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UGARTE, Manuel, and Georges FOUCART, translator.
‘Contes de la Pampa’: a manuscript translation of Ugarte’s...
Paris, [c. 1923–5].
A fine, largely unpublished manuscript, with translations of all fourteen stories from Miguel Ugarte’s Cuentos de la Pampa (1903, here translated from the 1920 edition).
£1750
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VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator.
Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico Carrione Brugensi...
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565.
First edition, a very attractive copy, of Louis Carrio’s precocious – and perhaps overconfident – recension of the first-century Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus.
£1250
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[JULY REVOLUTION.]
Habitans de Paris, les députés de la France, en ce moment réunis à Paris, m’ont exprimé le desir que...
[Paris], imprimerie de A. Guyot, [31 July 1830].
A seemingly unrecorded copy of Louis Philippe’s famous proclamation of 31 July 1830 accepting the position of Lieutenant-Général du Royaume in the wake of the July Revolution. Just days later Charles X would abdicate, and Louis Philippe would be proclaimed King of the French. Less than eighteen years...
£100
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HALLAM, Arthur Henry.
Remains, in Verse and Prose …
[London,] Printed by W. Nicol, 1834.
First edition, a presentation copy from the editor, the historian Henry Hallam, to his late son’s friend and fellow Cambridge ‘Apostle’ James Spedding. The prefatory memoir by Hallam senior includes a long letter from Spedding (‘one of his most valued friends’) (pp. xx-xxvi), here...
£5000
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POPE, Alexander.
Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several of his Friends.
London: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton … L. Gilliver … J. Brindley … and R. Dodsley … 1737.
First folio edition, large paper issue, preceded by a subscribers’ edition in quarto, of the first ‘official’ version of Pope’s letters.
£1500
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[AYALA Y AGUILAR, José de.]
Examen del derecho de vida y muerte, egercido por los gobiernos. Escrito por un Cubano.
Barcelona, Ignacio Estivill, 1838.
First edition of a Cuban treatise of criminal law, a forceful impugnation of capital punishment which invokes arguments and schemes from, among others, Filangieri, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Rousseau, and Bentham.
£250
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[BECCARIA, Cesare.]
Dei Delitti e delle pene. Edizione sesta di nuovo corretta ed accresciuta.
Harlem, et se vend a Paris, chez Molini, 1766.
Sixth edition, expanded to forty-seven paragraphs, of Beccaria’s principal work, one of the founding texts of penology and an important statement of criminal law reform, here with the additions of the ‘Giudizio di celebre professore sopra il livro dei delitti e delle pene’ and ‘Risposta...
£750
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[CERI, Giovacchino Domenico.]
Prodromo all’estirpazione del pirronismo dalla ragion civile d’Italia.
[Florence?] 1769.
Only edition, uncommon, of this analysis of the political and legal organisation of Italy, and proposals for its improvement, by the Prato lawyer and historian Giovacchino Domenico Ceri (1734–1798).
£375
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[CUSTOMARY LAW.]
Rechten, ende costumen van Antwerpen [and] Ordonnantie ende verhael vanden stijl ende maniere van procederen voor...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1582.
First edition of this compendium of customary law for the city of Antwerp, printed by Christophe Plantin, with extensive marginal annotations by two early readers. Compiled by the advocates Carel Gabri and Philips van Mallery, the work was printed in only a few hundred copies destined for the city’s...
£1250
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FILANGIERI, Gaetano.
Opuscoli scelti editi, and inediti ...
Palermo, Francesco Abbate, 1815.
Rare first edition of this collection of short works on subjects ranging from sovereignty to judicial reform by the eighteenth-century jurist Gaetano Filangieri (1753-1788), collected after his death by Giovanni Battista Ferrari, to which is appended a translated extract from an ‘Essay on the National...
£250
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GIZZI [or GITTIO], Andrea Giuseppe.
Lo scettro del despota, overo del titolo, e dignità dispotale, discorso istorico,...
Naples, G. Raillard, 1697.
Only edition of this extraordinary and rare study of legal, ceremonial, and political roles of the despot, or despotes, a class of prince akin to a king and beneath an emperor in the power structures of both the Byzantine world and Renaissance Italy, and thus a title used both in Venice and...
£2500
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[HUNTING].
Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britannie, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo Tertio. At the Parliament begun and holden...
Edinburgh, printed by Alexander Kincaid, His Majesty’s Printer, 1773.
Unrecorded edition of an act ‘for the more effectual preservation of the Game in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland’, which brought Scottish game law in line with English. The act sets out the strict hunting seasons for each type of game (muir fowl or tarmargen are banned between 10 December...
£150
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[ISLE OF WIGHT.]
By-laws for the regulation and government of the poor, in the House of Industry, in the Isle of Wight.
Newport, J. Mallett, 1789.
First edition thus of a rare survival documenting the transition from the Poor Relief Act of 1662 to the New Poor Law. The Isle of Wight was granted a licence to manage a House of Industry in 1771. This book of its by-laws consequently reflects the growing belief that the poor should be regulated by...
£950
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[MACKENZIE, Lieutenant-Colonel George, and others, defendants.]
The Trial, before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, at...
Aberdeen: Printed by J. Burnett ... for C. and J. Robinson, London [and stationers in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Banff, Elgin, and Inverness], 1803.
Sole edition. This controversial trial was brought as a private prosecution after the Lord Advocate, Charles Hope, had decided not to prosecute any officers or soldiers for killing four peaceable inhabitants of Aberdeen after celebrations of the King’s birthday on 4 June 1802 had got out of control....
£150
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[NORTON, John Bruce.]
‘The Hon’ble J. B. Norton’.
[Madras, c. 1871].
An extraordinary and striking testimonial presented to the influential Madras-based judge and educator John Bruce Norton (1815-1883) prior to his return to England in 1871, signed by hundreds of his Indian colleagues, expressing their ‘deep sense of the manifold and lasting benefits ... conferred on...
£2000
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[PADUA.]
Statuta Patavina noviter impressa cum diligenti cura et castigatione et cum additionibus necessariis tam provisionum...
Venice, Girolamo Giberti, 25 January 1528.
An attractive volume of statutes relating to the city of Padua in northern Italy, edited by the legal scholar Bartolomeo Abborario, with detailed annotations by a practicing local lawyer.
£2500
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[PAPAL STATES.]
Constitutio Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Pii PP. VII. super restauratione regiminis pontificii.
Rome and Ancona, ‘ex typographia societatis Palmini’, 1800.
Very rare Ancona printing, in the same year as the original Rome issue, of this Papal decree issued the day after the restoration of the Papal States after two years of the Napoleonic Roman Republic. The fall of the Republic was triggered by the arrival in October 1799 of Neapolitan troops, but...
£250
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[PATCH, Richard, defendant.]
The Trial of Richard Patch, for the wilful Murder of Mr. Isaac Blight, on the 23d of Sept. 1805, at...
London: Printed, by the express Appointment of the Sheriff, for Edward Jeffery ... Sold by John Walker ... H. D. Symonds ... Harris ... W....
First edition of this report of a famous trial (there was a rival version from the shorthand of Joseph and W. B. Gurney). Richard Patch (1770?-1806) was an unsuccessful farmer near Exeter who mortgaged his farms in 1803 and departed to London, where he entered the service of Isaac Blight, a ship-breaker...
£250
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[RICARDO, David.]
Report from the select committee on the usury laws.
London, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 28 May 1818.
First edition of the report from the select committee ‘appointed to consider the effects of the laws which regulate or restrain the interest of money, and to report their opinion thereupon to the House’ (p. 3). The question of the Usury Laws had first been raised in the House of Commons by Brougham...
£200
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STAUNFORD [Stanford], William, Sir.
Les Plees del Coron, Divisees in Plusors Titles & Comon Lieux. Per Queux Home Pluis Redement...
[London], Richard Tottell, 1583.
The definitive edition, and that owned by Thomas Jefferson, of the first book devoted entirely to criminal law. First published posthumously in 1557 and based on Bracton and the Year Books, Les Plees deals in turn with offences, jurisdiction, appeals, indictments and defences. The third...
£2500