Lavishly Extra-Illustrated Copy of Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors in a Handsome Binding Campbell, John, 1st Baron Campbell [1779-1861]. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV. London: John Murray, 1846-1869. Seven..... More

The "Fifth" Dublin Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books. Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, John Williams, and David Hay, 1773. Four volumes. Copperplate "Table of Consanguinity" and folding "Table of Descents." Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Contemporary calf..... More

First American Edition of Montefiore's Fascinating Commercial Dictionary Montefiore, Joshua [1762-1843]. A Commercial Dictionary: Containing the Present State of the Mercantile Law, Practice and Custom. With Very Considerable Additions Relative to the Laws, Usages, and Practice of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys, 1804. Three volumes..... More

A Handsome Edition of Burn's Justice Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, 1772. Four volumes. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent cloth, blind fillets and red and black calf lettering pieces to spines, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, light..... More

Exceptionally Well-Preserved First Edition, With Dust Jacket, of One of Cardozo's Most Important Books Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. v, 142, [1] pp. Near-fine cloth with bright gilt-stamped title in very lightly edgeworn dust jacket, negligible light toning to interior..... More

First Edition of "A Book of First Class Importance" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. The Compleate Copy-Holder. Wherein is Contained a Learned Discourse of the Antiquity and Nature of Manors and Copy-Holds. With all Things Thereto Incident, As. Surrenders. Presentments. Admittances. Forfeitures. Customes, &c. Necessary, Both for the Lord and Tenant..... More

First Edition in English of the First Nominative Reporter Plowden, Edmund [1518-1585]. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden, Of the Middle-Temple, Esq; An Apprentice of the Common Law, Containing Divers Cases upon Matters of Law, Argued and Adjudged in the Several Reigns of King Edward VI. Queen Mary, King..... More

Unrecorded Account of an Attempted Murder in Oxfordshire [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Great Britain]. Attempted Murder of a Wife by her Husband, Near Banbury, Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones, Printer, [1849]. 14-1/2" x 10" broadside, triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse..... More

Unrecorded Account of Two English Infanticides [Broadside]. [Execution]. [Infanticide]. Awful Account of the Dreadful Execution of Mr Matthew Grey, And Miss Susan Smith, for Murder. [London]: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials, [c.1830]. 14-3/4" x 10" broadside, triple-column text below headline and three woodcut images: one of a...... 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

Mershon, Stephen L. Shore Front Rights in the State of New York. Preface by Harry D. Slight. Montclair: Published by Stephen L. Mershon, 1929. 98 pp. with fold-out map at rear inside cover. Original blue cloth hardcover with gilt-stamped front cover, lettering faded. Good. $35. * Harry D. Sleight writes..... More

Works on Diplomacy and Church Customs by an Influential German Canonist Braun, Konrad [c.1491-1563]. [Cochlaeus, Johannes (1479-1552), Editor]. Opera Tria Nunc Primum Aedita. De Legationibus Libri Quinque: Cunctis in Repub. Versantibus, Aut Quolibet Magistratu Fungentibus Perutiles, & Lectu Iucundi. De Caeremonis Libri Sex, Ad Veram Pietatem Deique Cultum, Contra Errores..... More

An 1849 Murder in Petersburg, VA: McDade 286 [Trial]. Epes, William Dandridge [1806?-1848], Defendant. Brunet, J[ames] M[onroe].H. [d. 1856], Reporter. Trial of William Dandridge Epes, For the Murder of Francis Adolphus Muir, Dinwiddie County, Virginia: Including the Testimony Submitted in the Case, The Speeches of Counsel, &c. To Which are..... More