A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez by Henry Fielding - 1749

Brecknock: Privately Printed 1899, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 300. (Hardcover) 203pp. Good to very good. Includes a 2-page letter signed by the author. The spine is soiled, and worn at the top and bottom. Identified on cover as: The Welsh Judges. Locale: Wales. (Law, Judges).

London: Londini Excus. per assignat. I. More armigeri. 1640., 1640. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. 8vo (5¾ × 3¾ in): [12], 579, [1] p. Early calf; "Edward Coke" lettered in gilt on spine. · Register: 8º: ¶^6 B-2O^8 2P^2. · Condition: Spine chipped at bottom. Initial blank (signed with a fleuron) present in this copy. Margin of leaf O2 torn with loss, not affecting text. · Comments: Sole edition. Although the title is in Latin, the text is in Law French. This copy contains numerous manuscript references to the first edition of Hobart's Reports, printed in quarto in 1641. (The references must be to the first edition because in some of the citations the page number is higher than 350, which is the last page of the 1650 folio second edition and all subsequent editions.) · References: S&M 1:297(23); STC 5527; ESTC S108467.

Printed by W Strahan and M Woodfall for T Cadell in the Strand, London, London, 1771. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contemporary full leather covers, marked and well rubbed with worn corners and spine ends, small areas of leather loss at and adjacent to spine ends, leather is cracked on hinges but covers are firmly attached, missing spine labels. Binding sound, end-papers and titles are darkened, pages a little darkened but otherwise clean. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: over 4 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12015060080. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. These books are much heavier than 1kg and may incur significant additional delivery charges for some delivery services to some locations.

1637. Prima edizione del 1637 di questo trattato di diritto marittimo dello storiografo, filologo e pensatore politico danese Joannes Isaac Pontanus (1571-1639), discepolo dell'astronomo Thyco Brahe. Pontano si trasferì prima in Francia poi in Olanda dove percepì il clima politica culturale che portò all'elaborazione delle teorie di diritto internazionale espresse in quest'opera, una vivace confutazione delle teorie sul mare chiuso di John Selden. In appendice il testo dedicato alla navigazione "De Ophyra" di Gaspar Barreiros (m. 1574) e "Problemata nautica" di Bartholomaus Keckermann (1573-1609). Alcune incisioni all'interno. Timbro al verso del frontespizio di biblioteca tedesca privata "Bibliothek Mecklenburgh Ritter Landschaft". In ottime condizioni e completo. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni.… Read More

1840. Rare "Temperance" Broadside in the Style of a Court Document [Broadside]. [Temperance]. [Great Britain]. The ---- Day of 18 ----. This is to Our Sheriff of Sheriffdoms, Steward of Stewardries, Bailiffs of Regalities, & All Others, The Officers and Executors of the Law, To Interpose Their Power and Authority to Assist Us in the Execution of This Our Decree, It Being Conformable to Law. Lincoln, England: R.E. Leary, Printer and Bookbinder, [c.1840]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside, woodcut royal arms flanked with the initials of Queen Victoria at head of text. Light toning, faint horizontal fold, a few minor creases. A well-preserved item. $350. * A parody of a temperance poster in the form of a sentencing document issued "at our court, the day and date above mentioned, at the Cockhead, near the Barrel Bung, adjacent to the Gin Cask, Before us-Sir Thirsty Tippler, Sir Mathew Malt, and Sir David Drynall." The text reads (in part): "Whereas it is humbly proved and shown to us by our beloved brother Sir John… Read More

London: Companie of Stationers, 1623 pp [1] + [2] + [2] + [18] + (578) + [5] ; First published in 1580. Internally very good subject to top margin fairly closely cropped but no impact on lettering, inoffensive water staining noticeable on a fair proportion of the leaves. Owners bookplate , with signature, late 19th cent, on inside front cover. The book has been rebacked with new endpapers; front of what looks to be the original spine retained. The boards, which look to be contemporary, are sound.

VENETIIS: EX TYPOGRAPHIA BALLEONIANA, 1751. In 8. Dim. 23,5x18 cm. Pp. (72)+531, (56)+522+(10), (56)+336, (48)+304+(24). Bella edizione del 1751 del celebre formularium legale del giuresconsulto e prelato di Gubbio Francesco Monacelli.<BR>Monacelli fu protonotario apostolico e Vicario Generale prima nella città di Potenza e poi di Jesi.<BR>Il suo formularium legale ebbe notevole successo tanto che venne pubblicato in numerose edizioni. L'opera è composta da quattro tomi ed è completa. I primi tre tomi contengono il formularium per il foro ecclesiastico, il quarto è un supplemento postumo e contiene numerose decisiones della Sacra Rota Romana. Ogni tomo è preceduto da un ampio indice. Frontespizio in rosso e nero. Copertina in mezza pelle settecentesca. Collazionato e risultato completo. Tagli marmorizzati. In buone condizioni. Copertina in mezza pelle settecentesca in discrete condizioni generali con usure e parti mancanti ai margini e dorso.… Read More

1764 HUNTING LAWS France Code of Chasses Louis XIV Game Birds Saugrain 2v
Claude-Marin Saugrain's famous 'Hunting Code' is a popular 18th-century French treatise on hunting law under the jurisdiction of Louis XIV. This book covers the entirety of hunting regulations in 18th-century France – hunting calendars, weapons and firearms, permissible hunters, hunting tags, game and birds, and much more!
Item number: #14997
Price: $499
SAUGRAIN, Claude-Marin
Code des chasses, ou nouveau traité du droit des chasses, suivant la jurisprudence de l'ordonnance de Louis XIV, du mois d'Août 1669, mise en conférence
Paris: Par la Compagnie des libraires, 1764-65 [v. 1, 1765].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o Vol. I, (1765) – xxiv, 590, xxxix, [3]
o Vol. II, (1764) – [4], 690
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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1/4 leather over calf skin. Gilt spine letters. LONDON Printed For The Company Of Stationers, 1665. 'The Third Edition Corrected, and much Inlarged'. Some fading of title letters, some bruises, marks wear, creases, dents, etc. Otherwise near fine condition. 552pp.

A Modest Enquiry Concerning the Election of the Sheriffs of London. And the Right of Chusing Demonstrated To belong unto, and to have been always adjudged to reside in the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the Common-Hall.
London, printed for Henry Mead, 1682. Second edition. STC R17026. M 2365. [ii; 46 pages] Quarto. 19 cm x 14.5 cm. Rebound in modern marbled boards with a maroon goatskin spine. Generally good condition, some slight spotting in the margins.
Anticipating the death of Charles II (1630 – 1685), reign (1660 – 1685), this publication was written during the Exclusion Crisis (1679 – 1681), during which the Duke of York, James, King Charles's brother and heir presumptive, converted to Roman Catholicism. The fear among Protestants was that when Charles died, James would embroil England in a war allied with France against the Dutch Republic. Printed in this text is "A Bill depending in the House of Lords last Parliament at Westminster, and committed, with several Judges to assist,… Read More