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London: ¶ Londini in ædibus Richardi Tottelli. [Richard Tottell] Anno Domini. 1580. [colophon:] [fleuron] Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Rychard Tottel, the xvi. day of March. ¶ Anno domini a verbo nato. 1580., 1580. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. folio (11 × 8 in): [46], cccxxvi l. Early calf. · Register: 2º: ^[pi]A^4 A-H^4 ¶^4 ¶¶^6 ²A-4L^4 4M^6 (in this copy, the gatherings signed '¶' and '¶¶' are bound after the preliminary matter). · Condition: Rebacked, front joint cracked, cords secure. Numerous early marginal annotations. · Comments: First printed around 1514 from a manuscript now lost, the book of assizes is unique among the year books for reporting cases on circuit in the country, rather than those argued at the bar in Westminster. In addition to reprinting Rastell's preface to the first edition, this…
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The Queensland Statutes, Acts Of The Parliament of Queensland, & Queensland Legislation Annotations, 1828-2005 (174 Volumes)
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Brisbane: Butterworth & Co., 1962. Hardcover Hardcover. Good Condition. Included are The Queensland Statutes, 1828-1962 (1962 Reprint), in 20 Volumes, The Queensland Statutes, 1962-1989, in 31 Volumes, The Queensland Acts of Parliament 1990-2005 with Explanatory Notes in 88 Volumes, and Queensland Legal Annotations, 1992-2006, in 35 Volumes. 174 volumes in total. These were once working volumes and as such some volumes have cut and paste amendments and notations in ink. Slight discolouration to some spines. Some biostaining to some covers. Soiling to outside edges of some volumes. Creasing to some spines. Previous owner stamps to outside edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner plate laid-in on front endpaper. Shipped Weight: 236.2 kilos. BZDB407 Law & Criminal Studies; Politics & Government::Australian Politics; Countries::Australia; Countries::Australia::Queensland; Australia; Politics & Government. The Parliament of Queensland The Queensland Statutes, Acts Of The Parliament of Queensland, & Queensland Legislation Annotations, 1828-2005 (174 Volumes)
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Le liuer des assises & plees del corone, moues & dependauntz deuaunt les iustices, sibien en lour circuitz come aylours, en temps le Roy Edwarde le tierce, ouesq[ue]z vn table des principal matters del plees del corone.
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HVGONIS GROTII DE IVRE BELLI AC PACIS LIBRI TRES, IN QUIBUS JUS NATURAE & GENTIUM, ITEM JURIS PUBLICI PRAECIPUA EXPLICANTUR ... EDITIO NOVA, CUM ANNOTATIS AUCTORIS, EX POSTREMA EJUS ANTE OBITUM CURA MULTO NUNC AUCTIOR
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Amsterdam: Johann Blaeu, 1650.. [24],618,[45]pp. Contemporary vellum over boards, manuscript spine title. Bookplate of Arthur Houghton on front pastedown, 19th century academic ownership inscription on front pastedown, a few scattered early annotations and underscores, moderate scattered foxing, tanning and occasional spotting, bound without binder's endsheets, otherwise a very good copy. A corrected edition of Grotius's masterwork of legal theory, begun by him in 1604, and completed after his escape to Paris in 1621. The first edition was published there in 1625, his reputation was soon established throughout Europe and this work was reprinted frequently and translated thereafter. Blaeu first published this text, with Grotius's final corrections, annotations and enhancements in 1642. "This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government outside of Church or Scripture ... Grotius's principle of an immutable law, which God can no more alter than a…
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Consiliorum, sive Responsorum Baldi Ubaldi Perusini Jurisconsulti Omnium Concessu Doctissimi Pariter et Acutissimi, Volumen Quartum [and] Volumen Quintum [vols 4 & 5 only, bound together]
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Venice: apud Dominicum Nicolinum, & Socios [Domenico Nicolino], 1580. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vols. 4 & 5 (of 5) only. 2 volumes in 1. "Hac novissima editione recognitum, pluribusq; in locis accuratissime castigatum; cum quaestionibus, summarii & indice locupletissimo." 117 leaves [234 p.], 139 leaves [278 p.]; 37 cm. Signatures: A-P8 (-P7, -P8) A-R8 S4 (last leaf blank) (folio). Original parchment over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; hand-written title in first compartment. Handwritten identification also on lower page edges. Large and elaborate printer's device on title pages, which combines the earlier printer's device of Domenico Nicolino (a woman holding a wreath) with three others, presumably of the partners (Socios) referred to in the imprint. In Very Good+ Condition: original parchment over boards rubbed and soiled, with loss of parchment at ends of spine and over raised bands; loss at lower corner of front board; small stain along lower edge of 5:2-22, not…
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Typed Letter, Signed, on US Supreme Court Letterhead, Framed
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1935. Washington, DC, November 29, 1950. Washington, DC, November 29, 1950. Frankfurter Letter to a Distinguished Lawyer Concerning Alger Hiss [Manuscript]. Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Stryker, Lloyd Paul (1885-1955)]. [Typed Letter, Signed (With Full Signature), On U.S. Supreme Court Letterhead, Washington, DC, November 29, 1950]. Single-page letter on 10" x 8" sheet and 7"x 5" portrait photograph of Frankfurter in judicial attire in attractively matted and glazed 15-1/2" x 19-1/2" frame. Light toning to letter, four related clippings affixed to rear of frame. $2,500. * Alger Hiss [1904-1996], one of Frankfurter's proteges, was an American government official who was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Because the statute of limitations for espionage had expired by 1948, he was indicted for perjury. He was tried twice, once 1949 and again in 1950. His first trial ended with a hung jury, his second with a conviction. To this day, Hiss's guilt remains a matter of…
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[North West Passage] An Act for giving a publick Reward to such Person or Persons, His Majesty’s Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through Hudson’s Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America: The third Act to be published on the Northwest Passage
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Anno Regni GEORGII II REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO OCTAVO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the First Day of December, Anno Domini 1741, in the Fifteenth Year of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.... FIRST EDITION, [2], 483-486, woodcut coat of arms on title, woodcut floriated initial, text in black letter, folio (320 x 200mm), London, Thomas Baskett, 1745The third Act to be published on the Northwest Passage, the act of 1745 offered the enormous sum of £20,000 for the discovery of a north-west passage, providing that they were a British subject. The preamble to the Act stated the expected economic benefits of the discovery of the passage, and that it would be "a great encouragement to adventurers" to offer a prize. The allocated sum was £20,000, to be paid to the owners of the first ships to successfully make such a passage.The Board of Longitude existed from 1714… Read More
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Le liuer des assises & plees del corone, moues & dependauntz deuaunt les iustices, sibien en lour circuitz come aylours, en temps le Roy Edwarde le tierce, ouesq[ue]z vn table des principal matters del plees del corone.
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London: ¶ Londini in ædibus Richardi Tottelli. [Richard Tottell] Anno Domini. 1580. [colophon:] [fleuron] Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Rychard Tottel, the xvi. day of March. ¶ Anno domini a verbo nato. 1580., 1580. 3rd Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. folio (11 × 8 in): [46], cccxxvi l. Early calf. · Register: 2º: ^[pi]A^4 A-H^4 ¶^4 ¶¶^6 ²A-4L^4 4M^6 (in this copy, the gatherings signed '¶' and '¶¶' are bound after the preliminary matter). · Condition: Rebacked, front joint cracked, cords secure. Numerous early marginal annotations. · Comments: First printed around 1514 from a manuscript now lost, the book of assizes is unique among the year books for reporting cases on circuit in the country, rather than those argued at the bar in Westminster. In addition to reprinting Rastell's preface to the first edition, this…
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HVGONIS GROTII DE IVRE BELLI AC PACIS LIBRI TRES, IN QUIBUS JUS NATURAE & GENTIUM, ITEM JURIS PUBLICI PRAECIPUA EXPLICANTUR ... EDITIO NOVA, CUM ANNOTATIS AUCTORIS, EX POSTREMA EJUS ANTE OBITUM CURA MULTO NUNC AUCTIOR
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Amsterdam: Johann Blaeu, 1650.. [24],618,[45]pp. Contemporary vellum over boards, manuscript spine title. Bookplate of Arthur Houghton on front pastedown, 19th century academic ownership inscription on front pastedown, a few scattered early annotations and underscores, moderate scattered foxing, tanning and occasional spotting, bound without binder's endsheets, otherwise a very good copy. A corrected edition of Grotius's masterwork of legal theory, begun by him in 1604, and completed after his escape to Paris in 1621. The first edition was published there in 1625, his reputation was soon established throughout Europe and this work was reprinted frequently and translated thereafter. Blaeu first published this text, with Grotius's final corrections, annotations and enhancements in 1642. "This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government outside of Church or Scripture ... Grotius's principle of an immutable law, which God can no more alter than a…
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Consiliorum, sive Responsorum Baldi Ubaldi Perusini Jurisconsulti Omnium Concessu Doctissimi Pariter et Acutissimi, Volumen Quartum [and] Volumen Quintum [vols 4 & 5 only, bound together]
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Venice: apud Dominicum Nicolinum, & Socios [Domenico Nicolino], 1580. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vols. 4 & 5 (of 5) only. 2 volumes in 1. "Hac novissima editione recognitum, pluribusq; in locis accuratissime castigatum; cum quaestionibus, summarii & indice locupletissimo." 117 leaves [234 p.], 139 leaves [278 p.]; 37 cm. Signatures: A-P8 (-P7, -P8) A-R8 S4 (last leaf blank) (folio). Original parchment over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; hand-written title in first compartment. Handwritten identification also on lower page edges. Large and elaborate printer's device on title pages, which combines the earlier printer's device of Domenico Nicolino (a woman holding a wreath) with three others, presumably of the partners (Socios) referred to in the imprint. In Very Good+ Condition: original parchment over boards rubbed and soiled, with loss of parchment at ends of spine and over raised bands; loss at lower corner of front board; small stain along lower edge of 5:2-22, not…
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Typed Letter, Signed, on US Supreme Court Letterhead, Framed
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1935. Washington, DC, November 29, 1950. Washington, DC, November 29, 1950. Frankfurter Letter to a Distinguished Lawyer Concerning Alger Hiss [Manuscript]. Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Stryker, Lloyd Paul (1885-1955)]. [Typed Letter, Signed (With Full Signature), On U.S. Supreme Court Letterhead, Washington, DC, November 29, 1950]. Single-page letter on 10" x 8" sheet and 7"x 5" portrait photograph of Frankfurter in judicial attire in attractively matted and glazed 15-1/2" x 19-1/2" frame. Light toning to letter, four related clippings affixed to rear of frame. $2,500. * Alger Hiss [1904-1996], one of Frankfurter's proteges, was an American government official who was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Because the statute of limitations for espionage had expired by 1948, he was indicted for perjury. He was tried twice, once 1949 and again in 1950. His first trial ended with a hung jury, his second with a conviction. To this day, Hiss's guilt remains a matter of…
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[North West Passage] An Act for giving a publick Reward to such Person or Persons, His Majesty’s Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through Hudson’s Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America: The third Act to be published on the Northwest Passage
by ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
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Anno Regni GEORGII II REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO OCTAVO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the First Day of December, Anno Domini 1741, in the Fifteenth Year of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.... FIRST EDITION, [2], 483-486, woodcut coat of arms on title, woodcut floriated initial, text in black letter, folio (320 x 200mm), London, Thomas Baskett, 1745The third Act to be published on the Northwest Passage, the act of 1745 offered the enormous sum of £20,000 for the discovery of a north-west passage, providing that they were a British subject. The preamble to the Act stated the expected economic benefits of the discovery of the passage, and that it would be "a great encouragement to adventurers" to offer a prize. The allocated sum was £20,000, to be paid to the owners of the first ships to successfully make such a passage.The Board of Longitude existed from 1714… Read More
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Shoot to Kill?
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Rumpole and the Angel of Death
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Histoire du Procès de la France par Auguste Johanet
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Paris: Aux Bureaux du Journal La France, 1841. Very Good -. 48 p.; 20 cm. Disbound. Auguste Johanet (1806-1860) was a French lawyer and historian. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: half title detached but present; clean and solid.
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An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate address to the Clergy. by William Law, A.M. to Which is Prefixed a Short Account of His Life and Character
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Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1786. Paper wrappers, chipped and soiled throughout, with paper over spine missing and front wrap almost off. Lightly ex-library otherwise good.. An Early American imprint. Sabin 39326; Evans 19755. Small 8vo. [1], viii, 132 pp.
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide)
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 Grosset & Dunlap Reprint. Complete and Unabridged. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. 1 inch missing from dj at bottom spine. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY. Originally published as Sparkling Cyanide. COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED. VERY Hard to find this this item complete with its original dj.
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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen
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Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.
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The Man In The Brown Suit
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703 ChristieBrownSuit The Man In The Brown Suit. By Agatha Christie. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1958, Stated Fourth Impression Thus,1970. ISBN 0370006720. Please see our stock photos. EXLIB. Good Condition/Good Original Shakel & Ryder Dust Jacket with Yellow spine, black titling, woman and ship cover art. Protected in mylar wrap. "States new and redesigned Edition, Fourth Impression, 80p. Blue boards with black titling. Has the usual labeling and stamping. Our book spine has skinned spot at the word "brown" from removal of scotch tape. Plot Summary: Who is he, the man in the brown suit? He says he is a doctor; but Anne Beddingfield, who witnesses the fatal accident at a London tube station, is quick to notice some curious features about him when he comes to the scene. Her investigation of the accident leads her into the thick of mystery. This novel is more than an ingenious puzzle: It is a gripping suspense story."
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Poirot's Early Cases
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Poirot's Early Cases. By Agatha Christie. Ulverscroft December 1990 First Large-Print Edition. Short story Anthology. Complete and unabridged. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ½ X 8 ¾. 470 pages. Summary: In this collection of eighteen stories Hercule Poirot begins his celebrated career in crime. Includes The Double Clue, The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley, and How Does Your Garden Grow, 15 others. A HARD TO FIND ITEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
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