Law & Criminal Studies

Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.

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London: John Applebee for George Strahan, et al., 1742.

To which are added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. Rare complete set of this collection of 18th century British crimes with explicit descriptions of crimes, trials, and punishments. Therein are numerous accounts of sodomy including that the case of one of the most famous of London’s gay meeting spots of the time, Clap’s molly house, being the coffee house of Margaret Clap AKA Mother Clap. “Margaret Clap, for keeping a Sodomitical House, July, 1726. MARGARET CLAP was indicted for keeping a disorderly house, in which she procured and encouraged Persons to commit Sodomy, December 10, 1725, and before and after. Samuel Stevens. On Sunday Night, the 14th of November last, I went ot the Prisoner’s House in Field-lane, in Holburn, where I found between 40 and 50 Men making Love to one another, as they call’d it. Sometimes they would sit in one another’s Laps, kissing in a lewd Manner and using their Hand indecently. Then they would get up, Dance and make Curtsies, and mimick the Voices of Women. ‘ I, Fie, Sir ! – Pray, Sir, – Dear, Sir, – Lord, how can you serve me so? – I swear I’ll cry out. – You’re a wicked Devil, – and your’e a bold Face. – Eh ! ye little dear Toad ! Come, buss ! -‘ Then they’d hug, and play, and toy, and go out by Couples into another Room on the same Floor, to be married, as they call’d it…” (vol. III, pp. 37) and so on and so forth are similar and many other crimes told, such as the murderer Sarah Malcolm (who was sketched by Hogarth), Catherine Hayes and her accomplices, the murderer poet Richard Savage (as described in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage), the thief John Jack Sheppard, and the sodomy trial of Charles Hitchen.

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Through the World’s Eye

Michael Kirby
Sydney: The Federation Press, 2000.

Collection of speeches from then Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby on human rights, the law, and its institutions.

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[The Fitzgerald] Report Of A Commission Of Inquiry Pursuant To Orders In Council

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First Edition.

30cm x 21cm. xx, 388, 242 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering.

One of the defining moments in Queensland history. The Fitzgerald Inquiry Report into high level Queensland Police Corruption which saw ministers and the Police Commissioner jailed and brought about the end of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s premiership and the ousting of the National Party’s 32 years as the governing political party in Queensland. The scarce clothbound issue. This copy with a signed typescript letter from the then Queensland Minister for Health, Ivan J. Gibbs, tipped in at the front endpaper presenting this copy to an astute political observer.

Very minor soiling to top edge. Very minor bumping to tail fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition.

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[The Fitzgerald] Report Of A Commission Of Inquiry Pursuant To Orders In Council

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First Edition.

30cm x 21cm. xx, 388, 242 pages. Lettered wrappers.

One of the defining moments in Queensland history. The Fitzgerald Inquiry Report into high level Queensland Police Corruption which saw ministers and the Police Commissioner jailed and brought about the end of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s premiership and the ousting of the National Party’s 32 years as the governing political party in Queensland.

Spine discoloured and creased. Some creasing to wrappers. Minor foxing and soiling. Good Condition.

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[The Fitzgerald] Report Of A Commission Of Inquiry Pursuant To Orders In Council

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First Edition.

30cm x 21cm. xx, 388, 242 pages. Lettered wrappers.

One of the defining moments in Queensland history. The Fitzgerald Inquiry Report into high level Queensland Police Corruption which saw ministers and the Police Commissioner jailed and brought about the end of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s premiership and the ousting of the National Party’s 32 years as the governing political party in Queensland.

Wrappers discoloured. Spine creased. Foxing to edges. Good Condition.

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Alle de Copyen van Indagingen, als mede alle de Gedichten Op de Tegenwoordige Tyd toepasselyk

[UTRECHT SODOMY TRIALS]
No place: No publisher, [1730].

A relic of the Utrecht sodomy trials, the large scale persecution of homosexual men in the Netherlands starting in 1730. Without author or publisher, literally the title translated to [All the copies of summonses, as well as all the poems applicable to the present time], listing of men accused of sodomy, with charges and sentences, many of death, accompanied by long moralistic poems on the depravity of the crime. 2 parts in one, the second part, Vervolg op alle de Copyen, being a continuation. This copy with the second part ending at page 94 with the final charge in October of 1730 and ending with the poem by P. Schim. Copies of various sizes are noted of part 2, perhaps indicating different issues, from page 94 to 151 the list continues to 1731, perhaps being issued later.

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A Centenary History of the New South Wales Police Force, 1862-1962 [Centenary Brochure]

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First Edition.

26.5cm x 20cm. 128 pages, illustrations, some colour. Original wrappers.

Recased. Small price sticker rub to wrappers upper panel. Very minor soiling and foxing. Very Good Condition.

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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)

Charles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.

Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; With Notes and References to the Whole. The Second Edition in 24 volumes with a considerably enlarged index, and with the 6 volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity .. By Several Gentlemen in the respective branches of the law (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted most of his life to the compilation of this work, being an extensive compendium of legal lore descended from Rolle’s Abridgment. “[T]he most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law. Whatever is to be found in the old Abridgments, or in all printed and several MS. Reports anterior to Geo. III., Mr. Viner has translated, abridged, remodelled, and introduced or referred to in his work.” (J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography, or a thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch law books: together with some continental treatises)

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Queensland Law Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 1-4, 1930-31

L. Brown; W. Elson-Green; S. T. Halpin
Brisbane: Queensland Law Students’ Association, 1930-31.

The first 4 numbers of the QLD Law Gazette being the entirety of volume 1, bound in 1 volume, with 3 page index at rear. Ownership stamp and signature of Rupert Beirne, Toowoomba, son of solicitor and first native-born Mayor of Toowomba, B. J. Beirne, and with a plate depicting Chief Justice Adrian Knox to the front pastedown

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Inleydinge Tot de Hollandse Regts-Geleertheyt

Hugo de Groot [Hugo Grotius]
t’Amsteldam: Hendrik Boom en de Weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1692.

Bevestigt Met Placaten, Hand-Vesten, oude Herkomen, Regten, Regts-geleerden, Sententien van de Hoven van Justitie in Holland en elders, midsgaders eenige byvoegsels en aanmerkingen op de selve, door Mr. Simon van Goenewegen van de Made, Als mede R. Hogerbeets van het aanleggen en volvoeren der Processen, voor de respective Hoven van Holland. En het Hollandse Versterf-regt. Beyde met Aanmerkingen van den selven Groenewegen. Met een Groot Nieuw Register voorsien. Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence; written in Loevenstein. Including within the pagination the separately titled R. Hogerbeets, van het Aenleggen ende Volvoeren der Processen, Voor de Respective Hoven van Justitie in Holland, [and] ‘t Hollandse Versterf-Regt.

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De Jure Belli et Pacis Libri Tres (3 Volumes)

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22.5cm x 14cm. [ii], lxxix, 416; [vi], 457; [vi], 445, [1] pages. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, blind decoration. Text is in Latin and English.

Accompanied by an Abridged Translation by William Whewell. With the notes of the author, Barbeyrac, and Others. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press. Early re-issue of the Whewell Edition of the seminal work on international law by Hugo de Groot (1583-1645) first published in 1625 as De iure belli ac pacis.

Ex-University of Queensland Law Library, with stamps and plates, and with the former ownership stamp of Queensland judge Manus Boyce QC. Vol. 1 with some splitting to lower joint and with tender hinges, other volumes firm. Chipping to spine heads and tails. Minor insect damage to edges. Foxing to first and last pages. Fair Condition.

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The Call of the Territory: The Story of a Policeman and His Wife in Outback Australia, 1952-1967

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First Edition. Inscribed by Author

21cm x 14.5cm. 211 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.

This copy inscribed by Basil and Molly.

Some rubbing and creasing to wrappers lower panel. Very Good Condition.

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Paradise Lost

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30cm x 21cm. 145 leaves (printed recto only), black and white illustrations. Ringbound.

Unrecorded illustrated typescript autobiography of an English-Australian police officer that served with the Royal Papua & New Guinea Constabulary from 1967 to 1974.

Minor soiling. Very Good Condition.

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Prisoners Their Own Warders

J. F. A. McNair; W. D. Bayliss
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1899.

A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825, Discontinued 1873, Together with a Cursory History of the Convict Establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the Year 1797. Finishing to spine states Constable, London, title page states Westminster: Archibald Constable.

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The History of Women in the Queensland Police Department

Queensland Police Department
[Brisbane]: Queensland Police Department, 1982.

A very short history of women in the Queensland Police.

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A Digest of All Cases Determined in the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales and of Appeals Therefrom to the Supreme Court from 1895 to 1900

G. Herbert Pike
Sydney: C. F. Maxwell (Hayes Bros.), 1901.

Inclusive, and Reported in Land Court Cases, Vols. V. to X. and also Notation of Cases with Regard to the Sections of the Acts.

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The Factory and Shop Acts of the British Dominions. A Handbook

Violet R. Markham; H. J. Tennant
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1908].

Compiled by Miss Violet R. Markham. Together with a General View of the English Law; and a Preface by Mrs. H. J. Tennant. Issued by the Industrial Sub-Committee of the Victoria League. Covers Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Cape of Good Hope.

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De Legibus Hebraeorum Ritualibus et Earum Rationibus

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First Continental Edition.

24.5cm x 20cm. [36], 1-205, [7], 209-476, [28]; 506, [20] pages, 2 volumes. Later cloth. Text is in Latin.

The first Continental Edition of this landmark work of comparative religion. A pioneering study of Hebrew law and ritual by English clergyman and scholar John Spencer (1630-1693). Originally published 1 year earlier in Cambridge.

Rebound in 20th century cloth, some cracking to upper hinge of volume 1, still very firm. Minor tanning and general wear. Some pencil marginalia. Very Good Condition.

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Uxor Ebraica, sue de Nuptiis et Divortiis ex Jure Civili, id eft, Divino & Talmudico, Veterum Ebraeorum, Libri Tres.

Joannis Seldeni [John Selden]
Francofurti ad Oderam: Andr. Becmanus, 1673.

Treatise on the Jewish laws of marriage and divorce by English polymath, jurist, and scholar of Jewish law John Selden (1584-1654). Bound (as usual) with a second separately titled work on Jewish law of succession, De Successionibus ad Leges Ebraeorum in Bona Defunctorum. Liber Singularis: In Pontificatum, Libri Duo.

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A Woman’s Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers

Susan Purdon; Aladin Rahemtula
Brisbane: Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2005.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which first enabled women to practise law in Queensland. Foreword by Mary Gaudron, former Justice of the High Court of Australia. This copy with a lengthy inscription by Aladin Rahemtula to the title page

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[The Fitzgerald] Report Of A Commission Of Inquiry Pursuant To Orders In Council

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First Edition.

30cm x 21cm. xx, 388, 242 pages. Lettered wrappers.

One of the defining moments in Queensland history. The Fitzgerald Inquiry Report into high level Queensland Police Corruption which saw ministers and the Police Commissioner jailed and brought about the end of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s premiership and the ousting of the National Party’s 32 years as the governing political party in Queensland.

Moderate shelf and handling wear, some creasing to spine. Minor foxing. Good Condition.

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The Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions

William Fischer Agnew
London: Wiley and Sons, 1874.

Together with Notices of the Patent Laws in Force in the Principal Foreign States and in the Colonies. With an Appendix Containing the Statutes, Rules, Etc.

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The Australian Constitution: A Documentary History

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First Edition.

31cm x 23cm. xv, 1288 pages. Full leather, slipcase.

“This book brings together all the critical documents which formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901. Constitutions are the basic documents of a society. The drafting of the Australian constitution was the product of intense negotiation and debate. Line by line it represents the work of dozens of delegates and the considerations of millions of Australians. This authoritative and unique book brings together, for the first time, all the critical documents that formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901, tracing the Constitution from its most embryonic stages to its enactment. From the time that the colonies obtained self-government in the 1850s the issue of a large federation was being considered. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the colonies, through their delegates, came together in a series of conventions to draft a constitution that was to be put to the people. The documents included in this book tell the story of that painstaking process. This easily accessible collection of primary source material includes drafts of the Constitution, memoranda, personal letters relating to the drafting, and comments by the drafters themselves. It contains Hansard extracts, speeches, resolutions from Australasian Federal Conventions and comments on the drafts. It also reproduces newspaper cartoons reflecting popular feeling at the time.” (publisher’s blurb)

. Fine Condition.

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Criminal Law: Pre-trial Practice and Procedure: Fairness in the Committal and Indicting Process

Michael Francis Lillas
Brisbane: Lillas Legal Publishing, [2014].

“The aim of this work is to examine the aspect of a fair trial of an accused in the pre-trial procedure of preliminary examinations or committals and the charging or indicting of an accused.” (from introduction)

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Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women Since 1880

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First Edition.

19.5cm x 12.5cm. xii, 290 pages. Illustrated wrappers.

“These crimes involving women and their sexual relationships with men have been shrouded in secrecy which has not only created a false perception of their incidence but has disguised their significance in the processes of social change which have occurred over the last century. Allen redresses the balance by providing both a detailed study of criminal acts involving women since 1880 and a feminist analysis of their social and political significance.” (from publisher’s blurb)

Creasing to spine. Foxing to edges. Previous owner’s name, very minor underlining. Good Condition.

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The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho

Kanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.

On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.

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Indecent Assault

Roger Moody
London: Word Is Out/Peace News, 1980.

The author’s account of his trial and acquittal at the Old Baily in 1979 on charges of serious sexual assault on a young boy.

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Archiv fur Kriminologie (Band 130, 1. u. 6 Heft) (3 Volumes)

Hans Gross; Robert Heindel; iWalter Specht; Emil Weinig
Lubeck: Schmidt-Romhild, 1962.

The first 6 issues of Volume 130 of the German Archive for Criminology with Special Considerations of Scientific Criminalistics, a monthly journal by Prof. Dr. Hans Gross, Geh. Rat Dr. Robert Heindel, Walter Specht, and Emil Weinig, published by Franz Meinert. A number of graphically illustrated studies of criminal behaviour including the case study Uber Tatowierungsfetichismus by Waldemar Weimann on a type of tattoo fetishism, the subject (himself tattooed and presented nude in two photographs) only being aroused in the presence of tattooed women.

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The Future of Batterer Programs: Reassessing Evidence-Based Practice

Edward G. Gondolf
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012.

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Upholding the Australian Constitution: Proceedings of the Conference of The Samuel Griffith Society (30 Volumes)

The Samuel Griffith Society
Melbourne: The Samuel Griffith Society, 1992-2019.

A full set of papers and speeches presented at the first 30 conferences of The Samuel Griffith Society. Established in 1992 and convening annually since, the Society’s “objectives are to educate Australians and undertake and support research about the Constitution, promote discussion of constitutional matters, defend the great virtues of the present Constitution, support the decentralisation of power, restore the authority of the Parliament, defend the independence of the judiciary, and support reform to these ends.”

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