[Rarebooks] fs--Criminal Law [XXXIX]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on criminal law and
related matters; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase:  www.meyerbos.com

1.  TRAIN, Arthur.  Courts and Criminals.  Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, 1923.  worn. [12631 L20EL28E]                   $ 25.00

Train's essays written in the first decade of the century, with one
on women and the courts, and another on insanity and the law.

2.  TRAIN, Arthur.  The Prisoner at the Bar, Sidelights on the
Administration of Criminal Justice.  Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York, 1922.  Quite worn and rubbed; a usable copy at best. [18708
L26EL40EL66]                                              $ 25.00

With an introduction by John Henry Wigmore, praising the work as
"unique and invaluable [and] entertaining and vivid".

3.  [TRIAL BY COMBAT].  An Investigation of the Case of Abraham
Thornton, Who was Tried . . . for The Wilful Murder, and Afterwards
Arraigned for the Rape, of Mary Ashford . . . Being an Answer to a
Work . . . Entitled, "Wager of Battle, Thornton and Mary Ashford"
[etc.].  Printed by R. Gray . . . and Published (for the Author)
[etc.], London, 1818.  ?Contemporary 1/2 morocco, quite rubbed,
title dusty; usable. [68620 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68620     $ 450.00

A rare part of the contemporary literature surrounding the last
English case involving trial by combat, scrutinizing the alibis
offered by Thornton; one copy in RLIN (microform) at Harvard, not
noting the map called for by the title, not present here.

4.  [TRIAL OF HENRY THE GREAT].  Edmund Goldsmid (ed.).
Bibliotheca Curiosa.  The Trial of Francis Ravaillac for the Murder
of King Henry the Great, Together with an account of his Torture
and Execution.  Privately Printed, Edinburgh, 1885.  Later
cloth-backed boards; one of 75 large paper copies. [55144 XYL35]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55144
                                                         $ 125.00

One of two accounts in English of the trial of the assassin of
Henry the Great, arguably the most popular monarch in French
history; though tortured, Ravaillac, a former lawyer, denied
(truly, it is now thought) that he had acted with others.

6.  [TRIAL].  The Tryal and Condemnation of George Borosky alias
Boratzi, Christopher Vratz and John Stern; for the Barbarous Murder
of Thomas Thynn, Esq; Together with the Tryal of Charles John Count
Conningsmark as Accessary before the Fact to the same Murder.
Printed for Thomas Basset [etc.], London, 1682.  Modern 1/4 calf,
a good, clean copy. [46558 L52E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46558     $ 650.00

7.  TURNER, Jesse.  A Page from the English State Trials.  N.p.,
n.p., 1907.  Later 3/4 morocco, gilt, rubbed but sound. [48000
L19L35L49L71]                                            $ 350.00

Extra illustrated, with 55 plates, including several of Sir Edward
Coke, Chief Justice Popham, and Sir Walter Raleigh, about whose
trial for high treason this work is concerned.

8.  The Threat of Crime in America.  University of Delaware, 1969.
Sewn wraps, a bit discolored, but a sound copy; 90 pages. [90412]
                                                          $ 25.00

The 1967-68 E. Paul du Pont Lectures on Crime, Delinquency and
Corrections.

9.  Town and Borough of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk. A List of the
Constables [etc.].  Printed by William Meggy, Great Yarmouth, 1820.
[46310]                                                  $ 350.00

10.  The Trial of James Watson, the Elder, Before the Court of
King's Bench, in Westminster Hall . . . for High Treason.  Printed
by William Aitchison, for Alex. Jameson [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.
Modern russet cloth, original dusty wraps bound in; a good copy.
[63804] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63804
                                                         $ 250.00
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