J. 25
Spotiswoode’s Practicks of the laws of Scotland.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 91. no. 64, as above.
SPOTTISWOOD,
Sir Robert, Lord Newabbey.
Practicks of the Laws of Scotland, observed and collected by Sir Robert Spotiswoode of Pentland, President of the College of Justice, and Secretary of State to K. Charles the I. As also, abstracts taken out
of the ancient Records of this Kingdom, whereby is declared the manner of administring Justice in Civil Causes, before the
College of Justice were erected. And propositions & questions in law made by the same author. With Memoirs of his life and
trial for an alledg’d crime of High Treason against the States: In the pretended Parliament at St. Andrews, in December 1645,
and January 1646. Publish’d by John Spotiswoode of That-ilk, advocate, the author’s grand-son.
Edinburgh: Printed by
James Watson: sold by
John Vallange,
mdccvi
. [1706.]
Law 336
First Edition. Folio. 210 leaves in twos. Dedicated to the Right Honourable, James Marquis of Montrose.
Marvin, page 657.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 371, 47.
Clarke, page 420, no. 134.
Calf, rebacked and repaired with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers. Initialled
by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Sir Robert Spottiswood, Lord Newabbey, 1596-1646, Scottish advocate, died by execution. He was one of the crown assessors for the trial of Lord Balmerino, q.v.
John Spottiswood, 1666-1728, Scottish advocate.
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J. 26
Scotch acts.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 91. no. 26, as above.
[HOME, HENRY,
lord kames.]
Statute Law of Scotland abridged. With Historical Notes.
Edinburgh: Printed by
Sands,
Donaldson,
Murray, and
Cochran. For
A. Kincaid and
A. Donaldson,
mdcclvii
. [1757]
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First Edition. 8vo. 232 leaves in fours; publisher’s advertisement on the last leaf.
Not in Halkett and Lang.
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
This edition not in Marvin.
Sweet & Maxwell V, page 44.
Tree calf, gilt back. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Other works by the same author appear in this catalogue.
[2183]
J. 27
Scotch acts from Jac. 1. of Scotland to Charles 2
d.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 91. no. 65, as above.
The Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Queen Mary, King James the Sixth,
King Charles the First, King Charles the Second who now presently reigns, Kings and Queens of Scotland. Collected, and extracted,
from the Publick Records of the said Kingdom, by Sir Thomas Murray, of Glendook . . .
Edinburgh: Printed by
David Lindsay and
John Cairnes, Anno Dom.
mdc.lxxxi
. Cum privilegio. [1681]
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