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- Author:
- Trumbull, Benjamin
- Title:
- An Appeal to the Public, Especially to the Learned, with Respect to the Unlawfulness of Divorces, in All Cases, Excepting Those of Incontinency [etc.]
- Publisher:
- J. Meigs, New-Haven, 1788.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Modern wraps, definite embrowning, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-63567
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- divorce, women's law
- 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:
- Cases of Divorce for Several Causes; Viz. I. Memoirs of the Life of Robert Feilding II. The Case of Barbara late Dutchess of Cleaveland III. The Case of Sir George Downing IV. The Case of John Dormer V. The Case of the Lord Roos [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible [etc.], London, 1723.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-77314
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, trials
- Author:
- Title:
- The Duke of Norfolk's Case: With Reasons for Passing his Bill. Wing D2514
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, London?, 1699?.
- Description:
- A rare part of a major Parliamentary divorce case, one involving England's premier dukedom (and two admitted adulterers), and possibly the first divorce bill in English history not first to pass through the ecclesiastical courts; four copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Broadsheet measuring about 8x13 inches, browned, edges chipped and one margin strengthened, all legibility preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79642
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, marriage, adultery, Acts, Parliament, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Feifer, George
- Title:
- Justice in Moscow
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster, New York, 1964.
- Description:
- Feifer's first-hand observations of the ways Moscow courts actually worked, based on his year-long attendance in them while he was gathering material for his doctoral dissertation on Soviet criminal theory; dedicated to John Hazard
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-63232
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- divorce, SOVIET UNION
- Author:
- Cockburn, William
- Title:
- The Clerk's Assistant in the Practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts: Containing the Method of Proceedings there. Extracted from The best Books of Practice, And more regularly and clearly laid down than has hitherto been done [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Main, in Dame-Street, Dublin, 1753.
- Description:
- The rare first Dublin edition of a comprehensive work, praised by Holdsworth as "clear and concise", treating of criminal causes, divorce, guardians, libel and defamation, marriage (several chapters), and wills inter alia; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning and new endpapers, else quite crisp and well-preserved, with the subscribers list; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79075
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- biography, Ecclesiastical Law, SCOTLAND, marriage, divorce, libel and slander, criminal law
- Author:
- Koch, Harry Walter
- Title:
- California Marriage, Dissolution, and Living-Together Law
- Publisher:
- The Ken-Books, San Francisco, 1978.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original oversized printed wraps, somewhat worn, but quite sound; 99 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91272
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- marriage, divorce, California
- Author:
- Stotter, Lawrence H.
- Title:
- To Put Asunder, The Laws of Matrimonial Strife. An Introduction to the Seminal Anglo-American Literature and Laws of Domestic Relations up to the Year 1900, with Supporting Bibliography and Comments
- Publisher:
- Regents Press, Berkeley, 2011.
- Description:
- An exquisitely produced history of Western family law since its inception, with the emphasis upon that of England and the United States; with over two dozen illustrations and a further three dozen typographical embellishments
- Condition:
- Original oversized cloth, as new in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-75889
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Family Law, divorce, marriage
- 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:
- A Select Collection Of Remarkable Trials: In One Volume [all published]. Viz. Of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a Divorce . . . Major Stede, Bonnet, and Thirty-three others, for Piracy [and fourteen other accounts]
- Publisher:
- Printed for Henry Anderson, near St. Paul's, London, 1744.
- Description:
- An uncommon, possibly pirated reprinting (probably with a false imprint) of the eighth volume of the state trials, sixteen accounts for the period between 1699 and 1722, including trials for divorce, murder, treason, and piracy; six copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern blue cloth, rubbed, ex-library, a clean usable copy only
- Book No.:
- W-77341
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, divorce, law of piracy
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of Insufficiency Discuss'd; Being the Proceedings at Large, Touching the Divorce between the Lady Frances Howard, and Robert Earl of Essex, upon a Bill of Complaint exhibited by the Countess against the Earl . . . for Impotency [etc.]. Straus p.217
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible . . . in Fleet-street, London, 1711.
- Description:
- A sensational trial in English history, borrowing from Thomas Aquinas's doctrine that witchcraft could make a man selectively impotent and nullify a marriage, this early Curll printing of it part of his revolutionizing of English obscenity law
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered, a good tall copy, with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77782
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, obscenity, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Vicesimo Secundo Henrici Octavi. Statvta Bonvm Pvblicvm Concernentia Edita in perliamento tento apud westm[inster] xvi die Ianuarii . . . et inde vlterius prorogati vsque ad xiii die Octobris [1531]. S.T.C. 9370.6 (including this copy); not in Beale
- Publisher:
- Tho. Berthelet regius impressor excudebat. Cvm Privilegio, London, 1547?].
- Description:
- The second Reformation Parliament, laying the groundwork for the divorce of Catherine of Aragon, enacting the landmark statute "fac[ing] the necessity of providing for the impotent poor", and challenging the independent jurisdiction of the Church
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, light pencil notations, generally well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78518
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- poor law, Religion, divorce
- 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:
- Anno Vicesimo Secvndo Henrici Octavi. Statvta Bonvm Pvblicvm Concernentia Edita in perliamento tento apud westm[inster] xvi die Ianuarii . . . et inde vlterius prorogati vsque ad xiiii die Octobris [1531]. S.T.C. 9370.4 [five copies, one imperfect]
- Publisher:
- Tho. Berthelet regius impressor excudebat. Cvm Privilegio, London, 1540?].
- Description:
- The second Reformation Parliament, laying the groundwork for the divorce of Catherine of Aragon, enacting the landmark statute "fac[ing] the necessity of providing for the impotent poor", and challenging the independent jurisdiction of the Church
- Condition:
- Modern maroon unlettered cloth, rubbed, else quite a clean copy with the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield on the front pastedown; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79312
- Price:
- $ 1650.00
- Category:
- poor law, Religion, divorce
- Author:
- Folberg, Jay (ed.)
- Title:
- Joint Custody and Shared Parenting
- Publisher:
- Bureau of National Affairs, Washington, 1984.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Wraps, a sound copy; 350 pages
- Book No.:
- W-30225
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Family Law, divorce
- Author:
- Phillips, Edgar A
- Title:
- Divorce Explained, Being an explanation, in simple language, of the law of divorce, and in particular, sound advice for those who contemplate taking divorce proceedings
- Publisher:
- Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1947.
- Description:
- A rare work written by a lawyer with over twenty years experience in divorce, with chapters on finances, on children, on the divorce trial, and a final chapter on the history of divorce in England and Wales; three copies in OCLC in North America
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket, this seemingly the publisher's copy with the stamp "Archive Copy" on the front blank
- Book No.:
- W-80074
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- divorce, Inscribed or Presentation Copy, Every Man Law Books
- Author:
- Basch, Norma
- Title:
- Framing American Divorce, From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorian
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-65233
- Price:
- $ 29.95
- Category:
- women's law, divorce, American Revolution, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Grossberg, Michael
- Title:
- A Judgment for Solomon, The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original black cloth spotted with paint, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-68451
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, trials, women's law, divorce, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Leneman, Leah
- Title:
- Alienated Affections, The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, 354 pages
- Book No.:
- W-67989
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- women's law, SCOTLAND, divorce
- Author:
- Norton, Caroline
- Title:
- Caroline Norton's Defense, English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher:
- Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, 1982.
- Description:
- The reissue of the original edition of 1854; with a brief, scholarly introduction by Joan Huddleston
- Condition:
- Ex-library, else a good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58810
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- divorce, women's law, 19TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Cooper, George
- Title:
- Lost Love, A True Story of Passion, Murder and Justice in Old New York
- Publisher:
- Pantheon Books, New York, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58789
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, trials, New York, divorce
- Author:
- Horsmanden, Daniel
- Title:
- The New York Conspiracy
- Publisher:
- Beacon Press, Boston, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41723
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, 18TH CENTURY, Discrimination, divorce, New York, trials
- Author:
- Hamilton, Elizabeth
- Title:
- The Warwickshire Scandal, A Tale of Royal Dalliance, Aristocratic Intrigue, Adultery and Deception
- Publisher:
- Pan Books, London, 1999.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a well-preserved copy; 450 pages
- Book No.:
- W-68422
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, 19TH CENTURY, divorce
- Author:
- Daube, David and Calum Carmichael
- Title:
- The Return of the Divorcee
- Publisher:
- Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 1993.
- Description:
- The lecture given by Professor Daube (with that of Professor Carmichael) upon the establishment of a Fellowship of Jewish Law at Oxford, examining with the lightest touch the Dueteronomic prohibition of a divorcee returning to her first husband
- Condition:
- Original light-blue stapled printed wraps, well-preserved; 28 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71985
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, divorce
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