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Title:: The Trial of John Hart, Esq. Alderman of London; for Adultery and Cruelty . . . That, among Variety of Ingenious Refinements upon Cruelty, the Alderman extinguished Mrs. Hart's Fires in the coldest Weather . . . kicked and dragged her about [etc.]
Publisher:: Printed for G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey, London, 1780.
Description:: A rare account of a classic case of physical and mental cruelty (a genre not often reported), including forced seclusion, attempted strangulation, and physical blows of many different sorts, leading to the modern equivalent of a judicial separation
Condition:: Modern cloth-backed boards, quite fresh, with the three panel frontispiece graphically depicting several of Hart's cruelties towards his wife
Book No.:: W-80434
Price:: $ 1250.00
Category:: adultery, trials, women's law

Author:: Erskine, Thomas
Title:: Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
Publisher:: Annual Register, London, 1798.
Description:: A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
Condition:: Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
Book No.:: W-80391
Price:: $ 250.00
Category:: English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta

Author:: Foot, Michael]
Title:: The Trial of Mussolini. Being a Verbatim Report of the First Great Trial for War Criminals held in London sometime in 1944 or 1945 by "Cassius". Sixth impression July 1944 [no copy of this impression in COPAC, two in OCLC, both in Denmark]
Publisher:: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1943 [1944].
Description:: The factually grounded if imagined trial of Mussolini, with the testimony of witnesses, direct and cross examination, and Mussolini taking the witness stand in his own defense, with a final summing up by the judge, who leaves the verdict to us
Condition:: Original blue cloth, gilt, the spine dulled, else a good usable copy, once that of R.E. Megarry, with his ownership stamp on the front pastedown
Book No.:: W-80448
Price:: $ 150.00
Category:: Nuremberg, ITALY, trials

Author:: Leigh Fermor, Patrick
Title:: George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A. Trypanis
Publisher:: American College of Greece, Athens, 1999.
Description:: Leigh Fermor's public letter praising the translation of the Odyssey into Cretan Greek, the translation stated by Leigh Fermor as unique as a modern translation from the ancient Greek, undertaken by Leigh-Fermor's comrade-in-arms during World War II
Condition:: Original tan cloth, lightly sunned, else well preserved, the front board printed in red and black; one of 300 copies bound in cloth
Book No.:: W-80453
Price:: $ 150.00
Category:: Law and Literature, GREECE

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