[Rarebooks] fs-Recent Acquisitions

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of recent acquisitions which we have in stock; for
others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you may
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1.  [ARTICLES OF RELIGION].  [Thomas? Randolph].  A Summary View of
the Laws Relating to Subscriptions, &c. With Remarks, Humbly
Offered to the Consideration of the British Parliament.  N.p.,
London, 1771.  Modern boards, somewhat dusty, ex-library, a usable
copy only; 36 pages. [15855]                             $ 200.00

Randolph's careful review of the Thirty-Nine Articles (to which the
clergy of the Church of England are still required to assent)
examining thoroughly if partially their history and whether
university undergraduates may be required to subscribe.

2.  AVINS, Alfred (ed.).  The Reconstruction Amendments' Debates,
The Legislative History and Contemporary Debates in Congress on the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.  Virginia Commission on
Constitutional Government, Richmond, 1967.  Oversized printed sewn
wraps, showing a bit of wear, but a good copy; 764 pages. [71650
WRT]                                                     $ 125.00

3.  BLACK, Hugo LaFayette.  A Constitutional Faith.  Alfred A.
Knopf, New York, 1969.  Original cloth, prior owner's stamps on the
front pastedown, else a very good copy, in the dustjacket, with
Dean Warren's complimentary slip tipped in. [71625]       $ 65.00

Justice Black's sole book-length work, a revision of his Carpentier
Lectures delivered at Columbia Law School in 1968, his "juridical
testament" (in the words of his biographer), and one of the few
instances we have of his extra-judicial utterances.

4.  CLARKSON, Paul S. and R. Samuel Jett.  Luther Martin of
Maryland.  The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1970.  Original
cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket. [71702]       $ 45.00

5.  GOODWIN-GILL, Guy S.  International Law and the Movement of
Persons between States.  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket.
[71656 WRT]                                               $ 85.00

Based in part on Mr. Goodwin-Gill's Doctor of Philosophy degree at
Oxford under the supervision of Ian Brownlie and completed while he
was Legal Adviser in the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.

6.  HOWARD, John.  The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,
With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign
Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition. Baumgartner 3 [calling
for 22 plates, all of which are present here, many folding].
Quarto.  Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.],
Warrington, 1784.  Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, crimson
morocco label, gilt, a bit of browning and foxing, but generally a
very good copy; without the half-title. [71715]        $ 1,250.00

Howard's masterwork, displaying the enormous empirical data upon
the treatment of prisoners amassed by him just as the major reforms
of English criminal law began, this edition completely revised and
much expanded following Howard's journeys in 1780.

7.  JONES, W.J.  The Elizabethan Court of Chancery.  Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1967.  Original cloth, gilt, a few pages just
chipped, else a good copy. [59378]                       $ 125.00

8.  KENT, James.  Commentaries on American Law. Eleventh Edition,
Edited by George F. Comstock. Four Volumes.  Little, Brown, and
Company, Boston, 1867.  Original sheep, contrasting crimson and
black labels, gilt, a bit worn and a little foxing and staining,
but in general a well-preserved, attractive set. [71624]  $ 650.00

Later edition of a pre-eminent work of American law, praised by
Story and, in Lawrence Friedman's words, "immediately [becoming]
the standard general treatise on law in the United States",
devolving on Kent the sobriquet of "The American Blackstone".

9.  LILLICH, Richard B. (ed.).  Humanitarian Intervention and the
United Nations.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville,
1973.  Original light blue cloth, a very good copy. [71686 WRT]
                                                          $ 85.00

10.  MONTESQUIEU, M. de Secondat, Baron de.  The Spirit of Laws.
Translated from the French . . . By Thomas Nugent. The Fourth
Edition, Carefully revised and improved with considerable Additions
by the Author. Two Volumes.  Printed for J. Nourse, and P.
Vaillant, in the Strand, London, 1766.  Modern 1/4 calf over
marbled boards, the spine extra gilt; quite a pretty set. [71643]
                                                         $ 650.00

The first English translation in a later edition of the work which
Holmes opined "probably has done as much to remodel the world as
any product of the eighteenth century [the reading of which] is one
of the last achievements of a studious life".

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