Allesch, Richard M. Arsenik: Seine Geschichte in Osterreich. Klagenfurt, [Aust.]: Kleinmayr, 1959. 302 pp. Maps. Cloth very good in moderately worn and soiled dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $25. * A historical study of the substance arsenic within the context of Austria. Part of a series called..... More

Inscribed by the Author Beamont, W[illiam] [1797?-1889]. Notes on Some English Judges and Other Men of Law. No. 1. William Garnet. Warrington: Printed at the Guardian Office, 1883. 31 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers, thread lacking. Light toning and fading and minor chipping and edgewear..... More

Blake, John Ballard. Safeguarding the Public: Historical Aspects of Medicinal Drug Control. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1970. xi, 200 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $25. * Contents: European Backgrounds; Scientific Backgrounds; Private Professional Controls; Federal Regulation. More

Illustrated Broadside of a Fictional African American Courtroom Scene in "Negro" Dialect [Broadside]. [African Americans]. [Virginia]. Trial of Richard Wilson by John Malone, Colored Magistrate. N.p. (Virginia?): S.n., Copyright January 21, 1903. 14" x 11" (36 cm x 28 cm) broadside mounted on thick-paper board, large halftone photographic image above..... More

Brown, G. Burniston. Science: Its Method and Its Philosophy. New York: W.W. Norton, [1950]. 189 pp. Frontispiece. Blue cloth very good in worn and torn dust jacket. Internally clean. $15. * This richly illustrated textbook explores the nature of scientific reasoning, the scientific method, and the philosophical ideas underpinning scientific..... More

Cahill, Barry. The Thousandth Man: a Biography of James McGregor Stewart. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2000]. xxi, 266 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $20. * James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative..... More

Chambers, Lori. Misconceptions: Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2007]. 274 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $40. * In 1921, despite the passing of legislation intended to ease the consequences of illegitimacy for children (Children of Unmarried Parents..... More

Coady, C.A.J. Testimony: A Philosophical Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. x, 315 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $100. More

A Standard English Treatise on Statutes of Limitations Darby, J. George N. [1829-1870]. Bosanquet, Frederick Albert [1837-1923]. A Practical Treatise on the Statutes of Limitations in England and Ireland. London: William Maxwell & Son, 1867. xxiv, 508 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Recent buckram, retained lettering piece to spine, endpapers..... More

Dawson, John P. The Oracles of the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1968. xix, 520 pp. Hardcover, light shelfwear. $65. More

A Rare 1784 Digest of English Election Laws [Elections]. [Great Britain]. Abstract of the Laws Respecting Elections in England and Wales. London: S.n., 1784. iii, [1], 5-59, [1] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling and browning to title page and verso of final leaf, moderate toning..... More

Charles Fairman's Copy Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. Third printing. 139 pp. Frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth bound hardcover, with gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities with minor wear to corners. Ownership signature of Charles Fairman to front free..... More

Gekoski, R.A. Nabokov's Butterfly & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books. New York: Carroll & Graf, [2004]. First Carroll & Graf edition. xvi, 240 pp. Publisher's cloth, fine, in a near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $10. * A collection of essays and stories that provide a behind-the-scenes..... More

Goold, Imogen. Kelly, Catherine. Lawyers' Medicine: The Legislature, the Courts, and Medical Practice, 1760-2000. Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2009. xi, 224. Illustrations. Softbound, like new. $50. * This book investigates how the requirements, limitations and intellectual structure of the British legal process have shaped medicine and medical practice. The story..... More

Raising Funds to Construct Harvard Law Library's Treasure Room [Harvard Law School]. The Treasure Room to be Built in Langdell Hall. [Cambridge: Harvard Law School, c.1947]. [26] pp. Illustrations. Stapled pictorial stiff wrappers. Light soiling, edgewear and a few tiny stains, brief early owner inscription and signature to head of..... More

Handsomely Bound Copy of Hemard's Wittily Illustrated Code Penal Hemard, Joseph [1880-1961], Illustrator. Code Penal: Commentaires Images de Joseph Hemard. Paris: Editions Litteraires de France, [c.1940?]. 169 pp. Numerous pochoir color text illustrations throughout. Quarto (8-3/4" x 7"; 22.25 x 18 cm). Original publisher's stiff printed color wrappers bound into..... More

Hepple, B.A. Neeson, J.M. O'Higgins, Paul. A Bibliography of the Literature on British and Irish Labour Law. London: Mansell, 1975. xxv, 331 pp. Hardcover, light shelfwear. $40. More

The Workhouse System Does Not Reduce Crime Hill, Frederic [1803-1896]. The Administration of the English Poor Law. (Read at the Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science at Sheffield, October 6, 1865.) London: [The Social Science Association], 1865. 13 pp. Octavo (8" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched..... More

Hopkirk, Mary. Nobody Wanted Sam: The Story of the Unwelcomed Child, 1530-1948. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W, [1949]. xii, 187 pp. Hardcover, moderate shelfwear. $20. More

[Ireland]. [New Ulster Movement]. A New Constitution for Northern Ireland, August 1972. [Belfast: Published by the New Ulster Movement, Printed by Adelphi Printers, 1972]. [12] pp. With a list of New Ulster Movement publications. Stapled pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light fading to spine, marginal ink marks and underlining to a...... More

Jadhav, U.K. Is Capital Punishment Necessary? Bombay: Anand Publications, [1975]. xviii, 209 pp. Hardcover in moderately worn and lightly faded dust jacket. Author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper: "Presented with Compliments to Hon'ble Mr. Gilbert Geis, President, American Society of Criminology, in token of jubillation of the 200th Anniversary..... More

Joshel, Sandra R. Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1992]. xvi, 239 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine. $35. * In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine..... More

"Don't Shoot, G-Men!": Inscribed Presentation Copy of an Inside Account of a Famous 1934 Abduction Case Kirkpatrick, Ernest E. [1881-1968]. [Kelly, George "Machine Gun" (1895-1954)]. Crimes' Paradise, The Authentic Inside Story of the Urschel Kidnapping. San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1934. xiv, 252 pp. Plates (with photos, sketches, reproductions..... More

Kyer, C. Ian. Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963. Toronto: Irwin Law, [2013]. xvi, 319 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $50. * In Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963, noted lawyer and historian..... More

Rare Prospectus for a Legal Periodical: Only One Other Copy Known [Legal Journal]. [Williams, John, of the Inner Temple]. The Legal and Literary Journal, and Mercantile Magazine. To be Continued Monthly, And Number Three to be Published January 1st, 1814... Conducted by John Williams, Esq., Author of the Laws of..... More

Legge, Thomas Morison, [1863-1932]. Goadby, Kenneth Weldon. Lead Poisoning and Lead Absorption; The Symptoms, Pathology and Prevention, with Special Reference to Their Industrial Origin, and an Account of the Principal Processes Involving Risk. London: Edward Arnold, 1912. xi, 308 pp. Illustrations. Original red cloth with gilt stamped spine and blind..... More

Lowman, J. Warren. The Miracle that Saved Me from the Electric Chair. Bethany, OK: [J. Warren Lowman], c.1926. 95 pp. Stitched pamphlet in stiff wrappers. Light soiling and a few creases and chips to wrappers, faint signature in pencil to head of front wrapper, moderate rubbing with some wear to..... More

Bill of Costs for an Ohio Murder Case Heard Before a Distinguished 19th-Century Jurist [Manuscript]. Bowman, John, Defendant. Meigs, Return J., Jr. [1764-1825]. United States v John Bowman: Indct. for Murder Cost Bill for Atty General. [Chillicothe, OH, 1801]. 16-1/2" x 5" (42 x 12.5 cm) sheet, text to recto..... More

"Deliver and Yield Up to Me" [Manuscript]. [Real Property]. [Great Britain]. [Eviction Order and Notice to Quit, Cornwall, England, September 27, 1830]. 8-3/4" x 7-1/4" (22.22 x 18.41 cm) sheet. Light toning, horizontal fold lines. Content in neat hand, docketed on verso. $250. * A fine example of an early..... More

McDevitt, Matthew. Joseph McKenna, Associate Justice of the United States. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1946. x, 250 pp. Table. Softbound, light shelfwear with wear to spine ends, bookplate to inside front cover, author presentation inscription to half-title. $100. * Joseph McKenna, a Representative from California; born in..... More

Mitchell, Richard H. Censorship in Imperial Japan. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [1983]. xii, 424 pp. Cloth with gilt stamped spine label. Fine. Internally clean. $35. * Contents: Tokugawa Legacy; Toward a "Modem" Censorship System; Building the Family-State; The Rise of the Surveillance State, 1900-1917; "A Time of Crisis";..... More

Morenoff, Jerome. World Peace Through Space Law. Charlottesville, V.A: Michie Company, 1967. xviii, 329 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, light shelfwear. $20. More

[New Hampshire. Adjutant-General's Office.] Militia Law of the State of New-Hampshire: As Revised June Session, 1867. Manchester, [N.H.]: John B. Clarke, State Printer, 1868. 72 pp. Original cloth with gilt stamped front cover. Moderately worn and soiled with rubbing to edges. Light foxing, otherwise internally clean. A good copy. $85..... More

Phillips, Jim. Loo, Tina. Lewthwaite, Susan. Crime and Criminal Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xv, 583 pp. Softbound, fine. $20. More

Pine, Richard. The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind, And Morals from Brummell to Durrell. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. ix, 254 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine. $20. More

A Standard History of the Common Law Plucknett, Theodore F.T. A Concise History of the Common Law. Fifth Edition. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. xxvi, 746, 56 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616191245 ISBN-10: 1616191244. Paperback. Cover lightly creased. Else fine. $10. *..... More

Posner, Richard A. Economic Analysis of Law. Sixth edition. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2003. xx, 747 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, fine. $50. * Contents: 1. The nature of economic reasoning. 2. The economic approach to law. 3. Property. 4. Contract rights and remedies. 5. Family law and sex law. 6. Tort..... More

Prick, J[oseph] J[ules] G[uillaume]. Sillevis Smitt, W.G. Muller, L. Thallium Poisoning. Amsterdam: Elsevier Pub. Co., 1955. vi, 155 pp. Illustrations. Cloth very good in worn dust jacket. Some offsetting to endpapers. Internally clean. A very good copy. $25. * provides a thorough examination of thallium poisoning, covering its various aspects..... More

Rockefeller Foundation. Methods and Problems of Medical Education. (Ninth series). New York: Division of Medical Education, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1928. 386 pp. Illustrations. Modern red library cloth with gilt stamped spine. Light fading to boards. Internally clean. A very good copy. $25. * A volume of reprints of articles detailing..... More

Sachar, Abram L. A Host at Last. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. 308 pp. 6 leaves of plates. Illustrations. Cloth hardcover in moderately worn dust jacket, author presentation inscription to front free endpaper. $15. * In this engaging account, the first president of Brandeis tells how many..... More

Shaw, Henry. The Settlement Laws of Massachusetts in Their Application to Poor Relief Outside Institutions: With Citation of Some of the Leading Judicial Decisions in the Last Thirty Years and Practical Suggestions to Visitors Among the Poor. Boston: George E. Ellis, 272 Congress Street, 1900. xi, 205 pp. Original brown..... More

Pre-Fire San Francisco Imprint Smyth, John H. [1830-1888]. The Law of Homestead and Exemptions. San Francisco: Sumner Whitney & Co., 1875. 467 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Later black library buckram, gilt title to spine, endpapers renewed. A few minor nicks to boards, light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped. Moderate..... More

Inscribed to Paul Darrow and His Family Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent van Gogh. New York: The Modern Library, 1939. x, [2], 489 pp. Publisher's cloth, blind frames and gilt symbol to front board, gilt title to spine. Light fading to exterior, somewhat heavier to..... More

Tompsett, David Hugh. Anatomical Techniques. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1956. xvi, 240 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's black cloth bound hardcover, good, in moderately worn and soiled dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. A very good copy. $25. * The book serves as a guide for prosectors and anatomy professionals, covering..... More

A Presentation Copy from the Author with an Additional Folding Map Not in Other Copies [Trial]. Harmer, James [1777-1853]. [Holloway, John (d. 1807), Defendant]. [Haggerty, Owen (d. 1807), Defendant]. Murder of Mr. Steele. Documents and Observations, Tending to Shew a Probability of the Innocence of John Holloway and Owen Haggerty..... More

A Rare Somnambulism (Sleepwalking) and Insanity Defense: McDade 770 [Trial]. Prescott, Abraham [1815-1836], Defendant. Report of the Trial of Abraham Prescott, For the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran, Of Pembroke, June 23, 1833. Executed at Hopkinton, January 6, 1836. Manchester, NH: Daily Mirror Office, 1869. 46 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x...... More

Marital Homicide and Insanity: McDade 1115 [Trial]. Woodford, Orrin, Defendant. Morgan, N[athaniel] H[arris] [1805-1881], Reporter. A Full Report of the Trial of Orrin Woodford for the Murder of His Wife, Diana Woodford; At Avon, Conn., July 22d, 1845; At the January Term, Of the Superior Court, Holden at Hartford, 1846..... More

The Aftermath of an Edinburgh Riot [Trials]. Skelton, John, Primary Defendant. Substance of the Trials of John Skelton, Neil Sutherland, Hugh MacDonald, Hugh MacIntosh, George Napier, John Grotto, Robert Gunn, And Alex. MacDonald, Alias White, Before the High Court of Justiciary, For Committing Murder and Robbery, On the Streets of..... More

Twining, William. Stein, Alex. Evidence and Proof. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1992. xxx, 553 pp. Hardcover, light shelfwear. $75. More

Vincent, Louis. Binns, Clare. Gilles de Rais: The Original Bluebeard. London: A.M. Philpot, 1926. 221 pp. Illustrations. Original publisher's cloth very good, in worn dust jacket. Deckle edges. Some foxing throughout, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy. $100. * First edition. This work delves into the life and crimes..... More