"There Never Was Such a Horrible Scene of Villainy" A Gentleman at Chichester. A Full and Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparallell'd Murders Committed on the Bodies of Mr. William Galley, A Custom-House Officer in the Port of Southampton: And Mr. Daniel Chater, A Shoemaker, Of Fordingbridge in Hampshire..... More

Owned by an Important Victorian Bookseller [Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)]. [Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, And Lewis Baboon. Who Spent All They Had in a Law-Suit. Printed from a Manuscript Found in the Cabinet of the Famous..... More

From The Library of Louis D. Brandeis [Brandeis, Louis D. (1856-1941)]. United States Railroad Administration. Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad Administration and General Orders and Circulars Issued by the Director General of Railroads. At head of title page: United States Railroad Administration Director General of..... More

British Rule, Not British Rights [British Empire]. Observations Upon the Administration of Justice in Bengal; Occasioned by Some Late Proceedings at Dacca. [London, 1778]. 52; 68 pp. Quarto (9-3/4" x 7-3/4"). Recent marbled boards, endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior, light creasing or faint fold lines in a few places..... More

A Robbery Turned to "Wilful Murder" [Broadside]. [Execution]. Coleman, John [d.1823]. Particulars of the Behaviour, Confession, And Last Dying Words of John Colemam [sic], Who Was Executed This Day on Penenden Heath, For the Wilful Murder of Mr. James Smith, At Lewisham. [Strood]: Sweets, Printers, [1823]. 14-3/4" x 9-3/4" broadside..... 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

Royalist Estates "Confiscated to the Use of the Commonwealth" [Broadside]. [Parliament]. Die Martis, 23 Julii, 1650. Resolves of Parliament, Concerning Such Delinquents as Have Not Paid in their Fines According to Compositions. London: Printed by Iohn Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1650. 13-1/4" x 8-3/4" broadside mounted and..... More

Unrecorded Account of the Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Thistlewood, Arthur [1774-1820], Primary Defendant. Lives Trials, Behaviour, Execution and Last Dying Words of Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, And Richard Tidd, For High Treason. They Were Executed This Morning in Front of..... More

The "Best English Treatise on the Subject" Collyer, John [1801-1870]. Phillips, Willard [1784-1873], Notes. Pickering, Edward [d.1876], Notes. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Partnership. With Notes of American Cases; By Willard Phillips and Edward Pickering. Springfield, MA: Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1834. xxxii, 728 [i.e. 544]..... More

Darby's "Invaluable" Collection of English State Trials [Darby, John (d.1733), Compiler]. [Emlyn, S[ollen] (1697-1754), Editor]. A Complete Collection of State-Trials, And Proceedings for High-Treason, And Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; From the Reign of King Richard II. To the Reign of King George II. In Six Volumes. With Two Alphabetical tables..... More

Inscribed Copy of Darrow's Farmington With Three Additional Photos Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. Farmington. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. vi, [7]-255 pp. Original quarter cloth over patterned paper boards, gilt title and author name to front board and spine, top-edge rouged, fore and bottom edges deckled. Light rubbing to boards..... More

"Brothers in Law" Dighton, Robert [1752-1814]. Iohn Doe & Rich.d Roe. Brothers in Law. [London]: Robert Dighton, November 6, 1796. 10" x 8" hand-colored etching, image size, including caption, 8" x 6." Moderate toning light soiling, crease to lower-right corner, colors vivid. $500. * "Two men, wearing patched and ragged..... More

The Play that Ended Fielding's Dramatic Career [Fielding, Henry (1704-1754)]. The Historical Register, For the Year 1736. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. To Which is Added a Very Merry Tragedy, Called Eurydice Hiss'd, Or, A Word to the Wise. Both Written by the Author..... More

Early Edition of Fortescue's De Laudibus Fortescue, Sir John [1394?-1476?]. Mulcaster, Robert [16th. c.], Translator. A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of England: Wherein by Most Pitthy Reasons and Evident Demonstrations They are Plainelye Proved Farre to Excell as Well the Civile Lawes of the Empiere, As Also All..... More

Lord Eldon's Copy of the First Major Work on Voluntary Trustees Hampson, Sir George Francis [1789-1833]. A Short Treatise Endeavouring to Point Out the Means by Which Those Who Accept the Situation of Trustees May Perform Their Duties Without Incurring Responsibility. London: Printed for A. Maxwell, 1825. xx, 129, [3]..... More

A Scarce Review of Real Property From the Library of Lord Eldon Hayes, W[illiam]. A Popular View of the Law of Real Property, With an Application of its Principles to the Important Measure of a General Register: Shewing What Changes in the System a Register is Calculated to Produce. London..... More

Presentation Copies of Two Landmark Titles in Prison Reform Howard, John [1726-1790]. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, And an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and C. Dilly, in London..... More

"No Time Runs Against the King" [Land Law]. [Great Britain]. A Defence of Some Proceedings Lately Depending in Parliament, To Render More Effectual The Act for Quieting the Possession of the Subject, Commonly Called the Nullum Tempus Act. With an Appendix, Containing an Affidavit in the Court of Exchequer, Concerning..... More

Copyright Documents for Darrow's An Eye for an Eye [Manuscript Archive]. [Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938)]. [Library of Congress Copyright Documents for An Eye for an Eye]. [Washington, D.C., 1905-1933]. 4 part-printed documents, ranging in size from 3" x 5" to 11-1/2" x 8-1/2". Light toning, horizontal and vertical fold lines to..... More

Political Maneuvering at the Massachusetts Bible Society [Manuscript]. Greenleaf, Simon [1783-1853]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Charles Theodore Russell, Andover, MA, February 6, 1850]. 1 pp. letter to 10" x 8" bifolium on blue paper with integral address leaf and residue from wax seal, docketed "Simon Greenleaf Feby 6 1850" on..... More

Account Book of a Nineteenth-Century JP and Selectman from A Small Town in Maine [Manuscript]. [Hopkins, Robert]. [Account Book]. Surry, ME, 1837-1865. [160] pp. Quarto (7-1/2" x 6-1/4"). Quarter sheep over marbled boards, blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, hinges cracked, free endpapers lacking..... More

A Unique Copy of St. John's Speech in Favor of Strafford's Attainder [Manuscript]. St. John, Oliver [c.1598-1673]. [Strafford, Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), 1st Earl of]. Mr. Snt. John the Kings Solliciter His Speech, And Argumente Before the Lords, And Commons Assembled Togither in the High Court of Parliamente, Against Thomas Earle..... More

Chinese Punishment in the British Imagination [Mason, George H. (1770-1851)]. The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-Two Engravings: With Explanations in English and French. London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co., 1801. [94] pp. With 22 hand-colored stipple engravings, first plate bound as frontispiece. Folio (14-1/2" x...... More

"Is There a Punishment Too Severe for Such Depravity?" Phillips, Charles [1787?-1859]. Seduction!!! The Eloquent Speech of Mr. Phillips, Of the Irish Bar, In the Case of Creighton v. Townsend, For Seduction. London: Published by J. Johnston, [1817?]. 20 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning, slight..... More

With a Warm Inscription by the Author Pomeroy, John Norton [1828-1885]. An Introduction to Municipal Law: Designed for General Readers and for Students in Colleges and Higher Schools. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864. xxxviii, 544 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Original textured cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt..... More

Handsome, Extra-Illustrated Copy [Quin, James (1693-1766)]. The Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian, With the History of the Stage from His Commencing Actor to His Retreat to Bath. Illustrated with Many Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of Several Persons of Distinction, Literature, And Gallantry. To Which is Added a Supplement of..... More

An Interesting Study of Roman Law Presented to Lord Eldon Reddie, John [1805-1851]. Historical Notices of the Roman Law, And of the Recent Progress of Its Study, In Germany. Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1826. 136 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Original paper boards, paper label and handwritten title and..... More

An Eminent Local as Guarantor and a "Negro Woman Named Tiggy" as Collateral [Slavery]. [Virginia]. [Bond Agreement to Settle a Debt]. Henry and Patrick Counties, [Virginia], December 7, 1804. 12-1/2" x 8" part-printed document inscribed in neat hand, signed by William Banks, Jr. and docketed on verso. Moderate toning, light..... More

"Her Throat Had Been Cut": McDade 137 Swinburne, John [1820-1889]. Budge, Henry, Defendant A Review of the Case, The People Agt. Rev. Henry Budge, Indicted for the Murder of His Wife Priscilla Budge, (Tried at the Oneida, New York, Circuit Court, In August and September, 1861,) Containing an Examination of..... More

A "Fatal Catastrophe" in Nottingham [Trial]. Dewey, Thomas [d.1825], Defendant. A Copious Report of the Trial of Thomas Dewey, For the Wilful Murder of Maria Austin, Before the Hon. James Allan Park, Knt. On Monday, July 25, 1825, At the Town Hall, Nottingham. To Which is Added, Some Particulars of..... More

He Thought His Victim was Trying to Cheat Him: McDade 360 [Trial]. Goodwin, Henry K., Defendant. Commonwealth vs. Henry K. Goodwin: Charged by Indictment with the Wilful Murder of Albert D. Swan: Eighth Day of the Trial Before Charles Allen and William S. Gardner, Justices: Edgar J. Sherman, Attorney General..... More

Account of an Adultery Trial Published to Block an Academic Appointment [Trial]. Ure, Andrew [1778-1857], Plaintiff. [Chapman, Nathaniel, Editor]. The Whole of the Proceedings, Duly Authenticated, In the Case of Divorce of Andrew Ure, M.D. v. Catharine Ure, For Adultery with Granville Sharpe Pattison. Tried in the Consistory Court at..... More

Three Notable Eighteenth-Century British Trials [Trials]. Byng, John [1704-1757], Defendant. The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, At a Court Martial, As Taken by Mr. Charles Fearne, Judge-Advocate of his Majesty's Fleet. London: Printed for R. Manby near Ludgate-Hill [et al.], 1757. 130 [i.e. 134]; 19 [i.e. 21], [1]..... More

A Scarce Guide to Pleading Before the House of Lords Urquhart, George. The Experienced Solicitor, In Proceedings Under the Appellant Jurisdiction of the Right Honourable the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error, And the Jurisdiction Exercised by the House in Matters of Peerage. London: Printed by W...... More

"A Brow-Beater Badger'd" [Williams, Charles (d.1830)]. Counsellor Nodee, Or, A Brow-Beater Badger'd. [London]: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside, [c.1812]. 9-1/2" x 13" hand-colored etching backed onto 10" x 13" sheet. Light soiling to margins of sheet, margins of etching trimmed to edges of image, colors vivid. $750. * "A scene..... 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