Sterling, Windham County, Connecticut, May 4, 1802. Single leaf of foolscap, 13 x 7.75 inches, 2 pages. Approx. 400 words. A document dealing with law, violence, and an African American woman; one suspects at the remove ot two centuries the real possibility of self-defense being turned against a vulnerable domestic... More about Autograph writ of attachment for Jenney Burlington, “a Black Woman,” in Windham County,...

Greensboro: C. F. Thomas, Book and Job Printer, 1883. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 205, [1], [1] pages. A series of lectures on Hebrew poetry, largely Dick’s critical effusions on the verses from the Old Testament (though later poets of the diaspora are covered to a certain extent); the... More about Hebrew Poetry. Sunday Afternoon Lectures before the Greensboro Law School

(London: Spectacular Times, 1986). A new edition; first published 1983, republished here in 1986. 16mo, original color wrappers, [32] pages. Illus. Spectacular Times pocketbook series number 12, from the Situationist Larry Law. More about Specatular Times: The Bad Days Will End

Troy, N. Y. From the Press of N. Tuttle, CCXXV River-Street, 1844. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 315 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on the front blank, “Presented to Prof. Yates with the respects of the Author.” One moderately legible bit of contemporary marginalia... More about A Treatise on International Law, and A Short Explanation of the Jurisdiction and Duty of the...

Trenton, N. J. Printed and Published by P. J. Gray, 1832. First edition. 8vo, original violet linen spine, drab boards, vii, [1], 167, [1], 90 pages. In 1821, the Chesterfield Preparative Meeting made a loan from its school fund to Thomas L. Shotwell, and after the meeting split in 1827... More about The Society of Friends Vindicated: Being the Arguments of the Counsel of Joseph Hendrickson, in a...

Bury: Printed by J. Kay, Fleet Street, 1838. Second edition? Unbound pamphlet, approx. 6.5 x 4 inches, 8 pages, unopened. "The Kingdom to be divided into Unions for the purposes of this Act, and Guardians to be chosen for each, as the Commissioners may appoint; *provided always,* that no such... More about "Give it a Fair Trial."

Wheeling, Va. Printed and Published by A. & E. Picket, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine, gray boards, gilt lettering, 140, [4] pages. A nice Wheeling, [West] Virginia imprint, and according to the preliminary advertisement in “strict conformity with the revised code of laws for 1830 & 1831.”... More about The Ohio Pocket Lawyer, Form Book, or Self-Conveyancer: Containing All the Necessary Legal Forms,...