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Oxford: Printed At the Clarendon Press, 1771., 1771. 8vo. pp. xi, [1]blank, [4], 230, [15]index. 2 folding engraved charts. contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed (title with institutional blindstamp & former owner’s name excised, 1 chart with short tear – no loss & tatty outer edge). ownership entry of Henry Hutton, dated 1780. Sixth, Preferred, Edition, the last to be published in Blackstone’s lifetime. The Analysis forms an outline or abstract of Blackstone’s series of lectures on the history of English law given at Oxford beginning in 1753, the most complete survey of the English legal system ever composed by a single hand. This sixth edition is of special significance as being the first to correspond to the printed version of the Commentaries, which incorporated revisions to the original lectures. Sweet & Maxwell I.27.6. Marvin p. 127. cfMarke p. 135..

Paris: Chez L'Auteur-Éditeur, Amable Costes, Libraire, 1829., 1829. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxxiv, 526. with half-title. modern bds., original printed front wr. bound in (some wear to joints, significant foxing throughout). First Edition. Scandalous exposé of the public and private lives of the ministers, directors, prefects, and other functionaries of the French police from 1667 to 1828.. F.

Toronto: Canada Law Book Company, Limited, [1929]., 1929. 8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 250. 10 illus. cloth (minor stains on front & rear covers). First Canadian Edition. Notable British Trials Series.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

Toronto: Canada Law Book Company, Limited, [1921]., 1921. 8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 280 + 15(ads). 13 illus. cloth. (tiny tear at head of spine). First Canadian Edition. Notable British Trials Series.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

London: William Benning & Co., 1849., 1849. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., v, 505, [1 leaf]. original blind-stamped cloth (joints & extremities frayed). First Edition. A second volume of trials was published in 1851. Sweet & Maxwell II p. 50.. F. Hardcover.

Leyden: Cornelius Haak, 1741., 1741. 2 Parts in 1 Volume. folio. pp. 20 p.l., 623, [43]index; 7 p.l., 248, [28]index. Vol. I title in red & black. text in double columns. 2 engravings in the text (genealogical trees). several woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary calf (extremities bit rubbed, else fine). from the library of Thomas Cushing Aylwin [1806-71], lawyer, politician, and high court justice of Lower Canada, signed. Fourth Edition. One of the author’s major works, which was for a long time frequently used in the universities and courts of the Low Countries and Germany. Van Leeuwen was a distinguished Dutch jurist and son of a member of the Dutch company of the East Indies. Camus-Dupin 518n.. Signed by Author(s).

[Philadelphia]: Privately Printed [by J.B.Lippincott Company] For The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1890., 1890. 4to. pp. 298, [1 leaf]. title in red & black with coloured vignette. engraved frontis. portrait. original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut (extremities bit frayed). Inscribed from the Author's son to William Carew Hazlitt [1834-1913], bibliographer and man of letters.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover.

London: Printed By William Clowes And Sons, 1842., 1842. folio. pp. ix, 162; 1 p.l., [v]-xiii, 325, [1]. first half-title present; the second lacking. contemporary half roan (rubbed, joints partly cracked but solid, spine faded & chipped at ends, library label on lower spine). The first paper contains correspondence with Austria, Denmark, France, Hanse Towns, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Two Sicilies, Hayti, and Venezuela, the second correspondence with Belgium, Hanover, Saxony, Switzerland, Albania, Algiers, Egypt, Greece, Morocco, Palestine, Persia, Syria, Turkey, Tripoli, Tunis, Bolivia, Central America, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Montevideo, New Grenada, Peru, Texas, and the United States. Cundall 2854 (p. 146).

London: Printed By T.C.Hansard…Published By R.Bagshaw…, 1809-28. “This edition, besides containing many more Trials during the same period embraced by that of Mr. Hargrave, and bringing the Trials down to 1820, is enriched by numerous references and explanatory notes, embodying a great variety of legal and historical information, which greatly contributes to a correct understanding of this immense repository of Criminal Law.” (Marvin) "An invaluable collection of nearly all the important criminal trials and constitutional cases, and of some important civil cases, which have some bearing upon public law.": (Holdsworth, A History of English Law, XII:130). Including accounts of notorious cases not found elsewhere, the collection begins with with the proceedings against Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury for High Treason in 1163 and ends with the trial of William Davidson and Richard Tidd for High Treason in 1820. Sweet & Maxwell II.174. Marvin pp. 660-61. See Marke… Read More

Oxford: Printed At The Clarendon Press, 1770-69., 1770. 4 Volumes. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., ii, [6], 485; 4 p.l., 520, xix; 4 p.l., 455, [1]blank, xxvii; 4 p.l., 436, vii, [1]blank, [39]index. 2 engraved plates (1 folding) in Vol. II. contemporary calf, rebacked & recornered, preserving spine labels & marbled endleaves (corners worn, foxing to last few leaves in Vol. IV). book labels of the Earl of Sefton. Fourth Edition of Vols. I-III; First Edition of Vol. I. Blackstone’s Commentaries, based on his lectures given at Oxford beginning in 1753, constitute the first attempt since Bracton to provide a coherent account of English law as a whole. "Blackstone inaugurated university instruction in English law…His great achievement…was his reduction to lucid and systematic statement of that disordered bulk of laws which had gradually accumulated since the days of Bracton. Although Blackstone lacked the originality and force of some of his predecessors in English legal literature, such as… Read More

London: Printed For W.Strahan, T.Cadell, & D.Prince, Oxford, 1783. Ninth Edition, With The Latest Corrections Of The Author, And Continued By Richard Burn, LL.D. An important edition, the last to contain revisions made by Blackstone just before his death. The editor, Richard Burn, has also noted alterations made by subsequent acts of Parliament. Blackstone’s Commentaries, based on his lectures given at Oxford beginning in 1753, constitute the first attempt since Bracton to provide a coherent account of English law as a whole. “Blackstone inaugurated university instruction in English law…His great achievement…was his reduction to lucid and systematic statement of that disordered bulk of laws which had gradually accumulated since the days of Bracton. Although Blackstone lacked the originality and force of some of his predecessors in English legal literature, such as Bracton, Coke and Hale, his Commentaries, written in a style at once dignified, urbane and clear, are the most complete survey of… Read More

[London]: Printed by R. and B.Nutt, and F.Gosling for F.Cogan, 1741. First Edition. Sweet & Maxwell I 477.25. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [1]errata, 300, [15]. contemporary calf (short splits in upper joints, some surface abrasions to covers, corners worn, internally fine). engraved bookplate of William Cruise, Lincoln’s Inn

London: Printed by T.Wright And Sold by G.Kearsly, 1776-81., 1776. 11 Volumes. folio. text in double columns. contemporary calf (worn, 2 covers detached, joints cracked, chipping to joints & spine ends). the Richard Heber [1773-1833] copy. Sweet & Maxwell I.369.8. Marke 1030-31. Marvin 660-61..

London: Printed by R.Macdonald…For A.Whellier, 1823., 1823. 8vo. pp. 688, [4], 17-148(Supplement). engraved frontis. portrait of Charles Abbott & 5 other engraved portraits of important legal figures. contemporary calf (worn, covers detached, free-endpapers wanting, library lettering on spine & markings on front paste-down, plates slightly foxed). Eighth Edition. Sweet & Maxwell II 377..

[London]: Printed by Henry Lintot; for D.Browne, J.Shuckburgh, J.Worrall., 1752., 1752. 8vo. pp. viii, 518, [25]index. contemporary calf, rebacked (some foxing to outer leaves). ms. note on verso of last leaf. armorial bookplate of Tho. Greenway. Fifth Enlarged Edition. Sweet & Maxwell I 400.26. cfMarvin p. 416..

Frankfurt am Main: Balthas Christophor Wust Sen. for Johann David Zunner, 1684., 1684. 4 Volumes. folio. pp. 8 p.l., 500; 1 p.l., 510, [2]blank, [8]index; 3 p.l., 513, [8]; 2 p.l., 267, [215]index. engraved title in Vol. I. half-title in Vol. IV. woodcut title vignettes, ornaments & initials. title of Vol. I in red & black. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (rubbed, front joint of Vol. IV cracked, some insignificant marginal worming to first few leaves of Vol. I, overall a very good set, internally clean & crisp). from the library of Thomas Cushing Aylwin [1806-71], lawyer, politician, and high court justice of Lower Canada. "Cette théorie de la prevue en matier civile, criminelle et canonique, rébute par l’immensité des détails auxquels est descendu l’auteur; mais resserrée dans ce qu’elle a d’important par une main exercée, elle serait un membre des traités les plus usités de la jurisprudence. "… Read More

Paris: les Associez choisis par ordre de Sa Majesté, pour l’Impression de ses nouvelles Ordonnances, 1744., 1744. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. 15 p.l., 530, [2], cclii, [12], lxxxiv, [82]index; 1 p.l., 1000. titles in red & black. woodcut title vignettes, ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs, gilt arms on upper covers of the Law Society of Upper Canada (rubbed, joints cracked, spine chipped, Vol. I front cover detached & flyleaves wanting, embossed institutional stamps, light marginal foxing). Contains the 1667, 1669, 1670 and 1673 ordonnances on civil, criminal, and commercial law, decrees and declarations on duels And regulations on the procedure of council. cfCamus-Dupin 701.. Hardcover.

London: John Murray, 1854., 1854. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xvi, 419, [1]; 1 p.l., [v]-viii, 465, [1]; 1 p.l., [v]-vii, 457, [1]. lacking half-titles. contemporary dark brown calf, gilt backs (joints & spines rubbed, most labels wanting, Vol. III tail of spine chipped & front joint cracked, light foxing to outer leaves). Seventh Edition.. Hardcover.

London: Printed For Baldwyn & Co. 1821., 1821. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xvi, 518, [16]index. engraved frontis. portrait. attractively bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf, gilt spine. cfSweet & Maxwell I 100.27. cfNCBEL II 1734. cfMarvin p. 263.. Hardcover.

Vienna: Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1769., 1769. folio. pp. 8 p.l., 282, lvi. 27 engravings in the text & 3 folding engraved plates (incl. in pagination). woodcut ornaments & initials. full contemporary dark brown morocco, lettered in gilt on upper cover: Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana Spectans Ad Antiquam Civitatem Voitsbergensem 1773 Antonius Josephus Schilcher P.T. Judex Civitatis Voitsberga (bit rubbed, some browning & foxing, marginal dampstain to last section containing engravings, folding plates dampstained & repaired -1 with some loss of text). Inscribed on front blank: "Mathias SchuemackerSuperioris Austriae Jo. J. Syndrins Voitsberga 1773". First Edition of the famous criminal code of Maria Theresa, which redefined torture as "a subsidiary means of eliciting truth". Torture could be applied to obtain confessions only in cases where condemnation would have involved capital or severe corporal punishment. A remarkable publication, including graphic illustrations of instruments and… Read More