"Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders" A Gentleman at Chichester. A Full and Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley, A Custom-House Officer, And Mr. Daniel Chater, A Shoemaker, By Fourteen Notorious Smugglers, With the Execution of Seven of the Bloody Criminals, At Chichester. Also the Trials..... More
Shaw's Parliamentary Testimony against Censorship Shaw, George Bernard [1856-1950]. Statement of the Evidence in Chief of George Bernard Shaw before the Joint-Committee on Stage Plays (Censorship and Theatre Licensing). [Edinburgh]: Printed Privately [by R. and R. Clark], 1909. 55, [1] pp. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in stiff printed..... More
"As a Painting It is Exceedingly Bad" [Manuscript]. Hand, Learned [1872-1961]. [Winthrop, Egerton Leigh, Jr. (1862-1926)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, On Hand's Law Office Letterhead, New York, March 14, 1903]. Two 11" x 8-1/2" leaves, lightly toned, vertical and horizontal fold lines, content in neat hand to rectos. $750. * Hand..... More
A Handsome Image Signed by Hand Hand, Learned [1872-1961]. [8-1/4" x 10" Black-and-White Portrait Photograph of Hand, Signed by Hand]. [New York?, c.1945]. Minor wear to corners, small chip to image near upper margin, "Learned Hand/ October 9, 1945" to upper left-hand corner of image. $450. * One of the..... More
Attractive 1767 Edition of On Crimes and Punishments [Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marchese de (1738-1794)]. Dei Delitti e Delle Pene. Edizione Sesta. Di Nuovo Corretta ed Accresciuta. Buglione: [S.n.], 1767. 336 pp. With a copperplate allegorical frontispiece. Octavo (7-1/4" x 5"). Recent period-style three-quarter speckled calf over speckled boards, gilt rules..... More
A Spanish Dissertation on Magna Carta Lopez y Gonzalez de Cano, Ramon. Antecedentes y Examen de la Carta Magna. Discurso Leido en la Universidad Central por D. Ramon Lopez y Gonzalez de Cano, En el Acto Solemne de Recibir la Investidura de Doctor en la Facultad de Filosofia. (Seccion de..... More
With Two Important Essays on International Law Bynkershoek, Cornelius van [1673-1743]. Opera Minora, Olim Separatim, Nunc Conjunctim Edita. Recensuit & Nonnulla Addidit Auctor. Indicem Operum Exhibet Pagina, Quae Generalem Praefationem Excipit. Leiden: Apud Joannem van der Linden, 1730. [xiv], 571, [23] pp. Quarto (7-3/4" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary paneled vellum, large..... More
A Copy Owned by James Otis and Josiah Bartlett [Otis, James (1725-1783)]. [Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795)]. Anne [1665-1714], Queen of Great Britain. Anno Regni Annae Reginae Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Nono. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, The Twenty Fifth Day of December, Anno Dom. 1710, In the..... More
Executed after a Failed Insurrection [Trial]. [Scotland]. [Mackenzie, Peter (1799-1875)]. Wilson, James, Defendant [1760-1820]. The Trial of James Wilson, For High Treason, With an Account of His Execution at Glasgow, September, 1820, Etc. Etc. Now Respectfully Submitted to the Consideration of the Reformers of Glasgow, By Their Faithful and Devoted..... More
Darrow Defends the Manchester Martyrs Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. The Rights and Wrongs of Ireland: An Address Delivered at Central Music Hall, Chicago, On Saturday Evening, November 23, 1895, On the Anniversary of the Execution of Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, [1895]. 32 pp. Octavo (9-1/2"..... More
"Tired of the Big Lie!" Lininger, Dr. B. Bruce. The Bellyachers. Saugus, CA: The Initiators, 1964. 36 pp. Octavo (7" x 4-3/4"). Stapled pamphlet in stiff printed wrappers. Light toning and negligible light soiling to wrappers, staples just starting to rust. Light toning to interior, small pencil marks to p...... More
Inscribed by the Author Hodgkin, John [1800-1875]. Observations on the Proposed Establishment of a General Register. London: S. Sweet, 1829. [ii], 55, [1] pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent plain wrappers. Light toning to interior, negligible light foxing in a few places, small library ink stamp to..... More
A Warning to Juvenile Delinquents [Broadside]. [Bristol]. Caution. Whereas, A Great Number of Young Persons Having Accustomed Themselves To Assemble Together in This Neighbourhood on Sunday Afternoons in a Noisy and Disorderly Manner, It Became the Resolution of the Principal Inhabitants to Endeavour to Suppress the Same. Bristol: Lomas, c.1817..... More
Against Trial by Jury In Libel Cases Bowles, John [1751-1819]. A Letter to the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, Occas oned by His Motion in the House of Commons Respecting Libels: And Suggesting the Alarming Consequences Likely to Ensue, If the Bill Now Before the Legislature Upon that Subject Should..... More
From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield [Manuscript]. [House of Lords]. [Standing Orders for the House of Lords, 1660-1726]. [London]: c.1726. [91] pp., [20] blank, [7] pp. index, [3] blank pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary gilt-paneled morocco, gilt royal arms to boards, raised bands and gilt decoration to..... More
"The Effects of Infidel Principles" [Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847)]. [Stratford, John (d.1829)]. The Effects of Infidel Principles Illustrated, In Some Account of John Stratford, Who was Executed at Norwich for the Crime of Murder. London: Printed by Edward Couchman: For the Tract Association of the Society of Friends, 1842. 12..... More
Langbein, John H. The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 362 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0199258888; ISBN-10: 0199258880. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettered spine in dust jacket. As new, excellent condition. $65. * The lawyer-dominated adversary system of criminal trial, which now typifies practice in Anglo-American..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1761-1762 [Great Britain]. George III [1738-1820], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Secundo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, The Ninth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1761, In the First Year of the Reign..... More
"Those Damned Scotch Pebbles" [Trials]. Blandy, Mary [1720-1751], Defendant. The Genuine Tryal at Large of Mary Blandy, Spinster, For Poisoning Her Own Father Francis Blandy, Gent. Town-Clerk of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire, At the Assizes Held at Oxford, For the County of Oxford, On Tuesday the Third of March, 1752..... More
A Rare Account of Sex, Greed and Murder [Jeffryes, Elizabeth (1727-1752)]. [Jeffries, Elizabeth]. [Swan, John (d.1752)]. Authentick Memoirs of the Wicked Life and Transactions of Elizabeth Jeffryes, Spinster. Who was Executed on Saturday, March 28, 1752, On Epping-Forest, Near Walthamstow. For Being Concern'd in the Murder of Her Late Uncle..... More
Injunctions Given by Elizabeth I at the End of the Reformation [England]. Elizabeth I [1533-1603], Queen. Iniunctions Giuen by the Queenes Maiestie. Anno Dom. 1559. The First Yeere of the Raigne of our Soueraign Lady Queene Elizabeth. Cum Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. [London: Printed by assignment of Robert Barker, 1600]. [32]..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1722-1724 [Great Britain]. George I [1660-1727], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Undecimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Ninth Day of October, Anno Dom. 1722. In the Ninth Year of the Reign of..... More
Signed by the Author [Philadelphia]. Gibbons, Charles [1814-1884]. The Charges Against the Collector and Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia. Reply of Charles Gibbons to the Argument of David Paul Brown, Esq. With an Appendix, Containing the Statement of the Hon. James Cooper, In Answer to the Narrative of William..... More
An Early American Custody Battle A Member of the Boston Bar. [Chandler, Peleg Whitman (1816-1889)]. Review of the D'Hauteville Case: Recently Argued and Determined in the Court of General Sessions, For the City and County of Philadelphia. Reprinted from the January Number of the Law Reporter. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1734-1735 [Great Britain]. George II [1683-1760], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Nono. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Fourteenth Day of January, Anno Dom. 1734 in the Eighth Year of the Reign..... More