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- The Trial of John Hart, Esq. Alderman of London; for Adultery and Cruelty . . . That, among Variety of Ingenious Refinements upon Cruelty, the Alderman extinguished Mrs. Hart's Fires in the coldest Weather . . . kicked and dragged her about [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey, London, 1780.
- Description:
- A rare account of a classic case of physical and mental cruelty (a genre not often reported), including forced seclusion, attempted strangulation, and physical blows of many different sorts, leading to the modern equivalent of a judicial separation
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed boards, quite fresh, with the three panel frontispiece graphically depicting several of Hart's cruelties towards his wife
- Book No.:
- W-80434
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- adultery, trials, women's law
- Author:
- Title:
- Trial of Mrs. Ann Nisbett, Wife of Walter Nisbett, Esq; of Grafton Street, Berkeley Square . . . For committing Adultery with Thomas Totty, Esq; (A Captain in the Navy, and Commander of the Majesty's Ship the Sphynx) At Doctors Commons
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], London, 1783.
- Description:
- A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence
- Book No.:
- W-80431
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- adultery, Parliament, divorce, marriage, trials
- Author:
- Foot, Michael]
- Title:
- The Trial of Mussolini. Being a Verbatim Report of the First Great Trial for War Criminals held in London sometime in 1944 or 1945 by "Cassius". Sixth impression July 1944 [no copy of this impression in COPAC, two in OCLC, both in Denmark]
- Publisher:
- Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1943 [1944].
- Description:
- The factually grounded if imagined trial of Mussolini, with the testimony of witnesses, direct and cross examination, and Mussolini taking the witness stand in his own defense, with a final summing up by the judge, who leaves the verdict to us
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, the spine dulled, else a good usable copy, once that of R.E. Megarry, with his ownership stamp on the front pastedown
- Book No.:
- W-80448
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Nuremberg, ITALY, trials
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