The Tryal And Conviction Of Sr Sam Bernardiston Bart For High-Misdemeanor At The Session Of Nisi Prius Holden At Guild-Hall, London For His Majesties Court Of Kingsbench Before The Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys -

Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2012-02-14. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Palala Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First edition, folio, [4], 8, 13-34, [2]pp., licence leaf before title, with the final blank I2, text a little browned, disbound. A trial for sedition connected with the Rye House Plot. Wing, T2164.

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First Edition. Disbound. ex library-fair. [4], 8, 13-34, [2] p. 29 cm. Small library label to bottom of chipped first leaf. Last two leaves detached, one of which is blank both sides. Paper mainly clean, with a few minor spots. Edges a bit rough, with some creases and small chips to edges of last two pages. A trial for sedition connected with the Rye House Plot.

London: For Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First Edition. Small Folio. The three tryals (trials) are bound together in a single volume since their lives were intertangled. Each with their own title page; 34pp, 78pp. and 56pp. In the development of English law, the Crown successfuly accused Sir Samuel Bardardiston of writing liberlous private letters. This case was one of the most celebrated in English law [see Stephens, History of Criminal Law, p. 313-314); In the letters, Bardardiston had questioned the existence of the "sham" popish plot and had criticized members of the government and the bench, including the judge, William Scroggs, who subsequently sat at Barnardiston's trial. Chief Justice Jeffreys was challenged by Bardardiston who in turn told the jury he had offered no proof of his allegations. It helps to understand that in the 1680's, judges and Crown lawyers disparagingly referred to questions of knowledge and malice as mere formalities. Having such knowledge not in the interest of the Crown was an… Read More

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12" by 7.5". None. A first edition copy of George Jeffreys' account of the trial of Sir Samuel Barnardiston, expertly rebound in cloth. Sir Samuel Barnardiston was an English Whig Member of Parliament and deputy governor of the East India Company, defendant in some high-profile legal cases and involved in a highly contentious parliamentary election. Barnardiston was summoned to trial on the 28 February 1684 for libel, accused of 'being of a factious, seditious, and disaffected temper,' and having 'caused several letters to be written and published' that reflected badly on the king and officers of state. Indeed, two of the four letters that formed the basis of the charge were privately addressed to a Suffolk friend, Sir Philip Skippon, and the others to a linendraper of Ipswich and to a gentleman of Brightwell, with both of whom Sir Samuel was intimate. They contained sentences favouring William Russell, Lord Russell and Algernon… Read More

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-.. First Edition. Hardcover. Barnardiston (spelled incorrectly by the printer) was a Whig and a director of the East India Company. Jeffreys was, of course, the notorious English judge. Here the defendant was accused of libel within a private letter and, shockingly, conviced by Jeffreys...just as shockingly, he was reversed by the House of Lords several years later. Overall, a handsome copy of another of Jeffreys' attacks on logic. Light shelf/edge wear, moisture stain at fore-edge of boards, slight curve to boards, textblock shows light even toning, moderate tidemarks, else tight and clean. Halfbound, burgundy leather spine and tips, marbled boards, light tan endpages. Small fo. 30pp (numbered through 34, but 9-12 dropped in, presumably, a printers pagination error, no loss of text).

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.

703 ChristieBrownSuit The Man In The Brown Suit. By Agatha Christie. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1958, Stated Fourth Impression Thus,1970. ISBN 0370006720. Please see our stock photos. EXLIB. Good Condition/Good Original Shakel & Ryder Dust Jacket with Yellow spine, black titling, woman and ship cover art. Protected in mylar wrap. "States new and redesigned Edition, Fourth Impression, 80p. Blue boards with black titling. Our book spine has skinned spot at the word "brown" from removal of scotch tape. Plot Summary: Who is he, the man in the brown suit? He says he is a doctor; but Anne Beddingfield, who witnesses the fatal accident at a London tube station, is quick to notice some curious features about him when he comes to the scene. Her investigation of the accident leads her into the thick of mystery. This novel is more than an ingenious puzzle: It is a gripping suspense story."

Mercier Press, 1985. Used-Good. Paperback

Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."

Vonnegut, Kurt. Dead-Eye Dick. 1982, DELACORTE PRESS/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE . FIRST EDITION. Used. VG/G+ Condition. Back DJ photo of author taken by Jill Krementz. Plot Summary: "Deadeye Dick is a tragic tale of "gun nuts and nukes," Vonnegut tells Miller Rudy Waltz, the protagonist, while playing around as a child in his father's upstairs gun room, fires off a round from a high-powered rifle and accidentally kills a pregnant woman as she vacuums her apartment several blocks away."

Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird. 1979. Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence. First Edition. Used. Good+ Unclipped DJ. Back cover author photo. 245 pages, Indexed. Plot summary: "This thematically and narratively complex book tells the life story of Walter Starbuck, ex-socialist, ex-capitalist, and ex-con. Moving fluidly back and forth between past and present, incident and insight, irony and irony, the novel explores themes relating to the tension between capitalism and communism, layers of meaning inherent in layers of identity, fact, and fiction, and the inter-connectedness of all things."

Viking, 1995. Hardcover. Condition:As New Very . Dust Jacket Condition: As New and unclipped. First American Edition, All pages clean and unmarked

Hugo, Victor. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.