August 2, 2022
Highlights in this list include:
A Summary of Bankruptcy Law for "Merchants and Traders" [Bankruptcy]. [Great Britain]. A Succinct Digest of the Laws Relating to Bankrupts: In Which All the Reported, And Several Manuscript Cases Upon this Important Subject, From the First Passing of the Bankrupt Laws, In the Time of Henry the Eighth, To..... More
A Gruesome Revenge Murder in Lancashire [Broadside]. [Murder]. Weatherill, Miles [d.1868]. Shocking Murder at Todmordon. [London]: W.S. Fortey, Printer & Publisher, 2 & 3, Monmouth Ct., [1867]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" sheet, summary of case in two columns and verse text in three columns below..... More
"May the Bright Star of Temperance Shine Through the World" [Broadside]. [Temperance]. [Great Britain]. Lines by a Reformed Drunkard, Writing for the Benefit of His Fellow-Men. Northampton, England: Henson, Printer, [c.1850]. 10" x 7-1/4" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" sheet, verse text, with prose sections in dialogue, in two..... More
"The Whole Contexture of the Design is Regular and Uniform" Brown, William [fl. c.1680]. Astraeae Abdicatae Restauratio. Or Advice to Justices of the Peace, Containing a Compendious, And Perfect Abstract of All the Statute Laws Now in Force and Use Relating to the Administration of the Office of Justices of..... More
A Wrongfully Convicted Bomber? [California]. [Mooney, Thomas J. (1882-1942)]. In the Matter of the Application Made on Behalf of Thomas J. Mooney for a Pardon: Decision of Hon. James Rolph, Jr., Governor of the State of California, Together with the Report of Hon. Matt I. Sullivan, Former Chief Justice of..... More
A Rare Account of a Career-Ending Divorce Case [Divorce]. Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke. The Crawford Divorce Case (Second Edition.) Containing Important Facts Disclosed Since the Trial. Illustrated with Portraits. London: F. Henning, 1886. [146] pp. Woodcut portrait frontispiece and a few small portrait vignettes. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Recent..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1737-1738 [Great Britain]. George II [1683-1760], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Undecimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Fourteenth Day of January, Anno Dom. 1734. In the Eighth Year of the Reign..... More
Scarce Treatise on Law Reform Inscribed by the Author Miller, John [d.1837]. On the Present Unsettled Condition of the Law and its Administration. London: John Murray, 1839. iv, 171, [1] pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Disbound. Light toning, a few folded corners, presentation inscription "George Spence Esq. with the author's..... More
1794 Albany Edition of the Conductor Generalis "Revised and Adapted to the United States of America" Parker, James [1714-1770]. The Conductor Generalis: Or, the Office, Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace, High-Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Gaolers, Jury-Men, and Overseers of the Poor. As Also the Office of Clerks..... More
Written During the Final Years of American Westward Expansion Spaulding, George W. A Treatise on the Public Land System of the United States. With References to the Land Laws, Rulings of the Departments at Washington, and Decisions of Courts, And an Appendix of Forms in United States Land and Mining..... More
Spelman's Defense of Protestantism [Spelman, Sir Henry (1564?-1641), Attributed]. A Protestants Account of his Orthodox Holding in Matters of Religion, At This Present in Difference in the Church: For his Own and Others Better Confirmation or Rectification in the Points Treated on, Humbly Submitted to the Censure of the Church..... More
With a Chapter on Female Crime [Wade, John (1788-1875)]. A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gambling, Forgery, Street-Robberies, Burglary and House-Breaking, Receiving of Stolen Goods, Counterfeiting the Coin, Exhumation, Cheating and Swindling, Adulteration of Food, &c. Also an Account of..... 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
An Impressive Collection of Eight Year Books From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield [Year Books]. Edward V [1470-1483]. De Termino Trinitatis Anno I. Regni Regis Edwardi Quinti. [London: Richard Tottell, 1579]. viii ff. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) S110918. Beale, Bibliography of Early English Law Books R381. [Bound with]..... More