Posts in 'Rare Books'

On Being On: Authority and the Legal Treatise An exhibit on view in the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level Two March 6 - April 12, 2023 Accompanying "...
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In this informal panel discussion relating to the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s current exhibition, Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School...
In 1839, the English Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, published this pocket-sized devotional work, intended for distribution to women prisoners in France. Fry...
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A selection of guidebooks for students engaged in the study of the law. Thomas Lane. The student’s guide through Lincoln’s Inn. 3rd edition. London...
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A selection legal dictionaries and grammar books. Repertorium aureum continens titulos quinque librorum Decretalium, sive Concordantiae utriusque...
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A selection student notebooks and marginalia Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum libri IV. Amsterdam: Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1642. This copy of...
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A selection of works which use various visual devices (charts, illustrations, diagrams…) to present information in interesting ways Giovanni d’Andrea...
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In Sir Thomas Littleton’s (1407-1481) time, materials for the study of law were scarce. Littleton orginally wrote the Tenures in order to help his son...