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Title:
Trial of Mrs. Ann Nisbett, Wife of Walter Nisbett, Esq; of Grafton Street, Berkeley Square . . . For committing Adultery with Thomas Totty, Esq; (A Captain in the Navy, and Commander of the Majesty's Ship the Sphynx) At Doctors Commons
Publisher:
Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], London, 1783.
Description:
A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857
Condition:
Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence
Book No.:
W-80431
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
adultery, Parliament, divorce, marriage, trials
Author:
Foot, Michael]
Title:
The Trial of Mussolini. Being a Verbatim Report of the First Great Trial for War Criminals held in London sometime in 1944 or 1945 by "Cassius". Sixth impression July 1944 [no copy of this impression in COPAC, two in OCLC, both in Denmark]
Publisher:
Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1943 [1944].
Description:
The factually grounded if imagined trial of Mussolini, with the testimony of witnesses, direct and cross examination, and Mussolini taking the witness stand in his own defense, with a final summing up by the judge, who leaves the verdict to us
Condition:
Original blue cloth, gilt, the spine dulled, else a good usable copy, once that of R.E. Megarry, with his ownership stamp on the front pastedown
Book No.:
W-80448
Price:
$ 150.00
Category:
Nuremberg, ITALY, trials
Author:
Major, Henry
Title:
This is a Stereo-type Proof of the Second Installment of Henry Major's Caricatures from the Tennessee Evolution Trial (Copyright by Henry Major, July 1925)
Publisher:
Alma Art Agency, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1925.
Description:
The poster based on the Scopes trial courtroom sketches created by the Hungarian artist, Henry Major, uniquely capturing the trial's major figures, including inter alia Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, John Scopes, and the judge and jury
Condition:
Broadside measuring 15 x 22 inches, one slight horizontal fold, else a very good copy
Book No.:
W-51727
Price:
$ 150.00
Category:
trials, Legal Prints, Legal Art, legal ephemera
 
Author:
Title:
Trial by Jury. The Birth-right of the People of England. With Illustrations from Bracton, Glanvil, Fortescue, Littleton, Coke, Selden, Hale, Hawles, Blackstone [and 53 Others, Including Erskine, Bentham, Disraeli, Montesquieu, Story, and de Tocqueville]
Publisher:
Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, London, 1865.
Description:
Condition:
?Original green pebbled gilt-lettered stabbed wraps, worn, rebacked, ex-library, front blank detached, a fragile yet usable copy
Book No.:
W-80476
Price:
$ 1500.00
Category:
juries, trials

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