A Handsomely Bound Copy of Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors Campbell, John, 1st Baron Campbell [1779-1861]. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV. London: John Murray, 1848-1869. Seven volumes and continuation..... More
"Their General Accuracy, I Believe, Has not Been Questioned" Salkeld, William [1671-1715]. Reporter. Reports of Cases Adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench; With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, from the First Year of K. William and Q. Mary, To the Tenth Year..... More
"His Reports Have a Peculiar Value" Barnardiston, Thomas [d. 1752]. Reports of Cases Determined in the High Court of Chancery, From April 25, 1740. to May 9. 1741. With Two Tables; One of the Names of the Cases, The Other of the Principal Matters. [London]: Printed by Henry Linton, 1742..... More
A Standard Textbook on Justinian's Digest Mollenbeck, Johan[n] He[i]nr[ich] [1669-1739], Editor. Lauterbach, Wolfgang Adam [1618-1678]. Schutz, Johann Jacob [1640-1690], Editor. Thesaurus Juris Civilis, Sive Succincta Explanatio Compendii Digestorum Schutzio-Lauterbachiani, Continens Non Solum Textum Lauterbachii Emendatiorem, Sed & Exquisitiones Notas Excellentissimorum Ictorum, cum Illorum, Qui Incomparabile hoc Compendium Commentariis Suis Illustrarunt..... More
Eighteenth-Century Account Books of a Law Firm in Rochester, Kent, England [Manuscript]. [Solicitors]. [Great Britain]. [Two Account Books]. Rochester, England, 1752-1791, 1797-1800. [xiii], 145; [xxvi], 744 pp. Main texts of both volumes preceded by thumb-tabbed indexes. Folio (14-1/4" x 9-1/2" and 14-1/2" x 9-1/2") Book 1: Contemporary green vellum, blind..... More
Interesting Civil War Prize Case Concerning an English Blockade Runner [Trial]. [Steamer Peterhoff]. Betts, Samuel R. [1786-1868]. Marvin, William [1808-1902]. The United States vs. The Steamer Peterhoff and Her Cargo. In Prize. Opinion of the Court, By Judge Betts. With an Appendix, Containing the Opinions of Judge Marvin, In the..... More
Includes a Landmark Contract Case Aleyn, John, Reporter. Select Cases In B.R. 22, 23, & 24. Car. I Regis, Reported by John Aleyn Late of Greys Inn Esq; With Tables of the Names of the Cases and of the Matters Therein Contained: Also of the Names of the Learned Councel..... More
A Valuable Set of Reports Pollexfen, Henry [1631-1691], Reporter. The Arguments and Reports of Sr. Hen. Pollexfen, Kt. Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, In Some Special Cases, By Him Argued During the Time of his Practice at the Barr. Together with Divers Decrees in the..... More
Handsome Presentation Copy of an Uncommon Volume of Exchequer Reports Parker, Thomas [1695?-1784], Reporter. Reports of Cases Concerning the Revenue, Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer, From Easter Term 1743, To Hilary Term 1767. With an Appendix, Containing Cases Upon the Same Subject in Former Reigns. With Two..... More
"Valuable and Accurate" Lutwyche, Sir Edward [d. 1709]. Un Livre des Entries: Contenant Auxi un Report des Resolutions del Court sur Diverse Exceptions Prises as Pleadings, Et Sur Auters Matters en Ley; Surdant (Pur la Plupart) en le Court de Common-Bank, Enter le 34 An del Roy Charles le Second..... More
A Vermont Embezzler [Broadside]. [Criminals]. [Vermont]. Mark E. Foster, Hardwick, County of Caledonia, Vermont, Wanted for Embezzlement. [Caledonia County, VT, 1908]. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" broadside, single-column text below photographic image of Foster and headline. Light toning, two horizontal fold lines, light soiling to margins. $150. * Foster embezzled funds from..... More
Trial and Execution of a Teen-Age Arsonist in Salem, Massachusetts [Trial]. Clark, Stephen Merrill [1804-1821], Defendant. Account of the Short Life and Ignominious Death of Stephen Merrill Clark, Who was Executed at Salem on Thursday the Tenth Day of May, 1821 at the Early Age of 16 Years and 9..... More
An Interesting Murder and Piracy Trial, Joseph Story Presided: McDade 1103 [Trial]. Williams, John, Primary Defendant. The Trial of John Williams, Francis Frederick, John P. Rog, Nils Peterson and Nathaniel White, On an Indictment for Murder on the High Seas: Before the Circuit Court of the United States, Holden for..... More
A Classic English Work on Equity and the Philosophy of Law that Influenced Blackstone [Saint German (Germain), Christopher]. The Dialogue in English, Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, And a Student in the Lawes of England. Newly Corrected and Imprinted with New Additions. [London]: Printed by the Assignes of John More..... More
Coke's Reports in Verse Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. [Worrall, John (d.1771), Editor]. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. In Verse; Wherein the Name of Each Case and the Principal Points are Contained in Two Lines. To Which are Added, References in the Margin to All the Editions of the..... More
"Their General Accuracy, I Believe, Has not Been Questioned" Salkeld, William [1671-1715]. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Heads; From the First Year of K. William and Q. Mary..... More
The First Work Devoted to the Theory of Conveyancing Sheppard, William [fl. 1660]. Hilliard, Edward, Editor. The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances: Or, A Plain and Familiar Treatise, Opening the Learning of the Common Assurances, Or Conveyances of the Kingdom. Revised & Corrected, With Notes and Additional References by Edward Hilliard..... More
A Classic Treatise on English Criminal Law Hawkins, William [1673-1746]. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or a System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Their Proper Heads. Corrected, With the Addition of Some References. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1724..... More
The First English Treatise on Laws Concerning Architecture Elmes, James [1782-1862]. A Practical Treatise on Ecclesiastical and Civil Dilapidations, Re-Instatements, Waste, &c. With an Appendix Containing Cases Decided, Precedents of Notices to Repair, Examples of Valuations, Surveys, Estimates, &c. Considerably Enlarged. London: Samuel Brooke, 1829. xxiv, 288, cxxi, [28] pp..... More
The "Fifth" Dublin Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books. Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, John Williams, and David Hay, 1773. Four volumes. Copperplate "Table of Consanguinity" and folding "Table of Descents." Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Contemporary calf..... More
"Bill's Donkey Then Was Brought Into Court, Who Caused of Course a Deal of Sport" P. Mathews, Stourbridge, After. Hunt, Charles, Engraver. The Trial of "Bill Burn," Under Martin's Act. London: Ackermann & Co., [c.1829]. 20" x 23" aquatint backed onto cloth, repairs to a few chips, small holes and..... More
A Scarce Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. [Addams, Jesse (1786-1871)], Abridgment, Editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Principally in the Order, And Comprising the Whole Substance of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone. London: Printed by A. Strahan, Law-Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, For..... More
First American Edition of Montefiore's Fascinating Commercial Dictionary Montefiore, Joshua [1762-1843]. A Commercial Dictionary: Containing the Present State of the Mercantile Law, Practice and Custom. With Very Considerable Additions Relative to the Laws, Usages, and Practice of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys, 1804. Three volumes..... More
"Matter Profound...With Convenient Brevity" Popham, Sir John [1531-1607]. Reports and Cases, Collected by the Learned, Sir John Popham, Knight, Late Lord Chief-Justice of England. Written with His Own Hand in French, And Now Faithfully Translated into English. To Which are Added Some Remarkable Cases Reported by Other Learned Pens Since..... More
A Handsome Edition of Burn's Justice Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, 1772. Four volumes. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent cloth, blind fillets and red and black calf lettering pieces to spines, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, light..... More
Cobbett's State Trials [Trials]. [Cobbett, William (1763-1835)]. Howell, Thomas Bayly [1768-1815], Editor. [Howell, Thomas Jones [1793-1858], Editor. Jardine, David [1794-1860], Compiler of Index. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, With Notes and..... More
First Edition in English of the First Nominative Reporter Plowden, Edmund [1518-1585]. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden, Of the Middle-Temple, Esq; An Apprentice of the Common Law, Containing Divers Cases upon Matters of Law, Argued and Adjudged in the Several Reigns of King Edward VI. Queen Mary, King..... More
Unrecorded Account of an Attempted Murder in Oxfordshire [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Great Britain]. Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband, Near Banbury, Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones, Printer, [1849]. 14-1/2" x 10" broadside, triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse..... More
An Early Example of a Clash Between Police and Protesters [Broadside]. [Coldbath Fields Riot]. An Authentic Account of the Riotous Meeting Near Gray's Inn Road; With Full Particulars of the Sad Murder of Robert Culley, A Policeman, And the Stabbing of Serj. Brookes. London: Smeeton, Printer, [1833]. 14-3/4" x 10"..... More
Unrecorded Account of Two English Infanticides [Broadside]. [Execution]. [Infanticide]. Awful Account of the Dreadful Execution of Mr Matthew Grey, And Miss Susan Smith, For Murder. [London]: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials, [c.1830]. 14-3/4" x 10" broadside, triple-column text below headline and three woodcut images: one of a...... More
A Well-Regarded Account of the Scottsboro Trials Chalmers, Allan K. They Shall be Free. With an Introduction by Walter White. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. 255 pp. Cloth in worn dust jacket, light fading to spine. Early owner signature to front free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. $65. * First..... More
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Cases on the Docket of the Old Bailey, 1924-1970 Central Criminal Court of England and Wales. Calendar of Prisoners, For the Session Commencing on Tuesday, The 8th of January, 1924 [complete through December 1970]. London: Printed by Merser & Sons, 1924-1970. Calendars through 1959 bound into 11 books in pebbled..... More
A Rare Edition of the Paris Coutume Tournet, Jean, Annotator. Coustumes de la Prevoste et Vicomte de Paris. Augmentee Outre ce qui Estoit en la Premiere de Nouvelles Observations & Arrests de la Cour sur Chaque Article. Paris: Chez Gervais Alliot, Proche la Chapelle S. Michel, 1627. [xxviii], 610, [56]..... More
An 1849 Murder in Petersburg, VA: McDade 286 [Trial]. Epes, William Dandridge [1806?-1848], Defendant. Brunet, J[ames] M[onroe].H. [d. 1856], Reporter. Trial of William Dandridge Epes, For the Murder of Francis Adolphus Muir, Dinwiddie County, Virginia: Including the Testimony Submitted in the Case, The Speeches of Counsel, &c. To Which are..... More
Archive of Offprints, Addresses and Pamphlets by Roscoe Pound [Archive]. Pound, Roscoe [1870-1964]. [Offprints, Addresses and Pamphlets, 3 of Them Signed by Pound]. Various places and publishers, 1908-1961. 27 items, comprising 19 offprints, three of them signed and dated by Pound, 6 addresses, a duplicate of a one address, and..... More
An Entertaining Book on Wills Proffatt, John. The Curiosities and Law of Wills. San Francisco: Sumner, Whitney & Co., 1876. 216 pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"). Original cloth, gilt title to front board and spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, moderate toning to..... More
Gilbert on the Court of Exchequer [Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey (1674-1726)]. An Historical View of the Court of Exchequer, And of the King's Revenues, There Answered. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, 1738. [xxiv], 151, [17] pp. Title page preceded by publisher advertisement. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4")..... More
Hayes, Arthur Garfield. City Lawyer: The Autobiography of a Law Practice. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Third printing. xvi, 482 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's original cloth hardcover, faded spine. $10. More
Konvitz, Milton R. The Alien and The Asiatic in American Law. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1946. vii, 299 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth hardcover, slightly worn, in a worn dust jaacket. Internally clean. $65. * Series: Cornell studies in civil liberty. Contents: The right to exclude aliens; The right..... More
Documents from the Settlement of a New Hampshire Estate [Manuscript Archive]. [New Hampshire]. [Wallace Family]. [Deeds, Receipts, Estate Inventories and Other Legal Documents]. Londonderry, NH, 1766, 1782-1801. 17 documents, 7 are 12" x 7-1/2" bifolia and single sheets, 1 is a 15" x 12" sheet, others range in size from..... More
France Grants Suffrage to People of Color Born to Free Parents [France]. [Assemblee Nationale Constituante]. Loi Relative Aux Colonies, Avec l'Expose des Motifs qui en ont Determine les Dispositions. Donnee a Paris, Le 1.er Juin 1791. [Drop- Head Title]. [Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1791]. [12] pp. Quarto (9-3/4" x 7-3/4")..... More
Eighteenth-Century English Manuscript Law Dictionary [Manuscript]. [Law Dictionary]. England, c.1753. [326] pp. Quarto (8" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary limp reversed calf with yapp edges, raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing, a few minor scuffs and stains, binding cocked, several leaves, presumably blank, removed from end of text block. Text in neat..... More
Shakespeare on Poker Ballard, Martha C. Shakespeare on Poker. Denver: The Ballard Publishing Company, [1906]. [ii], [12] ff. Oblong Octavo (6" x 7"). Original limp reversed calf, thong-tied along spine, black-stamped title to front cover, moire silk endpapers. Text with color illustrations on rectos of thick satin-textured paper. Some fading..... More
A Book on Games "Written For the Use of the Young Princesses" Seymour, Richard, Editor. The Compleat Gamester: In Three Parts. Viz. I. Full and Easy Instructions for Playing the Games Chiefly Used at Court and in the Assemblees, Viz. Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, Basset, Faro, and the Royal Game..... More
The Trial of Governor Eyre for His Brutal Suppression of a Rebellion in Jamaica [Trial]. Eyre, Edward John [1815-1901], Defendant. Finlason, W.F. [1818-1895], Reporter. Report of the Case of the Queen v. Edward John Eyre, On His Prosecution, In the Court of Queen's Bench, For High Crimes and Misdemeanours Alleged..... More
Broadside Mourning the Recent Death of the Archbishop of Dublin [Broadside]. [MacCabe (McCabe), Edward (1816-1885)]. An Elegy on the Death of the Much Lamented Very Rev Bishop McCabe. Air-"Exile of Erin". [Dublin?, S.n., c.1885]. 11" x 4-1/4" broadside, single-column text below headline and crude image of a bishop. Light toning..... More
Penultimate Edition of a Standard Early English Treatise on Maritime Law Molloy, Charles [1646-1690]. De Jure Maritimo et Navali: Or a Treatise of Affairs Maritime, And of Commerce. The Ninth Edition, With Many Valuable Additions. London: Printed for T. Waller, 1769. Two volumes. [xvi], 404; [iv], 344, [52] pp. Pages..... More
Owned by a Notable Female Lawyer Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. vii, 316 pp. Original cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends, spine label and corners, which are bumped, large bookplate..... More
In a Rare Original Dust Jacket Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. vii, 316 pp. Cloth in moderately toned and edgeworn dust jacket with cellotape repairs in a few places and horizontal and vertical fold lines, light toning to text. $500. *..... More
"Public Whore?" [Manuscript]. [Wisconsin]. [Acker, James, Defendant]. [Accusation of Adultery]. Walworth County, Wisconsin Territory, 1845. 12-1/2" x 7-3/4" sheet. Moderate toning, two horizontal fold lines, light edgewear. Content in neat hand, docketed on verso. $450. * The document pertains to suit filed against James Acker by Dyes Read for William..... More
A Hatchet Assault in Texas [Manuscript]. [Texas]. [Cotton, James, Defendant]. [Affidavit Concerning the Case of Texas v. James Cotton]. Harris County, TX, February 19, 1852. 12" x 7-1/2"sheet. Moderate toning, light soiling, rubbing with a few small chips and clean tears to edges. $450. * This document appears to be..... More
"Sixteen-String Jack" [Rann, Jack (1750-1774)]. The Life of Jack Rann, Otherwise Sixteen-String Jack, The Noted Highwayman, Who Was Executed at Tyburn, November 30, 1774. Durham: Printed by George Walker, Jun., Sadler Street, 1838. 24 pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 3-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Light toning, light soiling to exterior..... More
"The Booke That Teacheth" [Great Britain]. [Justices of the Peace]. [Courts Leet and Baron]. The Contentes of This Boke. Fyrst the Booke for a Iustice of Peace. The Boke that Teacheth to Kepe a Courte Baron, Or a Lete. The Boke Teachynge to Kepe a Courte Hundred. The Boke Called..... More
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First Edition of Crompton's Survey of the Courts with an Interesting Association [Crompton, Richard (d. 1599)]. L'Authoritie et Iurisdiction des Courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne: Nouelment Collect & Compose, Per R. Crompton del Milieu Temple Esquire, Apprentice del Ley. Si Seuris Index, Mitisis Corde Memento, Dicito, quae Possunt..... More
Methods to Control "Asiatic Cholera" Rogatis, Alfonso de. Osservazioni Ed Esperienze Sull'Azione Profilattica E Curativa Del Rame E Suoi Preparati Nel Colera Asiatico. Naples: Stabilimento Tipografico, 1865. 74 pp. Quarto (7-3/4" x 5-3/4") Pamphlet bound into contemporary three-quarter vellum over marbled boards. Some rubbing to boards and extremities, early owner..... More
Beware of Smugglers! [Smuggling]. [Great Britain]. [Printed Circular Letter Alerting Customs Officers to a Method Used to Smuggle Goods]. London: Custom-House, January 4, 1825. 12-1/4" x 7-1/4" sheet, large woodcut illustration (a ship's bow) to verso. Moderate toning, faint horizontal fold line, a few chips and small tears to edges..... More
Rare Nineteenth-Century Italian Publisher's Catalogue [Legal Publishing]. Enrico Dalmazzo. Tipografia Forense Di Enrico Dalmazzo. Catalogo. Turin: Piazetta e Via S.Domenico, N.2, 1863. 48 pp. Quarto (6-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Sewn pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling and a few minor stains, moderate rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends..... More
"Threatening to Kill Ellen Little, His Wife" [Domestic Violence]. Petty Sessional Division of Cheltenham. [Court Judgement and Binding Order To Keep The Peace]. Cheltenham: [October 6, 1887]. 4-3/4" x 11-3/4" part-printed vellum document completed in manuscript. Light soiling, three vertical fold lines. $250. * This judgement relates to the case..... More
Copy of Boorstin's Study of Blackstone's Commentaries in a Rare Original Dust Jacket Boorstin, Daniel J. [1914-2004]. The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries Showing how Blackstone, Employing Eighteenth-Century Ideas of Science, Religion, History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy, Made of the Law at Once a Conservative and..... More
American State Trials Lawson, John D., Editor. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials Which Have Taken Place in the United States, From the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day with Notes and Annotations. St. Louis: F.H. Thomas Law Book Co, 1914-1928. Reprint..... More
Scarce Complete British Edition of the Nuremburg Trials [Nuremberg Trials]. [International Military Tribunal]. The Trial of German Major War Criminals: Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremberg Germany. London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1946-1951. Complete set; 23 parts in 23 books, Part 23 an index. [With] Opening Speeches..... More
Sentences Passed in the Bodmin Jail, Cornwall, on March 26, 1839 [Broadside]. [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. Sentences of the Prisoners, Tried at Bodmin, On Tuesday March, the 26th 1839 Before Mr. Baron Gurney and Mr. Justice Maule. Deeble Peter Hoblyn, Esq. Sherriff. Penryn [Cornwall, England]: T. Pearce, Printer, 1839. 14-3/4" x...... More
Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, c.1920. vii, 316 pp. Cloth in lightly rubbed and moderately edgeworn dust jacket, light toning to text, small library stamp to front pastedown. $75. * Only edition, later printing (copyright date: 1920). A valuable compilation, this volume..... More
Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, c.1920. vii, 316 pp. Cloth in lightly rubbed and moderately edgeworn dust jacket, light toning to text. $75. * Only edition, later printing (copyright date: 1920). A valuable compilation, this volume contains Holmes' most famous speeches and..... More
An Important Event in the History of Freedom of the Press and Abolition [Trial]. Lincoln, William S., Reporter. Trow, John Fowler, Editor. Alton Trials: Of Winthrop S. Gilman, Who Was Indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Roff, George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Morss..... More
Different Types of Swindles Dillon, John J. Hind-Sights, Or Looking Back on Swindles. New York: The Rural Publishing Company, [1911]. 128 pp. Original cloth, gilt title to front board. Moderate shelfwear and minor stains to binding, hinges cracked, a few cracks to text block. Moderate toning, faint dampstaining to foot..... More
Rare Account of a "Mysterious and Dreadful Murder" [Trials]. Thurtell, John [1794-1824]. Probert, William [d.1825]. Hunt, Joseph. A Narrative of the Mysterious and Dreadful Murder of Mr. W. Weare, Containing the Examination Before the Magistrates, The Coroner's Inquest, The Confession of Hunt, And Other Particulars Previous to the Trial, Collected..... More
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"Fit to be Perused by the Libertines of This Age" [Vaughan, Sir William (1577-1641)]. The Spirit of Detraction Coniured and Convicted in Seven Circles. A Worke Both Divine and Morall, Fit to be Perused by the Libertines of this Age, Who Endeauour by Their Detracting and Derogatorie Speeches, to Embezell..... More
"The Brutal Slayer of Two Girls" [Publisher Advertisement]. Durrant Hangs!! The Brutal Slayer of Two Girls, Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams in San Francisco, Is Sentenced to Die November 12. [Utica, NY: The Utica Saturday Globe, 1890]. 9-1/4" x 5" broadside, single-column text below headline. Light browning, negligible faint dampstain..... More
1857 Rules of the Probate Court of Lincoln County, Maine [Broadside]. Fales, Bader, Judge. Courts of Probate. State of Maine. Lincoln. N.p.: S.n, 1857. 9-1/2" x 7-1/2" broadside with two-part text, first part in a single column, second in parallel columns, both parts below headlines, and enclosed in enclosed in..... More
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1576 Printing of Magna Carta and Later Statutes [Magna Carta]. Magna Charta, Cum Statutis, Tum Antiquis, Tum Recentibus, Maximopere, Animo Tenendis nunc Demum ad Unum, Tipis Aedita, Per Richardum Tottell. [Imprinted at London: In Fleetestrete Within Temple Barre at the Signe of the Hand and Starre, By Richard Tottel, The..... More
Littleton's Tenures in English Littleton, Sir Thomas [1402-1481]. Littletons Tenures in English. Lately Perused and Amended. London: Imprinted by Thomas White, 1604. 142, [2] pp. Octavo (5-1/4" x 3-1/2"). Recent period-style quarter calf over paper-covered boards, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards, moderate wear to corners, hinges cracked. Moderate toning..... More
Boote's Suit at Law: Sole Dublin Edition Boote, R[ichard] [d. 1782]. An Historical Treatise of an Action on Suit at Law; And of the Proceedings Used in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas From the Original Processes to the Judgment in Both Courts, Wherein the Reason and Usage..... More
"Sixteen-String Jack" [Rann, Jack (1750-1774)]. The Life of Jack Rann, Otherwise Sixteen-String Jack, The Noted Highwayman, Who Was Executed at Tyburn, November 30, 1774. Durham: Printed by George Walker, Jun., Sadler Street, 1838. 24 pp. Octavo (6- 1/2" x 3-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers, untrimmed edges. Light toning, light..... More
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Four 1799 Parliamentary Acts Relating to Penal Transportation to Australia [Australia]. [Transporation]. An Act for Making Perpetual So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty. An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, And Other Punishments..... More
Copy of Boorstin's Study of Blackstone's Commentaries in a Rare Original Dust Jacket Boorstin, Daniel J. [1914-2004]. The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries Showing how Blackstone, Employing Eighteenth-Century Ideas of Science, Religion, History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy, Made of the Law at Once a Conservative and..... More
An Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Prejudicium [Manuscript]. [Praejudicia Tabularia]. Probably Hungary, c.1760. [284] pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, edges rouged. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks to boards, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, pastedown excised from verso..... More
A Notable Philadelphia Lawyer, Abolitionist and Man of Letters Brown, David Paul [1795-1872]. [5-1/2" x 4" Carte-de-Visite Mounted on Inscribed 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Card]. [Philadelphia?, c. 1870]. Light toning to card, small nick to upper left corner. A well-preserved item. $250. * The annotation reads (in part): "Truly & Sincerely..... More
A Harvard Event to Mark the End of the Civil War with a Contribution by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Harvard College. Commemoration Day, July 21, 1865. [Cambridge, MA: S.n., 1865]. [4] pp. Quarto (9" x 7"). Single folded sheet, light soiling, short tears to fore-edges, faint vertical and horizontal fold..... More
A Notable Critique of Philadelphia Property Taxes Carey, Mathew [1760-1839]. Cursory Reflexions on the System of Taxation, Established in the City of Philadelphia: With a Brief Sketch of Its Unequal and Unjust Operation. [Philadelphia]: Printed for the Author [by Robert Carr], 1806. 47 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched..... More
Books Selected by Thomas Jefferson [University of Virginia]. Peden, William Harwood, Introduction. 1828 Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virginia, Reproduced in facsimile With an Introduction by William Harwood Peden. Charlottesville, VA: Printed for the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia, 1945. vi, 114 pp. Index. Original..... More
A Pennsylvanian His Own Lawyer A Gentleman of the Bar. The Pocket Companion; Or, Every Man His Own Lawyer: Containing a Variety of Precedents, Laid Down in So Plain a Manner, That the Farmer, Mechanic, Apprentice, Or School Boy, Can Draw Any Instrument of Writing Without the Assistance of an..... More
A Curious Hybrid of Two Pirate Editions Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on The Laws of England, In Four Books. The Twelfth Edition. With the Last Corrections of the Author; Additions by Richard Burn, LL.D. And Continued to the Present Time by John Williams, Esq. Dublin: Printed for L. White..... More
Inscribed by Learned Hand to the Wife of Bertrand Russell Hand, Learned [1872-1961]. The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand Collected, And With an Introduction and Notes, by Irving Dilliard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. xxx, 262, [2] pp. Cloth in lightly edgeworn dust jacket, light..... More
Handsome First Edition of Most Popular English Work About Justices of the Peace Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. The Justice of the Peace, And Parish Officer. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot, 1755. Two volumes. xxvii, [1], 541, [3]; [iii], 573, [11] pp. Three-page publisher advertisement at end of Volume I, another one-page..... More
Holmes Describes His Approach to the Law in a Letter Written in May 1898 [Manuscript]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. [Castletown, Lady Clare (1853-1927)]. [Autograph Letter Signed "H" to Lady Clare Castleton, Boston (?), May 18, 1898]. 8" x 5" bifolium, content filling rectos and versos of both leaves. Faint..... More
An Ambitious (and Pessimistic) Poem by a Nineteenth-Century Baltimore Lawyer Dimmock, Charles Henry [1831-1873]. The Modern: A Fragment. Richmond, Published by J. W. Davies & Sons. 1866. 24 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Light rubbing to extremities, moderate toning and foxing to text, binding stitch broke..... More
A Witty (And Very French) View of Family Law Hemard, Joseph [1880-1961], Illustrator. Code Civil: Livre Premier, Des Personnes: Titres V. Du Mariage. VI. Du Divorce. VII. De la Paternite. VIII. De l'Adoption. IX. De la Puissance Paternelle. X. De la Minorite. XI. De la Majorite. Paris: Rene Kieffer, [1925]..... More
1810 Student Notes on Lectures on the Code de Procedure Civile and Code d'Instruction Criminelle [Manuscript]. Jouvent, Barthelemy [d.1821]. Cours de Procedure Civile. Dicte par Monsieur Jouvent, Professeur & Doyen a la Faculte de Droit a Toulouse. Toulouse, 1810. [364] pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Contemporary vellum, gilt fillets and..... More
Holmes Writes Lady Castletown to Share Thoughts About His Recent Reading and an Anecdote Involving Richard Harding Davis and Charles Dana Gibson [Manuscript]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. [Castletown, Lady Clare (1853-1927)]. [Autograph Letter Signed "Yours, OWH" to Lady Clare Castletown, Boston, January 21, 1898]. 10" x 8" bifolium, Massachusetts..... More
An Accused Adulterer Defended by Richard Henry Dana [Trial]. Kalloch, I[saac] S[mith] [1831-1887], Defendant. Only Full Report of the Trial of Rev. I.S. Kalloch on Charge of Adultery: Complete History of the Affair, Doings of the Church, Kalloch's Pulpit Defence, Arrest, Arraignment, Trial, And Result. With Accurate Portraits of Kalloch..... More
A Volume of Poems by a Distinguished 19th-Century Pennsylvania Lawyer [Miller, Elihu Spencer (1817-1879)]. Caprices. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1849. 154 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Later three-quarter morocco over paper boards, top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges. Negligible light rubbing to spine ends and corners..... More
A Standard Early English Treatise on Maritime Law Molloy, Charles [1646-1690]. De Jure Maritimo et Navali: Or, A Treatise of Affairs Maritime and of Commerce. In Three Books. Carefully Corrected, With the Addition of Several Hundred References and Many Modern Cases Never Before Printed. London: Printed for John Walthoe, 1722..... More
Rare 1826 Auction Catalogue of a Fine Law Library in Derby, England [Auction Catalogue]. A Catalogue of the Very Extensive and Valuable Law Library of Mr. Edwards, Solicitor, Derby, To be Sold at Auction, On the Premises, Friar-Gate, Derby, On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, And Monday, The 21st, 22nd, 23rd, And..... More
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First Edition of The Common Law in the Uncommon Green Cloth Binding with a Holmes Autograph Letter, Signed Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1881. [i]-xvi, 422 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Original green pebbled cloth, blind double frames to boards, gilt title..... More
Only American Edition of An Important Treatise on Landlord and Tenant Woodfall, William [d. 1806]. The Law of Landlord and Tenant; To Which is Added, An Appendix of Precedents. From the Fourth London Edition, With Considerable Alterations and Additions. New York: Published by Robert M'Dermut and D.D. Arden, 1816. xiii..... More
Standard Early English Treatise on Maritime Law Molloy, Charles [1646-1690]. De Jure Maritimo et Navali: Or, A Treatise of Affairs Maritime, And of Commerce. In Three Books. The Eighth Edition, With Many Valuable Additions. London: Printed for John Walthoe, 1744. [ii], xvii [i.e. xv], [3], 505, [51] pp. Copperplate pictorial..... More
Early American Edition of "One of the Most Influential Books in the Whole History of Criminology," PMM 209 Beccaria, [Cesare Bonesana, Marchese di] [1738-1794]. Voltaire (Arouet, Francois-Marie) [1694-1778]. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments: By the Marquis Beccaria, Of Milan. With a Commentary by M. De Voltaire. A New Edition..... More
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"Historical" and "Legal" Studies of Virginity, Adultery and Prostitution Kornmann, Heinrich [c.1580-c.1640]. Sibylla Tryg-Andriana: De Virginitate, Virginum Statu & Iure Tractatus Novus & Incundus in Quo ex Iure Naturali, Divino, Canonico et Civili, Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis & Prophanis. Frankfurt: Typis Matthiae Beckeri, Impensis Iacobi Fischeri, 1610. 281, [vii] pp. [Bound with]..... More
Critical Edition of the Earliest English Law Reports Brand, Paul A., Editor. The Earliest English Law Reports. London: Selden Society, 1996-2006. 4 volumes. Complete set. Selden Society Volumes 111, 112, 122, 123. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettered spines, negligible light shelfwear. A fine set. $250. * Volume I...... More