Extremely Rare Broadside Account of the Trial and Execution of the "London Burkers" [Broadside]. [Executions]. Bishop, John [d.1831]. Williams, Thomas [d.1831]. May, [James]. Trial, Execution, And Confession of the Burkers, On Monday, December 5th, 1831 for the Murder of Charles Fariere, An Italian Boy. [London]: Printed by J[ohn] V[andenburg] Quick..... More
Rare Prospectus for a Legal Periodical: Only One Other Copy Known [Legal Journal]. [Williams, John, of the Inner Temple]. The Legal and Literary Journal, and Mercantile Magazine. To be Continued Monthly, And Number Three to be Published January 1st, 1814... Conducted by John Williams, Esq., Author of the Laws of..... More
Sanders, Francis Williams; John Warner, Editor. An Essay on Uses and Trusts, and on the Nature and Operation of Conveyances at Common Law, and of Those Which Derive Their Effect from the Statute of Uses. The Second American Edition, From the Last London Edition. With References to Later English and..... More
Thomas, Samuel Bell in collaboration with Edward Williams. Our Weakened Constitution: An Historical and Analytical Study of the Constitution of the United State [sic] and of the Additions to the Original Text Undertaken to Place the Facts before the American People, and to Emphasize the Present Necessity for a Movement..... More
Mutiny, Murder, and Piracy on the High Seas [Trials]. Williams, John [1789-1819], 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 the District..... More
Williams, John. Heyday for Assassins. London, Heinemann: [1958]. First edition. 257 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine near fine. Internally clean. $25. * A sharp, historical study of the golden age of political assassination spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Williams examines eight major international cases..... More
With an Interesting Chapter on Commercial Politics Williams, John. Laws of Trade and Commerce, Designed as a Book of Reference in Mercantile Transactions. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812. viii, 584 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to..... More
A Rare Contemporary Witness to the Ratcliffe Highway Murders: The Macabre Procession of John Williams. [Williams, John (1783/4?-1811)]. View of the Body of John Williams the Supposed Murderer of the Families of Marr and Williamson, And Self-Destroyer, Approaching the Hole Dug to Receive It, In the Cross Road, At Cannon..... More