Trial and Execution of a Teen-Age Arsonist in Salem, Massachusetts [Trial]. Clark, Stephen Merrill [1804-1821], Defendant. Account of the Short Life and Ignomious Death of Stephen Merrill Clark, Who was Executed at Salem on Thursday the Tenth Day of May, 1821 at the Early Age of 16 Years and 9..... More
An Interesting Murder and Piracy Trial, Joseph Story Presided [Trial]. Williams, John, Primary Defendant. The Trial of John Williams, Francis Frederick, John P. Rog, Nils Peterson and Nathaniel White, On an Indictment for Murder on the High Seas: Before the Circuit Court of the United States, Holden for the District..... More
A Rare Account of the Bickford Murder Trial: McDade 987 [Trial]. Tirrell, Albert J., Defendant. [Estabrook, Silas, Primary Author]. Eccentricities & Anecdotes of Albert John Tirrell, The Reputed Murderer of the Beautiful Maria Bickford, Who Met Her Untimeley Fate on the Night of the 25th October, 1845, In the Moral..... More
"Among the Best of the Older Books" Yelverton, Sir Henry [1566-1629]. Wylde, Sir William (1611-1679), Editor. The Reports of Sir Henry Yelverton, Knight and Baronet, Late One of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, Of Divers Special Cases in the Court of King's Bench, As Well in the..... More
A Classic English Work on Equity and the Philosophy of Law that Influenced Blackstone [Saint German (Germain), Christopher]. The Dialogue in English, Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, And a Student in the Lawes of England. Newly Corrected and Imprinted with New Additions. [London]: Printed by the Assignes of John More..... More
Handsome Early Edition of Hale's History of the Common Law Hale, Matthew [1609-1676]. The History of the Common Law of England. Divided into Twelve Chapters. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, And R. Gosling, 1739. [viii], 261, [11] pp. Title page preceded by publisher advertisement leaf. Copperplate table of..... More
Coke's Reports in Verse Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. [Worrall, John (d.1771), Editor]. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. In Verse; Wherein the Name of Each Case and the Principal Points are Contained in Two Lines. To Which are Added, References in the Margin to All the Editions of the..... More
"Their General Accuracy, I Believe, Has not Been Questioned" Salkeld, William [1671-1715]. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: With Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Heads; From the First Year of K. William and Q. Mary..... More
The First Work Devoted to the Theory of Conveyancing Sheppard, William [fl. 1660]. Hilliard, Edward, Editor. The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances: Or, A Plain and Familiar Treatise, Opening the Learning of the Common Assurances, Or Conveyances of the Kingdom. Revised & Corrected, With Notes and Additional References by Edward Hilliard..... More
a Classic Treatise on English Criminal Law Hawkins, William [1673-1746]. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or a System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Their Proper Heads. Corrected, With the Addition of Some References. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1724..... More
Davies's Reports Davies, Sir John [1569-1626]. Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley Resolues & Adiudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. Collect & Digest per Sr. Iohn Dauys Chivaler, Atturney Generall del Roy en Cest Realme. London: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Company of Stationers..... More
The First English Treatise on Laws Concerning Architecture Elmes, James [1782-1862]. A Practical Treatise on Ecclesiastical and Civil Dilapidations, Re-Instatements, Waste, &c. With an Appendix Containing Cases Decided, Precedents of Notices to Repair, Examples of Valuations, Surveys, Estimates, &c. Considerably Enlarged. London: Samuel Brooke, 1829. xxiv, 288, cxxi, [28] pp..... More
Handsome Extra-Illustrated Copy with 49 Engraved Plates of Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors Campbell, John, Lord [1779-1861]. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV. London: John Murray, 1846-1869. Seven volumes and..... More
"Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, But of the Law It Selfe" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, But of the Law It Selfe. London: Printed for the..... More
The "Fifth" Dublin Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books. Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, John Williams, and David Hay, 1773. Four volumes. Copperplate "Table of Consanguinity" and folding "Table of Descents." Octavo (5" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary calf..... More
"When the Pill is Gilt, It is Easily Swallowed" [Philonomus]. The Young Lawyer's Recreation. Being a Choice Collection of Several Pleasant Cases, Passages, And Customs in the Law: For the Entertainment as Well as Profit of the Reader. London: Printed for Samuel Briscoe, 1694. [xvi], 206, [2] pp. Main text..... More
The First Set of Reports Devoted to Criminal Law Kelyng, Sir John [d. 1671], Reporter. A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown, Adjudged and Determined; In the Reign of the Late King Charles II. With Directions for Justices of the Peace and Others. Collected by Sir John..... More
"Matter Profound...With Convenient Brevity" Popham, Sir John [1531-1607]. Reports and Cases, Collected by the Learned, Sir John Popham, Knight, Late Lord Chief-Justice of England. Written with His Own Hand in French, And Now Faithfully Translated into English. To Which are Added Some Remarkable Cases Reported by Other Learned Pens Since..... More
A Handsome Edition of Burn's Justice Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, 1772. Four volumes. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent cloth, blind fillets and red and black calf lettering pieces to spines, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning, light..... More
Early Octavo Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1773. Four volumes. Volume II has copperplate "Table of Consanguinity" and fold-out "Table of Descents." Octavo..... More
Exceptionally Well-Preserved First Edition, With Dust Jacket, of One of Cardozo's Most Important Books Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. v, 142, [1] pp. Near-fine cloth with bright gilt-stamped title in very lightly edgeworn dust jacket, negligible light toning to interior..... More
Cobbett's State Trials [Trials]. [Cobbett, William (1763-1835)]. Howell, Thomas Bayly [1768-1815], Editor. [Howell, Thomas Jones [1793-1858], Editor. Jardine, David [1794-1860], Compiler of Index. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. London: Printed by..... More
First Edition of "A Book of First Class Importance" Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1643]. The Compleate Copy-Holder. Wherein is Contained a Learned Discourse of the Antiquity and Nature of Manors and Copy-Holds. With all Things Thereto Incident, As. Surrenders. Presentments. Admittances. Forfeitures. Customes, &c. Necessary, Both for the Lord and Tenant..... More
Praised by Blackstone and Holdsworth Hale, Sir Matthew [1609-1676]. The Analysis of the Law: Being a Scheme, Or Abstract, Of the Several Titles and Partitions of the Law of England, Digested into Method. Corrected, With the Addition of an Alphabetical Table. [London]: Printed for John Walthoe, 1716. [xvi], 148, [28]..... More
First Edition in English of the First Nominative Reporter Plowden, Edmund [1518-1585]. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden, Of the Middle-Temple, Esq; An Apprentice of the Common Law, Containing Divers Cases upon Matters of Law, Argued and Adjudged in the Several Reigns of King Edward VI. Queen Mary, King..... More