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| [STEER (GEORGE)] The Compleat Mineral Laws of Derbyshire, Taken from the Originals. I. The High Peak Laws, with their Customs. II. Stony Middleton and Eame, with a new Article made 1733. III. The Laws of the Manour of Ashforth-i’th’-Water. IV. The Low Peak Articles, w Printed by Henry Woodfall. 1734. First Edition, vii,[i],[1]-176pp., final leaf bound between F5/F6, initial 13 leaves with a single small worm pinhole (touching a couple of words), interleaved, 2 leaves of manuscript notes, some light staining, ownership inscriptions including Sam. Heathrok jun. (1742) and Stephen Shore (1777), cont. calf, red morocco spine label, upper hinge slightly cracked. The laws, customs and amount of tolls paid varied in different manors. This account, which is addressed to the miners and maintainers of mines, sets out to standardise the laws and customs of the lead miners in Derbyshire. Goldsmiths’-Kress, no. 7193.3. GBP 595.00 [Appr.: EURO 660 US$ 988.3 | JP 87312] Book number: 26749 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| LAW. The Modern Parish Officer; or the Parish Officer’s Complete Duty. Brought Down to the present Period. Containing all the Statute-Laws now in Force... A Work Essentially Necessary for Constables, Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Hi Printed by W. Strahan, and M. Woodfall. 1774. Second Edition, 12mo, 4,370pp., 1 folding table, light water staining to lower margin, lacks rear endpaper, cont. calf, hinges cracked, head and foot of spine chipped. The first Edition was published in the same year. ESTC locates just 2 copies (L & CSmH) of this second edition. GBP 245.00 [Appr.: EURO 271.75 US$ 406.95 | JP 35952] Book number: 23042 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| SWEET & MAXWELL. Sweet and Maxwell’s Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Compiled by W. Harold Maxwell and Leslie F. Maxwell. London. (Reprint of the 1955 Edition). 2 Vols., orig. cloth. Vol. 1: English Law to 1800. Vol. 2: English Law from 1801 to 1954. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 | JP 16142] Book number: 16311 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| READE (JOHN) Observations upon Tythes and Rents, Addressed to the Clergy and Impropriators of Ireland. Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Robert Peel. With a Supplementary Section, a Postscript upon the Road Acts, &c. Printed for the Author by James Charles, Dublin. 1818. Second Edition, [viii],84pp., + errata slip, some light staining, recent marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. “Is it not an anomaly in political economy, that in any country there should be a bounty against agriculture? some general reasoning on the subject of Tythes in Ireland, as contrasted with the same species of property in England, will be found in the following pages”. — Dedication. Not on Copac; NSTC locates the Bodleian Library copy only; Not in Bradshaw. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 | JP 24213] Book number: 24756 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| HINGLEY (SHEILA) & SHAW (DAVID) Catalogue of the Law Society’s Mendham Collection; Lent to the University of Kent at Canterbury and Housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library. The Law Society. 1994. 4to, cliv;500pp., 21 plates (11 coloured), orig. cloth. The catalogue is preceded by four essays: Grayson Ditchfield Joseph Mendham: collector and controversialist, Jacqueline Eales The Mendham Collection: the contents and their historical context, Sheila Hingley Bindings in the Mendham Collection, and Nigel Ramsay Mendham’s collection of manuscripts, and supported by indices of printers and provenances. Mendham was an Anglican clergyman of Sutton Coldfield and the author of books and pamphlets on the controversy with the Church of Rome, 1820-1850. This catalogue, which represents most of his library, consists of nearly 5000 books and pamphlets on the religious and political controversies of the 16th to 19th centuries including officially printed Roman Catholic ephemera. There are rare editions and versions of ecclesiastical works and some early printed books of great interest. Four incunables appear to be unique and several others have only one alternative published location. Published at £120. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 | JP 11006] Book number: 15996 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| WILSON (SERJEANT) A Practical Treatise on Fines and Recoveries: Containing the Principles, Cases and Statutes relating to, and a great Variety of Precedents of, Fines and Recoveries. Together with Instructions for Drawing, Entering, and Passing them. Printed by A. Straham and W. Woodfall. 1793. Fourth Edition corrected, with additions, [iv],434,[36]pp., cont. calf, hinges cracked. First published in 1753, all editions are rare. Of this edition ESTC locates 1 copy in the UK and 4 in North America. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 | JP 16142] Book number: 22956 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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