Sharpe, J.A. Crime and the Law In English Satirical Prints 1600-1832. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, [1986]. 318 pp. 133 black and white plates. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt stamped spine and front cover, very good, in lightly worn dust jacket. Fine. $50. More

A Quirky Collection of Illustrated Lenten Sermons [Meder, Johannes]. [Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521)]. Quadragesimale Novum Editum ac Predicatum a Quoda[m] Fratre Minore de Observantia in Inclita Civitate Basilien[si]. De Filio Prodigo et de Angelo Ipsius Ammonitione Saliburi Per Sermones Divisum. Basel: Michael Furter, 1497. [232] ff. With an index and 18..... More

First Printing of the Act that Introduced Anatomization [Great Britain]. [Murder Act 1751]. An Act for Better Preventing the Horrid Crime of Murder [Drop-Head Title]. At head: Anno Vicesimo Quinto Georgii II. Regis. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1752. [ii], 739-742 pp. Folio..... More

"The Law Relative to the Mineral Lands of the United States," 1866-1877 Weeks, Edward P. A Commentary on the Mining Legislation of Congress, With a Preliminary Review of the Repealed Sections of the Mining Act of 1866, The Whole Constituting a Complete Statement of the Law and Practice Relative to..... More

"A Work of Great Authority" for Special Pleaders Heath, Sir Robert [1575-1649]. Maxims and Rules of Pleading, In Actions Real, Personal and Mixt, Popular and Penal: Describing the Nature of Declarations, Pleas, Replications, Rejoynders, And All Other Parts of Pleading; Shewing Their Validity and Defects, And in What Cases They..... More

"Students Still Turn to Its Pages for Enlightenment and Guidance" Madox, Thomas [1666-1727]. The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England, in Two Periods: To Wit, From the Norman Conquest, To the End of the Reign of K. John; And from the End of the Reign..... More

First Edition of Brandeis's Scathing Critique of the Financial-Services Industry Brandeis, Louis D. [1856-1941]. Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1914]. xiv, [2], 223 pp. Original cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with light wear..... More

"Susanna Langbridge, Rogue and Vagabond" [Manuscript]. Langbridge, Susanna. Nash, Richard. [Statement Under Examination of Susanna Langbridge]. London, May 9, 1751. 10-1/4" x 8-1/2" part-printed document completed in manuscript with ms docket to verso. Moderate toning, light foxing and edgewear, two horizontal fold lines, large dampstain to top half of sheet..... More

A History of the Court of High Commission Burn, John Southerden [1798-1870]. The High Commission. Notices of the Court, And its Proceedings. London: J. Russell Smith, 1865. vi [i.e. viii], 92 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Later three-quarter morocco over pebbled boards, gilt institutional name and seal to boards, gilt..... More

The Gretna Green Marriage [Great Britain]. [Blank Marriage Certificate]. Carlisle: F. Jollie, Printer, [c.1803]. 5-1/4" x 6-3/4" printed marriage certificate with small woodcut thistle at head. Light toning, horizontal and vertical fold lines, negligible small holes along vertical fold line without loss to text. An appealing, well-preserved item. [With] [Paisley..... More

Hutton and Croke Rule Against the King Hutton, Sir Richard [1561?-1639]. Croke, Sir George [1560-1642]. Denham, Sir John [1559-1639]. The Arguments of Sir Richard Hutton Knight, One of the Judges of the Common Pleas: And Sir George Croke Knight, One of the Judges of the Kings Bench: Together with the..... More

A Trio of Broadside Ballads [Broadside]. [Ballads]. [Great Britain]. Death of the Fox/I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair/The Thorn. [England, S.n., c.1840]. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" triple-text broadside in two columns, backed onto 10-1/2" x 7-1/2" sheet, verse texts, each below headline, woodcut image of a fox hunter on horseback..... More

Weavers, Shepherdesses and Sailors [Broadside]. [Shepherds]. [Sailors]. [Great Britain]. The Cottager's Daughter/The Sailor's Courtship. Northampton, England: Henson, Printer and Publisher, 81 Bridge Street-Sold Also by J. Taylor, Town Crier, Aylesbury, Bucks, [c.1850]. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" dual-text broadside in two columns mounted on 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" sheet, verse texts, each below..... More