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Catalogue of the Law Books in the Library of the Society of Writers.

1856ref. 865051856. From Edinburgh to Leipzig: The Lord Justice Clerk's Signet Library Catalog Later Held by Germany's Supreme Reichsgericht 1856 Ivory William 1798-1868. Catalogue of the Law Books in the Library of the Society of Writers Her Majesty's Signet in Scotland. Arranged Systematically with an Alphabetical Index of Authors and Subjects. Edinburgh: Alex. Laurie & Co. Printers to Her Majesty 1856. 268 pp. Octavo 10-1/4" x 6-1/2"26 x 16.5 cm. Publisher's green textured quarter cloth over marbled boards with gilt stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Ex-library with shelf location label to head of spine. Property stamp of "Reichsgericht" library to half-title. Contemporary library slip tipped-in to rear free endpaper. Contemporary presentation inscription "To/ The Rt. Honble The Lord Justice Clerk/ from the Curators of the Library" to front endleaf. A very good copy. $750. A seminal 1856 bibliography that marks the definitive systematic census of Scotland's premier legal repository the Signet Library providing an invaluable structural record of early Scottish Court of Session Papers. Crucially this copy serves as a direct bridge between two apex tiers of European judicial history. It is inscribed from the Library's Curators to John Hope 1794-1858 the long-serving Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland and head of the Second Division of the Inner House. Beyond its immediate mid-19th-century Scottish significance the volume charts an extraordinary mid-20th-century continental odyssey. It bears the ink property stamp of Leipzig's Reichsgericht the supreme high court of Germany and carries the shelf labels documenting its post-WWII evacuation to Karlsruhe where it integrated into the modern library of the German Federal Court of Justice. An exceptionally clean tight copy in its original textured quarter cloth this volume represents a stunning cross-border artifact connecting the highest judicial authorities of Great Britain and Germany. unknown