsinpencil to lacking, rear hingecracked. Moderate toning to text, internally board beginning to separate(butsecure), front free endpaper a few scuffs to boards, corners worn, chip to headof spine,front titles andgiltornaments to spine.Moderate rubbing to extremities, Contemporary quarter calf over marbledboards, raisedbands,gilt x 5-1/2”). Mexico City:Imprenta deGobierno,1873.608pp.Octavo(8-1/2” Estudio Sobre Garantias Individuales [1821-1891]. MONTIEL YDUARTE, ISIDRO ANTONIO [MEXICO]. { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE AN IMPORTANT MEXICAN TREATISE ONCIVIL RIGHTS EARLY COMPILATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONS
AND LAWS OF YUCATAN { . THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. EXCHANGE, LAWBOOK THE N o 141 is 142 School). Not inClagett. North America (Brown, Harvard Law School,UC-Berkeley Law criminal code. It was enactedin1836.OCLC locates3copies in Republic. VolumeI: republic andaninteresting lookat Yucatan’s place in the Federated 1832 compilation offer alegalandlegislativerecord of the fi Yucatan’s laws was issuedin1825. That and the more-extensive which itrejoined the Mexican Federation. The fi of Yucatan was establishedin1841.It lastedseven years, after Republic of Yucatan onDecember 23,1823. The second Republic of the Mexican Empire. It joined the succeeding Federated Yucatan was establishedonMay 29, 1823during the collapse two periodsof the nineteenthcentury. The fi of CampecheandQuaintana Roo, was asovereign stateduring YUCATAN, WHICH INCLUDES the present-day states pages. A nice copy of a very scarce title. $950. Location labels to spines,stampsandannotations to versos of title and dampstaining to afew leaves,internally clean.Ex-library. pastedowns. Light toning to text, somewhatdarker inplaces, foxing few partialcracks to text blocks,early owner bookplates to front worn away from titles, corners bumpedandmoderately worn, a to spine.Lightrubbing to boards, chipping to spineends,gilding Contemporary quarter calf over marbledboards, titles stamped 176 [i.e. 276];[ii],xx,254pp.Octavo(7-1/2” x5”). Merida: Imprenta deLorenzo Segui,1832. Two volumes. [ii],xxiv, on the system alongFrench linesandintroduced aseriesof codes based “El Afrancesado.” While president of Boliviahe reformed the legal he established.He was suchaFrancophile that he was knownas of the short-livedPeru-Bolivian Confederation (1836-1839), which President of Boliviafrom 1829 to 1839and the Supreme Protector Peru in1827, then dividedinto the statesof North andSouth-Peru, in post-colonial Latin America. SantaCruz was the President of FIRST EDITION. This isoneof the earliestcodes produced A very scarce title. $750. front pastedown,smallinkstamps to title page,annotations to verso. internally clean.Ex-library. Location label to spine,bookplate to rubbed, corners bumpedand worn. Negligible light toning to text, and foot of backstriplacking,boards anddetachedmoderately gilt title andornaments to spine,giltedges.Spineabraded,head Contemporary calf, giltframesandcentral ornaments to boards, Castillo, 1833.[iv], 112[i.e. 212], VIII pp.Quarto (7-1/2” x5-1/2”). [Chuquisaca]: Imprenta ChuquisaquenaDirijida por Aillon y Codigo deProcederes Santa-Cruz. [SANTA CRUZ YCALAUMANA, ANDRES (1792-1865)]. [BOLIVIA]. [PERU]. Library, University of Michigan Law School). locates 3copies inNorth America (Harvard Law School,NY Public Desde 20de Agosto de1825Hasta 5deMarzo de1832. Comprende lasdeSeisPrimeras Lejislatúras Constitucionales Code Napoleon. PRODUCED INPOST-COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA DRAFT OF ONEOF THE EARLIEST CODES Comprende lasdelConstituyente Codigo deProcederes
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Ayacucho: Imprenta del Colejio de Educandas, 1831. vi, 6, 134 [234] pp.
[Bound with] [SANTA CRUZ Y CALAUMANA, ANDRES].
Codigo Penal Santa-Cruz para el Regimen de la Republica Boliviana.
Cochabamba: Imprenta de la Restauracion, 1873. v, 164, 30, vi pp.
Octavo (8” x 5-1/2”). Later buckram, red and black lettering pieces to spine. Some soiling and shelfwear, chipping to edges of lettering pieces. Moderate toning to text, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small inkstamps and annotations in pencil to title pages. Solid copies of two rare imprints. $1,500.
FIRST EDITIONS. Santa Cruz was the President of Peru in 1827, then divided into the states of North and South-Peru, Detail from o 143 President of Bolivia from 1829 to 1839 and the Supreme Protector N of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation (1836-1839), which he established. He was such a Francophile that he was known as “El Afrancesado.” While president of Bolivia he reformed the legal system along French lines and introduced a series of codes based on the Code Napoleon. These codes, including the 1831 Bolivian criminal code, are among the earliest codes produced in post- colonial Latin America. The 1875 code is a reprinting of a heavily revised version of Santa Cruz’s code adopted in 1862. OCLC locates 5 copies of the 1831 code, 1 in North America (at LA County Law Library), 1 copy of the 1873 code (at the National Library of Chile). See Clagett 76-77.
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105,106,144 Trials 11,35,37, 40, 41, Trial by Battle105 130, 131,141 andLatin America) 111, 126,128, Treatises (Continental Europe 103, 108 61,67, 92,102, 39, 46,47, 49, 57, andGreat Britain) Treatises (America Treaties 129 Treadmills 20 Theater 114 135,136 125,127, 112,113, 65,74, 93,100, 2, 3,32,39, Textbooks, Legal Education Taxation 23 Spain 119, 131,133 Signed andInscribed Books7, 13,14, 18,19 Sheep 118 Scotland 100 Satire 59 134, 135,136 126,128,132, 121,122,124, 125, 100, 112,113,118,120, Roman Law Rhode Island 34 Reports, 24, Collections 42,43,44 of Cases Railroads 25 Psychiatry 15 109 98, Prohibition 10 97, 92, 79, 12398, 94, 1,16,17, 53,85,90, Political Science 93,103,116,117, 131 74, 76,80, 83,87, andProcedure 52,61,67, 69, 72, Pleading, Practice Perjury 73 Pennsylvania 5,9, 35 Parliamentary Law 8 23,45,53,74, Parliament (Great Britain) Papal Bulls115,134 25 Northern SecuritiesCo. v.United States Nobility 46,92 (Great Britain) Netherlands 129 134 110, 106, 31 New 59, Jersey 53, Naval Law 133 98 Native 21,22 Americans (Indians) 75, 48, 47, 4, 5,37, Murder 55,56,86,105 57,Monarchy 58,59, 79, 101,119 Minneapolis 37 Marriage Massachusetts 4, 38,52 Maine 33 Magna Carta Louisiana 36 London 83,84 82 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 124, 125 33,34, 35,84, 6,10, 12,31,32, Letters andManuscripts Publishing Legal Layman’s Manuals 78,93 Land, Real Property 21,22,84, 124 DESCRIPTION ITEM N o
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United States Supreme Court 6, 7, 12, 13, Gray, Landon Carter 15 Scopes, John T. 11 14, 25, 41, 42 Gregory XV, Pope 115 Seabury, Mrs. Samuel (Richey, Maude) 6 University of Michigan 32 Grotius, Hugo 120 Selden, John 92 Usury 125 G.T., Of Staple Inne 76 Sheppard, William 93 Vanity Fair 107 Hale, Sir Matthew 109 Sidney, Algernon 94 Virginia 42 Hamilton, Alexander 16, 17 Smith, James F. 22 Hand, Learned 18, 19 Somers, John Somers, Baron 95, 96, 97 Hardie, James 20 Somma, Gabriele 120 Authors and Named Persons Hayward, Harry T. 37 Spelman, Sir Henry 99 Henry VII, King of England 134 Spy (Sir Leslie Ward) 107 Accursius, Franciscus 121, 122 Hughes, Henry 54 Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount 100 Adams, John 1 Hughes, William 77 Staunford, Sir William 101, 102 Agnew, John Holmes 30 Iturriaga, Jose de 144 Stilphen, Asbury Coke 33 Alexander de Imola 112, 113 Jacob, Giles 78 Tartagni, Alessandro 134 Anthon, John 2 Jay, John 16, 17 Thayer, James Bradley 74 Antoninus, Saint 110 Jefferson, Thomas 8 Theloall, Simon 103 Anyot Family 124 Jenkins, David 79 Thornton, Abraham 105 Arnisaeus, Henning 111 Jenyns, Soame 23 Titus, Jonah 34 Ashe, Thomas 43, 44 Justinian I, Emperor of the east 121, 122 Towers, Joseph 104 Barbatius, Andreas 112, 113 Kadison, Alexander 10 Ubaldus, Angelus de 112 Bartolo of Sassoferrato 112, 113 Kendall, Edward Augustus 105 Urban VIII, Pope 115 Berger, Christoph Heinrich 114 Kennedy, Timothy 4 Vadis, Benedictus de 112 Bichi, Celio 131 Kennett, Basil 90 Vannoud, Louis 106 Bird, William 46, 92 Keppel, Maggie 15 Vattel, Emmerich de 108 Blackstone, Sir William 3, 47, 48 Kirby, Ephraim 24 Washington, Bushrod 42 Blandy, Mary 86 Kitchin, John 80 W.B. 109 Blount, Thomas 49, 50 Knox, Philander 25 Wells, William P. 32 Bond, John 51 Koppelberger, Johannes 5 Wikoff, Henry 106 Booth, A. 52 Kress, Johann Paul 123 Williams, Thomas 109 Boudinot, Elisha 31 Lambard(e), William 81 Wright, John S. 30 Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius 53 Lammermann, Johann Jacob 118 Zoes, Hendrik 135, 136 Brydall, John 57 Landriano, Bernardino de 134 Burr, Aaron 40 Lieghley, I.A. 32 Cardozo, Benjamin N. 6, 7 Loseo, Alexander 112 Care, Henry 58 Madison, James 16, 17 Caroline of Brunswick 59 McDonald, W J. 8 Catherine II, Empress of Russia 60 Martin, Francois-Xavier 36 Cavallari, Luigi 106 Martin, Mary 56 Cavallero, Manuel 144 Medici, Sebastiano 126 Celsus, Descousu 113 Mellen, George Washington Frost 29 Cock, Emma 54 Milis, Joannes Nicolaus de 127 Coke, Sir Edward 44 Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat 85 Cooper, John 105 Montiel y Duarte, Isidro Antonio 141 Corder, William 56 Mozzi, Pietro Niccolo 128 Corte, Francesco 134 Neil, John R. 11 Cowell, John 62 Niger, Antonius 130 Crompton, Richard 64, 71 Nugent, Thomas 85 Darrow, Clarence 10, 11 O’Donoghue, John 88 D’Israeli, Isaac 91 O., G. 144 Doddridge, Sir John 46, 65 Parisius, Petrus Paulus 112, 113 Du Tillet, Jean 116 Peguera, Lluys (Luis) de 131 Durand, Guillaume 117 Pooley, Edmund 89 Dyer, Sir James 43 Powers, Michael 4 Engelbrecht, Johann Wilhelm 118 Pufendorf, Samuel von 90, 123 Euer, Sir Samson 67 Pulteney, William 38 Evarts, Jeremiah 21 Ralph, James 91 Farrar, Timothy 41 Ramos del Manzano, Juan Francisco 132 Ferrandat, Henri 127 Rastell, William 69 Fernandez Navarrete, Pedro 119 Rawle, William 39 Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony 68, 69, 70, 71 Ripoli i Mas, Acaci de 131 F.O. 72 Risden, Thomas 109 Frankfurter, Felix 12, 13, 14 Robertson, David 40 Gebauer, Georg Christian 120 Roussel, Jean 125 Glanville, Ranulf de 74 Saint German (Germain), Christopher 74 Goodsell, Edward H. 37 Santa Cruz y Calaumana, Andres 142, 143
www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 86 relevance. review of the recent literature of codifi intensifi At last, this classic is widely available.John W. Cairnsreminds usof the complexity of codifi meticulous andimmensely illuminating. and brings to the debateall the light that comparative law andlegalhistory canshed. This work issophisticated, assertions andunhistoricalassumptions,heexamines core codal ideas through acomparative conceptual lens Batiza debateover legalsources what hasbeenessentially missingfrom that debateallalong.Instead of unproven fresh andrelevant asif ithadbeenpenned yesterday. Cairnsbrings to historicalcontroversies suchas the Pascal- and researched more than thirty fi Legal historiansinLouisiana andQuebec will experience anepiphany inreading this masterfulstudy. Though written instead of skilled technicians. considerations andsocio-economic changes. Therefore, heconsiders lawmakers to beessentially socialactors, He argues that a variety of factorsexplainedinnovationor stasis,suchaslegalor conservative ideologies,political painstaking analysisof the rules they needed to consult allow him to deduce the reasons for the choices they made. remarkable degree of freedom when restating the former law or, in the second case,suggestingamendments.His and to legal theory. Professor Cairnsshows that inLouisiana (1808) andinQuebec (1865), codifi Completed in the eraof fountain pen, typewriters andsnail-mail, this bookisamajor contribution to legalhistory the sources, purposesandmeaningof Louisiana’s fi greater extent than any work published to date, the famousdebatebetweenRobert Pascal andRodolfo Batizaover worked. In particular, Cairns’ analysisof the draftingof the 1808Digest of the Territory of Orleans resolves, to a byfi the under the tutelage of Alan Watson, Cairns’ study provides adetailedanalysisof the methodsandsources used Civil Code ever published. John Cairns’ Codifi The additionof Dr. Cairns’ comparative work jurisdictions for years to come. will alsobe the startingpointof allother comparative studiesof these two importantNorth American mixed understanding of Louisiana legalhistory. Cairns’ comparative account of codifi as anobsessionof scholarsenthralled by Louisiana exceptionalism butrather remains central to any complete drafted historiographicintroduction, Cairns’ bookexplains why resolution of that debatecannotbemarginalized welcome contribution. His excellent introduction isrequired reading for anyone interested inLouisiana legalhistory. this work afforded Cairns in the opportunity to buildon that foundation andaddhisown well respected approach to this Watson’s “legal transplants” theory inhisUniversity of Edinburgh PhD thesis completed in1980. Renewed interest of legalandsocialchangeincomparing the early codifi of Louisiana legalhistory andcanserveasafruitful startingpointfor newcomers. Cairnsfi rstexplored the relationships { CATALOGUE 80CATALOGUE edin the pluralistandrapidly changingNorth American jurisdictionsof Quebec andLouisiana. A crackling rst codifi rst
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NEW CODIFICATION, TRANSPLANTS AND HISTORY Law Reform in Louisiana (1808) and Quebec (1866)
JOHN W. CAIRNS
When Louisiana enacted its Digest of the Civil Laws in 1808 and Quebec its Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, both jurisdictions were in a period of transition — economic, social and political. In both, the laws had originally been transplanted from European nations whose societies were in many ways different from theirs.
This book offers the fi rst systematic and detailed exploration of the two new codes in light of social and legal change. Cairns examines the rich, complex, and varying legal cultures — French, Spanish, Civilian and Anglo-American — on which the two sets of redactors drew in drafting their JUST PUBLISHED codes. He places this examination in the context MAY 2015 surrounding each codifi cation, and the legal history of both societies. xlv, 559 pp. Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing Hardcover 2015 Cairns offers a detailed analysis of family law ISBN 978-1-61619-509-0 and employment in the two codes, showing how $85. their respective redactors selected from a defi ned range of sources and materials to construct their codes. He shows that they acted relatively freely, attempting to inscribe into law rules refl ecting what they understood to be the needs of their society, from an essentially intuitive and elite perspective. While not propounding a universal theory of legal development, Cairns nonetheless shows the types of factors likely to infl uence legal change more generally.
JOHN W. CAIRNS is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where he now occupies the Chair of Civil Law. He has taught at the Queen’s University Belfast (1980–1984) and served as a Visiting Professor at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and the University of Miami, Florida. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2007. His research has focused on the history of Scots law (particularly legal literature, legal education, and the legal profession in the eighteenth century) slavery and the law (particularly in the eighteenth century) and the legal history of Louisiana and Quebec.
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