De Jure Belli et Pacis, Libri Tres , Accompanied by an Abridged Translation. With the Notes of the Author, Barbeyrac and Others. (3 Vols. complete set) by Hugo Grotius; Translated by William Whewell

London: Printed by C. Clarke and Published By R. Faulder and J. Egerton 1800. Small 4to. First edition. xvi., 254, errata leaf. 21 sepia aquatints of the Inns of Court. Bound in a very pleasant full tan calf executed by Baytun Riviere. Black and red title labels, and compartments filled with a leaf and berry design. Gilt lines to the boards, with a leaf and berry design towards the corners between lines. Blind stamped vine-leaf border panel in the middle of each board. Gilt inner-dentelles, and all edges gilt, 236 mm tall. A beautiful volume. Samuel Ireland was the father of the Shakespeare forger W. H. Ireland. . Near Fine. Gilt-decorated Calf. First Edition. 1800.

London: London, printed by the assignes of Iohn More Esquire; and are to be sold by Richard More in S. Dunstans Churchyard. Anno 1629., 1629. 2nd Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Sm. folio (10¾ ×7¼ in): [5], 395, [1]; [34] leaves. Early reverse calf. · Register: 2º: ¶^6 A-5G^4 ^2A-G^4 H^6 (this copy lacks ¶1, a blank; 4I1 not signed; 5G4 is the title-page for the table; table begins new register). · Condition: Joints starting to crack, chipping at head and tail. Portrait of Littleton missing, portrait of Coke present; lacks initial blank; table of sanguinity torn with loss at bottom; light damp staining to preliminaries and to margins throughout; worm trail in final third of text, affecting one or two letters at most in each page; some leaves creased. · Comments: The first edition of 1628 contained a large number of printing errors. · References: S&M 1:449(7); STC 15785; ESTC S113341.

London: Londini In Ædibus Thomæ Wight. 1602., 1602. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. 8vo (6 × 4 in): 99, [2] l. (last leaf blank). Early calf, rebacked, embossed medallions to top and bottom boards. · Register: 8º: A-M^8 N^4. · Condition: Very clean and well-margined. · Comments: Dyer's Reports, the second to be published under their author's name, first issued in January 1586. This abridgment followed a few years later and was reprinted three times, the copy here being from the third edition. The chronological order of the cases is preserved and the page of the original given in the margin. The first two editions are very rare and were probably printed in violation of Richard Tottell's monopoly patent. John Baker suggests that this abridgment would have been of use to "the impecunious or less industrious student" as a substitute for the full version. · References: ODNB, J. H. Baker, "Dyer, Sir James… Read More

Philadelphia: Philadelphia: John S. Littell. 1833-1836., 1833. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Nine of the first eleven volumes of this periodical series devoted to reprinting contemporary English legal treatises. Uniformly bound in (?publisher's) half leather over marbled boards, labelled "Law Library" with volume number; leather worn, dry and crackling; labels worn, chipped, one missing; boards soiled and fraying at edges. Light to heavy foxing throughout; some dampstaining. Each volume includes a main title-page and a table of the treatises reprinted in the volume, except the second volume (which contains only one treatise) does not have a table. The series ran from 1833-1860 and reached 104 volumes. Writing about the series in 1847, Marvin said that the "early volumes are out of print, and the publishers, from time to time, number the volumes of the series from a period when they can furnish the consecutive volumes." Legal Bibliography, p. 450. Contents: *Volume I.… Read More

Lugduni; 1555 and 1567: Ad Salamandrae, Apud Sennetonious Fratres. Folio. Pierre Rebuffi was the jurist whose expertise was in canon law and also defending monarchical law. While serving as Professor of law at Paris, Francis I summoned him to work on the Roman Rota and he was retained by Henry II. These are the core volumes on understanding constitutional thought in sixteenth-century France. In three volumes. Volume I and II were published in 1555. Volume III was published in 1567, all printed by the Sennetonios fratres (brothers) with volumes 3 having a different and larger printer's device. Volume I (unnumbered) of the three-volume set. In this volume, there are seven treatises each with its own title page though the pagination is consecutive. There is the title page and seven Tractatii (de literis obligatoriis, de chirographorum, de sentitiis praeiudicalibus seu provisionabilibus, de sententiis executoriis, de reuocationibus, de literis ciuilibus, and de supplicationibus. Besides the Latin text… Read More

London: Printed by C. Clarke and Published By R. Faulder and J. Egerton 1800. Small 4to. First edition. xvi., 254, errata leaf. 21 sepia aquatints of the Inns of Court. Bound in a very pleasant full tan calf executed by Baytun Riviere. Black and red title labels, and compartments filled with a leaf and berry design. Gilt lines to the boards, with a leaf and berry design towards the corners between lines. Blind stamped vine-leaf border panel in the middle of each board. Gilt inner-dentelles, and all edges gilt, 236 mm tall. A beautiful volume. Samuel Ireland was the father of the Shakespeare forger W. H. Ireland. . Near Fine. Gilt-decorated Calf. First Edition. 1800.

London: London, printed by the assignes of Iohn More Esquire; and are to be sold by Richard More in S. Dunstans Churchyard. Anno 1629., 1629. 2nd Edition . Leather. Good. Description: Sm. folio (10¾ ×7¼ in): [5], 395, [1]; [34] leaves. Early reverse calf. · Register: 2º: ¶^6 A-5G^4 ^2A-G^4 H^6 (this copy lacks ¶1, a blank; 4I1 not signed; 5G4 is the title-page for the table; table begins new register). · Condition: Joints starting to crack, chipping at head and tail. Portrait of Littleton missing, portrait of Coke present; lacks initial blank; table of sanguinity torn with loss at bottom; light damp staining to preliminaries and to margins throughout; worm trail in final third of text, affecting one or two letters at most in each page; some leaves creased. · Comments: The first edition of 1628 contained a large number of printing errors. · References: S&M 1:449(7); STC 15785; ESTC S113341.

London: Londini In Ædibus Thomæ Wight. 1602., 1602. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. 8vo (6 × 4 in): 99, [2] l. (last leaf blank). Early calf, rebacked, embossed medallions to top and bottom boards. · Register: 8º: A-M^8 N^4. · Condition: Very clean and well-margined. · Comments: Dyer's Reports, the second to be published under their author's name, first issued in January 1586. This abridgment followed a few years later and was reprinted three times, the copy here being from the third edition. The chronological order of the cases is preserved and the page of the original given in the margin. The first two editions are very rare and were probably printed in violation of Richard Tottell's monopoly patent. John Baker suggests that this abridgment would have been of use to "the impecunious or less industrious student" as a substitute for the full version. · References: ODNB, J. H. Baker, "Dyer, Sir James… Read More

Philadelphia: Philadelphia: John S. Littell. 1833-1836., 1833. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Nine of the first eleven volumes of this periodical series devoted to reprinting contemporary English legal treatises. Uniformly bound in (?publisher's) half leather over marbled boards, labelled "Law Library" with volume number; leather worn, dry and crackling; labels worn, chipped, one missing; boards soiled and fraying at edges. Light to heavy foxing throughout; some dampstaining. Each volume includes a main title-page and a table of the treatises reprinted in the volume, except the second volume (which contains only one treatise) does not have a table. The series ran from 1833-1860 and reached 104 volumes. Writing about the series in 1847, Marvin said that the "early volumes are out of print, and the publishers, from time to time, number the volumes of the series from a period when they can furnish the consecutive volumes." Legal Bibliography, p. 450. Contents: *Volume I.… Read More

Lugduni; 1555 and 1567: Ad Salamandrae, Apud Sennetonious Fratres. Folio. Pierre Rebuffi was the jurist whose expertise was in canon law and also defending monarchical law. While serving as Professor of law at Paris, Francis I summoned him to work on the Roman Rota and he was retained by Henry II. These are the core volumes on understanding constitutional thought in sixteenth-century France. In three volumes. Volume I and II were published in 1555. Volume III was published in 1567, all printed by the Sennetonios fratres (brothers) with volumes 3 having a different and larger printer's device. Volume I (unnumbered) of the three-volume set. In this volume, there are seven treatises each with its own title page though the pagination is consecutive. There is the title page and seven Tractatii (de literis obligatoriis, de chirographorum, de sentitiis praeiudicalibus seu provisionabilibus, de sententiis executoriis, de reuocationibus, de literis ciuilibus, and de supplicationibus. Besides the Latin text… Read More