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The Authentic Life of Mrs Mary Ann Bickford, Who Was Murdered in...
The First Use of Sleepwalking as a Defense in a Murder Trial [Murder]. [Bickford, James, Compiler]. The Authentic Life of Mrs. Mary Ann Bickford, Who Was Murdered in the City of Boston, On the 27th of October, 1845. Comprising a Large Number of the Original Letters and Correspondence Never Before..... More
Elementi del Diritto di Natura e Delle Genti, Compilati ed in Due...
Rare Nineteeth-Century Italian Treatise on Natural Law Caputi, Nicola. Elementi del Diritto di Natura e Delle Genti: Compilati ed in Due Libri Divisi. Bari: Libreria e Stamperia Capasso, 1840. [iv], 179, [5] pp. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards, gilt title and fillets to spine..... More
Little Lydia, A Pathetic Ballad, Founded on Fact. Dover, England 1832.
"Where Are the Hands with Murder Stain'd Whose Guilt is Unreveal'd?" Kent, Alfred. Little Lydia; A Pathetic Ballad, Founded on Fact. Dover: Printed for the Author, By T. Rigden, 1832. 36 pp. 12mo. (5-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into slightly later pebbled cloth, gilt title to spine. Light rubbing..... More
$15,900.00 Reward!, Read This Story of a Terrible Crime, Train Hold...
"It May Mean $15,900 in Gold to You" [Train Robbery]. United States Post Office. $15,900.00 Reward in Gold, Read This Story of a Terrible Crime. Train Hold-Up and Murder of Three Trainmen and a Mail Clerk in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon. [Chicago, 1923]. 9, [1] pp. Photo illustrations 7"..... More
The Maybrick Case, English Criminal Law. London and New York, 1892.
A Contemporary Opinion on a Sensational 1889 Murder by a Female Physician Densmore, Helen. [Maybrick Murder Case]. The Maybrick Case: English Criminal Law. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; New York: Stillman & Co., [1892]. 148 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Stiff textured wrappers, gilt title to front. Some rubbing to..... More
Fee Bill of the Merrimack County Bar, 13-1/2" x 10-1/2" broadside.
List of Lawyer's Fees, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, 1864 [Broadside]. Merrimack County Bar. Fee Bill of the Merrimack County Bar. Concord, NH: October 4, 1864. 13-1/2" x 10-1/2" broadside. Text printed within woodcut border. Light toning, a few small spots near lower right-hand corner. A well-preserved copy. $650. * This..... More
Request for Membership Dues for the Association of Banks for the...
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
A Report of the Judgment Delivered in the Supreme Consistorial...
Divorce and the Conflict of Laws [Trial]. Gordon, Mary Margaret Pye, Alleyne H. A Report of the Judgment Delivered in the Supreme Consistorial Court of Scotland, By the Honourable the Judges of that Court, In the Divorce Cause of Mrs. Mary Margaret Gordon, Or Pye, The Wife, Against Lieut. Col..... More
The Famous Hypothetical Question in the Trial of Harry K Thaw...
An Insanity Defense Prevails in the Thaw's Trial for the Murder of Stanford White [Trial]. Thaw, Harry Kendall [1871-1947], Defendant. Jerome, William Travers [1859-1934], District Attorney. Francis P. Garvan [1875-1937], Assistant District Attorney The Famous Hypothetical Question in the Trial of Harry K. Thaw for the Murder of Stanford White..... More
Scenes from the Lives of Robson and Redpath. London, 1857.
Illustrated Account of Two English White-Collar Criminals Who Were Transported to Australia J.B. Redpath, Leopold [1816-1891]. Robson, William James [1820?-1884]. Scenes from the Lives of Robson and Redpath. London: W.M. Clark, [1857]. 112 pp. Woodcut illustrations. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into near-contemporary quarter morocco over cloth, gilt..... More
The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: Or, The Lawes Provision for...
The Earliest Work in English Devoted to Laws Relating to Women [Women]. E[dgar], T[homas] [fl. 1615-1649], Editor. The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: Or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall Collection of Such Statutes and Customes, With the Cases, Opinions, Arguments and Points of Learning in the Law, As..... More
Le Digest des Briefes Originals, Et des Choses Concernants Eux...
Important Early Work on Writs Thoroughly Annotated by an Early Owner Theloall, Simon. Le Digest des Briefes Originals, Et des Choses Concernants Eux. London: In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1579. [viii], 424 ff. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-3/4"). Seventeenth-century calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands to spine, boards reattached. Moderate rubbing..... More
Woodcut Caricature of Evarts, c 1872.
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
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court...
First Edition of Black's Supreme Court Reports [Supreme Court, United States]. Black, J[eremiah] S[ullivan] [1810-1883]. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the United States, At December Term, 1861 [-1862]. Washington, DC: W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1862-1863. Two volumes. Complete set. Octavo (9" x 6"). Later..... More
Memoriale Juridicum Novum, Quo Continentur Totius Juris Civilis...
A Rare Seventeenth-Century Guide to Legal Study Brucksilber, Georg. Cothmann, Ernst [1557-1624]. Everaerts, Nicolas [1462-1532]. Memoriale Juridicum Novum. Quo Continentur Totius Juris Civilis Constructio, Series Nexusque Librorum Corporis Juris Utriusque, Ut & Indices Titulorum cum Locorum Similium Collatione, Index Praeterea Rubricarum Universi Juris, Caesarei & Pontificii Absolutissimus. Ut et Memoriale..... More
Quare Impedit, In Two Parts, Part I Containing An Abridgment...
An Interesting Companion To Gibson's Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani [Mallory, John]. Quare Impedit: In Two Parts. Part I. Containing an Abridgment of the Law Concerning the Patronages of Churches, The Titles of Ecclesiastical Persons to their Estates; The Manner of Conveying, Granting and Leasing Them; The Several Acts of Parliament..... More
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the...
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
A View of the Civile and Ecclesiastical Law, And Wherein the...
Rare First Edition of Ridley's Important Treatise on English Civil and Ecclesiastical Law Ridley, Sir Thomas [1550-1629]. Gregory, J[ohn], Notes. A View of the Civile and Ecclesiastical Law, And Wherein the Practice of Them is Streitned, And May be Relieved Within this Land. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers..... More
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the...
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
Archaeologus, In Modum Glossarii ad Rem Antiquam Posteriorem....
A Landmark in English Legal Lexicography Spelman, Sir Henry [1564-1641]. Archaeologus. In Modum Glossarii ad Rem Antiquam Posteriorem: Continentis, Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, Et Novatae Significationis Vocabula, Quae Post Labefactatas a Gothis Vandalisq[ue]; Res Europaeas, In Ecclesiasticis Profanisq[ue]; Scriptoribus; Variarum Item Gentium Legibus Antiquis, Chartis & Formulis Occurrunt Scholiis et Commentariis..... More
The Trial at Large of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen...
Well-Illustrated Account of One of the Most Sensational Divorce Trials in English History [Trial]. Caroline of Brunswick [1768-1821], Defendant. The Trial at Large of Her Majesty, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain; In the House of Lords, On Charges of Adulterous Intercourse; Containing a Full and Accurate Detail of..... More
Crime and Justice, Second and Revised Edition, 3 Vols.
Radzinowicz, Leon, Editor. Wolfgang, Marvin E., Editor. Crime and Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1977. Three volumes. Cloth in lighty worn dust jackets, owner signature of Dr. Arthur Zitrin to front free endpaper of each volume. $150. * Second and Revised edition. Volume I: The Criminal in Society. Volume II..... More
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition
Hodgkinson, Peter, Editor. Schabas, William A., Editor. Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv, 374 pp. Coth in near-fine dust jacket, tiny sopt to head of text block. $25. More
A Sermon Occasioned by the Murder of Philip Edwards, Perpetuated...
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
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Great Historical Picture, Painted by...
"The Great Historical Picture" [Trial]. [Caroline of Brunswick [1768-1821], Defendant]. [Hayter, Sir George (1792-1871), Artist]. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Great Historical Picture, Painted by Mr. George Hayter, Member of the Academy of Sr. Luke, &c. &c. &c., Representing the Trial of Her Late Majesty Queen Caroline of England, With..... More