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1 30 Recent Acquisitions Canon, Civil, Common, Ecclesiastical, Feudal & Natural Law January 15, 2019

2 A Constitutional Defense of the Glorious Revolution 1. Acherley, Roger [c ]. The Britannic Constitution: Or, The Fundamental Form of Government in Britain. Demonstrating, The Original Contract Entred into by King and People, According to the Primary Institutions Thereof, In this Nation. Wherein is Proved, That the Placing on the Throne King William III. Was the Natural Fruit and Effect of the Original Constitution. And that the Succession to this Crown, Establish'd in the Present Protestant Heirs, Is De Jure, And Justify'd, By the Fundamental Laws of Great Britain. And Many Important Original Powers and Privileges, Of Both Houses of Parliament, Are Exhibited. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, J. Osborn, And T. Longman, vii, [1], 5-695, [11] pp. Pagination irregular, text complete. [Bound with] [Acherley, Roger]. Reasons for Uniformity in the State. Being a Supplement to the Britannic Constitution. By the Author of the Britannic Constitution. London: Printed for S. Birt, D. Browne, C. Hitch, C. Davis, S. Austen, and A. Millar, Folio (13-1/4" x 9"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces, paper shelf label and gilt institution name to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, stamps to top and bottom edges, endleaves added. Light shelfwear, corners lightly bumped. Title page printed in red and black, woodcut head-pieces (featuring Lady Justice) and tail-pieces. Light toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, light foxing to margins in a few places, faint dampstaining to upper corners of preliminaries, library stamps to endleaves, a few early doodles to front endleaf, "Rt. Morris" and "Robt. H. Morris (with 1820 next to it in different hand)" to head of title page of Britannic Constitution, library stamps and brief annotations to verso. $500. * Britannic Constitution: first edition; Reasons for Uniformity: only edition as an independent work. Acherley wrote this book to demonstrate the legality and justice of the Glorious Revolution. "In its arguments against those who asserted the divinity of hereditary right, and in its insistence on arguments drawn from the original contract, it echoes the controversies of the seventeenth century. In fact, so long as a Stuart restoration was possible, it was necessary for a book on constitutional law to combat the reasonings of those who supported it. (...) But it is not merely a controversial book. It is also a book on constitutional law; for it sets out carefully the main events of English constitutional history, which were the precedents used by the Whig Party to prove the legality of the revolution settlement which they had made" (Holdsworth). Reasons for Uniformity is a supplemental work. It was issued as part of the two later editions of this work) 1741, 1759). Our copy appears to have been owned by descendants of Robert Hunter Morris [ ], a Colonial governor of Pennsylvania and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Holdsworth, A History of English Law XII:341. English Short-Title Catalogue T86829, T Order This Item

3 Impressive Portrait of Chief Justice Taney 2. [American School, 19th/20th Century]. [Healy, George P.A. ( ), After]. [Taney, Roger Brook ( )]. [Portrait of Roger Brook Taney]. 40-3/4" x 33" (image size). N.p., n.d. $6,500. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, plaque reading "Rodger [sic] Brooke Taney/ Nat Ob 1864 / Chief Justice of the United States " to head of frame. A few small nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise fine. $6,500. * Taney held many state and federal political and legal positions and became chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1836, a post he held until his death in As chief justice, he is known for the notorious Dred Scott decision (1857), which ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state or territory was not entitled to his freedom and that African-Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. It also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery west of Missouri and north of latitude ' This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802, it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library, where this portrait was last displayed, was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in Order This Item

4 "A More Complete Lawyer Than Any of His Contemporaries" 3. Bacon, Sir Francis [ ]. Law Tracts, Containing 1. A Proposition for Compiling and Amendment of Our Laws. 2. An Offer of a Digest of the Laws. 3. The Elements of the Common Laws of England, Containing a Collection of Some Principal Rules and Maxims of the Common Law, With their Latitude and Extent. 4. The Use of the Law for Preservation of our Persons, Goods and Good Names, According to the Practice of the Laws and Customs of this Land. 5. Cases of Treason, Felony, Praemunire, Prerogative of the King, of the Office of a Constable. 6. Arguments in Law in Certain Great and Difficult Cases, Viz. Of Impeachment of Waste. Low's Case of Tenures. Of Revocation of Uses. The Jurisdiction of the Marches. 7. Ordinances in Chancery for the Better and More Regular Administration of Justice in the Chancery, To be Daily Observed, Saving the Prerogative of the Court. 8. Reading on the Statute of Uses. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot (Assignee of Edw. Sawyer, Esq;), [iv], 356, [16] pp. Title page preceded by one-page publisher advertisement. Octavo (7-1/4" x 5"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces and paper shelf label to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, endleaves added. Negligible light rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning, light foxing in places, headlines affected by trimming, library stamps to edges, endleaves and verso of title page, early owner signature to head of half-title. $750. * Second and final edition, a reissue of the first edition, 1737, with a reset title page and half-title. This book is notable as the only collected edition of Bacon's legal works and the only work that includes the essays listed as Tracts 1, 2 and 6. Bacon, one of the great intellectuals of the age, held the posts of solicitor general, attorney general and lord chancellor during the reign of James I. "He was a more complete lawyer than any of his contemporaries. Not only was he an eminent practitioner in the common law; not only did he leave his mark as lord chancellor upon the development of equity; he also studied both English law and law in general scientifically and critically. The only other lawyer, in that age of distinguished lawyers, who can be compared to him is his great rival Coke.": Holdsworth, A History of English Law V:239. English Short-Title Catalogue N Order This Item

5 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley's Copy of Blackstone's Handsome Edition of Magna Carta 4. Blackstone, Sir William [ ]. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, With Other Authentic Instruments: To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, [iv], lxxvi, [iv], 86 pp. Half-title and table of contents (Tabula) are bound between pp lxxvi and p. 1. Folio (13-1/2" x 10-1/2"). Contemporary paneled calf with later rebacking, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and minor scuffing to boards, considerable rubbing to extremities with loss around corners, hinges repaired, rear hinge starting, backing added to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to text, finger smudges to a few leaves, library markings to endleaves and verso of title page. Early owner signatures ("Leeman Tho: Redel" dated 1770 and "W: Leeman dated 1760" to title page, later owner signature of Joseph P. Bradley dated 1890, to front free endpaper. Item housed in lightly worn twentieth-century slipcase. $6,500. * First edition. Texts of documents in Latin, Blackstone's essay in English. The engraved dedication to the Earl of Westmoreland is surmounted with his armorial ensigns; initials in the text are ornamented with engravings of various buildings at Oxford University. The tail pieces on pages lxxvi and 73 are historical vignettes; the other ten tail-pieces are facsimiles of the royal seals that are attached to the original documents. This remarkable work is esteemed for its production and scholarship. Its physical appeal was recognized as early as 1829 in Richard Thompson's An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, which described it as a "beautiful and rare edition." Blackstone's essay, which is based on a great deal of original research, argued that the charter was the foundation of English liberties. This idea, first proposed by Coke, was a central tenet of Whig ideology. More important, Blackstone's research into the original texts demonstrated that all earlier editions of the charter were based on the significantly different reissue of 1225, in the reign of Henry III, rather than the original one endorsed at Runnymede. His philological approach was highly influential; it established the textual focus that has governed subsequent study of the charter. Bradley [ ] was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1870 until his death. He is best remembered as a member of the 1877 Electoral Commission that decided the outcome of the disputed 1876 presidential election. He cast the vote that gave the election made Rutherford B. Hayes. Eller, The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library 237. Laeuchli, A Bibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone 548. Order This Item

6 First Edition of Blount's Dictionary 5. Blount, Thomas [ ]. Nomo-Lexikon: A Law-Dictionary. Interpreting Such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms, As are Found Either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Lawes. With References to the Several Statutes, Records, Registers, Law-Books, Charters, Ancient Deeds, And Manuscripts, Wherein the Words are Used: And Etymologies, Where They Properly Occur. London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, For John Martin and Henry Herringman, [286] pp. Errata leaf misbound before preface. Main text printed in parallel columns. Folio (11-1/4" x 7"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces, paper shelf label and gilt institution name to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, endleaves added. Negligible light rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining to lower corner of preliminaries, light soiling and edgewear to preliminaries, lower section of dedication leaf neatly detached, two later owner signatures to head of title page ("Johnson" and "Isaac Blacksford"), another signature ("Isaac Blackford 1832") to head of leaf Yy2, verso, library stamps to edges and endleaves. $450. * First edition. Blount was a barrister and 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 and lexicography. He aimed to correct the defects he found in Cowell's Interpreter (1607) and Rastell's Termes de la Ley (1523). In his preface, he observed that Cowell "is sometimes too prolix in the derivation of a Word, setting down several Authors Opinions, without categorically determining which is the true"; Rastell "wrote so long hence, that his very Language and manner of expression was almost antiquated." He hoped that by correcting these flaws he would create a dictionary useful to everyone in the profession from "the Coif to the puny-clerk." The Nomo-Lexikon is clearer and more detailed than its predecessors. It is also the first English-language dictionary with entries that include word etymologies and citations. An immediate success that quickly supplanted its predecessors, it was reissued in larger and revised editions throughout the eighteenth century. Starnes and Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 46. English Short-Title Catalogue R Order This Item

7 Interesting Essays on Government and Parliament by a Notable Seventeenth-Century Dutch Scholar 6. [Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius ( )]. 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 his Heirs. Of the Trying, Condemning and Execution of a Crowned Head. Of the Marriage of a Prince and Princess. Of the Detecting Conspiracies Against a Government. Of Subjects Revolting from a Tyrannical Prince. Of Excluding Foreigners from Publick Employments. Of Constituting Extraordinary Magistrates upon Extraordinary Occasions. Of Subjects Anticipating the Execution of Laws. Of Tolleration of Religion. Of Peace and War, &c. With The Debates, Arguments and Resolutions of the Greatest Statesmen in Several Ages and Governments Thereupon. London: Printed for James Knapton, [xvi], 366, [2] pp. Includes two-page publisher list at rear of text; another one-page list opposite p.1. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Nineteenth-century tree calf, gilt spine with lettering piece, "189" gilt-stamped to foot, endleaves renewed, ribbon marker. Moderate rubbing to extremities, some wear to spine ends and corners, front board beginning to separate but secured by cords, partial crack between final leaf of text and adjacent endleaf, recent owner bookplate to front pastedown, small recent image of Boxhorn affixed to front free endpaper. Light toning to text, light foxing in a few places. $650. * Only edition. Compiled posthumously, this book is a fine 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 at the University of Leiden. A remarkably prolific scholar, his work stands on the cusp of late- Renaissance humanism and the early-enlightenment thought epitomized by such philosophers as Hobbes and Pufendorf. He admired England's Parliament and had a keen interest in the history and institutions of English law and government. OCLC locates 9 copies in North American law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

8 Brown's New Law Dictionary 7. Brown, Archibald [ ]. A New Law Dictionary and Institute of the Whole Law. For the Use of Students, The Legal Profession, And the Public. London: Stevens & Hayes, lxviii, 391, [1] pp. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces, paper shelf label and gilt institution name to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, endleaves added. Negligible light rubbing to extremities. Light toning to text, half-title neatly detached, library stamps to edges, endleaves and foot of title page. $150. * First edition. This is a practical dictionary featuring concise definitions. Despite its compression, the work is admirably clear and detailed. It is a useful reference today when dealing with nineteenth-century British legal and political works. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:45. Order This Item

9 "His Majesties Four Principal Seales" 8. [Brydall, John (b. 1635?)]. Jus Sigilli: Or, The Law of England, Touching His Majesties Four Principal Seales, Viz. The Great Seale, The Privie Seale, The Exchequer Seale, And the Signet. Also of Those Grand Officers, to Whose Custody These Seales are Committed. London: Printed by E. Flesher, For Thomas Dring, [iv], 129, [15] pp. Includes 9 pp. publisher catalogue. 12mo. (4-3/4" x 2-1/4"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed, early annotations to fore and bottom edges. Moderate toning to text, light spotting to a few leaves, "no. 79" in early hand to head of title page, faint embossed library stamp to its foot, library inkstamp and annotation to its verso. A handsome copy of a scarce title. $1,200. * Only edition. Jus Sigilli is a detailed description of the four principal seals of England. The Great or Broad Seal is used by the Lord Chancellor to denote the approval and authority of the king. Charters, commissions, or grants from the king must have the mark of the Great Seal in order to carry any authority. The Privy or Little Seal, the monarch's personal seal, was used by the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seale to authorize the use of the Great Seal on important documents, or as an authorization on documents of lesser importance. The Exchequer Great Seal is the seal used by The Court of the Exchequer, which oversees royal revenues. The Signet is affixed to royal documents relating to personal matters. OCLC locates 10 copies in North American law libraries. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson English Short- Title Catalogue R Order This Item

10 Handsome 1519 Printings of Three Principal Volumes of Canon Law 9. [Canon Law]. Gregory IX, [c ], Pope. Compendium Textuale Co[m]pillationis Decretalium Gregorii Noni sine qua (Ut est Vulgaris Prudentum Sententia) Omnis Ceca Practica Est. Paris: Apud Franciscum Regnault sub Intersigno Divi Claudii, [ii], 248 ff. Main text in parallel columns. [Bound with] Boniface VIII [ ], Pope. [Sextus Decretalium Liber per Bonifacium Octovum]. [Paris: Regnault, 1519] ff. Title page lacking. Main text in parallel columns. [And] Clement V [ ], Pope. Clementis Pape Quinti Singulares Constitutionum Textus. Tam XX Extravagantium XXII Johannis Pape. Q[uam] Decretalium Extravagantium a Romanis Pontificibus post Peractum Bonifacii Librum Sextum Emanantium Florent. Paris: Venduntur Parisius apud Franciscum Regnault, ff. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo (5-3/4" x 4"). Contemporary limp vellum with lapped edges, ties lacking, raised bands and early calligraphic title to spine. Moderate soiling, a few small stains, spine darkened, some wear to foot of spine, tear with small hole to front cover, pastedowns loose, text block partially detached. Printed throughout in red and black, crible initials, large woodcut Regnault elephant device to title page and final leaf of Compendium Textuale, woodcut vignette of Clement V and his cardinals to title page of Clementis Pape Quinti. Moderate toning, faint dampspotting and dampstaining in places. Three works with notably attractive typography. $4,500. * This pocket volume collects three books of canon law from the body of writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Canonici. Issued in 1234 and 1298, the Liber Quinque Decretalium of Gregory IX and the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII were the two great collection of papal legislation of the pre-reformation era. In 1317 John XXII compiled the final official collection, the Liber Septimus Decretalium, better known as the "Constitutiones Clementis V" or simply "Clementinae." These texts remained unchanged until their revision by order of the Council of Trent. Moreau, Inventaire Chronologique des Éditions Parisiennes du XVIe Siècle II:2024. Order This Item

11 Important Treatise on Libel and Press Liberty by a Jeffersonian Imprisoned Under the Sedition Act 10. Cooper, Thomas [ ]. A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel: With Copious Notes and References to Authorities in Great Britain and the United States: As Applicable to Individuals and to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies and Principles. New York: G.F. Hopkins & Son, xxxviii, [39]-184 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, endpapers renewed, speckled edges. Moderate toning to text, light foxing to title page and a few other leaves, small library inkstamp to title page, library annotation to its verso. A nice copy in a handsome binding. $1,000. * Only edition. Cooper, trained as a chemist and lawyer, was a polymath who published books on law, political science, economics, medicine and the natural sciences. A friend of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Jefferson, he was convicted in 1800 under the Sedition Act for libeling President Adams in a 1799 handbill. He went on to become a professor of chemistry at Dickinson College and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty of South Carolina College in 1819 and became its president in He is considered one of the intellectual fathers of the secession movement. McCoy, Freedom of the Press C558. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law Order This Item

12 "A Work of Credit and Celebrity" 11. Croke, Sir George [ ]. Grimston, Sir Harbottle, Translator and Editor. Reports of Sr George Croke Kt, Late One of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench, And Formerly One of the Justices of the Court of Common-Bench. London: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, parts in 3 books. [xxiv], 472, , [40]; [xxvi], 620, , [22]; [xxx], 610, [66] pp. Portrait frontispieces lacking, otherwise complete. Folio (Volume I: 12-1/2" x 7-3/4"," Volumes II-III: 12" x 7-3/4," bindings are 13" x 8"). Recent quarter cloth over marbled boards, lettering pieces, gilt fillets and gilt volume numbers to spines, endpapers renewed, "Crooke" in early hand to fore-edges of text blocks. Negligible light rubbing to extremities, corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Light toning to text, light foxing, dampstaining and dampspotting in places, some edgewear to preliminaries and final leaves of each volume, some worming to fore-edge of about 20 leaves in Part III, crack near center of text block of Part I, another crack before the final three index leaves, one of them detached. An appealing set overall. $750. * Third edition and the first collected edition. These reports were translated from Law-French and edited by Grimston. They cover the years spanning Kent considers this set "a work of credit and celebrity among the old Reporters," which has "sustained its character in every succeeding age.": Wallace, The Reporters English Short-Title Catalogue R5412, R202361, R Order This Item

13 First Edition of the First English Treatise on Sheriffs 12. Dalton, Michael [d.ca. 1648]. Officium Vicecomitum: The Office and Authoritie of Sherifs, Written for the Better Incouragement of the Gentrie (Upon Whom the Burthen of This Office Lyeth) to Keepe Their Office, And Undersherife, In Their Houses; That so by Theire Continuall Care of the Businesse, And Eyeover Their Officeres, They May the Better Discharge Their Dutie to God, Their Prince, And Countrey, In the Execution of This Their Office. Gathered Out of the Statutes, And Bookes of the Common Lawes of this Kingdome. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, [iv], 194, [6] ff. The first leaf and last leaves are blank. Folio (11" x 7-1/2"). Nineteenth-century pigskin, blind frames to boards, raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine, endpapers added, hinges reinforced with cloth. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, joints cracked through, boards secure, library stamps to edges of text block and verso of title page, library bookplate to front pastedown. Title printed within woodcut architectural border. Light browning to text, occasional faint dampstaining, a few leaves dog-eared, some edgewear and chipping to preliminaries and a few other leaves, including final leaves of index, a few chips just touching border of title page. $650. * First edition. This is the first English treatise on sheriffs. As its title suggests, it is a remarkably comprehensive work. Holdsworth, who cites it several times, says "in spite of a growing number of rivals, it continued to be a standard authority until the beginning of the eighteenth century.": History of English Law IV:119. English Short-Title Catalogue S Order This Item

14 1671 Edition of Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, All Plates Present 13. Dugdale, Sir William [ ]. Origines Juridiciales, Or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishments in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books, Grants and Settlements of Estates, Degree of Serjeant, Innes of Court and Chancery. Also a Chronologie of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the Great Seal, Lord Treasurers, Justices Itinerant, Justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, Barons of the Exchequer, Masters of the Rolls, Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors, and Serjeants at Law. With Additions. [London]: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, [viii], 336, [4], 117, [3] pp. Copperplate coats-of-arms and heraldic devices, six portrait copperplates (of Heath, Clenche, Hide, Bridgeman, Crew and Coke). Main text in parallel columns. Complete. Folio (13-3/4" x 8-3/4"). Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, gilt titles and paper shelf label to spine, small security tag to front board, endleaves renewed. A few minor scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Title page printed in red and black, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Light browning to text, light foxing in a few places, library stamps to edges, endleaves, versos of plates and title page, which also has four small owner signatures ("F. Clerke," S. Street," "John W. Wallace 1846" and "R. Brydges"). $500. * Second edition. Dugdale's Origines provides a wealth of information about the sources of English law and the early history of English legal institutions, including the Inns of Court, on which it is a chief authority. It is a well-documented work: sources of manuscripts are listed, and, in many instances, the sources of the information for the printed book entries are given. The first edition was published in 1666, the third and final edition in John W. Wallace [ ] was the reporter of decisions of United States Supreme Court from 1863 to 1874 and the author of The Reporters Chronologically Arranged; With Occasional Remarks upon Their Respective Merits (first edition 1844). English Short-Title Catalogue R Order This Item

15 Regarding Pews and Pew Rights 14. English, H[enry] S[cale], Compiler. The Laws Respecting Pews or Seats in Churches. London: J. Hatchard and Son, [iv], vi, 142 pp. Includes four-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (8" x 5"). Later quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, red and black lettering pieces and gilt institution name to spine, blind-stamped institution name to front board. Moderate rubbing to extremities, heavier rubbing to spine, front free endpaper lacking, following endleaf partially detached. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in a few places, institution stamp to verso of title page and head of p. 51, contemporary annotations and underlining to several pages. $250. * Only edition. "In the following sheets I propose to bring together, from various authorities, the law respecting pews or seats in churches" (v). OCLC locates 7 copies in North American law libraries. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:113. Order This Item

16 Gould on Water Rights 15. Gould, John M. A Treatise on the Law of Waters, Including Riparian Rights, and Public and Private Rights in Waters Tidal and Inland. Chicago: Callaghan & Company, cxxi, 932 pp. Octavo (9" x 6"). Contemporary law calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine. A few minor spots to boards and spine, light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and lightly worn, hinges partially cracked, light toning to text. $195. * Second edition. "By sticking closely to the subject in hand, Mr. Gould has avoided a pitfall into which many writers on special topics fall: namely, of swamping the valuable and special part of the work in a sea of allied topics, often carelessly and inadequately treated... In the main, the work has that accuracy, clearness, and fulness of citations so necessary in a special treatise." E.S.T., Harvard Law Review 14: The second edition is enhanced by the inclusion of over 3700 cases not referred to in the first edition. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University (1909) I:776. Order This Item

17 Final Authorial Edition of De Jure Belli ac Pacis 16. Grotius, Hugo [ ]. De Iure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres. In Quibus Jus Naturae & Gentium, Item Juris Publici Praecipua Explicantur. Editio Nova cum Annotatis Auctoris. Accesserunt & Annotata in Epistolam Pauli ad Philemonem. Amsterdam: Apud Guilielmum Blaeuw, [xxiii], 601, [40] pp. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary vellum with lapped edges, blind rules to boards, blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing and a few minor stains, light wear to corners, early owner names and annotations to front pastedown and title page, front free endpaper lacking. Title page printed in red and black. Light toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, occasional (very) faint dampstaining to foot of text block, light foxing and minor inkstains to a few leaves. $1,350. * "Editio Nova," the final edition produced under the author's direction, with his final notes and corrections. Of all his numerous works De Jure Belli ac Pacis will always be considered Grotius's magnum opus, the work upon which his reputation most solidly rests. It was "the first expression of the droit naturel, the natural law which exercised the great political theorists of the eighteenth century, and is the foundation of modern international law.": Carter and Muir, Printing and the Mind of Man 125 (citing first edition). Ter Muelen and Diermanse, Bibliographie des Ecrits Imprimes de Hugo Grotius 571. Order This Item

18 Copy of a Classic Treatise on Criminal Law with an Interesting Association 17. Hawkins, William [ ]. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or a System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Their Proper Heads. Corrected, With the Addition of Some References. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, Two volumes in one book. [xiv], 266, [44]; [viii], 464, [72] pp. Folio (12-1/4" x 8"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces, paper shelf label, gilt volume number and gilt library name to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped library name to front board, library stamps to top and bottom edges, endleaves added. Light shelfwear. Light browning to text, somewhat lighter in places, occasional dampspotting and dampstaining to margins, library stamps to endleaves and versos of title pages, early owner inscription to front endleaf, by Randolph Greenway, Jr, owner signatures of William H. Tod dated February 1792 and George Sharswood dated 1838 to title page of Volume I. $500. * Second edition. Considered one of the four major law books of the eighteenth century by Holdsworth, Pleas is the first comprehensive English treatise on criminal law. A seminal work in criminal procedure and jurisdiction, it is "deservedly of high authority and still cited. It was the starting-point of modern laborious treatises on the criminal law which are valuable as digests of the subject, but which have no advance on Hawkins plan or style" (Winfield). Sharswood [ ] was a Pennsylvania jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is remembered today for his important edition of Blackstone's Commentaries (first edition 1859). Holdsworth, History of English Law XII:415. Winfield, Chief Sources of English Legal History 326. English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

19 "Materials Which Have Introduced an Additional Language into Conveyancing" 18. Horsman, Gilbert. Precedents in Conveyancing, Settled and Approved by Gilbert Horsman, Late of Lincoln's Inn, Esq; And Other Eminent Counsel. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot, Two volumes. [xxiv],579, [1]; [xv], , [29] pp. Folio (14" x 8-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over paper-covered boards, raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to extremities, a few minor nicks, scuffs and tiny stains. Light toning to text, slightly heavier in places, some worming to margins of Volume I and a few leaves of Volume II, text not affected, light foxing to preliminaries, early owner inscription ("H.W. Edwards/ Feb. 18th 1793") to front free endpaper of each volume. A handsome set. $750. * Second edition. According to the preface, this extensive collection of precedents is not limited to estates real and personal. It includes examples for the conveyance of "stocks, bonds, and annuities of the publick companies, exchequer annuities, fortunes in Ireland and Holland and the plantations in America [and] materials which have introduced an additional language into conveyancing." This book is discussed in Holdsworth's History of English Law in the chapter on eighteenth-century legal literature. The first edition of this work was published in Later editions were issued in 1768 and All editions are scarce. OCLC locates 9 copies of the second edition in North America, 7 in law libraries (Harvard, Northwestern, University of Georgia, University of Montana, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, York University). Holdsworth, A History of English Law XII:376. English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

20 "Evasions, Tricks, Turns and Quibbles" 19. [Legal Criticism]. [Great Britain]. Law Quibbles: Or, A Treatise of the Evasions, Tricks, Turns and Quibbles, Commonly Used in the Profession of the Law, To the Prejudice of Clients, And Others; Necessary to be Perused by All Attornies, And Those Who Are or May be Concerned in Law Suits, Trials, &c. To Avoid the Many Abuses, Delays and Expences Introduc'd into Practice. With Abstracts of All the Late Statutes for Amending the Law, Relating to Attornies, Arrest and Bail, Bribery, Forgery and Perjury, Juries, Justices of Peace, Prisoners in Execution, Law Process, Rents of Tenants, &c. Under the Proper Heads. And an Essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Laws of England, And a New Proposed Act of Parliament, For a Thorough Regulation of the Practice of the Law. Corrected and much Enlarged. To Which is Now Added a Second part, Containing Every Curious Precedents of Conveyances in Extraordinary Cases; Likewise Proceedings and Precedents in Chancery, And at Common Law in English; With Law-Notes Thereon. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, [viii], 72, 132, 135, [13] pp. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Later quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, red and black lettering pieces and shelf label to spine, blind-stamped institution name and small security tag to front board, endleaves added. Moderate rubbing to extremities, heavier rubbing to spine with some chipping to ends. Moderate toning to text, slightly heavier in places, light foxing to a few leaves, "14821" in tiny hand to head of title page, institution stamps to foot of title page, endleaves and edges of text block. $300. * Fourth and final edition. First published in 1724, with later editions in 1726, 1729 and 1736, this book offers advice with concise examples and citations. (Topics are listed alphabetically.) This is followed by a hortatory essay on the laws of England with suggestions for legal reform. The New Propos'd Act of Parliament listed on the title page, is not, in fact, included in this work (all editions). All editions of this work are scarce. English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

21 The First English Treatise on Family Law 20. [Marriage Law]. [Great Britain]. Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives. Wherein is Contained the Nature of a Feme Covert, And of Marriages, Bastardy, The Privileges of Feme Coverts: What Alterations are Made by Marriage as to Estates, Leases, Goods, and Actions. What Things of the Wife Accrue to the Husband by the Intermarriage, Or Not. What Acts, Charges, Forfeitures by the Husband, Shall Bind the Wife After His Death, Or Not; Of Jointures and Pleadings, Fines and Recovery, Conveyances and Other Law Titles Relating to Baron and Feme. Of Wills, And Feme Covert Being Executrix. Of the Wife's Separate Disposition and Maintenance. What Amounts to the Disposition of the Wife's Term by the Husband. Of Actions Brought by or Against Baron and Feme. What Actions Done, Or Contracts Made by the Wife, Shall Bind Her Husband. Of Indictments and Informations Against Them. Of Baron and Feme's Joinder in Action. Of a Feme Sole Merchant. Declaration and Pleas &c. of Divorces &c. With Many Other Matters Relating to the Said Subject; And Some Useful Precedents. The Third Edition; In Which are Added Many Cases in Law and Equity, From the Best Books of Reports. [London]: Printed by E. And R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, [xxiv], 485, [43] pp. Title page preceded by publisher advertisement leaf, text followed by three other advertisement pages. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, edges rouged, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, occasional light foxing. $2,500. * Third and final edition. First published in 1700, with a second edition in 1719, this is the first English treatise devoted exclusively to family law. It is a broadly conceived work. "I have herein considered Baron and Feme in all the circumstances of life, from the solemnization of marriage to the divorce, and have not omitted 'those collateral by-blows, (the title of bastardy making a considerable figure in our books;) and the variety of the matter made me some attonement for the labour" (To The Reader). According to the introduction, the anonymous author seems to have also been the author of the earlier Infants Lawyer: Or the Law (Ancient and Modern) Relating to Infants (1697). English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

22 An Exhaustive Study of Tithes 21. Rayner, John, Editor. Cases at Large Concerning Tithes; Containing All the Resolutions of the Respective Courts of Equity, Particularly Those of the Exchequer, Taken from the Printed Reports, And Manuscript Collections, Mostly by Sir Samuel Dodd, Late Lord Chief Baron, Never Before Published; Together with All the Appeals in the House of Lords, To and in Trinity Term, 22 Geo. III. To Which is Prefixed, An Introduction, Comprehending a Concise View of the Whole Law of Tithes, With Observations on Several Cases of Appeal, That have Been Adjudged Within the Last Ten Years, Of His Present Majesty's Reign; Likewise A Full Vindication of the Clergy, Respecting Their Suits for Tithes: Also An Appendix of Acts of Parliament, With Readings, Particularly on Stat. 13 Eliz. Chap. 10. And Chap. 20. On Which Acts, And the Construction of Them, Depends the Whole Learning Respecting, And the Validity of, All Alienations of Ecclesiastical Livings at this Day. The Whole upon an Entire New Plan, And Digested in a Chronological Series; With Proper Tables of the Cases, &c. And a Complete Copious Index to the Principal Matters. London: Printed by W. Strahan and W. Woodfall, Three volumes. Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent library buckram, raised bands, red and black lettering pieces, paper shelf labels and gilt institution name to spines, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front boards, endleaves added. Negligible light rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to text, library stamps to endleaves and versos of title pages, early owner annotation to front endleaf of Volume I. $150. * Only edition. Probably the most exhaustive study of this topic produced in the eighteenth century, it includes all cases from 1575 to It is a useful companion to the treatises on tithes by such authors as Bohun and Selden. English Short- Title Catalogue T Order This Item

23 Influenced Blackstone and Others 22. [St. German, Christopher (1460?-1540)]. Doctor and Student: Or Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity, And a Student in the Laws of England; Containing the Grounds of Those Laws, Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity and Conscience Thereof; Also Comparing the Civil, Canon, Common and Statute Laws, And Shewing Wherein They Vary From One Another. To which are Now Restored and Added (by J. W.) Thirteen Chapters on the Power and Jurisdiction of the Parliament, &c. Omitted in All the Editions, Since the Year Except the Last. London: Printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot, [xvi], 344, [40] pp. Includes errata leaf, publisher catalogue on verso. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Recent library buckram, raised bands, red and black lettering pieces and shelf label to spine, small security tag and blindstamped institution name to front board, library stamps to edges, endleaves added. Moderate toning, light foxing in a few places, brief early manuscript corrections to a few passages, library stamp and annotation to verso of title page. $150. * Sixteenth edition. Written originally in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and other issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very important work in the development of equity, Doctor and Student appeared in numerous editions. An authority well into the eighteenth century, it influenced several writers, including Blackstone. English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

24 Two Scarce Nineteenth-Century English Treatises of Water Law 23. Schultes, Henry. An Essay on Aquatic Rights; Intended as an Illustration of the Law Relative to Fishing, And to the Propriety of Ground or Soil Produced by Alluvion and Dereliction in the Sea and Rivers. Philadelphia: J.S. Littell/New York: Halsted and Voorhies, [iv], 56 pp. [Bound with] Phear, Sir J.B. A Treatise on Rights of Water: Including Public and Private Rights to the Sea and Sea-Shore. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson & Co., xii, [13]-76 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces and paper shelf label to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, stamps to top and bottom edges, endleaves added. Light toning to text, staining and chips to margins in a few places, library stamps to endleaves. $500. * Only American editions. This volume is comprised of titles extracted from two volumes of the nineteenth-century American reprint series The Law Library (Vols. 24 and 100). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 7946, Order This Item

25 British Liberty: A Legacy of "Our Ancestors in Germany" 24. St. Amand, George. An Historical Essay on the Legislative Power of England. Wherein the Origin of Both Houses of Parliament, Their Antient Constitution, And the Changes That Have Happen'd in the Persons that Compos'd them, With the Occasions Thereof, Are Related in a Chronological Order. And Many Things Concerning the English Government, The Antiquities of the Laws of England, And the Feudal Law, Are Occasionally Illustrated and Explain'd. London: Printed for Tho. Woodward, [xvi], 197, 23 pp. includes four-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces and paper shelf label to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, stamps to top and bottom edges, endleaves added. Light shelfwear, light toning to text, dampstaining to fore-edges and text of pp , two small holes to Leaf C2 (pp ) due to paper flaw, legibility not affected, library stamps to endleaves, p. [iii] and p. 101, library annotation to verso of title page. $150 * Only edition. St. Amand locates the origins of British liberty under the law in the political culture of the Saxons. "[O]ur Ancestors in Germany were a free people, and had a right to assent, or dissent to all Laws. And may an uninterrupted exercise thereof (for the right itself can never be extinguish'd) continue 'till Time shall be no more" (iii). A second edition was published in This work was later included in John Almon's A Complete Collection of the Lords' Protests (1767). English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

26 "A Faithful Reporter" 25. Strange, Sir John [ ]. Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, From Trinity Term in the Second Year of King George I. To Trinity Term in the Twenty-First Year of King George II. London: Printed by Henry Lintot, for William Sandby, Two volumes. [iv], iv, 714; [iv], , [100] pp. Folio (12-1/4" x 7-3/4"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, light browning and dampspotting to a few leaves in each volume, moderate edgewear to final few leaves of Volume II. A handsome set. $850. * First edition. Covers the period "Strange's abilities as a lawyer are vouched for by Hardwicke and the Duke of Newcastle; and the merits of his reports are proved by the fact that they reached a third edition. Though his reports have in one or two cases been criticized on the ground that, in his endeavors to be concise, he had become obscure, there is no doubt that he was, as Willes called him, 'a faithful reporter.'" (Holdsworth). The third and final edition was published in The first two editions were reprinted in Dublin. Holdsworth, History of English Law XII: Wallace, The Reporters English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

27 An Interesting Contemporary Companion to Blackstone 26. Sullivan, Francis Stoughton [ ]. An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, And the Constitution and Laws of England; With a Commentary on Magna Charta, And Necessary Illustrations of Many of the English Statutes. In a Course of Lectures Read in the University of Dublin. London: Printed for J. Johnson, v, [1], [iii]-xiv, 448, [2] pp. Includes two-page subscriber list. Quarto (10-3/4" x 8-1/4"). Recent library buckram, raised bands, red and black lettering pieces, gilt-stamped institution name and shelf label to spine, small security tag and blind-stamped institution name to front board, endleaves added. Light shelfwear, library stamps to edges, endleaves, title page and a few other leaves. Moderate toning to text, light foxing and finger smudges to a few leaves. $450. * First edition, second issue. One of the first attempts to sketch the outlines of English constitutional law, this book had its origins in a series of lectures at the University of Dublin, where Sullivan was Royal Professor of Common Law. Holdsworth notes that the "needs of [Sullivan's] students had made it necessary for him to adopt a plan which was different from the plan adopted by Blackstone. Blackstone's students were more advanced; and, as Blackstone's lectures were given in a law vacation, they could supplement the information which he gave them by information acquired by means of attendance upon the courts of Westminster." As a result Sullivan is more elementary in its scope, but also more detailed because it explains several matters that are only implied or omitted altogether by Blackstone. This book is thus an excellent companion to Blackstone and a valuable primary source for the study of eighteenth-century English common law. A second edition with added authorities and a prefatory discourse "Concerning the Laws and Government of England" by Gilbert Stuart was published in 1776 with the title Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England. English Short-Title Catalogue T Order This Item

28 The First Major Victory for Freedom of the Press in America 27. [Trial]. Zenger, John Peter [ ], Defendant. The Trial of John Peter Zenger, Of New-York, Printer; Who was Tried and Acquitted, For Printing and Publishing a Libel Against the Government, With the Pleadings and Arguments of Both Sides. London: Printed for P. Brown, [iv], 74, [2] pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine, endleaves added. Light rubbing to extremities, light toning to text, light foxing in a few places. A handsome copy. $1,750. * London reissue of an account first published in New York in 1736 as A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger, which was probably written by James Alexander, the co-founder and main editorial voice of Zenger's newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. Zenger was tried for seditious libel for publishing satirical comments about the governor of New York in his newspaper. Defended by the brilliant Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton, his 1735 acquittal is generally regarded as the first major victory for freedom of the press in the American colonies and a precedent for the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. McCoy, Freedom of the Press Z8. English Short-Title Catalogue 877. Order This Item

29 Portrait of a Prominent Philadelphia Lawyer-Politician by a Notable Female Artist 28. [Waugh,Ida (d.1919)]. [Haly, William Worthington ( )]. [Portrait of William Worthington Haly]. Philadelphia, n.d. 30" x 25" (image size), signed "Ida Waugh, 1889" in lower right corner. $5,000. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, plaque reading "William Worthington Haly/ Obt. Decem. 26th 1851/ Ida Waugh Pinxt/ The Law Association of Philadelphia" to head of frame. A few minor nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise fine. $5,000. * Born in Ireland, Haly was a prominent lawyer who represented Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for two years. He is best known as the co-author with Francis Troubat of The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the District Court and Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia and also in the Courts of the United States (1837). One of the first professional female artists in America to enjoy international acclaim, and a lifelong Philadelphian, Waugh was a classically trained artist known primarily as an illustrator of children's literature. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802, it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library, where this portrait was last displayed, was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in Order This Item

30 "The First Full, And Clear Reporter of Chancery Cases" 29. Williams, William Peere [ ]. Williams, William Peere, Jr., Editor. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, And of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench. Collected by William Peere Williams, Late of Gray's Inn, Esq; In Three Volumes. Published with Notes and References, And Two Tables to Each Volume; One of the Names of Cases, The Other of the Principal Matters: By his Son William Peere Williams, Of the Inner Temple, Esq; Corrected, With Many Additional References to the Former and Later Reports. London: Printed by H. Woodfall and W. Strahan, Three volumes. [xii], 788, [81]; [ix], 755, [73]; [xvii], 504, [115] pp. Folio (11-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, lettering pieces, black-stamped volume numbers and early large hand-lettered shelf numbers (?) to spines, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffs to boards, some rubbing to extremities, light chipping to heads of spines, corners bumped and somewhat worn, hinges starting. Light toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, light foxing in a few places. A handsome set. $750. * Third Edition. Covers the period from "These reports, embracing a term of time when a succession of eminent men presided in Chancery, and when Equity was assuming, and in a considerable degree had assumed, the character of a science, were regarded as one of the most perspicuous, useful, and interesting repositories of equity law to be found in the language. (...) 'We may perhaps regard Peere Williams,' says my valued correspondent, Mr. Heterick, 'as the first full, and clear reporter of chancery cases that is.'": Wallace, The Reporters English Short-Title Catalogue N Order This Item

31 Adjudged Words and Phrases 30. Winfield, Charles H. Adjudged Words and Phrases: Being a Collection of Adjudicated Definitions of Terms Used in the Law, With References to Authorities. Jersey City, NJ: J.J. Griffiths, iv, 651 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4"). Later library cloth, red and black lettering pieces and paper shelf label to spine, endpapers added. Some soiling and light shelfwear, moderate wear to edges of lettering pieces, upper corner of front board bumped and somewhat worn. Light toning to text, tiny chips to corners and fore-edges of preliminaries and in a few other places, cellotape repair to head of p iii, small library stamp to title page, library marks to verso. A scarce title. $450. * Only edition. The book is arranged alphabetically by title. Each entry includes a case citation. "The definitions here collected have been taken from judicial decisions, and not from dictionaries or elementary works. They are given in the exact language of the court, so that full reliance may be placed on their accuracy. To this extent the book may be regarded as an authority" (iv). Order This Item