![COMFORTING PRISONERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH]. Documenti per confortare i condannati a morte. Marcello...](/pictures/thumb/3754.JPG?v=1652998060)
Turin: Heirs of Colonna, 1690. Third edition. 12mo. 1 blank fol. + [6], 424 pp. (some foxing throughout, pp. 135-170 with worming in blank lower margins, rather ugly but touching only four letters). Contemporary Italian vellum, four raised bands on spine, in the second compartment the author's name and title..... More
![39 LASHES: THE SENTENCE FOR A CONVICTED SLAVE IN LONG ISLAND IN 1811]. "The People vs. Gabe, a...](/pictures/thumb/3711.JPG?v=1648946040)
New Hempstead, Long Island, NY: 1811. Large folio (337 x 200 mm), stitched, folded once vertically and twice horizontally, presumably extracted from a larger volume (two leaves excised, both likely blank). 10 pp. on paper clearly watermarked "1808" / Britannia (not in Gravell-Miller), modern pagination in pencil. Altogether handwritten 9..... More
![TOBACCO PROHIBITION, ITALY 1734-1764]. Small collection of Proclamations, together 6 items (1...](/pictures/thumb/1067.jpg?v=1642964777)
Sicily, Naples and Turin: 1733-1764. Together 6 items: 1 broadside (46 x 34.5 cm) + 5 bandi (folio sheets, each folded once, various sizes, various wear, some signatures clipped, others supplied in manuscript, assorted manuscript annotations, extracted from bindings). Small but very interesting collection of Bandi on the prohibition of..... More
![THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LIZZY BORDEN TRIAL]. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the...](/pictures/thumb/3561.jpg?v=1631807463)
Fall River: Press of J.D. Monroe, 1893. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 312 pp., numerous illustrations in the text including portraits, diagrams, and photographs of the crime scene (soiling and signs of age and use throughout). Title-page detached, lacking pp. 249/250 (facsimile leaf loosely inserted) otherwise complete with all illustrations. Original..... More
![MEDIEVAL CRIMINAL LAW]. De Maleficiis (full title of Part 1: Angelus de maleficiis / repertorium...](/pictures/thumb/3549.jpg?v=1629065217)
Lyons: Benoist Bonyn for Jacques and Francois Giunta, 1544 (Part 1) and 1542 (Part 2). 8vo. 2 volumes in one. Collation: [pi]8 aa-cc8 dd12 a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-CC8 DD12 (O8 blank); AA-BB8 aa-nn8 oo12. Pagination: [36], ccccxxviii, [16], cxv, [1] ff. Upper corners of four leaves (fols. clxxxiii-clxxxvi) have..... More
![GONE POSTAL, 1892]. Death in The Mail. A Narrative of The Murder of a Wealthy Widow and The Trial...](/pictures/thumb/3533.jpg?v=1625806683)
Providence, RI: The Providence Journal Print, 1892. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp., with numerous illustrations. Recent wrappers. THE FIRST MURDER IN U.S. HISTORY COMMITTED THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE. THE SENSATIONAL TRIAL OF DR. THOMAS THATCHER GRAVES FOR THE MURDER (BY POISONING) OF JOSEPHINE A. BARNABY. DENVER, COLORADO, 1891, ILLUSTRATED WITH..... More
