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- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Innes of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Second edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Rober, John Martin [etc.], London, 1671.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the six plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, embrowning; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60145
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Inns of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Third edition. Wing D2490
- Publisher:
- Printed for Christop. Wilkinson [and two others] [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the 7 plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, ex-library, the front board detached and the title and first leaf loose; with the armorial bookplate of Charles, Viscount Bruce
- Book No.:
- W-74934
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Milsom, S.F.C.
- Title:
- Maitland [the first plate depicting the posthumous bust of Maitland by S. Nicholson Babb dated 1908 and the second the memorial tablet by Richard Kindersley dated 2000, now in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey]
- Publisher:
- Printed in England by Antony Rowe Ltd, Reading and Chippenham, 2001.
- Description:
- Professor Milsom's address given at the unveiling of Maitland's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey, the tablet reading "By slow degrees the thoughts of our forefathers their common thoughts about common things will have become thinkable once more"
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, well preserved, six pages and two plates, reprinted from the July 2001 issue of the Cambridge Law Journal
- Book No.:
- W-80432
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Lerner (ed.), Max
- Title:
- The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, His Speeches, Essays, Letters and Judicial Opinions
- Publisher:
- The Modern Library, New York, 1943.
- Description:
- A good selection, particularly of Holmes' early speeches and addresses, as well as Holmes' autobiographical sketch (written at age 20, in 1861); with Lerner's introductory notes and annotations
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-80443
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- The Story of My Life [A pirated edition, seemingly unrecorded, of Darrow's autobiography, its dustjacket and title page based on the Grosset Universal Library paperback edition, with other changes designed to disguisee its legal origin; no copy in OCLC]
- Publisher:
- No publisher Stated, ?Taiwan or Hong Kong, No date.
- Description:
- Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written in his 70's, full of reflection, with much on his youth, on the Scopes trial, the Leopold and Loeb case, the McNamara brothers case, the bribery charges against him, and his other great involvements
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a clean copy in a worn, chipped dustjacket with the Chinese style ownership stamp of Dallas lawyer C. Wayne Huffman on the front blank
- Book No.:
- W-80485
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Cochran, Jr., Robert F. (ed.)
- Title:
- Louis D. Brandeis's MIT Lectures on Law (1892-1894)
- Publisher:
- Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 2012.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A well preserved hardcover in the dustjacket; presentation copy "6-1-12 To Mel, Thanks for your help & encouragement on this project. All my best, Bob"
- Book No.:
- W-80482
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Lehman, Irving
- Title:
- Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, A Memorial
- Publisher:
- Literary Licensing, n.p., n.d..
- Description:
- Judge Lehman's address read at a meeting of the American Bar Association in July, 1938; a modern facsimile, with the full page frontispiece of Justice Cardozo and the reproduction of the bookplate made for insertion in the books in his library
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, the ?photocopy of the 1938 Overbrook Press original edition, 18 pages, as new
- Book No.:
- W-80481
- Price:
- $ 40.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
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