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- Author:
- Preston, Ivan L.
- Title:
- The Tangled Web They Weave, Truth, Falsity, and Advertisers
- Publisher:
- University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Advance, uncorrected page proofs, spiral bound wraps; 220 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48425
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- consumer law, fraud
- Author:
- Steele, Eric H.
- Title:
- Fraud, Dispute, and the Consumer: Responding to Consumer Complaints
- Publisher:
- American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1975.
- Description:
- Reprinted from the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, May, 1975
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, a little worn and stained, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-90533
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- fraud, White Collar Crime
- Author:
- Avins, Alfred
- Title:
- New Light on the Legislative History of Desertion Trhough Fraudulent Enlistment: The Decline of the United States Court of Military Appeals
- Publisher:
- Minnesota Law Review, Minneapolis, 1961.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a very good copy, offprinted from Volume 46 of the Review; pages 69-116
- Book No.:
- W-78291
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- military law, fraud
- Author:
- Banks, T.C. and Ephraim Lockhart
- Title:
- A Disquisition on the Right of Jurisdiction in Peerage Successions, Particularly the Peerage of Scotland; Contained in Letters to the Right Honourable the Lord K-------: With an Appendix. Second Edition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, London, 1830.
- Description:
- An uncommon part of the curious career of the Inner Templar T.C. Banks, who established a Dormant Peerage Office and mixed real scholarship with the defense of flimsy and even fraudulent (as here) peerage claims; five copies in OCLC, none in England
- Condition:
- Modern patterned crimson cloth, gilt, ex-library, but a clean copy; 118 pages
- Book No.:
- W-72088
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, Peerage Law, Comparative Law, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King. A Proclamation for the better execution of the Office of His Maiesties Exchanger, and Reformation of sundry Abuses and Fraudes practised vpon his Maiesties Coynes. S.T.C. 8860; Steele 1512
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, London, 1627.
- Description:
- Part of Charles I's ill-advised assumption of monetary monopoly control through re-establishing the office of King's Exchanger of gold and silver, unsuccessfully opposed by the Goldsmith's Company, London's Lord Mayor and its Court of Alderman
- Condition:
- Five leaves measuring about 12x15 inches, browned, definite staining, loss of text on the first two leaves, some repairs, a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-79501
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- fraud, economics, Coining
- Author:
- Avins, Alfred
- Title:
- New Light on the Legislative History of Desertion Through Fraudulent Enlistment: The Decline of the United States Court of Military Appeals
- Publisher:
- Minnesota Law Review, Minneapolis, 1961.
- Description:
- Seemingly the author's personal copy, with the notation in pencil on the front wrap "Professor Avins - Comp Copy"
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, the spine chipped, else a good copy; the November issue, Volume 46 Number 1
- Book No.:
- W-78294
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- military law, fraud
- Author:
- Sheldon, Jonathan A. and George J. Zweibel
- Title:
- Survey of Consumer Fraud Law
- Publisher:
- Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a bit worn and discolored, but a sound copy; 216 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90550
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- Fraud
- Publisher:
- American Society for Industrial Security, Arlington, 1992.
- Description:
- Some two dozen articles on fraud prevention and investigations, with an emphasis on insurance and finance
- Condition:
- Oversized wraps; 81 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90529
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- White Collar Crime, fraud
- Author:
- Griffith, William
- Title:
- Institutes of the Jurisdiction and of the Equity Jurisprudence and Pleadings of the High Court of Chancery . . . and with a Concise View of the Equity Jurisdiction of the County Courts
- Publisher:
- H. Sweet, 3, Chancery Lane, Fleet Street [etc.], London, 1868.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by a Gray's Inn barrister, expressly patterned on Justinian, with a chapter on maxims, several on trusts, on married women ("connubium"), contracts ("commercium"), infants and lunatics ("civitas"), and fraud
- Condition:
- Modern blue buckram, gilt, some browning, else well-preserved; a presentation copy ("Owens College / from / The Author")
- Book No.:
- W-76756
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- equity, maxims, fraud, infants, insanity, trusts and estates, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- Select Trials for Murders, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, And Other Offences: at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To which aare Added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour . . . of the most Eminent Convicts. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Wilford . . . in St Paul's Church Yard, London, 1734-35.
- Description:
- The first collection of trials held at the Old Bailey, the principal criminal court of London immortalized by Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding, marvelously diverse in the range of crime reported, the transcripts offering great verisimilitude
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked, some light foxing and browning, else a good clean set; with the errata in volume one
- Book No.:
- W-79826
- Price:
- $ 1650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials, law of piracy, fraud, Rape
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of the Trial of the Directors of the City of Glasgow Bank Before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh
- Publisher:
- The Edinburgh Publishing Company, Edinburgh, 1879.
- Description:
- One of the great commercial scandals in Scots history, called "probably the most important [trial] which has taken place in Scotland", reckless investments collapsing Scotland's largest bank, the books cooked in extremis; uncommon, four copies in NUC
- Condition:
- Contemporary 1/4 sheep, a bit rubbed, but a good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-63801
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- banks, fraud
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for restraining and preventing several unwarrantable Schemes and Undertakings in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America [14 Geo II c.37]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1741.
- Description:
- The extension to the American colonies of the famous act passed in the midst of the South Sea Bubble economic crisis of 1720, the original act described by Maitland as one which "seems to scream at us from the statute book"; no copy in the UK in ESTC
- Condition:
- ?Original sewn wraps, disbound, title page + pages 683 to 687, a very little marginal staining, else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79435
- Price:
- $ 325.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, fraud, Law and the stockmarket
- Author:
- Title:
- The Famous Tryal in B.R. between Thomas Neale, Esq; and the Late Lady Theadosis Ivy . . . before The Right Honourable the Late Lord Jeffreys . . . Alimony Arraignd, or the Remonstrance and Humble Appeal of Thomas Ivie, Esq. [etc.]. ESTC R35557. Folio
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, No place stated, 1696.
- Description:
- First edition of the longest 17th century trial in England, save one other, Lady Ivy found to have fraudulently created documents central to her claim, coupled with probably "the most involved series of sexual accusations in a divorce proceeding"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 cloth over marbled boards, bound in two volumes, some browning, staining, and marginal chipping, with the two plates; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80033
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- divorce, trials, Real Property, fraud
- Author:
- St. Andre, Nathanael
- Title:
- A Short Narrative Of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform'd by John Howard Surgeon at Guilford [with] Richard Manningham, An Exact Diary Of what was observ'd during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft, The pretended Rabbet-Breeder [etc.]
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for John Clarke [2] Printed for Fletcher Gyles, London, 1727 & 1726.
- Description:
- First editions of two works central to Mary Tuft's claim that she had given birth to 17 rabbits, inspiring much satiric literature, Hogarth engravings, a Drury Lane play, and Pope's Dunciad, her confession resulting in her brief stay in Bridewell
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over cloth boards, one margin defective affecting a few words (legibility preserved), else quite clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80051
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- fraud, medicine, women's law, Law and Literature, Theatre, humor
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