Legal and Other Lyrics de OUTRAM, George - 1887

Cape Town & Johannesburg, Juta, 1945. Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. lviii, 533. table of cases, appendix, index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth, spine gilt; corners bit bumped, endpapers lightly browned, old signature to first free endpaper. In a very good condition. ~ Second edition. Professor George Wille (1880-1965), read for his B.A.LLB. at Cambridge. Returning to South Africa in 1903, he was a member of the Transvaal Bar for 18 years, where he practiced as an advocate. He became the first full-time professor of law at University of Cape Town in 1920, holding the chair until 1945, and lecturing chiefly on Roman-Dutch law. Many judges in South Africa and Rhodesia studied under him. Wille was one of the best-known legal writers in South Africa. He was known for his liberal outlook and for his support of equal legal rights to South Africa's underprivileged classes. 006-3

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1831. Hardcover. Very Good +. 976 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Purdon's Digest 1830. Formerly there was a second label in the fourth compartment. Blind-rolled chain border on each board. Former owner's name on title page and endpapers: J. Miles. Contains the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and the laws of Pennsylvania arranged by topic. In Very Good+ Condition: lacking one original spine label; leather is rubbed, with several small scrapes; leather over spine is starting to crack; light foxing; pages are somewhat browned, but clean and tight. A solid copy.

Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company [1-85521-448-2] 1994. (Hardcover) 332pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. The covers are lightly faded at the edges. "This book is the culmination of a three year research study focussing on the creation, management, disposal and research use of legal records of all kinds throughout the Commonwealth. It aims to provide, by means of thematic papers and specific country case studies, a general picture of the current treatment of legal records within various jurisdictions, and to suggest solutions to some of the more vexed problems of their disposal". Book about Legal Records & Record Management. Locale: Commonwealth; United Kingdom. (Law, Archives, Law, Lawyers, Research).

Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1917, Revised. (4to) 475pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. A photographic reproduction of Simon's Edition of 1696. Notes, gloss, index. Previous owner names on the front endpapers. Time Period 1696. Edited by Ernest Nys. Preface by James Brown Scott. Translated by John Pawley Bate. Text in English Language, French Language & Latin Language. (Law, Law).

Woodbridge: Boydell Press 978-1-84383-216-4 [978-1-84383-216-4] 2006. (Hardcover) 242pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Map, notes, tables, bibliography, index. The corners are lightly bumped and there is a faint blue smudge on the spine. Time Period Medieval. Publisher series: Gender in the Middle Ages 2. Locale: England; Kent--England. (Law, Gender Issues, Law, Petty Crime).

London: Thomas Kelly 1824. (Hardcover) 512pp. Poor, no dust jacket. Leather binding. Frontispiece with tissue guard, engraved title with vignette, illustrations, notes, appendix. The spine is cracked and chipped, and the boards are detached and heavily worn at the corners. Illustrated by portraits drawn from life, and other copperplate engravings of peculiar interest. Trial of John Thurtell. Murder of William Weare. (Law, Gambling, Law, Trials--England).

Harrisburg: Pennsylvania General Assembly, 1858. Paperback. Very Good -. 20 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "6" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. No date of publication. Information in the publication goes up to 1858. Lawyer and judge Garrick Mallery (1784-1866) served in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1827 to 1830 and was chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means when the Bank of Pennsylvania was rechartered in 1830. He was the father of Garrick Mallery (1831-1894), an ethnologist who specialized in Native American sign language. This publication relating to the demise of the Bank of Pennsylvania during the financial panic of 1857-1858 is very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; last leaf is detached but present; foxing, heavy on pp. 19-20; otherwise, clean and tight.

RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

Sinclair, Upton. Boston: A Novel. Complete in two volumes by Upton Sinclair. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Albert and Charles Boni, NY. 1928 1st Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jackets included. Green, embossed Independence Hall with golden dome front boards. Pages no longer bright. Please see our photos. Based on the true story of Industrial Age Massachusetts. Per Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. site. "The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. On May 5 Sacco & Vanzetti , two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were arrested for (and later executed for) the crime..the two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927."