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Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1773. First edition under this title, and the third American edition overall. This work originally appeared in 1772 as a fifth volume to Bell’s edition of Blackstone, under the title An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of.....  Read More Item Details for The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and Established, Agreeable to its True and Genuine Principals, Above the Reach of all Petty Tyrants ... Being a Necessary Companion for Every Lover of Religious Liberty... And an Interesting Appendix to Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England Add to Wish List

Item #301013

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Paris: Se Vend chez Nyon Pere et Didot, [ca. 1742]. Early edition. Interest tables and facts, a “ready reckoner”. Read More Item Details for Les Comptes Faits ou le Tarif General de touttes les Monnoyes Add to Wish List

Item #28702

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Mannheim: Kurpfalz Regierungsrath … F. Stamm, 27 April 1784. Law regulating the permissible peals of bells in the territory, the May-Peal, ringing of the bells in thanks after the end of storms, and prohibiting others. Read More Item Details for [Kurpfalz. Regierungsrath, Mannheim. Ordinance governing Bell-Ringing] Von Gottes Gnaden Wir Carl Theodor, Pfalzgraf vei Rhein, Herzog in Ober- und Nieder-Bayern … Verordnen hiermit gnädigst, daß in Unsern Kurlanden hinkünftig das May-Geläut gänzlich eingestellet, das Wettergeläut aber dahin eingeschränkt werden solle, daß ausser dem gewöhnlichen zu Anrufung des göttlichen Beistandes bestimmten Englischen Gruß, und dem nach geendigtem Gewitter zur Danksagung abermal zu gebenden Zeichen, nicht weiter in denen Kirchen geläutet werde … Add to Wish List

Item #217396

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. The First Reprinting by Johnson Reprint Corporation facsimile of Houghton Mifflin 1916 edition. Read More Item Details for The Life of John Marshall Add to Wish List

Item #308363

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April 11, 1941. Inscribed below on mount: “To Beryl H. Levy, with admiration and good wishes — Hugo L Black April, 11, 1941.” With a TLS from Black tipped to the back of the frame, dated January 22, 1941, concerning Levy’s book Our Constitution, and inviting him to visit A......  Read More Item Details for Photograph, signed To Beryl H. Levy Add to Wish List

Item #237991

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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1773. Fifth edition and first Oxford octavo edition. One of the cornerstones of our legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave as the first.....  Read More Item Details for Commentaries on the Laws of England Add to Wish List

Item #246885

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London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. Large paper issue. A fine large paper copy of Brougham's speech to parliament on law reform, one of just 30 according to Goldsmith. The advertisement leaf states that Brougham co-operated on this particular issue and it includes his corrections. "In February 1828, when he.....  Read More Item Details for Present State of the Law. The Speech in the House of Commons, on Thursday, Ferburary 7, 1828, on his Motion, that an Humble Address be presented to His Majesty praying that he will graciously be pleased to issue a Commission for inquring into the Defects occasioned by Time and otherwise in the Laws of this Realm, and into the Measures necessary for removing the Same Add to Wish List

Item #303071

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London: Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness, 1657. First edition. Read More Item Details for An Act for Continuing and Establishing the Subsidie of Tunnage and Poundage and for Reviving an Act for the better Packing of Butter and redress of abuses therein. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September, Annon Domini 1656 Add to Wish List

Item #35346

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London: Chiswick Press, 1893. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum (there were also 88 copies printed on paper). This work consists of two important ordinances issued by the Spanish monarchy on November 20, 1542, and June 4, 1543. Under the active influence of Bartolomeo de las Casas ("friend.....  Read More Item Details for The New Laws of the Indies for the Treatment and Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the Emperor Charles the Fifth 1542-1543. A facsimile reprint of the original Spanish edition together with a literal translation into the English language. To which is prefixed an Historical Introduction by Henry Stevens of Vermont and Fred W. Lucas Add to Wish List

Item #236066

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Dijon: Chez de Fay; Paris: Chez Briasson, 1744. Séconde edition. On Bourgogne laws. Read More Item Details for Traités des Prescriptions, de l'aliénation des biens d'église, et des dixmes, suivant les droits civil et canon, la Jurisprudence du Royaume, & les Usages du Comté de Bourgogne Add to Wish List

Item #245634

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[London: 1711]. Making all prize goods captured in America accountable for duty as if imported from England, with the exception of brandy and wine. Read More Item Details for An Act for the Encouragement of the Trade to America Add to Wish List

Item #30784

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Rennes: Chez Cousin-Danelle, Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale, 1813. Lists the date of arrest, the court, identifies the criminal with age, profession, address, a physical description, crime and punishment citing the applicable laws next to them. Read More Item Details for Extrait des Arrêts portant condamnation à des peines afflictives et infamantes, rendus pendant le moit de febrier 1813, par les Cours d'Assises et Spéciale du departement d'Ill et Vilaine, et de quatre arrêts rendus précédemment par la même Cour d'Assises, qui n'ont par été compris dans le dernier tableau, attendu que ces arrêts ne sont devenus exécutoires que depuis l'impression dudit tableau Add to Wish List

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