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- Author:
- Childers, Hugh
- Title:
- Romantic Trials of Three Centuries
- Publisher:
- John Lane, London, 1913.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54461
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Clifton, Robin
- Title:
- The Last Popular Rebellion, The Western Rising of 1685
- Publisher:
- Maurice Temple Smith, London, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41911
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, international law, trials
- Author:
- Norton, Caroline
- Title:
- Caroline Norton's Defense, English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher:
- Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, 1982.
- Description:
- The reissue of the original edition of 1854; with a brief, scholarly introduction by Joan Huddleston
- Condition:
- Ex-library, else a good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58810
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- divorce, women's law, 19TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Shetreet, Shimon
- Title:
- Judges on Trial, A Study of the Appointment and Accountability of the English Judiciary. Edited by Gordon J. Borrie. Foreword by The Right Honourable Lord Justice Scarman
- Publisher:
- North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1976.
- Description:
- A pioneering work, based on Dr. Shetreet's doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Philip Kurland, and properly represented as "a comprehensive study of the English judiciary [emphasizing] unwritten . . . custom"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-73843
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, impeachment
- Author:
- Simpson Jr., Alex[ander]
- Title:
- A Treatise on Federal Impeachments, With an Appendix Containing, inter alia, an Abstract of the Articles of Impeachment in all the Federal Impeachments in This Country and in England
- Publisher:
- The Law Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1916.
- Description:
- Prepared by Simpson as one of the counsel for Judge Robert W. Archbald, one of the few federal judges impeached by the House of Representatives and then found guilty by the Senate; of particular value for the abstract of impeachments in the appendix
- Condition:
- Original brown buckram, showing some wear, but a clean usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-60921
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- impeachment
- Author:
- Title:
- Free Customes, Benefits and Priviledges of the Copyhold Tennants, of the Mannors of Stepny and Hackny in the Countie of Middlesex . . . Before Which is Prefixed an Abstract or Briefe Relation of the Assurance Given . . . said Tennants. S.T.C. 23254
- Publisher:
- At London printed by William Iones, London, 1617.
- Description:
- A rare work, part of the still disputed history of East London, setting forth in great detail the rights, obligations, and limits to copyhold tenure there, here including the names of over 300 tenants; one copy in ESTC in North America
- Condition:
- Contemporary gilt bordered calf, rebacked, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, definite browning, two leaves skilfully repaired; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80115
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- copyright, London, 16TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Paulson, Ross Evans
- Title:
- Liberty, Equality, and Justice, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Regulation of Business 1865-1932
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press, Durham, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps; 361 pages
- Book No.:
- W-60908
- Price:
- $ 18.95
- Category:
- women's law, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Carter, Dan T.
- Title:
- Scottsboro, A Tragedy of the American South. Revised edition
- Publisher:
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps; 479 pages
- Book No.:
- W-60215
- Price:
- $ 16.95
- Category:
- trials, Radicals, criminal law, Discrimination
- Author:
- Smith, Gene
- Title:
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson
- Publisher:
- William Morrow and Co, New York, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18025
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Christie, Trevor L.
- Title:
- Etched in Arsenic
- Publisher:
- J.B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18086
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Cobbett
- Title:
- Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
- Publisher:
- R. Bagshaw, London, 1809.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Thirty two volumes of 34, lacking volumes 32 and 33, but with volume 34, the index volume
- Book No.:
- W-51170
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- James P. Free, Jr., Petitioner-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Howard A. Peters, III, et al, Respondents-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1994.
- Description:
- Death penalty properly imposed (one judge dissenting) despite conclusion of study by Hans Zeisel that instructions given jury were likely to have been confusing
- Condition:
- Stapled self-wraps; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48684
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- criminal law, juries, women's law, capital punishment
- Author:
- Treherne, John
- Title:
- The Canning Enigma
- Publisher:
- Jonathan Cape, Thirty-Two Bedford Square, London, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in a torn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-71374
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials, 18TH CENTURY, criminal law
- Author:
- Mossman, Mary Jane
- Title:
- The First Women Lawyers, A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions
- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing, Portland, 2006.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated sewn wraps, as new; 329 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74331
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- women's law
- Author:
- Caraman, Philip
- Title:
- Henry Garnet, 1555-1606 and the Gunpowder Plot
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Ex-library, in the dustjacket; usable
- Book No.:
- W-48754
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, biography, trials, biography, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Casey, Lee
- Title:
- Denver Murders
- Publisher:
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1946.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-42353
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- trials, Colorado, criminal law
- Author:
- Van Tassel, Emily Field
- Title:
- Why Judges Resign: Influences on Federal Judicial Service, 1789 to 1992
- Publisher:
- Federal Judicial Center, Washington, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 138 pages
- Book No.:
- W-47985
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, biography, impeachment, courts
- Author:
- Gerhardt, Michael J.
- Title:
- The Federal Impeachment Process, A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60523
- Price:
- $ 29.95
- Category:
- impeachment, constitutional law
- Author:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles and N.E.H. Hull
- Title:
- Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41034
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- impeachment, 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Tite, Colin G.C.
- Title:
- Impeachment and Parliamentary Judicature in Early Stuart England
- Publisher:
- Athlone Press, University of London, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41731
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Kimberly Hern Troupe, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the May Department Stores Company. . .as Lord and Taylor, Defendant-Appellee [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1994.
- Description:
- Pregnant employee fired day before maternity leave due to start not discriminated against even though firing due to tardiness resulting from morning sickness, where employee unable to show different treatment of similarly tardy non-pregnant employees
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48406
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Discrimination, women's law, labor law
- Author:
- Nash, Jay Robert
- Title:
- Look for the Woman, A Narrative Encyclopedia of Female Poisoners, Kidnappers, Thieves, Extortionists, Terrorists, Swindlers and Spies from Elizabethan Times to the Present
- Publisher:
- Harrap, London, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17380
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, women's law
- Author:
- Reagan, Leslie J.
- Title:
- When Abortion Was a Crime, Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-60252
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- abortion, women's law, 19TH CENTURY, criminal law
- Author:
- Wedgwood, C.V.
- Title:
- Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford 1593-1641, A Revaluation
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-71594
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography, 17TH CENTURY, trials, impeachment, criminal law
- Author:
- Cohen, David
- Title:
- Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Description:
- The ambitious attempt to place Athenian legal practice and its courts and litigation within the greater framework of Athenian social practices, particularly those denominated 'agonistic', evidencing competitive struggles and contests
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 214 pages
- Book No.:
- W-63435
- Price:
- $ 19.95
- Category:
- ancient law, criminal law, trials, GREECE, political theory, law & anthropology
- Author:
- Palmquist, Peter E.
- Title:
- A Bibliography of Writings By and About Women in Photography 1850-1950
- Publisher:
- Peter E. Palmquist, Arcata, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 64 pages
- Book No.:
- W-55335
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- law and photography, women's law
- Author:
- Odem, Mary E.
- Title:
- Delinquent Daughters, Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed, sewn wraps; 265 pages
- Book No.:
- W-57695
- Price:
- $ 14.95
- Category:
- women's law, Juvenile Law, criminal law, Sexuality
- Author:
- Pedersen, Frederik
- Title:
- Marriage Disputes in Medieval England
- Publisher:
- Hambledon Press, London, 2000.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-68712
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- women's law, marriage, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Stephen, James Fitzjames
- Title:
- The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey. In Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Macmillan and Co., London, 1885.
- Description:
- Stephen's vigorous rebuttal of Macauley, who had accused Impey while Chief Justice of Bengal with the judicial murder of the Indian maharajah, Nuncomar, all in collaboration with Warren Hastings, and so an important part of his famed impeachment
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, largely uncut, a few pages carelessly opened, else a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-72763
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- INDIA, trials
- Author:
- Brant, Irving
- Title:
- Impeachment, Trials and Errors
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55899
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, impeachment
- Author:
- Lasser, William
- Title:
- Benjamin V. Cohen, Architect of the New Deal. Preface by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press [for The Century Foundation], New Haven, 2002.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-70700
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Clarke, A.A.
- Title:
- The Groaning Gallows, The Stories of Murders and of Men and Women who faced the Executioner in York, E. Yorks and N. Lincs
- Publisher:
- Arton Books, Hornsea, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, illustrated, well-preserved; 128 pages
- Book No.:
- W-70954
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- His Maiesties Commission to all the Lords . . . touching the Creation of Baronets . . . And His Maiesties Letters Patents containing the forme of the said Creation [with] Three Patents Concerning the Honorable Degree . . . of Baronets. S.T.C. 9225 & 9238
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [both works], London, 1611 & 1617.
- Description:
- The initial creation by James I of what has become the modern baronetage, the hereditary dignity between barons and knights, bound with his later effort to resolve matters of precedence, with somewhat more than 1200 baronetcies now extant
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some staining to the second work, with both signature "A" blanks C3 a half sheet; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80131
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- law of heraldry
- Author:
- Ley, James
- Title:
- Reports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards, And other Courts at Westminster, in the Reigns of the late Kings, King James and King Charles . . . And now published for the Common good [etc.]. Wing M688. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled unlettered sheep, rubbed, the spine ends just chipped, very light browning, else quite well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79942
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Lunatics, infants, insanity, reports of cases, reports of cases, reports of cases
- Author:
- Langhorne, Richard
- Title:
- Considerations Touching The Great Question of the King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws. Written On the Occasion of His Late Blessed Majesties granting Free Toleration and Indulgence. Wing L396. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by H.H. for the Assigns of R. Langhorne [etc.], London, 1687.
- Description:
- The work written in defense of Charles II's 1672 Declaration of Indulgence, Langhorne "a Roman Catholic barrister of considerable eminence", later implicated in the Popish Plot, executed for treason, and beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 sheep over brown boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, the spine gilt ruled and lettered, quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80106
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, trials
- Author:
- Selden, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Fleta, Seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL . . . Accedit Tractatulus vetus . . . Fet Assavoir . . . Subjungitur etiam Joannis Seldeni ad Fletam Dissertatio Historica [etc.]. Wing F1290
- Publisher:
- Typis M.F. Prostant apud Guil. Lee, & Dan. Pakeman [etc.], London, 1647.
- Description:
- First and best early edition of Fleta, written in the late 13th century, with Selden's Dissertation upon it, called a "sophisticated survey of the history of Roman law in medieval Europe and England [and] his most mature piece of scholarship"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the joints cracked but firm, light browning, else clean with good margins but not aesthetically pleasing
- Book No.:
- W-80102
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- MEDIEVAL, English Law, prisons, roman law
- Author:
- Clayton, John
- Title:
- Topicks in the Laws of England. Containing Media, apt for Argument, and resolution of Law Cases: also an Exposition of severall words, not touched by former Glossaries [etc.]. Wing C4612. Not in Cowley
- Publisher:
- Printed by R.L. for William Leake . . . in Fleetstreet [etc.], London, 1646.
- Description:
- First edition of Clayton's first work, published a decade before Cromwell sought a major reform of English law, an unusual amalgam of 167 maxims and like legal phrases (called "topicks"; most are in Latin), discussed and defined for the layperson
- Condition:
- Later panelled sheep, somewhat rubbed, lightish staining to the title and several following leaves, light browning, else clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80096
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- legal dictionaries, Supreme Court, maxims, Every Man Law Books, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Declaration to All His Loving Subjects, March 15th 1671,/2. Published by the Advice of His Privy Council. Wing C2990; ESTC R206895. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1672.
- Description:
- The Declaration in which Charles II sought to extend religious liberty to nonconformists and Roman Catholics, Parliament in 1673 forcing him to withdraw it, then enacting the first Test Act requiring those in public service to take Anglican communion
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, light browning, with ample untrimmed margins, one horizontal fold, housed in a modern buckram folder; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80105
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Religion, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Daniels, Josephus
- Title:
- Appreciation of William Jennings Bryan
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, No place stated, 1928.
- Description:
- The rare address given by Bryan's friend, protege, and fellow lawyer, devoted in part to the Scopes trial--Bryan "felt called--and he verily believed it was the Voice of God--to . . . do all in his power to uphold that statute" two copies in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original oblong printed stapled wraps, a very good copy; 14 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80117
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Baker, John
- Title:
- The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Volume VI. 1483-1558
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.
- Description:
- The auspicious beginning to Oxford's ambitious new series, this volume written by John Baker, the Series General Editor (and former Literary Director of the Selden Society), "drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished materials"
- Condition:
- Original printed boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-80126
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English Law, 15TH CENTURY, 16TH CENTURY, renaissance
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