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1. Addresses the Public Domain and Royal Demesne Lands
Choppini, Renati (Choppin, Rene) [1537-1606]. De Domanio Franciae
Libri III. Paris: Apud Michaelem Sonnium, 1621. [xii], 498 [i.e. 488],
[108] pp. Folio (9" x 14"). Contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt
title and ornaments to compartments. Gilt arms of D'Estampes de
Valencay, Bishop of Chartres to center of boards. Rubbed and scuffed,
wear to corners, board edges, and backstrip, joints cracked but
secure. Title page printed in red and black. Attractive head-pieces,
tail-pieces and decorated initials. Light browning to text, occasional
light foxing. Early annotation to front pastedown, interior otherwise
clean. $600.
* Later printing of the second edition. Choppin (or Chopin) was French
jurist and an avocat of the Parlement of Paris. Like Jean Bacquet and
Jean Bodin, Choppin drew on Roman law and feudal principles to
advocate a centralized state under royal rule. First published in
1572, De Domanio Franciae deals with the administration of the public
domain and demesne lands of the crown. Uncommon. OCLC locates fifteen
copies, one of this edition. This edition not in the British Museum
Catalogue.
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2. First Critical Edition of Coke on Littleton
with Notes by Hargrave and Butler
Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The First Part of the Institutes of the
Laws of England or, A Commentary upon Littleton. With the Addition of
Notes and References by Francis Hargrave. With the Preface and Index
to the Notes by Charles Butler... London: Printed by T. Wright for E.
Brooke, 1788. [xx], 22 pp. 395 fol., [66] pp. Folio (7" x 11"). Modern
tan buckram, red and black labels. Ex-library. Foxing, some
dampstaining. Binding soiled. A solid copy. $650.
* Thirteenth edition, first critical edition with numerous corrections
and additions begun by Francis Hargrave and completed by Charles
Butler. "If Bracton first began the codification of the common law, it
was Coke who completed it.... In the Institutes,... the tradition of
the common law from Bracton to Littleton, whose name Coke's commentary
made famous, firmly established itself as the basis of the
constitution of the Realm." Printing and the Mind of Man 126. Cokes
Institutes are considered the first textbooks on the modern common
law. This first institute, known as Coke on Littleton, contains
Littleton's Tenures with an elaborate commentary. It is virtually a
legal encyclopedia. S&M I:450(7). Marvin 204. HLC I:411-412.
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3. Fine 1619 Edition of the First Part of Coke's Reports
Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. [Part I]. Les Reports de Edward Coke
L'Attorney Generell le Roigne, de Diuers Resolutions, & Iudgements...
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1619. [iii], 177, [1]
fols. Folio (7-1/2" 11"). Later quarter brown morocco with gilt spine
lettering over brown cloth boards, endpapers renewed. Two attractive
early engraved bookplates with heraldic devices to front pastedown.
Handsome woodcut title page, head-pieces, and initials. Interesting
marginalia in fine early hand to several leaves. Signatures, small
markings, and inscription to front free endpapers. Light marginal
dampstaining throughout, minor worming to a few leaves not affecting
text. Ex-library. Shelf label to front free endpaper and small
ownership stamp to two leaves. A very desirable copy. $1,000.
* Fifth edition of the first part of Coke's Reports. Contains the
cases of Burkhurt, Pelham, Porter, Woods, Capel, Archer, Bredon,
Corbet, Shelley, Albany, Chudleigh, Mayowe, Chedington, and Digges.
Coke was perhaps the greatest legal practitioner of his day. Written
between 1572 and 1616, and intended originally for personal use, the
Reports are not reports in the conventional sense but highly detailed
anthologies of precedents organized according to the cases they
consider. In each instance Coke assembled a large body of cases,
outlined their arguments, and explained the rationale behind the
verdicts, using them as a basis for a statement of general principles.
They are, in effect, a series of treatises on the points of law
adjudged.
The Reports form the most extensive and detailed treatment of
Common Law pleading that had yet appeared. A work of immense
authority, it was often cited as The Reports, there being no need to
mention the author's name. His accounts, especially of pleadings, were
applauded for both their clarity and usefulness as stylistic models
for students. And his selection of cases, cited frequently in
subsequent years, has served as the starting point for numerous
decisions. He also attracted some powerful enemies, however,
principally James I, who was angered by some of his opinions
concerning royal prerogative. Coke's refusal to retract them and
apologize to the King cost him his seat on the Bench. Marvin, Legal
Bibliography (1847) 209-211. Wallace, The Reporters (1882) 165-196.
Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953)
23-24. Pollard and Redgrave, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in
England, Scotland, and Ireland 5494.3.
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4. Early English JP Manual, 1677
Dalton, Michael. The Countrey Justice: Containing the Practice of the
Justices of the Peace Out of their Sessions, Gathered for the Better
Help of Such Justices of Peace, as Have Not Been Much Conversant in
the Study of the Laws of this Realm. London: Printed by G. Sawbridge,
T. Roycroft and W. Rawlins, assigns of R. Atkyns and E. Atkyns [etc.],
1677. [xiv], 555, [24] pp. Folio (8" x 12-1/2"). Contemporary calf,
raised bands. Slightly scuffed, a few chips to edges. Front hinge
cracked but holding. Early owner signature to front free endpaper.
"Walter Grubbe 1688" and notes in fine hand to head of title page.
Withal a very good copy. $600.
* Early English justice of the peace manual that went through numerous
editions and was originally published in 1618. This edition advises on
matters including buggery, customs, highways, prisons, riots,
soldiers, murder, felonies, ships, rogues and vagabonds, wool, high
treason. Of the work Marvin says: "...though not a judicial authority,
is of considerable weight." Marvin, Legal Bibliography 251. Sweet &
Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations
227 (24).
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5. 1912 Middle Temple Bench Book
Ingpen, Arthur Robert. The Middle Temple Bench Book, Being a Registrar
of Benchers of the Middle Temple From the Earliest Records to the
Present Time With Historical Introduction. London: Printed at the
Chiswick Press and Published by Order of the Masters, 1912. xii, 465
pp. Frontispiece and plates with tissue-paper overlays, fold-out table
text diagrams. Handsome black quarter-morocco over green cloth, top
edge gilt. Moderate wear to extremities, some fading, rubbing and
chipping to spine, tips bumped. Occasional light foxing to text,
interior otherwise clean. A good copy. $300.
* Second edition. This useful reference is an unparalleled source of
historical and biographical information. Moys, Manual of Law
Librarianship 406. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New
York University (1953) 185. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of
the British Commonwealth of Nations II:242.
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6. Handsome Edition of Justinian
[Justinian]. Beckmanno, Nicolao. Medulla, sive dilucida totius iuris
civilis... Paris: Alliott & Aegidium Alliot, 1666. [xii], 1004, [7]
pp. Embossed vellum, raised bands. Decorative head and tail-pieces.
Chip to base of front cover with 2" loss, board intact. Early owner's
signature first flyleaf. $450.
* First edition. Beautifully printed in Paris during its heyday as a
printing center.
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7. Kames' Decisions in the Form of a Dictionary
[Kames, Lord (Henry Home, 1696-1782) and Lord Woodhouselee (Alexander
Fraser Tytler, 1747-1813)]. The Decisions of the Court of Session,
>From Its First Institution to the Present Time. Abridged, and Digested
Under the Proper Heads, in Form of a Dictionary. Edinburgh: Richard
Watkins, Alexander Kincaid, and Robert Fleming, 1741-1804. Four
Volumes.
[With]
Supplement to Volumes Third and Fourth of the Dictionary of Decisions;
Containing All the Omitted Cases, Abridged and Digest under Proper
Heads.
Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute, 1804. xxiv, 239 pp.
Five volumes in all. Folio (7-1/2" x 12-1/2"). Contemporary calf,
rebacked in period style with raised bands, red and black lettering
pieces. Moderate rubbing with wear to board edges corners and joints.
Volume I boards detached, front hinge of Volume IV starting, most
hinges cracked or starting. Title-page of volume four cropped closely
with slight loss of text. Interiors notably fresh. Ex-library.
Institution label to head of each spine, small stamps to
preliminaries. $750.
* Volumes I and II by Kames, III and IV by Tytler. The supplement
contains previously omitted cases (to the end of 1796) and also
decisions of the Court of Justiciary. Catalogue of the Library of the
Harvard Law School (1909) I:1076. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal
Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations V:57.
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8. 1672 Thesaurus of Feudal, Civil & Criminal Law
Melonius, Joh[annes]. Thesaurus juris feudalis, civilis et criminalis
novux. Das ist: Eine neue gerichtliche und grundveste Schatz-Kammer
des gemeinem lehen-kaiserlichen und Malefitz-Rechtens.... Nuernberg:
Christoph Endter, 1672. [26], 495, [80] pp. Folio, book measures 8" x
12-1/4." Contemporary calf, raised bands. Rubbed, wear to extremities.
Foxed. Title-page printed red and black. Woodcut initials, head- and
tail-pieces. A solid copy. $750.
* Fourth edition (first published 1645). Treats such topics as feudal
estates, usury, marriage, inheritance, contracts, evictions, theft,
fines, and malefactors, etc. Cites numerous authorities. Indexed.
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