February 15, 2022
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"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
Proposals for Chancery Reform An Attorney. Proposals Humbly Offered to the Parliament for Remedying the Great Charge and Delay of Suits at Law and in Equity. London: Printed for J. Reason and W. Reeve, [1730?]. [ii], iv, 42 pp. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent plain wrappers, ink..... More
"No Man Who Reads This Book Will Be a Tyrant" Beccaria, [Cesare Bonesana, Marchese di] [1738-1794]. Sharpe, Granville [1735-1813]. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques [1712-1778]. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Written by the Marquis Beccaria of Milan. With a Commentary Attributed to Monsieur De Voltaire. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bell, 1778. [iv]..... More
Foreign Attachment in the Mayor's Court of London Brandon, Woodthorpe [1813-1887]. A Treatise Upon the Customary Law of Foreign Attachment, And the Practice of the Mayor's Court of the City of London Therein. With Forms of Procedure. London: Butterworths, 1861. xix, 243, [1]; 21, [3] pp. Main text followed by..... More
"40 Pages of Cant & Hypocrisy by a Villain" Foulkes, Robert [bap.1634-1679]. An Alarme for Sinners: Containing the Confession, Prayers, Letters, And Last Words of Robert Foulkes, Late Minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop; Who was Tryed, Convicted, And Sentenced, At the Sessions in the Old Bayly, London..... More
Printed by Isaiah Thomas Freeman, Samuel [1743-1831]. A Valuable Assistant to Every Man: Or, The American Clerk's Magazine. Containing the Most Useful and Necessary Forms of Writings, Which Commonly Occur Between Man and Man, Under the Names of Acquittances, Agreements, Assignments, Awards, Bargains, Bills, Bonds, Complaints, Conveyances, Covenants, Deeds, Feoffments..... More
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1741-1747 [Great Britain]. George II [1683-1760], King. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Vicesimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the First Day of December, Anno Dom. 1741, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign..... More
Criminality is Not an Innate Character Trait Hill, Frederic [1803-1896]. Crime: Its Amount, Causes, And Remedies. London: John Murray, 1853. xvi, 443 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Recent cloth, calf lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Light soiling, light rubbing to lettering piece. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to..... More
The Best Edition of Keilwey's Reports Keilwey, Robert [1497-1581]. Croke, Sir John [1553-1620], Editor. Benloe (Bendlowes), William [1516-1584]. Dalison, Sir William [d. 1559]. Reports d'Ascuns Cases (Qui ont Evenus aux Temps du Roy Henry le Septieme de Tres Heureuse Memoire, & Du Tres Illustre Roy Henry le Huitiesme, & Ne..... More
"Extraordinary Transactions" At Woodstock, Connecticut Lyman, Eliphalet [1754-1836]. Two Discourses Preached at Woodstock- The First, On November 10th 1793- The Second, On the 1st of December Following. By Eliphalet Lyman, Pastor of a Church in the First Society of Woodstock. To Which is Subjoined an Appendix, Giving an Account of..... More
Holmes Thanks an Editor [Manuscript]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. [1841-1935]. [King, Moses (1853-1909)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed "O W Holmes," Boston (?), July 4, 1880]. 6-3/4" x 4-1/2" sheet, content to recto. Faint horizontal fold line, negligible offsetting to upper-right corner. Letter accompanied by typed transcription. $950. * Holmes's letter dates..... 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
An Expert on Political Economy Defends Primogeniture and Entail McCulloch, J[ohn] R[amsay] [1789-1864]. A Treatise on the Succession to Property Vacant by Death: Including Inquiries into the Influence of Primogeniture, Entails, Compulsory Partition, Foundations, &c. Over the Public Interests. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. vi, [2], 193, [1]..... More
"A Profitable Booke" Perkins, John [d.1545]. A Profitable Booke of Master John Perkins, Fellowe of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of Englande. [London]: Apud Richardum Tottell, [1581]. [xx], 168 ff. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules and large central arabesques to boards, rebacked, lettering piece and..... More
Pitman on Principal and Surety Pitman, Edward Dix. A Treatise on the Law of Principal And Surety. London: V. and R. Stevens and G.S. Norton, 1840. xxxii, 259 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules and fillets to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine..... More
The Last Significant Treatise on Ejectment Runnington, Charles [1751-1821]. The History, Principles and Practice, (Ancient and Modern,) of the Legal Remedy by Ejectment; And the Resulting Action for Mesne Profits; The Evidence (in General) Necessary to Sustain and Defend Them: With an Appendix Illustrative of the Subject. London: Printed for..... More
"A Sect of Reformers, Still Militant Among Us" Tinney, John Pern. The Rights of the Sovereignty Vindicated. With Particular Reference to Political Doctrines of the Edinburgh Review, And of Other Periodical Publications. London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin, And for Brodie and Co., Salisbury, 1809. [viii], 210..... More
A 1788 Attack on Connecticut Divorce Law Trumbull, Benjamin [1735-1820]. An Appeal to the Public, Especially to the Learned, With Respect to the Unlawfulness of Divorces, in All Cases, Excepting Those of Incontinency. The Substance of the Argument Was Pleaded Before the Consociation of the County of New-Haven, December 9th..... More
A Rare Nineteenth-Century Guide to Bankruptcy Law and Procedure Whittaker, Soame. The Law of Bankrupts, Their Creditors, And Assignees; From the Issuing the Commission to the Allowance of the Certificate by the Lord Chancellor. Containing Plain and Familiar Instructions Respecting the Choice of Assignees, Proving Debts, Examination of the Bankrupt..... More