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Report of the Trial of Abraham Prescott For the Murder of Mrs Sally.

1869réf. 830041869. Manchester NH: Daily Mirror Office 1869. 46 pp. Manchester NH: Daily Mirror Office 1869. 46 pp. A Rare Somnambulism Sleepwalking and Insanity Defense: McDade 770 Trial. Prescott Abraham 1815-1836 Defendant. Report of the Trial of Abraham Prescott For the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran Of Pembroke June 23 1833. Executed at Hopkinton January 6 1836. Manchester NH: Daily Mirror Office 1869. 46 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4"; 21 x 13.3 cm. Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Moderate toning very light foxing light soiling to exterior light edgewear and a few small tears to front wrapper which is separated but secured by thread. $450. First and only edition. Abraham Prescott 18 years old at the time had lived and worked with the Cochran family for several years. In January 1833 he had attacked both Chauncey and Sally Cochran in their sleep with an axe an incident the couple dismissed as an "unhappy occurrence of somnambulism" and did not press charges. Months later in June 1833 Prescott bludgeoned Sally Cochran to death with a wooden stake while they were picking strawberries. Prescott's defense attorneys argued that he committed the murder while sleepwalking and was not mentally responsible for his actions. Extensive testimony from medical experts and family members was presented to support claims of his troubled past history of sleep disturbances and hereditary insanity. Despite a vigorous defense the jury was unconvinced by the sleepwalking plea a novel legal strategy at the time. Prescott was found guilty in two separate trials and sentenced to death. The case garnered significant public attention and the controversy surrounding his mental state and eventual public execution led to the founding of New Hampshire's first mental institution. According to McDade "the defense was one of the best for that time on the subject of insanity" but the jury was unconvinced and Prescott was hanged. McDade notes that there is "much interesting information in this case on the superstitions and treatment of the weak-minded." An historical account offering insight into 19th-century law societal attitudes toward mental illness and the justice system of that era. McDade The Annals of Murder 770. unknown books

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Vitringa, Campegii (Campegius Vitringa) (Text by); Abraham de Blois (Engraver)ABAA

Observationum Sacrarum Libri Sex In Quo De Rebus varii argumenti & utilissimae investigationis Critice ac Theologice disseritur; Sacrorum imprimis Librorum Loca multa obscuriora nova vel clariore luce perfunduntur. Tomus 1 1712 WITH Observationum Sacrarum Libri Quintus & Sextus 1708. 2-vol. set Complete

1712réf. 43188Franequerae Franeker: Ex Officina Wibii Bleck 1712. Later edition Vol. 1 First edition Vol. 2. Hardcover. g- to vg. Octavo 8 x 6 1/2" Vol. 1; 8 1/4 x 6 3/4" Vol. 2. 32 1134 36pp Index Vol. 1; 18 531 23 Index and Emendanda Vol. 2. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Main title in first volume in red and black lettering. Title vignette for each title page. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. "Observationum Sacrarum" is an impressive collection of material on "philological exegetical and theological topics which grew over the decades into an impressive six-volume set the seven and last volume was published posthumously. The collection consists largely of material prepared in connection with Vitringa's public disputations" For more information see: Charles K. Telfer's "Wrestling with Isaiah: The Exegetical Methodology of Campegius Vitringa" Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016 Page 29. This work is complete with engraver Abraham de Blois' Kabbalistic plate facing page 142 in first volume. The first volume contains the first four books of "Observationum Sacrarum." Books 2 3 and 4 have their own separate title page each dated 1711. The main title indicates that the first book is the 4th edition books 2 and 3 are the third edition and book 4 is the second edition. The second volume contains the first edition of the last two books of "Observationum Sacrarum" 5 and 6. Moderate and sporadic age-toning and soiling to bindings. Ex-library stickers to spines and bookplate on inside of each front cover. Contemporary previous owner's name Joannes Carolus de Lithe Onoldi dated 1733 on main title Vol. 1 and title page of second volume. Clear water-staining to upper part of title page in second volume. Moderate age-toning and sporadic foxing throughout. Text in Latin with some Hebrew and Greek. Bindings in overall good- to good interior in good- to very good condition. About the author: Campegius Vitringa 1659-1722 was a Dutch Protestant theologian and Hebraist. A follower of Johannes CocceiusVitringa was a supporter of prophetic theology. He was educated at the universities of Franeker and Leiden and became professor of Oriental languages at the former in 1681. When locating prophetic outcomes he would associate events to the near rather than the far-off future placing a distinct focus on the period of the Maccabees 2nd Century BC. Like Joseph Mede 1586-1638 Vitringa believed wholeheartedly that the Millennium was yet to come but did not expect any immediate changes. He relegated the end of the time to a remote future and strongly emphasized the concept of New Jerusalem From Wikipedia. Ex Officina Wibii Bleck hardcover books

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Holroyd, Edward; Thornton, AbrahamABAA

Observations Upon the Case of Abraham Thornton Who Was Tried.

1819réf. 758881819. Murder Rape and Trial by Battle Holroyd Edward 1794-1881. Thornton Abraham c.1793-1860. Observations Upon the Case of Abraham Thornton Who was Tried at Warwick August 8 1817 For the Murder of Mary Ashford: Shewing the Danger of Pressing Presumptive Evidence Too Far Together with the Only True and Authentic Account Yet Published of the Evidence Given at the Trial The Examination of the Prisoner &c. And a Correct Plan of the Locus in Quo. London: Printed for J. Mawman T. Miller 1819. 88 pp. Folding map. Portrait frontispiece misbound before preface. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet untrimmed edges. Moderate toning light soiling to exterior dampspotting to map small library stamps to title page and frontispiece. $500. Third and final edition one of three printed in 1819. Abraham Thornton a bricklayer "was accused of rape and murder after attending a dance where he became intimate with a gardener's daughter named Mary Ashford. They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near a local footpath. Thornton was tried at the Warwick assizes on 8 August 1817. Since the marks on Mary's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death the jury found him not guilty. The case aroused much interest and reminded people of a similar murder of a local woman a year earlier. Many were convinced of Thornton's guilt and he was assailed in local and London newspapers. A group collected around the Birmingham solicitor William Bedford invoked the old legal process of 'appeal of murder' by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried again for the same offense. This process was generally regarded as obsolete though there had been several instances in the eighteenth century. More controversy arose when Thornton came before the court of King's Bench in November 1817 and demanded ordeal by battle which was open to the subject of an appeal of murder but had not been claimed since Charles I's reign. After several hearings between November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee did have this right. The appe. unknown books

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(Emerson, Ralph Waldo) (Lincoln, Abraham)ABAA

ORDER OF SERVICES for the MEETING OF THE PEOPLE OF CONCORD at the HOUR OF THE FUNERAL of PRESIDENT LINCOLN

1865réf. 159071865. the copy of an attendee April 19 1865. Concord Mass.: no printer shown no date but April 16-19. Four-page bifolium. This is the "Order of Services" for the memorial service for Abraham Lincoln who had died just four days earlier. It was held at the First Parish Church of Concord with the Revs. Grindall Reynolds and Thomas Rattray presiding. It is interesting to note that this service was held exactly 90 years -- to the day -- after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Item VI of IX on the program is "Addresses by R.W. Emerson and Others": Emerson's address is well-documented see EmersonCentral for the complete text; Emerson began with James Russell Lowell's poem about Lincoln which JRL would recite three months later at Harvard Commencement 1865. Quoting from Emerson's address: . This middle-class country had got a middle-class president at last. Yes in manners and sympathies but not in powers for his powers were superior. This man grew according to the need. His mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew so did his comprehension of it. Rarely was man so fitted to the event. Emerson initially had had mixed feelings about Lincoln: an avowed abolitionist he was frustrated with Lincoln's concentration on preserving the Union rather than immediately abolishing slavery; however with the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln had won Emerson's full support. This fragile piece is in close-to-fine condition several old folds but little wear. Emerson's address is referred to but not printed within this Order of Services; therefore this leaflet is not listed in Myerson's bibliography -- but for early texts of Emerson's Lincoln address see Myerson E167 D56 D57 G51 & G55. This is quite a scarce piece as presumably copies were printed primarily for the attendees of the Service. That is almost certainly the case with this copy as there are pencil notations on three of the four pages notations that imply attendance. For example the attendee noted which reverend handled the "Selections from Scriptures" and which the "Benediction" noted that the "Hymn" was sung to the tune "Salem" and noted that the "Others" besides Emerson to give addresses were Judge Hoar -- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar staunch abolitionist and member of the Mass. Supreme Court -- and the Rev. Mr. Rattray. A line from Judge Hoar's address is quoted by the attendee as is a brief account of the assassination. unknown books

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