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By: N/A
Price: $100.00
Publisher: San Francisco, The Survey of Federal Archives: 1940
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019013
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $100.00
Publisher: San Francisco, The Survey of Federal Archives: 1940
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019014
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $47.50
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate: 1845
Seller ID: 019421
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Sacramento, CA, 1915
Seller ID: 019427
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Sacramento, CA, 1923
Seller ID: 019428
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... View more info
By: Abbott, Nathan
Price: $37.50
Publisher: 1883
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 10236
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. View more info
By: Adams, R.L.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, College of Agriculture: 1923
Seller ID: 9684
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bar Association of San Francisco. 1939. San Francisco.: 1939
Seller ID: 3153
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Illustrated wrappers. From the Foreword: "When the Bar Association of San Francisco learned that Frank J. Hogan, the beloved President of the American Bar Association, was a lover of old books, and particularly of old law books, it felt that nothing was more fitting, as part of the San Francisco Meeting of the National Association in 1939, than an exhibit of law books, manuscripts and other cognate material, particularly of an ancient vintage". The pamphlet lists all items exhibited. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: San Francisco, California State Federation of Labor: 1913
Seller ID: 4234
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Seller ID: 7481
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. View more info
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
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's stapled gray wrappers. Rusting, with some loss of paper at staples. 53 pages, plus index. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Department of Agriculture, State of Ohio.: 1960
Seller ID: 9859
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Olympia, Washington, 1903
Seller ID: 10289
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Seller ID: 10594
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Seller ID: 10596
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... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sacramento, California, H.A.Weaver, Printer: 1878
Seller ID: 10764
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, New York, A. Westbrook, Law Lithographer:
Seller ID: 11645
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland, 1793
Seller ID: 11785
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 ... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Lodi, New York, 1840
Seller ID: 11789
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... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Albany, NY, 1803
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 12295
Condition: Collectible-Fine
One leaf, written front and back. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Embossed paper seal on front, left, center. The New York Supreme Court orders the Sheriff of Albany, NY to collect $54.46 from Christian Truax to satisfy a claim against him by Philip Haigle. Issued by "Fairlie and Bloodgood, Clerks" and signed on both the front and back by Peter E. Elemendorf, attorney. Comment on back "Not found." Faded signature of sheriff also on back. View more info
