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Inventory of Federal Archives in ther States: Series V The Department of Justice, N0. 5, California

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Survey of Federal Archives: 1940

Seller ID: 019013

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original cloth backed wrappers. Small (half-dime) stain on front bottom corner, otherwise fine. "Prepared by the Survey of Federal Archives Division of Professional and Service Projects Works Progress Administration, the National Archives Cooperating Sponsor." Mimeographed. Published in a small edition for distribution to CaLifornia county libraries. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 109 pages, complete.
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Inventory of Federal Archives in ther States: Series IX The Department of Agriculture, N0. 5, California

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Survey of Federal Archives: 1940

Seller ID: 019014

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original cloth backed wrappers. Two volumes, comjplete "Prepared by the Survey of Federal Archives Division of Professional and Service Projects Works Progress Administration, the National Archives Cooperating Sponsor." Mimeographed. Published in a small edition for distribution to CaLifornia county libraries. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 529 pages total in two volumes. Complete.
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Acts of Parliament Extending the Jurisdiction of Great Britain over Certain Parts of North America. In the Senate of the United States, January 13, 1845.

By: N/A

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate: 1845

Seller ID: 019421

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Beige-colored Senate pamphlet. 28th Congress, 2nd Session. January 13, 1845. 5 1/2" x 9." Eight pages, complete. A very clean copy. This document addresses the printing of British Parliament acts for the use of the U.S. Senate. The acts include Cap. CXXXVIII, which extended the jurisdiction of British courts in Lower and Upper Canada, and Cap. LXVI, which regulates the fur trade.
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Printed Legal Brief. "The State of California vs. Fred Bose." (Lewd and Lascivious Conduct with a Child Under the Age of Fourteen.) Petition for a Hearing of the Case in the Supreme Court. Sacramento, 1915.

By: N/A

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Sacramento, CA, 1915

Seller ID: 019427

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's gray wrapper. December 1915. 7" x 10." Thirty-four pages, complete. A clean copy. The petition, jointly submitted by the state and the attorney for Fred Bose, describes Bose's conviction of child molestation in a Sacramento County court, his sentence to ten years in a Folsom prison, and his request for a new trial denied by the Third District Court of Appeals. The petition asks for a new trial before the Supreme Court. The alleged incident for which Bose ("an older man") was convicted took place on a park bench outside of an amusement park in Oak Par...
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Printed Legal Brief. "The State of California vs. Thomas L. Knight." (Lewd and Lascicious Acts Committed upon a Child Under the Age of Fourteen Years.) Respondent's Brief. San Francisco, 1923.

By: N/A

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Sacramento, CA, 1923

Seller ID: 019428

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's gray wrapper. March 1923. 7" x 10." Sixteen pages, complete. A clean copy. This brief filed by the State Attorney General in the District Court of Appeal describes Thomas L. Knight's conviction for child molestation in San Francisco Superior Court and argues against his appeal. Knight, age 57, had been convicted of molesting a nine-year-old neighborhood girl in his basement on 20th Street in San Francisco. This molestation is briefly described. Knight's appeal is that during his first trial, the testimony of two other girls, who also claimed to have been mo...
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Program for the Dedication of Kendrick Hall on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the University of San Francisco School of Law, 1912-1962; Friday, September 28, 1962; Saturday, September 29, 1962

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, University of San Francisco?: 1962

Seller ID: 021867

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original publisher's beige wrappers. Front cover has deckle edge. 8 1/2" x 11." Two unnumbered pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. There are a few small wrinkles in the upper-right and lower-left corners. Each of the four corners has a small pinhole. Printed on high-quality paper with stylized font in red, blue, and black ink. The program includes the itinerary for the program on Friday and Saturday, September 28 and September 29, 1962. Friday's schedule lists a Convocation, Commemoration, Presentation of Golden Anniversary Law Citations, Address, Disc...
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Autograph Letter Signed - Nathan Abbott

By: Abbott, Nathan

Price: $37.50

Publisher: 1883

Seller ID: 10236

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Autograph letter signed (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inch) 3 pages, on Thomas and Abbott stationary, and dated September 7, 1883, Boston, Mass. 1/3 of the last page below Abbott's signature is torn off. The letter is to a Mrs. Greenhalge about settling her father's estate, including finding a buyer for the patents to her father's inventions. Nathan Abbott (1854-1941) received his law degree from Boston University in 1881. He later taught at Michigan (1891-92) and Northwestern (1892-94). He went on to become the founding dean of the Stanford University Law School.
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California Farm Tenancy and Methods of Leasing.

By: Adams, R.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, College of Agriculture: 1923

Seller ID: 9684

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Agricultureal Experiment Station, Circular No. 272. 48 pages, map, paper wrapper. Covers status of farm tenancy in California; leasing practices for farming, dairies, livestock ranges, poultry plants, various crops; legal requirements and framework; provisions for various types of leases. Discusses leasing methods of Sacramento and San Joaquin Deltas.
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Nos. 1155, 1156. In the Supreme Court of the State of California. Charles L. Fair, Respondent, vs. James S. Angus, et als. Appellants. Brief of Respondent, Knight & Heggerty, Attorneys for Respondent. Filed This 18th Day of July, A. D. 1898.

By: Anonymous

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, H. S. Crocker Co., Printers.: 0

Seller ID: 962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's purple pebble cloth binding. Red spine label with gilt lettering. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2." 314 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact overall. Former owner's signature in black ink on the front free endpaper and light pencil markings and annotations on a few of the pages. Pages are slightly age-toned. Covers are clean and intact overall. Slight corner and edge wear to the covers. The covers have bumped corners. Slight rubbing or dampstaining along the fore-edge of the covers and a small spot on the front cover. Slight chipping at the head and tail of the spin...
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Labor Legislation : Synopsis of Principal Measures Affecting Labor Pending Before the Fortieth Session of the California Legislature : What Does Your Senator and Assemblyman Propose to Do With Them? (cover title)

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Francisco, California State Federation of Labor: 1913

Seller ID: 4234

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

8-page booklet. Pending legislation includes: Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation; Hours of Labor; Measures to Regulate Conditions of Employment; Measures to Protect Life and Limb and the Health of Working People; Measures to Protect the Civil Rights of Workingmen; Anti-Alien Legislation; etc.
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The Discoveries of John Poulter, Alias Baster, Prepared as a Christmas Greeting from Management and Employees of Advertisers Composition Company and it Affilates Unigraf and Headlines, Los Angeles, California, December, 1962 (title Cont. In description)

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 7481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

(title cont.): "Re-discovered on a bibliophile ramble, preceded by an introduction, and made public with copious footnotes, by Ivan Volkoff, designed by Gollin, Bright & Zolotow, drawings by Milton Zolotow, composed entirely in the Janson family, one thoused copies printed offset by Advertisers Composition Company, this copy being number 523." A reprint of a late 18th century book in which John Baxter, convicted of a series of crimes, gives tips to law-abiding citizens on how to avoid being robbed and cheated. Cloth backed marbeled boards in slightly worn publisher's slipcase.
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Constitution and By-Laws of Roseville Lodge, No. 203, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of California

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for Order of the Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F. Of California: 1912

Seller ID: 8565

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Publisher's stapled gray wrappers. Rusting, with some loss of paper at staples. 53 pages, plus index.
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The Ohio Plant Pest Law and the Regulations and Quarantines Thereunder Relative to the Control of Insect Pests and Plant Diseases.

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Department of Agriculture, State of Ohio.: 1960

Seller ID: 9859

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

(Reprinted 1960). 35 pages. States the laws that related to plant pest control and the importation of plants into Ohio and what to do if there is a problem. Also covers inspection, certification, labeling and advertising as it relates to Ohio.
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Military Code and Rules and Regulations for the National Guard of Washington, 1903.

By: Anonymous

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Olympia, Washington, 1903

Seller ID: 10289

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

115 pages; index; bound in leather with tuck-in strap (4 x 5 1/4 inch), gilt lettering on the front cover. Fine clean copy. Contains rules and regulations for the National Guard in the state of Washington. Very light fading along the edges of the leather binding.
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Steel Engraving Portrait. "Cyrus Dustan Roys"

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 10594

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Engraving, circa 1900s (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch) of Cyrus Dustan Roys (1836-1915) of Michigan in civilian clothing. Trained as a lawyer he joined the Union forces in 1861 and served in the 1st Michigan Artillery fighting at McIntire's Ford, Capture of Knoxville and Cumberland Gap, Corinth, and Sherman's March. He was on the staff of General Saunders. After the war he became a corporate lawyer and general council, mainly with railroads in the Chicago area.
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No. 6-21 in the Supreme Court of the State of California. George F. Bronner, Appelant, v. Julius Wetzlar, Respondent. Transcript on Appeal, Sixth District Court, Sacramento County. J.H. McKune, and Armstrong & Hinkson, Attorneys For Appellant. . (cont)

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sacramento, California, H.A.Weaver, Printer: 1878

Seller ID: 10764

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

(cont) . Geo. Cadwalader, Attorney for Respondent. Filed March 11, 1878. 80 pages; stiff paper wrapper with title on the cover. Dispute over a will by Rosanna H. Keenan who died out of state.
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Supreme Court. Jonas M. Libby Vs. Mary Duffy and Others, Action No. 5. Affidavit and Order Correcting Errors and Summons.

By: Anonymous

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, New York, A. Westbrook, Law Lithographer:

Seller ID: 11645

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Printed script. [4] pages with brown paper cover, folded. (3 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch), with title on the cover. Copy of the famous New York - Tammany Hall lawsuit by the people who had given bribery money to N.Y. Alderman Michael Duffy. Duffy tried to hide the money and refused to return it. He had the money and property transfered to his wife Mary, who in this affidavit claims to know almost nothing about it. Fine clean copy.
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Steel Engraving Portrait. "Benjamin Franklin Tracy"

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 10596

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Engraving, circa 1900s (4 1/4 x 6 inch) of Benjamin F. Tracy (1830-1915), in civilian clothing, from New York. Was a lawyer and early organizer of the Republican Party he joined the Civil War in 1863 and was in the Army of the Potomac and in the Battle of the Wilderness won the Medal of Honor. He was made a General before retiring. After the war he returned to the field of law and became U.S. district attorney for the Eastern District of New York. He was famous for cracking down on the whiskey trade taxes and created a new tax code. Defended Beecher against Tilton in 1875, and decided the famo...
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Original Manuscript : International Law. Scotland / America. 1793

By: Anonymous

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland, 1793

Seller ID: 11785

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"Memorandum for Sir John Nisbet's Attorney at New York," by an unknown hand. 2 1/2 holograph pages (7 1/4 x 12 inches) dated 1793. The background of this memorandum is that John Edgar, 'Accountant for Excise' has brought a suit against the late Sir John Nisbet and his brother Alexander before Lord Henderland in Edinburgh. The author of the memorandum believes that a Walter Ruthfurd of New Jersey has information relating to Sir John Nisbet's wife that is relative to the suit being brought against the Nisbets. He further believes that Rutherfurd is in possession of 'partial counsel,' is ...
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Printed warranty Deed with Autograph Descriptions inserted.

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lodi, New York, 1840

Seller ID: 11789

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

A pre-printed form for a warranty deed (16 x 13 inch) with the relevant information inserted in ink and dated 6 June 1840 for a lot sale in Lodi, Seneca County, New York. Notations and title cover on the backside in ink. James W. Ingersoll and Mary A. Ingersoll of Tompkins, Ithaca County, New York sells a lot in the town of Lodi (Lot No. 46), New York to Margaret LeConte of Lodi for $500.00. Signed by both James and Mary Ingersoll. On the back of the document Judge John Ingersoll signs as a witness. Also signed by C.D. Hanks, Seneca County Dep. Clerk, stating that the document has been recorde...
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