Larceny and Homicide Law at the End of the Eighteenth Century Bevill, Robert [d. 1824]. A Treatise on the Law of Homicide, and of Larceny in the Common Law. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Son, 1799. [xiv], 287 pp. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards..... More

"O What a Horrid Tale to Sound" [Broadside]. [Murder]. [White, Joseph (1747 or 1748-1830)]. Murder of Joseph White: The Following Lines were Written on the Death of Mr. Joseph White of Salem, Who was Found Murdered in His Bed on the Morning of the 7th April 1830, Aged 82 Years..... More

Claro on Roman Criminal Law and Procedure Claro, Giulio [1525-1575]. Sententiarum Receptar[um] Liber Quintus; In Quo Diversorum Criminum Materia XX. ?? Diligenter Explicatur. Item Practica Criminalis, Totius Criminalis Iudicii Ordinem & Delictorum Poenas Complectens, Ab Eodem Authore Prostremo Supradicti Libri ? Addita. Una cum Singularum Quaestionum Summariis, & Indice Rerum..... More

The Spirit of Robin Hood [Criminals]. [Ireland]. O'Hanlon, Redmond. Irish Freebooter; Or, Surprising Adventures of Captain Redmond O'Hanlan, a Celebrated Robber, Who, For Many Years Commanded a Banditti, And Laid a Considerable Part of the Country Under Annual Contributions. Together with the Life and Adventures of Humphrey Kynaston, Who, After..... More

One of Boston's Wealthiest Men Acquires Land [Deed of Sale]. [Hancock, Thomas (1703-1764)]. [Blanchard, Joseph (1704-1758)]. To All the People to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting, Know Ye.... May 4, 1789. 15" x 9-3/4" part-printed document, inscribed in neat hand, docketed on verso. Moderate browning and some edgewear, vertical..... More

Criminal Procedure in Canon Law Guazzini Sebastiano. Tractatus ad Defensam Inquisitorum, Carceratorum Reorum & Condemnatorum Super Quocunque Crimine. Opus Novum, Alacri Studio Digestum, Omnibus Magistratibus, & Iudicibus tam Secularibus, Quam Ecclesiasticis ad Cuitandas Nullitates, & Iniustitias, Advocatis, Procuratoribus, Causorum Criminalium Defensoribus, Atque Excusatoribus ad Reos Tuendos, Etiam in Unaquaque Processus..... More

"The True English Constitution Vindicated" [Harbin, George]. The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted; the History of the Succession Since the Conquest Clear'd; And the True English Constitution Vindicated from the Misrepresentations of Dr. Higden's View and Defence. Wherein Some Mistakes also of Our Common Historians are Rectify'd;..... More

"I Can Determine Guilt, But I Cannot Return Life" [Ivanov, D., Artist]. District Safety Commission. [Traffic-Safety Poster Depicting Lady Justice]. [N.p. (Bulgaria?), n.d.]. 40" x 27." Light edgewear with a few nicks and minor tears to margins, colors vivid. A well-preserved item. $750. * This bright blue poster is dominated..... More

Frankfurter Expresses Admiration and Thanks to the President of the Zionist Organization of America [Manuscript]. Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Goldman, Solomon (1893-1953)]. [Two Typed Letters, Signed, To Dr. Solomon Goldman, On U.S. Supreme Court Letterhead, April 22, 1940 and January 7, 1941]. Single-sided letters on 6-1/2" x 9" sheets, signed "Felix..... More

Fascinating Sixteenth-Century Digest of Land and Hunting Laws Meurer, Noe [1525-1583]. Spangenberg, Cyriacus [1528-1604]. Von Forstlicher Oberherrligkeit und Gerechtigkeit, Was die Recht, Der Gebrauch, Und die Billigkeit Desshalben Vermog. Item: Von dem Waren Oder Gerechten Rechten, Der Teutschen Gerechtigkeit, Aequitate Oder Billigkeit, Wie und Wenn die von Einem Jeden Gerechten..... More

Scarce 1641 Tract Calling for the Reform of Laws Concerning Inheritance and Succession N.N. A Treatise Concerning Estates Tayle, And Discents of Inheritance. Written by N.N. And Published by I. Sherman, of Lincolnes Inne: Gen. London: Printed for Iohn Grove, 1641. [ii], 42, [i.e. 43], [1] pp. Lacking first leaf..... 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

Contemporary Legal Commentary on a Witchcraft Trial in Marburg [Reinkingk, Theodor von]. Responsum Juris, In Ardua Et Gravi Quadam Causa, Concernente Processum Quendam, Contra Sagam, Nulliter Institutum, & Inde Exortam Diffamationem. Ubi Quaestiones Quaedam, De Nocturnis Sagarum Conventiculis, Saltationibus, Usurpatione Supellectilium Piorum in Illis, Transmutationibus Personarum in Alia Animalia, Confessionibus..... More