11. Brunn, Dr. jur.

Die Japanische Verfassungsurkunde [Japanese Law]. Aus dem Japanischen in das Deutsche übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.

Leipzig, Reclam, ca.1890. Kl.-8°. 39 Seiten. Softcover. Originale, dekorative Broschur. Guter bis sehr guter Zustand. Einige Anstreichungen mit Bleistift. Sehr selten. [Universal-Bibliothek 3796. 20 Pfennig].

12. Burton, Walter Henry.

An Elementary Compendium of the Law of Real Property.

First Edition. London, J. & W.T. Clarke, 1828. Octavo. XVI, 548 pages plus 42 pages of Index and 2 pages of an “Digest of Reports”. Hardcover / Original full calf with gilt lettering on original spinelabel. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

13. Celtic Society, Kingship and Customary Law – Dillon, Myles.

Celts & Aryans. / Survivals of Indo-European Speech and Society.

First Edition. Calcutta, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1975. 15 cm x 21,5 cm. XXIII, 153 pages [24] plates. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Private gift inscription on front free endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor tear to the dustjacket. Extremely Rare !

14. Cicero, Marcus Tullius [Christian Gottfried Schütz].

Opera quae supersunt omnia ac deperditorum fragmenta. Recognovit potiorem lectionis diversitatem adnotavit indices rerum ac verborum copiosissimos adiecit Christianus Godofr. Schütz. [including: Lexicon Ciceronianum].

20 Volumes bound in 28 Volumes [complete set]. Lipsiae [Leipzig], apud Gerhardum Fleischerum iun., 1814 – 1823. Small Octavo (18 cm x 11 cm). More than 10000 pages. Hardcover / Original, absolutely stunning, early 19th-century bindings with all edges uniformly red and beautiful gilt lettered spine-labels and gilt ornament. Two, formerly missing Volumes in this set (Volume 16,III and Volume XX), are bound in a simple, modern half-leather. Unusually excellent condition of one of the most desirable scholarly editions of Cicero’s writings. With only minor signs of external wear. A rare possibility to acquire the important Opera Omnia Edition of Cicero in such a beautiful, presentable set. The set is part of our Savigny – Collection because it is a likely, contemporary publication Friedrich Carl von Savigny would have used for his essays on Roman Law.

15. Clarke, Thomas J.

Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life. With an Introduction by P.S. O’Hegarty.

Cork, The National Publications Committee, 1970. 14 cm x 22 cm. 63 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

16. [Commonwealth & Colonial History & Law] – Luke, Sir Harry [Lukach, Harry] – ‘the most unwasted life of any man I have known’ – (Sir Ronald Storrs on Sir Harry Luke)

Very Large Archive / Collection of British Colonial Official & Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, Sir Harry Luke. The Archive is Sir Harry Luke’s very personal and one might say, confidential collection of original autographed letters, correspondence and books he surrounded himself with at the end of his life. The Archive includes important and meaningful personal and official letters from important historical figures in the Arena of the Middle East and especially Palestine with for example interesting legal insights into the Jewish-Arab conflicts of the 1920s, as well as working-copies of books which Luke wrote himself at every location he was posted to during his career. In order to understand the vastness of the Archive you need to visit our website and see the nineteen (19) chapters of Material we synchronised chronologically with Sir Harry Luke’s life [Search for “Library & Collections” and find 19 chapters at the bottom of that page]. The Archive contains an unbelievable and impressive array of several highly interesting letters and correspondence regarding key historical events as disparate as the Mudros/Gallipoli-Campaign under Rosslyn Wemyss, the Jaffa Riots, the Western Wall Riots of Jerusalem in 1929 as well as information on diplomatic activity prior to the Suez Crisis, descriptions of locations like Guadalcanal prior to the War in the Pacific, detailed information on personell at Gardner Island / Phoenix Islands during the vanishing of Amelia Earhart, to only name a few bizarre coincidences. The books contain manuscript annotations and preparatory notes for later editions as well as many letters written to Luke regarding the many postings he served at during his long career in the Colonial Service. The Archive includes several hundred pages of correspondence between Luke and other officials within the Colonial Office, often in multi-page letters. Also included is proof of Luke’s connections to the Ecclesiastical World of the Vatican and Lambeth Palace, his diplomatic abilities are praised in letters from friends and officials alike. Luke received cordial letters from Queens (Queen Salote) as well as polarizing letters from Politicians. Included are manuscript notepads as well as confidential reports from other diplomats on locations where Luke was soon to be taking office, e.g. British Western Pacific Islands. The Archive is unique in its form because it represents not only the correspondence between Luke as an official but also allows us a view into the life of a Career Diplomat of the last days of the Colonial British Empire who develops a deep connection with everyone he served with and under. Luke did not only keep correspondence with famous friends like Ronald Storrs but also emotional letters from those who served under him and respectfully stay in touch beyond the termination of Luke’s service. Many letters to family colleagues in the Colonial Office, Politicians, Priests with political functions, are preserved with Luke’s original typescript-answer or initial letter. The official and often explosive and historically meaningful content with striking relevance for reinterpreting Mediterranean, Middle Eastern Conflicts etc. makes this archive a must for research and posterity. This is not just any diplomat’s archive. The majority of these letters are unpublished but are waiting to be discovered (see for example the long letter by Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray on the Palestine Commission. Also included his Luke’s very valuable, handwritten manuscript-notebook of colonial postings-recipe-collections together with his working copy of the very special cookery book “The Tenth Muse”. The majority of the collection is now catalogued and visible on our website. A collection of c. 89 letters and 43 items of Ephemera has not been catalogued yet.

England / Palestine / Israel / Malta / Cyprus, Fiji / Sierra Leone etc., 1898 – 1968. Octavo / Quarto / Folio. c.15000 pages (books) / Collection of hundreds of Letters (see images) / Photographs and ephemera etc. Original Hardcover / Softover – Bindings (also private interim-bindings), often with the rare dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar, some without dustjackets. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Please check our website under “Libraries & Collections” and see detailed listings of books and letters, all categorized.

17. Constant, Benjamin.

Des Motifs Qui Ont Dicte Le Nouveau Projet De Loi Sur Les Elections.

Paris, Chez Béchet, 1820. 8°. IV, (2), 74, (2) pp. Softcover / Broche. Bon etat. / Unbound ! This is the original edition. It was part of a collection of pamphlets bound together with publications by Antoine Français de Nantes etc.

18. [Cork – UCC] Queen’s College Cork.

Original Matriculation Card for the Faculty of Law – Class of Jurisprudence.

Printed in Cork, Queen’s College, 1860. 12,2 cm x 9,3 cm. 1 page. Original cardboard with beautiful 19th century typefont. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare original matriculation card of the 1860’s for Cork University / Queen’s College.

19. Cramer, Andreas Wilhelm.

Haus-Chronik meinen Anverwandten und Freunden zum Andenken gewidmet.

Erste Ausgabe. Hamburg, bei Perthes und Besser, 1822. Octavo. 279 Seiten. Oreiginale Broschur. Bindung staerker berieben und beschaedigt. Mit zahlreichen Annotationen. Namen eines Vorbesitzers im Inneneckel [Ludwig Kruse, November 1902] und Hinweise auf Textstellen in der Goethe und die Kantische Philosophie erwaehnt wird.

20. [Curran, John Philpot] / [Harraden, Richard] / [Seeley, John] / [West, Thomas].

Sammelband of four (4) late 18th century / early 19th-century-publications in one Volume. The Volume includes the very rare first edition of a trial with participation of John Philpot Curran and in which he held one of his most famous speeches. The four Volumes included are: Volume I: [Thomas West] – “A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire. By the Author of The Antiquities of Furness”. (London, 1799) / Volume II: [John Seeley] – “Stowe : A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingham”. (Buckingham, 1798) / Volume III: [Richard Harraden] – “Description of Cambridge, illustrated by thirty picturesque views of the university and town (these are not included), (with a frontispiece [this is included]) from original drawings, by Richard Harraden, Sole Proprietor and Publisher of the Views of Cambridge and Oxford; and the print from the statue of Sir Isaac Newton, Dedicated to his Majesty”. (Cambridge, 1800) / Volume IV: [John Philpot Curran and George Ponsonby and other “Ennis Assizes”] – “By Authority. £. 10,000 Damages. Summer Assizes. Trial at Ennis, County of Clare, on 27th July, 1804, before the Hon. Baron Smith, and a Special Jury.” – “A REPORT of the TRIAL on an Action for Damages brought by The Reverend Charles Massy against the Most Noble The Marquis of Headfort, for Criminal Conversation with Plaintiff’s Wife. Damages laid at £40,000. Taken in Short-Hand by an eminent Barrister. [With a Motto: “Thoughts that breathe, and words “That burn” – Gray.] – FIRST EDITION – (Dublin, 1804) //

London, Printed for W.J. and J. Richardson, Cornhill, etc., 1799. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I – [A Guide to the Lakes]: Folded Frontispiece-Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, X, 311 pages with an additional illustration bound to page 91 [View of “Lowdore”] and a text-illustration of “The Gateway-Tower of Lancaster”, plus 3 unnumbered pages of advertising Views of the Lakes by the publisher / Volume II: [″Stowe : A Description of the House and Garden”]: VI, 65 pages [No Illustrations] / Volume III: [″Description of Cambridge”]: Frontispiece [″King’s College Chapel” by Richard Harraden], II, 40 pages with no plates besides the Frontipiece / Volume IV: (John Philpot Curran) – “A Report of the Trial”: VIII, 95 pages. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-leather with gilt lettering to spine and new marbled-paper covering to boards.. Besides very minor defects to the binding and some rubbing, in very good condition with some signs of external wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and his name in ink on titlepages.