September 13, 2022
Highlights in this list include:
Unrecorded Account of a Notably Brutal London Murder in 1822 [Broadside]. [Execution]. Abbott, William [d.1822]. An Account of the Trial, Behaviour, And Execution of Will.m Abbott for the Wilful Murder of Mary Lees, Alias Duggan, Or Long Poll. Who Was Executed at the Old Bailey, On Monday Last. [Hythe, Kent]..... More
"The Bearers Hereof are a Party of Tradesmen" [Broadside]. [Labor]. [Great Britain]. The Tradesman's New Hymn. [London]: W. Fortey, [c.1810-1812]. 10" x 7-1/4" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" sheet, verse text, in two columns below headline and woodcut vignette (of the English, royal and legal symbols), columns separated by..... More
"I Try to Greet Him with a Smile When Oft My Poor Heart Bleeds" [Broadside]. [Temperance]. [Great Britain]. The Wife's Dream. Northampton, England: Henson, Prinier [sic], [c.1850]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" sheet, verse text, in two columns below headline, first column headed with a woodcut..... More
The Life and Martyrdom of Charles I Charles I [1600-1649], King of England. Basilika. The Works of King Charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations, Treaties and Other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament. With the History of His Life; As..... More
With a Discussion of the Man in the Iron Mask [Craufurd, Quintin (1743-1819)]. The History of the Bastile: With a Concise Account of the Late Revolution in France. To Which is Added, An Appendix, Containing, Among Other Particulars, An Enquiry into the History of the Prisoner with the Mask. London..... More
"Brothers in Law" Dighton, Robert [1752-1814]. Iohn Doe & Rich.d Roe. Brothers in Law. [London]: Robert Dighton, November 6, 1796. 10" x 8" hand-colored etching, image size, including caption, 8" x 6." Moderate toning light soiling, crease to lower-right corner, colors vivid. $500. * "Two men, wearing patched and ragged..... More
William O. Douglas's Copy of the U.S. House of Representatives Parliamentary Manual [Douglas, William O. (1898-1980)]. Cannon, Clarence [1879-1964]. Cannon's Procedure in the House of Representatives. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1951. ix, 498 pp. Thumb-tabbed. Flexible calf, gilt title to center of front cover, "Justice Douglas" gilt-stamped..... More
Victorian-Era Laws Concerning Coal Mines Fowler, John Coke [1815-1899]. Collieries and Colliers: A Handbook of the Law of Leading Cases Relating Thereto. London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1869. xix, 432 pp. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary cloth, blind frames and central arabesques to boards, rebacked retaining existing spine with gilt..... More
A First Edition Inscribed by Frankfurter Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces: An Intimate Portrait as Recorded in Talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. New York: Reynal & Company, [1960]. [ix], 310 pp. Cloth in dust jacket, light edgewear to extremities, a few negligible tiny spots, chip to head of..... More
First Edition of Lord Kames's First Publication [Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782)]. Remarkable Decisions Of The Court Of Session, From 1716, to 1728. Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Tho. Ruddiman, 1728. iii-iv, 287, [1], xx pp. Recent library buckram, gilt institution name to boards, red and black lettering pieces and gilt..... More
Kames's "Select Decisions" [Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782)]. Select Decisions of the Court of Session, From the Year 1752 to the Year 1768. Collected by a Member of the Court. Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, For John Bell, 1780. xvii, [1], 251 [i.e.351], [1] pp. Folio (12" x 7-1/2")..... More
Sir John Holt's Opinion Regarding a Disputed Estate [Manuscript]. [Holt, Sir John (1642-1710)]. [Manuscript Brief on a Copyhold Case with the Opinion of Sir John Holt]. [London?, c.1700]. 12" x 7-1/2" bifolium, text in a single neat hand to recto of first leaf and docket to verso of final leaf..... More
First Edition of a Highly Respected Reporter Raymond, Sir Thomas [1627-1683]. The Reports Of Divers Special Cases Adjudged In The Courts Of Kings Bench, Common Pleas, & Exchequer, In the Reign of King Charles II. Printed from the Original Manuscript, Written in His Own Hand. With Two Tables, One of..... More
An Eminent Local as Guarantor and a "Negro Woman Named Tiggy" as Collateral [Slavery]. [Virginia]. [Bond Agreement to Settle a Debt]. Henry and Patrick Counties, [Virginia], December 7, 1804. 12-1/2" x 8" part-printed document inscribed in neat hand, signed by William Banks, Jr. and docketed on verso. Moderate toning, light..... More
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A Murder Trial that Inspired Dickens [Trial]. Manning, Frederick George [1820-1849], Defendant. Manning, Maria [1821-1849], Defendant. The Bermondsey Murder. A Full Report of the Trial of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning, For the Murder of Patrick O'Connor, At Minver-Place, Bermondsey, On the 9th of August, 1849. Including Memoirs of..... More
The Controversial Acquittal of a Notorious Duelist and Rake [Trial]. Mohun, Charles, 4th Baron [c.1675-1712], Defendant. The Tryal of Charles Lord Mohun, Before the House of Peers in Parliament, For the Murder of William Mountford; Which Began the 31 of January 1692. And Continued by Several Adjournments till the Fourth..... More
Wharton on Homicide Wharton, Francis [1820-1889]. A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States: To Which is Appended a Series of Leading Cases. Philadelphia: Kay and Brother, 1875. xli, [1], 794 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 6"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, raised bands and lettering piece..... More
From the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, Part I of the Vulgate Edition [Year Books]. [Vulgate Edition]. [Maynard's Edition]. Edward I [1239-1307], King of England. Edward II [1284-1327], King of England. Les Reports des Cases Argue & Adjudge in le Temps del' Roy Edward le Second, Et Auxy..... More