Law
Collection of works, 18th century
Estimate: £300 - £400
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Ink-stamps of the Solicitors before the Supreme Court Library, Edinburgh, works comprise:
Nicholson, William Bishop of Carlisle. Leges Marchiarum, or Border-Laws. London: Hamilton and Balfour, 1747, 12mo, contemporary sheep, rubbed, front joint cracked;
[Scots law]. A Collection of Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session. [Bound with:] The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from November 1681, to January 1686. Collected by Sir David Falconer of Newton. [And:] The Acts of Sederunt of the Lords of Council and Session for the Year 1681, to 1691. Edinburgh: for John Vallange, 1701. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to, modern quarter cloth with 19th-century leather spine laid down, marbled sides, third work with loss to title-page;
Steuart, Sir James. Dirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scotland, Resolve and Answered. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1715. Folio, engraved portrait frontispiece, restoration to head and foot of spine, Dundas ownership inscription dated 1770 to front pastedown;
Craig, Sir Thomas, of Riccarton. The Right of Succession to the Kingdom of England. London: for Dan Brown [and others]. 1703. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate of Robert Groat MD;
Bever, Thomas. The History of the Legal Polity of the Roman State and of the Rise, Progress, and Extent of the Roman Laws. London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1781. 4to, upper cover detached (5)