American Law - 19th Century
Corporations are Persons According to the Fourteenth Amendment Field, Stephen J. [1816-1899]. Sawyer, Lorenzo [1820-1891]. The Taxation of Property of Railroad Companies in California, As Affected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. Opinions of Justice Field and Judge Sawyer, Delivered in the U.S. Circuit Court at San Francisco..... More
Rare German-Language Version of McDade 322 [Murder]. [Freeman, Charles F.]. Die Arme Kleine Edith Freeman. Die Fanatiker zu Pocasset. Charles Freeman, Der Second Adventist, Halt sich fur einem Zweiten Abraham und Bringt sein Tochterchen um, Indem er sein Lieblingskind Darbringt als Menschenopfer. Die Arme Verblendete Mutter Halt in Gemeinschaft mit..... More
Stabbed to Death in a Dispute Over an Election Bet [Trial]. Lockwood, R[ufus] A[llen] [1811-1857]. Frank J[ohn] H.W., Defendant. Speech of R.A. Lockwood, Esq., Delivered in Defence of J.H.W. Frank, At the October Term of the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, 1837. Indianapolis: Bolton and Livingston, 1837. 76 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x...... More
A Love Triangle, Allegations of Financial Misconduct and Murder [Trial]. Stokes, Edward [1841-1901], Defendant. Life, Trial and Conviction of Edward Stokes, For the Assassination of Jas. Fisk, Jr. To which is Added, The Life and Eventful Career of Josephine Mansfield. The Interesting Trial. Many Secrets Now for the First Time..... More
He Tried to Make the Murder Look Like a Suicide [Trial]. Comings, William F., Defendant. Report of the Trial of William F. Comings: On an Indictment for the Murder of His Wife, Mrs. Adeline T. Comings. At the September Term of the Court of Common Pleas Holden at Haverhill, In..... More
The Underbelly of the Gilded Age [Crime]. [Vice]. [United States]. The Illustrated Police News, Law-Courts and Weekly Record, For the Week Ending September 16, 1869. Vol. 7. No. 151. 8 pp. [Boston, Mass.]: Police News Pub. House, 1869. Woodcut illustrations. 20-1/2" x 14-1/2." Moderate toning, edgewear and creases, a few..... More
"A Rascal and a Drunkard": McDade 653 [Murder]. [McFarland, Daniel]. [Richardson, Albert D.]. The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy. Containing All the Letters and Other Interesting Facts and Documents Not Before Published, Being a Full and Impartial History of this Most Extraordinary Case. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1870. 111 pp. Text in parallel..... More
Jealousy, Fraud Accusations and Murder: McDade 919 [Murder]. [Stokes, Edward S. (1841-1901)]. [Fisk, James, Jr. (1835-1872)]. Life, Adventures, Strange Career, And Assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr. The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy. All about Miss Mansfield. Those Rich, Rare, And Racy Letters and Many Oddities Now for the First Time Made Public..... 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: Printed and Sold, By Herman Mann, 1802. 29 pp. Octavo (9"..... More
1857 Rules and Orders for the Middlesex, Massachusetts House of Correction [Prisons]. [Middlesex County Commissioners]. Rules and Orders for the House of Correction, Cambridge. Woburn: Printed by John J. Pippy, 1857. 8 pp. 12mo. (6" x 4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling and a few creases, faint library..... More
A Group of New England Banks Unite to Suppress Counterfeiting [Counterfeiting]. [Request for Membership Dues for the Association of Banks for the Suppression of Counterfeiting]. Boston, February 17, 1858. Single sheet folded once to form 8-1/2" x 5" bifolium, text to recto of first leaf, post mark and manuscript address..... More
Impressive Caricature of One of the Great American Lawyer-Statesmen of the Nineteenth Century [Evarts, William M. (1818-1901)]. [Caricature of Evarts]. N.p., S.n., c.1872. 14-1/4" x 11-1/4" woodcut caricature of Evarts by "Wiist" mounted on 21" x 17" board, clipped autograph signature of Evarts mounted below image. Moderate toning, light soiling..... More
Peters's U.S. Supreme Court Reports [Supreme Court, United States]. Peters, Richard [1779-1848], Reporter. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Published by Jacob R. Halstead, 1851. Sixteen volumes. Complete (official) set. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Uniformly bound in later tan buckram..... More
Wheaton's Reports: The "Golden Book of American Law" [Supreme Court, United States]. Wheaton, Henry [1785-1848], Reporter. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. Volume 1: Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, 1816; Volumes 2-7, 9-10, 12: New York: Published by Robert Donaldson, 1817-1827. Volumes..... More
Not in McDade Paine, William P. [1802-1876]. A Sermon Occasioned by the Murder of Philip Edwards, Perpetuated Under the Influence of Alcoholic Insanity, By John L. Davis, In Holden, Mass., August 15, 1838. Worcester: Press of the Massachusetts Spy, 1838. 22 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain..... More
President Monroe Tours the Northern and Eastern United States Waldo, Samuel Putnam [1780-1826]. The Tour Of James Monroe, President Of The United States, Through The Northern And Eastern States, In 1817; His Tour in the Year 1818; Together with a Sketch of His Life; With Descriptive and Historical Notices of..... More
McDade 841: "One of Those Bizarre Criminals Who Defy Easy Classification" Sawyer, George C. Edward H. Rulloff. Offprint from the American Journal of Insanity, April, 1872. [Utica, NY: State Lunatic Asylum]. 52 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Wrappers detached, chipped around edges and lightly soiled..... More
A Presentation Copy From Noyes [Field, David Dudley (1805-1894)]. [Noyes, William Curtis (1805-1864)]. [Bradford, Alexander W. (1815-1867)]. Draft of a Penal Code for the State of New York; Prepared by the Commissioners of the Code, and Submitted to the Judges and Others for Examination, Prior to Revision by the Commissioners..... More
Parson Weems on Dueling Weems, M[ason] L[ocke] [1759-1825]. God's Revenge Against Duelling: Or, The Duellist's Looking-Glass; Exhibiting that Gentlemanly Mode of Turning the Corner, In Features Altogether Novel, And Admirably Calculated to Entertain and Instruct the American Youth. Revised and Greatly Improved. Philadelphia: Published by Joseph Allen, 1827. [iii], 4-96..... More
Mail Robbery in Pennsylvania [Trials]. Mellon, Michael, Defendant Wilson, George, Defendant. Porter, James, Defendant. Mortimer, John, Reporter. The Mail Robbers: Report of the Trials of Michael Mellon, The Lancaster Mail Robber, And George Wilson and James Porter Alias May, the Reading Mail Robbers, Before the Honourable Judges Baldwin and Hopkinson..... More
Wicked Men Ensnared by Themselves, McDade 601. Sprague, William Buell [1795-1876]. Wicked Men Ensnared by Themselves: A Sermon Preached, December 16, 1825 in the Second Parish of West Springfield, At the Interment of Samuel Leonard, And Mrs. Harriet Leonard, His Wife; The Former of Whom Murdered the Latter, And then..... More
Cruelty Against a Woman, Or a Political Hatchet Job? Marie, Jane. The Case of Jane Marie, Exhibiting the Cruelty and Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, To a Defenceless Woman. Written and Published by the Object of his Cruelty and Vengeance, And Addressed to the Public of Philadelphia and the Whole..... More
"A House of Human Slaughter" [Trial]. Williams, B[enjamin] W., Principal Defendant. Report of the Trial of B.W. Williams and Others, Editors and Printers of the Dew Drop, A Temperance Paper Published at Taunton, Mass., For an Alleged Libel Upon William Wilbar, A Rumseller of Taunton, Before the Supreme Judicial Court..... More
Manuscript Compiled on the Kentucky Frontier [Manuscript]. Meade, Richard E[verard] [1787-1861]. Richard E. Meade's Commonplace Form Book. 1805. [Jessamine County, Kentucky, 1805, 1809]. [ii], 229, [2], [12] pp. Final 12 pages are a thumb-tabbed index. Folio (12-3/4" x 7-3/4"). Quarter sheep over paper-covered boards. Rubbing with considerable wear, boards, index..... More
Imprisonment for Debt is a Form of Tyranny Herttell, Thomas [1771-1849]. Remarks on the Law of Imprisonment for Debt; Showing Its Unconstitutionality, And Its Demoralizing Influence on the Community. Boston: S.n., 1825. [iii], 4-47 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling and edgewear, light toning. A well-preserved..... More