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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1852. Original sheep, rubbed, the joints just cracking, else an exceptionally clean, bright copy Original edition of Walker's probing effort to compare Roman law and common law, a principal part of his contribution to the civilian writers who "stand as an example of the highest intellectual attainments reached by antebellum American lawyers

London: Printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell at the Peacock [etc.], 1686. Modern calf, morocco label gilt, very light browning, else quite attractive; Julius Rosenthal's copy with his ownership signature on the title page First edition of the first work on the English law of marriage, and one of Swinburne's two major works, written (in J.H. Baker's words) in "a felicitous informal style [contributing to] a reputation plac[ing] him in the ranks of the famous

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], 1783. Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857

London: Printed for G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey, 1780. Modern cloth-backed boards, quite fresh, with the three panel frontispiece graphically depicting several of Hart's cruelties towards his wife A rare account of a classic case of physical and mental cruelty (a genre not often reported), including forced seclusion, attempted strangulation, and physical blows of many different sorts, leading to the modern equivalent of a judicial separation

Washington: United States Postal Service, 1952. An official, one cent Postal Service postcard, revalued to two cents and postmarked at Washington D.C. at 5:00pm December 8 1952; in very good condition An ephemeral piece impossible to imagine today, in which a sitting Supreme Court justice sends a postcard to a colleague staying at a major New York hotel, revealing to all through whom the postcard passes the justice's new telephone number