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London: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1908-10. Disbound, extracted from volume 6 of the Society's Transactions, 6+17 pages, a clean usable copy Maitland's careful, seminal analysis establishing with certainty that burning to death for heresy began in England in 1222, when a deacon left the church, committed apostasy, was circumcised, and converted to Judaism, all for his love of a Jewess

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1852. Original sheep, rubbed, the joints just cracking, else an exceptionally clean, bright copy Original edition of Walker's probing effort to compare Roman law and common law, a principal part of his contribution to the civilian writers who "stand as an example of the highest intellectual attainments reached by antebellum American lawyers

London: Printed for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, 1798. ?Original self-wraps, disbound, without the advertising leaf, 38 pages; holdings in one library only in North America in ESTC A rare tract by the noted conveyancer exploring a recondite issue dividing the greatest minds of English law--including Bacon, Hale, and Blackstone--concluding that the great-grand-mother's brother, with his greater paternal longevity, must prevail

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