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Baker, Thomas: The Laws Relating to Burials: With Notes, Forms, & Practical... 1882
Baker, T[homas] [b. 1819]. The Laws Relating to Burials: With Notes, Forms, & Practical Instructions. London: W. Maxwell & Son, 1882. xviii, [19]-308, [1] pp. 12mo. (7" x 4-1/4"). Original cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt title to front, marbled edges. Considerable shelfwear, some paint spatters to font board, front joint starting, hinges cracked but secure, front free endpaper partially detached, a few cracks to text block. Owner annotation to front free endpaper, embossed stamp to title page, minor foxing to a few leaves, internally clean. A solid copy. * Fifth edition. Baker's was the standard treatise during the Victorian period, a time that witnessed a dramatic shift in English and American the culture regarding burials. The first edition was published in 1855 and the book reached its sixth and final edition in 1898 (with a 1901 supplement). All editions are scarce. OCLC locates 5 copies of the fifth edition in North American law libraries. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:18.
St. Germain, Christopher; Saint German: The Dialogue in Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student of... 1613
St. Germain [German], Christopher [?1460-1540]. The Dialogue in English, Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, And a Student of the Lawes of England. Newly Corrected and Imprinted, With New Additions. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1613. [i], 176, [8] pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Contemporary limp vellum with lapped edges, early hand-lettered title to spine, remnants of ties to boards. Some rubbing to extremities, hinges cracked, text block loose and cracked in a few places. Later bookplate (of John Camp Williams) to front pastedown. Two tiny later stamps to title page, early annotations to margins throughout, interior otherwise clean. * Originally written in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and other issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very important work in the development of equity, Doctor and Student appeared in numerous editions. An authority well into the eighteenth century, it influenced several writers, including Blackstone. The ESTC locates 6 copies in North America, 2 in law libraries (Harvard and Library of Congress). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:25 (34).
Foot, Mirjam M. HENRY DAVIS GIFT, A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS. VOLUME II.|THE, London The British Library (1983)
Volume II, A Catalogue of North-European Bindings. First edition. (S-K 1241). Covers bindings made in the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria and Denmark. There are 368 entries with excellent bibliographical notes on each binding and the binders who executed them. Each entry has an accompanying illustration, many occupying a full-page. An excellent reference work, finely printed by The Stinehour Press. Prospectus loosely inserted.
small 4to., cloth with leather spine label. 368 pages.
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JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY H. British Central Africa, an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambesi. London: Methuen & Co., 1906. ; fester Einband / hard cover
Engraved frontispiece (3 marginal dampstains; moderate foxing; light insect damage to fore-edge), numerous photographs & illustrations, & 5 colored folding maps (marginal insect damage to 1). Tall, thick 8vo, pp. xix, 544, original red cloth with gilt vignette on front cover (4 small spots of insect damage to front cover; fore-edge of a small section of front leaves also insect damaged though images are unaffected; wear to extremities; front cover partially detached, rear wobbly; bump to head of spine; pencil notations to botanical appendices; text pp. otherwise bright & interior good), t.e.g. ***International shipping will be extra***