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1808 BOSTON Town Officer Government Massachusetts CONSTITUTION Law Plantations
Samuel Freeman's "Town Officer" is an important early American instructional manual for officers in Boston. Directing them on official duties, this work was written to outline the powers given to officers and clerks in the framework of the Massachusetts government. This book contains the Massachusetts constitution and commentary and notes on various laws.
Item number: #15011
Price: $499
FREEMAN, Samuel
The town officer, or, The power and duty of selectmen, town clerks ... and other town officers, as contained in the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : with a variety of forms for the use of such officers
Boston : Printed by J.T. Buckingham for Thomas & Andrews, 1808.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 372
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References: Evans 15049
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~7in X 4.5in (18cm x 11.5cm)
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1677 English LAW Simon Degge Parsons Counsellor Church Tithes Clergy Duties RARE

Simon Degge was a 17th-century English barrister perhaps best-known for his only published work, "Parson's Counsellor". This work was Degge's study into ecclesiastical law primarily concerning the rights and duties of the clergy, or parsons. First published in 1676, this work covers tithing, punishments for simony, patronage rights, glebe incomes, instruction on ceremonies, and an important catalog of notable monasteries.

Item number: #21765
Price: $599

DEGGE, Simon

Parsons counsellor : with the law of tithes or tithing

London : Printed by R and E Atkins, 1677.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1 volume
• 'The First Part' – [32], 211, [1]
• 'The Second Part' – [2], 215-408 (i.e., 410), [38]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17cm x 11.5cm)

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1666 Thieves & Robbers French Crime LAW Larrons Assassinations Pick-Pockets RARE

A highly rare and impressive book on the history of French thieves. Written by Francois de Calvi, this book covers the types of crimes committed by thieves, their planning, slight-of-hand and pick-pocket skills, and strategies. This book was intended to help warn against the types of crimes committed, where, and how they are followed through. Other topics include thieves on horseback, how the bourgeoisie are attacked, assassinations and massacres, and pirates! A fascinating work!

Item number: #23446
Price: $599

CALVI, Francois de

Histoire générale des larrons, divisée en trois livres

A Rouen: Chez Jacques Besongne, 1666.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 parts in 1
o Part I – [8], 270
o Part II – [16], 209, [1]
o Part III – [8], 236
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.25in X 4in (16cm x 10cm)

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1599 France LAW 1ed Noble Estates of DAUPHINE RARE Wars of Religion Delagrange

A rare 16th-century collection of legal reports and summaries from nobles and lawyers of the Third Estate of Dauphine, France. It includes reports of officers of parliament and royals courts, noble finances, property law, and much more. Each of the documents, reports, and summaries were collected and signed by a 'Cl. Delagrange'.

Item number: #24670
Price: $750

Dauphine, France

Responses et saluations des pieces produictes par les gentz du Tiers Estat de Daulphiné, demandeurs, aux contredicts baillez par l'Estat des nobles & autres leurs escritures & d'autres, deffendeurs

A Paris: Chez Francois Huby, 1599. First, only known edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], 11, [1], 3-301 (i.e., 313), [3], 148 (i.e., 149), [1]
· References: USTC 20593
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; secure
· Size: ~9.5in X 6.25in (24cm x 16cm)
· Very rare

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1660-85 Stuart Restoration Acts of Parliament Charles II England Scotland FOLIO

A rare and impressive collection of 17th-century printings of Acts of Parliament during the reign of Charles II from 1660 through this death in 1685. This book is one of the best works describing the events of the Stuart Restoration in 1660. Interesting topics covered in this work include acts discharging prisoners, Irish import cartels, and much more.

Item number: #24057
Price: $950

England

Anno regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae… (1660-1685)

London: Printed by John Macock, and Francis Tyton, printers to the House of Peers, 1660-1685. First editions.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o Various pagination throughout
o Numerous title pages dated 1660-1685, through the reigns of Charles II-James II
· Provenance: Handwritten – Ri. Blackford, 1677
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~11.25in X 7.5in (28.5cm x 18.5cm)
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1677 ENGLISH LAW Edward Coke Reports Judicial Cases England Black-Letter French

"[Corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."
– Edward Coke, The Reports, "Case of Sutton's Hospital"

A rare 1677 edition of the Edward Coke's English legal reports and Select Cases. Edward Coke was an English judge and lawyer from the 16th- and early 17th-centuries being most remembered for his prosecution in the Gunpowder Plot, as well as writing 'The Reports'. His judicial rulings resounded all over the western world, in fact, his decisions had a direct influence on the third, fourth, and sixteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

'The Reports' is a gathering of specific court cases with commentary and arguments. Cases include handling of money exchange whether it be through loans, income, and gift-giving, common pleas cases, and financial obligations. These law reports have been some of the most important and popular writings on court cases in the English… Read More

1580 LAW Justinian Institutes Codex Rome Corpus Juris Geneva Vignon Pace Vellum

"Freedom is the natural ability of everyone to do what he likes, unless it is prohibited by law or by force."
― Justinian I

The 'Institutes of Justinian' is a portion of the full Corpus Juris Civilis, largely based on the Institutes of Gaius. Justinian sought to reform Roman law and education. This work was originally intended to be used by law students, but they were not solely used as a textbook, they carried legal weight …as law!

Published by Eustache Vignon, this 1580 Geneva edition was collected and edited by Giulio Pace.

Item number: #24956
Price: $950

JUSTINIAN

Justiniani Institutionum Juris Libri IIII. Aucti et illustrati annotationibus diversorum Jurisconsultorū

[Genevæ] : Excudebat Eustath. Vignon Atrebat., 1580.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o Institutionum – [16], 104 leaves, [398]
o Ratione Ordinis – [134]
· References: USTC 452089
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1682 SCOTLAND Laws of Scottish Parliament Politics Edinburgh RARE Witchcraft

Thomas Murray's 'Laws and Acts of Parliament' is a rare 17th-century collection of legal proceedings and laws enacted in Scotland beginning in 1424 through the early 18th-century and the Act of Union merging England and Scotland as Great Britain.

Item number: #25226
Price: $750

MURRAY, Thomas

The laws and acts of Parliament made by King James the First and his royal successors, kings and queen of Scotland

Edinburgh: Printed by Iosua van Solingen, for David Lindsay and his co-partners, 1682.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages;
o [12], 1018
· Provenance: Bookplate – Lord Macduff
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.75in X 3.25in (14.5cm x 8cm)

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1519 LAW Corpus Juris Civilis Justinian CODEX Byzantine P. Incunable HUGE FOLIO

"Freedom is the natural ability of everyone to do what he likes, unless it is prohibited by law or by force."
― Justinian I

Justinian's 'Corpus Juris Civilis' is unquestionably the fundamental work on law and jurisprudence! Parts of this work were originally intended to be used by law students, but they were not solely used as a textbook – they actually carried legal weight …as law! It includes four distinct parts – Codex, Digest, Institutes, and Novellae – each written with a different purpose.

'Codex' was the Justinian's attempt at organizing the laws in a systematic manner. Recognizing that the law system needed to be fixed, 'Codex' covers ecclesiastical law, criminal and civil law, the way laws were written and put into effect, duties of government officials, and proper administrative regulations.

This extremely rare and valuable 1519 edition is a massive folio published in Lyon by Francois Fradin.

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1864 Civil War Constitution of United States Declaration Independence Spalding

"We the People of the United States…"

A rare 1864 printing of the United States Constitution paired with the Declaration of Independence. The text of each page was printed within a decorative double-line square border – a printing style not common amongst American documents. This edition was one of the final issues of the Constitution to not include the 13th-Amendment on slavery.

Item number: #25043
Price: $499

United States

The Declaration of independence and the Constitution of the United States

New York: R. Spalding, 1864.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 85, [1]
· Provenance: Handwritten – John Porter
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Green cloth
· Size: ~9in X 5.75in (23cm x 15cm)

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1620 Customs of NORMANDY France Civil LAW Rouen Caen French FOLIO Berault

Josias Berault's "La Coustume Reformee de Normandie" is a rare, early 17th-century survey of the customs of northern France. This book, which was first published at the end of the 16th-century, describes the cities in Normandy including Caen, Rouen, Bayeux, Alençon, Gisor, Lisieux, and many others. This work also contains portions of the "Coustume de Normandie", a 10th-century system of civil laws used in various French provinces.

This rare 1620 folio was published in Rouen.

Item number: #25521
Price: $599

BERAULT, Josias

Dictionnaire universal de la Géographie commerçante : contenant tout ce qui a raport à la situation et à letendeu de chaquet etat commerçant ; aux productions de lagriculture, et au commerca qui seu fait ...

A Rouen: De l'imprimerie de David Du Petit Val, 1620.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [14], 810 (i.e., -20), [32]
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