[Rarebooks] FS: "The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England" London: 1633

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(LAW) Coke, Sir Edward and Sir Thomas Littleton. THE FIRST PART OF THE 
INSTITUTES OF THE LAWES OF ENGLAND: or a Commentary Upon Littleton, Not the Name 
of a Lawyer Only, But of the Law It Self. The Third Edition, Corrected. 
London: Printed by M. F. I. H. and R. T. Assignes of I. More. 1633. Folio. 
ff.(5),395,(32). Index. Title within an ornamental woodcut border. Illustrated 
with 2 copper engraved plates, a portrait of Coke (the frontispiece) and a 
portrait of Littleton, and a large folding woodcut genealogical table. Cont., 
calf, a bit worn & rubbed, small (1/2") splits at top & bottom of front 
hinge, but holding soundly. 2 leaves stained at top of fore-margin, 1 with a 
small hole in a blank area. A few leaves of index with a faded water stain. 
Some leaves with contemporary marginal notes and minor underling. Recto of 
frontispiece with lined out ownership signatures.     $1,500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
STC #15786 (under Littleton, Sir Thomas).

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