[Rarebooks] A Selection of Lawbook Exchange Titles (With Digital Images)

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1.         Ecclesiastical Tithes to the English Crown
Bacon, John [1738-1816]. [Ecton, John (d. 1730)]. Liber Regis vel
Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum. With an Appendix, Containing Proper
Directions and Precedents Relating to Presentations, Institutions,
Inductions, Dispensations, &c. and a Complete Alphabetical Index.
London: Printed for the Author by John Nichols, 1786. viii, 1391 pp.
Quarto (8" x 10-1/2"). Contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original
spine with lettering piece, raised bands and gilt ornaments, endpapers
renewed. Rubbing with some wear to corners and board edges, front
hinge cracked but secure, split between title page and preface,
residue from bookplate to front pastedown. Tear to index leaf with no
loss to text, faint dampstaining to margins of a few leaves. Early
signature to front endleaf, interior otherwise clean. $300.
* First edition. This detailed list of parish incomes in England and
Wales is a thorough revision of John Ecton's Thesaurus Rerum
Ecclesiasticarum (1742). It "contains an Account of the Valuations of
all the Ecclesiastical Benefices in England and Wales, which are now
charged with the Payment of [tithes to the Crown], or were lately
discharged from any Payment to those Revenues, on account of the
Smallness of their Income; and which are for the same Reason entitled
to receive the Benefit of the Royal Bounty, in such Proportions, and
according to such Appointments, as are set forth in the Excellent
Rules of the Corporation constituted by her late Majesty Queen Anne
for that Purpose" (Preface iii). Bacon was the clerk of the Bounty
Office, which used tithes on wealthy parishes to support others with
lower incomes. The rules of this office are included in an appendix.
Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of
Nations 1:164.
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2.               Bluntschli on the State
Bluntschli, [Johann Caspar] [1808-1881]. Theorie General de L'Etat.
Traduit de L'Allamand et Precede d'une Preface par Armand de
Riedmatten. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie., 1877. xi, 478 pp. Octavo (5-
1/2" x 8-1/4). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards,
lettering pieces, gilt ornaments to spine, marbled endpapers, top edge
gilt. Light rubbing to boards, some rubbing with wear to spines and
corners, small chip near head of spine, joints and hinges cracked but
secure. Occasional light foxing, interior otherwise clean. $250.
* Bluntschli was an influential Swiss jurist, statesman, teacher and
one of the founders of the Institute for International Law. In this
work "[He] takes the utmost pains to make it clear that that
collective person...is not a legal fiction or a figure of speech. A
people, he maintains, has a self-conscious spirit or will that is
something distinct from either the sum or the majority of the wills of
its component individuals. It has further, in its institutions, a
body...that confirms its existence and manifests its will. Thus the
spirit of a people, taken in combination with its political
institutions, constitutes an entity in which the elements of
personality are in the strictest sense real.": Dunning, A History of
Political Theories III:308-309 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law
Collection at New York University (1953) 933. OCLC locates 34 copies,
9 of this edition. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 3:687.
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3.    Comprehensive 1876 Treatise on the Rights of Neutrals
Gessner, L[udwig] [1828-1890]. Le Droit des Neutres Sur Mer. Paris:
Librairie Guillauman & Cie/Paul Ollendorff, 1876. xvi, 444 pp. Octavo
(6" x 9"). Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised
bands, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing with minor wear to corners, a
few negligible tiny scuffs to spine, internally fresh. A nice copy.
$350.
* Second edition. Written by a German diplomat, this treatise is a
comprehensive summary of the contemporary law of neutrality as it
stood in the mid-nineteenth century. Written in French to read the
broadest educated audience possible, it is international in scope and
lays particular emphasis on the contributions of German-speaking
jurists, which Gessner believes are not as well known. After a general
history of the field, Gessner devotes individual sections to
contraband of war, blockade, the rights of neutrals when trading with
belligerent nations, prize law and right of search and seizure. This
edition not in the British Museum Catalogue.
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4.     Reflects France's Involvement With the American Civil War
Hautefeuille, L[aurent]-B[asile] [1805-1875]. Des Droits et des
Devoirs des Nations Neutres en Temps de Guerre Maritime. Paris:
Librairie de Guillaumin et Cie., 1868. Three volumes. Octavo (5-1/2" x
8-1/4). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering
pieces, gilt ornaments to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.
Light rubbing to boards, some rubbing with wear to spines and corners.
Front board of Volume I partially detached. Other joints and hinges
cracked or starting. Light browning to portions of text blocks,
interiors otherwise clean. $450.
* Third edition. This comprehensive study of the history, theory and
practice of international maritime law as it relates to neutrals was
first published in 1848-1849. This edition is notable because it
contains sections that address France's experience with the Union and
Confederacy during the American Civil War. Hautefeuille was a leading
French jurist and the author of Quelques Questions de Droit
International Maritime a Propos de la Guerre d'Amerique (1861).
British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 11:920.
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5.            History of Maritime Law by Notable French Jurist
Hautefeuille, L[aurent]-B[asile] [1805-1875]. Histoire des Origines,
des Progres et des Variations du Droit Maritime International. Paris:
Guillaumin et Cie., 1868. xv, 482 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4).
Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering pieces,
gilt ornaments to spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Light
rubbing to boards, some rubbing with wear to spines and corners, small
chip to spine, hinges cracked but secure. Light browning to portions
of text block, occasional light foxing, interior otherwise clean.
$250.
* Second edition. A history of the field to 1856. Hautefeuille was a
leading French jurist and the author of Le Droits et les Devoirs des
nations Neutres en temps de Guerre Maritime (1848-1849) and other
treatises. This edition not in the British Museum Catalogue.
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6.       By A Leading Authority on Legislative Government
Luce, Robert. Legislative Problems: Development, Status, and Trend of
the Treatment and Exercise of Lawmaking Powers. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1915. vi, 762 pp. Original cloth, top edge gilt. Light
rubbing, corners and spine ends bumped. Ex-library. Embossed stamp to
front board, bookplate and stamps to preliminaries. $125.
* Recommended by James Willard Hurst in The Growth of American Law,
this book examines several issues that relate to the difficulties
inherent in establishing and operating legislatures in republican
systems including the separation of powers, judges as legislators, the
veto power, the rise of the executive, the budget, and administrative
legislation. Luce was a member of the Massachusetts General Court,
Lieutenant-Governor and member of Congress. An expert of Legislative
Government, he was also a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional
Convention of 1917-1919. Hurst, The Growth of American Law (1950) 451.
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