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- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceeding upon the Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King, In the Court of King's Bench [together with seventeen related works]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Buckley in Amen-Corner [imprints vary], London, 1722-23.
- Description:
- An extensive sammelband collecting the essential contemporary works documenting the failed Jacobite uprising of 1722, leading to the trial and execution of Layer (and others) and the banishment of Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, staining to some works and some browning, yet altogether easily usable; further details gladly provided
- Book No.:
- W-76239
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- A Short, but Just Account of the Tryal of Benjamin Harris, upon an Information Brought against him For Printing and Vending a late Seditious Book called An Appeal from the Country To the City, For the Preservation of His Majesties Person [&c]. Wing S3565
- Publisher:
- Printed in the Year 1679 [i.e. 1680], London, 1679.
- Description:
- The sole account of Harris' trial, "a strange combination of seditious libel and scandalum magnatum", influential upon the writings of Henry Care and John Hawles and on emerging libel doctrine, "reviv[ing] the claim to the jury's right to decide law"
- Condition:
- Modern buckram over boards, ex-library, some foxing and browning, but a usable copy; folio, eight pages
- Book No.:
- W-76119
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, libel and slander, juries
- 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:
- 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 Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other bishops] [with] The Tryals of Henry Cornish, Esq; for Conspiring the Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion [etc.]. Wing P3555A and T2250. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for Thomas Basset [2] Printed . . . by George Croom, London, 1689 & 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the great cases of English law, confirming Parliament's right to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation, coupled with the trial of the London sheriff whose execution "secured his place in the pantheon of whig martyrs"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum slightly bowed, the title pages quite darkened, the portrait of the bishops trimmed and repaired, a working copy; with the errata slip
- Book No.:
- W-78150
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Baldwin, Andrew Knapp and William
- Title:
- The New Newgate Calendar; Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters, Who have been convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England, During the Seventeenth Century, Brought Down to the Present Time [etc.] [title varies]. Five Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane [etc.] [imprint varies], London and Liverpool, n.d..
- Description:
- Seemingly the earliest issuance of Knapp and Baldwin's massive five volume compilation, describing the actions of (inter alia) "traitors, murderers, ravishers, pirates, sharpers, fraudulent bankrupts, imposters, and thieves of every description"
- Condition:
- 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, a sumptuous Riviere binding, joints rubbed, two cracking but firm, extensively illustrated; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79621
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal [of the Seven Bishops] [with] Atkyns, An Inquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes [with] Atkyns, The Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament [with] Langhorne, King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws
- Publisher:
- Imprints vary; Wing S564, A4138, A4141, and L396, all folios, London, 1687-89.
- Description:
- Four works central to English constitutional law and the Glorius Revolution, establishing the right of Parliament to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the portrait and two advertising leaves (one repaired), generally clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79360
- Price:
- $ 1000.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- 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:
- A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours [with] A Supplement [in two volumes] to the Four Volumes of the First Edition. Six Volumes [complete]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for Timothy Goodwin [and five others] [imprints vary], London, 1719-30.
- Description:
- First edition of the state trials, the massive effort continued and expanded upon for over a century and offering (in Holdsworth's words) "a unique value for constitutional and legal historians, and a very considerable value [for many others]"
- Condition:
- Contemporary panelled calf, quite worn, joints cracked, one board loose, spines varnished, the bindings not uniform, minor staining; a clean working set
- Book No.:
- W-78098
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- 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:
- Minutes of the Proceedings before the Lords Committees for Privileges, On the Claim to the Title of Earl of Anglesey
- Publisher:
- N.p., Dublin, 1771.
- Description:
- A rare work recording the final decision upon the English estates part of "the most dramatic case ever arising under British law", memorialized in part in Smollett's "Peregrine Pickle" and featuring multiple bigamous marriages, forgery and perjury
- Condition:
- Original stabbed marbled wraps, lightly worn, a very good crisp copy, 64 pages, with the date of 1771 changed manually to 1772; five copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76948
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, law of heraldry, Law and Literature, criminal law, marriage
- 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:
- 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:
- The Trials Of all the Prisoners Who Were Try'd at the Assizes held at Maidstone, for the County of Kent . . . before the Hon. Sir Thomas Denison, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Griffith . . . in the Little Old Bailey, London, 1750.
- Description:
- A rare example of criminal trials at assizes "in the country", twenty-five in total, for, among other crimes, robbery, arson, rape (two; one of a ten-year old), and stealing a mare, with jury verdicts from acquittal to death; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Later plain wraps, printed decorated paper label, hand-lettered, showing wear and a very little worming, else a good wide-margined copy; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76399
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Rape, trials
- 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:
- Title:
- The Life of Mr. James Quin Comedian, with the History of the State . . . Illustrated with Many Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of Several Persons of Distinction, Literature, and Gallantry . . . Together with His Trial for the Murder of Mr. Bowen
- Publisher:
- No Publisher, London, 1887.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern crushed brown morocco, top edge gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, without the index at pages 102-07
- Book No.:
- W-79215
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Theatre, biography, criminal law, trials, Grangerized
- Author:
- Title:
- Trial of the Information ex Officio, The King versus John Lambert and Another [James Perry], On a Charge of Libel on His Majesty's Person Inserted in The Morning Chronicle. Edited by James Perry. Not in McCoy [compare McCoy 1C380]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Lambert, Strand for James Ridgway [etc.], London, 1810.
- Description:
- The trial account contributing to expanding freedom of the press in early 19th century England, in part due to Lord Ellenborough's evenhanded charge to the jury (which acquitted), and despite William Garrow's efforts prosecuting as attorney general
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label, a very good clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-77923
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- libel and slander, trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial Wherein Miss D--v--s [Davis] was Plaintiff, and the Rev. Dr. W-l-n [Wilson], Defendant. In an action of Ten Thousand Pounds . . . for the Non-Performance of a Marriage-Contract: When the Plaintiff . . . recover'd Seven Thousand Pounds Damages
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Price near Ludgate [etc.], London, 1747.
- Description:
- The rare account of the trial which set "[t]he largest award on record" in a breach of promise suit, as the action became firmly established in the common law courts in the mid-18th century, displacing the ecclesiastical courts in such cases
- Condition:
- Modern stabbed marbled wraps, printed paper label, a trifle dusty, else a very good, untrimmed copy, 24 pages; six copies in ESTC, none in a law library
- Book No.:
- W-78102
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, women's law, marriage
- 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 Trial of James Wilson, for High Treason, With an Account of His Execution at Glasgow, September 1820 . . . Now Respectfully Submitted to the Consideration of the Reformers of Glasgow, By . . . The Exposer of the Spy System [Peter Mackenzie]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Published by Muir, Gowans, & Co. [etc.], Glasgow, 1832.
- Description:
- Three accounts of Wilson's trial, one of three individuals executed for participating in the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, later discovered by Mackenzie to have been instigated by government agents, leading to the pardon of all the other insurgents
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 48 pages; five copies in OCLC, one in Scotland
- Book No.:
- W-77513
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, criminal law, Radicals
- Author:
- Buller, Francis
- Title:
- An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for C. Bathurst [&c.], London, 1772.
- Description:
- First London edition of the work which won renown for Buller, protege of Mansfield and appointed a King's Bench judge at a very youthful 32, designed for 'nisi prius' trials, that is, those in the country; with a closing part on trial issues
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, the joints cracked but holding and the spine somewhat darkened, else very clean with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79509
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- 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:
- Title:
- History of Eugene Aram, Who Was Convicted at York Assizes, of the Murder of Dan'l Clark of Knaresborough, Fourteen Years after the Crime was committed [and the] Singular and Talented Defence he made on his trial [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Sold by W.&T. Fordyce, 15, Grey Street, Newcastle, 1840.
- Description:
- A rare account of the crime immortalized in Bulwer Lytton's novel 'Eugene Aram', "the first English novel in which sympathy is solicited for a real-life murderer", with parallels drawn to Stendhal; no print copy in OCLC, one copy in COPAC
- Condition:
- Modern gray sewn wraps, light browning, a small hole at the bottom of the last leave affecting a few words, else a very good untrimmed copy; 24 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77833
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of the Bishop of Bangor and Others, Before Mr. Justice Heath, at the Assises at Shrewsbury . . . For an Assault, Rout, and Riot: With the Pleadings at Large Of Counsellors Adam and Erskine; Also the Charge to the Jury By Mr. Justice Heath
- Publisher:
- Sold by T. Hepinstall, Fleet Street [and two others], London, 1796.
- Description:
- Erskine's "masterly acquittal" of John Warren who, as Bishop of Bangor and with several confederates, was tried for rioting, achieved despite Justice's Heath's summing up for conviction, forcefully disclosing Erskine's strategic and courtroom talents
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over boards, somewhat marked and faded, very occasional staining, a few modern pencil marks, yet a good copy; with the half title
- Book No.:
- W-79219
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, Religion
- 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:
- 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:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the original spine laid down, rubbed, definite browning and foxing, but a sound usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76691
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal of Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Before the Peers in Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the 4th of April 1678. Wing T2209. Folio
- Publisher:
- N.p., London, 1679.
- Description:
- A fine example of the peculiarities of English law, the Earl, indicted for murder, claiming his right to be tried by his peers in the House of Lords, is there convicted of manslaughter only, and so invokes his privilege of peerage and is discharged
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, re-sewn and repaired, ink squiggles, notations and markings on the title, else a good clean copy; no copy in a law library in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76192
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- trials, House of Lords, criminal law
- Author:
- Buller, Francis
- Title:
- An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius. The Second Edition, with Large Additions
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law-Printers [etc.], London, 1775.
- Description:
- The work which won renown for Buller, protege of Mansfield and appointed a King's Bench judge at a very youthful 32, designed for 'nisi prius' trials, that is, those in the country and not at Westminster; with a closing part on trial issues
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, blind ruled and decorated, crimson morocco label, gilt, very lightly rubbed, else especially fresh and bright; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79391
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials
- 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:
- The Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges: Exhibiting . . . III. The Crimes of Empson and Dudley . . . IV. The Proceedings of the Ship money Judges . . . To which is added VI. The Judges Oath, and some Observations thereupon [etc.]. Wing T2297. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms [etc.], London, 1681.
- Description:
- First edition of a populist tract of the first rank, recounting with approval the executions of oppressive judges and praising upright judges and juries (including Sir Matthew Hale and the jury acquitting Penn and Mead) and habeas corpus
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, quite browned, 36 pages, now preserved in a modern buckram folding case, its label gilt lettered; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79631
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, legal reform, juries, habeas corpus
- Author:
- Salmon, Thomas (ed.)
- Title:
- A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials. Wherein are inserted, Several Trials not in any other Collection . . . Likewise, Remarks are made on each Trial, shewing what the Law in Criminal Cases anciently was [etc.]. 2d Edition. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Leathley, G. Ewing, W. Smith, and P. Crampton etc., Dublin, 1741.
- Description:
- A major abridgement of the first edition of the state trials, undertaken by the latter's editor, Thomas Salmon, reporting trials spanning more than three centuries; possibly a unique set, the first volume extending to p.482, the second to p.918
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn and somewhat stained, one gathering loose and the last index leaf frayed, else a good set, the volumes' division not as in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77689
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, trials
- 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:
- Title:
- The Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury; As it was Argued before His Majesties Justices of the Kings Bench . . . Being upon his Confinement in the Tower . . . With a Speech of this Worthy Earl, pleading his own Case, and the Liberty of the Subject. Wing C883
- Publisher:
- Printed by K.P. for C.R., London, 1679.
- Description:
- Only edition of Shaftsbury's unsuccessful attempt to secure his release from the Tower of London on a writ of habeas corpus, "a very powerful argument . . . den[ying] . . . commit[ment] to indefinite imprisonment on a general warrant"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, upper right hand corner of the title torn away, just touching the 'e' of 'Case', else a clean, untrimmed copy; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76227
- Price:
- $ 500.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, habeas corpus
- 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:
- Title:
- The Abridgement of the Boke of Assises, lately p[er]used ouer & corrected. & nowe newlye imprynted by Rycharde Tottle, the last daye of September An. Do. 1555. Cum priuilegio. S.T.C. 9605; Beale R53; Cowley 49?
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . in Fletestrete . . . by Richard Tottel [etc.], London, 1555.
- Description:
- One of only four early abridgements of the Year Books (with Brooke, Fitzherbert and Statham), in this case of the Book of Assizes, the unique year book which, in Milsom's words, "reports processes we do not otherwise see, on circuit, before juries"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf neatly repaired, centered blind lozenges, early ownership signatures, an extensive gloss throughout on ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78987
- Price:
- $ 4250.00
- Category:
- Abridgements, Year Books, juries, 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:
- Title:
- The Trial of Major Campbell, for the Murder of Captain Boyd, in a Duel, on the 23d of June, 1807; With the Evidence in Full, the Charge of the Judge, and Details of Major Campbell's Last Moments, Execution &c. &c
- Publisher:
- Printed by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden [etc.], London, 1808.
- Description:
- Sole London edition of one of Great Britain's "most notorious duelling cases", bracketed with those of Lord Byron and Hamilton-Mohun, and a rare instance in which a verdict of guilty, death sentence and execution (a pardon not obtained) was to follow
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 cloth over marbled boards, paper label, new endpapers, a trifle worn, else a very good, clean copy; 62 pages
- Book No.:
- W-79069
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- trials, military law, Law of Duels, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal of Charles Lord Mohun, Before The House of Peers in Parliament, For the Murder of William Mountford . . . Together with The Questions in Points of Law, Put by Their Lordships to the Judges; with The Arguments of my Lord Mohun's Council [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Published by Command of the House of Peers [etc.], London, 1693.
- Description:
- The sole contemporary account of "the most outrageous of all Mohun's affrays", as he and a companion sought to "trepan" or carry off the actress, Anne Bracegirdle, leading to her defender's murder, Mohun's trial and, to much alarm, his acquittal
- Condition:
- Later 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed, definite browning and a bit of minor marginal staining, else a good copy, with a portrait of Mohun tipped in
- Book No.:
- W-78763
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, House of Lords
- Author:
- Boyle, Kevin
- Title:
- Police in Ireland Before the Union : I
- Publisher:
- The Irish Jurist, Dublin, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed Stapled Wraps, a very good copy, pages 113-137; from Volume VII new eries Part 1 Summer 1972
- Book No.:
- W-92014
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, Michigan, Discrimination, IRELAND
- 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:
- The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of William Weare, and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, the Murderer . . . To Which Is Added, the Gambler's Scourge; a Complete Expose of the Whole System of Gambling in the Metropolis [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster-Row, London, 1824.
- Description:
- The principal account of "England's most literary murder", attracting Carlyle, Dickens, Lamb, and Thackeray (among many others) and providing a wide-open look at the seamier aspects of Regency society; with the ten plates and engraved title
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, the spine varnished and the front board detached, light foxing and browning, without the frontispiece; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-77377
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno secundo & tertio Philippi & Marie. Actes made at a Parliament, begon and holden at Westminster the xxi daye of October [1555] . . . to the dissolution of the same . . . were enacted as foloweth [etc.]. S.T.C. 9450.3 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Excvsvm . . . in Aedibvs Iohannis Cavvodi [etc.], London, 1555.
- Description:
- The uncommon first printing of the legislation enacted by the Parliament held in the midst of the trials condemning to the stake over 300 martyrs, curiously reforming the law bailing prisoners and seeking to regulate the sale of stolen horses [c.7]
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, very light staining to the upper margin of some leaves, else especially clean and crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79244
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, Bail and Bail Bonds, trials, Law of Horses
- 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:
- A Collection of Letters and Other Writings, Relating to The Horrid Popish Plott: Printed from the Originals in the Hands of George Treby Esq; Chairman of the Committee of Secrecy Of the Honourable House of Commons [and eighteen other works]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Various Printers, London, 1679-81.
- Description:
- An extensive collection of works on the infamous Popish Plot, begun by Titus Oates and leading to the executions of dozens of innocent accused as a frenzied anti-Catholic hysteria, particularly directed at the Jesuits, gripped England
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, disbound, showing some wear and occasional browning, but usable, the Taussig copies; a detailed listing gladly provided
- Book No.:
- W-78127
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Popish Plot, trials, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- The Whole Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol-Delivery for the City of London; And also the Gaol-Delivery for the County of Middlesex; Held at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey [December 1779 to October 1780] [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Joseph Gurney . . . And Sold by M. Gurney [etc.], London, 1779-80.
- Description:
- A rare example of Blackstone as trial judge, and the last instance in which he served in that capacity at the Old Bailey, presiding at seven trials in the year's first session, in December, 1779, just two months before his death in February, 1780
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 black morocco over boards, extremely worn, the binding whole but beginning to detach, much browning, a few pages loose; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-77597
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
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