Special Collections Recent Acquisition

Special Collections Recent Acquisition

Desolle. Procès contre Mme Rouanet le Sr. Jougrans la dame de Negries et le Sr. Vaganai porteur des lettres de change. [s.l.: s.n.], [ca. 1784]-1786. A volume of 11 pamphlets regarding litigation between Marie Antoinette de Carrión, wife of Augustin Spinola (married...
Special Collections Recent Acquisition

Special Collections Recent Acquisition

David Hoffman.  A Lecture, Introductory to a Course of Lectures, Now Delivering in the University of Maryland (Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy, 1823). William Cranch’s copy.  A seventy-seven page pamphlet in tan wrappers, signed at the head of the top wrapper in...
Special Collections Recent Acquisition

Special Collections Recent Acquisition

Walds Ordnung [s.l.: s.n.], 1535. An important addition to the Law Library’s collection of early forest law. The first edition of revised legislation regulating forest and land use rights in the Nuremberg forests.  Nineteen unnumbered leaves in quarto format, large...
Special Collections Recent Acquisition

Special Collections Recent Acquisition

[Statuta Placentiae]  [Piacenza: s.n., November 12, 1472] A Renaissance legal manuscript in folio format, of 74 unnumbered vellum leaves, 40 lines to a full page, rubricated with two- to three-line initials in red, with red headings.  There is some contemporary...