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Title: The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. ..
Author: Gildas
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some contemporary names and notes mostly on the beginning and ending blanks. A fine copy. Gildas provides some of the earliest commentary on the war effort associated with King Arthur. The first edition of the original Latin was pubished as Opus de Calimitate, Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae in 1525. STC 11895. Potthast, I, 525. Sarton I, 455. Lowndes, p. 790. ESTC S103163.

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Title: Life, Adventures, and Travels in California ... to Which are Added the Conquest of California and Travels in Oregon
Author: Farnham, T. J.
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
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Description: New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1849. Hardcover. Good. Pictorial Edition. 8vo. iv, 5-468p. Brown sloth decorated in gilt on the boards and spine. Marbled edges. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Cloth is worn at spine tips, hinges, edges and corners, textblock shaken, but still a good copy. Some copies of this edition were apparently issued with a large map; this copy was not. Howes F49; Graff 1294' Wagner Camp 107; Cowan 83A. .

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Title: Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: A History of Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889
Author: Wunder, John R.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979. First Edition. 246pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with silver stamped titles. Near fine. Contributions in Legal Studies, Number 7. "At the time of the migration to the American colonies, justices of the peace had reached a high point in their judicial and administrative evolution, and, therefore, a thriving, powerful English institution was easily transplanted to the American frontier. here the colonists perceived a need for order and laws, and justices of the peace readily filled colonial demands." - from the Introduction.