BARBRI BAR REVIEW; Multistate testing: Simulated MBE workshop
Thomson, (2005). 4to, various pagination. Paper wraps. Some marking throughout, o/w VG. More
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CODICE NAPOLEONE; Tradotto D'ordine Di S. M. Il Re Delle Due Sicilie per uso de' Suoi Stati.
Napoli: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1808. Edizione Originale E Sola Uffiziale. 8vo, pp. [iv], 615. Bound in original vellum with vellum label stamped in gilt. Little foxed and stained, a very good tight copy with excellent margins. Scarce, OCLC locates just the copies in Genoa and the George Washington University Law..... More
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT; under the third canon of 1844 in the City of New York, on Tuesday, December 10, 1844 for The Trial of the Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, D. D. Bishop of New York; on a presentment made by the Bishops of Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, by authority of the court.
NY & Phila. Appleton, 1845. First edn. 8vo, pp. 333. Removed from a bound volume, title-leaf loose.(Corner of one leaf torn off affecting the ending of 8 lines on the recto and 7 lines on the verso) Bound With: BISHOP ONDERDONK'S STATEMENT. A Statement of Facts and Circumstances connected with..... More
PROCEEDINGS UPON THE TRIAL OF THE ACTION BROUGHT BY MARY ELIZABETH SMITH (b. 1825).; Against the Right Hon. Washington Sewallis Shirley Earl Ferrers (1822-1859) for Breach of Promise of Marriage damages laid at L20,000 before Mr. Justice Wightman and a special jury of the 14th 16th 17th and 18th of February 1846 in the Queen's Bench Westminster Hall.
London: William Pickering, 1846. First Edition. 8vo, pp. [iv], 412 + the November, 1846 Pickering catalogue. Bound, with new endpapers, in 3/4 crimson morocco (spine faded), a very nice untrimmed copy. The case whose facts William Roughead felt surpassed those of "Bardell v. Pickwick", with the plaintiff audaciously forging an..... More
THE INCIDENCE OF FEMALE CRIMINALITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.
NY: NYU Press, 1981. Review copy. 8vo, pp. 275. A nice copy, name on title-page. IP@$50. * A survey covering the US, eastern and western Europe, Africa, Latin America, & Asia. More
IN ENGLISH WAYS; The movement of societies and the transferal of English local law and custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century
Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina, (1981). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxi, 312. Appendices, bibliogrphy, index. Illustrated with simple maps and some tables. A VG tight copy in faded dj. More
WEBSTER'S SPEECHES
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1831. In: The American Quarterly Review, Vol IX, March & June, 1831. 8vo, pp. 420-457. A review of the book, Speeches and forensic arguments, by Daniel Webster. Disbound, in three pieces. Some foxing throughout. Good. More
ANALYSIS OF THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT
Washington DC: Congress of Industrial Organizations, (1947). Revised edn. 8vo, pp. 51. Appendix. Paper wraps. Owner's name inside cover, cover slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. More
CASES DECIDED IN THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES for the Pennsylvania District,; and also a case decided in the District Court of Massachusetts, relative to the Employment of British Licences on board of vessals of the United States.
Philadelphia: Redwood Fisher, 1813. First edn. 8vo, pp. 91. Untrimmed and uncut, little soiled sewn self-wraps, a very good copy . Imprints 28087 (ArSC, OCLaw). Scarce. With a very small Navy, the US and its New England merchants paid a stiff price for the Napoleonic Wars. The situation continued to..... More
MOTHERS AND DIVORCE; Legal, economic, and social dilemmas
Berkeley CA: University of California, (1986). First printing. 8vo, pp. xiv, 221. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Foreword by Arlie Hochschild. A nice copy in little faded dj. A discussion of the problems of divorced women with children. More
ALERT; Women's legislative review
Middletown CT: Alert, 1973-74. Periodical. 4to, last two issues listed are tabloid form. Also includes a letter to a subscriber about distribution. Issues are: Vol. 1, No. 3, Jan.; March (3 copies); Vol. 1, No. 6, April (2 copies); Vol. 1, No. 7 May (2 copies); Vol. 1, No. 8..... More
THE DEATH PENALTY; An American history
Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2002. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 385. Appendix, notes, index. With several illustrations. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. More
THE LAW AND CUSTOMS OF RIOT DUTY; A Guide for National Guard Officers with Commentaries on Federal Aid
Columbus OH: by the author, 1907. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 323. Bound in soiled yellow busckram with leather label, a very good copy. Bargar was a Lt. Col. in the Ohio National Guard and member of the Ohio Bar. More
TRACTATUS DE IURE CONNUNBIORUM ET DOTIUM AD PRAXIN FORENSEM ACCOMODATUS
Frankfurt: Johannes Spies, 1591. Most Complete Early Edition. 4to, pp. [xiv], 136, [x]. Printed in Roman and Gothic letter. Woodcut printer's device on the title page, Author portrait on the verso of the title page after a painting at the University of Wittenberg. Contemporary MS ex-libris on the title page..... More
TRACTATIO DE REPVDIIS ET DIVORTIIS:; In Qva Pieraeqve De causis matrimonialibus...incidentes controuersiae ex verbo Dei deciduntur. Additur luris Ciuilis Romanorum, & veterum his de rebus canonum examen, ad eiusdem Verbi Dei, & aequitatis normam.
Genevae: Spud Eustathium Vignon, 1573. Second edn. small 8vo, pp. 293, (15) Index. Woodcut printer's device on title-page. Bound in a modern half calf over marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Very nice, clean. See Gardy, Bibliographie de Theodore de Beze, 248; Adams B951; Brunet Vol. 1, col. 841 (lists..... More
COMMENTARIES ON THE LAW OF MARRIED WOMEN; under the statutes of the several states and at common law and in equity, vol. 1.
Philadelphia: Kay and Brother, 1871. First edition. 8vo, pp. 756. Bound in very rubbed contemporary sheep (frornt cover separate), a good copy internally. A second volume of this was issued in 1875. This volume elucidates American law at the time as it affects maaried women. The second volume would deal..... More
FREE THE PANTHER 21! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS; April 4, Mass March, Assemble 12 noon, Central Park Mall - 72nd ST. Speakers include Afeni Shakur, Dave Dillard, William Kunstler, Abbie Hoffman.
(NY): Committee to Defend the Panther 21, (1970). Broadside, 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Printed in black on yellow paper, bold text printed above the strident figure of a political prisoner. More
AMERICAN LAWYERS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY, 1776-1876
Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1976. Second printing. 8vo, pp. ix, 397. Notes, index. Blue cloth. Edges slightly spotted and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in faded and lilttle soiled dj. Biography and social history. More
THE TRIAL OF THE BRITISH SOLDIERS OF THE 29TH REGIMENT OF FOOT, FOR THE MURDER OF CRISPUS ATTUCKS, SAMUEL GRAY, SAMUEL MAVERICK, JAMES CALDWELL, AND PATRICK CARR; On Monday Evening, March 5, 1770. Before the Honorable Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Peter Oliver, and Edmund Trowbridge, Esquires, Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery, Held at Boston, by Adjournment, November 27, 1770.
Boston: William Emmons, 1824. Reprint, originally issued in 1770. 8vo, pp. 146. Bound in full calf. 1830 owernership signature of Richard H. Staats on the end paper and title page. Howes H-561 "One of the notable American trials" This is the trial of the British soldiers who participated in the..... More
SHAMANS, SOFTWARE, AND SPLEENS; Law and the construction of the information society
Cambridge MA: Harvard University, (1996). Second printing. 8vo, pp. 270. Appendices, notes, index. Fine in lightly scuffed dj. More
ACTIVE LIBERTY; Interpreting our democratic Constitution
NY: Knopf, 2005. First Edition. Amall 8vo, pp. 161. Notes, index. Paper over boards. About as new in dj. More
DE RITU NUPTARUM LIBER SINGULARIS.; Eiusdem de iure conubiorum liber alter.
Paris: in aedibus Rouillii, 1564. First Edition. 4to, [16], 59 [ie. 56]; 78pp. Two volumes in one as issued. Bound in 17th century calf, gilt with later rebacking, slightly worn. A very good copy with the errata leaf. Erdmann p. 160; Adams B2849; Brunet I, 1262 (lists the 1651 reprint)..... More
MILITARY PROTECTION; United States Guards. The use of Organized Bodies in the Protection and Defense of Property during Riots, Strikes, and Civil Disturbances. War Plans Division
[Washington]: War Department, Document no. 882, Office of the Adjutant General. [1918]. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 78. Bound in flexible suede and stamped: "Riot Duty | Butler" on the cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A very good copy. More
SISTER; Vol. 5 No. 11 December 1976
New Haven CT: New Haven Women's Liberation, 1976. Periodical. 4to, pp. 15. Stamped complimentary copy on front, o/w a VG copy. Lead article is "The ERA and the Supreme Court." More
LEMUEL SHAW; Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1830-1860
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. 8vo, pp. vi, 330. Index. Frontis portrait. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Donor's presentation on pastedown. Cover little scuffed at corners and slightly worn at ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. More