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1.        Includes One of the Three Colonial Printings of Magna Carta
[Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor.
English Liberties, Or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing
Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio, Non
Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, and Several Other Statutes; With
Comments on Each of Them. Likewise, Of Ship-Money: Of Tonnage and
Poundage. Of Parliaments, and the Qualification and Choice of Members:
Of the Three Estates, and of the Settlement of the Crown by
Parliament. Together with a Short History of the Succession, Not by
Any Hereditary Right: Also a Declaration of the Liberties of the
Subject: And of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. The Petition of
Right; With a Short but Impartial Relation of the Difference Between
King Charles I and the Long Parliament, Concerning the Prerogative of
the King, the Liberties of the Subject, and the Rise of the Civil
Wars. Of Trials by Juries, and of the Qualifications of Jurors; Their
Punishment for Misbehaviour, and of Challenges to Them. Lastly, Of
Justices of the Peace, and Coroners: With Many Law Cases Throughout
the Whole. Corrected and Improved. Providence: Printed and Sold by
John Carter, 1774. viii, 350, [6] pp. Includes six-page subscriber
list. Octavo (4-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Later morocco signed binding by
MacDonald, gilt double frames to boards, raised bands and gilt
ornaments to spine, inside dentelles, top edge gilt, endpapers
renewed. Negligible wear binding, offsetting to outer margins of
endleaves. Later armorial bookplate of George R. Dyer to front free
endpaper. Small clean tear to a leaf expertly mended. Light toning to
text block. Foxing and offsetting to margins of title page, light
foxing to a few leaves. An attractive copy. $2,000.
* Second American edition, and one of the three colonial printings of
Magna Carta. First published in America in 1721 by John Franklin, this
assertion of English rights was one of the very first legal books
published in the American colonies. The edition of Magna Carta is
based on Coke's gloss, and its enumeration of fundamental rights was a
profound influence on the founding fathers. George Mason used it when
drafting Virginia's Declaration of Rights (1776). Jefferson, who owned
two copies, probably referred to it when he wrote the Declaration of
Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Its
influence is also evident in the Bill of Rights. This edition was
published a few months after the passage of the Intolerable Acts, and
it is almost certain that the publisher was capitalizing on popular
resentment toward the crown and parliament. A note at the end of the
table of contents says this edition was "principally designed for
America" and contained "extracts from several late celebrated writers
on the constitution" (vi). Dyer was a Major general during the First
World War. OCLC locates 43 copies. See Sowerby, Catalogue of the
Library of Thomas Jefferson 2702, 2703. Sabin, A Dictionary of Books
Relating to America 10819. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law
3416.
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2.                         Coke's Reports in Verse
Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. [Worrall, John (d.1771), Editor]. The
Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. In Verse; Wherein the Name of Each
Case and the Principal Points are Contained in Two Lines. To Which are
Added, References in the Margin to All the Editions of the Said
Reports; And Two Tables--One of the Names of the Cases and the Other
of the Principal Matters. With a Life of Sir Edward Coke. London:
Printed for R. Pheney, 1826. xxx, [96] pp. 12mo. (3-1/4" x 5").
Contemporary sheep, blind fames to boards, lettering piece and blind
fillets to spine. Rubbing with some wear to corners, joints and spine
ends, scff to fore-edge of front board, some chipping to edges of
lettering piece. Front hinge cracked but secure, partial crack between
first and second gatherings. Early owner signatures to front free
endpaper and head of title page, interior otherwise clean. $450.
* Third edition. First published in 1742, this was edited from an
anonymous manuscript by John Worrall. In the introduction to a later
reprint of this book, J. Wesley Miller said this was "the most
conspicuous early volume of English legal poetry.... [I]t cast the
holdings of the first eleven Parts of Coke's Reports...into heroic
couplets and thereby forged a link between law and poetry which would
culminate in John Anstey's The Pleader's Guide (1796) and John Crisp's
The Conveyancer's Guide (1821)....": Buffalo: W.S. Hein & Co., 1999
iii-iv. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909)
I:415.
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3.     Uncommon 1764 English Treatise on Game and Fishing Laws
[Cunningham, Timothy (d.1789)]. A New Treatise on the Laws for
Preservation of the Game: Containing All the Statutes, Cases at Large,
Arguments, Resolutions, and Judgments Concerning it; Equally Useful to
the Gentleman and Farmer; As the Genteman May Learn How Far His
Privilege Extends, and the Farmer May be Enabled to Know When the
Gentleman Exceeds the Limits Prescribed by Law, and the Proper Methods
of Redress. Together with All the Acts of Parliament Relating to the
Sale of Fish in the Cities of London and Westminster. London: Printed
by His Majesty's Law Printers, 1764. [iv], 344 pp. 12mo. (4" x 6-
1/2"). Contemporary calf, blind frames to boards, blind fillets to
joints, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Negligible
offsetting to endleaves, dampstaining to margins of a few leaves,
interior notably fresh otherwise. A handsome, well-preserved copy of
an uncommon work. $1,350.
* First edition. Pp. 137-263 are devoted to the laws on fish and
fishing. "[A new treatise on this subject]...is very necessary for the
justice of the peace, because matters of this nature are frequently in
judgment before him; nor is it to be doubted, that the attorney has
also frequent occasion in the course of his practice to consult the
laws concerning the game: And it is absolutely necessary for the
sporting gentleman, as he may act with safety in the pursuit of his
rural pleasures. And the farmer too may be enabled to know when the
gentleman exceeds the limits prescribed by law, and what is the
properest method to seek redress when he is aggrieved. Another reason,
why a new treatise on the Game-Law is become necessary, is, the
multiplicity of new statutes that have been passed, and the cases that
have been determined within these passed few years, and which have
almost entirely altered the face of the Law with respect to these
matters." Advertisement [iii]. Cunningham, the anonymous author, was a
member of the Middle Temple and the author of an important law
dictionary. OCLC locates eight copies, four of this edition. Sweet &
Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations
I:466.
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4.         Rare Critical Compilation of Early Germanic Laws
Georgisch, Petrus (Peter) [1699?-1746], Compiler and Editor.
[Heineccius, Johann Gottlieb [1681-1741], Preface]. Corpus Iuris
[Juris] Germanici Antiqui Quo Continentur Leges Francorum Salicae et
Ripvariorum, Alamannorum, Baivvariorum, Burgundionum, Frisionum,
Angliorum et Werinorum, Saxonum, Langobardorum, Wisigothorum,
Ostgothorum, nec non Capitularia Regum Francorum, una cum Libris
Capitularium ab Ansegiso Abbate et Benedicto Levita Collectis. Opus in
Gratiam Iuris Germanici Studiosorum Post Cl. Virorum Bas. Io. Heroldi,
Frider. Lindenbrogii, Steph. Baluzii, Io. Ge. Eccardi, Lud. Ant.
Muratorii Aliorumque Praestantissimos Labores Diligentius Recognitum,
Variantibus Lectionibus et Indice Uberrimo tam Rerum Quam Verborum
Instructum. Halle: Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1738. [xxxvi] pp., 2236
cols., [116] pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2"). Contemporary paper boards,
hand-lettered title to spine, untrimmed edges. A few minor inkstains,
moderate rubbing with some wear to spine ends, joints and corners,
rear hinge cracked. Title page printed in red and black, attractive
woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Light toning
to text, light foxing to a few leaves. Small early annotation and
small later inkstamp to title page, interior otherwise clean. A nice
copy of a rare title. $2,200.
* Only edition. With index. Attributed in some sources to Heineccius,
this volume contains critical editions of the Lex Visigothorum, Lex
Burgundionum, Regum Francorum, Edictum Theodorici Regis and other
important early sources of Germanic law. It is an important milestone
in the history of German legal philology and a precursor to the work
of the historical jurisprudents of the nineteenth century. OCLC
locates 1 copy; the Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalogue (KVK) locates 2.
Not in the British Museum Catalogue. Repertorium Fontium Historiae
Medii Aevi I:882. Stobbe, Geschichte der Deutschen Rechtsquellen I:12.
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5.          Includes the First Reconstruction of the Twelve Tables
Gothofredi, Iacobi (Godefroy, Jacques) [1587-1652]. Opuscula Varia:
Iuridica, Politica, Historica, Critica. Quae ab Authore, Dum im Vivis
erat, Edita, Deinde ab Eodem Recognita & Aucta, Nunc Denuo Post Eius
Obitum in Unum Collecta, Locupletiora ac Emendatiora Prodeunt.
Catalogum Liborum hic Exhibitorum Pagina Fequens Indicabit. Geneva:
Sumpt. Ionnia Antonij & Samuelis de Tournes, 1654. [xx]; [ii], 97,
[7]; [viii], 78; [ii], [3]-31, [i]; [ii], [3]-28; [ii], [3]-26 pp.
Each work preceded by divisional title page with woodcut device,
entire work preceded by general title page with woodcut device printed
in red and black. Copperplate portrait frontispiece misbound between
table of contents and epistle.
[Bound With]
Gothofredo, Iacobi. Colladon, Esaie [1601-1672, Editor. Fontes Quatuor
Iuris [Juris] Civilis in Unum Collecti: Puta, Legis XII. Tabularum
Fragmenta Quae Supersunt, Ordini Suo restituta, Una Cum Ejus Historia,
Probationibus, Notis & Glossario; Legis Iuliaw et Papiae Itidem
Framenta Suo Ordini Reddita, Notisq Illustrata; Edicti Perpetui, ut &
Sabinianorum Librorum Ordo Seriesq: Quorum Duo Priora Antehac Edita;
Nunc Alicubi Accuratiora, Auctioraq: Duo Posteriora Nunc Primum
Eduntur. Geneva: Sumptib. Ioannis Ant. & Samuelis de Tournes, 1654.
[lxxxiv], 350, [2], 2 fold-out tables. Continuous pagination; each
section preceded by divisional title page. General title page with
woodcut device printed in red and black.
[Bound with]
[Final two sections of Opuscula Varia] [ii], 3-40; [ii], 38 pp.
Following blank lacking.
(Second work misbound between fifth and final two sections of second
work.) Quarto (6" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary calf with cats-paw
decoration, raised bands and gilt ornaments to spine, rouged edges.
Light rubbing, scuff to rear board, faint dampstain to front, minor
wear to corners and head of spine. Attractive woodcut head-pieces,
tail-pieces and decorated initials. Front hinge cracked but secure,
partial cracks at beginning and end of text block. Early annotations
to front free endpaper, a few brief annotations and marks to text.
Minor worming to head of preliminaries, interior otherwise fresh.
$1,500.
* With Indexes. A pair of studies on Roman law and history by the
second son of Denis Godefroy [1549-1622], who was, like his father, a
formidable humanist legal scholar. Quatuor Fontes Juris Civilis one of
his most important works. It is a collection of ante-Justinian Roman
law texts that includes the first reconstruction of the Twelve Tables.
KVK locates 44 copies of Opuscula Varia, 25 of this edition, and 9
copies of Quatuor Fontes. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition)
10:758.
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6.        One of the First American Books on Insolvency
Ingraham, Edward D. [1793-1854]. A Sketch of the Insolvent Laws of
Pennsylvania: Containing Extracts of the Acts Now in Force, and the
Cases and Determinations of the Court of Common Pleas of the First
Judicial District, and of Other Courts. Philadelphia: Philip H.
Nicklin, 1822. xx, 167 pp. Tipped-end errata sheet. 12mo. (5" x 8").
Contemporary three-quarter calf over paper boards, lettering piece and
blind fillets to spine. Rubbing to spine ends, joints and board edges
with minor wear, corners bumped, stains to boards, a minor scuff to
front joint, another to front board, hinges just starting.
Dampstaining and occasional light foxing to text. Early owner
signature in fine hand to head of title page, interior otherwise
clean. $500.
* First edition. (A second edition was published in 1827 with a
slightly different title). One of the first books on the subject
published in the United States, it outlines the Pennsylvania insolvent
laws and their application by the court of common pleas. It is an
important source for the history of early American bankruptcy law and
is cited in Peter J. Coleman's Debtors and Creditors in America:
Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt, and Bankruptcy, 1607-1900 (148).
Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2493.
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7. Civil-War Era Printing of Popular Guide to the U.S. Constitution
Sheppard, Furman [1823-1893]. 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, 1863. 324 pp.
Octavo (4-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary quarter calf over textured
cloth, gilt title to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to spine
ends, joints and corners, minor inkstain to front board. Early owner
signatures to pastedowns, light foxing to most of text. $150.
* Fourth printing. First published in 1855, this popular textbook
"designed chiefly for the use of schools, academies, and colleges"
went through five printings. An abridged edition was published in
1866. Sheppard practiced law in Philadelphia beginning in 1848; he
served as District Attorney there from 1868 to 1871 and from 1874 to
1877. This edition not in Bauer or Cohen.
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