Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1977. Number 496 of 750 numbered copies. More about Convict Discipline, 1833. A facsimile of the rare Colonial Circular No. 33-48 and other related...
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1977. Number 475 of 750 numbered copies. More about Convict Discipline, 1833. A facsimile of the rare Colonial Circular No. 33-48 and other related...
Adelaide, Knox and Hargrave, 1988. More about Knox and Hargrave. A Legal Heritage. 150 Years of Practice in Law
Black Rock, History Books Australia, 1983 (facsimile edition)/ 1802. Number 38 of 150 numbered copies. A facsimile of the first book printed in Australia. More about New South Wales General Standing Orders. Selected from the General Orders issued by Former...
[Sydney], Government Printer, 1988. More about The New South Wales Parliamentary Record. From the First Council Appointed on 11 August 1824 up...
London, printed for Brooke, Clarke and J. Butterworth, 1804 [second edition, with additions]. With the ownership stamp of Howard Zelling, sometime Supreme Court Judge of South Australia (and an earlier ownership stamp on the front pastedown and title-page). More about A Treatise of the Law relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen. In Four Parts
London, John Hogg, [1888, first edition]. Australian legal and medical provenance; gift inscription to Helen Mayo from 'Father and Mother, 1st October 1890', and further inscribed 'the scroll of History is the curtain that hides the future'; a later hand has added in pencil 'reveals' above 'hides'. Dr Helen Mayo. More about The Makers of British India
London, John Murray, 1927. A 1930 Murray catalogue is loosely inserted. More about From the Middle Temple to the South Seas
London, Shaw, 1852 [fifth edition]/ 1847. With the ownership signature of George Fife Angas ('G.F. Angas') in pencil at the head of the title page. The book has the (later) inkstamp of 'Herbert Angas Parsons, Solicitor, Adelaide' on the front endpaper. George Fife Angas (1789-1879), South Australian pioneer: although his... More about The Practice of the New County Courts
London, John Richards & Co., 1841 ('Third edition, revised and corrected to the present time'). Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context, the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of... More about Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England, incorporated with the Political Text of the...
Canberra, Government Printer, July 1940 (second edition). Inscribed and signed by the author (July 1948). More about Commonwealth Hansard. Its Establishment and Development
London, Croom Helm, 1981. With the ownership signature of Susan Magarey. More about Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain
London, Selden Society, 1986. More about The Notebook of Sir John Port
London, printed by Henry Lintot for John and Paul Knapton and John Nourse, 1745. More about The Justice of Peace. A Treatise containing the Power and Duty of that Magistrate, compiled from...
Adelaide, Vardon and Pritchard, Printers, 1890. More about The Local Courts Act, Rules, and Forms and Special Magistrates Confirmation Act. Together with...
Sydney, Butterworths, 2000. More about Native Title in Australia
Leichhardt, Federation Press, 2002. Inscribed, dated (2002) and signed by the author to [Emeritus Professor] Alex Castles, who wrote the foreword. One in the Lives of the Australian Chief Justices series; a worthy series, not least for telling us something we didn't know - Sir Charles Cooper 'had supported the... More about Sir Charles Cooper, First Chief Justice of South Australia, 1856-1861
London, Peter Davies, 1938 (sixth impression)/ 1936. Rare with the dustwrapper (which states 'First Cheap Edition'; front flyleaf stamped 'Overseas Edition'. Benney was a London street urchin (cum-petty crim) during the Great War who graduated to be a fully-fledge career criminal'. More about Low Company. Describing the Evolution of a Burglar
London, Shaw and Sons, 1877 (third edition, revised and enlarged). The author was the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire. More about New Police Manual. A Store of Useful Information for Police Officers and Others interested in the...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966 [facsimile editions]/ 1822, 1823 and 1823. Peade A68, A69 and A70: a maximum total of 615 sets. More about Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the State of the Colony of New South Wales. [Together...
Honolulu, Rare Books Ltd, [1960s]. More about A Voyage to the South Sea
'In the Savoy' [London], printed for D. Browne, J. Walthoe (and numerous others), 1717 (third edition, first issue)/ 1670. Blount's Law Dictionary was first published in 1670 under the title 'Nomo-Lexicon'. '[This] work quickly superseded its predecessors. In addition to providing the explanation of common law terms, Blount was the... More about A Law-Dictionary and Glossary, interpreting such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms, as are...
London, Oxford University Press, 1969. More about The Impact of Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya. A Historical Study
Norwood, Sue Heysen and Peacock Publications, 1999 (first edition). Presentation copy inscribed, dated (4 March 1999) signed by the compiler to Lady Mary Downer. More about Frew Bonnin. The Speeches of Murray Frew Bonnin. (The Lighter Side of a Lawyer's Life.) Compiled...
