Titles starting with A from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . For the Author [etc.], 1779?]. Contemporary calf, joints just cracking; well preserved Second edition (and the first in quarto) which, as the extended title suggests, permits the presiding magistrate and anyone else to see at a glance the salient elements of the charges lodged against a prisoner and the prospective punishments ... more information

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$500.00

An Abridgment of Penal Statutes, Which Exhibits at One View . . . The Offences, Punishments or Penalties . . . Number of Witnesses, What Justices, The Enacting Statutes [etc.]. Second Edition

William Addington

London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . For the Author [etc.], 1779]. Contemporary tree-calf, joints cracked, label lacking, sewing a bit fragile, else a very clean, even attractive copy, signed boldly by Addington A comprehensive work prepared by Addington while a Bow Street magistrate, this copy possessing a second Bow Street association, with the notation on the title "given to me by Sampson Wright Esq, one of the magistrates of Bow Street Westminster ... more information

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$450.00

Abridgment of Elementary Law [etc.]

M.E. Dunlap

St. Louis: F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1892. Contemporary sheep, spine defective, a working copy; pocket-size ... more information

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$50.00

An Abridgment of the Common Law: Being a Collection of the Principal Cases Argued and Adjudged in the several Courts of Westminster-Hall . . . Whereby the Opinion and Judgment of the Courts may be seen [etc.]. Three Volumes [complete]. Folio. Cowley 213

William Nelson

London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling [etc.], 1725-26. Contemporary calf, quite worn and scraped, joints cracked (but firm), labels lacking, lightish staining in the third volume, else a clean usable set Only edition of Nelson's massive work, appearing at the inception of one of "two periods of great activity in the making of common law abridgments [1725-1750]", Nelson preferring Bacon to Coke, complementing the abridgments of Fitzherbert and Brook ... more information

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$750.00

Accidents in Buildings

Louis E. Schwartz

Brooklyn: Trial Attorney Publications, 1942. A companion work, equally detailed and also employing the Spotter System, with much inter relationship, forms in this volume referred to in the other; with a chapter on cross examination ... more information

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$25.00

An Account of the Principal Lazrettos in Europe; With Various Papers Relative to the Plague: Together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of Those in Great Britain and Ireland. Quarto

John Howard

London: Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [and three others, 1789. Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning; with the 23 plates, all but two folding, two with minor tears, else an attractive copy First edition of one of Howard's two major works, "the first survey . . . which had ever appeared", supplemented by Howard's further observations on prisons, providing the empirical bases for the first modern reforms of both prisons and hospitals ... more information

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$1,250.00

Account Of the manner of Executing a Writ of Inquiry of Damages: Between His Royal Highness James Duke of York . . . and Titus Otes, Which as executed at the Bar of the Court of Kings Bench at Westminster, on Wednesday the 19th of June [etc.]. Wing A320

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke . . . in S. Paul's Church Yard, 1684. Modern blue-cloth backed decorated boards, definite browning, else a sound copy; with the imprimatur leaf The beginning of the end for Titus Oates, arrested on a charge of scandalum magnatum at the behest of the future James II and here fined an enormous 100,000 pounds for refusing to plead, to be removed to King's Bench prison and then tried in May 1685 ... more information

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$450.00

Accounting in Law Practice. Second Edition

Willard J. and Wilber G. Katz Graham

Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1938. Worn and marked; a usable copy only ... more information

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$25.00

Act For the promoting and propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England. Compare Wing E2505A. Folio

London: Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Parliament [etc.], 1649. Title and three pages, disbound, light browning, else a very good copy, printed in black letter, with a woodcut "W" beginning the text The foundation document creating the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, the first Protestant missionary society (and now the New England Company), begun largely through the efforts of John Eliot, the "Apostle to the Indians ... more information

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An Act For settling the Subsidy of Poundage, And Granting a Subsidy of Tunnage. And other Sums of Money unto His Royal Majesty . . . The same to be paid upon Merghandizes [sic] Imported and Exported into or out of . . . Ireland [etc.]. Cf Wing I308D

Dublin: Printed by Benjamin Took, and John Crook [etc.], 1682. Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, light browning, ex-library, else a very good copy; no copy in OCLC or ESTC, one in COPAC A rare work, seeking to encompass in all its complexity the excise imposed upon Ireland, printing both applicable duty in great detail and the legislation from Henry VI onwards, and indexing and comparing the Act of Settlement and its explanation ... more information

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$1,750.00

An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Barbada's, Virginia, Bermuda's and Antego

London: Printed by Edward Husband and John Field [etc.], 1650. Original ?self-wraps, some browning, else a good copy, title and four pages of text and the final blank; no copy in ESTC in a law library or in Virginia The uncommon, separately printed act enacted by the Commonwealth Parliament in response to the continued loyalty of Virginia and other colonies to the monarchy, resolved only with Virginia's agreeing to Parliamentary terms and granted an indemnity ... more information

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$2,500.00