Instituiçaõ da Companhia Geral do Graõ Pará, e Maranhaõ. (at end): Alvará, por que Vossa Magestade, pelos respeitos nelle declarados, ha por bem confirmar os Capitulos, e Condiçoens da Companhia do Graõ Pará . . (Dated 6 & 7 June 1755.) by [Grão Pará & Maranhão Company] - 1755

London: William Maxwell & Son, 1876. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [xliv], 962, with a Second part at the end covering the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 pp. [4], 59, [3]. Maroon cloth, sturdily re-backed preserving original spine. Paper spine label worn. Cloth discolored on the lower front cover near the hinge. Small area of discoloration at the bottom of the spine caused by former shelf sticker. Library impress stamp on the title page. "Withdrawn" ticket on inside front cover. Pages are generally clean with a few miniscule marginal tears and a couple of light pencil notations.

Historical significance by the inventor, author and publisher. Hardcover book is 48 pages, no dust jacket, ink spot on cover, worn around the edges and corners. The exterior pages are red. The sales brochure was designed to fit inside the book. No others currently being marketed at this time.

Paris: Pagnerre, 1844. Very Good. 119, [1] p.; 20 cm. Publisher's advertisement for Mémoire sur l'Empoisonnement par l'Arsenic by Cormenin on final page. Disbound. The trial of Madame Euphemie Lacoste (b. 1819), whose family forced her to marry her 68-year-old great uncle Henri Lacoste in 1841. When he died suddenly and his body was found to contain arsenic, she was arrested and tried for murder, along with 70-year-old schoolmaster Joseph Meilhan, to whom she had given a minor pension. They were acquitted because of insufficient evidence (the traces of arsenic in Lacoste's blood may have been due to treatment for syphilis). Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: light foxing on half title page; otherwise, clean and solid.

Paris: Charles Maurier, 1835. Hard Cover. Good +. Imprimerie de Madam de Lacombe. [4], 194 p.; 20 cm. Disbound. An account of the trial of French cavalry officer Emile François Guillaume, comte Clément de La Roncière (1803-1874). The victim of a legal scandal, he later became the 8th French governor of Tahiti. Very scarce. In Good+ Condition: light foxing throughout; several page opened carelessly; otherwise, clean and solid.

Mason, Van Wyck. The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel. Reynal & Hitchcock First Edition, 1941. MYSTERY. Used. Good/Good rare unclipped dust jacket Original $2.00 item price appears on the back flap. now protected in a mylar wrap.

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.

1758. London, 1758. 3d ed.. London, 1758. 3d ed. Lilly's Modern Entries Lilly, John [fl. c.1740]. A Collection of Modern Entries: Or, Select Pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer: Viz. Declarations, Pleas in Abatement and in Bar, Replications, Rejoinders, &c., Demurrers, Issues, Verdicts, Judgments, Forms of Making up Records of Nisi Prius, and Entering Judgments, &c., In Most Actions. Many of Them Drawn or Perused by Mr. Broderick, Carthew, Comyns, Darnel, Holt, Levinz, Lutwyche, Northey, Parker, Pemberton, Pengelly, Pollexfen, Raymond, Salkeld, Saunders, Shower, Thomson, Trevor, Ventris, Wearge, And Other Learned Counsel. As Also Special Assignments of Errors, And Writs and Proceedings Thereupon, Both in the Said Courts and in Parliament. With the Methods of Suing to and Reversing Outlawries by Writ of Error or Otherwise. To Which is Added a Collection of Writs in Most Cases Now in Practice. With Two Tables, One of the Names of the Cases, And the Other of the… Read More

"CHRISTIE'S" 1766 TO 1925. AUCTION CATALOGUE. NICE COPY IN A RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. By H.C. Marrillier. Many Illustrations. Printed in Great Britain By Robert Maclehose and Co., Ltd., The University Press, Glasgow. Used. Very Good-/Good Original Dust Jacket. 7 3/4 X 10/14 X 2. 311 pages, Indexed. Large volume. Weighs 3 pounds.

Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key. Grosset & Dunlap Movie Tie-In Edition, 1931. Detective Mystery. USED. Good condition hardcover in Good- condition Rare Original Madison Square lime green movie cast Dust Jacket features Brian Donleavy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.