A Case of Arson in Gloucester, Massachusetts [Trial]. Looker-on in Vienna. Trial of Marshall and Ross for Barn-Burning: A Brief Exposure of a Systematic Attempt to Mislead the Public Mind, And Create a False Sympathy in Behalf of Convicted Incendiaries. [Gloucester, MA: S.n.], 1859. 20 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2")..... More
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
Print Commemorating an Event that Led to the Glorious Revolution Gole, Jacob [1660-1724], Engraver. De Seven Bisschoppen van Engeland. Amsterdam: [Published by P. Savoret and Jacob Gole], 1689. 18-3/4" x 14-1/2" Mezzotint broadside, image size 14-3/4" x 11." Faint horizontal crease through center, light soiling to lower-right corner. $750. *..... More
Godwin Denounces the Dangerous Precedent Set by a Recent Sedition Trial [Godwin, William (1756-1836)]. Cursory Strictures on The Charge Delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury, October 2, 1794. First published in the Morning Chronicle October 21. London: Printed for and Sold by D.I. Eaton, 1794. 31..... More
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[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
War Crime Trial Concerning the German Treatment of Allied POWs Cuddon, Eric, Editor. Trial of Erich Killinger, Heinz Junge, Otto Boehringer, Heinrich Eberhardt, Gustav Bauer-Schlichtegroll (The Dulag Luft Trial). With a Foreword by Frank Soskice. London: William Hodge and Company, [1952]. xviii, 255 pp. Plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... 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
Barber, Malcolm. The Trial of the Templars. Cambridge University Press, 1978. Reprint edition. New York: Notable Trials Library, 1997. With New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. vii, 312 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $25. 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
Faux, Marian. Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision That Made Abortion Legal. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988. Reprint edition. New York: Notable Trials Library, 1994. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xiv, 370 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt..... 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
Grover, David H. Debaters and Dynamiters: The Story of the Haywood Trial. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1964. Reprint Notable Trials Library, 1994. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. viii, 310 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $30. 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
Jordan, David P. The King's Trial: The French Revolution vs. Louis XVI. University of California Press, 1979. Reprint New York, N.Y.: Notable Trials Library, 1993. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xx, 275 pp. Illustrations. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker..... 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
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
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
Barrett, W.P., Editor. The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc: Translated Into English From the Original Latin and French Documents. With an Essay "On the Trial of Jeanne d'Arc " and Dramatis Personae, Biographical Sketches of the Trial Judges and Other Persons Involved in the Maid's Career, Trial and Death by Pierre..... 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
Weinstein, Allen. Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Reprint New York: Notable Trials Library, 1995. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xxi, 674 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
Jordan, David P. The King's Trial: The French Revolution vs. Louis XVI. University of California Press, 1979. New York, N.Y.: Notable Trials Library, 1993. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xx, 275 pp. Illustrations. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine..... 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
Hyde, H. Montgomery, Editor. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Regina (Wilde) v. Queensberry, Regina v. Wilde and Taylor. London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, [1948]. Reprint. [Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1989]. 384 pp. With an introduction by Alan Dershowitz. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all..... 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
Kaplan, John and Jon R. Waltz. The Trial of Jack Ruby. New York: Macmillan, 1965. Reprint edition. New York: Notable Trials Library, 1992. Introduction by Alan Dershowitz. 392 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40. 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
Dewitt, David Miller. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Seventeenth President of the United States. A History. New York: Macmillan, 1903. Reprint. New York: Notable Trials Library, 1992. With New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. vii, 646 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges..... 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
Watkins, Alan. A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher v Trelford and Others. Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd, 1990. Reprint The Notable Trials Library, 1993. With New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 241 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine..... 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
Wallace, Edgar (Introduction). The Trial of Patrick Mahon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrations. 286 pp. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library, property stamp to top edge, shelf location label at foot of spine. Lightly rubbed. Good. $20. * A volume in the Famous Trials..... 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
Jesse, F. Tennyson, Editor. Trial of Sidney Harry Fox. Edinburgh and London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, [1934]. xii, 299 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Light shelf wear. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location label at foot of spine. $25. * First edition. A...... 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
Fraenkel, Osmond K. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Reprint. [Birmingham, [Ala.]: The Notable Trials Library, 1990]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xv, 550, xv pp. Illustration. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $25. * "As..... 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
Yerrinton, J.M.W. The Official Report of the Trial of Sarah Jane Robinson. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1888. Reprint Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1993. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 469 pp. Quarter-calf, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, ribbon marker. Fine. $30. 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
Tusa, Ann, and John Tusa. The Nuremberg Trial. New York: Atheneum, 1986. Reprint. [Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1990]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. [vi], 519, [2] pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. 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
Freeman, Kathleen. The Murder of Herodes and Other Trials from the Athenian Law-Courts. London: MacDonald and Company, [1946]. Reprint. The Legal Classics Library, [1995]. vii, 239 pp. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $45. 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
Hall, J.W., Editor. The Trial of William Joyce. London: William Hodge, [1946]. Reprint. Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1987. Frontis., xii, 312 pp. Title printed in red and black. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $45. * Reprint of first Notable British Trials..... 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
Dewitt, David Miller. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Seventeenth President of the United States. A History. New York: Macmillan, 1903. Reprint. New York: Notable Trials Library, 1992. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $45. 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
Peers, William R. The My Lai Inquiry. W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. Reprint edition. New York: Notable Trials Library, 1993. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xii, 306 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 Trial Account With a Frontispiece by Isaac and George Cruikshank [Trial]. Paget, Sir Arthur [1771-1840], Defendant. Cruikshank, Isaac [1789-1856], Frontispiece. Cruikshank, George [1792-1878], Frontispiece. Crim. Con. ?10,000 Damages. Smeeton's Edition of the Trial Between the Right Hon. Lord Borringdon and Sir A. Paget, K.B. For Criminal Conversation with the..... 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
A Rare Account of the Bickford Murder Trial: McDade 987 [Trial]. Tirrell, Albert J., Defendant. [Estabrook, Silas, Primary Author]. Eccentricities & Anecdotes of Albert John Tirrell, The Reputed Murderer of the Beautiful Maria Bickford, Who Met Her Untimeley Fate on the Night of the 25th October, 1845, In the Moral..... 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
Press Statements Supporting the Cause of the Scottsboro Boys Scottsboro Defense Committee. 4 Free, 5 in Prison-On the Same Evidence: What the Nation's Press Says About the Scottsboro Case. New York: Scottsboro Defense Committee, [1937]. 16 pp. Stapled pamphlet in pictorial wrappers. Light soiling, moderate rubbing to extremities, wrappers beginning..... 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
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
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
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
"More a Struggle Between Two Families Than an Affair of the State" [Trial]. Baker, Abner, Defendant. Life and Trial of Dr. Abner Baker, Jr., (A Monomaniac) Who Was Executed October 3, 1845, For the Alleged Murder of His Brother-In-Law, Daniel Bates; Including Letters and Petitions in Favor of a Pardon..... 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
A Collection of Scarce Dublin Pamphlets in a Contemporary Binding [Great Britain]. [A Trial Bound with Five Pamphlets on Social and Political Topics]. Dublin, 1740-1747. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Together 6 titles. Contemporary calf, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Some minor nicks and..... 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
Account of a Notorious Case of Election Bribery Bound with Several Related Items [Trial]. Sykes, Francis [1730-1804], Defendant. The Trial of the Cause on the Action Brought by Hans Wintrop Mortimer, Esq; Member for the Borough of Shaftesbury, Against Francis Sykes, Esq; For Bribery Committed at Shaftesbury, Previous to the..... 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
Mrs. Kinney Defends Herself Kinney, Hannah. A Review of the Principal Events of the Last Ten Years in the Life of Hannah Kinney: Together with Some Comments Upon the Late Trial. Written by Herself. Boston: J.N. Bradley & Co., 1841. 87 pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary cloth, faint label..... 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
Interesting English Cases Tried in 1737, Three Concerning Soldiers, One a Cattle Thief [Trials]. [Great Britain]. [Three Cases Concerning Soldiers, One Concerning a Cattle Thief]. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1737. Folio (12-1/2" x 7-3/4"). Five pamphlets, two relating to the same trial, bound into nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over pebbled..... 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
Cases Selected "For the Information of Officers of the Militia" [Trials]. Loring, Joseph, Jr., [1767-1838], Defendant. Binney, Amos [1778-1833], Defendant. Howe, Thomas, Defendant. The Militia Reporter; Containing The Trials of Capt. Jos. Loring, Jun. on the Charges of Maj. Davis, Capt. Amos Binney on the Charges of Maj. Osgood, Capt..... 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
Stevenson, Brenda. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxxi, 411 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. $10. 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
"A Figure with the Body, Feet, And Tail of a Rat, With the Head and Face of a Man, (Resembling the Plaintiff)" [Trial]. Wood, William, Defendant. St. Luke's Parish Malt!!! Fairburn's Edition of the Trial Between Doctor Smith and Mr. Wm. Wood: For a Malicious and Scandalous Libel Against the..... 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
Not in McDade [Trial]. Tirrell, Albert J., Defendant. The Trial of Albert J. Tirrell, Charged with the Murder of Mrs. Maria A. Bickford. Before the Suprteme Court in Boston. Boston: Daily Mail Report-Full and Complete, [1846]. 37 pp. Text in parallel columns. Portraits. Illustrations. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched..... 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
A Classic Case of Legal Malpractice Litigation Niven, George W., Defendant. Sampson, William, Reporter. The Case of George W. Niven, Esq. Charged with Mal-practices, and Suspended by Order of the Court of Common Pleas, of the City of New-York, Containing Much Curious Matter, Ingenuous Argument, and Eloquent Discourse, Equally Interesting..... 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
The Court-Martial of Lord Sackville [Trial]. Sackville, George Germain, Viscount [1716-1785], Defendant. The Proceedings of a General Court-Martial Held at the Horse-Guards on Friday the 7th, And Continued by Several Adjournments to Monday the 24th of March, 1760; And of a General Court-Martial Held at the Horse-Guards on Tuesday the..... 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
"The Weaver's Friend" [Trial]. Hanson, Joseph [1781-1811], Defendant. The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Indictment Against Joseph Hanson, Esq.: for a Conspiracy to Aid the Weavers of Manchester in Raising Their Wages: Before Mr. Justice Le Blanc, One of the Judges of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench..... 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
A Famous English Case Involving Abduction and Assault [Trial]. Gordon, Loudoun Harcourt, Defendant. An Apology for the Conduct of the Gordons; Containing the Whole of Their Correspondence, Conversation, &c. With Mrs. Lee: To Which is Annexed, An Accurate Account of Their Examination at Bow Street, And Their Trial at Oxford..... 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
Trials of the Cato Street Conspirators [Trials]. [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Gurney, William Brodie, Reporter. The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson, And Others, For High Treason: at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, On Monday the 17th, Tuesday the 18th, Wednesday the..... 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
False Accusations of Robbery [Trial]. Kenniston, Levi, Defendant. Kenniston, Laban, Defendant. Report of the Evidence at the Trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston, Before Hon. Samuel Putnam on an Indictment for the Robbery of Major Elijah P. Goodridge, December 19, 1816. Salem: Printed by T.C. Cushing, 1817. 32 pp. Octavo..... 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
Fine-Press Account of the Trial of an Important French Revolutionary and Socialist Martyr [Trial]. Babeuf, Gracchus [1760-1797], Defendant. Cornell, Thomas [1937-2012], Illustrator. Scott, John Anthony [1916-2010], Editor, Translator, Author. The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome. Northampton, [MA]: [Leonard Baskin at the] Gehenna Press, 1964. [ii]..... 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
Fletcher Webster's Copy of an Account of One of His Father's Famous Cases [Trial]. Jackman, Joseph. Goodridge, Elijah Putnam [1787-1851], Defendant. The Sham-Robbery, Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge on His Own Person, In Newbury Near Essex Bridge, Dec. 19, 1816: With a History of His Journey to the Place Where..... 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
A Protracted Plagiarism Case Against Richard Henry Dana [Trial]. Curtis, Benjamin Robbins [1809-1874]. Dana, Richard Henry [1815-1882], Defendant. Circuit Court of the United States. District of Massachusetts. William Beach Lawrence (in Equity) vs. R.H. Dana, Jr., Et Als. Closing Argument for the Complainant on the Question of Piracy. B.R. Curtis..... 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
A Scarce McDade Item [Trial]. Phillips, James Jeter, Defendant. The Drinker's Farm Tragedy. Trial and Conviction of James Jeter Phillips, For the Murder of His Wife. With Portraits. Richmond: Published by J. Wall Turner, V.L. Fore, Printer), 1868. 96 pp. 2 full- page woodcut portraits (of Phillips and his wife..... 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
Brought to Justice by the Pinkertons [Trial]. Caldwell, Oscar T., Defendant. Smith, J. Victor, Reporter. Trial of Oscar T. Caldwell, Late a Conductor on the Chicago and Burlington Railroad Line, For Embezzlement: Before the Recorders Court of the City of Chicago at the September Term, 1855. Chicago: Daily Democratic Press..... 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
The Edgeware Road Murderer [Greenacre, James (1785-1837)]. [Gale, Sarah (d.1837)]. The Murder of Mrs. Brown, By J. Greenacre. Attempted Suicide of the Murderer. [London]: Printed by C. Hepner, New Cut, Lambeth, [1837]. [4] pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Disbound pamphlet, light toning, faint dampstain along spine. $450. * Known as..... More