Lot 161
Law, crime and punishment
Collection of works, mainly 18th century
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Howard, John. An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe: with various papers relative to the plague. Warrington: William Eyres, 1789. 4to (28 x 21.5cm), 22 folding plates, contemporary cat's-paw calf, decorative gilt tooling to spine and raised bands, front joint split, corners bumped, owner's plate to paste down endpaper, some foxing and dust staining to latter pages from plate 4 (Genoa), small tear to upper margin and some loss to lower margin of plate 5 (Spezia), not affecting image [ESTC T115289];
Ibid. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales with Preliminary Observations. Warrington: William Eyres, 1777. 4to (27.5 x 20.5cm), 8 folding and one further plate, original half calf marbled boards, gilt title and raised bands to spine, front board detached, edges worn, owner's plate to paste down endpaper, some occasional foxing, lower margin of appendix pp. 67-70 damp stained and rucked, not affecting text [ESTC T153060];
Limborch, Philippi A. Historia Inquisitionis. Cui Subjungitur Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanae. Ab anno Christi 1307 ad annum 1323. Amsterdam: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. 4to (32.5 x 18cm), 4 folding and 5 further plates, contemporary panelled calf, raised bands and title and library reference labels to spine, worm hole top right of front board and free endpaper, labels to paste down endpaper, ink annotation to free endpaper, edges worn;
Arnot, Hugo. A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland from AD 1536, to 1784. Edinburgh: William Smellie, 1785. 4to (25.5 x 20cm), contemporary tree calf, gilt title and raised bands to spine, short split to head of spine, additional leaf ‘Subscribers omitted’ inserted between pp. xiv and xv, ownership label to paste down endpaper, short tear to margin p. 183, some damp staining, edges rubbed [ESTC T142881];
[Mildmay, Sir William]. The Police of France: Or, An Account of the Laws and Regulations Established in that Kingdom, for the Preservation of Peace and the Preventing of Robberies. London: E. Owen and T. Harrison, 1763. 4to [25.5 x 20cm], original wrapper, ink inscription to title page, some loss to spine tail, edges worn, short tear to free endpaper, some foxing and dust staining [ESTC T78049]; and 10 further works, similar (these not collated) (15)