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1807ref. 708151807. I Am Inclined to Give Credit to Her Assertions": An Irish Magistrate's Defense of an 1807 Rape Victim Manuscript. Trial. Ireland. Account of a Rape. County Carlow Ireland June 25 1807. 11" x 7" 27.9 x 17.8 cm leaf docketed on verso. Single leaf manuscript on paper measuring 11" x 7" 27.9 x 17.8 cm. Unbound as issued with contemporary legal docketing and extensive manuscript annotations by the presiding magistrate to the lower margin of the recto and across sections of the verso. Light horizontal folds from period mailing/filing mild uniform browning and light wear along the edges otherwise remarkably fresh and completely legible throughout. $1500. A powerful and hauntingly detailed original sworn manuscript record detailing an account of sexual violence in rural County Carlow paired with a rare candid commentary by the presiding local magistrate regarding the legal competence and credibility of the female victim. Taken before Gilbert Fitzgerald a prominent local Magistrate of the Peace this manuscript records the direct testimony of Margaret Janson regarding an assault by Myles Barin. The body of the information vividly captures the victim's contemporaneous narrative: "Myles Barin opened his small cloths informant asked him what he was going to do to her he answered he would ride her then extending her legs and endeavouring to force something into her body and struggled with her near an hour." In 19th-century Irish and British common law victims of sexual crime faced formidable legal obstacles often compounding the trauma of the assault itself. Female testimony was frequently met with deep skepticism stringent requirements for physical corroboration and strict adherence to oaths that marginalized uneducated or illiterate witnesses. What elevates this document from a routine legal record to a remarkable artifact of historical criminal justice is Magistrate Fitzgerald's handwritten commentary appended directly to the foot of the document: "I did not swear Informant to this Information as she appeared to be entirely ignorant of the nature of an Oath but the facts are strongly corroborated by other evidence and I am inclined to give credit to her assertions." Fitzgerald's willingness to bypass strict procedural religious swearing while explicitly validating Janson's truthfulness. unknown
1821ref. 718241821. Salem Mass.: Published by T.C. Cushing 1821. Salem Mass.: Published by T.C. Cushing 1821. Trial and Execution of a Teen-Age Arsonist in Salem Massachusetts Trial. Clark Stephen Merrill 1804-1821 Defendant. Account of the Short Life and Ignominious Death of Stephen Merrill Clark Who was Executed at Salem on Thursday the Tenth Day of May 1821 at the Early Age of 16 Years and 9 Months For the Crime of Arson. Salem: Published by T.C. Cushing 1821. 16 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers untrimmed edges. Light browning and faint dampstaining small early bookseller description affixed to verso of title page. $950. Only edition. In 1820 Clark burned down a stable and an adjacent building. There was no loss of life but he was tried for a capital crime found guilty and sentenced to death. The jury recommended commutation to no avail. He was sixteen years of age when he committed the crime seventeen when executed. His case helped to advance a successful movement to reduce the number of capital crimes. By 1852 murder was the only capital offense. OCLC locates 13 copies 3 in law libraries Harvard Social Law Yale. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 12137. unknown
1807ref. 708151807. I Am Inclined to Give Credit to Her Assertions" Manuscript. Trial. Ireland. Account of a Rape. County Carlow Ireland June 25 1807. 11" x 7" leaf docketed on verso. Horizontal fold lines light browning and edgewear. Annotations by presiding magistrate to foot of recto and sections of verso. $1500. Made before magistrate Gilbert Fitzgerald this appears to be testimony by Margaret Janson against Myles Barin in an apparently It reads in part: "Myles Barin opened his small cloths informant asked him what he was going to do to her he answered he would ride her then extending her legs and endeavouring to force something into her body and struggled with her near an hour." Fitzgerald notes: "I did not swear Informant to this Information as she appeared to be entirely ignorant of the nature of an Oath but the facts are strongly corroborated by other evidence and I am inclined to give credit to her assertions. unknown books
1824Four articles bound together but with various paginations. Large paper copy. Wide margins. Deckle edges. Uncut and unopened. Age stained. Large 4to. 30 cm. Original blue wraps with printed paper label. Probably issued as No. 464 of "Archaeologia, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity." Scarce in the original wraps. ENGLAND BOX 1
1824ref. BB056Murder Trial Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London 1824. With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia. Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay The Art of Drawing on Stone 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial. books
1821ref. 718241821. Salem Mass.: Published by T.C. Cushing 1821. Salem Mass.: Published by T.C. Cushing 1821. Trial and Execution of a Teen-Age Arsonist in Salem Massachusetts Trial. Clark Stephen Merrill 1804-1821 Defendant. Account of the Short Life and Ignominious Death of Stephen Merrill Clark Who was Executed at Salem on Thursday the Tenth Day of May 1821 at the Early Age of 16 Years and 9 Months For the Crime of Arson. Salem: Published by T.C. Cushing 1821. 16 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers untrimmed edges. Light browning and faint dampstaining small early bookseller description affixed to verso of title page. $950. Only edition. In 1820 Clark burned down a stable and an adjacent building. There was no loss of life but he was tried for a capital crime found guilty and sentenced to death. The jury recommended commutation to no avail. He was sixteen years of age when he committed the crime seventeen when executed. His case helped to advance a successful movement to reduce the number of capital crimes. By 1852 murder was the only capital offense. OCLC locates 13 copies 3 in law libraries Harvard Social Law Yale. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 12137. unknown books
1865ref. 711631865. Presented by the Author Then the Governor of Massachusetts To a Prominent Judge and Legal Scholar Trial. Bullock Alexander H. 1816-1882. Green Edward W. d.1866 Defendant. Address of His Excellency Alexander H. Bullock to the Honorable Council on the Occasion of Presenting the Case of Edward W. Green A Convict Under the Sentence of Death for the Crime of Murder in the First Degree. February 27 1866. Boston: Wright & Potter State Printers 1865 i.e. 1866. 29 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers recent repair to lower corner of rear wrapper. Light soiling and a few minor spots light wear to spine ends faint vertical crease through center presentation inscription "J.C. Perkins/ from Gov. Bullock" to head of front wrapper light toning to interior a few spots to title page. $750. Only edition. According to McDade Green the postmaster of Malden Massachusetts was the first person to rob an American bank at gunpoint. He was "a 'secretly drinking man' and had been short on his post office accounts. On December 15 1863 finding the bank manned solely by the seventeen-year-old son of the president he went back for his gun. Entering the bank he shot the youth twice through the head and carried off $5000. in bills. The crime was very quickly traced to him; his confession disclosed where he had hidden the money and he was condemned to die" McDade annotation to 381. Bullock was the governor of Massachusetts. His Address discusses his reasons for signing Green's death warrant. The recipient of this copy was likely Jonathan C. Perkins 1809-1877 a judge and prolific legal scholar. Perkins and Bullock served together in the Massachusetts legislature and on the board of Amherst College. OCLC locates 5 copies in North American law libraries Harvard Library of Congress Ohio State University Worcester Trial Court Library Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 382. unknown
1865ref. 711631865. The First Bank Robbery in the United States Trial. Bullock Alexander H. 1816-1882. Green Edward W. d.1866 Defendant. Address of His Excellency Alexander H. Bullock to the Honorable Council on the Occasion of Presenting the Case of Edward W. Green A Convict Under the Sentence of Death for the Crime of Murder in the First Degree. February 27 1866. Boston Wright & Potter State Printers 1865 i.e. 1866. 29 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers recent repair to lower corner of rear wrapper. Light soiling and a few minor spots light wear to spine ends faint vertical crease through center presentation inscription "J.C. Jenkins from Gov. Gov. Bullock" to head of front wrapper light toning to interior a few spots to title page. $750. Only edition. Green the postmaster of Malden Massachusetts is believed to be the first person to rob an American bank. He was "a 'secretly drinking man' and had been short on his post office accounts. On December 15 1863 finding the bank manned solely by the seventeen-year-old son of the president he went back for his gun. Entering the bank he shot the youth twice through the head and carried off $5000. in bills. The crime was very quickly traced to him; his confession disclosed where he had hidden the money and he was condemned to die" McDade annotation to 381. Bullock was the governor of Massachusetts. His Address discusses his reasons for signing Green's death warrant. OCLC locates 5 copies in North American law libraries Harvard Library of Congress Ohio State University Worcester Trial Court Library Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 382. unknown books
1875ref. 393The Tilton versus Beecher Trial. Beach William A. Admit Bearer to Trial Tilton vs. Beecher At the City Court Room. Signed "W. A. Beach." A printed ticket form to be used by William A. Beach 1809 – 1892 the senior counsel of the legal team representing the plaintiff Theodore Tilton. Printed on decorated heavy paper 6.5 cm x 10 cm. Condition fine. A rare surviving paper admission ticket-pass for repeated entry to the most sensational trial in nineteenth-century America this special ticket-pass signed by an officer of the City Court in Brooklyn admitted an unidentified bearer to the legal action brought by Tilton against his wife's lover Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for alienation of affection. On August 20 1874 Theodore Tilton started his lawsuit against Henry Ward Beecher for alienation of affections. The trial began January 11 1875 and lasted six months. Unlike the blue paper "day pass" tickets which were collected at the door of the courtroom gallery this special ticket-pass was returned to the bearer and may have been used by a member of Mr. Tilton's legal team. The Tilton-Beecher trial was lurid front-page news in every major newspaper in America for months and ended with a hung jury. On May 22 1871 a letter to the editor of the New York World written by Victoria Woodhull was published in which she said among other things "My judges preach against 'free love' openly and practice it secretly; their outward seeming is fair but inwardly they are full of 'dead men's bones and all manner of uncleanness.' For example I know of one man a public teacher of eminence who lives in concubinage with the wife of another public teacher of almost equal eminence." The "public teacher of eminence" was Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the wife was Mrs. Theodore Tilton. For the better part of three years many measures were taken to protect the reputation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother from ruin. As in politics the cover-up of Mrs. Tilton's adulterous relationship with Beecher was ultimately unsuccessful. During the trial scalpers sold tickets to the trial for as much as five dollars apiece. Some days thousands of spectators were turned away. Those lucky enough to obtain one often went without lunch to hold it for the day. books
ref. 214911Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez les vrais défenseurs de Louis XVI, 1792 in-8, 16 pp., en feuilles. Cachet (annulé).
1948ref. 15722Editions Janmaray, 1948, in-8°, 254 pp, broché, bon état. On joint 2 coupures de presse sur A. Marquet (dont une nécrologie)
ref. 15756s.l., s.n, s.d. (vers 1650), 1 br., sans couverture. In-4 de 7 pp. ;
ref. 68415aaf1835, in-4to, Original-Pappband.
1848ref. GITj816In folio de 2 feuillets non chiffrés soit 4pp imprimées sur 4 colonnes en très petits caractères. 7 colonnes et demi dont 2 à la Une sont consacrées au compte-rendu complet de l'audience du 13 février (le jugement sera rendu le 4 avril) dans lequel on peut lire avec beaucoup d'intérêt les questions du Président, l'interrogatoire des témoins, des explications sur la scène du crime. Pliure horizontale et verticale d'archivage, coupure (environ 9cm) en tête de la pliure des feuillets du journal. Bel exemplaire frais et complet, émouvant témoignage sur cette célèbre affaire criminelle du XIXe siècle. Cette affaire, en pleine passion anticléricale, enflamma la France entière, occultant les événements de la Révolution de février 1848, qui occupent dans ce journal une seule colonne en 3e page, la 4e étant consacrée aux mouvements maritimes et annonces diverses.
ref. 16131PARIS, Sté Anonyme de Publications Périodiques - 6volumes In-4 - Brochés - I) Interrogatoires, 1030 pages - II) Rapports, 430 pages, y compris index (traces de vers aux 20 premières pages) - III) Rapports, 15 pages - IV) Ordonnances pour supplément d'instruction, Rapport complémentaire, Interrogatoires, 75 pages - V) Arrêt de Renvoi, Acte d'Accusation, 75 pages - VI) Compte-rendu sommaire fait pour le Syndicat de la Presse Parisienne : Interrogatoire, déposition des Témoins, 181 pages, y compris table des matières & liste des témoins - En dehors du défaut mentionné au T. II, Tous propres
ref. 20666Paris, imprimerie Guyot et Scribe, 1862. Broché, dos cassé, mouillure sur la première de couverture. in-8, faux-titre, titre, 118 pages.
1873ref. 1916PARIS. LIBRAIRIE DU MONITEUR UNIVERSEL. DECEMBRE 1873. FORT IN-4 (25,5 X 32 X 4 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (6) + 804 PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE 1/2 CHAGRIN ROUGE, DOS AQUATRE FAUX NERFS ORNE DE CAISSONS A FROID ET DE FLEURONS ET FILETS DORES, TITRE DORE, PLATS RECOUVERTS DE PERCALINE CHAGRINEE ROUGE ENCADREE D'UN DOUBLE FILET A FROID. PETITE DECHIRURE SANS MANQUE SUR UNE PAGE, PETITES TRACES DE FROTTEMENT EXTERIEUR, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
ref. 230519Paris, Editions du Siècle [puis :] P.-V. Stock, (1899) grand in-8, 332 pp., broché.
ref. 237377Paris, Editions du Siècle, (1899) gr. in-8, 332 pp., broché. Dos cassé.
1872ref. 240211872 ECHO DE LA SORBONNE 1872,in12 broché,234p.,bon état.
ref. 11783, Paris, Editions de Vecchi, 1999., Broche, couverture d' editeur illustre n/b, 14,5x20,5cm, 135pp, illustre n/b.
ref. 11784, Paris, Editions de Vecchi, 1999., Broche, couverture d' editeur illustre n/b, 14,5x20,5cm, 132pp, illustre n/b.
ref. 11793, Paris, Editions de Vecchi, 1999., Broche, couverture d' editeur illustre n/b, sous jacquette d' editeur, 14,5x20,5cm, 143pp, illustre n/b.
ref. 11794, Paris, Editions de Vecchi, 1999., Broche, couverture d' editeur illustre n/b, sous jacquette d' editeur, 14,5x20,5cm, 142pp, illustre n/b.
ref. 11788, Paris, Editions de Vecchi, 1999., Broche, couverture d' editeur illustre n/b, 14,5x20,5cm, 143pp, illustre n/b.