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1760807881760. LAW THE TRIAL OF LAWRENCE EARL FERRERS FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN JOHNSON BEFORE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF PEERS IN WESTMINSTER-HALL IN FULL PARLIAMENT. London: Published by Order of the House of Peers and printed by Samuel Billingsley 1760. 55 pp. Folio lacks boards title page detached spine mostly missing. Title page continued: "On Wednesday the 16th Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th of April 1760: On the last of which Days Judgment for murder was given against him." Faint horizontal crease else contents excellent with only minimal foxing to edges. A good binding candidate. The 4th Earl of Ferrers murdered his estate's rent collector Johnson becoming the last peer of the realm to be dispatched as a criminal by hanging. unknown books
1800611911800. Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Keeper of the House of Correction At Barking In the County of Essex To Receive and Convey; And to the Church-Wardens Chapel-Wardens And Overseers of the Poor of the Parish Place or Precinct of _____ in the _____ of _____ or Either of Them To receive and Obey. London: Johnson Printer Whitechapel Rd. c. 1800-1810. 4 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light soiling some toning to margins small chip to fore-edge. $25. Partly printed two-part blank document for conveying "vagrants" to overseers of the poor. . unknown books
1800611921800. Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Keeper of the House of Correction At Barking In the County of Essex To Receive and Convey; And to the Church-Wardens Chapel-Wardens And Overseers of the Poor of the Parish Place or Precinct of _____ in the _____ of _____ or Either of Them To receive and Obey. London: Johnson Printer Whitechapel Rd. c. 1800-1810. 4 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light soiling some toning and faint dampstaining to margins small chip to fore-edge. $25. Partly printed two-part blank document for conveying "vagrants" to overseers of the poor. . unknown books
1800611931800. Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Keeper of the House of Correction At Barking In the County of Essex To Receive and Convey; And to the Church-Wardens Chapel-Wardens And Overseers of the Poor of the Parish Place or Precinct of _____ in the _____ of _____ or Either of Them To receive and Obey. London: Johnson Printer Whitechapel Rd. c. 1800-1810. 4 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light soiling some toning and faint dampstaining to margins small chip to fore-edge. $25. Partly printed two-part blank document for conveying "vagrants" to overseers of the poor. . unknown books
1800611891800. Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Constable of the Parish of _____ And also to the Keeper of the House of Correcetion At Barking Both in the County of Essex. London: Johnson Printer Whitechapel Rd. c. 1800-1810. 1 leaf. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Some soiling edgewear and dampstaining. $20. Partly printed blank document for conveying "vagrants" to overseers of the poor. . unknown books
1800611901800. Document for the Conveyance of Vagrants Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Constable of the Parish of _____ And also to the Keeper of the House of Correcetion At Barking Both in the County of Essex. London: Johnson Printer Whitechapel Rd. c. 1800-1810. 1 leaf. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light soiling some browning to margins chip to fore-edge. $20. Partly printed blank document for conveying "vagrants" to overseers of the poor. . unknown books
1800611941800. Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of _____ in the County of _____ and to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of _____ in the County of _____. London: Printed and Sold by T. Jones c. 1800-1810. 4 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light soiling some toning and edgewear to margins. $25. Used by justices of the peace this is a partly printed warrant for the removal of poor people who intrude upon a parish where they are not chargeable to a place of legal settlement. unknown books
1800611951800. Poor Law. Great Britain. To The Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of _____ in the County of _____ and to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of _____ in the County of _____. London: Printed and Sold by T. Jones c. 1800-1810. 4 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light soiling some toning faint dampstaining and edgewear to margins. $25. Used by justices of the peace this is a partly printed warrant for the removal of poor people who intrude upon a parish where they are not chargeable to a place of legal settlement. unknown books
1712852251712. LAW - ENGLAND THE THIRD PART OF MODERN REPORTS; BEING A COLLECTION OF SEVERAL SPECIAL CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S-BENCH: IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE REIGN OF K. CHARLES II. IN THE REIGN OF K. JAMES I. AND IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF K. WILLIAM AND Q. MARY. TOGETHER WITH THE RESOLUTIONS AND JUDGMENTS THEREUPON. London in the Savoy: Printed by John Nutt for Charles Harper 1712. Second edition. "Carefully Collected by a Learned Hand." Title 18 pp. 339 pp. 36 pp. Table. Folio old calf with raised bands blind tooling gilt brown leather spine label. Boards worn leather peeling from bottom edge of top board about 3 inches. Joints tender rear joint splitting. Ink ownership to front pastedown no date. Front flyleaf partially detached. Title page has ink marks and "Being A" excised from title. Text moderately to heavily foxed with some dampstaining. Complete. unknown books
179242622Philadelphia: Josesph Crukshank 1792. Seventh edition. 12mo; period sheep; 2; 1-2996pp publisher's catalog. Covers moderately scuffed and rubbed with small flakes to leather at joints; small marginal stain to first six leaves of text else a sound clean copy. Standard 18th-century legal form-book based on English practice. There were numerous editions in England and North America. Josesph Crukshank unknown books
1740668591740. Guidance for Young Clerks Practitioner in the Law. The Young Clerk's Magazine: Or English Law-Repository: Containing a Variety of the Most Useful Precedents of Articles of Agreement Bonds Bills Recognizances Releases Letters and Warrants of Attorney Awards Bills of Sale Gifts Grants Leases Assignments Mortgages Surrenders Jointures Covenants Copartnerships Charterparties Letters of Licence Compositions Conveyances Partitions Wills And All Other Instruments that Relate to Publick Business: With Necessary Directions for Making Distresses for Rent &c. As the Law Between Landlord and Tenant Now Stands. To Which is Added The Doctrine of Fines and Recoveries And Their Forms: Together with Those of Common Writs Affidavits Memorials for Registring Deeds &c. In Middlesex; as Also a Choice Collection of Declarations in the King's Bench and Common Pleas. By the Author of The Student's Law-Dictionary in 8vo Revised and Corrected. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling 1740. iv 192 8 pp. Lacking 2 plates illustrating Court hands 12mo. 6-1/4" x 3-3/4". Recent period-style paneled calf raised bands and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to text faint dampstaining to preliminaries and a few other leaves rear hinge starting faint early owner signature to front endleaf. A handsomely bound copy of a scarce title. $350. Second edition. First published in 1739 with "Practitoner in the Law" listed as the author this is a formbook with a section containing instructions for conveyancing. It was intended for law clerks lawyers and laymen. It went though six editions in London the last one in 1772 and four editions in Philadelphia published in 1774 1788 1792 and 1795. English Short-Title Catalogue N14348. unknown books
1766276170London: G. Robinson and J. Roberts 1766. Third Edition. The two parts bound together in a calf binding with raised bands and morocco label. The front board has been discreetly reattached. The handwritten name label of Ephraim Beaman dated March 6th 1781 is attached to the pastedown. The top corner of the title pages has been excised -- removing a name -- but not affecting the titling. Lacking the endpaper 238 pages. G. Robinson and J. Roberts unknown books
1732426661732. London 1732. 2d & final ed. London 1732. 2d & final ed. Uncommon 1732 English Treatise on Watercourses Water Law. The Laws of Sewers; Or the Office and Authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls Publick Streams and Rivers Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners in Making Laws and Ordinances and Imposing Rates or Taxes for Repairing the Walls Banks and Other Defenses. III. Of Their Power by Law as to Distresses and Decreeing to be Sold to Levy Charges for Repairs and Inflicting Punishments by Fine and Otherwise. Also the Particular Offices of Bailiffs Surveyors Collectors and Other Officers Under the Commissioners and Proceedings of a Court of Sewers Orders Warrants &c. To Which are Added the Laws Relating to Rumney-Marsh and Other Marshes and Fens. With Additions: and a New Compleat Table to the Whole. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling 1732. viii 202 10 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Contemporary calf blind fillets to boards rebacked in period style with raised bands and lettering piece endpapers renewed. Some wear to joints and corners negligible rubbing and a few small inkstains to boards front hinge starting. Occasional minor worming to text and rear pastedown. Later owner signatures to front pastedown and head of preface occasional very light foxing and toning interior otherwise fresh. An appealing copy of an uncommon work. $400. Second and final edition of a work first published in 1726. Appointed by the Crown commissioners of sewers were empowered to levy taxes to support their work and enact and enforce laws relating to watercourses land reclamation and structures such as dams. "As there have been in all Reigns from the earliest Time many commissions of Sewers issued into the several counties of England to Gentlemen of Estates and Worth therein and the Number of the Commissioners and their Clerks officers and Ministers under them being great and considerable; it is very much to be admired and a Thing very uncommon that no Person hath hitherto attempted a particular Treatise on these laws with the necessary Business and Practice of the commissioners of Sewers in putting them in execution. . And notwithstanding Callis' Reading Upon the Statute of 23 H. 8 Cap. 5 of Sewers 1622 is a. unknown books
172520771Amsterdam 1725. Folio. 15 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Title printed in red and black. Folding engraved frontispiece engraved list of plates within a decorative surround 72 engraved plates maps and broadsides on 73 leaves 5 of the single-page plates cut to the edge of the image and mounted as issued 45 double-page 19 folding and including 10 which combine both engraving and letterpress text one plate loosely inserted 2 with sections of blank margins torn away some other clean tears occasionally affecting the image area. Contemporary Dutch speckled calf spine in eight compartments with raised bands red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment repeat decoration in gilt in the others joints slightly split extremities scuffed<br/> <br/>A very rare collection of contemporary satirical prints relating to the financial exploits of John Law and his infamous Mississippi Bubble.<br/> <br/>John Law bap. 21 April 1671 - 21 March 1729 was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He is said to be the father of finance responsible for the adoption or use of paper money or bills in the world today. Law was a gambler and a brilliant mental calculator and was known to win card games by mentally calculating the odds. An expert in statistics he was the originator of economic theories including two major ideas: The Scarcity Theory of Value and the Real bills doctrine. The present work records the economic crisis precipitated by Law. The crisis had its origins in the decision of the French regent Philippe d'Orléans to appoint John Law the Controller General of Finances for France. In May 1716 the Banque Générale Privée which developed the use of paper money was set up by Law. It was a private bank but three quarters of the capital consisted of government bills and government accepted notes. In August 1717 he bought the Mississippi Company to help the French colony in Louisiana. In 1717 he also brokered the sale of Thomas Pitt's diamond to the regent Philippe d'Orléans. In the same year Law floated the Mississippi Company as a joint stock trading company called the Compagnie d'Occident which was granted a trade monopoly of the West Indies and North America. The bank became the Banque Royale in 1718 meaning the notes were guaranteed by the king. The Company absorbed the Compagnie des Indes Orientales Compagnie de Chine and other rival trading companies and became the Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes on 23 May 1719 with a monopoly of commerce on all the seas. The system however encouraged speculation in shares in The Company of the Indies the shares becoming a sort of paper currency. In 1720 the bank and company were united and Law was appointed Controller General of Finances to attract capital. Law's pioneering note-issuing bank was extremely successful until it collapsed and caused an economic crisis in France and across Europe. Law exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana with an effective marketing scheme which led to wild speculation on the shares of the company in 1719. In February 1720 it was valued for a very high future cash flow at 10000 livres. Shares rose from 500 livres in 1719 to as much as 15000 livres in the first half of 1720 but by the summer of 1720 there was a sudden decline in confidence leading to a 97 percent decline in market capitalization by 1721. Predictably the bubble burst at the end of 1720 when opponents of the financier attempted en masse to convert their notes into specie. By the end of 1720 Philippe II dismissed Law who then fled from France. Originally published by a group of Amsterdam booksellers the work has a convoluted bibliographic history owing to the ongoing enlargement of the number of prints published between late 1720 and the ensuing years coupled with the issuance of the plates as separate unbound sheets as well as later editions with yet more plates which maintained the title page dated 1720. In short nearly every extant example is unique in composition. "This remarkable complexity helps to explain why the book continues to fascinate scholars and readers to the present day: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid in its many diverse copies represents an important witness to the events of 1720 and their aftermath which makes it valuable to cultural and economic historians . The book presents the rise progress and downfall of the deceptive trade of 1720 what that a group of booksellers who published it in 1720 when in Amsterdam where in order to restore social and ethical norms in Dutch society why by making fools of the greedy in a theatrical setting how. In short the Tafereel is an Amsterdam-born satirical comedy in disguise" Kuniko Forrer "Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid: A Bibliographical Interpretation" in The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance Culture and the Crash of 1720 Edited by William N. Goetzmann et. al. pp. 35-36. The present example corresponds to Forrer's third edition issued shortly after 1723 with the "Register" listing 73 plates and bound in a contemporary binding attributed to the Double Drawer Handle Bindery. This edition noted as the final edition published in the 1720s and the most complete including portraits of Madame Law and the King of the Mississippi "Der Koning van Missisipi" not found in earlier issues among other additions.<br/> <br/>Goldsmiths 5829; Kress 3217; Muller 3535; Sabin 28932; A.H. Cole The Great Mirror of Folly . an economic-bibliographical study Harvard: 1949; The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance Culture and the Crash of 1720 Edited by William N. Goetzmann et. al. Yale University Press: 2013. unknown books
175347550London: Printed by Edward Owen in Warwick-Lane 1753. 1st Edition State 2 with "ship of a". Precedence not established. Disbound red edgestain. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Small paper flaw to title leaf. First table with repaired tear otherwise VG - VG. 46 pp. Two fold-out tables: "List of all Prussian Ships Taken" & "List of all the Neutral Ships taken by British ships in the last war". 4to. 10" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/> Printed by Edward Owen, in Warwick-Lane unknown books
175828713Rouen: Chez Richard l'Allemant 1758. Nouvelle edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary stained sheep red morocco label spine gilt. Chipping at head of spine on second volume some rubbing especially of extremities short cracks at top of joints else very good. Nouvelle edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Farming taxes Customs and Tariffs. From the library with bookplate of Sir John Swinburne of Capheaton Northumberland third baronet and father of Henry Swinburne the noted traveller he was also the descendant of Henry Swinburne the ecclesiastical lawyer and author of the"A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and last Willes" and "A Treatise of Spousals or matrimonial Contracts" both the first works on these subjects written in England. Signature of E. Swinburne on title.¶ With the contemporary bookseller's label on both volumes of Guillaume LaBottiere of Bordeaux. Higgs Bibliography of Economic Literature 1791; Goldsmith's Kress Library of Economic Literature no. 9371 Chez Richard l'Allemant unknown books
173428721Paris: Chez les Associez choisis par ordre de Sa Majesté 1734. Early edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf brown morocco labels. Some surface worming a few worm holes not affecting text else a very good copy. Early edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Chez les Associez choisis par ordre de Sa Majesté unknown books
1790672501790. A 1790 Revision of Sweden's Naval Regulations Sweden. Naval Law. Sjo-Articlar Som af Then Stormagtigste Konung och Herre Herr Carl XI. Sweriges Gothes och Wendes Konung &c. ar 1685 Fornyade och Stadgade aro. Jemte Thertil Horige Acter Som pa Andra Sidan Upraknas. Stockholm: Kungl. Tryckeriet 1790. v 210 40 pp. Octavo 6-1/4" x 3-3/4". Contemporary three-quarter cal over speckled boards lettering piece and gilt-edged raised bands to spine. Light rubbing to extremities chip to head of spine corners bumped moderate toning to text. $350. This is a revised edition of laws governing the Swedish navy promulgated by King Carl XI in 1685 a time when Sweden was a great power that controlled of much of the Baltic region. OCLC locates 2 copies 1 in North America Harvard Law School. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
1702262034London: Rich. and Edw. Atkins 1702. hardcover. very good. 136 paqes small inked signatures on title page. A few small worm holes mainly in the top margins. 4to original marbled boards worn crudely rebacked. London: Rich. and Edw. Atkins 1702. Good.<br/><br/> Rich. and Edw. Atkins unknown books
17796460Amsterdam 1779. Hardcover. Fair. Engraved printer's device to title and rear verso. In Hebrew. Later cloth; title browned manuscript notes in a 19th-century hand to rear endpapers tape repairs at rear rear cover detached but present. A guide to the observance of Jewish law in everyday life. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1784218959Dublin: E. Lynch 1784. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Sold as a 7 volume set. No pencil or ink markings in text of the 7 volumes. All volumes full brown leather bindings with red and black spine labels present. NOT Ex-Library. Very Good binding. E. Lynch unknown books
179820691Richmond: Thomas Nicholson 1798. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red leather label. Ex-Library with blind stamp on title-page. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Volume One of 2 vols. The second came out in 1799 Dedicated to Edmund Pendleton Esq. President of the Court of Appeals. Cases heard from 1790-1794. Evans 34958 Thomas Nicholson unknown books
177630172Halle: zu finden im Waisenhause 1776. 16 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Marbled spine sewn self-wrapper. Some light soiling and rubbing of edges else very good. 16 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Comparative study of Roman and German criminal law. Not in OCLC zu finden im Waisenhause unknown books
175148714Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis 1751. Small 8vo pp. 282 2 ads; full contemporary calf recently rebacked to style red morocco label on spine red speckled edges; corners rubbed endpapers toned top quarter inch of title page excised not affecting type a very good sound copy. While the title page attributes this work to John Law it is believed that the true author is Paterson. Gaskell 194. <br/><br/> Robert & Andrew Foulis unknown books
175528711Paris: Chez Debure lAîné 1755. Appears to be a first edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary stained calf red morocco label gilt spine. Some rubbing some wear along upper edge and head of spine small wormhole in spine else very good with the bookplate from the Bibliotheque de M. DeMeril Procureur. Appears to be a first edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Civil administrative and commercial law and procedures. Chez Debure lAîné unknown books