Two Scarce Pamphlets About the Amistad Case in a Handsome Case [Amistad Case]. Talladega College. [Woodruff, Hale (1900-1980)]. Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama, Savery Library. [Talladega, AL, c.1990]. 8 pp. Color illustrations. Negligible light shelfwear. [And] [United Church of Christ]. The Amistad Event. [Cleveland, OH?: United Church of Christ, c.1990]. 8..... More

Brewer, John. A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2004]. x, 340 pp. Hardcover fine in near-fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $15. * Contents: Spring 1779; The Press: A Case of Sentimental Murder; The Killer as Victim: James Hackman; Missing Stories..... More

Unrecorded Broadside Establishing the Election of Judges in the Republic of Mexico [Broadside]. Barquera, Mucio. Inclan, Jose Maria de. Mucio Barquere, Presidente de la Exma. Asamblea Departamental de Mexico, Y Por La Ley Gobernador Interino del Departamento [Caption Title]. [Mexico: S.n.], December 15, 1845. 13" x 9-1/4" broadside, text in..... More

Unrecorded Broadside Mobilizing the Pennsylvania-Germans of Lebanon County to Vote For Polk [Broadside]. [Pennsylvania Germans]. [Presidential Election of 1844]. An die Stimmgeber von Libanon Caunty. [Lebanon County, PA?: S.n., 1844]. 14-1/2" x 11" broadside, text in two columns below headline. Light toning, light soiling and wear to edges, a few..... More

Bynkershoek, Cornelius van [1673-1743]. De Domino Mares Dissertatio. The Minor Works of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Jurisconsult and Presiding Judge. Introduction by James Brown Scott. Translated by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin. New York: Oxford University Press 1923. 429, [3] pp. Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, bookplate to front pastedown, some..... More

The Great Courtroom Speeches of Lord Erskine Erskine, Thomas Henry, Lord [1750-1823]. [High, James, Editor]. Speeches of Lord Erskine, While at the Bar. Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1876. 4 volumes. Octavo (9" x 5-1/4"). Original cloth, black-stamped rules and beveled edges to boards, gilt title and black-stamped fillets to spines..... More

Gentili, Alberico [1552-1608]. De Legationibus Libri Tres. (1594 Latin ed.) Introduction by Ernest Nys. New York: Oxford University Press, 1924. Carnegie Classics of International Law series. Volume 1: Reproduction of 1594 Latin edition. 38a, [16], 231, [3] pp. Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, previous owner's inscription to front free..... More

Grotius, Hugo [1583-1645]. De Iure [Jure] Praedae Commentarius. Volume II. [complete, containing] The collotype reproduction of the original manuscript of 1604 in the handwriting of Grotius. Facsimile of the original 1604 manuscript in the handwriting of Grotius. Oxford and London: Clarendon Press, 1950. viii, 163 pp. Ex-library with publisher's cloth..... More

"A More Powerful, Eloquent and Convincing Address Was Never Made" Hichborn, Charles S. [1856-1941]. Henry Lambert: A Plea for Humanity and an Argument for Justice Before the Governor and Council. Augusta, ME: [S.n.], 1923. [iv], 43, [5] pp. Softbound in stiff printed wrappers. Light toning, soiling and shelfwear to exterior..... More

Studies of Prisons by a Pioneering Reformer 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 in the Strand, And N. Conant in Fleet-Street, 1780..... More

Jolliffe, John W. Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Series I, Phase I, 1801-1815. Extracted from the catalogues of the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, the National Library of Scotland, and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Avero, 1984-1986. 6 volumes. 11-1/2" x...... More

A First Edition of the First Reporter Devoted to Criminal Law Kelyng, Sir John [d. 1671]. 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..... More

From the Library of John Griffith McCullough Martin, John Hill. Martin's Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Together With Other Lists of Persons Appointed to Administer the Laws in the City and County of Philadelphia, and the Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: R. Welsh & Co., 1883. xvi, [5]-326 pp..... More

"Without Your Aid I Am Not Only Helpless But Hopeless" [Mooney, Thomas (1882-1942)]. [Billings, Warren K. (1893-1972)]. [Fundraising Materials for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings]. New York and San Francisco, 1935-1938. 2 leaflets, 4 letters and press releases, 3 in transmittal envelopes with small donation cards or receipts, sizes..... More

"One of the Foulest Conspiracies Ever Perpetrated in This Country" [Mooney, Thomas (1882-1942)]. Tom Mooney A Member of the International Molder's Union for 29 Years Betrayed by Labor Leaders. [San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee], 1931. 65, [3] pp. Stapled pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light toning and moderate edgewear..... More

"Finish Mother Mooney's Fight to Free Her Son" Mooney, Thomas [1882-1942]. [Mooney, Mary Hefferon (d.1934)]. Mother Mooney In Life and in Death. [S.l.: S.n.], 1934. 4 pp. 10-3/4" x 8-1/2" bifolium leaflet, portrait of Mary Mooney to front. Moderate toning, horizontal fold line, small stain to gutter. $125. * Mooney..... More

The Two Phases of Pound's Professional Life From the Library of Edward Dumbauld (1905-1997) Pound, Roscoe [1870-1964]. Interpretations of Legal History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. xvii, 171 pp. Cloth, negligible light shelfwear, underlining and marks in pencil to a few leaves. "With my best regards,/ Roscoe Pound/ October..... More

Rachel, Samuel [1628-1691]. De Jure Naturae et Gentium Dissertationes. Edited by Ludwig von Bar. Introduction by Ludwig von Bar. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1916. [ii], 16a, [10], 335 pp. A reproduction of 1676 edition, containing the complete Latin edition. Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, internally clean. $85. * A title..... More

Suarez, Francisco [1548-1617]. Selections from Three Works of Francisco Suarez, S.J. De Legibus, ac Deo Legislatore, 1612. Defensio Fidei Catholicae, et Apostolicae Adversus Anglicanae Sectae Errores, 1613. De Triplici Virtute Theologica, Fide, spe, et Charitate, 1621... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944. x, 825 pp. Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, small..... More

Pre-Paid Medical Insurance for Californians [Swackhamer, Gladys V (1893-1988)]. Why Prepaid Medical Insurance! An Analysis of Governor Earl Warren's Recommendations for California. [S.n.: c.1945]. 16 pp. Stapled pamphlet in self-wrappers. Moderate toning, a few faint creases. $65. * Swackhamer was a social worker and left-wing political activist. More

Textor, Johann Wolfgang [1638-1701]. Synopsis Juris Gentium. Edited by Ludwig von Bar. Introduction by Ludwig von Bar. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1916. 28a, [6], 168 pp. Volume I. Complete 1680 Latin text. [with] Synopsis of the Law of Nations. Edited by Ludwig von Bar. Translation by John Pawley Bate. Washington: Carnegie..... More

The Trial of America's Most Famous Anarchists [Trial]. Goldman, Emma [1869-1940], Defendant. Berkman, Alexander [1870-1936], Defendant. Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917. 87, [9] pp..... More

Victoria, Franciscus [Francisci] de. De Indis et de Iure Belli Relectiones. Edited by and introduction by Ernest Nys. Translation of text by John Pawley Bate. Revised Text, With Prefatory Remarks, list of Errata, and Index of Authors Cited by F. Wright. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1917. 475 pp. Ex-library, publisher's..... More

Wolff, Christian von. Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum. Introduction by Otfried Nippold. Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Humphrey Milford, 1934. Carnegie Classics of International Law series. Volume 1: Reproduction of 1764 Latin edition. Ex-library with publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, ink shelf location label to foot of spine, bookplate to..... More

Yaron, Reuven. Introduction to the Law of the Aramaic Papyri. Oxford, [U.K.]: Clarendon Press, 1961. xiv, 135 pp. Hardcover near fine in worn and soiled dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $75. * Examines 30 legal documents from the Jewish military colony in Elphantine, at the southern border..... More

Zouche, Richard [1590-1661]. Iuris [Juris] Et Iudicii [Judicii] Fecialis, Sive, Iuris Inter Gentes, Et Quaestionum De Eodem Explicatio. Edited by Thomas Erskine Holland. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1911. [xii], 16, [16], 204 pp. A complete reproduction of the Latin first edition of 1650. Ex-library, publisher's cloth, rubbed and soiled, ink shelf..... More

Zouche, Richard [1590-1661]. An Exposition of Fecial Law and Procedure, or of Law Between Nations and Questions Concerning the Same. Translated by J.L. Brierly. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1911. xvii, 186 pp. The complete English translation. Ex-library with publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, bookplate to front pastedown, embossed property stamps..... More

Zouche, Richard [1590-1661]. An Exposition of Fecial Law and Procedure, or of Law Between Nations and Questions Concerning the Same. Translated by J.L. Brierly. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1911. xvii, 186 pp. The complete English translation. Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, internally clean. $85. * A title in the Carnegie..... More