ALCUIN BOOKS~ Scholarly and Rare

Disraeli the Younger (Benjamin). Vindication of the English Constitution in a Letter to a Noble and Learned Lord.. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. 8vo., 210, (2)pp. A classic treatise on English Law, in a very readable text, underlining the genius behind the pen. In original brown linen boards, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Ads for Saunders & Otley following text. Errata slip tipped-in. The text block is clean and tight, without marks except for very minimal spotting on outer pages. The linen boards are exquisite: Minimal wear to spine, a small water mark on panel, and one bumped corner. An extremely handsome copy.

Montesquieu, Charles De Secondat, Baron De, 1689-1755.Oeuvres De Montesquieu Ave Les Notes De Tous Les Commentaterus. Paris: Lefevre, 1826. 8vo. The best French language collection including Vol. 1-4 De l'espris des lois Vol. 5: Defense de l'espirit des lois; v. 6 Letteres persanes; Vol. 7 Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence Vol. 8 Le Temple de Gnide, Essai sur le gout; Pensees diverses. Notes sur l'Angleterre. Poesies. Montesquieu was read by all of the Founders and represents one of the great intellects of the Eighteenth Century. This set is the French Edition that was read by most legal philosophers through the Twentieth Century. A very good set bound in 1/4 calf over marbled boards, with only light edgewear and some light brown spots on the spine.

[014779] $350

Rhode Island Court Records; Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1670 (Volumes I and II. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1920. 1at. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good Very scarce Volume I. 80 pages, index I-VIII; Volume II 101p., index I-XI. Volume II has a 1 1/2" tear on cloth, binding clean and tight. Every case appears with each jury inpaneled and each decision. A remarkable detail of the mid-17th Century legal proceedings in Rhode Island. (In 1998 a third volume appeared on cases after 1670. The old spellings that were prevalent in both England and in the new colony are fascinating as are the kinds of cases, fines, resolutions. The Benedict Arnold here referred to is not the one who appeared a little more than a century later but an ancestor.

Saunders, Edmund, Sir; John Williams; John Patterson, Sir; Edward Vaughan Williams, Sir. The Reports of the Most Learned Sir Edmund Saunders, Knt; of Several Pleadings and Cases in the Court of King's Bench, in the Time of the Reign of his Most Excellent Majesty King Charles the Second [1666-1672], 4th American Edition from the 5th London Ed. Philadelphia: John Griff, 1828. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original Calf. Very Good 3 volume set [note actually 2 volumes but because of the length of volume 2 it was always divided into two separate volumes].

Stone, Julius. The Province and Function of Law; Law as Logic Justice and Social Control. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. 4to. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. First Edition, second printing. 918p. One of the great compendiums on the study of law.

Van Heythuysen, F.M.; Hughes, Edward. The Equity Draftsman; Being a Selection of Forms of Pleadings in suits in Equity. Originally Compiled By F.M. Van Heythuysen, Revised and Enlarged with Numerous Additional Forms and Practical Notes; 2nd London Ed.. New York: O. Halstead, 1832. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original Calf. Very Good lvi, 952p. A work that was the standard in Great Britain and was used throughout the fledgling nation as the body of English law was delineated into equity versus law (with an emphasis on using common law) but until the mid-Nineteenth Century a transition was underway of which this was among the last to be modified.