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1949ref. 148954Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1949. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1949 Western film. With manuscript ink annotations and a stamp reading "MEGGS 2" to the verso. Former governor of Louisiana Jimmie Davis stars as a man fighting governmental injustice and rallying local farmers to the election polls through music. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 41436np 1961. Near fine. Album belonging to Sergeant John A. England United States Army from his 1960 trans-Pacific cruise aboard the U.S.N.S. General Edwin D. Patrick a WWII-era transport ship based out of San Francisco. A contingent from the Republic of Korea Navy was aboard and the album focuses heavily on the Korean sailors and their interactions with American servicemen. A brilliant hand-painted title illustration in acrylic titled 'ROK NAVY' and two additional vignette works in the same medium illuminate the album. The images are clear and well composed creating a significant record of U.S.-Korean relations and of the Edwin D. Patrick which was the longest surviving of the P2 carriers in the U.S. fleet launched in 1945 decommissioned in 1968 and sent to scrap in 2010. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 10.5" x 14.5". Green faux-leather covered boards string bound. 24 card leaves 21 with 77 black and white snapshot photographs each measuring approximately 5" x 3.5" recto mounted loosely in corners. Final 3 leaves blank an additional 3 photographs laid-in; 80 prints total. Hand-painted title illustration to first endpaper two vignette scenes on first and fourth leaves. Mild edge wear to album exterior otherwise generally near fine. unknown books
1916ref. 88025New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers 1916. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; mauve cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 89-3502pp. Though the title page credits it to C.D. Williams the frontispiece and four black & white plates of illustrations are signed by John Sloan. Gentle sunning and some light dust-soil to spine neat early owner's ink name and tiny label at upper front pastedown with a small faint splash mark to upper corners; Very Good with the spine titling somewhat brighter than usual. "In The Golden Blight 1916 an early example of modern science fiction a physicist whose sympathies are with the proletariat in their opposition to World War I invents a machine which from any distance can reduce gold to ash. Despite the villainous attempts of the capitalists and their kept government to prevent him he eventually attacks even the gold in the United States Treasury Building in his effort to bring a stop to the war. When the financiers of the world gather in the Treasury's vaults to observe as one of them has predicted the reconstruction of the ash back into its original form the metal kills the financiers wrecks the Treasury Building and leaves for wiser posterity a Caesar's Column of gold bodies and masonry. Freed of their servitude to gold which as the physicist explains represents capitalism the people of the world immediately declare peace and vote in the Cöoperative Commonwealth" Rideout pp.59-60. REGINALD 04906. The H.K. Fly Company Publishers unknown books
1546ref. 825761546. Imprynted.by N. Hill for Henry Smythe 1546. Imprynted.by N. Hill for Henry Smythe 1546. A Rare Imprint of an Important Exchequer Ordinance Henry VI 1421-1471 King of England. Thys is a True Copy of the Ordynaunce Made in the Tyme of the Reygne of Kynge Henry the. VI. To be Observed in the Kynges Eschequier By the Offycers and Clerkes of the Same For Takynge of Fees of the Kynges Accomptes in the Same Courtes. London: Imprynted.by N. Hill for Henry Smythe 1546. 16 pp. Title page and final leaf are bound-in facsimiles. Octavo 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Recent calf gilt title and fillets to spine. A few minor nicks and spots to boards. Moderate toning and dampstaining to non-facsimile leaves minor water damage to fore-edges of two leaves one repaired brief annotations in early court hand at beginning and end of text. $950. Later edition. This title a copy of a 1447 ordinance governing the exchequer would have been "essential" for local government officials and justices of the peace given that most "were obliged to render an account at the Exchequer of fines fees and amercements" Holdsworth. Copies of the 1447 ordinance were frequently issued with or incorporated into JP manuals of the period; the English Short-Title Catalogue notes that this title may have been issued with contemporary editions of The Boke for a Justyce of Peace. This is a rare imprint. OCLC Library Hub and the English Short-Title Catalogue locate 1 copy worldwide British Library. Holdsworth A History of English Law IV:114. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books T243. English Short-Title Catalogue S108802. unknown books
1635ref. 827351635. Edinburgh 1683. 13-1/2" x 11. Edinburgh 1683. 13-1/2" x 11.". Rare Broadside Recording a Proclamation of Charles II Enacted to Protect the Textile Industry Broadside. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. A Proclamation Discharging Merchants and Other Traffickers to Sell or Exchange any Prohibite Commodities With Themselves Or Amongst Others. Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His Most Sacred Majesty 1683. 13-1/2" x 11" 34.3 x 28 cm broadside removed from volume with loss of most of imprint statement at foot text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms eight-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning lightly soiled horizontal fold line through center some edgewear along left margin "94" and "August 1683" in early hand along right margin. $750. Only edition one of two issues the other published in London. Intended to support domestic textile production this broadside was sent to sheriffs and other law enforcement officials throughout Scotland. The salutation line in our copy is blank. An act from September 1681 and a proclamation from the year before prohibited the importation and sale of certain fabrics. However it permitted merchants to sell any imported stock that remained. By 1683 sufficient time had elapsed to liquidate this stock but it was apparent that many were continuing to import textiles in violation the law. The present broadside decrees that merchants cannot buy or sell any "Cloaths Stuff Sarges serges Holland Cambridge Silk-stockings or any Goods made of Wool or Lint" unless they can prove they were either made in the kingdom or lawfully imported before the prohibition. As for any remaining imported stock permission is granted to the Merchants Burgesses of Edinburgh to sell it until November 1. Afterwards it will be "Confiscat Burnt and Destroyed and the Persons guilty otherwise punished." Both issues of this broadside are rare. OCLC Steele and the English Short Title Catalogue locate four copies of ours National Archives of Scotland National Library of Scotland Harvard Business School two copies. Steele A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns III:2552. English Short-Title Catalogue R183441. unknown books
1547ref. 760201547. 22 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno Vicesimo Secundo Henrici Octavi. Statuta Bonum Publicum Concernentia Edita In. Perliamento Tento Apud Westm. XVI. Die Ianuarii Anno Regni Praepotentissimi et Metuendissimi Anglie et Francie Regis Fidei Defensoris Et Domini Hiberniae Henrici Octaui. xxii. Post Diversas Prorogationes Eiusdem Perliamenti Primo Inchoati Apud Londinium. iii. Die Nouembris Anno. xxi. Eiusdem Regis: Et Inde Adiurnati et Prorogati vsq; Ad Vuestmonasterium Et Ibidem Continuati Per. xliiii Dies Videlicet usq; Ad. xviii. Diem Decembris: Et ab Eodem Die et Loco Vsq; .xxvi. Diem Aprilis Proxi. Sequentis: Et ab Eo Die Vsq; Ad .xxii. Diem Iunii Et ab Illo die ad Primum Diem Octobris Et a Primo Die Octobris Vsq; ad xxii Diem Eiusdem Mensis Et ab Illo Die Vsq; xvi. Diem Ianuarii Secundum Leges Terrerite Prorogati Et Ibidem Continuati Per .lxxxv. Dies Uidelicet ad Ultimum Diem Martii Eodem Anno .xxi. Et Inde Vlterius Prorogati vsq; Ad .xiii. Diem Octobris Proxime Sequentis. London: Tho. Berthelet Regius Impressor Excudebat. Cum Privilegio 1547. XXIIII ff. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-3/4". Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt and blind rules to morocco edges gilt-edged raised bands and title to spine gilt decoration to compartments. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped and lightly worn. Attractive woodcut initials. Light toning to interior small faint stains to a few leaves faint crease to title page later pencil annotations to several leaves. Rare. $1750. This volume records 16 acts for the 22nd regnal year of Henry VIII 1530-1531. These include "An Acte Ageynst Poysonynge" and "An Acte Concernynge Outlandishe People Callynge Them Selfes Egiptians" i.e. "gypsies". OCLC locates 3 copies of this edition in North America Harvard Law School Yale Law School Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at the Library of Congress. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S121479. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S136. unknown books
1635ref. 757411635. London: Robert Barker 1632. 15-1/4" x 11-3/4" 2 ff. London: Robert Barker 1632. 15-1/4" x 11-3/4" 2 ff. Stricter Enforcement of Lenten Laws Broadside. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. By the King. A Proclamation Commanding the Due Execution of the Lawes Made Against Eating and Selling of Flesh in Lent And Other Times Prohibited. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1631 i.e. 1632. 15-1/4" x 11-3/4" 2 ff. broadside text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms 8-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning very light foxing and soiling single horizontal fold line to each sheet. Housed in 13-1/4" x 9-1/2" buckram folder with red morocco spine label. $750. In England the traditional Lenten fast was not only a matter of private religious observance but enforced public practice. The prohibition of eating or selling meat on designated fasting days referred to as "fish-days" in this broadside was backed up by statutory and royal authority and beginning in 1632 under Charles I somewhat strictly enforced. OCLC locates 3 copies of this broadside in North America Harvard Yale Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Folger Shakespeare Library. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S122791. unknown books
1816ref. 755661816. The Repudiation of Queen Caroline Trial. Caroline of Brunswick Queen of England 1768-1821 Defendant. The Attempt to Divorce the Princess of Wales Impartially Considered; More Particularly with Reference to the Probability of its Success. London: Printed for J. Ridgway and Sons 1816. 25 1 pp. Lacking final advertisement leaf. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in early textured cloth printed label to front board edges untrimmed. Light toning and foxing to interior. $250. Third edition one of four from the same year. The repudiation of Queen Caroline by King George IV was one of the most sensational events in English history. Estranged soon after their marriage Caroline was eventually banished to Europe after the birth of their daughter Princess Charlotte Augusta. In 1820 her husband's accession to the throne brought her back to Britain. The King asked his ministers to get rid of her. After she refused a monetary offer to ask for a divorce the Earl of Liverpool introduced The Pains and Penalties Bill to the House of Lords in July 1820 in order to strip Caroline of her title and dissolve her marriage. The bill alleged that Caroline had an affair with a servant Bartolomeo Bergami while in Italy. The bill was approved by the House of Lords but it was not submitted to the House of Commons where it would have been defeated. Despite the King's best attempts Caroline remained a popular favorite. Published in 1816 our anonymous work presciently concludes that "there is every reason to believe that the design of dissolving the existing marriage of the Prince Regent will fail" and that "the expectations of the Princess Charlotte will not be defeated." All editions are scarce; OCLC and Library Hub locate 1 copy of the third edition University of St. Andrews. unknown books
1970ref. 141538N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Two small town ladies from North Carolina travel to Hollywood on a vacation. Their naiveté is evident capturing the attention of several actresses all of whom resolve to give the girls a proper introduction to Los Angeles. Hollywood ends up failing all of their expectations in a big way. Set in Hollywood. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Hal England and Jerry Fey. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered 164. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1635ref. 774751635. London: Robert Barker 1635. 15-1/2" x 11-1/4. London: Robert Barker 1635. 15-1/2" x 11-1/4". "To Confirme to His Subiects Their Defective Estates" Broadside. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. By the King. A Proclamation Declaring His Maiesties Royall Grace and Pleasure To Confirme to His Subiects Their Defective Estates in Their Lands and Possessions By His Commission Lately Renewed and Enlarged to That Purpose. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Maiesty And by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1635. 15-1/2" x 11-1/4" broadside text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms ten-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning faint horizontal fold line through center faint dampstaining to lower quarter of sheet chipping to edges with loss to imprint statement at foot of text bottom edge repaired. $750. This proclamation announced one of the king's strategies during his period of personal rule to raise revenue without reconvening Parliament. It established a commission which for fees paid would cure defective titles. There are two versions of this broadside; one has the initials "C" and "R" above the royal arms the other does not. Ours is the version without the initials. Both are rare; fewer than 5 copies of either are listed on OCLC and the ESTC. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America identical to our version at Yale. English Short-Title Catalogue S3584. unknown books
1662ref. 751521662. Charles II and the Earl of Clarendon Address the Cavalier Parliament Charles II 1630-1685 King of England. Hyde Edward 1st Earl of Clarendon. His Majesties Most Gracious Speech Together with the Lord Chancellors To the Two Houses of Parliament At their Prorogation On Monday the Nineteenth of May 1662. London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker 1662. 23 1 pp. Folio 10-3/4" x 7". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning light foxing leaves separating but secure first leaf reinforced at gutter on recto handwritten folio numbers in ink to upper right corners. $650. Only edition. Delivered at the end of the first session of the Cavalier Parliament this speech followed the passage of many acts consolidating the king's power and restricting religious freedom including the Corporation Act the Act of Uniformity and the Quaker Act. Charles II's speech primarily focuses on the "Affection and Kindness" of Parliament in awarding him generous revenue while the longer speech of Edward Hyde cites Machiavelli "an Author much studied of late in this Kingdom" in a warning to listeners against being complacent during peacetime. English Short-Title Catalogue R16202. unknown books
1611ref. 751911611. The Creation of Baronets Under James I James I 1566-1625 King of England and Ireland. His Majesties Commission to All the Lords And Others of the Privie Counsell Touching the Creation of Baronets Whereunto are Annexed Divers Instructions And His Majesties Letters Patents Containing the Forme of the Said Creation. Also the Forme of an Oath to be Taken by the Said Baronets. London: Imprinted by Robert Barker 1611. iv 18 p. 18 18-38 2 39-44 pp. First leaf blank signed "A". Lacking final leaf a blank. Quarto 7-1/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards gilt and blind fillets and gilt title and publication date to spine. Moderate toning to interior light soiling to first leaf a small repair to its verso minor smudges to title page and following leaf. A handsome copy. $850. Only editions. Enactments dealing with the creation of the baronetage by James I. The title of baronet "a new dignitie between Barons and Knights" was established by letters patent as a way for James to raise revenue quickly without Parliament. Initially prospective baronets were required to pay enough money to "maintaine the number of thirtie foote-Souldiers in Ireland" for three years at a rate of eight pence per day men badly needed to maintain English control in Ulster. The second title largely reprints the letters patent of the first title and includes some additional clarification about matters of precedence. There are 1274 baronets on the Official Roll of the Baronetage today. English Short-Title Catalogue S122652 S100729. unknown books
1538ref. 752261538. Acts Passed in the Twenty-Third Year of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXIII. H. VIII. The Kynge Our Soveraygne Lorde Henry the Eight by the Grace of God Kynge of Englande and of Fraunce Defender of the Faythe and Lorde of Irelande at the Sessions of His Highe Courte of Parlyament after Diverse Prorogations Holden at Westminster the .XV. Day of January In the .XXIII. Yere of His Moste Noble Reigne to the Honour of Almyghtye God and Holy Churche And for the Common Weale and Profytte of This His Realme By the Assente of the Lordes Spiritualle and Temporall And the Commons in This Presente Parliament Assembled And by Auctoritie of the Same Hath Ordeyned Establysshed and Enacted Certayne Good Statutes Lawes and Ordinances in Maner and Fourme Folowing. London: Imprynted.in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet prynter to the kynges moste noble grace 1538. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". XXVIII ff. Modern three-quarter tan mottled calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges gilt fillets and title to spine endpapers renewed. Boards slightly bowed negligible light rubbing to extremities. Light toning to interior two small wormholes to upper gutter not affecting text faint dampstaining to margins of ff. V-XXIII light foxing and soiling to a few leaves. $2000. Nineteen acts passed by the Reformation Parliament during the 23rd year of the reign of Henry VIII. The collection includes several acts dealing with trade acts reforming courts and prisons and "An acte that no person commyttynge pety treason murder or felony shall be admytted to his clergie." As called for by the ESTC it does not include the text of the Act of Annates. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S92172. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S143. unknown books
1575ref. 753941575. Rare Elizabethan Printing of the Acts of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXXVII. Henrici Octavi. Statutes Made in the Parliament Holden at Westminster in the XXXVII. Yere of the Most Renoumed Henry the Eyght By the Grace of God Kinge of England Fraunce And Irelande Defender of the Faithe And of the Churche of England and Also of Ireland In Earth Supreme Head. London: Printed by Thomas Marsh 1575. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". 72 pp. Twentieth-century quarter cloth over marbled boards blind fillets to spine endleaves renewed. Light rubbing to spine ends and board edges corners negligibly worn later pencil notations to front pastedown and free endpaper. Light toning slight horizontal creases and faint dampstaining to interior light soiling in a few places. $1750. Later Elizabethan edition of the statutes passed during the final tumultuous parliament of Henry VIII's reign which sat from November 1545 to January 1546. This post-incunabula compilation contains twenty-four individual acts that fundamentally reshaped the legal economic and religious landscape of early modern England. Chief among these is the landmark Act Against Usury 37 Hen. VIII c. 9 a pivotal moment in Western financial history. By repealing the medieval Catholic Church's absolute canonical ban on lending money for profit this statute legalized commercial credit and established England's first maximum legal interest rate capped at 10 percent. This pragmatic shift recognized the realities of a burgeoning mercantile economy and laid the regulatory groundwork for modern capitalist banking. The volume also captures the final aggressive phase of the English Reformation through the First Chantries Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 4. This statute granted the Crown the authority to dissolve and seize the remaining wealth lands and mismanaged assets of chantries-chapels heavily endowed to pray for souls in purgatory. Coming on the heels of the Dissolution of the Monasteries this act funneled critical wealth into Henry's depleted treasury to fund his costly continental wars. Additionally reflecting the highly volatile and paranoid political climate of the ailing King's final years the inclusion of an act penalizing the false accusation of treason highlights the Crown. unknown books
1975ref. 755701975. UK/Commonwealth. The Weekly Law Reports. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. 11 volumes: 1971 vol. 3 1972 vol. 1-3 1973 vol. 1-3 1974 vol. 1-3 1975 vol. 1. Tan buckram with black spine lettering. Ex-library with stamps else very good. Together 11 books. $100. This series offers comprehensive coverage with headnotes and full text reports of the judgments. They are printed weekly in 44 parts and then bound in three volumes per year. The first volume of each year reports on cases not thought of sufficient importance to warrant inclusion in the Law Reports. Those which will be included are found in volumes two and three. unknown books
1562ref. 756051562. 32 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXXII. Henrici Octavi in the Parlyamente Begon at Westminster. The. XXVIII. Of Apryll The. XXXII. Yeare of the Reygne of the Moste Excellente Most Hyghe And Moste Myghty Prynce Henrye the Eyght by the Grace of God Kynge of England and Fraunce Defendoure of the Faythe Lorde of Ireland And in Earth Under Christe Supreame Head of the Churche of Englande Oure Most Redoubted Soverayne Lorde There Holden and Afterwarde Continued by Dyvers Prorogacions Unto the .XII. Daye of Apryll in the Sayde Yeare. London: Ex aedidus Thomae Bertheleti 1540 i.e. 1562. LXVII i.e. lxxii ff. Folio 10-1/4" x 6-3/4". Nineteenth-century pebbled cloth paper label to spine colored added endpapers edges rouged. Light rubbing and minor light soiling to boards moderate rubbing to extremities light fading to spine which has a small tear near its foot spine ends and corners bumped later armorial bookplate of Edwin Freshfield to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing and soiling in a few places early annotations to a few leaves some affected by trimming. $1500. This volume records 48 acts passed during the 32nd regnal year of Henry VIII. A turbulent year in his reign it also saw the passage of many important acts including "An Acte Declaryng the Dissolucion of the Kynges Pretended Maryage With the Lady Anne of Cleves" which validated the king's divorce from Anne of Cleves the fourth of his six wives and the Statute of Wills. The latter act permitted devise by will superceding primogeniture and allowing landowners to independently decide who would inherit their land upon their death for the first time. The statute required that valid wills be in writing signed by the testator and witnessed by at least two other persons requirements still in place in many jurisdictions today. The ESTC records five variant printings of this title. All are scarce. Taken as a group OCLC locates 21 copies worldwide. English Short-Title Catalogue S110296. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law S191. unknown books
1558ref. 756881558. Rare 1573 Printing of Mary I and Philip II's 1558 Parliamentary Acts Featuring Early Legislation on the Abduction of Heiresses Mary I and Philip II Queen and King of England. Anno Quarto & Quinto Philippi & Mariae. Actes Made at a Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The .xx. Daye of January in the iiii. and v. Yere of the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady Philip and Marie By the Grace of God King and Queene of Englande Spaine Fraunce Both the Sicillies Hierusalem & Irelande Defendours of the Fayth Archdukes of Austria Dukes of Burgundie Millaine And Brabant Counties of Haspurge Flaunders And Tyrol. And There Continued and Kept Untyll the Seventh Day of Marche Then Next Folowing And Enacted as Foloweth. London: Excusum.in Aedibus Iohannis Cawodi i.e. for R. Jugge Tipographi Regiae Maiestatis 1558 i.e. 1573. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". 80 pp. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets and gilt title to spine endleaves added. Light toning to interior faint marginal dampstaining affecting headline but not main text two small wormholes to text block not affecting legibility crack in text block before final leaf all leaves secure. A crisp wide-margined copy. $1500. Eleven acts passed by the last parliament of Mary I and Philip II during the fourth and fifth years of their joint reign. Among the more interesting acts are an act extending the right to trial by jury to the royal family and "An Acte for the punishment of such as shal take away maidens that be inheritours" specifying punishment for the abduction of heiresses under 16 or marriage to them without the consent of their parents. This session represents the fifth and final Parliament of Mary I's reign dissolved just eight months before her death in November 1558 marking the close of the Marian Counter-Reformation and the final statutory chapter of the joint Anglo-Spanish monarchy. Convened at Westminster on January 20 1557/8 Parliament opened in an atmosphere of acute national crisis: English forces had surrendered Calais England's final continental stronghold to the Duke of Guise just days earlier. The geopolitical strain of Philip and Mary's disastrous intervention in the Italian War alongside the Habsburgs directly shaped this sitting compelling the Crown to push through comprehe. unknown books
1608ref. 757601608. An Unsuccessful Attempt of James I to Raise Royal Revenue James I 1566-1625 King of England and Ireland. Articles Containing His Maiesties Gracious Offer to Compound With His Subiects For the Tenure of Their Lands And Other Profits Growing by Reason of Their Tenures In Certaine Cases as Followeth. London: Imprinted.By the Deputies of Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie 1608. ii 5 1 pp. Quarto 6-3/4" x 5-1/2". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet woodcut arms of Great Britain to verso of title page. Moderate toning light soiling to exterior top-edges affected by trimming with loss to woodcut ornament at head of title page and page numbers. $500. Only edition. An attempt to raise much-needed Royal revenue the Articles was part of James I's long and unsuccessful struggle with Parliament which lead ultimately to Parliament's adjournment and dissolution. OCLC locates 12 copies 8 in North America; the ESTC adds 2. No copies located in law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue S121295. unknown books
1688ref. 758771688. A Call to Allow "Willing and Able" Protestants to Hold Public Office William III 1650-1702 King of England. His Majesties Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament On Saturday the Sixteenth of March 1688. London: Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb 1688 i.e. 1689. 4 pp. Folio 10-3/4" x 6-3/4". Disbound bifolium pamphlet. Light toning leaves nearly separated faint dampstain to bottom margin. $650. Only edition one of two issues. A request by William III that Parliament might "leave Room for the Admission of all Protestants that are willing and able to Serve" in public office while continuing to "sufficiently Provide against Papists." This ultimately resulted in the Act of Toleration which allowed certain groups of nonconformist Protestants freedom of worship but continued to exclude dissenters and Roman Catholics from public office. English Short-Title Catalogue R507163. unknown books
1662ref. 758781662. Charles II Advocates Religious Tolerance Charles II 1630-1685 King of England. His Majesties Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament On Wednesday February the 18th. 1662. Being the First Day of their Meeting After their Prorogation. London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker 1662. 6 2 pp. Folio 10-3/4" x 7". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet spine reinforced. Light browning horizontal fold line small spots to a few pages page numbers in an early hand to rectos. $450. Only edition. A speech made by Charles II at the opening of the fourth session of the Cavalier Parliament advocating greater tolerance of dissenters who "demean themselves peaceably and modestly." Charles's many controversial attempts to increase religious tolerance would culminate in the unsuccessful Declaration of Indulgence in 1672. OCLC and the ESTC locate 7 copies of this title in North America none in law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue R5549. unknown books
1842ref. 758701842. A Satirical "Trial" of The Oxford Movement Church of England. In Re Williams Versus Garbett: The Judgment of an Ecclesiastical Court. Oxford: Printed and Published by J. Vincent 1842. 15 1 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/2". Disbound sewn pamphlet. Moderate toning light soiling to exterior browning and light wear to fore-edges. $350. Only edition. A sharp verse satire of the contested 1842 election of the professor of poetry at Oxford which devolved into an ecclesiastical dispute between High Church Anglicans and their opponents. OCLC locates 8 copies none in law libraries. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
1661ref. 758801661. A Prospective Marriage for Charles II Charles II 1630-1685 King of England. Hyde Edward 1609-1674 1st Earl of Clarendon. His Majesties Gracious Speech to the Lords & Commons Together with the Lord Chancellor's At the Opening of the Parliament On the 8th Day of May 1661. London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker 1661. 26 2 pp. Final leaf blank. Folio 10-3/4" x 7". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet spine reinforced. Moderate toning occasional light foxing light soiling in a few places lower corner of first leaf lacking without loss to text small "2" to title page early handwritten page numbers to rectos. $350. Only edition. Speeches by Charles II and Edward Hyde his Lord Chancellor given at the opening of the first session of the Cavalier Parliament. Both speeches address Charles's prospective marriage to Catherine of Braganza the daughter of the king of Portugal in order to cement an alliance with Portugal. Since Catherine was a Roman Catholic the marriage was controversial but the two wed in May of 1662. English Short-Title Catalogue R35487. unknown books
1552ref. 759361552. Edward VI's Protestant Reforms Great Britain. Statutes. Edward VI 1537-1553 King of England. Anno Secundo & Tertio Edouardi Sexti. Actes Made in the Session of this Present Parliament Holden Upon Prorogation at Westminster The Fourth Day of November In the Second Yeare of Our Most Dread Soveraign Lord Edward the VI. By the Grace of God King of England Fraunce and Ireland Defendor of the Fayth And of the Church of England And Also of Irelande In Earth the Supreme Heade: And There Continued and Kept to the XIIIJ Day of Marche in the III. Yeare of Our Sayde SoVeraygne Lorde As Foloweth. London: Richardus Graftonus i.e. Richard Tottell Typographus Regius Excudebat 1552 i.e. 1557. lxviij ff. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". Modern quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets and gilt title to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior minor worming to text block and lower gutter no loss to legibility occasional faint dampstaining light soiling in a few places a few folded corners cracks in text block after first and before final leaves clean tear to fore-edge of leaf B1 fol. vij not affecting text early annotations to a few pages. $1500. Later edition. 39 public acts passed under Edward VI in 1548-1549. Some of the more interesting acts involve significant Protestant reforms to the English Church including the Act of Uniformity which established the Book of Common Prayer as the sole form of legal worship in England. Also included is the Clergy Marriage Act which abolished the prohibition on marriage for priests in the Church of England. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S224a. English Short-Title Catalogue S121643. unknown books
1587ref. 741441587. A Scarce Set of Orders Regulating Grain Allotment by Justices of the Peace Elizabeth I 1533-1603 Queen of England and Ireland. Orders Devised by the Especiall Commandement of the Queenes Maiestie For the Reliefe and Stay of the Present Dearth of Graine Within the Realme: Sent from the Court at Greenewich Abroad into the Realme The Second Day of Ianuarie 1586. In the 29. Yeere of Her Maiesties Reigue By Her Maiesties Priuie Counsell. ii 20 2 pp. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1586 i.e. 1587. Quarto 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Modern polished tan calf signed binding by Riviere & Son gilt frames and small corner decorations to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering pieces gilt tooling to board edges edges of text block gilt gilt inside dentelles. Light bowing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities chip to head of spine front board and rear joint just starting faint offsetting and recent pencil notations to endpapers. Moderate toning to interior trimming to leaf B1 pp. 7-8 just touching side notes without loss to legibility. A handsome copy. $2000. Only edition. Following a 1586 famine Elizabeth's Privy Council issued orders to justices of the peace dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. The sweeping highly detailed orders listed the quantities of grain permitted each family and controlled prices for any excess put on the market. Though many other monarchs had regulated grain markets after crop failures the practice expanded significantly under Elizabeth. Along with other social reforms this provided the foundation for her overhaul of the poor laws in 1601. OCLC locates 6 copies of this scarce title 5 in North America Yale Williams College University of Minnesota Law School Harvard Law School Huntington Library; the ESTC adds 1 North American copy Folger Shakespeare. Beale Bibliography of Early English Law Books T304a. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S100696. unknown books
1688ref. 743511688. William of Orange Decides to Summon the Convention Parliament Parliament. William III King of England 1650-1702. Divers of the Members of the Parliaments in the Reign of King Charles the Second And the Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London Pursuant to His Highness the Prince of Orange's Desire Meeting at St. James's the 26th of December 1688 Caption Title. At head of title: Westminster 26 Dec. 1688. London: Printed by John Starkey Awnsham and William Churchill 1688. 4 pp. Folio 12-1/2" x 8". Disbound bifolium edges untrimmed. Moderate toning faint dampstaining to top half a few faint stains. $1250. Only edition. An account of one of the assemblies of peers after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By this time James II had fled to France and many were advocating for the accession of William of Orange to the throne. This document summarizes the assembly that asked William to summon a convention that would meet in January of the following year. Ultimately the convention which became known as the Convention Parliament decided that James had abandoned the throne and installed William and Mary as King and Queen. OCLC locates 1 copy of this title in a law library University of Minnesota. English Short-Title Catalogue R25000. unknown books
