Synopsis Juridica do Contracto de Cambio Marítimo vulgarmente denominado Contracto de Risco by BORGES, José Ferreira - 1830

London: Her Majesties Stationery Office, 1857 pp 496 Internally in near fine condition with Law Society stamp on title page. Modern quarter leather binding

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1887 233 pages Edited by J.H.Stoddart Embellished with 36 engravings pasted into the book.Internally in near fine condition subject to moderate browning to end papers and a card with an owners name on the inside front cover.Binding sound (the book has evidently been seldom read) subject to 3 cm crack between inside front cover and fep.Cover quite bright with slight markings.Moderate wear to extremities of spine and a small nick at the bottom.Top corners bumped. An attractive book.

London, 1679 This trial was a consequence of the Popish Plot. Sir George Wakeman ( physician to the Queen), William Marshall , William Rumley and James Corker ( Benedictine Monks), were accused by Titus Oates and others of conspiring to murder King Charles II. They were tried on 18 July 1679 and acquitted after the jury had been instructed that it could not find them guilty of misprision of high treason (ie having knowledge but without necessarily involvement in the offence). After the trial Wakeman left the country and Rumley was found to be a lay brother. However Marshall and Corker were promptly rearrested for being priests; although convicted and sentenced to death they were not executed but were imprisoned until the accession of James 11 in 1685 . pp (4) + 84. Internally very good subject to some inoffensive marking and staining. Recently rebound in quarter leather.

Charlestown / Boston: Samuel Etheridge / Russell and Cutler, Belcher and Armstrong, and Oliver and Munroe, 1807. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. Two booklets bound together concerning the murder trial of Thomas Selfridge. 1.) Charlestown, 1806; 52pp. 2.) Boston, [1807 according to Shaw-Shoemaker] pp.168, [8] including map in the rear. Bound in period quarter sheep with paper boards – well rubbed; edges worn; small repair to upper hinge of front cover. Library blind stamp on title page and second leaf of the first booklet and on p. 100 of the second. The title page in the second booklet contains two tears on the lower half which have been professionally repaired. Pages are lightly age toned with scattered spots of foxing and soiling. Several pages are more heavily age-toned / browned. Occasional small marginal tears are neatly sealed. Early Boston Circulating Library book plate on inside front cover. According to Sabin "A trial of extraordinary interest from the high… Read More

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1915. Paperback. Good. 251, [5] p.: tables; 19 cm. Paperback with plain brown wrapper and black cover titles. Publisher's catalog on final 4 unpaginated pages. Printed pastedown on front cover from the United Mine Workers of America to a newspaper editor urging the paper to use the information in this book when writing about the negotiations for the next anthracite wage agreement. Stamped over the pastedown and on the title page: "Editorial Page Library" (newspaper not identified). Attached to the inside of the front wrapper is a folded sheet with detailed information about the agreement, which was set to expire on March 31, 1916. Very scarce in paperback with the United Mine Workers additions. In Good Condition: lacking wrapper over spine; chipping along edges of wrapper, with partial loss of title on front wrapper; back wrapper is detached but present; front wrapper almost detached; tape residue along spine from old repair; minor loss from… Read More

London: Her Majesties Stationery Office, 1857 pp 496 Internally in near fine condition with Law Society stamp on title page. Modern quarter leather binding

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1887 233 pages Edited by J.H.Stoddart Embellished with 36 engravings pasted into the book.Internally in near fine condition subject to moderate browning to end papers and a card with an owners name on the inside front cover.Binding sound (the book has evidently been seldom read) subject to 3 cm crack between inside front cover and fep.Cover quite bright with slight markings.Moderate wear to extremities of spine and a small nick at the bottom.Top corners bumped. An attractive book.

London, 1679 This trial was a consequence of the Popish Plot. Sir George Wakeman ( physician to the Queen), William Marshall , William Rumley and James Corker ( Benedictine Monks), were accused by Titus Oates and others of conspiring to murder King Charles II. They were tried on 18 July 1679 and acquitted after the jury had been instructed that it could not find them guilty of misprision of high treason (ie having knowledge but without necessarily involvement in the offence). After the trial Wakeman left the country and Rumley was found to be a lay brother. However Marshall and Corker were promptly rearrested for being priests; although convicted and sentenced to death they were not executed but were imprisoned until the accession of James 11 in 1685 . pp (4) + 84. Internally very good subject to some inoffensive marking and staining. Recently rebound in quarter leather.

Charlestown / Boston: Samuel Etheridge / Russell and Cutler, Belcher and Armstrong, and Oliver and Munroe, 1807. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. Two booklets bound together concerning the murder trial of Thomas Selfridge. 1.) Charlestown, 1806; 52pp. 2.) Boston, [1807 according to Shaw-Shoemaker] pp.168, [8] including map in the rear. Bound in period quarter sheep with paper boards – well rubbed; edges worn; small repair to upper hinge of front cover. Library blind stamp on title page and second leaf of the first booklet and on p. 100 of the second. The title page in the second booklet contains two tears on the lower half which have been professionally repaired. Pages are lightly age toned with scattered spots of foxing and soiling. Several pages are more heavily age-toned / browned. Occasional small marginal tears are neatly sealed. Early Boston Circulating Library book plate on inside front cover. According to Sabin "A trial of extraordinary interest from the high… Read More

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1915. Paperback. Good. 251, [5] p.: tables; 19 cm. Paperback with plain brown wrapper and black cover titles. Publisher's catalog on final 4 unpaginated pages. Printed pastedown on front cover from the United Mine Workers of America to a newspaper editor urging the paper to use the information in this book when writing about the negotiations for the next anthracite wage agreement. Stamped over the pastedown and on the title page: "Editorial Page Library" (newspaper not identified). Attached to the inside of the front wrapper is a folded sheet with detailed information about the agreement, which was set to expire on March 31, 1916. Very scarce in paperback with the United Mine Workers additions. In Good Condition: lacking wrapper over spine; chipping along edges of wrapper, with partial loss of title on front wrapper; back wrapper is detached but present; front wrapper almost detached; tape residue along spine from old repair; minor loss from… Read More