Law
Collection of English legal treatises and reports, 17th-18th century
£875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprising:
Davies, Sir John. Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley, Resolves et Adjudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1628. Second edition, folio (28 x 17.3cm), 20th-century half leather, text mainly in black letter, woodcut title devices and initials, typographic headpieces, initial blank present, early marginalia, ownership inscriptions to title-page ('Robert Wm Osborne, November 1844' and 'Robt Molesworth'), damp-staining to lower margins, occasional browning [ESTC S123364; STC 6362];
Dalton, Michael. Officium Vicecomitum. The Office and Authoritie of Sherifs. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1623. First edition, folio (28 x 18.5cm), contemporary blind-ruled calf, strapwork woodcut border to title-page, damp-staining and concomitant softening and fraying in fore margins (causing slight loss to title-page border, text otherwise unaffected), either free endpapers or initial and final blanks discarded [ESTC S107284; STC 6212];
Sheppard, William. An Epitome of all the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation. London: for W. Lee [and others], 1656. First edition, folio (28.6 x 17.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, endpapers renewed, browning, old ink-stain to 5F1-2 obscuring a few words, [ESTC R10939; Wing S3184];
Blount, Thomas. Nomo-Lexikon [graece]. A Law Dictionary. London: for H. Herringman [and others], 1691. Second edition ('with some corrections, and the addition of above six hundred words'), folio (31 x 18.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, worn, spill-burns in 2R2 and 3O1, closed tear in 3Y2 [ESTC R11153; Wing B3341];
and 7 others (these not collated): Les Reports de Sir William Jones ... un des justices del' Banck le Roy, 1675 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, browning); Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of the Exchequer ... collected by Sir Thomas Hardres, 1693 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, imprimatur leaf, contemporary marginalia, browning); The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, 1725 (first edition, large folio, contemporary tan calf, imprimatur leaf, bookplate of Sir John Cope, Bart); Michael Dalton, The Country Justice, 1727 (folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, hole in half-title/advertisement leaf); Giles Jacob, A New Law-Dictionary, 1736 (third edition, folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked); John Selden, An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government in England, 1760 (fifth edition, 4to, contemporary calf, bookplate of Thomas Dundas of Upleatham, Yorkshire); Daines Barrington, Observations on the more Ancient Statutes, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James I. Cap. XXVII, 1769 (4to, contemporary quarter calf, front board detached, closed tear in title-page) (11)
Footnote
Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).