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1.                 Criminal Law Manual for JPs
Davis, Daniel. [Heard, F(ranklin) F. (1825-1889)]. A Practical
Treatise Upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in
Criminal Prosecutions. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. xiv,
753 pp. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2"). Law calf, red and black lettering
pieces. Some rubbing and scuffing, front hinge cracked but secure.
Browning to margins of endleaves, interior otherwise clean. $200.
* Third edition, revised and greatly enlarged by Heard, who served
briefly as Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County,
Massachusetts. He was also associate editor of the Monthly Law
Reporter. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8375.
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2.                One of Americas's "Great Textbooks"
Freeman, A.C.  A Treatise on the Law of Judgments. Including All Final
Determinations of the Rights of Parties in Actions or Proceedings at
Law or in Equity. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1874.
xlii, 648pp. Contemporary calf with gilt stamp on red and black
lettering pieces, edges worn. Cracked spine but secure condition.
Internally crisp. $250.
* Second edition. "Listed ... as one of America's 'great textbooks' in
which 'the history of American Law might well be traced...'"
Vanderbilt, Men and Measures in the Law 21. Marke 309.
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3.     Rare 1506 Lyons Edition of the Code With Important Glosses
[Justinian (483-565 CE)] [Baldus de Ubaldus, Petrus (1327-1406),
Sassoferrato, Bartolus di (1315-1357), Saliceto, Bartolomeo (1330-
1412), Faber, Johannes (d.1340), Glossators]. Codicis Justiniani
Amplissimum Argumentum. Iustum Inter Ceteros Iuris Cesarei Libros
Utilissimum: Quippe qui Materias Legales et Succincte: et Compendiose
Referat: Rubricas: Legaes: et Authenticas Triplici sub Indice
Complectentem Tibi (Si tapis) Comparato. [Lyons: Printed by Master
Nicolau de Benedictis, October 1506]. [iv] pp, 337 fols., 32 pp.
Collation: a-z8, A-S8, T6, U4, aa8, bb8. Main text surrounded by
linear glosses in parallel columns. Folio (11-3/4" x 16-1/4"). Later
(?) three-quarter vellum taken from a choirbook over paper boards,
vellum lacking from lower corner of front board, two faded later
labels to spine. Moderate rubbing and soiling, some scuffing and a few
wormholes, minor wear to spine ends and corners. Large hand-colored
woodcut of Justinian and his court on fol. 1, decorated and woodcut
initials, some hand-colored, striking large red printer device to
colophon, text printed throughout in red and black. Minor worming to
pastedowns, hinges and a few text leaves, occasional light
dampstaining, a few minor tears with no loss to text, some with early
repairs. Early hand-colored arms and signature of early owner to foot
of leaf with title, occasional notes to margin in same hand, interior
generally quite fresh. An impressive copy of a rare imprint. $8,500.
* With an index of titles and an index to the glosses. Commissioned by
the Emperor Justinian in 530 CE, the body of writings known
collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis preserved and restated all
existing Roman law. Compiled in three years under the direction of
Tribonium, it was both a critical restatement of earlier law and
jurisprudential writings and a complete collection of recent
legislation. It is divided into four books, the Institutes, Digest,
Code and Novels. The Code contains the laws in force during
Justinian's reign. It is divided into 12 books. Book 1 deals with
ecclesiastical law, the sources of law, and the duties of high
officials. Books 2-8 deal with private law. Book 9 deals with criminal
law. Books 10-12 deal with administrative law. It received a great
deal of commentary during the medieval and early modern eras. The
printer boasts that his work is distinguished by its glosses by "men
of reputation," and he is correct. Baldus and Bartolus were two of the
greatest authorities on Roman law; Faber and Saliceto were
distinguished expositors of the Code. This imprint not in Adams, but
he lists a similar 1509 impression. See Adams, Catalogue of Books
Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600 J-501. No copies on OCLC;
one copy in the South West Germany Union Catalogue listed in the
Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog (KVK).
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4.          Conductor Generalis Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1788
Parker, James [1714-1770]. The Conductor Generalis: Or, the Office,
Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace, High-Sheriffs, Under-
Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Gaolers, Jury-Men, and Overseers of
the Poor. As Also the Office of Clerks of Assize, and of the Peace,
&c. Compiled Chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the Several Other Books
on Those Subjects, by James Parker, Late One of the Justices of the
Peace for Middlesex County, in New-Jersey; and Now Revised and Adapted
to the United States of America. By a Gentleman of the Law. The Whole
Alphabetically Digested Under the Several Titles; With a Table
Directing to the Ready Finding Out the Proper Matter Under Those
Titles. To Which are Added, (Above What is in Any Other Edition of the
Work,) the Act Called the Ten Pound Act and the Militia Law of the
State of New-York. New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, and sold at his
Book-Store at the Bible in Hanover-Square, 1788. xv, 461 pp. Full
contemporary calf, rubbed and scuffed, skillfully rebacked retaining
original backstrip and lettering piece. Contemporary owner inscription
to front pastedown, interior otherwise clean. A desirable copy. $750.
* A popular American legal manual issued by different printers and
publishers largely based on English sources, primarily Burn. Part II
(pages 384-461) contains (with caption titles only): The Office and
Duty of Sheriffs; The Office of a Gaoler, and Concerning Escapes; The
Office and Duty of the Clerk of Assize and Clerk of the Peace; A Guide
to Juries; An Abstract of Magna Charta; Of Maxims and General Rules,
from Jacob's Law Grammar; Of Actions and Remedies; Of Fictions,
Intendments, and Presumptions. James, "A List of Legal Treatises
Printed in the British Colonies and American States before 1801" in
Harvard Legal Essays (1934) 183. Evans, American Bibliography 21358.
Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 7960.
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5.Final Authorial Edition of Ray's Classic Text on Medical Jurisprudence
Ray, I[saac] [1807-1881]. A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of
Insanity. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1871. xv, 658 pp.
Contemporary sheep with contrasting spine letter pieces. Rubbed, but
still a very nice copy. Early small black ownership label at the foot
of spine "Frederick A. Hobbs."  $450.
* Fifth and last edition, with Ray's final additions. In 1838, Isaac
Ray, an accomplished psychiatrist published A Treatise on the Medical
Jurisprudence of Insanity, a work which is still an accepted authority
in courts of law. The fifth edition as revised by Ray covers many of
the advances which occurred in the decades following its initial
publication. Marke 554. HLC II:427. Marvin 600. Frey & Kronick,
"Landmark Books in Legal Medicine: A Checklist of Forensic and Medico-
Legal Books to 1900," p.403.
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6.        Written at the Close of the American Civil War
Sheppard, Furman. The Constitutional Text-Book: A Practical and
Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States, and of
Portions of the Public and Administrative Law of the Federal
Government. Designed Chiefly for the Use of Schools, Academies, and
Colleges. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1865. 324pp. Contemporary
quarter calf, spine sunned with small chip to head. A good copy. $200.
* Sheppard [1823-1893] practiced law in Philadelphia beginning in
1848; he served as District Attorney there from 1868 to 1871 and from
1874 to 1877. Not in Cohen. OCLC locates five copies.
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