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1.      Study of Roman Legal Terms With Contributions by Alciati
Alciati, Andrea[s] [1492-1550]. De Verborum Significatione, Libri
IIII; Eiusdem in Titulum XVI. Lib. L. Digestorum Commentarij: Postrema
hac Editione Quanta Fieri Potuit Diligentia Collatione Autographi
Castigati. Frankfurt: Apud Christophorum Coruinum, 1582. 671, [42],
62, [2] pp. Octavo (4" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped
rules and arabesques to boards. Worn and soiled, two inches of
backstrip removed from foot of spine. Wood of rear board beneath
vellum consumed by worming. Front hinge cracked but secure. Handsome
woodcut printer device to title page. Fore-edge lacking from leaf with
some loss to side-notes. Text clean and secure. A copy with character.
$500.
* With index. Later edition of a work first published in 1530. With
index and side-notes. "De Verborum Significatione" [Concerning the
Signification of Terms] is Book 50, Title 16 from the Digest of
Justinian. It is a glossary of legal terms and legal interpretations
of words like "city" and "child" with commentary by Ulpian, Gaius and
other scholars. This is an edition by Alciati, who added additional
commentary and notes. A complete text "De Verborum" is included as an
appendix. An important Italian humanist and professor of law at
Bologna, Milan, Padua, Ferrara and Bourges, he was one of the first
jurists to base his interpretation of civil law on the history,
languages and literature of antiquity, and to conduct original
research on the texts rather than merely copy earlier glosses. His
work was deeply influential and his services were retained by the
kings of France and Spain, as well as by several Italian princes. OCLC
locates one copy of this edition. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 46.
This edition not in the British Museum Catalogue.
(Inventory # 33882)

2.                  Early Italian Edition of Beccaria
[Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marchese de] (1738-1794)]. [Voltaire
(1694-1778)]. Dei Delitti e Delle Pene Edizione Novissima di Nuovo
Corretta, ed Accresciuta Coi Commenti del Voltaire Confutazioni, ed
Altri Opuscoli Interessanti di Vari Autori. Venice: Apresso Rinaldo
Benvenuti, 1781. Two volumes, each with allegorical frontispiece.
(Volume I has a copperplate, Volume II has an etching.) Octavo (5" x
7-3/4"). Contemporary vellum, gilt-stamped titles to spines, speckled
edges. Minor scuffs and a few tiny stains, light wear to corners and
spine ends, boards slightly bowed, hinges just starting at ends.
Occasional light foxing, interiors otherwise clean and bright. A
handsome set. $750.
* Revised and corrected edition. Fird published in 1764, Dei Delitti e
Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime
and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its
advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital
punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought,
which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound
influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United
States. This edition not in the British Museum Catalogue or Graesse.
(Inventory # 40924)

3.       First Edition of the First American Treatise on Patents
Fessenden, Thomas G. [1771-1837]. An Essay on the Law of Patents for
New Inventions. With an Appendix Containing the French Patent Law,
Forms, &c. Boston: Published by D. Mallory & Co., 1810. [2], [ix]-
xxxix, [41]-229, [1] pp. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary sheep,
lettering piece, blind fillets to boards and spine. Negligible rubbing
and a few minor scuffs, tiny worm hole near head of spine, negligible
worming to foot of front hinge. Light foxing to portions of text
block, interior otherwise clean. An attractive, well-preserved copy of
an important title scarce in the trade. $1,000.
* First edition of the first American book on the subject. A true
"Renaissance man," Fessenden was a lawyer, poet, journalist, inventor
and venture capitalist who promoted various inventions. He was the
holder of two patents for heating devices. He promoted "scientific"
techniques in The New England Farmer, a journal he founded. Also a
prominent satirist, he wrote numerous pieces under the pseudonym
Christopher Caustic for one of his other journals, The Terrible
Tractoration. His treatise contains summaries of the relevant
statutes, digests of leading cases (such as Whitney v. Carter over the
invention of the cotton gin) and comparisons between the patent laws
of the Unites States, Great Britain and France. The appendix contains
the United States Patent Law of 1800, a bilingual collection of French
laws and a set of French recommendations for improvements in the laws
of the United States. Shaw and Shoemaker, American Bibliography 20110.
Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 7129.
(Inventory # 40884)

4.            Uncommon Critical Analysis of the Bulla Aurea
Ludewig, Johann Peter [1668-1743]. Vollstandige Erlauterung der
Guldenen Bulle: in Welcher Viele Dinge aus dem Alten Teutschen Staat
Entdecket, Verschiedene Wichtige Meynungen mit Andern Grundet
Besetzet, und eine Ziemliche Anzahl von Bishero Unbekannten Wahrheiten
an das Licht Gegeben Werden.  Frankfurt: D.C. Hechtel, 1752. Two
volumes. Quarto (6-3/4" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary three quarter vellum
over marbled boards, edges rouged. Moderate rubbing to boards and
corners, considerable chipping to backstrips, hinges starting. Title
pages printed in red and black. Volume I has a copperplate portrait
frontispiece; Volume II has an allegorical frontispiece. Internally
clean. A nice copy of an uncommon set. $950.
* Second edition. Enacted by Emperor Charles IV in 1356, Bulla Aurea,
or Golden Bull, became the fundamental law of the Holy Roman Empire.
It ordained that each emperor should be chosen by election by a group
of seven electoral princes, or electors. The bull also defined their
powers, both as individual princes and as a group. The Bull also
provided for the preservation of peace in the empire and enacted
measures to counter the political importance of the free cities, which
were becoming more powerful at this time. This book is a formidably
learned history of the Bull and article-by-article analysis of its
contents. Ludewigs was a professor of philosophy and law at the
University of Halle and the first historian of the Holy Roman Empire.
OCLC locates 1 copy. This edition not in the British Museum Catalogue.
Kleinheyer and Schroder, Deutsche Juristen aus Funf Jahrhunderten 331.
(Inventory # 25282)

5.               Important Early Treatise on Maritime Law
Molloy, Charles [1646-1690]. De Jure Maritimo et Navali: Or, a
Treatise of Affairs Maritime and of Commerce. In Three Books.
Carefully Corrected, With the Addition of Several Hundred References
and Many More Modern Cases Never Before Printed. London: Printed for
John Walthoe, 1722. [v], xvii, [5], 479 (i.e. 495), [16] pp. Two-plate
copperplate allegorical frontispiece. Irregular pagination. Second
plate of frontispiece misbound before main text. Octavo (5-1/4" x  8-
3/4"). Recent period-style three quarter calf over marbled boards,
raised bands, gilt title and blind ornaments to spine, endpapers
renewed. Ornate early signature to front endleaf. Negligible light
foxing and toning to preliminaries, interior notably fresh. A very
nice copy. $850.
* Seventh edition. For many years this was the standard treatise on
international, commercial and maritime law, and went through many
editions, the first published in 1676, the last in 1778. "It was not
until 1676 that a man, who had some claims to be called an English
lawyer, wrote upon [bills of exchange]. Charles Molloy who was both a
civilian and a member of Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn, in the second
book of his very successful treatise, De Jure Maritimo et Navali,
gives us some account of these branches of the law" (Holdsworth).
Chapters III and IV deal with Privateers and Piracy. Holdsworth,
Sources and Literature of English Law 210. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal
Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I:511(64).
(Inventory # 40900)

6.                An Excellent Companion to Blackstone
Sullivan, Francis Stoughton [1719-1776]. Stuart, Gilbert, Editor.
Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England: With a Commentary on
Magna Charta, and Illustrations of Many of the English Statutes. The
Second Edition. To Which Authorities are Added, and a Discourse is
Prefixed, Concerning the Laws and Government of England. London:
Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1776. xvi, xxxii, 415 pp. Quarto
(8-1/4" x 10-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled
boards, gilt-edged raised bands, lettering piece, endpapers renewed.
Some offsetting to margins of preliminaries and final leaves, minor
chipping to fore-edges of front endleaf and half title. Small early
signature to head of title page, interior otherwise clean and fresh.
An appealing copy of an uncommon work. $1,500.
* Second edition. Sullivan was Royal Professor of the Common Law at
the University of Dublin. One of the first attempts to sketch the
outlines of English constitutional law, this book had its origins in a
series of lectures. Holdsworth notes that the "needs of [Sullivan's]
students had made it necessary for him to adopt a plan which was
different from the plan adopted by Blackstone. Blackstone's students
were more advanced; and, as Blackstone's lectures were given in a law
vacation, they could supplement the information which he gave them by
information acquired by means of attendance upon the courts of
Westminster." As a result Sullivan is more elementary in its scope,
but also more detailed because it explains several matters that are
only implied or omitted altogether by Blackstone. This book is thus an
excellent companion to Blackstone and a valuable primary source for
the study of eighteenth-century English common law. Holdsworth, A
History of English Law XII:342-343. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal
Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I: 108. Catalogue
of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:687.
(Inventory # 40899)

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