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- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Delegate from London, to the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, for Sedition [Robertson's Edition]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Robertson, No. 4, Horse Wynd [etc.], Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The trial marking the nadir of British reaction to the French Revolution, bridging the trials of Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, in which Margarot was convicted of sedition and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia
- Condition:
- Definite embrowning and staining, in an attractive modern 1/4 calf somewhat unevenly faded
- Book No.:
- W-51742
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, trials, 18TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- California Judges Benchbook: Civil Proceedings--Discovery [together with] Discovery Update 2000 [together with] Discovery Update 2004. Three Volumes
- Publisher:
- Thomson West [for the Judicial Council of California], n.p., 1994-2004.
- Description:
- The original edition and the 2000 and 2004 updates of this portion of the first benchbook of its kind in the United States, designed as a comprehensive, eminently practical guide for California judges presiding over civil trials
- Condition:
- Original green buckram and green wraps, very good copies
- Book No.:
- W-91568
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Philip N. Jones, et al v. Gillette Safety Razor Company, et al. Requests of the Defendants Aldred and Fuller for Findings of Fact. Commonwealth of Massachuetts, Supreme Judicial Court, In Equity
- Publisher:
- The Oxford Press, Providence, 1954.
- Description:
- Part of the litigation arising out of the merger between Gillette and AutoStrop, bringing into Gillette's fold the patent rights to AutoStrop's Probak blade, complicated by the Depression and by mis-stated earnings of Gillette's operating head
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn oversized wraps, a bit worn, but a good copy; 141 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91251
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, trials
- Author:
- Salmon, Thomas
- Title:
- A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials, and Impeachments for High-Treason . . . The Whole containing, I. The Substance of the Indictment or Charge. II. The Evidence. III. The Prisoner's Defence. IV. The several Points of Law [etc.] Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. and J. Hazard [and six others] [etc.], London, 1738.
- Description:
- A major abridgement of the first edition of the state trials, undertaken by the latter's editor, Thomas Salmon, and itself a substantial folio of over 900 pages reporting trials spanning more than three centuries and adding a critical apparatus
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over boards, unevenly faded, some browning and occasional foxing, yet a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-72149
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey [etc.]. Taken in Short-hand By Joseph Gurney. Four Volumes in Two
- Publisher:
- Sold by Martha Gurney, Bookseller, Holborn Hill, London, 1794-95.
- Description:
- The most extensive of all the reports of the trial including "one of the great speeches of [Erskine's] career", securing Hardy's acquittal in the first major treason trial of 1794, as the French Revolution's effects swirled throughout England
- Condition:
- Modern brown cloth, gilt, some foxing and staining, a few tears, the binding a bit strained, yet a good usable set
- Book No.:
- W-70759
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Tullock, Gordon
- Title:
- Trials on Trial, The Pure Theory of Legal Procedure
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-47353
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law, trials, economics
- Author:
- Title:
- Repertoire General des Causes Celebres Anciennes et Modernes, Redige par une Societe d'Hommes de Lettres, sous la Direction de B. Saint-Edme [etc.]. Deuxieme Serie--Tome III [and IV] [only]
- Publisher:
- Louis Rosier, Editeur, Paris, 1854.
- Description:
- The first volume devoted to the Girondins and Philippe Egalite, with the second to eight matters, including several women, among them Madame Bolard and the Comtesse du Barri
- Condition:
- Marbled boards, rebacked in cloth, the front board detached; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-91737
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, FRANCE
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal and Condemnation of Sir John Friend . . . For Conspiring to Raise Rebellion in These Kingdoms . . . Who upon full Evidence was found Guilty of High-Treason, at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Brabazon Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons [etc.], London, 1696.
- Description:
- The penultimate instance under English law (the last the next day) in which a defendant was charged with treason and hanged without benefit of counsel, Friend arraigned just two days before Parliament enacted enabling legislation
- Condition:
- A good copy, in a modern 1/4 calf gilt over marbled boards
- Book No.:
- W-59212
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of the Proceedings Before the Court of Session, in the Case of M'Iver v. M'Iver
- Publisher:
- William P. Nimmo, 2 St. David Street, Edinburgh, 1859.
- Description:
- The husband's divorce action which, though unsuccessful, discloses the risks to a wife of the slightest suspicious action, a split court finding that Mrs. M'Iver's meeting with a youthful love fatally ill with consumption just barely not adultery
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, faded, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-52693
- Price:
- $ 175.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, divorce, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Liability Seminar, California Trial Lawyers Association
- Publisher:
- Trial Lawyers Service Co., Belleville, 1966.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55247
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Crim. Con., Actions and Trials and Other Legal Proceedings Relating to Marriage before the Passing of the Present Divorce Act
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1857?].
- Description:
- A review of the most famous crim con cases spanning three centuries, in which husbands sued their wives' paramours for civil damages caused by the "criminal conversation" and ensuing loss of consortium; with two involving Thomas Erskine as counsel
- Condition:
- Original 1/4 black morocco, gilt, over marbled boards, showing wear and somewhat strained, else a good untrimmed copy
- Book No.:
- W-71567
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- criminal conversatn, trials, marriage, divorce
- Author:
- Title:
- An Impartial Account of the Trial of the Lord Co[r]nwallis. Wing I78
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1679.
- Description:
- One of the last trials in the Court of the Lord High Steward, its procedure to be distinguished from trials of peers in the House of Lords; presided over by Heneage Finch, with Serjeant Maynard and Sir William Jones, among others, for the prosecution
- Condition:
- Modern wraps, a very little embrowned, but sound; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-43471
- Price:
- $ 300.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Hayward, Max (ed.)
- Title:
- On Trial, The Soviet State Versus "Abram Tertz" and "Nikolai Arzhak". Revised and Enlarged Edition
- Publisher:
- Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
- Description:
- The edited trial transcript, undertaken by Hayward, fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, and co-translator of Dr. Zhivago
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-45061
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- SOVIET UNION, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- Lives, Trials, Behaviour, Execution and Last Dying Words of Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, and Richard Tidd, For High Treason
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. & T Sweet, Strood, London.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern card protective covers, original self sewn illustrated wraps, quite worn and fragile, yet usable; 8 pages
- Book No.:
- W-19881
- Price:
- $ 437.50
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg. For High-Treason, For Conspiring The Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion in This Kingdom. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily [etc.]. Wing T2265
- Publisher:
- Printed for Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles Mearn, London, 1683.
- Description:
- The principal contemporary account of the trial of the plot's conspirators, leading to the execution of Lord Russell (and Algernon Sydney) and contributing mightily if indirectly to the Glorious Revolution and the reform of the English law of treason
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, edges cut close; quite sound
- Book No.:
- W-66563
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of . . . John Stockdale; for a Libel on the House of Commons . . . To Which is Subjoined, An Argument in Support of the Rights of Juries [bound with] Four Letters on the Subject of Mr. Stockdale's Trial [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Stockdale, Opposste [sic] Burlington-House [etc], London, 1790.
- Description:
- Conceivably Erskine's most important argument in defense of freedom of the press, leading up to the enactment of Fox's Libel Act; with Erskine's equally famed argument in the Dean of St. Asaph case, arguing for jury determination of libel, appended
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 blue calf, somewhat rubbed, but a good, crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-61310
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. . . . and Others; for the Murder of Pat. Ran. M'Donnell, and Charles Hipson . . . Also, The Trial of John Gallagher and Others, for an Assault on Geo. Rob. Fitzgerald [etc.]. Second Edition. O'Higgins 4.147.b&c
- Publisher:
- Printed by P. Byrne, 108, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1786.
- Description:
- The final episode in the life of a county Mayo scion "noted for his gallantry, his recklessness, and his duels", who abducted his brother, was betrayed by his father, left for dead in a prison attack, and here tried for murder for which he was hanged
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, the joints cracking and tender but holding, else attractive; with the armorial bookplate of Viscount Bulkeley dated 1785
- Book No.:
- W-74469
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, IRELAND
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-16019
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of . . . John Stockdale; for a Libel on the House of Commons . . . To Which is Subjoined, An Argument in Support of the Rights of Juries
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Stockdale, Opposste [sic] Burlington-House [etc], London, 1790.
- Description:
- Conceivably Erskine's most important argument in defense of freedom of the press, leading up to the enactment of Fox's Libel Act; with Erskine's equally famed argument in the Dean of St. Asaph case, arguing for jury determination of libel, appended
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf backed boards, joints splitting; sound
- Book No.:
- W-16938
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Lane, Jane
- Title:
- Titus Oates
- Publisher:
- Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1949.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, a bit worn and foxed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-63512
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- An Account of the Tryal of Richard Lyddel, Esq; At His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas, Before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Eyre, For Carrying on a Criminal Conversation With the Late Lady Abergavenny. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's [etc.] [a false imprint?], London, 1730.
- Description:
- A rare contemporary printing of a famous adultery case reprinted later in the century, "a gripping moral epic of sin, guilt, repentance, and punishment", the award of 10,000 pounds damages effectively and designedly putting Lyddell in prison for life
- Condition:
- Original stabbed self wraps folded in half horizontally, front and back dusty but otherwise a very good copy in original state; five copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-18121
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, adultery
- Author:
- Title:
- A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings upon the Charges Preferred against His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Capacity of Commander in Chief . . . With all the other Documents produced in the Course of the Investigation [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, London, 1809.
- Description:
- The transcript of the proceedings in the House of Commons forcing the resignation of George III's second son, Frederick Augustus, as Commander in Chief, unwittingly caught in the web of his mistress's successful influencing-peddling efforts
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 morocco, rubbed, some embrowning; quite a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-59041
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Cox, Archibald, Mark DeWolfe Howe, et al
- Title:
- Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.
- Description:
- Three essays delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1965 and 1966
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17299
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, reports of cases, trials
- Author:
- Tullock, Gordon
- Title:
- Trials on Trial, The Pure Theory of Legal Procedure
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48940
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law, trials, economics
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in Full Parliament . . . Published by Order of the House of Peers
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, London, 1776.
- Description:
- A rare example of the trial of a peeress in the House of Lords (with the Duchess personally appearing and testifying), finding her guilty of bigamy and essentially ending the ecclesiastical action of 'jactitation', the denial of a previous marriage
- Condition:
- Original buff wraps, untrimmed, a lovely, unsophisticated folio
- Book No.:
- W-62376
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, marriage
- Author:
- Amos, Andrew
- Title:
- The Great Oyer of Poisoning: the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, in the Tower of London, and Various Matters Connected therewith, from Contemporary Mss.
- Publisher:
- Richard Bentley, London, 1846.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, front board detached, rear board lacking, definite staining and embrowning; a working copy only
- Book No.:
- W-51385
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, Law & Hist of Printg, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of James Watson, the Elder, Before the Court of King's Bench, in Westminster Hall . . . for High Treason
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Aitchison, for Alex. Jameson [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern russet cloth, original dusty wraps bound in; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-63804
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Buller, Francis
- Title:
- An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius, Containing Additions to the Present Time. . .Carefully Corrected from the Last London Copy, by a Gentleman of the Bar
- Publisher:
- Printed for I.Riley and Co. Law-Booksellers [etc.], New York, 1806.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/2 morocco, definite embrowning, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-55566
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke, Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae In the Supreme Court of the United States
- Publisher:
- N.p., Washington], 1977.
- Description:
- The amicus brief filed by the Justice Department with the Supreme Court in support of affirmative action, seeking to reverse the judgment of the California Supreme Court to the contrary; with Frank H. Easterbrook on the brief
- Condition:
- Original oversized stapled wraps, worn but sound; vii+74+16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-69207
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Discrimination, trials, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Uniform Domestic Relations, Local Rules for Bay Area Superior Courts. Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, Sonoma
- Publisher:
- Recorder Publishing Co., San Francisco, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a bit worn, but a good copy; 19 pages plus a foldout chart
- Book No.:
- W-91279
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- domestic relations, San Francisco, trials, California
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings at Large on the Trial of John Donellan, Esq. for the Wilful Murder (By Poison) of Sir The[odosius] Edward Allesley Boughton [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Almon and J. Debrett [etc.], London, 1781.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary? marbled boards, rebacked, quite worn, serviceable
- Book No.:
- W-57538
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Walker, Charles Houlden
- Title:
- A Report of the Trial of Sir H.C. Lippincott, Bart. on a Charge of Rape, Committed on the Person of Mary Milford, Spinster, aged 17 years; Preferred at the Assizes of General Gaol-Delivery for the City and County of Bristol [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sold by W. Chapple, Pall-Mall, and B. Crosby, [etc.], London.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17710
- Price:
- $ 300.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Alexander M'Laren, and Thomas Baird, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh . . . for Sedition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Robertson, 132. High Street [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.
- Description:
- The first of many 19th century sedition trials, with Jeffrey and Cockburn jointly representing Baird; Cockburn subsequently described Jeffrey's speech "of the highest order of excellence, [t]here has been no such speech in such a case in Scotland"
- Condition:
- Modern maroon pebbled cloth, the title dusty; a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-65943
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- trials, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increase of Robers, ec. With Some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street [etc.], London, 1751.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18199
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, Acts, ancient law, Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, education, legal ephemera, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, law and prostitution, roman law, Supreme Court, trials, women's law
- Author:
- Title:
- Guidelines for Domestic Relations Cases, Before Donald B. King, Judge of the Superior Court, San Francisco
- Publisher:
- Recorder Publishing Co., San Francisco, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled tan wraps, well-preserved; 42 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91278
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- domestic relations, trials, San Francisco, California
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, M.A.: A Cento of Criticism. High Court of Common Sense. Special Jury Case. Trinity Sessions, 1823
- Publisher:
- E. Brain, London, 1823.
- Description:
- A battered ex-library copy, without the title, plate, and half-title, but textually complete in 96 pages, recording the satirical mock trial; with a number of informed pencil notations throughout
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-91709
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- humor, Religion, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Jane Butterfield for the Wilful Murder of William Scawen, Esq; At the Assizes held at Croydon . . . Before the Right Honourable Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe . . . Taken in Short-Hand, By Joseph Gurney and William Blanchard. A New Edition. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Owen . . . and G. Kearsly . . . in Fleet-street, London, 1775.
- Description:
- A case of many twists in which the victim had sought to seduce and then raped the defendant, then "made amends" by providing for her education, fell into ill-health and was nursed and then allegedly poisoned by her, the jury quickly acquitting
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, definite browning, else a good wide-margined copy; with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-73593
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- State Trials for High Treason. Containing the Trial of Thomas Hardy, to Which Is Prefixed Lord Chief Justice Eyre's Charge to the Grand Jury . . . Taken in Short-hand by a Student in the Temple
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by J. Robertson, No. 4, Horse-Wynd, Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- An uncommon edition reporting "one of the great speeches of [Erskine's] career", securing Hardy's acquittal in the first major treason trial of 1794, as the French Revolution's effects swirled throughout England; eight copies in RLIN, none in England
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, light pencilling, without the portrait; sound
- Book No.:
- W-69409
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of George W. Congdon for the Murder of Christopher G. Wilcox [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Sidney S. Rider, Providence, 1884.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-74943
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- trials, Rhode Island, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Dundonnell Cause. Report of the Trial by Jury, Thomas Mackenzie against Robert Roy, Esq. W.S.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Daniel Lizars, at . . . the New North Briton [etc.], Edinburgh, 1830.
- Description:
- A tribute to the talents of Henry Cockburn, who secured a Scotch verdict for his client against charges that he had swindled an estate from the weak-minded Mackenzie; with Cockburn's jury address and the exchanges between counsel well-reported
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, else a good, sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-56200
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, insanity, Wills
- Author:
- Parry, Edward Abbottt
- Title:
- The Overbury Mystery, a Chronicle of Fact and Drama of the Law
- Publisher:
- T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., London, 1926.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Quite worn; a sound copy only
- Book No.:
- W-17317
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- trials, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of Indictment Against Thomas Walker of Manchester, Merchant . . . for a Conspiracy to Overthrow the Constitution and Government . . . Tried At the Assizes at Lancaster . . . Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Heath [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Boden, Manchester; J. Johnson [London] [etc.], Manchester, 1794.
- Description:
- One of Erskine's most famous cross examinations, in which he demolished the principal witness for the Crown, effectively negating any proof of conspiracy by two witnesses; presented by Walker to George Lloyd, possibly one of Erskine's co-counsel
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, title quite dusty and repaired, else sound
- Book No.:
- W-65197
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Attempt to Divorce the Princess of Wales Impartially Considered: More Particularly with Reference to the Probability of Its Success. Third Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly, London, 1816.
- Description:
- The rarest of four editions of a rare tract, presciently and perceptively analyzing the unlikely prospect that a divorce from Caroline might be obtained, leading to the 'Milan Commission' and, ultimately, to Caroline's Parliamentary 'trial' in 1820
- Condition:
- Early green embossed boards, paper label, a very good copy, with the half-title, 25 pages; no copy in OCLC, one in COPAC
- Book No.:
- W-75818
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, divorce
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of James Stuart . . . Before the High Court of Justiciary, At Edinburgh . . . With an Appendix of Documents
- Publisher:
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [etc.], Edinburgh, 1822.
- Description:
- The trial for murder arising from the duel in which James Boswell's eldest son was killed, with Stuart privileged to have defending him both Jeffreys and Cockburn, the latter of whom later remarked "No Scotch trial in my time excited such interest"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, a very good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-49227
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal and Condemnation of George Borosky alias Boratzi, Christopher Vratz and John Stern; for the Barbarous Murder of Thomas Thynn, Esq; Together with the Tryal of Charles John Count Conningsmark as Accessary before the Fact to the same Murder
- Publisher:
- Printed for Thomas Basset [etc.], London, 1682.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, a good, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-46558
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in Full Parliament . . . Published by Order of the House of Peers
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, London, 1776.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 crimson morocco, some light staining, else attractive
- Book No.:
- W-52240
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, marriage
- Author:
- Title:
- Defence of the Rev. Charles Voysey, B.A., Vicar of Healaugh, on the Hearing of the Charges of Heresy Preferred against Him in the Chancery Court of York, on the 1st December, 1869. Not in McCoy
- Publisher:
- Trubner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row, London, 1869.
- Description:
- The uncommon argument made in his own defense by Voysey, the religious reformer who, deprived of his living by the Privy Council, established the Theistic church, rejecting all "creeds, biblical inspiration . . . and the divinity of Christ"
- Condition:
- Original wraps, disbound, the rear wrap lacking, ex-library, else a crisp copy, 48 pages; two copies in OCLC in this country, neither in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-73958
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Heresy, Religion, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- 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 accounts of the trials of other smugglers] [etc.]. The Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by William Mason, Chichester, 1822?.
- Description:
- A rare later account of two murders involving seemingly unmatched drunken cruelty, torture, and even sadistic sexual torment, resulting in a trial "of crucial importance in the history of smuggling"; two copies in COPAC, three in OCLC
- Condition:
- 1/4 morocco, rubbed, a bit of foxing, with the seven plates (some margins trimmed, images unaffected); with a dated ownership signature of Dec 23 1822
- Book No.:
- W-63020
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 18TH CENTURY
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