Catalogue Search Results for The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - an 1837 portrait of foundational legal scholar Francis Joseph Troubat, long held by America's oldest legal institution - an unrecorded 1875 satirical mezzotint depicting an actor on trial for desecrating Shakespeare - an original 1887 courtroom drawing by E.W. Kemble, the iconic illustrator of Huckleberry Finn
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - an account of the Lizzie Borden trial that belonged to Ms. Borden’s lead defense attorney - a first edition of a foundational JP manual owned by an Irish Peer - a c.1806 anti-feminist English manuscript abut marriage
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - two unrecorded legal briefs concerning vineyards and water rights in California, both 19th-century Los Angeles imprints - a document organizing the lucrative (and exploitative) silver mines of Potosí under Spanish management - a rare broadside announcing the confiscation of Royalist estates by the Commonwealth during the English Civil Wars
Highlights include: - an extraordinarily rare volume from Alexander Hamilton's library, signed by him and two of his sons - an unproduced HBO screenplay based on the memoir of Arthur Kinoy, an important civil rights lawyer - a 1689 manuscript document from Plymouth Colony recording a land sale - a volume of briefs and related documents, with salty annotations, from the prosecutor of the Tweed Ring - a copy of the first German book with realistic life-size images of fish owned by a distinguished book binder - an Enlightenment-era argument against witchcraft trials by an Italian jurist - Sem's account, in 68 images, of the important 1918 Bola-Pacha treason trial - incunable editions of two important legal reference works in a contemporary binding - a collection of the only known copies of 25 English execution broadsides - a copy of the first English treatise on marriage law owned by an early Connecticut lawyer, politician, and poet - a first edition of Care's English Liberties, a work that inspired the American Founders - a rare complete card game used to promote female suffrage in Great Britain
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a copy of Hémard’s classic Code Civil in a lavish checkerboard binding by his publisher, René Kieffer - a rare piece of pro-divorce propaganda from seventeenth-century England - a handsome first edition of Tapping Reeve’s landmark Baron and Femme, the first American treatise on family law
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a contemporary account of a notable 18th-century English murder extra-illustrated with related contemporary unrecorded items - an unrecorded 1888 Des Moines, Iowa wanted broadside - a rare illustrated 1922 exposé of the Parisian underworld
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a 1557 edition of the Basilika with manuscript critical annotations by a 16th-century scholar - Fronsberger’s treatise on the military code of the Holy Roman Empire, featuring 6 grand folding plates by Jost Amman - a rare complete set of the Corpus Juris Civilis from the press of Charlotte Guillard
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a vivid, very rare, print of James MacLaine, the "Gentleman Highwayman," in action - an unrecorded printing of a landmark pre-Comstock obscenity law - an incomparable archive of tontines and related material
We are pleased to offer a preview of our latest catalogue, which will be mailed in the next few weeks. Highlights include: - a 1496 Nuremberg imprint of an important law dictionary - a 1481 Speyer imprint with an impressive ten-line initial - a 1500 Haguenau imprint of a landmark work on law and economics - a c.1473 Strasbourg imprint with a bookplate designed by Picasso
We are pleased to share the following list of 30 items. It includes: - an 18th-century copy of the standing orders of the House of Lords - a diary of a notable 17th-century English judge with interesting personal notes - the only known copy of a scholarly Scottish Style Book that circulated in manuscript
An e-list of 30 items. It includes: - a rare 1540 pocket-sized printing of Magna Carta and the Secunda Pars - a copy of A Persian Pearl inscribed by Darrow, with two warm signed letters - an exposition of the Institutes by a distinguished Czech professor, interleaved and annotated throughout by a contemporary law student
We are pleased to offer a preview of our latest catalogue, which will be mailed in the next few weeks.
We are pleased to share our latest e-list. It includes: - a 1776 Providence edition of Care’s profoundly influential English Liberties - an unpublished English translation (and the only English translation known to us) of an important treatise on constitutional law by a Latin American scholar - a notably handsome copy of The Spirit of Laws, both a landmark work of political theory and an influence on the U.S. Constitution
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