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1.            Attractively Bound Twelfth Edition of Blackstone
Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Christian, Edward [d. 1823],
Editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books. With the
Last Corrections of the Author; and With Notes and Additions by Edward
Christian. London: Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, 1793-1795.
Four volumes. Copperplate portrait frontispieces of Blackstone (Volume
I), Littleton (Volume II), Mansfield (Volume II) and Hale (Volume IV),
nine other portrait plates of important English jurists interspersed
throughout, "Table of Consanguinity" and fold-out "Table of Descents"
(Volume I). Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary tree calf with calf
spines, rebacked retaining original backstrips with lettering pieces,
gilt fillets and gilt and blind-stamped ornaments, Volume IV has a
later lettering piece. Gilt frames to boards. Marbled endpapers. Some
rubbing to boards with some wear to spine ends and edges, corners
bumped. Early armorial bookplate to each pastedown. Very occasional
light foxing; interiors notably fresh. $1,500.
* Twelfth edition, and the first edition with Christian's notes.
Blackstone's paging retained in margins. "This edition was originally
published in numbers, each number containing the portrait of a judge.
(...) The editor is designated on the title pages of this edition as
'Edward Christian, esq., barrister at law, and professor of the Laws
of England in the University of Cambridge.' His notes are printed as
footnotes, separated from those of Blackstone by a rule. A selection
of Christian's notes is included in most American editions of the
Commentaries.": Eller, The William Blackstone Collection at Yale
University 21.
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2.              The Last Words of the Bird Brothers
[Execution Broadside]. The Last Words, Dying Speech, Confession &
Behaviour of John and Joseph Bird, Two Brothers and Natives of This
City, Who Were Executed Yesterday Morning, March 13, 1826, at the Old
Bailey, for Forgery. Bristol: Printed and sold by M. Sheperd, [1826].
14-3/4" x 6-1/2" broadside with large woodcut of hanging scene. Some
toning, otherwise very good. $600.
* This is a fine example of an execution broadside with a sensational
illustration and excellent didactic, religious and narrative content.
Published as a "warning to youth never to come under a similar
ignominy," this broadside contains, in addition to details of the
brothers' final hours, a copy of the doleful letter written by the
condemned from their cell. "Dear Mother, A few hours more will close
the scene of life on us, which we trust, we are prepared to meet with
fortitude. We have been everything but dutiful children, and shall
soon be rewarded for our past misconduct. Make yourself as comfortable
as possible, and endeavor to obliterate from your memory our just but
ignoble end...." Also included is the text of a hymn sung "with the
most profound solemnity" by the crowd. Published to entertain and
instruct, the execution broadside was perhaps the most popular genre
of non-devotional literature in the early nineteenth century.
Executions were important events in a town's history, so these
broadsides also served as souvenirs. No copies located on OCLC or the
Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog (KVK).
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3.         Sixteenth-Century Collection of Italian Criminal Cases
Novellus, Jacobo de (Novello, Jacobus) [fl. 1550-1580]. Practica et
Theorica Causarum Criminalium, Novissime in Luce Edita. Admodum Utilis
et Necessaria, Tam Iudicibus Maleficiorum, Quam Cancellariis D.
Rectorum Terrae Firmae, Cum Summariis, Repertorio, ac Quamplurium
Rerum Scitu Dignarum Additionibus. Venice: Apud Baltassarem
Constantinum, 1552. 131, [17] fols. Octavo (4" x 5-3/4"). Contemporary
limp vellum, title lettered to spine in early hand, ties lacking.
Moderate soiling and a few faint stains, pastedowns beginning to work
loose. Woodcut printer device to title page, woodcut head-piece, tail-
pieces and decorated intials. Faint dampstaining at front and rear of
text block, interior otherwise fresh. A nice copy of an uncommon work.
$1,500.
* Second edition. This is a wide-ranging collection of criminal cases.
Most are quite detailed and include the names of the parties involved.
All are followed by lengthy legal analyses. First printed in 1549,
this book went through four editions, the final appearing in 1586.
Novello was a notable Venetian jurisconsult. OCLC locates 6 copies, 2
of this edition. Not in Adams or the British Museum Catalogue.
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4.                   Early Poughkeepsie Formbook
[Potter, Paraclete (1784-1848), Compiler]. The Clerk's Assistant.
Revised and Greatly Improved. By a Gentleman of the Bar. Poughkeepsie:
Published by Paraclete Potter, 1814. [1], 357 pp. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-
1/4"). Contemporary calf, lettering piece, blind fillets to boards and
spine. Inkstains, Some rubbing and a few scuffs, chipping to edges of
lettering piece, light wear to board edges, corners bumped, front
joint starting, hinges cracked but secure. Corner lacking from a leaf
with no loss to text, light foxing, occasional inkstains. Early
annotations to front free endpaper and a few leaves, interior
otherwise clean. $200.
* Second edition. This popular formbook for laymen was first published
in 1805 and later expanded and published in 1814 as The Clerk's and
Magistrate's Assistant with only minor changes in content. A
bookseller, journalist and publisher, Potter edited the Poughkeepsie
Journal for nearly thirty years. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American
Law 8074.
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5.                    Style's Practical Register
Style, William [1603-1679]. Styles's Practical Register, Begun in the
Reign of King Charles I. Consisting of Rules, Orders, and the
Principal Observations Concerning the Practice of the Common Law in
the Courts at Westminster. Particularly the King's Bench, As Well in
Matters Criminal as Civil. Carefully Continued Down to this Time from
Modern Reports. Alphabetically Digested Under Several Titles. With a
Table for the Ready Finding Out of Those Titles. With Large Additions.
London: Printed for C. Harper, D. Brown, N. Walthoe & D. Medwinter,
1707. [15], 682, [6] pp. Includes one-page publisher list. Octavo (4-
3/4" x 7-1/2"). Later calf retaining original boards, corners
restored, raised bands, gilt title and date to spine, endpapers
renewed. Some cracking to spine, light wear to spine ends and corners.
Light foxing and occasional light browning. Early signatures and
annotations to preliminaries, interior otherwise clean. $500.
* Fourth edition. This popular guide was first published in 1657 with
the title Regestrum Practicale. (Its early editions are called Regula
Placitandi in Comyns' Digest of the Laws of England). Arranged
alphabetically, it contains the rules for practice, together with some
basic information regarding the substantive law. John Lilly published
a continuation of this book in 1710. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal
Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I:279 (145).
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6.     Well-Preserved Early Compilation of Vermont Laws
[Vermont]. The Laws of the State of Vermont, Digested and Compiled:
Including the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the
United States, and of this State. Volumes First and Second, Coming
Down to, and Including the Year MDCCVII; With an Appendix, Containing
Titles of Local Acts; and an Index of the Laws in Force. Published by
Order of the Legislature. Volumes I & II: Randolph: Printed by Sereno
Wright, 1808; Volume III: Rutland: Published by Fay, Davison & Burd,
1817. Three volumes. Octavo (5" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, blind
frames to boards, lettering piece and black-stamped fillets and volume
numbers to spines. A few tiny inkstains and some minor scuffing, minor
wear to joints and corners, hinges starting. Offsetting to margins of
endleaves, light foxing at ends of each text block, interiors
otherwise fresh. Early owner signature to the head of each title page,
interiors otherwise clean. A well-preserved complete set. Uncommon.
$250.
* First edition. With an index, side-notes, forms of oaths, sample
legal forms, list of repealed laws and an appendix containing titles
of local and private acts. This was originally issued as a two-volume
set. The third volume is a continuation covering legislation from 1808
to 1816. It contains a cumulative list of titles. OCLC locates 9
copies. Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws
573.
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7.          Uncommon 1732 English Treatise on the Laws of Sewers
[Water Law]. The Laws of Sewers; Or the Office and Authority of
Commissioners of. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into
Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, Publick
Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of
the Commissioners in Making Laws and Ordinances, and Imposing Rates or
Taxes for Repairing the Walls, Banks, and Other Defenses. III. Of
Their Power by Law as to Distresses, and Decreeing to be Sold to Levy
Charges for Repairs, and Inflicting Punishments, by Fine and
Otherwise. Also the Particular Offices of Bailiffs, Surveyors,
Collectors, and Other Officers Under the Commissioners, and
Proceedings of a Court of Sewers, Orders, Warrants, &c. To Which are
Added, the Laws Relating to Rumney-Marsh, and Other Marshes and Fens.
With Additions: and a New Compleat Table to the Whole. London: Printed
by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1732. [viii], 202, 10 pp. Octavo
(4-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards,
rebacked in period style with raised bands and lettering piece,
endpapers renewed. Some wear to joints and corners, negligible rubbing
and a few small inkstains to boards, front hinge starting. Occasional
minor worming to text and rear pastedown. Later owner signatures to
front pastedown and head of preface, occasional (very) light foxing
and toning, interior otherwise fresh. An appealing copy of an uncommon
work. $1,500.
* Second (and final) edition of a work first published in 1726. "As
there have been in all Reigns, from the earliest Time, many
commissions of Sewers issued into the several counties of England, to
Gentlemen of Estates and Worth therein, and the Number of the
Commissioners and their Clerks, officers and Ministers under them,
being great and considerable; it is very much to be admired, and a
Thing very uncommon, that no Person hath hitherto attempted a
particular Treatise on these laws, with the necessary Business and
Practice of the commissioners of Sewers in putting them in execution.
(...) And notwithstanding [Callis' Reading Upon the Statute of 23 H.
8, Cap. 5, of Sewers (1622)] is an excellent composition, and I am
obliged to that Performance for many of my Informations; yet it must
be confessed , That [it] is more especially adapted to the Use of
lawyers in general, than the Commissioners of Sewers, and it has not
the least Precedent throughout, of their various transactions.":
Preface [iv-v]. OCLC locates 9 copies, all of this edition. Sweet &
Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations
471 (10).
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