Eighteenth-century Law VERY LARGE COLLECTION OF CHIEFLY LEGAL PAMPHLETS IN NINE VOLUMES: i) 4to volumes including Petitions, Informations (on disputed bills etc), Letters Patent, etc., several relating to the lands of Pitsligo and the claims of Sir William Forbes (e.g. Answers for Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Baronet, to The Petition of Alexander Lord Salton, 20 April 1787; Answers for William Forbes...to the Petition of John Ronaldson Merchant in Edinburgh, 28 February 1783, with folding engraved plate of the disputed public entry), some relating to claims in Ireland and foreign lands (e.g. Jamaica), folding tables and appendices, some disputed bills in manuscript interleaved, some with William Forbes' ownership signature; ii) 8vo volumes containing Trials (e.g. that of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie for murder and incest in Edinburgh in August 1765), reports on the alarming bankruptcies occurring in Scotland in the late eighteenth century; Considerations of the Dangers of Convictions on Circumstantial Evidence, the minutes from the trial of Warren Hastings, late governor general of Bengal (1786), at least one work relating to the war in America (A View of the History of Great-Britain during the Administration of Lord North... for G. Wilkie, 1782), and another relating to the "Inhuman Massacre" of a mob sympathetic to the imprisoned radical M.P. John Wilkes at St. George's Fields in May 1768; many printed in Edinburgh and issued for the Faculty of Advocates, others printed in London; all late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 65, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 215, 238, 308 (9)
Eighteenth-century Law VERY LARGE COLLECTION OF CHIEFLY LEGAL PAMPHLETS IN NINE VOLUMES: i) 4to volumes including Petitions, Informations (on disputed bills etc), Letters Patent, etc., several relating to the lands of Pitsligo and the claims of Sir William Forbes (e.g. Answers for Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Baronet, to The Petition of Alexander Lord Salton, 20 April 1787; Answers for William Forbes...to the Petition of John Ronaldson Merchant in Edinburgh, 28 February 1783, with folding engraved plate of the disputed public entry), some relating to claims in Ireland and foreign lands (e.g. Jamaica), folding tables and appendices, some disputed bills in manuscript interleaved, some with William Forbes' ownership signature; ii) 8vo volumes containing Trials (e.g. that of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie for murder and incest in Edinburgh in August 1765), reports on the alarming bankruptcies occurring in Scotland in the late eighteenth century; Considerations of the Dangers of Convictions on Circumstantial Evidence, the minutes from the trial of Warren Hastings, late governor general of Bengal (1786), at least one work relating to the war in America (A View of the History of Great-Britain during the Administration of Lord North... for G. Wilkie, 1782), and another relating to the "Inhuman Massacre" of a mob sympathetic to the imprisoned radical M.P. John Wilkes at St. George's Fields in May 1768; many printed in Edinburgh and issued for the Faculty of Advocates, others printed in London; all late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 65, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 215, 238, 308 (9)
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