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A Selection of Works on Impeachment from Our Stock
- Author:
- Benedict, Michael Les
- Title:
- The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson
- Publisher:
- W W Norton, New York, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Paper; highlighted
- Book No.:
- W-41153
- Price:
- $ 5.00
- Category:
- biography, the Presidency, trials, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Berger, Raoul
- Title:
- Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1973.
- Description:
- An historically grounded work, examining in depth the Anglo-American law of impeachment, prophetically appearing just as the revelations of Watergate occurred; with chapters, among others, on the Andrew Johnson and Samuel Chase impeachment trials
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40978
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Radicals, trials
- Author:
- Brant, Irving
- Title:
- Impeachment, Trials and Errors
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55899
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, impeachment
- Author:
- Gerhardt, Michael J.
- Title:
- The Federal Impeachment Process, A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60523
- Price:
- $ 29.95
- Category:
- impeachment, constitutional law
- Author:
- Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell
- Title:
- Reviews of Emory Washburn's "A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes [and] John Barnard Byles, "A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes, and Checks [and] "Summary of Events: Impeachment"
- Publisher:
- American Law Review, Boston, 1867-68.
- Description:
- Among Holmes's earliest legal writings, as he became a staff member of the Review, founded by his close friends, John Ropes and John Gray the previous year, showing "Holmes's first efforts to make a naturalistic or scientific study of the law"
- Condition:
- Modern black cloth, gilt, one small ink stamp on the verso of the title, else a very good copy; the Review's second volume for 1867-1868
- Book No.:
- W-76557
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Real Property, Supreme Court, Bills and Notes, impeachment
- Author:
- Title:
- His Maiesties Speach in the Vpper House of Parliament, On Monday the 26 of March, 1621. S.T.C. 14399. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill [etc.], London, 1621.
- Description:
- James I's speech delivered to Parliament during the midst of Francis Bacon's impeachment, conceivably "a genuine expression of the King's feelings", but unquestionably in part leading to Bacon's downfall, imprisonment in the Tower, and enormous fine
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, the top margin cut close (legibility preserved), else crisp with the initial blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79478
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Parliament
- Author:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles and N.E.H. Hull
- Title:
- Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41034
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- impeachment, 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- Santiago Sandoval, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gerado Acevedo, Warden of East Moline Correctional Center, Respondent-Appellee
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1994.
- Description:
- Rape conviction upheld where rape-shield law invoked to prevent impeaching testimony that rape victim had enjoyed anal intercourse with another man, given judge's cautionary instructions absent which shield law might have been cirmvented
- Condition:
- Stapled self wraps; 11 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48686
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Sexuality
- Author:
- Marshall, P.J.
- Title:
- The Impeachment of Warren Hastings
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, New York, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Several ex-library markings, else a good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-68473
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, 18TH CENTURY, impeachment
- Author:
- Melton, Buckner F.
- Title:
- The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount
- Publisher:
- Mercer University Press, Macon, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-70123
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- impeachment
- Author:
- Niven, John
- Title:
- Salmon P. Chase, A Biography
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.
- Description:
- Called the "first comprehensive biography" of Chase, educated at Dartmouth, Ohio lawyer (and its Senator and Governor), Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; with two chapters on his impeachment trial
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-59530
- Price:
- $ 39.95
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, biography, Ohio, 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:
- Smith, Gene
- Title:
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson
- Publisher:
- William Morrow and Co, New York, 1977.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18025
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Simpson Jr., Alex[ander]
- Title:
- A Treatise on Federal Impeachments, With an Appendix Containing, inter alia, an Abstract of the Articles of Impeachment in all the Federal Impeachments in This Country and in England
- Publisher:
- The Law Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1916.
- Description:
- Prepared by Simpson as one of the counsel for Judge Robert W. Archbald, one of the few federal judges impeached by the House of Representatives and then found guilty by the Senate; of particular value for the abstract of impeachments in the appendix
- Condition:
- Original brown buckram, showing some wear, but a clean usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-60921
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- impeachment
- Author:
- Posner, Richard A.
- Title:
- An Affair of State, The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
- Description:
- Presentation copy to Philip Elman, for whom Judge Posner was an assistant following his graduation from Harvard Law and clerkship with Justice Brennan "8/13/99 / For Phil / in gratitude / & with / great / respect & / affection / Dick"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-69704
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- impeachment, the Presidency, criminal law, constitutional law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- 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:
- Statement of Information, Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives . . . to Impeach Richard M. Nixon . . . Book II, Events Following the Watergate Break-in, June 17, 1972-February 9, 1973
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 680 pages
- Book No.:
- W-63253
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- impeachment
- Author:
- Stephen, James Fitzjames
- Title:
- The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey. In Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Macmillan and Co., London, 1885.
- Description:
- Stephen's vigorous rebuttal of Macauley, who had accused Impey while Chief Justice of Bengal with the judicial murder of the Indian maharajah, Nuncomar, all in collaboration with Warren Hastings, and so an important part of his famed impeachment
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, largely uncut, a few pages carelessly opened, else a very good set
- Book No.:
- W-72763
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- INDIA, trials
- Author:
- Tite, Colin G.C.
- Title:
- Impeachment and Parliamentary Judicature in Early Stuart England
- Publisher:
- Athlone Press, University of London, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41731
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Title:
- Instructions and Directions giuen by His Maiestie, vnder His great Seale of England, bearing date the 9 day of Ianuary [and] 7 day of February. To the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liueries. S.T.C. 9222. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1611.
- Description:
- The expanded instructions governing the court, failing to stem the many grievances against it, years later to lead to the impeachment of the Court's Master, the Court's abolition, and its role "as an important subsidiairy cause of the Civil War"
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, definite browning, without the first and last blanks, the top margin cut close, textually complete; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-79795
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- infants, insanity, courts
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