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- Author:
- Bigelow, Lewis
- Title:
- A Digest of Pickering's Reports, Volumes II-VII Being a Supplement to the Digest of the Previous Volumes of the Massachusetts Reports
- Publisher:
- Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, Boston, 1830.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-43708
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- digests, Massachusetts, reports of cases
- Author:
- Title:
- Cases Decided in the District and Circuit Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District, and also a Case Decided in the District Court of Massachusetts, Relative to the Employment of British Licenses on board of Vessels of the United States
- Publisher:
- Published by Redwood Fisher, No. 30, South Fourth-Street, Philadelphia, 1813.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original stabbed wraps (lacking), foxing, untrimmed; 91 pages
- Book No.:
- W-62291
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, maritime law, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
- Author:
- Fenner, Ball
- Title:
- Raising the Veil; or, Scenes in the Courts . . . Embellished with Portraits of Police, Court Officers [etc.]. Cohen 1006
- Publisher:
- James French & Company, Boston, 1856.
- Description:
- An insider's account, truly "raising the veil" on courts and lawyers, in this case those of New York, Philadelphia and, in particular, Boston, with a side excursion to California and with separate chapters on divorce and bankruptcy
- Condition:
- Original embossed cloth, quite worn and frayed, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-68204
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, human rights, Massachusetts
- Author:
- Widiss, Alan I., et al
- Title:
- No-Fault Automobile Insurance in Action, The Experiences in Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware and Michigan
- Publisher:
- Oceana Publications, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, 1977.
- Description:
- Four reports issued under the auspices of the Council on Law-Related Studies, whose president, David Cavers, contributes a foreword and is co-author of the Massachusetts' investigation
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60391
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- law of automobiles, torts, insurance law, Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware, Michigan
- Author:
- Greenhood, E. Russell
- Title:
- Mortuary Law and Settlement of Estates in Massachusetts
- Publisher:
- N.p., Boston, 1939.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-11622
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Massachusetts
- Author:
- Title:
- The Perpetual Laws, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from the Establishment of its Constitution to the First Session of the General Court, A.D. 1788 . . . Carefully Compared with the Original Acts. Volume One
- Publisher:
- Printed at Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, 1788.
- Description:
- An elaborately glossed copy of Isaiah Thomas's pioneering effort to print the Massachusetts laws arranged by subject as conceived by him, with a manuscript index covering much of the title and adjoining leaf and the printed index similarly annotated
- Condition:
- Original sheep, very worn, back board detaching, with the signature of J. Perkins, perhaps the James Perkins whose mansion housed the Boston Athenaeum
- Book No.:
- W-78700
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Massachusetts, Acts
- 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:
- Bing, Stephen R. and S. Stephen Rosenfeld
- Title:
- The Quality of Justice in the Lower Criminal Courts of Metropolitan Boston
- Publisher:
- Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Boston, 1970.
- Description:
- A thorough, empirical examination of Massachusetts' entry level criminal courts, with five appendices, two maps, 32 tables, a computer printout, and like analyses
- Condition:
- Wraps, faded and a bit worn, but sound; 149 pages
- Book No.:
- W-90190
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Massachusetts
- 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:
- Zinman (intro.), Michael
- Title:
- Several Laws and Orders Made At the Generall Court . . . Held at Boston the 11th of May 1670. And at the Generall Court held by Adjournment the 12th day of October, 1670
- Publisher:
- The Haydn Foundation, Ardsley, 1987.
- Description:
- The facsimile reissue of the only known copy of these Massachusetts Bay Colony session laws, only recently rediscovered; with a brief introduction by Mr. Zinman, speculating about other missing laws whose existence are suggested by these
- Condition:
- Printed, sewn, oversized wraps; six pages
- Book No.:
- W-13145
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Clark, B.F.]
- Title:
- The Perjury Case! Further Developments. Mr. Clark's Replies to the Letters of George F. Farley, and Ashael Huntington, Esq's
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Publisher, Boston, 1848.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Lacking wraps, embrowned, worn but sound; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-52101
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Massachusetts
- Author:
- Metcalf, Theron
- Title:
- Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [etc.]. Cohen 5548
- Publisher:
- Published by Richardson and Lord, Boston, 1825.
- Description:
- The only edition of one of the earliest Massachusetts digests (the second to digest the Supreme Judicial Court's reports), undertaken by Metcalf, who was himself later to be the Court's reporter and then to be appointed to the Court itself
- Condition:
- Sheep-backed boards, worn, some staining, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-42321
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- digests, Massachusetts
- Author:
- Fielding, Henry
- Title:
- A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, Who suffered on Account of the late Riot in the Strand. In Which The Law regarding these Offences, and the Statute of George the First, commonly called the Riot Act, are fully considered
- Publisher:
- Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katherine-street in the Strand, London, 1749.
- Description:
- First edition of Fielding's controversial work, arguing that the unfortunate Penlez, probably drunk, was rightfully hanged following his theft of linen from a brothel, itself ransacked by irate sailors; with the press marks confirming a first edition
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, "Grange Hill" in gilt on the front board, gilt edges, pretty; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78201
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- 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:
- 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:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles
- Title:
- The Devil's Disciples, Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-65123
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials, 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Levin, David (ed.)
- Title:
- What Happened in Salem? Documents Pertaining to the 17th-Century Witchcraft Trials. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, 1950.
- Description:
- Originally part of the materials tried out in the English A course at Harvard, here separately published after that course's supersession; with a preface by Theodore Morrison, who taught the Harvard course
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, definitely worn, some pencilling, sound; 198 pages
- Book No.:
- W-59283
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- colonies, Massachusetts, witchcraft, trials
- Author:
- Fox, Sanford J.
- Title:
- Science and Justice; The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17805
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Massachusetts, witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Kasserman, David Richard
- Title:
- Fall River Outrage, Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1986.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-68131
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- trials, Massachusetts, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Shriver (ed.), Harry C.
- Title:
- The Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Constitutional Opinions, Selected Excerpts and Epigrams as Given in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1883-1902)
- Publisher:
- Dennis & Company, Inc., Buffalo, 1940.
- Description:
- A unique work, focusing entirely on Holmes' two decades on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, selecting from his some 1,200 opinions there; with five valuable appendices and a good index, and a foreword by Francis Biddle, then Solicitor General
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-48834
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- reports of cases, Massachusetts, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Navas, Deborah
- Title:
- Murdered by His Wife, A History with Documentation of the Joshua Spooner Murder and Execution of His Wife, Bathsheba, who was hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July 1778
- Publisher:
- University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1999.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, ex-library, the back wrap somewhat creased, else a good copy; 193 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74661
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- trials, 18TH CENTURY, Massachusetts
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