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1.             "The Pennsylvania Blackstone"
Brackenridge, Hugh [1748-1816]. Law Miscellanies: Containing an
Introduction to the Study of Law; Notes on Blackstone's Commentaries,
Shewing the Variations of the Law of Pennsylvania From the Law of
England, and What Acts of Assembly Might Require to be Repealed or
Modified Observations on Smith's Edition of the Laws of Pennsylvania;
Strictures on Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and
on Certain Acts of Congress, with Some Law Cases, and a Variety of
Other Matters, Chiefly Original. Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1814. xxvi,
[27]-588 pp. Octavo (5" x 8-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf
over cloth, endpapers renewed. Clean tear to a leaf, corner lacking
from another, neither have loss to text. Light browning to sections,
occasional annotations and corrections in early hand, interior
otherwise clean. Handsome. $850.
* First edition. Brackenridge published this, his most important legal
work, when he was a Supreme Court Justice of Pennsylvania. Warren
believes it to be one of the four early American general works on the
Common Law that "showed genuine scientific thought and research and
have remained of more or less permanent value in American legal
literature." Warren, A History of the American Bar 335-336. Eller, The
William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library 142. Cohen,
Bibliography of Early American Law 5375.
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2.          Early New York Guide for Jurors
Edwards, Charles [1797-1868]. The Juryman's Guide Throughout the State
of New-York, and Containing General Matter for The Lawyer and Law
Officer. New York: O. Halsted, 1831. xvi, 293, [2] pp. Octavo (5-1/4"
x 8-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, lettering piece, blind fillets to
boards and spine. Moderate scuffing and rubbing with some wear to foot
of spine and board edges, corners bumped. Early bookseller ticket to
front pastedown, bookseller inkstamp to front free endpaper. Light
foxing to endleaves and a few text leaves, interior otherwise fresh.
$350.
* First edition. An early guide for jurors with numerous footnotes,
side notes, index, bibliography and a list of "Maxims Which Apply."
"The lawyer ought not to lay this volume aside, because the pages are,
here and these, illustrated by a quotation or anecdote. He should be
satisfied, if the matter of fact and the references prove of service
to him: for the rest has been inserted, in order to lead the general
reader towards a knowledge of a highly important duty.": Preface [ix].
OCLC locates 18 copies. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law
1506.
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3.     The Law of Debtor and Creditor for Merchants and Lawyers
Holcombe, James P. [1820-1873]. The Law of Debtor and Creditor in the
United States and Canada, Adapted to the Wants of Merchants and
Lawyers. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1848. [3]-508, [4] pp. Includes
four-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (6" x 9"). Recent period-style
quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, lettering piece, endpapers
renewed. Early institution stamp to title page, occasional light
foxing, interior otherwise clean. $600.
* Reissue of the first edition. Each chapter deals with a state,
except the final chapter, which is devoted to the provinces of Upper
and Lower Canada. It discusses such issues as types of debt, the
rights of creditors, paying creditors from a decedent's estate, the
rights secured to a married woman in the property of her husband and
the exemption of her estate from liability for his debts. Not listed
in Cohen, this is a reissue of The Merchants' Book of Reference for
Debtor and Creditor, in the United States and Canada (1848) with a
different title. The next edition, published in 1849, has the same
title and is designated "A New Edition, With an Appendix." All were
published in New York by D. Appleton. OCLC locates 31 copies. See
Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2598, 2599. Catalogue of the
Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:941.
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4.      Monumental Eighteenth-Century Study of German Law
Moser, Johann Jacob [1701-1785]. Teutsches [Deutsches] Staats-Recht.
Nuremberg: Verlag Johann Steins (Vols. 1-6); Frankfurt: Bernhard
Ehrenfrid Vollrath (7-50), 1737-1753. 50 volumes bound as 22 books,
each with index. 3 fold-out tables. Quarto (6-1/2" x 8-1/2"). The
first 18 books bound in thick layered paper-covered boards, the others
are speckled calf, marbled edges and spines with raised bands, gilt
titles and ornaments. Moderate shelfwear with wear to spine ends,
joints and corners, most hinges cracked or starting. Titles pages of
Volumes 1-6 have large copperplate vignettes and are printed in red
and black, all volumes have woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and
decorated initials. Occasional light foxing, interiors otherwise
fresh. Later owner stamp embossed to each front free endpaper. Ex-
library. Small inkstamps to rear endleaves. A nice copy of an uncommon
set. $5,000.
* This monumental work is a synthetic study of the law in the German
states. Other volumes address international law and ecclesiastical
law. One of the most distinguished figures in German political
philosophy and the author of more than 500 books, Moser served as an
academic and administrator in several German states. His writings,
which were as distinguished for their rectitude as they were for their
sheer bulk, apply political perspectives derived from the
constitutional law of the Holy Roman Empire to matters of theology,
politics, and international relations. He was the founder of the
positivist treatment of international law in Germany. This set is
complete, but it does not have the two additional supplemental general
index volumes issued in 1754, which are considered a part of the set
in some records. OCLC locates 6 copies. British Museum Catalogue
(Compact Edition) 17:1123. Kleinheyer and Schroder, Deutsche Juristen
aus Funf Jahrhunderten 199.
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5.      Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, of Pufendorf's
                  Law of Nature and Nations
Pufendorf, Samuel von [1632-1694]. De Jure Naturae et Gentium Libri
Octo. Editio Secunda, Auctior Multo, et Emendatior. Frankfurt:
Sumptibus F. Knochii, 1684. [xxiii], 1344, [16] pp. Copperplate
portrait frontispiece. Quarto (7" x 7-3/4"). Contemporary unlettered
vellum, a few minor stains, some wear to corners, vellum has pushed
through fore-edge of front pastedown, minor edgewear to fore-edges of
preliminaries, chip to fore-edge of front free endpaper, lower corner
of frontispiece lacking with minor loss. Woodcut head-pieces, tail-
pieces and decorated initials. Light foxing, internally clean. An
appealing copy of an uncommon edition. $2,500.
* Second edition, "revised and enlarged by the author." In 1662 Samuel
Pufendorf was appointed to the first modern professorship in natural
law (at the University of Heidelberg). In 1670 he became professor of
natural law at the University of Lund in Sweden. De Jure Naturae et
Gentium is his principal work and a landmark in the history of natural
and international law. First published in 1672, it proposed a thorough
system of private, public, and international law based on natural law.
Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their
various divisions, Pufendorf proceeds to a discussion of the validity
of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human reason. It is
significant in part because it develops principles introduced by
Grotius and Hobbes. Unlike Hobbes, Pufendorf argued that peace, not
war, was the state of nature, and he proposed that international law
was not restricted to Christendom. OCLC locates 8 copies of this
edition. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 20:1074.
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6.    The "Longest Lived" Treatise on Courts Leet and Baron
Sheppard, William [d.1675?]. Browne, William, Editor. The Court-
Keepers Guide for the Keeping of Courts-Leet and Courts-Baron: Wherein
Is Largely and Plainly Opened. The Jurisdiction of These Courts, with
the Learning of Manors, Copyholds, Rents, Harriots, and Other Services
and Advantages Belonging unto Manors; Shewing the Lord's Due and the
Tenant's Duty. Usefull for All Persons Concerned in Copyhold Estates.
Whereunto are Added Precedents of Copies of Court-Rolls, With Other
Additions. London: Printed by the Assigns of Rich. Atkins, and Edw.
Atkins, 1685. [xii], 284 pp. Precedents of Copies preceded by
divisional title page. 12mo. (3-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary calf,
raised bands, blind frames to boards, blind-title to spine. Rubbed
with wear to spine ends and corners, joints and hinges cracked but
secure, some offsetting to margins of endleaves. Occasional light
foxing. Early owner signature to front pastedown, occasional
underlining and annotations to text. A nice copy. $850.
* Seventh edition. In his discussion of the common law in the
sixteenth century Holdsworth observes "[t]here was still a
considerable amount of works to be done by [the courts leet and
baron]. The common field system of agriculture needed regulation; the
rights and duties of copy-holders were matters for the manorial court
to determine, subject to the control of the courts of common law; and
statutes of this period had assigned new duties to the leet. Thus a
want was felt for something more than the single stereotyped tract
which various publishers went on issuing from the press during the
first half of this century. (...) [T]he longest lived...was the Court
Keeper's Guide of William Sheppard, first published in 1641 and re-
issued as late as  1791.": Holdsworth, A History of English Law
IV:120-121. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British
Commonwealth of Nations I:405(62).
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7.           Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story
Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. [Story, William W.(1819-1895), Editor]. The
Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at
Harvard University, Edited by His Son. Boston: C.C. Little and J.
Brown , 1852. x, 828 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Later buckram retaining
original calf lettering piece, marbled edges and front free endpapers.
Some shelfwear and soiling, hinges with reinforcements partially
cracked but secure. Occasional light foxing and spark burns to a few
leaves, dampstaining to index leaves and rear endpapers, interior
otherwise clean. $450.
* Story's enormous influence on American law is demonstrated in this
collection edited by his son. It includes an autobiography, which is
in the form of a fascinating long letter to his son, and many other
articles, essays, lectures and biographical sketches of judges and
lawyers (including Chief Justice John Marshall and Associate Supreme
Court Justice Bushrod Washington). Other pieces are a proposed course
of legal study and essays on maritime law, piracy, the slave trade,
commercial law and codification of the common law. Marke, A Catalogue
of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1130.
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8. First Edition of Important Treatise on Executors and Administrators
Williams, Sir Edward Vaughan [1797-1875]. A Treatise on the Law of
Executors and Administrators. London: Saunders and Benning, Law
Booksellers, 1832. Two volumes. Octavo (6-1/4" x 10"). Contemporary
paper boards, recently rebacked with period printed spine labels,
hinges reinforced. Light rubbing to boards, some wear to board edges
and corners. Early owner signature to each front free endpaper in
pencil, occasional light foxing, interiors otherwise fresh. $750.
* First edition. One of the great treatises on the subject, it went
through numerous English and American editions, the last (18th ed.)
appearing in 2000. "Mr. Williams has treated his subject in a manner
highly creditable to him as a lawyer; his distinctions are sound and
tenable; and the cases cited by him fully bear out his propositions in
the text. The profession is much indebted to the author....": Marvin,
Legal Bibliography (1847) 738 (citing third American edition). OCLC
locates 6 copies of this edition. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal
Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations 2:382.
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