Holroyd on Patents, From the Library of Lord Eldon Holroyd, Edward [1794-1881]. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Patents for Inventions. London: Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Richards, 1830. xii, 236 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, tiny fragment of paper label to..... More
A Scarce Review of Real Property From the Library of Lord Eldon Hayes, W[illiam]. A Popular View of the Law of Real Property, With an Application of its Principles to the Important Measure of a General Register: Shewing What Changes in the System a Register is Calculated to Produce. London..... More
The First Major Work on Voluntary Trustees, From the Library of Lord Eldon Hampson, Sir George Francis [1789-1833]. A Short Treatise Endeavouring to Point Out the Means by Which Those Who Accept the Situation of Trustees May Perform Their Duties Without Incurring Responsibility. London: Printed for A. Maxwell, 1825. xx..... More
An Interesting Study of Roman Law Presented to Lord Eldon Reddie, John [1805-1851]. Historical Notices of the Roman Law, and of the Recent Progress of Its Study, in Germany. Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1826. 136 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Original paper boards, paper label and handwritten title and..... More
A Scarce 1825 Treatise on Estate Law From the Library of Lord Eldon Tamlyn, John [d.1869]. A Treatise on Terms of Years and Other Chattels. Including a Dissertation on Executory Interests and Trusts; And an Inquiry into the Point Whether Terms of Years Merge in Each Other. London: S. Sweet..... More
The Only Early English Collection of Mooted Cases Hughes, William, of Gray's Inn. Hughes's Queries. Or, Choice Cases for Moots, Containing Several Points of Law, Not Resolved in the Books. Being Very Useful for the Students of the Common Lawes. London: Printed for George Dawes, 1675. [xxxvi], 136, [8] pp..... More
From the Library of Lord Eldon Trevelyan, Raleigh [1781-1865]. Parliamentary and Legal Questions, 1832. London: Hatchard and Son [Printed by R. Watts], 1833. [ii], 51, [1] pp. Octavo (6-1/4" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules and fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, blind tooling to board..... More
William O. Douglas's Copy of the U.S. House of Representatives Parliamentary Manual [Douglas, William O. (1898-1980)]. Cannon, Clarence [1879-1964]. Cannon's Procedure in the House of Representatives. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1951. ix, 498 pp. Thumb-tabbed. Flexible calf, gilt title to center of front cover, "Justice Douglas" gilt-stamped..... More
From The Library of Louis D. Brandeis [Brandeis, Louis D. (1856-1941)]. United States Railroad Administration. Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad Administration and General Orders and Circulars Issued by the Director General of Railroads. At head of title page: United States Railroad Administration Director General of..... More
Owned by an Important Victorian Bookseller [Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)]. [Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, And Lewis Baboon. Who Spent All They Had in a Law-Suit. Printed from a Manuscript Found in the Cabinet of the Famous..... More
Cummings, Homer [1870-1956]. McFarland, Carl [1904-1979]. Federal Justice: Chapters in the History of Justice and the Federal Executive. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. ix, 576 pp. Cloth bound hardcover, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners, owner stamp of Carl McFarland to head of text..... More
Account of an Adultery Trial Published to Block an Academic Appointment [Trial]. Ure, Andrew [1778-1857], Plaintiff. [Chapman, Nathaniel, Editor]. The Whole of the Proceedings, Duly Authenticated, In the Case of Divorce of Andrew Ure, M.D. v. Catharine Ure, For Adultery with Granville Sharpe Pattison. Tried in the Consistory Court at..... More
Three Readings on Property Law Dyer, Sir James [1512-1582]. Brograve, Sir John [d.1613]. Risden, Thomas. Three Learned Readings Made Upon Three Very Usefull Statutes: The First, By that Great and Eminent Sage of the Law, Sir James Dyer, Of the Middle Temple, Upon the Statute of 32.H.8.Chap.I. Of Wills, And..... More
![Item #73708 Report of the Case of Geo C Hersey [With] ALS [And] Defense Motion. Trial, George C...](/pictures/thumb/73708.JPG?v=1657021281)
Presentation Copy of a Notable Trial Involving Poisoning and Abortion [Trial]. Hersey, George C., Defendant. Yerrinton, M.W. James, Reporter. Report of the Case of Geo. C. Hersey, Indicted for the Murder of Betsy Frances Tirrell Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Including the Hearing on the Motion in Arrest..... More
Owned by Britain's Deputy Commissary General in Georgia Saxe, Maurice, Comte de [1696-1750]. Reveries, Or, Memoirs Concerning the Art of War. By Maurice Count de Saxe, Marshal-General of the Armies of France. To Which is Annexed, His Treatise Concerning Legions; Or, A Plan for New-Modelling the French Armies. Illustrated with..... More
Owned by a Member of the Darrow Family Page, Curtis Hidden [1870-1946], Editor. Thompson, Stith [1885-1976], Editor. Darrow, Jessie, Former Owner. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Fitzgerald, Clough, Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti..... More
Owned by Nathan Leopold's Brother McKernan, Maureen. The Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb. Introduction by Clarence Darrow and Walter Bachrach. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1925]. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Original publisher's cloth, red rules to boards, red-stamped decoration to front board and title to spine, bookplate of Foreman M...... More
Paul Darrow's Copy Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. An Eye for an Eye. New York: Fox, Duffield & Company, 1905. 213 pp. Original cream publisher's cloth, black-stamped title and author name to front board and spine. Light rubbing and soiling to boards and extremities, light fading to spine, front hinge cracked, faint..... More
![Item #73543 A Lecture on Heads [With] Songs Comic and Satyrical, 1788. George Alexander Stevens,...](/pictures/thumb/73543.JPG?v=1657021163)
"I Love Fun! Keep It Up!" Stevens, George Alexander [1710-1784]. A Lecture on Heads, Written by George Alexander Stevens, With Additions by Mr. Pilon; As Delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewis, At the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, The Royalty-Theatre, Well-Close-Square, And in Various Parts of the Kingdom; Also in the East-Indies. To..... More
First Edition, Inscribed by William Roughead [Trial]. M'Lachlan, Jessie [1834?-1899], Defendant. Roughead, William [1870-1952], Editor. Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1911]. Notable Scottish Trials. c, 339 pp. 9 plates, 1 folding. Frontispiece. 4 pp. publisher advertisement (for Notable British Trials). Original cloth, gilt title..... More
Inscribed by Holmes to a Former Clerk Who Became a Prominent Lawyer, Businessman and Philanthropist Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. vii, 316 pp. Original cloth, printed paper title label to spine, deckle edges. Light fading to spine and joints, a...... More
A Copy Owned by Joseph Story, Benjamin Butler and Henry Fowle Durant Shower, Bartholomew. Leach, Thomas, Editor. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, During the Reigns of Charles the Second; James the Second; And William the Third. By Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knt. In Two Volumes. Volume..... More
First Title in the Notable Scottish Trials Series [Trial]. Smith, Madeleine [1835-1938], Defendant. Smith, A. Duncan, Editor. Trial of Madeleine Smith. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1905]. xi, 371, [9] pp. Frontispiece, 3 plates. Original green cloth, gilt title and series name to spine, top-edge gilt. Light rubbing..... More
Rare Calf-Bound Presentation Copy [Trial]. Pritchard, Edward William [1825-1865], Defendant. Roughead, William, [1870-1952], Editor. Trial of Dr. Pritchard. Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1906]. 343 pp. Portrait frontispiece. 14 plates. Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine, gilt-stamped company name to..... More
![Item #73456 Proceedings at the Assizes... [And] Supplementary to the Trial. Trials, William...](/pictures/thumb/73456.JPG?v=1656700052)
Scarce Perjury and Malicious Prosecution Trials [Trials]. Hurry, William, Defendant. Watson, John, Defendant. Proceedings at the Assizes at Thetford, On the 8th of March, 1786, And the 24th of March, 1787, In the Trial of William Hurry, Merchant, Of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, On an Indictment Preferred Against Him..... More