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  • Reports of Sir Edward Coke
    ...h the Sixth Part (1607), Coke emphasized recent decisions. For his massive Book of Entries (1614) he collected pleadings for his fellow lawyers' better gui ...period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering pieces to spines. Includes the inscription "H. R. Droop, New Square, Lincoln's Inn" on the t
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  • Life of George Washington
    ''The Life of Washington'' was the only book Marshall wrote. Marshall published his biography as a five-volume series be ...bound in contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spines laid down. Spines feature red morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels with gilt
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  • Commentaries on the Laws of England
    ...is considered "the most celebrated, widely circulated, and influential law book ever published in the English Language."<ref>Wilfrid Prest, "[http://www.ox Bound in modern full calf. Spines feature five raised bands with gilt lettering and decorative elements. Titl
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  • Law Tracts
    ...avo volumes bound in recent hessian cloth with gilt lettering and rules to spines. ...ry/albums/72157637877515025 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Ecclesiastical Law
    Bound in contemporary calf with tooled edges and banded spines. ...ry/albums/72157637633610585 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Lex Testamentaria
    ...raphy of English Law from 1651 to 1800'' (''Sweet & Maxwell's Complete Law Book Catalogue'', v.2) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1931), 159.</ref> Bound in contemporary calf with blind frames to boards, rebacked retaining spines with raised bands and lettering pieces. Title page signed "Geo: Hayward, Bo
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  • Dramatick Works of John Dryden
    Bound in half brown calf with marbled boards and endpapers, spines have raised bands with 2 dark brown labels lettered in gilt. Gilt decoratio ...rary/sets/72157637447421605 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Tragedies of Euripides
    Bound in contemporary speckled calf with flat spines with red morocco lettering pieces. Purchased from Blackwell Rare Books. ...rary/sets/72157660704961986 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Plays of William Shakespeare
    ...nd gilt turn ins. Three contemporary gilt bordered black leather labels to spines with marbled endpapers. Set includes two volume [https://wm.primo.exlibrisg ...rary/sets/72157658116089134 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift
    ...nee Review'', 34:1 (1926), pp. 1-11.</ref> In 1696 he published his first book, ''A Tale of the Tub'', under the patronage of Sir William Temple.<ref> L.M Bound in contemporary full brown calf, spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments in a floral design, dark brown
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  • Institutes of Natural Law
    ...rary calf with red morocco title labels and black morocco volume labels to spines. Includes previous owner's signatures: "Babington" to front pastedown of vo ...ry/albums/72157637449539633 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce
    Bound in contemporary speckled calf with spines in seven compartments with raised bands. Tooled in gilt on either side of e ...rary/sets/72157658963517145 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Lettres sur l'Égypte
    ...ls''.</ref> However, the work did garner criticism from those who felt the book was more novel than nonfiction, that Savary’s observations were exaggerat Bound in full mottled calf bindings with gilt decorated spines and head and tail pieces throughout. Volume one stamped "Library of Congres
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  • Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius
    Bound in quarter calf with marbled boards. Spines feature bands and gilt rules and green morocco labels with gilt lettering. ...rary/sets/72157637876092446 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy
    ...was the first author to use the term "political economy" in the title of a book.<ref>Andrew S. Skinner, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.roxy.wm.edu/view/article Bound in contemporary tree calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt spines. Front pastedown includes the armorial bookplate of Folkestone with the Lat
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  • New System of Modern Geography
    Bound in contemporary American tree sheep with the smooth spines gilt-ruled in six compartments. Red morocco lettering-piece in the second, ...rary/sets/72157637698344726 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Homerou Iliados
    ...ragic nature, consisting of 24 books, all of which are original except for Book Ten, which was likely added later.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view ...own calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compart
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  • Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
    ...this title based on notes in [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''Th Bound in contemporary calf and spines with six raised bands with red morocco label with gilt lettering. Signed by
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  • First-Third Part of the Reports of Sr George Croke
    Bound in contemporary calf with banded spines and red morocco, gilt-lettered labels. Each volume includes the nineteenth- ...rary/sets/72157656150002243 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
    File:NewAndCompleteDictionary1754-55 Spines.jpg|<center>''A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences'' (1754-55 Bound in green half leather with green buckram and spines with title labels, raised bands and gilt decoration. Purchased from ecbooks
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  • Works of Alexander Pope
    Bound in nineteenth century hard-grained morocco, spines and edges gilt, with silk markers in each volume. Ownership inscription in ...rary/sets/72157637697220884 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Works of Shakespeare
    ...orary full calf with raised bands, red title labels and gilt decoration to spines. Purchased from Wadard Books. ...ry/albums/72157637635218516 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Works of Laurence Sterne
    Features gilt tooling to the spines. Each volume includes the bookplate of Buchanan Washbourn with the Latin mo ...rary/sets/72157637635020166 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson
    ...full tan leather with five raised bands, decoration and gilt lettering to spines. Each volume contains an unnamed armorial bookplate with the motto "Favente ...rary/sets/72157637634377045 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
    ...commonplace book.<ref>Thomas Jefferson, ''Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book,'' ed. Douglas L. Wilson (Princetone: Princeton University Press, 1989), 38 ...ntemporary calf with stamped decorative borders and gilt filets to covers. Spines feature five raised bands, gilt stamps and gilt lettering. Edges are marbl
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  • Historiōn ta Sōzomena
    Bound in later full calf, uniformly bound, with raised bands and spines in six panels. Has morocco title label to second panel, contrasting morocco ...rary/sets/72157637697547003 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Ta tou Pindarou Sesosmena
    Bound in mottled crimson calf with covers framed in gilt beaded roll. Spines with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations and board edges with gi ...rary/sets/72157658502773283 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Travels in North-America
    Bound in contemporary half calf, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines ruled in gilt and blind in compartments, with burgundy and green morocco gi ...rary/sets/72157637877200504 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte
    ...gypte'' (''Travels through Egypt and Syria'') in 1787.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The book chronicles the cultures, history, and languages of the areas Volney visited Bound in quarter calf and marbled paper over boards with spines gilt, contrasting labels of red and green in the second and third compartme
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  • C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ
    Bound in full calf with raised bands. Spines in six panels with morocco title label to second panel, gilt volume number ...brary/sets/72157637633571235 available on Flickr.] View the record of this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Platonis Philosophi Quae Extant Graece
    Bound in mottled calf with gilt lining on boards and gilt decoration to spines. Title labels inset on black morocco and copper engraved title vignettes. E ...rary/sets/72157637696955526 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Œuvres de Monsieur de Montesquieu
    Bound in full marbled calf. Spines feature five raised bands with gilt decorative compartments and red morocco ...rary/sets/72157637697678774 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Loukianou Samosateōs Hapanta
    Bound in contemporary vellum, raised bands, spines in seven panels with author label to second panel and volume label to third ...rary/sets/72157637448486993 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Œuvres Complettes de Démosthene et d'Eschine
    Bound in quarter green calf. Spines have gilt bands and lettering. Two parts of volume two bound together. Libr ...rary/sets/72157637446450665 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Connoisseur
    Bound in full contemporary brown mottled calf, with gilt spines and black and red leather title labels. Includes the bookplate of Cecil E. ...ry/albums/72157637633268705 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery
    Bound in contemporary calf. Spines feature six raised bands. Vol. II retains original gilt-lettered morocco la ...ry/albums/72157657984181416 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
    Bound in contemporary full calf. Spines in seven compartments with decorative gilt stamps and raised bands. Has mar ...ary/sets/72157658057426225/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench (Salkeld)
    ...s Jefferson's commonplace book.<ref>Gilbert Chinard, ed. ''The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government'' (Baltimore, M Bound in contemporary calf. Spines feature raised banks and a red morocco label to volume two. Label missing f
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  • Of the Nature of Things
    ...s, 2007).</ref> Each book has a prologue and a conclusion. The prologue in Book 1 "opens with a famous invocation of Venus, goddess of creative life, to gr Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt spines and label (on volume one only). Both volumes include the bookplate of the E
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  • Homerou Odysseias
    ...own calf with wide gilt tooled borders and five gilt stamped raised bands. Spines feature gilt lettered and elaborately gilt decorated and ornamented compart ...ttps://flic.kr/s/aHsjMM2Xih available on Flickr]. View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae
    Bound in quarter calf with marbled boards. Spines feature gilt bands and decoration and a black morocco label with gilt lette ...rary/sets/72157660274258418 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Modern Entries
    ...ntemporary calf with blind rules to boards and blind fillets along joints. Spines feature raised bands; volume one includes label with gilt lettering and rul ...ry/albums/72157718896616281 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Notes of Cases in Points of Practice
    ...f>Ibid., 179.</ref> During De Grey's time as Lord Chief Justice, Barnes’ book was cited regularly during oral argument.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The third edition ...different sets. Both volumes have been rebound in period style full calf. Spines feature gilt rules, red title labels and black volumes labels with gilt let
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  • Spectator
    ...n each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at Bound in full calf. Spines feature raised bands and gilt decorative motifs. Title in gilt on red moroc
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  • Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae ad Pisones, et Augustum
    Bound in contemporary calf; banded spines include gilt volume numbers. Both volumes include the armorial bookplate of
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  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum
    Bound in contemporary polished calf, spines feature gilt labels and decorative gilt compartments divided by gilt raised ...ry/albums/72177720300915489 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Characteristicks, of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times etc
    ...Locke’s Second Treatise]], ''Charackteristicks'' "was the most reprinted book in English in that century."<ref>Cooper, Anthony. “Characteristicks of Me ...d straight-grain morocco leather in 18th-century style by Cecil & Larkins. Spines lettered in gilt, covers feature concentric gilt single-rule panels. Purcha
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  • Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot
    ...calf leather, with gilt titles to red labels and five raised bands to the spines. Previous owner's signature on title page of volume two: "Henr Turner: ex A ...ry/albums/72177720306611040 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991
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  • Zoonomia or The Laws of Organic Life
    ...win, ''Zoonomia or the Laws of Organic Life'', 1-3.</ref> At the time this book was published, it was well-received, with one reviewer comparing Erasmus Da Bound in modern half green calf with marbled paper covered boards. Spines feature five single raised bands outlined with gilt and blind rules, second
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