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1.        "For the Merchant, Banker, Tradesman, and Shopkeeper"
[Business Law]. The Hand-Book of Trade and Commerce; Or, a Concise
Dictionary of the Terms and Principles of Trade, Commerce,
Manufactures, Commercial and Common Law, Etc. Etc. With Tables of
Money, Weights, and Measures. New Edition. London: Darton and Clark,
1842. [iv], 324 pp. 12mo. (3-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Original cloth with
decorative blind stamping. Some shelfwear, small stain to front board,
some toning to text. Small early owner signature to front pastedown,
small embossed bookseller stamp to front free endpaper, interior
otherwise clean. A very nice copy. $150.
* "Portable volumes--books of simple and immediate reference--are of
all works the most useful; especially to those with whom 'time is
money." (...) In a painful consciousness of [this truth] originated
the idea of this little 'HAND-BOOK' for the merchant, banker,
tradesman, and shopkeeper of every class--a volume equally suited for
the counter, the desk, or the pocket.": Preface [iii]. Goldsmiths'-
Kress Library of Economic Literature 31376.21.
(Inventory # 40184)

2.           An Important Work on the Right to Trial by Jury
Hawles, Sir John [1645-1716]. [Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)]. The
Englishman's Right; A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law and a
Juryman; Shewing, I. The Antiquity, II. The Excellent Designed Use,
III. The Office and Just Privileges of Juries by the Law of England
(Being a Choice Help for All Who Are Qualified by Law to Serve on
Juries). To Which is Prefixed, An Introductory Essay, On the Moral
Duty of a Judge. Philadelphia: Printed by John Thompson for Alexander
Brodie, 1798. 70 pp. Octavo (4-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Recent period-style
calf retaining original lettering piece, blind fillets to boards, gilt
fillets and ornaments to spine. Minor shelfwear, corners bumped. Light
foxing to title page and a few leaves, interior otherwise fresh. Quite
appealing. $950.
* Later edition of a work first published in 1680, and the last
edition published in the eighteenth century. A staunch Whig, Hawles
wrote The Englishman's Right to outline the rights, duties and proper
behavior of a juryman and to promote the jury system as a bulwark
against tyranny. Immediately successful among Whigs and others who saw
themselves as defenders of English liberties, it was received with
great enthusiasm in America, where it was reprinted several times well
into the nineteenth century. According to Cohen, it was probably the
first English law book reprinted in the American colonies. Sabin, A
Dictionary of Books Relating to America 30976. Cohen, Bibliography of
Early American Law 1481.
(Inventory # 40183)

3.                     1839 Pennsylvania JP Manual
M'Kinney, Mordecai [1796?-1867]. The Pennsylvania Justice of the
Peace: Containing The Law, Practice, and Process, in Proceedings
Before Justices of the Peace and Aldermen, in Criminal Cases, With
Numerous Precedents Therein: Also, the Laws, Adjudications, (with
Notes,) Forms of Docket Entries, Process and Practice, Relative to
Their Jurisdiction, and its Exercise, in Civil Cases. Two Volumes in
One. Vol. I. Of Justices' Criminal Jurisdiction. Vol. II. Of Justices'
Civil Jurisdiction. Harrisburg: Printed for the Author, by E. Guyer,
1839. Two volumes in one, each with title page. lvi, 294; vi, 368 pp.
Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary calf, red and black lettering
pieces. Moderate rubbing with some wear to board edges and joints, a
few minor scuffs to boards. Light foxing to text. Early owner name to
head of title page, interior otherwise clean. $150.
* Volume One has the text of the Pennsylvania constitution and a
digest of election laws. Shaw and Shoemaker, American Bibliography
56980. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8461.
(Inventory # 40027)

4.             "Scientific" Study of English Public Law
Nasmith, David [1829-1894]. Institutes of English Public Law:
Embracing an Outline of General Jurisprudence; The Development of the
British Constitution; Public International Law; and the Public
Municipal Law of England. London: Butterworths, 1875. vi, [xviii],
455, x, [2], 63 pp. With tables and three publisher catalogues.
Contemporary textured cloth, rebacked in period style, rouged edges,
hinges mended, internally clean. $250.
* This book is a companion to Nasmith's treatises on English private
and adjective law. Like the others, it emulates the systematic
organization of Justinian's Institutes. Nasmith provides an overview
of the relation in which the State and the English citizen are placed
in constitutional and municipal law. It is also a fine example of the
jurisprudence produced in Victorian England that approached the law as
a science governed by discernible rules. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal
Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations II:253. Catalogue
of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:169.
(Inventory # 40015)

5.  A Litmus Test for Libel Cases, Juries and English Protestantism
[Sancroft, William (1617-1693)]. [Trial of the Seven Bishops]. The
Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of The Most Reverend Father in God
William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Right Reverend Fathers
in God, William Lord Bishop of Asaph, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, John
Lord Bishop of Chichester, Thomas Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells,
Thomas Lord Bisop of Peterborough, and Jonathan Lord Bishop of
Bristol. In the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster, in Trinity-Term
in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King James the Second, Annoque Dom.
1688. London: Printed for J. Nicholson, [et. al.], 1716. [vi], 376 pp.
Copperplate portrait frontispiece of the seven bishops. Octavo (4-3/4"
x 7-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, lettering piece, raised bands, blind
frames to boards. Moderate rubbing, corners bumped, joints starting,
chipping to spine ends and edges of lettering piece, some bowing to
boards, front hinge cracked but secure. Attractive woodcut head-
pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Offsetting to margins of
endleaves, occasional light dampstaining and toning, interior
otherwise fresh. $500.
* Second edition of a work first published in 1689. In 1688 James II
reissued his Declaration of Indulgence, which suspended the penal laws
enacted against Catholics and dissenters, and ordered the Anglican
clergy to read it to their congregations. The Archbishop of Canterbury
and six bishops petitioned against this order on the ground that the
suspending power had been declared illegal by Parliament. They were
indicted in the King's Bench for seditious libel, but were acquitted
to great public acclaim. The "Trial of the Seven Bishops," as it came
to be known, confirmed the subject's right to petition the crown.
Moreover, by assigning the questions of publication and libel to a
jury the court set a precedent that was later enacted into law by the
Fox Libel Act of 1792. The trial also reflects the antipathy of
English Protestants towards Catholicism and the Stuarts. Indeed, this
trial was one of the events that led to the Glorious Revolution of
1688. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 1135. Catalogue of the Library
of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:1186.
(Inventory # 40231)

6.     The First Compilation of U.S. Constitutions Since 1787
[United States]. Constitutional Law: Comprising the Declaration of
Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Constitution of the
United States; And the Constitutions of the Several States Composing
the Union, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois.
Washington City: Printed and Published by Gales and Seaton, 1819.
[iv], 360 pp. Leaves in signature 27 bound out of order. Page 360 has
tipped-in note on an amendment to the Georgia constitution. 12mo. (4"
x 6-3/4"). Contemporary sheep treated to look like tree calf, gilt
fillets and lettering piece to spine, specked edges. Light rubbing
with some wear to board edges, joints and corners. Small scuff to rear
board, three tiny worm holes to joints near foot. Light foxing and
browning to title page and some leaves. Early owner signature to front
pastedown, interior otherwise clean. A handsome copy of a title scarce
in the trade. $2,500.
* First edition. With an appendix containing federal and state
amendments enacted between 1808 and 1816. This book is the first
compilation of its kind since the ratification of the United States
Constitution. Later editions were published in 1820, 1822 and 1823.
OCLC locates 15 copies. Shaw, American Bibliography 47716. Cohen,
Bibliography of Early American Law 3013.
(Inventory # 40188)

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