A Collection of the Private Acts of Practical Utility in Force In..

  • 1886
By Australia; New South Wales; Tarleton, W.W., Comp
1886. Private Acts of New South Wales, 1832-1885 [Australia]. [New South Wales]. Tarleton, W.W., Compiler. A Collection of the Private Acts of Practical Utility in Force In New South Wales; Embracing the Local Private Legislation From the Year 1832 to the Year 1885. Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1886. xv, 1256 pp. Octavo (9" x 6"). Recent cloth, gilt title to spine, endpapers renewed. A few tears to preliminaries mended with archival tape, internally clean. Ex-library. Small stamp (Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts) to title page. $250. * Only edition. With a chronological table. Acts are digested alphabetically. The Reichsgerichtsbibliothek (Imperial Court of Justice Library) was, at its peak, Germany's largest and most important law library, with 170,000 works in its collection before the outbreak of the First World War. OCLC locates 11 copies. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:73.

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