Regiam Maiestatem Scotiae by John Skene - 1613

First edition first printing of this collection of 12 short stories by various authors. Collected are the following: The Gerrard Street Mystery by John Dent, A Slippery Customer by Robert Barr, Sherlock Holmes Great Canadian Adventure by Jack Batten & Michael Bliss, The Tattooed Man by Vincent Starrett, Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Maureen Jennings, The Cure by Eric Wright, The Greenhouse Dogs by James Powell, Shaving with Occam's Razor by Rosemary Aubert, Bombed by Peter A. Sellers, This Town Ain't Big Enough by Tanya Huff, Lost in the Mail by Robert J. Sawyer, The Map by Andrew Weiner. In fine unread condition.

Odhams Books Ltd., 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dust jacket has rolled and rubbed edges. Raffles Bookstore Norfolk All orders normally dispatched within one working day. We will gladly supply further images or more information if required. Discounts available for multiple orders

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Odhams. Man's Book Series. Three books in one volume. Minimal wear. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1969.

2007. ISBN-13: 9781584778134; ISBN-10: 158477813X. Ancient Scottish Legal Terms Skene, John [1543?-1617]. De Verborum Significatione: The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, Conteined in the Foure Buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and Uthers, In the Acts of Parliament, Infestments; And Used in Practique of this Realme; With Divers Rules, and Common Places, Or Principalles of the Lawes. 1681. Originally published: [Edinburgh: Alexander Smellie, Printer, 1815]. [iii], 4-146 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778134; ISBN-10: 158477813X. Hardcover. New. $34.95 * Reprint of the 1815 edition. With side-notes. Also published as an appendix to Bell's Dictionary of the Law of Scotland, this edition of Skene's dictionary reprints the text of the 1681 edition issued in Edinburgh by David Lindsay. Originally printed as an appendix to Skene's great Lawes and Actes of Parliament Maid be King James the First and His Successors, Kings of Scotland (1597), it is a valuable… Read More

Odhams, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 3.5973 in x 20.5844 in x 13.5897 in. NOT Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition.

1923. Skene, John Sir. Skene's Memorabilia Scotica, 1475-1612 and Revisals of Regiam Majestatem. Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson and Co., 1923. 45 pp. Softbound, moderate wear, faint dampstaining to wrappers, owner bookplate of W. MacDonald Mackay to front pastedown. $175.

1815. Ancient Scottish Legal Terms Skene, John [1543?-1617]. De Verborum Significatione: The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, Conteined in the Foure Buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and Uthers, In the Acts of Parliament, Infestments; And Used in Practique of this Realme; With Divers Rules, and Common Places, Or Principalles of the Lawes. 1681. [Edinburgh: Alexander Smellie, Printer, c.1815]. [iii], 4-146 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Modern quarter calf over cloth, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Some toning, offsetting to margins of preliminaries, negligible foxing in a few places, chips to heads of a few leaves with no loss to text. Later owner annotation to front endleaf, later stamp (of Sandeman Library Perth) to title page, interior otherwise clean. $200. * With side-notes. A useful reprint of this scarce seventeenth-century dictionary of legal terms in the Scottish dialect. Also published as an appendix to Bell's Dictionary of the Law of Scotland, this… Read More

1609. Edinburgh, 1609. First edition in Latin. Edinburgh, 1609. First edition in Latin. Ancient Laws of Scotland Skene, John [?1543-1617]. Regiam Majestatem Scotiae Veteres Leges et Constitutiones, Ex Archivis Publicis, Et Antiquis Libris Manuscriptis Collectae, Recognitae, Et Notis Juris Civilis, Canonici, Nortmannici Auctoritate Confirmatis, Illustratae, Opera & Studio Joannis Skenaei, Regiae Majestati a Conciliis & Archivis Publicis. Annotantur in Margine, Concordantiae Juris Divini, Legum Angliae, Et Juris Novissimi Scotiae quod Acta Parliamenti, Vulgo, Vocant. Catalogum Eorum quae in his Libris Continentur Vicesima Pagina, Indicat. Cum Duplici Indice, Altero Rerum, Altero Verborum Locupletissimo. Edinburgh: Excudebat Thomas Finlason, 1609. [x], 172 ff.; 17, [3] pp., 19-116, 118-122, [1] ff. Statuta, Sive Assisae Regis Wilhelmi, Regis Scotiae (caption title) has separate foliation and register. Added copperplate frontispiece of the arms of Scotland. Folio (11" x 7"). Nineteenth-century paneled… Read More