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Scottish Law
The trial of James Carnegie of Finhaven... at Edinburgh, in the year 1728, indicated for the murder of the Earl of Strathmore. Edinburgh: Hamilton & Balfour, 1762, third edition, 8vo, later full morocco gilt, water staining throughout; The trial of Thomas Muir...on a charge of sedition. Edinburgh, 1793, third edition, 12mo, pp.128, frontispiece, 1cm section missing from outer edge of p.47, p.128 repaired [bound with] Defoe, Daniel The true born Englishman, a satire. London, no date, pp 36, contemporary tree calf, red label, rubbed; The trial of Archibald Stewart, the late provost of Edinburgh. Edinburgh 1747, 8vo, pp.203 [bound with] The occasional writer: containing an answer to the second manifesto of the Pretender's eldest son. London, no date, pp.35, contemporary quarter calf, marble boards, black label, foxing; Arnot, Hugo A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland from A.D. 1536 to 1784. Glasgow, 1812, 8vo, pp. x 440, contemporary half calf, extensively rubbed, foxing, 11cm section absent from p.81 [no loss]; Skene, Sir John Regium Majestatem. The auld laws and constitutions of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Wood, 1774, 4to, original boards, worn, backstrip absent, foxing; Skene, Sir John The exposition of the termes and difficill wordes conteined in the foure buikes of Regium Majestatem. [Edinburgh], 1681, 8vo, later half calf, red label, extensively rubbed; Brown, Andrew Judicial proceedings before the Baron Bailie Courts. Pitkellony Private Press, 1816, 8vo, pp. [8] 14 blank leaves 78 12 blank leaves 10 [1], full red morocco gilt, bound by John Laird of Crieff, gilt stamp on boards of R. Adie Esq., marble endpapers, rubbed, ink notes in margins (7)