Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Britain, Trial Reports, 18th and 19th Century, Eight Examples. A collection of small-format disbound pamphlets: 1. The Genuine Tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a Physician in Pekin; for the Murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, Treasurer to the Army of the Emperor of China, London: for M. Cooper, 1746; 2. The Trial, Conviction, Condemnation, Confession and Execution of William Smith, for Poisoning his Father-in-law, Thomas Harper, and William and Anne Harper, his Children, London: for M. Cooper, W. Reeve, and C. Sympson, 1753; 3. The Genuine Trial of Charles Drew, for the Murder of his own Father, London: for C. Corbet, 1740; 4. The Trial of a Cause between Richard Maddox, Gent., Plaintiff, and Dr. M----y, Defendant, Physician, and Man-midwife, [with] Extraordinary Cases in Midwifery [as issued], London: for H. Jefferys, [n.d.]; 5. The Trial of Richard Curling, Thomas Moss, John Forwood, John Sanders, and Thomas Read, Boatmen of Ramsgate, for Felony & Piracy, London: by Thomas North, 1807; 6. The Trial of the Right Honourable George Gordon on a Bill of Indictment for High Treason., London: for J. Wenman, [n.d.]; 7. Parslow v. Sykes divorce, ca. 1789, no title; [and] 8. The Trial of Francis William Sykes, Esq. for Adultery with the wife of Captain Parslow, ca. 1789, no title; sizes vary. (8)