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1.          Dictionary of Roman Terms and Phrases by Brisson
Brisson, Barnabe [1531-1591]. [Conradi, Francisci Caroli (Franz Karl)
(1701-1748), Editor]. De Formulis et Solemnibus Populi Romani Verbis
Libri VIII. Accedunt Praefatio Nova Vita et Elogia Barnabae Brissonii
Conspectus Universi Operis et Summaria Auctorumque, Formularum Rerum
et Verborum Indices. Halle and Leipzig: Sumptibus Ern. Gottl. Krugii,
1731. [iv], 18, 40, 728, [54] pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece.
Folio (8" x 12-3/4"). Contemporary calf, raised bands, lettering
piece, gilt ornaments to spine, speckled edges. Moderate rubbing with
wear to board edges, corners and spine ends, front board partially
detached, rear joint cracked but secure. Title page printed in red and
black. Attractive woodcut title page device, head-pieces, tail-pieces
and decorated initials. Offsetting to margins of endleaves, faint
dampstaining to portions of text block's upper corner, occasional
light foxing and browning, minor worming to fore-edges of a few
leaves. Later owner bookplate to verso of front free endpaper,
interior otherwise clean. $1,200.
* Third edition. Brisson was a renowned French jurist and philologist.
Widely respected, he was appointed president of the Parliament of
Paris in 1588. In 1591, however, he was hanged by The Sixteen, a group
of insurgents who captured Paris in a bizarre coup. His De Verborum
Significatione (1557) was the standard general legal dictionary of its
day, and it remained an authoritative source for hundreds of years.
First published in 1581, De Formulis et Solemnibus is a compendium of
Roman language, customs, ordinances, religion and government. It
includes detailed definitions of words and phrases with points on
usage and sample passages. Conradi was a German legal scholar and
professor at the Universities of Wittenberg and Helmstadt. British
Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 4:160.
(Inventory # 39987)

2.            Important Seventeenth-Century Law Dictionary
Calvinus, Johannes (Kahl, Johannis). [c.1550-c.1610]. Magnum Lexicon
Juridicum: Juris Nimirum Caesarei Simul, & Canonici, Feudalis Item,
Civilis, Criminalis, Theoretici ac Practici: & in Schola, & in Foro
Usitatarum, ac Tum ex Ifso Juris Utriusque Corpore, Tum ex Doctoribus
& Glossis, Tam Veteribus, Quam Recentioribus Collectarum Vocum Penus:
Simul & Locorum Communium, & Dictionarii Vicem Sustinens. Feudale
Lexicon; Leges ac Magistratus Romanos, & Caetera Huic Operi Adjecta
Vide in Complemento, Post Sinum Operis Ipsius. Collectum Vero est Hoc
Opus ex Collatis Inter Sese Juridicus, Quotquot Hactenus Fere
Prodierunt, & Antiquioribus & Recentioribus Lexicis. Auctum Deind,
Expolitum et Emendatum, ex Hactenus Editis Accuratissimis
Locubrationibus DD. Jac. Cujacii, Barn. Brissonii, Hug. Donelli,
Franc. Duareni, Dion. Gothofredi, Jul. Pacii, Herm, Vulteii, Joh.
Corrasii, Pet. Fabri, Matth. Wesembecii, Aliorumque Praestantissimorum
Virtorum: Quorum Catalogum Mox Post Praesationes Invenies. Cum
Praefationibus Clar. & Emin. Juris-Consultorum Dion. Gothofredi &
Herm. Vulteii. Editio Postrema, Auctior, & ab Innumeris Mendis
Expurgata. Geneva: Sumptibus Fratrum Cramer, 1759. Two volumes. Folio
(9" x 14"). Contemporary limp vellum, hand-lettered title in early
hand to spines. Light soiling to binding, some wear to top and bottom
edges, a few chips to fore-edges, ties lacking. Woodcut printer device
to title pages, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated
initials. Chip to head of front free endpaper of Volume I, faint
dampstaining to lower corner of text block of Volume II. Minor worming
to both volumes with no loss to text. Light browning to a few leaves,
interior otherwise fresh. An impressive set. $1,250.
* Reissue of the enlarged and corrected 1670 edition. With prefaces by
Denis Godefroy [1549-1622] and Hermann Vulteius [1565-1634]. Jonannes
Calvinus (Kahl) was a German jurist and professor of law at the
University of Heidelberg who wrote several books on politics, Jewish
law and Roman law. The Lexicon Juridicum proved to be his most honored
and durable publication. First published in 1600, it went through
numerous editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It
draws on several authors, including Albericus, Brisson, Cicero,
Hotoman and Tacitus. A scholarly work, it contains an extensive list
of sources. The definitions are admirably clear and concise, and they
conclude with a list of citations. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law
170. This edition not listed in the British Museum Catalogue.
(Inventory # 37326)

3.                     "The Best Edition"--Lowndes
Grotius, Hugo [1583-1645]. Barbeyrac, Jean [1674-1744], Editor. The
Rights of War and Peace, in Three Books. Wherein are Explained, The
Law of Nature and Nations, and The Principal Points Relating to
Government. Written in Latin by the Learned Hugo Grotius, And
Translated into English. To Which are Added, All the Large Notes of
Mr. J. Barbeyrac. London: Printed for W. Innys [et. al.], 1738. xxxvi,
817 [i.e. 813] pp. Folio (9-1/4" x 14-1/2"). Later three-quarter calf
over pebbled cloth, raised bands, lettering piece, gilt ornaments to
spine compartments, gilt fillets to spine bands and boards, marbled
edges and endpapers. Light rubbing with some wear to spine ends,
corners bumped with some scuffing and wear, joints just starting at
ends. Light foxing to preliminaries, interior otherwise remarkably
fresh. Ex-library. Tiny location number to foot of spine, residue from
label and card pocket to front pastedown and front free endpaper,
small embossed stamp to foot of title page, tiny inkstamp to foot of
following leaf. A very handsome copy. $2,000.
* With indexes of scriptural passages, authors, Greek and Latin terms
and subjects. The "best edition" according to Lowndes. First published
in Paris in 1625, it established the system of modern public
international law, based on the concept of "droit naturel," a
morality-based law that superseded the laws of individuals or nations.
Though based on Christian natural law, Grotius advanced the novel
argument that his system would still be valid if it lacked a divine
origin. In this regard Grotius pointed to the future by moving
international law in a secular direction. This treatise influenced the
leaders of the American Revolution. Jefferson and Washington owned
copies of this edition, which includes extensive annotations by Jean
Barbeyrac, an important authority on natural law. A jurist and
professor of law at Lausanne and Groningen, he was esteemed for his
commentaries on Noodt, Grotius and Pufendorf. His translations played
a crucial role in the dissemination of their work. Lowndes,
Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Rev. ed. III:950. Sweet
and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of
Nations I: 595. Sowerby, Library of Thomas Jefferson 1404. Boston
Athenaeum, Catalogue of the Washington Collection 531. Printing and
the Mind of Man 125.
(Inventory # 41136)

4.   "Indispensible to the Student of Congressional Procedure"
[United States Congress]. Hinds, Asher C., Compiler. Hinds' Precedents
of the House of Representatives of the United States: Including
References to Provisions of the Constitution, the Laws, and Decisions
of the United States Senate. Washington: Government Printing Office,
1907. 5 volumes.
[Together with]
Cannon, Clarence, Compiler. Cannon's Precedents of the House of
Representatives of the United States. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 1935. 6 volumes. Together 11 volumes, complete as issued.
Original cloth, moderate shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library.
Shelf numbers to spines, institution name to front boards, bookplates
to pastedowns, stamps to endleaves. A nice copy. $2,500.
* Uncommon complete set. "Indispensable to the student of
Congressional procedure... Hind's Precedents, as the collection is
popularly known, is a mine of information on practically every
question of parliamentary procedure which has arisen in the House and
Senate.": Brown, Manual of Government Publications, United States and
Foreign 215 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New
York University (1953) 215.
(Inventory # 41137)

5.                  1854 Study of the Chief Justices
Van Santvoord, George [1819-1863]. Sketches of the Lives and Judicial
Services of the Chief-Justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States. New York: Charles Scribner, 1854. viii, 533 pp. Frontispiece.
12-page bookseller catalogue bound between final index leaf and rear
free endpaper. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4"). Contemporary blind-stamped cloth.
Moderate rubbing, some wear to spine ends, board edges and rear joint,
corners bumped, front hinge cracked-but secure. Light foxing, text
otherwise bright. $125.
* Biographies of John Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, John
Marshall and Roger B. Taney. The section on Taney, which draws on Van
Santvoord's personal observation, is particularly interesting because
it was written during his tenure (two years before Dred Scott v.
Sanford). Van Santvoord was an attorney and politician who practiced
in Kinderhook, New York. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law
2204.
(Inventory # 41133)

6.      Handsome Copy of Notable Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
Vicat, B[eat]-Phil[ippe] [1715-1770], Compiler. [Ferrigno, Pasquale
(fl. 1760), Editor]. Vocabularium Juris Utriusque ex Variis Ante
Editis, Praefertim ex Alexand. Scoti, Jo. Kahl, Barn. Brissonnii, et
Jo. Gottl. Heineccii Accessionibus. Auctior Atque Emendatior. Naples:
Sumptibus Joannis Gravier, 1760. Four volumes. Copperplate pictorial
frontispiece. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary vellum, gilt
title labels with hand-colored compartments, speckled edges, ribbon
markers. Light shelfwear and soiling with a few negligible stains,
"290" and "S91" in faint early hand to spine of Volume I. Light
foxing, interior otherwise fresh. A well-preserved copy in a handsome
contemporary binding. $1,500.
* Second edition. As Vicat explains in his preface, he compiled this
dictionary from those of Francois Hotoman, Barnabe Brisson, Johannes
Calvinus (Kahl) and, especially, Alexander Scotus to bring their
"excellent" work to a wider audience. More important, by combining
these works and filling the gaps with original entries he was able to
create a dictionary that covered the whole language of the law.
Vicat's definitions are brief, but they contain comprehensive
reference to authorities and texts, as well as conjugations, common
phrases using the words, metaphors, alternate definitions and
antonyms. The first edition was published in 1759. Vicat was a jurist
and the director of the University of Lausanne from 1749 to 1762. A
pioneer in library science, he was the first to issue a printed
library catalogue. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 26:118.
(Inventory # 41149)

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