Search Results: Law & Crime from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2016. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 413 (1) p. w/footnotes. A collection of scholarly articles in French surveying various aspects of police forces over the last 200 years across the world.

London: Macmillan, 1983. First Trade paperback printing. . Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to covers. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. 189 p. w/ references, select bibliography, index. A detailed study of the developments that created modern police forces in Europe, including revolution, social and technological change, and "institutional transformations" (from the back cover).

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, Booksellers to Her Majesty, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Very good. Some wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit of wear at joints and hinges, but binding is firm. Lovely contemporary tree calf leather binding with gilt filagree around the edges, and gilt ON the edges as well (see image). Endpapers and edges of textblock attractively marbeled. Spine has lovely and intricate gilt designs with original labels. The exact same style of binding can be seen on 2 other volumes of speeches we have listed here, by Grattan and Curran. viii, 520 p. A very attractive edition of this collection of British political and legal speeches by Lord Campbell, who became Lord Chancellor of Ireland, a member of the House of Lords and later in 1850 appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. He ended his career as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. One of his most famous cases was the prosecution of John Frost, a Chartist leader who participated in… Read More

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, printed for Rice University, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dj. 299 p. w/ footnotes, index. A collection of thirteen papers on Roman and germanic treason, with the majority of the papers covering the latter topic. Papers include the Crime of Majesty in Roman Public Law; Contractual Allegiance vs. Deferential Allegiance in Visigothic Law; Treason and Related Offenses in the Anglo-Saxon Dooms; Blasphemy in the Lex Romana Curiensis; and others.

Leyden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Good octavo hardcover in red cloth biding without dust jacket. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of panels. Light scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly browned and have some minor foxing. 427 pages with footnotes and chronological bibliography of the writings of Francois. A festschrift on international law featuring articles in English, Dutch, German, and French.