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1.             Classic Study of English Feudalism
Abdy, J[ohn] T[homas] [1822-1899]. Feudalism: Its Rise, Progress, and
Consequences. London: George Bell & Sons, 1890. xix, 459 pp.
Contemporary calf, gilt spine, blind frames to boards, top edge gilt,
marbled endpapers. Light fading to spine, some wear to spine ends,
joints and corners, a few tiny scuffs to boards. Partial split between
front free endpaper and half-title, internally clean. A handsome copy.
$150.
* First edition. This classic study of English feudalism originated in
a series of lectures delivered at Gresham College. The first part is
devoted to social and political life between the fall of the Roman
Empire and the settlement of the Barbarians in Europe. Abdy then turns
to the rise of feudalism and its characteristics. The rest of the book
traces its development in England from the Teutons to the Normans.
British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) I:40.
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2.               "Meant Both to Amuse and Instruct"
B[lount], T[homas] [1618-1679]. Fragmenta Antiquitatis: Antient
Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs of Some Mannors. Made Public for
the Diversion of Some, and the Instruction of Others. London: Printed
by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, 1679. [vii], 175, [15]
pp. Octavo (4-1/2 x 7"). Contemporary calf, raised bands, blind frames
to boards. A few minor scuffs, some rubbing with wear to corners,
small chip to foot of spine, boards slightly bowed, rear joint just
starting at head, diagonal crack through rear pastedown. Attractive
woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Light soiling
to title page, interior otherwise fresh. $600.
* First edition. Blount provides "under the heads of various places in
which the land was situated, various curious tenures, and customs of
manors, which he had come across in his study of records. It was meant
both to amuse and instruct; and it does instruct, because it is a
painstaking piece of work, taken from the original authorities, which
preserved the memory of many old customs which were rapidly decaying
when the book was written.": Holdsworth, History of English Law
VI:611. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British
Commonwealth of Nations I:398 (7). Wing, Short-Title Catalogue of
Books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British
America B3333.
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3.               An Oath That Incensed the Puritans
Church of England. Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall; Treated
Upon by the Achbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Rest of the
Bishops and Clergie of Those Provinces; And Agreed Upon by the Kings
Majesties Licence in Their Severall Synods Begun at London and York.
1640. London: Printed by Robert Barker, 1640. Unpaginated. Octavo (5-
1/2" x 7"). Pamphlet with original printed wrappers bound into later
buckram. Negligible wear to binding. Attractive woodcut Royal arms to
title page, woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Inkstain and
light soiling to front cover, occasional foxing, some browning to
margins, rear leaves carefully mended. Hand-written page numbers to
each leaf, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Location number
stamped to spine, bookplate to front pastedown, small inkstamp to
verso of final leaf. $300.
* An important document in the history of the English Reformation,
this was the first collection of ecclesiastical law compiled by the
Church of England that was not derived from Roman Catholic sources. It
was originally enacted in 1571 and amended in 1603 and 1640. This
latter issue contains the notorious Article VI, "An Oath Injoyn'd for
the Prevention of All Innovation in Doctrine and Government," which
incensed the Puritans. Pollard and Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue
of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, 1475-1640 10080.
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4.  Defense of Administration That Repealed the Stamp and Sugar Acts
[Cooper, Sir Grey (d. 1801)]. The Merits of the New Administration
Truly Stated; In Answer to the Several Pamphlets and Papers Published
Against Them. London: Printed for J. Williams, 1765. 48 pp. Octavo (5-
1/" x 8-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in original printed wrappers,
rear cover lacking. Woodcut title-page vignette and head-piece. Light
soiling to front cover and title page. Light foxing to a few leaves,
interior otherwise fresh. $150.
* The Marquis of Rockingham served a controversial term as First Lord
of the Treasury in 1765-1766. He inherited the colonial problems in
America that had been provoked by Grenville's administration and
resolved the civil unrest there by repealing the Stamp Act and
revising the Sugar Act. Although his ministry passed the Declaratory
Act, he made a distinction between having the right to legislate for
the colonies and actually exercising that right. Unpopular for his
accommodating attitude toward the colonists, he was replaced by Pitt
the Elder in 1766. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 6:212.
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5.            Early Stalinist Show Trials
[Trial]. Gabor, Andor, Editor. Spione und Saboteure vor dem
Volksgericht in Moskau: Bericht Uber den Hochverratsprozess Gegen
Ramsin und Genossen vom 25. November bis 7. Dezember 1930 im
Gewerkshafthaus in Moskau auf Grund der Stenografischen Protokolle
Zusammengestellt, mit Drei Zeichnungen von Deni, Moskau. Berlin: Neuer
Deutscher Verlag, 1931. 128 pp. Four illustrations. Original pictorial
wrappers. Some toning, light wear to spine and edges. Occasional faint
dampspotting to margins, interior otherwise clean. A well-preserved
copy. $300.
* In order to eliminate potential rivals, Stalin accused them of
assassination plots or espionage, all coordinated by the exiled Leon
Trotsky. Once arrested, the accused were tortured or otherwise coerced
into signing confessions. They were then subjected to public show
trials, convicted, then sent to the gulag or executed. Historians
usually point to the famous 1936 trials as the beginning of this
process, but others occured at an earlier date. This book, which
contains a transcript of some of the earliest trials, along with
background information, transcripts of documents and four political
cartoons, offers a glimpse of the show trials in their earliest
stages, a period before they had perfected the "script" used in 1936.
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6.                     A Well-Produced Facsimile
[New York]. The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State
of New-York, Assembled at Poughkeepsie, on the 17th June, 1788. To
Deliberate and Decide on the Form of Federal Government Recommended by
the General Convention at Philadelphia, on the 17th September, 1787.
Taken in Short Hand. New York: Printed and Sold by Francis Childs,
1788. Reprint. Poughkeepsie: The Vassar Brothers Institute, 1905.
[viii], ii, 144 pp. Octavo (5" x 8-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet with
printed wrappers and deckle fore and bottom edges. Moderate wear to
wrappers. Small embossed bookseller stamp to front free endpaper,
several unopened signatures. Some toning to text, internally clean.
$150.
* A facsimile reprint produced from a copy at Poughkeepsie's Adriance
Memorial Library. OCLC locates 60 copies of this reprint and 13 copies
of the original.
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7.         By the Leading Expositor of Early German Public Law
Putter, Johann Stephan [1725-1807]. Anleitung zur Juristischen Praxi
wie in Teutschland Sowohl Gerichtliche als Aussergerichtliche
Rechtshandel oder Andere Canzlen-Reichs-und Staats-Sachen Schriftlich
oder Mundlich Verhandelt, und in Archiven Beygeleget Werden.
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1789. Two volumes bound as one,
each with title page. Contemporary three-quarter tree calf over
marbled boards, lettering pieces and gilt fillets to spine. Negligible
rubbing to board edges and joints, corners bumped. Early signature to
head of Volume I title page, interior notably fresh. An attractive
volume. $500.
* Fifth edition. Putter, a German jurist, was the most important
expositor of German public law of the Holy Roman Empire. As the
Encyclopedia of Social Sciences points out, he disentangled the early
German law from its many linguistic and structural difficulties
putting it in a form which "by virtue of its grace, rationality and
elegance rises above ponderous structure of the old Reich." Anleitung
zur Juristischen Praxi discusses judicial administration, pleading,
titles of honor, legal ceremony and the orthography and spelling of
legal German. First published in 1753, it went through several
editions into the nineteenth century. OCLC locates three copies. This
edition not in the British Museum Catalogue. Encyclopedia of the
Social Sciences XIV:7.
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8.          First Complete Edition of Spelman's Glossarium
Spelman, Henry [1564?-1641]. [Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686),
Editor]. Glossarium Archaiologicum: Continens Latino-Barbara,
Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula; Quae Post
Labefactatas a Gothis, Vandalisque;, Res Europaeas, in Ecclesiasticis,
Profanisq; Scriptoribus, Variarum Item Gentium Legibus Antiquis
Municipalibus, Chartis, & Formulis Occurrunt. Scholiis & Commentariis
Illustrata; In Quibus Prisci Ritus Quam-Plurimi, Magistratus,
Dignitates, Munera, Officia, Mores, Leges Ipsae, & Consuetudines
Enarrantur. London: Apud Aliciam Warren, 1664. [xi], 576 pp. Text
printed in double columns. Folio (8-1/2" x 13"). Recent period-style
quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, lettering piece, endpapers
renewed. Title page printed in red and black, attractive woodcut head-
piece, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Minor worming to foot of
text block, faint dampstaining to margins of some leaves. 'Glos.
Spel.' in large early hand to fore-edge. Occasional spark burns,
inkspots and brief annotations, interior otherwise clean. Appealing.
$1,750.
* Second edition. Originally published in 1626, the Glossarium was the
earliest English dictionary of legal and historical terms based on
philological methods. The product of considerable archival research
and consultation with scholars throughout Europe, Spelman's dictionary
superseded all previous attempts at legal lexicography. As Holdsworth
observes, "It is a great deal more than a law dictionary, being a
dictionary of Latin and other words to be found in all the post-
classical authors and documents English and foreign....In fact it is a
product of that new school of historians and historically minded
lawyers" (V:402). This point is supported by Winfield, who notes its
usefulness when interpreting terms used in the Domesday Book. The
first edition contains terms from A to L. Unfortunately, Spelman did
not live to bring his proposed second volume to print. The second
edition, which was edited by Dugdale, is the first with terms from A
to Z. Cowley, A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digests, Dictionaries,
and Indexes of English Law to the Year 1800 lxxxviii, 75 (155).
Winfield, Chief Sources of English Legal History 112. Wing, Short-
Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales,
and British America S4925.
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