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An Historical Introduction to the Land Law
Holdsworth W.S. Original maroon cloth, gilt, a very good copy in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket The work prompted by the extensive reforms introduced by England's Real Property Acts in 1925, one which "[e]very beginner will certainly have to read . . . before he reads anything else", surveying all of real property law from the Conquest forward-
- $188
Some Advice to the Gentlemen Members Of the late instituted Society of Attorneys, from One of their Members: With Some general Hints, humbly offered to the Public, for regulating and improving the Profession of an Attorney
Modern blue period-style stabbed wraps, light browning, else quite sound, 22 pages; the Taussig copy A rare tract proposing reforms in the practice of attorneys in Ireland, prompted by the formation of the society which has led to today's Law Society of Ireland, with over 6,000 solicitors as members; eight copies in ESTC, none in a law library-
- $956
A Short Narrative Of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform’d by John Howard Surgeon at Guilford [with] Richard Manningham, An Exact Diary Of what was observ’d during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft, The pretended Rabbet-Breeder [etc.]
St. Andre Nathanael Modern 3/4 calf over cloth boards, one margin defective affecting a few words (legibility preserved), else quite clean and usable; the Taussig copy First editions of two works central to Mary Tuft's claim that she had given birth to 17 rabbits, inspiring much satiric literature, Hogarth engravings, a Drury Lane play, and Pope's Dunciad, her confession resulting in her brief stay in Bridewell-
- $844
![Tractatus de Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Cui accesserunt Richardi Zouch L.L.D. Descriptio Juris & Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum Canones & Constitutiones Anglicanas. Necnon Descriptio Juris & Judicii Temporalis secundum Consuetudines [&c]. Wing R33601](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30448789916.jpg)
Tractatus de Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Cui accesserunt Richardi Zouch L.L.D. Descriptio Juris & Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum Canones & Constitutiones Anglicanas. Necnon Descriptio Juris & Judicii Temporalis secundum Consuetudines [&c]. Wing R33601
Mocket Richard [and] Richard Zouch Modern speckled calf, a trifle rubbed, the spine gilt ruled and decorated, label noting Zouch's authorship, very clean and bright; the Taussig copy First edition thus of Mocket's treatise on ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and the first to contain two portions of Zouche's great scheme to survey all of English law systematically, here on ecclesiastical and on feudal, private, and customary law-
- $1,069
Speeches and Passages of This Great and Happy Parliament: From the third of November, 1640, to this instant June, 1641. Collected into One Volume, and according to the most perfect Originalls, exactly published. Wing E2309. Quarto
Contemporary unlettered speckled calf, double blind ruled, red edges, very clean and bright with the Earl of Lonsdale bookplate; the Taussig copy Only edition of the work capturing the momentous first months of the Long Parliament, as the Star Chamber and High Commission were abolished, the Habeas Corpus and Triennial Acts were passed, and "[t]he very doctrine of modern freedoms" in part began-
- $844
The Parsons Guide: Or the Law of Tithes. Wherein is shewed, Who must pay Tithes, and to whom, and of what things [etc.] [bound with] William Kaye, An United Profession of Faithfulness Concerning Religion [etc.]. Wing S3205 [A3 unsigned] and Wing K42A
Sheppard William Modern boards, paper label, quite clean, with the Kaye broadside folded and laid in, a major tear at a fold (legibility preserved); the Taussig copy The rare first edition of Sheppard's work written to support the Protectorate's financial exigencies, with the even rarer broadside bound in; three copies of the first in ESTC, none in North America, two of the second, neither in this country-
- $1,069
A Manual of Year Book Studies
Bolland William Craddock Atheneum library copy A must for any student of the Year Books or, for that matter, of life in medieval England, declared by Plucknett to be in Bolland's "best style", full of "numerous and fascinating examples of the [Year Books'] richness"-
- $75
A Solution of an Ancient and Modern Question; Or a Dissertation Concerning the proper Judge of a Criminal Ambassador. Wherein the Opinion of Grotius upon that Subject is explain’d, consider’d and defended [Latin and English texts on facing pages]
Zouch Richard Modern brown morocco, gilt lettered, lightly rubbed, ex-library, the title slightly marked, else quite a good copy with the advertising leaves Zouche's famed work relying in significant part on Grotius [2.18.8], arising out of the murder conviction of an ambassador's brother (by the Royal Commission on which Zouche had served), diplomatic immunity's "first adequate and logical examination"-
- $1,688
Rules and Orders for the Court of Common Pleas At Westminster, Made and published by the Judges of the said Court, in the term of St. Michael, in the Year One thousand six hundred fifty four. Wing R2249
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, Daniel Fleming's copy with his signature on the title ("Da: Fleming") which is neatly repaired; the Taussig copy The first published rules of the Court of Common Pleas, one of three variant printings of 1654, including two on habeas corpus and a third on bail, concluding with the oath to be taken by each attorney in open court before his admittance-
- $731
The World Between Empires, A Picture Album
Original pictorial wraps, 48 pages and 35 illustrations; a very good copy The album adapted from the exhibition's catalogue and designed to illustrate "the cultural histories of the cities along the great incense and silk routes that connected southwestern Arabia, Nabataea, Judaea, Syria, and Mesopotamia"-
- $31
A Companion to Arber. Being a Calendar of Documents in Edward Arberr’s Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640. With Text and Calendar of Supplementary Documents
Greg W.W. (ed.) Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket, with a contemporary ownership signature together with a contemporary review of the work laid in-
- $156
Year Books of Richard II, Years 2 and 6 through 13 [1378-1390]. Seven Volumes [complete]
Original cloth, generally a very good set A complete run of the only edition of the Year Books of Richard II ever printed, begun by the Ames Foundation almost a century ago, each volume edited by a different scholar (including T.F.T. Plucknett and Samuel Thorne); further details gladly given-
- $956
Year Books of the Reign of Edward the First, Years 20 and 21, 21 and 22, 30 and 31, 32 and 33, and 33 to 35. Five Volumes [complete]. Mullins 6.31a [Rolls Series]
Horwood Alfred J. (ed. and trans.) Roan-backed boards, definite wear, one volume ex-library, two volumes Kraus Reprint; sound The beginning of the modern effort to provide a scholarly edition of the Year Books, providing the English translation and Law French text on facing pages, and reporting many of the earliest cases to have survived-
- $438
Legal Theory and Legal History, Essays on the Common Law
Simpson A.W.B. A very good copy, in a unevenly faded dustjacket Professor Simpson's collected essays, of which there are seventeen (one previously unpublished), well representing his piercing, iconoclastic style and wide-ranging interests, from the Laws of Ethelbert through the 20th century-
- $75
Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, Years 11-20. 15 Volumes [complete]. Mullins 6.31b [Rolls Series]
Pike (ed. and trans.) Luke Owen Roan-backed boards and cloth, worn; a usable set A complete run of the second of two 19th century editions of the Year Books, beginning the modern, scholarly effort to publish them which still continues; three of the volumes are Kraus Reprints and two of the original editions are ex-library-
- $956
![The Attourney's Academy: Being The Manner of Proceedings in all his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster; And in all other Courts either of Law or Equity; reviewed and very much enlarged [including] Fees for Writs and Proceedings therein. Wing P3068](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30448781815.jpg)
The Attourney’s Academy: Being The Manner of Proceedings in all his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster; And in all other Courts either of Law or Equity; reviewed and very much enlarged [including] Fees for Writs and Proceedings therein. Wing P3068
Powell Thomas Contemporary double blind ruled sheep, quite rubbed, two small holes to the spine, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy Final edition of Powell's pioneering work on the practice in the Royal and other courts, in John Baker's words "[t]he first printed treatise on common-law procedure", with much on Chancery, Common Pleas, Star Chamber, and the Exchequer inter alia-
- $731
An Exact Abridgment in English, Of the eleven Books of Reports of the Learned Sir Edward Coke . . . Wherein is briefly contained the very substance and marrow of all those Reports, together with the Resolutions on every Case [etc.]. Wing C4919
Ireland Thomas Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, the imprint shaved with the loss of four words, the margins cut close (legibility preserved), the Taussig copy First edition variant, the first rendering of Coke's Reports in English, abridged or otherwise, preceding the English translation of the reports themselves (not to appear until 1658), clearly popular, with five issuances in fifteen years-
- $844
Animadversions upon M. Seldens History of Tythes, And His Review Thereof . . . Maintaining the Ius divinum of Tythes or more, to be payd to the Priesthood under the Gospell. S.T.C. 24073. Quarto
Tillesley Richard Contemporary vellum, unevenly darkened, later label, red edges, quite crips and bright with good margins; the Taussig copy First edition of the first major response to the work of Selden which David Berkowitz termed "his greatest work [and] one of the triumphs of Renaissance learning", vigorously criticizing Selden's legal analysis and his use of historical sources-
- $956