Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1841-1935]. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, c.1920. vii, 316 pp. Cloth in lightly rubbed and moderately edgeworn dust jacket, light toning to text, small library stamp to front pastedown. $75. * Only edition, later printing (copyright date: 1920). A valuable compilation, this volume..... More

An Important Event in the History of Freedom of the Press and Abolition [Trial]. Lincoln, William S., Reporter. Trow, John Fowler, Editor. Alton Trials: Of Winthrop S. Gilman, Who Was Indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Roff, George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Morss..... More

Butler, William E., Translator and Editor Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2021. ISBN-13: 9781616196523. ISBN-10: 1616196521. 2 volumes. cxviii, 462; 463-1020 pp. Hardcover. New. $250. * A title in the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Codes of Law series. The Civil Code of the..... More

Rare Account of a "Mysterious and Dreadful Murder" [Trials]. Thurtell, John [1794-1824]. Probert, William (d.1825). Hunt, Joseph. A Narrative of the Mysterious and Dreadful Murder of Mr. W. Weare, Containing the Examination Before the Magistrates, The Coroner's Inquest, The Confession of Hunt, And Other Particulars Previous to the Trial, Collected..... More

"The Brutal Slayer of Two Girls" [Publisher Advertisement]. Durrant Hangs!! The Brutal Slayer of Two Girls, Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams in San Francisco, Is Sentenced to Die November 12. [Utica, NY: The Utica Saturday Globe, 1890]. 9-1/4" x 5" broadside, single-column text below headline. Light browning, negligible faint dampstain..... More

1576 Printing of Magna Carta and Later Statutes [Magna Carta]. Magna Charta, Cum Statutis, Tum Antiquis, Tum Recentibus, Maximopere, Animo Tenendis nunc Demum ad Unum, Tipis Aedita, Per Richardum Tottell. [Imprinted at London: In Fleetestrete Within Temple Barre at the Signe of the Hand and Starre, By Richard Tottel, The..... More

Boote's Suit at Law: Sole Dublin Edition Boote, R[ichard] [d. 1782]. An Historical Treatise of an Action on Suit at Law; And of the Proceedings Used in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas From the Original Processes to the Judgment in Both Courts, Wherein the Reason and Usage..... More

"Sixteen-String Jack" [Rann, Jack (1750-1774)]. The Life of Jack Rann, Otherwise Sixteen-String Jack, The Noted Highwayman, Who Was Executed at Tyburn, November 30, 1774. Durham: Printed by George Walker, Jun., Sadler Street, 1838. 24 pp. Octavo (6- 1/2" x 3-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers, untrimed edges. Light toning, light..... More

Copy of Boorstin's Study of Blackstone's Commentaries in a Rare Original Dust Jacket Boorstin, Daniel J. [1914-2004]. The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries Showing how Blackstone, Employing Eighteenth-Century Ideas of Science, Religion, History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy, Made of the Law at Once a Conservative and..... More

An Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Prejudicium [Manuscript]. [Praejudicia Tabularia]. Probably Hungary, c.1760. Each side framed. [284] pp. Octavo (6-1/2' x 4-1/2"). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, edges rouged. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks to boards, which are slightly bowed, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, pastedown..... More

A Notable Philadelphia Lawyer, Abolitionist and Man of Letters Brown, David Paul [1795-1872]. [5-1/2" x 4" Carte-de-Visite Mounted on Inscribed 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Card]. [Philadelphia?, c. 1870]. Light toning to card, small nick to upper left corner. A well-preserved item. $250. * The annotation reads (in part): "Truly & Sincerely..... More

A Notable Critique of Philadelphia Property Tax Carey, Mathew [1760-1839]. Cursory Reflexions on the System of Taxation, Established in the City of Philadelphia: With a Brief Sketch of Its Unequal and Unjust Operation. [Philadelphia]: Printed for the Author [by Robert Carr], 1806. 47 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched..... More

Books Selected by Thomas Jefferson [University of Virginia]. Peden, William Harwood, Introduction. 1828 Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virginia, Reproduced in facsimile With an Introduction by William Harwood Peden. Charlottesville, VA: Printed for the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia, 1945. vi, 114 pp. Index. Original..... More