[San Francisco]: [The Grabhorn Press], 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, folio size, 64 pp. We cannot introduce this book better than to set forth the opening paragraph of the Note: "On March 20, 1949, members of the Vice Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department, at the direction... More about Commonwealth V. Gordon et al. The Opinion of Judge Bok, March Eighteenth, 1949
Paris: Gustave Havard, 1846. E. de Beaumont, Laisne, et al. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 554 p. Illustrated edition, IN FRENCH. Two interesting prior owner bookplates, on the front pastedown is a bookplate belonging to George Paget (1818-1880), a British soldier during the Crimean War who took... More about Les Prisons de Paris: Histoire, Types, Moeurs, Mysteres
London: Printed by Henry Lintot, Law-Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1756. Third Edition. Full leather. Folio-over 12"-15". 794p. Richard Burn (1709-1785) was the vicar of Orton and later the justice of the peace for the counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland, he received... More about The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies et al, 1820. Full leather. 5 Volumes, 8vo - over 7.75" to 9.75" tall. Richard Burn (1709-1785) received his LLD at Oxford University; he was the vicar of Orton and later the justice of the peace for the counties of Westmoreland... More about The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer (5 Volumes, Complete); The Twenty-Third Edition: ...
San Francisco: The John H. Barry Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 672 pp. Criminals characters have often held a fascination with the public, with great quantities of books and films being inspired by them, both fiction and nonfiction. "Celebrated Criminal Cases in America", written by then-Captain of the... More about Celebrated Criminal Cases in America
London: Printed by Order of The Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, 1819. Hardcover. Octavo size, 416 pp. This volume comprises the trial of several men for conspiring to commit piracy, originally transcribed in shorthand by William Brodie Gurney, Esq.; the text is a fascinating look at the implementation... More about The Trial of Augustin Bogle French, John French Burke, and Matthew Welch, for A Conspiracy: in...
Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross, 1797. Leather. Octavo size, 641 pp. The Fifth United States Congress met while John Adams was President, and Thomas Jefferson was Vice-President (and consequently President of the Senate), and this volume includes the acts and laws passed by this Congress in its first, second, and... More about Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America: Begun...