ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW 
“[A]
bare Narrative of
matter of
FACT,
digested in order of time”
(A
*LOT* to Work or Play With). Rushworth, John,
comp. Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty
matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five parliaments. Beginning the sixteenth
year of King James, anno 1618. and ending ... [with the death of King Charles
the First, 1648] ... London: Pr. by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1659–1701.
Folio (31.5 cm; 12.5"). 5 parts in 8 vols. I: Frontis. port., [15] ff., 691, [1
(blank)], 57, [1 (blank)] pp. II: Frontis. port., [5] ff., pp. 1–617, [1
(blank)] p., pp. 717–884 pp., 1 plt. (port., Duke of Hamilton). III: pp.
885–1060, 1085–1196, 1199–1388; appendix pp. 1–315, [1
(blank)] pp.; 1 plt. (port., Earl of Strafforde). IV: Frontis. port., [3] ff.,
184 pp., fols. 185–92, pp. 193–400, [16] ff., pp. 385–552, fols.
553–64, pp. 565–788, [6] ff. V: [1] f., 208 pp., pp. 259–410,
459–770, 777–99, 791–975, 974–88, [6] ff. VI: Frontis.,
[1] f., xvi, 148 pp., pp. 177–352, 361–656, [4] ff.; fold. plt. VIII:
Title-leaf, pp. 731–890 (837, 838 repeated), 913–1056, 1059–74,
1097–1431; [1] p., [9 (index)] ff. VIII: Frontis., title-leaf, [4] ff.,
pp. 1–76, 101–252, 401–786, .
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As our caption notes, this vast repository purports to have been made as “a bare narrative” of its “fact[s]”; but it now resonates with a richness far beyond mere chronicle. 
It repays both extended and “dip-in” reading for pleasure.
• Wing (rev. ed.) R2316, R2318–19, & R2333; Lowndes 2152. Recent half speckled calf, old style; marbled paper sides; round spines, raised bands, gilt center devices in spine compartments, bands accented with gilt beading. Binding signed by Starr Bookworks. Occasional early marginalia. Occasional foxing. Very old waterstaining in vol. VI, with cockling of paper; minor worming in upper margins of same volume (not anywhere close to text). Old library pressure- (not perforation-) stamps in some blank margins. 
A very nice set. (22477)
This entry is repeated in the
Trial by Jury Adam, William. Observations respecting the further extension of trial by jury to Scotland in civil causes. Edinburgh: J. Hay & Co., 1819. 8vo. [2], 51, [1], xi, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2A2513. Removed from a nonce volume. Closely trimmed with shouldernotes and signature marks variously shaved; one page's last line in the Appendix taken (but no others). (11155)
REGICIDE Pilloried — Sort Of Anonymous.
Invisible John made visible: or, A grand pimp of tyranny portrayed,
in Barkstead’s arraignment at the barre, vvhere he stands impeached of high
treason, and other gross misdemeanours, as the late tyrant’s bum-bayliff
in his most arbitrary, oppressive and tyrannical invasions of the rights and liberties
of Engli sh-men, within the late cantonized county of Middlesex, the City of London
Tower, &c. Whereunto are added, five queries, to the Parliament, Council of
State, and Army.... London: no publisher/printer, 1659. Small 4to. [1] ff., 6
pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. There exist at least four different editions of this work. In this edition, line 9 of the title begins “VVhere” and line 19 has “Parliament, Council of State, and Army.”
• Wing (rev. ed.) I289aA; ESTC R234704. Removed from a nonce volume and now in later wrappers. (21001)
Looking
at
Tithes
from Both Sides[Arnall,
William]. The second part of the case of tythes; containing animadversions
on a reverend prelate’s remarks upon the bill now depending in Parliament...to
which are prefix’d the reverend prelate’s remarks. The third edition,
with additions. London: J. Peele, 1731. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). 32 pp.
Conveniently, both Sherlock’s argument and Arnall’s
response are printed here.
• ESTC T108041. On Arnall, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, II, 103). Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. Final page stamped by a now-defunct institution. Small area of worming in lower outer corner throughout, not touching text.
“Translated
Asgill”
Strikes
Back[Asgill,
John]. Mr. Asgill’s defence upon his expulsion from the House of
Commons of Great Britain in 1707. With an introduction, and a postscript. London:
A. Baldwin, 1712. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.55"). 87, [1] pp.
his rapturous religious
tenets while affirming his belief in the Scriptures and denying
any wrongdoing—especially in the pesky land speculation matter. One might,
upon perusing Asgill’s arguments, agree with the assessment made by the
printer of the original treatise, who “fancy’d [Asgill] was a little
craz’d” (p. 40).
This example is apparently a variant state of the first edition of 1712 (ESTC does not distinguish between variants, grouping all entries under one listing), with p. 61, line 8 ending “of the Romish Persuasion.’
• ESTC T41498. On Asgill, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, II, 159–61. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with small numeric stamp, spots of discoloration. A few pages more notably browned than their neighbors; otherwise generally clean.
Defending“Perfect Freedom of Discussion” Bailey, Samuel. Essays on the formation and publication of opinions and on other subjects. Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy (pr. by A. Waldie), 1831. 12mo (19.9 cm, 7.9"). [2 (adv.)], 240 pp.
• American Imprints 5858. Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter red cloth and plain paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed/soiled, spine sunned/discolored, spine extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: traces of now-absent label at head of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, call number in a 19th-century hand on pastedown and front free endpaper. No other markings. Pages generally clean, with text block firm. (26284)
Coal
Mining (or Lack Thereof)
in Scotland(Biggar
vs. Buccleugh). Information for William Biggar of Wolmet,
against her Grace the Dutchess of Buccleugh. [Edinburgh, 1705–10?]. Folio
(31.5 cm, 12.35"). [4] pp.
ESTC records only one, imperfect holding of this item.
• ESTC T37215. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper, now in a Mylar folder. Dust-soiling, creasing; repairs to tears in both leaves done some time ago, with some unrepaired closed tears resulting in loss of a few letters here and there.
For
more SCOTLAND & SCOTS, click
here.
Nonconformist DebateBritish Anti-State-Church Association. Proceedings of the first Anti-State-Church Conference, held in London, April 30, May 1 & 2, MDCCCXLIV. London: Pr. for the British Anti-State-Church Assocation, 1844. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). xi, [1], 142
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • NSTC 2LON952. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. First two leaves with small nicks to outer edges; pages clean.
“Northern Liberties” Broadside. Partially printed, completed in manuscript, beginning: To --------- Esq. Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas, at Philadelphia in the County of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania to any other Attorney of the said Court, or of any other Court elsewhere. Philadelphia: before 1790. Folio. 1 page (13.125" x 8").
Tyson and Walton signed the document on 24 August 1791.
An excellent display piece.
• Old folds with a few short tears. Residue of mounting tape at two points on the left margin. (14729)
BROUGHAM on Literature & Science — with MS. Letter Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brougham & Vaux. Addresses on popular literature, and on the monument to Sir Isaac Newton: Delivered at Liverpool and Grantham. London: Edward Law, 1858. 8vo. 63, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Ownership signature on front free endpaper, “Mr. Justice McDougall, Jamaica.”
Autograph manuscript addition: Tipped onto the title-page is a manuscript letter signed by Brougham, dated 1839. In this informal but warmly written letter apparently addressed to an uncle, he declines an invitation and briefly mentions “the children,” whom he thought were left safe from the measles at Paris; he had one living daughter at the time of this letter's composition, and may be referring to members of his extended family.
• NSTC 2B51067. Publisher's limp red cloth in imitation of morocco, yapp edges, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened with small paper label, sides with small areas of minor discoloration. All edges stained red. Front free endpaper with early inked inscription and small private pressure-stamp. Pages age-toned; one early inked correction. (26986)
Corruption Trial & Ultimate Vindication Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of. Letters of Albanicus to the people of England, on the partiality and injustice of the charges brought against Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor General of Bengal. London: Pr. for J. Debrett,, 1786. 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.5"). [1] f., vii, [1 (blank)], 97, [1 (blank)] pp.
Attributed to the Earl of Buchan by Halkett & Laing (vol. 9 [1962 ed.]).
• Goldsmiths’-Kress 13204; ESTC T143537. Recent full brown speckled calf, covers gilt-tooled in the Cambridge style. Raised bands on spine accented with gilt beading on bands and defined by gilt rules above and below each band. Title-page printed aslant or trimmed somewhat askew, and with a few small old inkspots; pamphlet otherwise clean, with occasional light instances of foxing. (21735)
Appeal
to the House of Lords
— A Family, TornBuckingham & Chandos, Anna Elizabeth Grenville, Duchess of, Respondent. [drop-title] Appeal from the High Court of Chancery. ...Anna Eliza Dutchess of Chandos..., appellant, ...Anna Eliza Brydges [& others]..., respondents. The case of the respondents. [London, 1795]. Folio (45.1 cm, 17.75"). 13, [1] pp. [bound with] Chandos, Anna Eliza Brydges, Duchess of, Appellant. [drop-title] House of Lords. ...Case of the Appellant. [London, 1795]. Very tall folio (45.1 cm, 17.75"). 3, [1], 4 pp. 
• ESTC T214094 & T214093. Removed from a nonce volume: Sewn edge guillotined halfway down and the whole once folded in half; tearing and a little soiling along the fold with loss of individual words, and, in the second work (the Case of the Appellant), the upper half of p. 13 fully detached. Shallow tattering and soiling along edges. Manuscript notes as above.
What’s Going on Here?Burnside, Thomas. Document Signed. Clearfield, PA, 1811. Double folio (39.5
cm, 15.5"). [1] f.
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The Irish-born Burnside, then treasurer of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was later a justice of the Pennsylvania state supreme court.
A notary’s seal is affixed to the document, which was signed by both Burnside and Patton.
• Creased and slightly age-toned, with the folios separated and some offsetting from seal; a few small holes, touching text without notable loss.
He Tried. Burrows, Julius C. Civil rights. Speech of Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, February 5, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. 12mo. 10 pp.
• Very good. Removed from a nonce volume. (936)
What to Wear, the Duty of Schoole-Masters, Divorce Sentences, & More Church of England. Constitutions and canons. 1603. English. Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Bishop of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province: And agreed upon with
the Kings Majesties licence in their synod begun at London, anno Dom. 1603, and in the year of the reign of our soveraigne Lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the 37. And now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesties authority under the Great Seal of England. London: Pr. by John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1633. Small 4to. [60] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical was an assemblage of rulings given equal force with the canon law, although the rulings themselves were not based on canon law.
• STC (rev. ed.) 10076; ESTC S101555. Removed from a nonce volume. A very nice, clean copy with an array of marginal markings — Xs, asterisks, “vid.,” and the odd hand-with-pointing-finger. (21226)
1850 inProsperous, Bustling Boston Coolidge & Wiley. The Boston almanac for the year 1850. Boston: B.B. Mussey & Co., & Thomas Groom (pr. by Coolidge & Wiley), [1849]. 12mo (13.9 cm, 6.45"). 211, [5] pp.; 1 map, illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Boston-area businesses with full-page advertisements in this publication include a silversmith/jeweler, an apothecary, an upholsterer, a pianoforte manufacturer, and an ink maker; also provided are both an extensive business directory and an index of the smaller in-text advertisements promoting local merchants.
Binding: Signed binding of brown straight-grained cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with vignette of the city and blind-stamped with two female figures representing Agriculture (holding a scythe) and Law and Order (holding scales), back cover similarly blind-stamped with central stamp of Benjamin Bradley & Co. bookbinders.
• Drake, Almanacs, 4446; Spawn & Kinsella, American
Signed Bindings, 56. Not in Phillips, List of Maps of America.
Binding as above, spine showing minimal wear; clean and beautiful.
Front pastedown with ticket of a Massachusetts bookseller. Endpapers with
offsetting; map age-toned with offsetting, outer edges slightly ragged; one
index page with chip to outer margin, with loss of a few letters. Pages lightly
age-toned. An excellent copy. (26684)
ELIZABETH Must Have Loved HisThinking on Monarchy Crompton, Richard, ed. L'authoritie et iurisdiction des
courts de la maieste de la Roygne: nouelment collect & compose, per R. Crompton del milieu Temple esquire. Apprentice del ley. Londini: Caroli Yetsweirti, 1594. 4to. [4], 232 ff.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on
Written in Law French with some Latin, and with extended passages entirely in English in the section on “forrest” law; printed in black letter.
Provenance: Contemporary inked signatures to fly-leaf of Henry Wynn/Wine (Middle Temple?).
• ESTC S109077; STC (2nd ed.) 6050; Lowndes, I, 558. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Pinhole or small worming throughout to top margins, touching a few letters in headings; light waterstaining to margins/corners of first/last leaves; one preliminary with just a very little bug-spotting. Paper flaws in margins of ff. 45, 164, and 172; last leaf a little tattered. Overall, very good. (21344)
The 19th-Century U.S. Constitutional History Curtis, George Ticknor. History of the origin, formation, and adoption of the Constitution of the United States; with notices of its principal framers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854–58. 8vo (24.1 cm, 9.5"). 2 vols. I: xxxvi, 518 pp. II: xvi, 653, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargement. The uncommon errata slip accounting for the absent “note on the authorship of the Ordinance of 1787") is laid into vol. I.
• Sabin 18038; Allibone 462. Publisher's dark brown corded cloth of Krupp's style Lea8, front covers with gilt-stamped eagle, flag, and motto vignette (of which a detail-photo is given above), back covers with same vignette in blind, spines with gilt-stamped title; corners/edges rubbed, spine extremities chipped, gilt slightly oxidized, and vol. I with joints starting yet covers firm. Ex–social club library: call numbers inked to endpapers (in some cases then obscured with old paper), rubber-stamp on front free endpapers and title-page of vol. II (not that of vol. I), several other pages rubber-stamped (most, faintly). Pages slightly age-toned. (26521)
Davis Himself
on the Civil War
— Many
Plates &
Maps
Davis,
Jefferson. The rise and fall of the Confederate government.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). 2 vols. I: xxi,
[3], 707, [5 (adv.)] pp.; 9 plts., 1 map. II: xvii, [3], 808, [4 (adv.)] pp.;
10 plts., 13 fold. maps.
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the images for enlargements.
constitutional
and otherwise, in favor of secession, states' rights, and
slavery; and his defense of his conduct and that of the Confederacy. The two
volumes are illustrated with a total of 19 steel-engraved plates, including
numerous portraits, and 14 maps, 13 of which are oversized and folding.
• Howes D120. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, covers framed in blind with central gilt-stamped horse and rider medallion on front, spines with gilt-stamped title; edges/extremities lightly rubbed and spines each with a patch lightened (moreso to vol. I). Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, title-pages rubber-stamped. Minor offsetting from some plates, pages otherwise clean. (26900)
WHO
Gets the BEER
& Why?(Dunsinnan
vs. Ramsay). Broadside.
Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of
Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh,
ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
Folded,
Sealed, & Sent
from Edinburgh
to New
GallowayEdinburgh
(Scotland). Town Council. Begins, “Right Honourable,
and very Loving Friends and Neighbours...Whereas the Commissioners of Burrows...did
appoint their next general Convention to be holden at the said Burgh of Edinburgh,
upon the first Tuesday of July next, 1723 years....” [Edinburgh, 1723].
Folio (31 cm, 12.4"). 4 pp.
The paper bears the seal of Edinburgh in red wax, with one half of the broken seal on either end.
• Not in ESTC. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper, now in a Mylar folder. Slightly tattered, with a few small holes around margins and occasionally in text. Tears along folds to second leaf partially repaired some time ago, in one area with archival tissue and in three other places with paper, with text imperfectly aligned along one main fold and a few letters obscured along the other.
GOOD
“Traditional”
AMERICAN
History
Elliott, Charles W. The New England history, from the discovery of the continent by the Northmen, A.D. 986, to the period when the colonies declared their independence, A.D. 1776. New York: Charles Scribner, 1857. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., 479, [1] pp. II: Frontis., 492 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 22260. Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped title and banner motif; lightly worn and moreso at corners, spines each with relatively unobtrusive strip of cloth tape at head. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, front free endpapers excised, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. (26890)
BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY Interesting, Too England & Wales. Parliament. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for giving power to all the classicall presbyteries within their respective bounds to examine, approve, and ordaine ministers for severall congregations. London: Pr. for John Wright, 1645. Small 4to. [1] f., 6 pp.
Bibliographically interesting. Wing records four different issues of this ordinance, the telling points being on the title-page: the spelling of “classical” or “classicall” and the form of the date, whether “12 Novemb., 1645,” or just “1645" and combinations thereof. ESTC fails to distinguish them.
• Wing (rev. ed.) E1894A; ESTC R176130. Removed from a nonce volume and dusty; in modern wrappers. All edges a bit chipped and lower margins of leaves A2 and A3 with loss of blank paper. All leaves age-toned. (20454)
Whoa! Hold on There! Just One Darn Minute! Episcopal Church in Scotland. The declinator and protestation of the archbishops and bishops, of the Church of Scotland, and others their adherents within that kingdome, against the pretended generall Assembly holden at Glasgow Novemb. 21. 1638. London: Pr. by John Ravvorth, for George Thomason & Octavian Pullen,, 1639. Small 4to. [1] f., 33, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. This work appeared with three different title-pages and there are even internal differences. In this copy the setting of quire B has line B3v with “Deliberations” spelled with the capital letter “D.”
• STC (rev ed.) 22058; ESTC S116980. Removed from a nonce volume and in modern wrappers. First and last pages dust-soiled; tea (?) stain to last leaf. Ex-library with the not unattractive stamp of the Union Theological Seminary on the verso of the title and in the bottom margin of the last text page. Blank area of foremargin of B4 torn with loss. In modern wrappers. (21000)
The Whiskey Rebellion Findley, William. History of the insurrection, in the four western counties of Pennsylvania; in the year M.DCC.XCIV. With a recital of the circumstances specially connected therewith; and an historical review, of the previous situation of the country. Philadelphia: Pr. by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1796. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). xv, [1], [17]–328 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Stated on p. [iii]: “Copy-right secured by Act of Congress”; Evans notes another issue of the same year with a “136th Pennsylvania District Copyright.”
Very interesting reading, with much detail as to actual events.
• Evans 30419; Sabin 24360; ESTC W20462. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered boards. Some foxing, including to title-page. Long tear running through 10 lines or so of two leaves, affecting but not costing any letters, neatly repaired with old library transparent paper tape now browned but still transparent enough to permit easy reading. The dates “1774" and “1796" have been minutely inked on the title-page below the Roman numerals in the title and imprint, respectively, by an early owner; ex-library, with no signs of that save a four-digit inked accession number and a two-digit number rubber-stamped at base of copyright page. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. A very good copy in an attractive binding. (23909)
The“Election”
AmendmentFoster, Abiel. Mr. Abiel Foster’s motion for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 4th February, 1800. Committed to a committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. Published by order of the House of Representatives. [Philadelphia]: Published by order of the House of Representatives, [1800]. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [4] pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Evans 38786; ESTC W026281. Folded as issued, edges untrimmed and slightly darkened. Second leaf with corners creased.
An Indian Author Objects to aRacist
SystemFurdoonjee,
Nowrozjee (i.e., Naurozji Faridunji).
On the civil administration of the Bombay Presidency...published in England at the request of the Bombay Association. London: John Chapman, 1853. 8vo. vii, [1], 88 pp.
A search of RLIN, OCLC, NSTC, and NUC Pre-1956 shows only four U.S. holdings of this pamphlet.
• NSTC 2N1853. Recent moiré cloth–covered boards. Title-page with small inked numerals in upper outer corner. One leaf with short edge tear just touching text.
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