Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Censorship, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Debt & Bankruptcy, Duelling, Executions, Free Speech, Judges, Lawyers, Outlaws, Prisons, Prohibition, Prostitution, Supreme Court, Taxation, Trials
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Censorship, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Debt & Bankruptcy, Duelling, Executions, Free Speech, Judges, Lawyers, Outlaws, Prisons, Prohibition, Prostitution, Supreme Court, Taxation, Trials
An overview of crime and punishment in 17th-century colonial Maryland. An exhaustive study: the gamut runs from homicide and assault to livestock theft and witchcraft..... Read More about Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland
Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888) was known as “The Seaman’s Friend” as he devoted his time establishing safe houses for mariners (first in New York City..... Read More about Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), “The Seaman’s...
These letters —well over five-hundred in all— document the courtship and early marriage of Ellen Fritz Sahlin (1893?–after 1987) and Richard Hartshorne (1888–1975) during trying..... Read More about Archive of Judge Richard Hartshorne and his wife, Ellen Fritz (nee Sahlin) Hartshorne
An exceedingly rare Boston-printed 1756 act of Parliament to significantly enlarge the number of British troops in North America. This act allowed British army recruitment..... Read More about An Act for the better recruiting His Majesty’s Forces on the Continent of America; and for the...
Scarce first edition. One of 1500 copies printed. Noted work by this New Orleans native, discussing the “Negro Problem” and especially critical of the Southern..... Read More about The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System
Jenkins 223:118 catalogued a similarly-titled edition of this pamphlet: “A series of nine lengthy letters (dated Aug.-Oct 1860) by a prominent Alabamian to Charles O’Conor..... Read More about Letters to Chas. O’Conor. The Destruction of The Union is Emancipation
The North Carolina Chain Gang describes, in part, the life of chain gangs on the road, portable prison camps, and methods of organization and discipline..... Read More about The North Carolina Chain Gang: A Study of County Convict Road Work
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Sammelband of rare and ephemeral law pamphlets kept by attorney Henry Bucher Swoope (1831–1874) of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. These 21 pamphlets—virtually all of which bear..... Read More about Sammelband of 1852 to 1864 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Arguments made by H.B. Swoope, Attorney
Texas Bonds and the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, General James Hamilton Jr., one-time Governor of South Carolina, and Texas loan commissioner, loaned money to..... Read More about 1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from...
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Rare Commencement program showing Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) being graduated with honors from Howard University on Friday June 9th, 1933. Marshall was first in his class..... Read More about Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Law School, First in His Class, Cum Laude, in 1933 within:] The...
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Unrecorded on OCLC, a rare and ephemeral campaign biography throwaway from the 1888 New York gubernatorial race which re-elected sitting-Governor David B. Hill to a...... Read More about 1892 U.S. Presidential Candidate:] An Outline of the Official Life and Public Services of His...
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Unlisted in OCLC, an apparently unrecorded pamphlet devoted to the property definitions of Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. “Christ Church Hospital, located at Forty-Ninth Street..... Read More about Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or Square of...
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned..... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
1825 Writ of Injunction by the State of Mississippi’s first chancellor, Joshua G. Clarke, staying the execution of a court judgment. Clarke’s injunction is here..... Read More about The State of Mississippi Superior Court of Chancery, Western District: To Wit. To William...
An odd case, Thomas Turner vs. John Peabody, where the latter man accuses the former of “unlawfully converted for his own use three certain double..... Read More about 1841 District of Columbia Legal Manuscript re: a Converted Double Barreled Fowling Gun
Writ of execution issued by New Orleans judge Charles Watts in the case of Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan..... Read More about First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana .... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan,...
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Manuscript group primarily concerned with the case of Armistead v. Dandridge, a drawn out Virginia lawsuit with roots in the eighteenth century. Much information on..... Read More about Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige
1838 letter from Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring (1794–1867) to his client, Stonington, Connecticut shipowner and businessman Charles P. Williams concerning the legal matter of..... Read More about 1838 Letter of Boston Lawyer Charles G. Loring to Connecticut Shipowner Charles P. Williams...
1837 legal summons addressed to the Sheriff of Hinds County, Mississippi, William C. Demoss. The sheriff is hereby directed to summon Maxfield Anderson, William Anderson..... Read More about The State of Mississippi, to the Sheriff of Hinds County — Greeting: We Command You to Summon…
Legal instrument of protest signed by Alexander H. Arthur, Notary Public for the Office of the Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi at Vicksburg..... Read More about United States of America: State of Mississippi, to wit: By This Public Instrument of Protest…
Legal instrument protest signed by John Neilson, Jr., Notary Public, at the request of Messrs. Corning & Co. This latter firm presented a bill of..... Read More about United States of America, State of New York. SS. On the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord...
Legal writ of execution in the case of W.A. Gasquet v. McQueen & Atkins. Judge Charles Bushnell of the District Court of the Parish of..... Read More about The State of Louisiana, To the Sheriff of the Parish of West Feliciana—-Greeting: We Command...
Saloon-keeper and Texas Justice of the Peace Roy Bean (ca. 1825–1903) —who styled himself “The Law West of the Pecos”— conducted an unconventional, sometimes extra-legal..... Read More about 1901 Autograph Letter Signed by James Bean, Brother of Legendary Judge Roy Bean—“The Law West...
Jurist John Kintzing Kane (1795–1858) was the father of noted Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane. Judge Kane was best known for his pro-slavery decision, ten..... Read More about 1845 Autograph Letter Signed by Jurist John Kintzing Kane, presiding Judge of the Fugitive Slave...
Quotation on law handwritten by German-American Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800–1872), legal and political theorist and author of the Lieber Code on the conduct of..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Quotation Signed on Law by Francis Lieber, German-American Jurist, Author of...
