Sex + Greed + Murder = A Death Sentence [Trials]. Swan, John, Defendant. Jeffreys, Elizabeth, Defendant. The Genuine Trial of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffreys, Spinster, For the Murder of Her Late Uncle Mr. Joseph Jeffreys of Walthamstow in Essex, At the Assizes Held at Chelmsford for the County of..... More

Attractive Early-Modern Watercolor Image of a Trial [Artwork]. [Germany]. [Court Scene]. Probably Germany, c.1600. 4" x 6-1/2" watercolor and ink tipped onto later thick paper. Margins trimmed, light soiling to margins, minor flaking to image. $1,500. * Probably clipped from a student's album amicorum, this colorfully designed watercolor of a...... More

[Trial]. Simons, Henry, Defendant. The Case of Henry Simons, A Polish Jew Merchant; And His Appeal to the Public Thereon. Now Publish'd, With the Tryal at Chelmsford, For the Benefit of Him and His Unhappy Family. London: Printed, And Sold by All the Booksellers and Pamphlet Shops in Town and..... More

[Trials]. [War Crimes]. Kintner, Earl W., Editor. Trial of Alfons Klein, Adolf Wahlmann, Heinrich Ruoff, Karl Willig, Adolf Merkle, Irmgard Huber, and Philipp Blum (The Hadamar Trial). London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, [1949]. xxxvii, 250 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettered spine, ex-library with shelf location label at..... More

Chipman, General N.P. The Andersonville Prison Trial: Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, The Prison Keeper. [San Francisco]: Published by the Author, 1911. Reprint. [Birmingham, [Ala.]: The Notable Trials Library, 1990]. With New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 511 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges..... More

Invasion at Harper's Ferry Mason, J.M. Report of the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry. New York: Gryphon Editions, 1993. Notable Trials Library. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 71, 255 pp. Quarter calf over cloth..... More

Stone, I.F. The Trial of Socrates. Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Reprint The Notable Trials Library, 1994. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xi, 282 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40. More

[Dreyfus, Alfred]. Bredin, Jean-Denis. The Affair. The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. George Braziller, Inc., 1986. Reprint Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1989. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xii, 628 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Previous owner's bookplate on..... More

Perry, Hamilton Darby. A Chair for Wayne Lonergan. The Macmillan Company, 1972. Reprint, Delanco, N.J.: Notable Trials Library, 2000. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz with an Afterword by the Author. xii, 294 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine..... More

Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tradegy of the American South. Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Reprint edition. New York: Notable Trials Library, 2000. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xiii, 431 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40. More

Archer, William. The Life, Trial, and Death of Francisco Ferrer. London Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1911. Reprint New York: Notable Trials Library, 2000. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. ix, 332 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40. More

Curtis, Charles P. The Oppenheimer Case. The Trial of a Security System. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Reprint. The Notable Trials Library, 1992. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xi, 281 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40..... More

Stone, I.F. The Trial of Socrates. Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Reprint The Notable Trials Library, 1994. xi, 282 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $30. More

Schwartz, Bernard. Behind Bakke: Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court. New York University Press, 1988. Reprint The Notable Trials Library, 1995. With New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. x, 266 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40. More

Riel, Louis. The Queen v Louis Riel. With an Introduction by Desmond Morton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1974]. Illustrations. Reprint. [New York]: The Notable Trials Library, 1992. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xxxv, 383 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers..... More

Murders of Newborn Children [War Crimes Trials]. Brand, George, Editor. Trial of Heinrich Gerike, Georg Hessling, Werner Noth, Hermann Muller, Gustav Claus, Richard Demmerich, Fritz Flint, Valentina Bilien (Velpke Baby Home Trial). With a Foreword by H. Lauterpacht. London: William Hodge and Company, [1950]. liv, 356 pp. Plates. Original red..... More

Hall, J.W. The Trial of William Joyce. London: William Hodge and Company, [1946]. xii, 312 pp. Frontispiece. Plates. Original red cloth, light shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location label at foot of spine, institution stamps to edges. $15. * This book, a title in the Notable British Trials series..... More

Epstein, Jason. The Great Conspiracy Trial. An Essay on Law, Liberty and the Constitution. Random House, New York, 1970. Reprint edition, Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library [1998]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 433 pp. Quarter-calf, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, ribbon marker. Fine. $30. More

Westin, Alan F. and Barry Mahoney. The Trial of Martin Luther King. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Inc., 1974. New York, N.Y.: Notable Trials Library, 1997. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. viii, 342 pp. Quarter-calf, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, ribbon marker. Fine. $25. More

[Dreyfus, Alfred]. Bredin, Jean-Denis. The Affair. The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. Translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman. George Braziller, Inc., 1986. Reprint Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1989. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. Reprint. xii, 628 pp. Brown quarter-calf, raised bands, gilt. Fine. $25. More

Warburton, A.F. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Schooner Savannah, on the charge of piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Judges Nelson and Shipman, presiding. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1862. Reprint Legal Classics Library, 1997. xxii, 385 pp..... More

Religious Dissent and Sexual Deviancy in 17th-Century Scotland [Trials]. [Hickes, George (1642-1715)]. Ravillac Redivivus, Being a Narrative of the Late Tryal of Mr. James Mitchel a Conventicle-Preacher, Who was Executed the 18th of January, last, for an Attempt Which he Made on the Sacred Person of the Arch-Bishop of St..... More

Victims of the Popish Plot of 1678 [Trials]. [Popish Plot]. [Green, Robert (d.1679), Henry Berry (d.1679) and Lawrence Hill (d.1679)], Defendants. The Tryals of Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill, For the Murder of Sr. Edmund Bury Godfrey, Knt. One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the..... More

Curtis, Charles P. The Oppenheimer Case. The Trial of a Security System. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Reprint. The Notable Trials Library, 1992. [iii], xi, 281 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $45. More

Owned by a Notable English Prosecutor [Trials]. [Cobbett, William (1763-1835)]. Howell, Thomas Bayly [1768-1815], Editor. [Howell, Thomas Jones [1793-1858], Editor. Jardine, David [1794-1860], Compiler of Index. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year [1820]..... More

Rare Account of the Cato Street Conspiracy Trial with a Folding Plate [Trials]. [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Thistlewood, Arthur [1774-1820], Primary Defendant. The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, and Others, for High Treason, before Chief Justice Abbott, Sir Robert Dallas, and Special Juries, At the Old Bailey..... 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

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

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

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

Cluverius Defended by a Family Friend: McDade 194 [Leigh, Phillip]. [Cluverius, Thomas J. (1861-1887), Defendant]. Lillian Madison's Marriage and Murder: Cluverius Did Not Kill Her. The Sequel Told. Richmond, VA: Patrick Keenan, Printer, 1887. 29 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling and faint staining..... More

An 1802 Massachusetts Sermon Criticizing Public Executions Thacher, Thomas [1756-1812]. The Danger of Despising the Divine Counsel: Exhibited in a Discourse, Delivered at Dedham, Third Precinct, September 13, 1801, The Lord's Day After the Execution of Jason Fairbanks. Dedham, [Mass.]: Printed and Sold, By Herman Mann, 1802. 29 pp. Octavo..... More

Parliament Defends Its Case Against the Earl of Strafford St. John, Oliver [1598?-1673]. [Wentworth, Thomas, First Earl of Strafford (1593-1641)]. An Argument of Law Concerning the Bill of Attainder of High-Treason of Thomas Earle of Strafford: At a Conference in a Committe of Both Houses of Parliament. By Mr. St..... More

Designed to Display the Corruption of the Irish Nobility [Trial]. Taylour, Thomas, Marquess of Headfort [1757-1829], Defendant. A Report of the Trial on an Action for Damages Brought by the Reverend Charles Massy Against the Most Noble the Marquis of Headfort, For Criminal Conversation With Plaintiff's Wife: Damages Laid at..... More

Unrecorded Imprint With an Added Hand-Colored Portrait of the Criminal [Trial]. Turpin, Richard [c.1705-1739], Defendant. Kyll, Thomas, Reporter. The Whole Life and Trial at Large of the Notorious Highwayman Richard Turpin, At York Assizes, On the 22d Day of March, 1739, Before the Hon. Sir William Chapple, Knt. Judge of..... More

Archive Relating to an 1883-1884 Railway Case in Argentina [Manuscript Archive]. [Argentina]. [Trial]. [Legal Documents Relating to a Railway Right-of-Way Case]. Buenos Aires, 1883-1884. 6 items: 4 notebooks in stiff wrappers, 13" x 9," app. 100 pp. in all, 2 folding maps bound into a folder, 15-3/4" x 28," 12-1/2"..... More

Ravishment, Excommunication, Spousal Abuse and Other Matters [Manuscript Archive]. [Trials]. [Great Britain]. [Legal Documents Relating to Six Trials]. Great Britain, 1631-1632. 6 items, 2 are single leaves, 4 bifolia, sizes range from 9-1/2" x 8-1/3/4" to 12" x 7-1/2." Moderate toning and soiling, occasional browning, vertical folds, 5 items docketed..... More

He Beat Her to Death with a Shovel [Trial]. Farmer, Daniel Davis [1793-1822], Defendant. Rogers, Artemas, Reporter. Chase, Henry B., Reporter. Trial of Daniel Davis Farmer, For the Murder of the Widow Anna Ayer, At Goffstown, On the 4th of April, A.D. 1821. Concord [NH]: Published by Hill and Moore..... More

A Notorious Case of Wrongful Conviction that Led to the Creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal [Trial]. [Adolf Beck Case]. Committee of Inquiry into the Case of Mr. Adolf Beck. Report from the Committee; Together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, And Facsimiles of Various Documents. Presented to Both..... More

With Sixteen Hand-Colored Plates, Three by George Cruikshank [Trials]. Moore, A. [Cruikshank, George, Illustrator]. [Jenkins, J., Illustrator]. The Annals of Gallantry; Or, The Conjugal Monitor: Being a Collection of Curious and Important Trials for Divorces, And Actions of Crim. Con. During the Present Reign; Accompanied with Biographical Memoirs and Anecdotes..... More

Treason Trial of a Notable Manchester Cotton Merchant and Political Radical [Trial]. Walker, Thomas [1749-1817], Principal Defendant. Gurney, Joseph [1744-1815], Reporter. The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Indictment Against Thomas Walker of Manchester, Merchant, William Paul, Samuel Jackson, James Cheetham, Oliver Pearsall, Benjamin Booth, And Joseph Collier; For..... More

Detailed Trial of a Leader of an 1816 Plot to Overthrow of British Government [Trial]. Watson, James [1766?-1838], Defendant. Gurney, William Brodie [1777-1855], Reporter. The Trial of James Watson, For High Treason, At the Bar of the Court of King's Bench, On Monday the 9th, Tuesday the 10th, Wednesday the..... More

"Select Collection" of British Trials [Trials]. [Great Britain]. A Select Collection of Remarkable Trials: In One Volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, And the Lady Mary Mordaunt, For a Divorce. Patrick Hurley, For Perjury. Dr. Henry Sacheverell, For a Misdemeanor. James Earl of Derwentwater, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl..... More

Accused of Helping a Notorious Forger Talbot, [William] [1718 or 1719-1774]. The Rev. Mr. Talbot's Narrative of the Whole of His Proceedings Relative to Jonathan Britain. Bristol: Printed and Sold by S. Farley, [1772]. 93, [1] pp. Octavo (8" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent plain stiff wrappers, untrimmed edges..... More

1853 Impeachment Trial of a Wisconsin Judge [Trial]. Ryan, Edward G. [1810-1880]. Hubbell, Levi [1808-1876], Defendant. Argument of Edward G. Ryan, On the Trial of Levi Hubbell, Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, Before the Senate of Wisconsin, On an Impeachment Preferred by the Assembly for High Misdemeanors in Office..... More

Contemporary Legal Commentary on a Witchcraft Trial in Marburg [Reinkingk, Theodor von]. Responsum Juris, In Ardua Et Gravi Quadam Causa, Concernente Processum Quendam, Contra Sagam, Nulliter Institutum, & Inde Exortam Diffamationem. Ubi Quaestiones Quaedam, De Nocturnis Sagarum Conventiculis, Saltationibus, Usurpatione Supellectilium Piorum in Illis, Transmutationibus Personarum in Alia Animalia, Confessionibus..... More

The Fate of the Regicides [Finch, Heneage, Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682)]. An Exact and Most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (According to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides; The Murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty of Most Glorius Memory: Begun at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, The 9th of..... More

Murder, Rape and Necrophilia on a Country Lane in Massachusetts [Trial]. O'Neil, John [1873?-1908], Defendant. The Official Report of the Trial of John O'Neil for the Murder of Hattie Evelyn McCloud, In the Superior Court of Massachusetts. From Notes of the Official Stenographers. Published by the Attorney-General, Under Chapter 214..... More

One of the Most Sensational Scottish Trials of the Eighteenth Century [Trial]. [Douglas Cause]. Anderson, William, Reporter. The Speeches and Judgement of the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland, Upon the Important Cause, His Grace George-James Duke of Hamilton and Others, Pursuers; Against Archibald Douglas, Esq;..... More

"The Most Mysterious of All the Cases Which have Baptized Connecticut in Blood" [Trial]. [Hayden, Herbert H. (b.1850), Defendant]. Stannard, Mary [1856-1878]. Poor Mary Stannard! Full and Thrilling Story of the Circumstances Connected with Her Murder. History of the Monstrous Madison Crime. The Most Mysterious of All the Cases Which..... More