Lot 81
LAW & POLITICS
INCLUDING THE STAIR SOCIETY
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
volumes 1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 12 (vol. 1 only), 16 (vol. 1 only), 24, 25 (vol. 2 only), 27 (vol. 2 only), 28 (2 copies, each vol. 3), 34, 37, 44 & 45 (two copies). Edinburgh, 1990-1937-1997. 8vo, various editions, some in original blue cloth gilt, some in red cloth; [ACTS] a large quantity of legal Acts, including: An Act for Raising of Fifteen Thousand Pounds Sterling in Scotland.... London, 1657; An Act to Dissolve the Marriage of Jane Campbell with Edward Addison, her now Husband, on Account of Inscestuous Adultery with the Sister of the Said Jane Campbell..., 1801; The Acts Done and Past in the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Sessions of the First Triennall Parliament of our Soveraigne Lord Charles... Edinburgh, 1646; [Colquhoun, P.] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis... London: H. Fry, 1796. Third edition, 8vo, contemporary calf; [Idem] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis. London: Joseph Mawman, 1800. Sixth edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf; de Lolme, J.L. The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government... London: G. Robinson, 1784. Fourth edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf gilt; Walpole, Sir Horace Mr. Walpole's Case in a Letter from a Tory Member of Parliament to his Friend in the Country. [London:] 1712. 8vo, modern quarter calf, stamps of the 'Free Library' (quantity)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison