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- 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:
- 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 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:
- Decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in a Case Relating to the Sacramental Furniture of a Church in Brookfield; with the Entire Arguments of Hon. Samuel Hoar, Jun. for the Plaintiff, and of Hon. Lewis Strong for the Defendant
- Publisher:
- Published by Peirce and Parker, No. 9, Cornhill, Boston, 1832.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stabbed wraps, a very good, untrimmed copy in original state; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77778
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, Religion
- 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:
- 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:
- Title:
- The History Of the Most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in Capital Cases, viz, Heresy . . . Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy . . . by the unusual Methods of Ordeal, Combat, and Attainder [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Bell in Cornhill; J. Pemberton [etc.], London, 1715-16.
- Description:
- First edition of the first English work to collect both important trials of state and sensational criminal cases, with the emphasis upon the mode of proof; some three dozen trials in all, including those of Anne Boleyn, Lord Audley and Captain Kidd
- Condition:
- Modern cloth, gilt, light browning, else a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-77027
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Ordinary of Newgate's Account of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, of the Twelve Malefactors Who were executed at Tyburn . . . Being the Third Execution in the Mayoralty of the Right Honble John Blatchford . . . Number VI. For the said Year
- Publisher:
- Printed for, and sold by T. Parker [and] C. Corbett [etc.], London, 1750.
- Description:
- Part of a series which has recently been described as an "inestimable source of knowledge [and] dramatic truth . . . [n]othing like them has been published before or since", rich in biographical and descriptive material of London's criminal classes
- Condition:
- Original self stabbed wraps, untrimmed, quite worn, the last leaf loose, a fragile but usable survival, title plus pages 83-106; one copy in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-77043
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- Author:
- Cobbett, William and T.B. Howell (eds.)
- Title:
- Complete Collection of State Trials, And Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time [title varies]. Thirty Four Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- R. Bagshaw [imprint varies], London, 1809-28.
- Description:
- Still the received edition, from Becket's trial in the 12th century to Thistlewood's in 1820, in Holdsworth's words "an invaluable collection of nearly all the important criminal trials and constitutional cases . . . bearing upon public law"
- Condition:
- Contemporary 3/4 crimson morocco, somewhat rubbed and chafed, marbled edges, endpapers, and pastedowns, a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-77056
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, 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:
- 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 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:
- 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:
- Fifth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. Report of the Australian Delegation
- Publisher:
- United Nations, Geneva, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a few leaves loose, but usable; 207 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90108
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, Advocacy, criminal law, AUSTRALIA
- Author:
- Title:
- Case of Tho. Dangerfield: With Some Remarkable Passages that happened At the Tryals of Elizabeth Cellier the Popish Midwife, and the Earl of Castlemain, At the Kings-Bench-Bar . . . Before Sir Will. Scroggs Kt, Lord Chief Justice [etc]. Wing D184A. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Author, London, 1680.
- Description:
- One of several tracts written by Dangerfield, the "matchless rogue" who falsely invented the Meal Tub Plot, was tried for libels against James II, sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, and was accidentally killed as he was being returned to prison
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, disbound, light browning, else a good crisp copy; 38 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77413
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- 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 Elizabeth Canning, Spinster, for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury [with] Crisp Gascoyne, An Address . . . Relative to His Conduct in the Cases of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires [with] A Refutation of Sir Crisp Gascoyne's Address [and another]
- Publisher:
- Imprints Vary, London, 1753-54.
- Description:
- The principal contemporary account of the trial of Elizabeth Canning, "the centre of the most famous English criminal mystery of her century", coupled with the address of Gascoyne, London's Lord Mayor, skeptical of Canning, and a rebuttal to him
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind decorated, panelled reverse calf, very lightly rubbed, else exceptionally clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78086
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law
- 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:
- 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:
- 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 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:
- State Trials
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Imperfect
- Book No.:
- W-46727
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk [and others] . . . for Unlawful Tempting and Inticing, the Lady Henrietta Berkeley . . . to Unlawful Love . . . with an intent to cause her to live in a Scandalous manner [etc.] [without the half-title]
- Publisher:
- Printed, and Sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, London, 1716.
- Description:
- A sensational case in which Lord Grey was charged with seducing the under-eighteen sister of his wife, both the prosecution and defense ably handled (the former by George Jeffreys), the verbatim transcript vividly disclosing the case's high emotions
- Condition:
- ?Later 3/4 calf over marbled boards, quite rubbed, the joints cracked and spine chipped, title and last leaf quite dusty, margins cut close; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-72533
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- women's law, trials
- Author:
- Barberi, Giovanni
- Title:
- The Life of Joseph Balsamo, Commonly Called Count [Alessandro di] Cagliostro: Containing the Singular and uncommon Adventures of that extraordinary Personage . . . To Which Are Added, The Particulars of his Trial before the Inquisition [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Messrs. P. Byrne [and six others], Dublin, 1792.
- Description:
- The principal contemporary account (and sole Irish edition) of the Italian adventurer widely featured in literature (Dumas, Goethe, and Tolstoy, among many others), music, film, and television, ultimately tried as a Freemason and sentenced to death
- Condition:
- Contemporary sprinkled calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, quite rubbed, else clean and well preserved; eight copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-79080
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, Inquisition
- 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:
- Euer, Samson and Giles Duncombe]
- Title:
- Tryals per Pais, Or the Law of England Concerning Juries by Nisi Prius [etc.]. The Fourth Edition [bound with] Tryals per Pais in Capital Matters: Or, Some Brief and Useful Observations Relating to Such Tryals
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins [etc.], London, 1702.
- Description:
- First 18th century edition of the first substantial treatise on the English jury and the English law of evidence, deservedly popular for over a century, bound with the first edition of one of the earliest works devoted exclusively to capital cases
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, ex-The Hartland Library, definite foxing and browning, yet a usable copy; with the imprimatur leaf
- Book No.:
- W-74157
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, Evidence, juries, criminal law
- 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 Accessory before the Fact to the same Murder
- Publisher:
- Printed for Thomas Basset, London, 1682.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern cloth backed decorated boards, some embrowning yet sound
- Book No.:
- W-52238
- 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:
- Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr. Esq before the Committee on Federal Relations, on the Proposed Removal of Edward G. Loring, Esq. from the Office of Judge of Probate
- Publisher:
- Printed by Alfred Mudge & Sons, No. 21 School Street, Boston, 1855.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original stabbed self-wraps, ?ex-library, sunned; 28 pages
- Book No.:
- W-66307
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- impeachment, trials, Probating, Massachusetts
- 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:
- 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 Tryal of Thomas Colley . . . For the cruel and inhuman Murder of Ruth Osborne . . . by ducking her in Marlston-Mere . . . under Supposition of her being a Witch [together with the accounts of several other trials]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Brown in the Little Old Bailey [etc.], London, 1751.
- Description:
- First edition of a rare trial account arising from the last instance of the death in England of an accused witch, drowned by a lynch mob led by Thomas Colley, himself then convicted of the murder and executed; three copies in ESTC, none in England
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, the imprint and lower margin shaved, one line sometimes lost (supplied in manuscript); a delicate but usable survival
- Book No.:
- W-76100
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- trials, witchcraft, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Basilika. The Works of King Charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other Papers concerning the Differences Betwixt His said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament . . . as also of His Tryal [etc.]. 2d Edition. Wing C2076
- Publisher:
- Printed for Ric. Chiswell . . . in St Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1687.
- Description:
- The vast work begun by the well-regarded antiquary, William Fulman, and then completed by Richard Perrinchief, with the aid of materials supplied by Silus Titus; with the Eikon Basilica and its additional title page and two-page plate ending the work
- Condition:
- Contemporary panelled calf, gilt, the joints cracked and repaired and the spine varnished, else a good clean copy with the four plates, two folding
- Book No.:
- W-77851
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND, 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 [etc.]. Wing S3565
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 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:
- Greene, Felix
- Title:
- A Divorce Trial in China
- Publisher:
- Radical Education Project, Ann Arbor, 1961.
- Description:
- A chapter taken from (possibly copied from?) Greene's book "China", with the transcript reproduced
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, crudely produced; 13 pages
- Book No.:
- W-55931
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- trials, divorce, CHINA
- Author:
- Title:
- A Narrative of Procedure Before The Court of Session, and Circumstances Connected Therewith, in the Trial of John Hay, Who Was Prosecuted. . .and Without the Verdict of a Jury, Sentenced to Four Months Imprisonment [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by D. Webster and Son, No. 6, Horse Wynd, for John Hay, Edinburgh, 1822.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, quite worn, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-57536
- Price:
- $ 275.00
- Category:
- trials, SCOTLAND
- 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:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
- Title:
- Some Observations Upon the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Corker and Marshal . . . By Tom Tickle-foot the Taborer, late Clerk to Justice Clodpate [etc.]. Wing S4540
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Brewster [F. Smith], London, 1679.
- Description:
- A sensationally-phrased but amazingly perceptive contemporary analysis of the Popish Plot, written just after the acquittal of George Wakeman and others had swung the balance against Oates, supposedly written by a former clerk to an imaginary judge
- Condition:
- Modern calf, some light browning, else quite a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-66724
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- humor, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Tryal of Mary Blandy, Spinster; For the Murder of her Father, Francis Blandy, Gent. at the Assizes held at Oxford For the County of Oxford, On Saturday the 29th of February, 1752 . . . Published by Permission of the Judges. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for John and James Rivington [etc.], London, 1752.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Disbound, title and last leaf backed, definite browning, margins cut close, not affecting text; a usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-70613
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, trials
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Title:
- Brief of Plaintiff in Error, Robert Wood, Plaintiff in Error, vs. The State of Oklahoma Defendant in Error, The Criminal Court of Appeals of State of Oklahoma. No. A-10,046. George Croom, Oklahoma City, Okla. Attorney for Plaintiff in Error
- Publisher:
- King Law Brief Co., 20 S. Walker, Oklahoma City, 1941.
- Description:
- The rare appellate brief following the raid on Wood's Oklahoma City Communist bookshop, the seizure of thousands of the shop's books and Wood's trial and sentencing to a ten year prison term, his conviction ultimately reversed on this appeal
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn wraps, a bit chipped, but a good sound copy, 115 pages; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77197
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Radicals, trials, freedom of speech, freedom of press
- Author:
- Title:
- Report of Trial in the Action of Damages for Crim. Con. Poor Alexander Bell, Teacher, Dundee, versus William Murray, Now or Lately Rector of the Dundee Academy . . . Containing a Discussion upon the Law of Intercepted Correspondence
- Publisher:
- N.p., Edinburgh?], 1834.
- Description:
- A trial ingeniously hinging on the admissibility of a letter said to have been sent by the wife to her alleged paramour, never received by him, showing clearly the judicial disabilities frequently suffered by women in cases involving sexual issues
- Condition:
- Modern canvas backed marbled boards, ex-library?, sound; 63 pages
- Book No.:
- W-64090
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal conversatn, trials, SCOTLAND, Evidence
- 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 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
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