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The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, Which Have...
A Murder in Richmond: McDade 711 [Murder]. [Richmond, VA]. [Myers, William R.]. The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, (Which Have Never Before Been Published or Even Read in Court,) to Dudley Marvin Hoyt, Who was Murdered at Richmond, Sept. 28th, 1846, by Wm. R. Myers, and Two Others..... More
Trial of Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, for the Murder of Edward Mathews...
Poisoned by His Doctor [Trial]. Coolidge, Valorous P. [c.1823-1849], Defendant. Trial of Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, For the Murder of Edward Mathews, At Waterville, Maine (As Reported For and Published in the Boston Daily News). [N.p.: S.n., 1848]. 40 pp. Text in parallel columns. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6"). Stab-stitched pamphlet..... More
Ars Notariatus: Or, The Art And Office Of A Notary-Publick, As the...
Notable Eighteenth-Century Handbook for Scottish Notaries [Notaries]. [Scotland]. Ars Notariatus: Or, The Art And Office Of A Notary-Publick, As the Same Is Practised In Scotland. In Two Parts. I. Giving an Account of the Rise and Institution of the Office, And Ancient and Present State Thereof. II. Containing Notorial Instruments..... More
A Manual of Maritime Law, Consisting of a Treatise on Ships and...
Scarce Classic Treatise on Maritime Law Praised by Joseph Story Rocco (Roccus), Francesco [fl. 1655]. Ingersoll, Reed [1786-1868], Translator and Editor. A Manual of Maritime Law, Consisting of a Treatise on Ships and Freight and a Treatise on Insurance. Translated from the Latin of Roccus with Notes by Joseph Reed..... More
Courts on Trial, Myth and Reality in American Justice.
Frank, Jerome [1889-1957]. Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. xii, 441 pp. Cloth in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. $75. * First edition. In this work Frank stressed the uncertainties and fallibility of the judicial process. It was his most significant work after..... More
Un Abridgment des Plusiers Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley.
"Long a Model to Future Makers of Abridgments" Rolle, Sir Henry [1589-1656]. [Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676), Editor]. Un Abridgment des Plusiers Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley: Alphabeticalment Digest Desouth Severall Titles. Ouesque un Table des General Titles Contenus en Ceo. London: Printed for A. Crooke, W. Leake, [et al.]..... More
The Decisions of the Lords of Council & Session, Two Vols, Complete.
A Great Scottish Judge and Legal Writer Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount [1619-1695]. The Decisions of the Lords of Council & Session, In the Most Important Cases Debate Before Them, With the Acts of Sederunt. As also, An Alphabetical Compend of the Decisions; With an Index of the Acts of Sederunt..... More
A Text-Book of Roman Law From Augustus to Justinian, Third edition
Definitive Edition of Buckland's Magisterial Study Buckland, W.W. Stein, Peter, Reviser. A Text-Book of Roman Law From Augustus to Justinian. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1966. xxx, 764 pp. Paperback. ISBN 9780521043687. New. $125. * Third and best edition. Roman Law, since its earliest days of the XII Tables, to..... More
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Earley Wilmot.
One of Blackstone's Closest Friends [Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709-1792)]. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Knt. Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: With Some Original Letters. London: Printed by Luke..... More
The Decisions of the English Judges, During the Usurpation, From the..
Collection of Civil-War Era English Decisions [Great Britain]. [Court of Session, Scotland]. The Decisions of the English Judges, During the Usurpation, From the Year 1655, To His Majesty's Restoration, And the Sitting Down of the Session in June 1661. Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1661. [iv], 243..... More
If Men Were Angels, Some Aspects of Government in a Democracy, Signed.
A First Edition Inscribed by Frank Frank, Jerome [1889-1957]. If Men Were Angels: Some Aspects of Government in a Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1942]. xii, 380 pp. Publisher's cloth, in worn, mylar-protected dust jacket, author inscription, reading "To Bob Fitzwilliam, with affection and admiration. Jerome Frank" to front..... More
Letters Addressed to Jefferson, Ohio Prosecutor Clyde A Taylor.
Letters to an Ohio Prosecutor [Manuscript Archive]. [Lawyers]. [Taylor, Clyde A.]. [Letters Addressed to Jefferson, Ohio, Prosecutor Clyde A. Taylor]. Mostly Jefferson, OH, 1906-1907. 144 items comprising single-leaf, bifolio and multipage manuscript and typescript letters, 3 printed documents, sizes range from 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" to 11" x 8-1/2." Light toning..... More
A Little Souvenir of the Wisconsin State Prison, Waupun Wis.
"A Square Deal for All" Lee, Oscar. A Little Souvenir of the Wisconsin State Prison, Waupun Wis. Our Motto "A Square Deal for All." Waupun, WI: c.1935-1939. 8 pp. Stapled pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light toning and edgewear, staples rusted, internally clean. $125. * This compendium of facts was issued..... More
"Vicar General," Vanity Fair, April 10, 1902.
"Vicar General" Spy (Ward, Sir Leslie [1851-1922]). "Vicar General." Vanity Fair, April 10, 1902. 12-1/4" x 7-1/2" (image size) color lithograph, matted and glazed in attractive 20-1/2" x 14-3/4" wooden frame. A few minor nicks to frame, light toning to margins with slight fading to caption, image vivid. $450. *..... More
"A Chief Secretary," Vanity Fair, December 10, 1896.
"Spy" Portrays a Prominent Conservative Spy (Ward, Sir Leslie [1851-1922]). "A Chief Secretary." Vanity Fair, December 10, 1896. 12-1/4" x 7-1/2" (image size) color lithograph, matted and glazed in attractive 20-1/2" x 14-3/4" wooden frame. A few minor nicks to frame, light toning to margins with slight fading to caption..... More
The Story of the Trenton Six. 1949.
Thurgood Marshall Played an Important Role in This Case Dean, Elwood. The Story of the Trenton Six. New York: New Century Publishers, December, 1949. 23, [1] pp. Stapled pamphlet in pictorial wrappers, some discoloration to edges of front wrapper, otherwise fine. $85. * The "Trenton Six" was a group of..... More
Jerome Frank: Jurist and Philosopher
Rosenberg, J. Mitchell. Jerome Frank: Jurist and Philosopher. New York: Philosophical Library, [1970]. xviii, 274 pp. Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. $35. * "This is a study of the jurisprudential writings and judicial opinions of the late Jerome Frank of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals..... More
A Sale of English-Beauties, In the East Indies, London, 1786.
"English-Beauties" For Sale in India Gillray, James [1756-1815]. A Sale of English-Beauties, In the East Indies. London: William Holland, May 16, 1786 (printed later). 15" x 21" etching on wove paper, trimmed to edges, attractively mounted and matted. Light even toning, light soiling, vertical crease through center, minor tear near..... More
Affability, London, 1795.
"Well Friend, Where A'You Going, Hay?" Gillray, James [1756-1815]. Affability. [London: Hannah Humphrey, c. 1795]. 13-1/4" x 9-1/4" hand-colored etching and aquatint (measured to plate marks) on wove paper, without watermark, attractively mounted and matted. Light even toning to margins. A good impression with vivid colors. $950. * "The King..... More
A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, Or, John Bull Swamped in the...
"Swamped in the Flood of New-Taxes" Gillray, James [1756-1815]. A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, Or, John Bull Swamped in the Flood of New-Taxes: Cormorants Fishing in the Stream. London: Hannah Humphrey, May 9, 1806. 8-3/4" x 14" hand-colored etching (measured to plate marks) on wove paper, without watermark..... More
The Woman's Bible, Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt.
"Are You Willing for Women Who Hold These Views to Become Political Powers in our Country?" [Broadside]. [Women's Suffrage]. The Woman's Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Suffrage Association One of the Revising Committee. [N.p.: S.n., c.1920]. 16-1/2" x 9-1/2" broadside, double-column text below..... More
The Terrible Hay-Stack Murder, Life and Trial of the Rev Ephraim K...
Illustrated Account of One of the Most Famous American Murder Trials of the Nineteenth Century [Trial]. Avery, Ephraim [1799-1869], Defendant. The Terrible Hay-Stack Murder. Life and Trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, For the Murder of the Young and Beautiful Miss Sarah M. Cornell, A Factory Girl of Fall..... More
A Trial Bound to Five Pamphlets on Social and Political Topics.
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
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The Gentleman's Recreation [and Abridgment of Manwood's Forest Laws].
Legal Guidelines for Well-Born Sportsmen Cox, Nicholas [fl.1673-1721]. [Manwood, John (d.1610)]. The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing: Wherein Those Generous Exercises are Largely Treated of; And the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking, More Amply Enlarged than Heretofore: Also the Method of Breeding and..... More
Six Issues of the Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, 1797
A Record of Daily Life in Baltimore in 1797 [Baltimore]. [Six Issues of the Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser]. Baltimore, May 26 and 27 and June, 21, 23, 24 and 27, 1797. 10-3/4" x 12-1/2" bifolia, 1 has an additional leaf titled "Federal Gazette Extra." Light soiling, Moderate browning..... More