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Item #33787 REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO...

REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-'44. BY BREVET CAPTAIN J.C. FREMONT, OF THE TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, UNDER THE ORDERS OF COL. J.J. ABERT, CHIEF OF THE TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Washington: Blair and Rives, Printers, 1845. 28th Cong., 2d Sess. HD166. 583, [1 blank] pp, plus 22 plates and five maps, as issued. Original publisher's cloth [minor wear, front joint starting], a few short separations at folds of large map. Very Good. "The most spectacular reconnaissance of the West since..... More

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Item #37596 THE STORY OF THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JUSTICE FIELD BY A FORMER ASSOCIATE ON...

THE STORY OF THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JUSTICE FIELD BY A FORMER ASSOCIATE ON THE SUPREME BENCH OF CALIFORNIA.

[np. San Francisco? nd. 1893?]. 198pp. Bound in original publisher's blue cloth, with gilt-lettered title stamped on spine [light rubbing at the extremities]. Repair to blank endpaper. Very Good. Gorham was, as stated in the Publisher's Note, "a lifelong friend of Justice Field," and spent much of his career in..... More

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A GROUP OF EARLY KANSAS STATEHOOD LAWS, 1861-1871.

[Lecompton, Lawrence, Topeka, Leavenworth, and the "bogus legislature" from Washington]: [1856-1877]. The earliest laws of the State of Kansas [excepting the second session], with the Kansas House Journal of the first statehood legislature. Paginated variously, some volumes with institutional rubberstamps and bookplates. Otherwise, texts are clean, with bindings in various..... More

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Item #37661 THE SCHRODER TRIAL. BOTTOM FACTS AND LEADING INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF...

THE SCHRODER TRIAL. BOTTOM FACTS AND LEADING INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF DR. ALFRED LeFEVRE, AND THE TRIAL AND DISGRACEFUL ACQUITTAL OF THE SLAYER. UNDOUBTED INNOCENCE OF THE DECEASED. THE VEILED WOMAN THAT THREATENED TO HAVE REVENGE, AND HOW SHE ACCOMPLISHED HER THREAT. TRUE THEORY AS TO THE CAUSE OF THE KILLING, AS GATHERED FROM EVIDENCE ADDUCED, EVIDENCE EXCLUDED AND EVIDENCE SUPPRESSED. WHY MRS. SCHRODER WAS NOT CALLED AS A WITNESS. VALUABLE DISCOVERY IN THE LAW OF EVIDENCE. AN ENTIRELY NEW, CONVENIENT AND PERFECTLY SAFE MODE, OF PROVING BY ONE'S OWN WIFE, A CRIMINAL INTIMACY (WHICH NEVER OCCURRED) BETWEEN HERSELF AND HER IMAGINARY PARAMOUR, IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THE KILLING OF THE LATTER: WITHOUT SUBJECTING THE DEAR CREATURE TO THE MORTIFICATION OF A CROSS-EXAMINATION, OR TO THE PERILS OF A PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY. THE AUTHOR'S OBJECT IN PUBLISHING THIS PAMPHLET IS NOT TO VILLIFY GUILTY LIVING, BUT TO VINDICATE THE MEMORY OF THE SLANDERED DEAD. DEDICATED TO THE LOVERS OF TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW. BY ZACH MONTGOMERY, OF COUNSEL FOR THE STATE.

[Oakland CA: 1881]. 21, 3 pp. Frontis portrait of Dr. LeFevre. Stitched in original printed pink wrappers. Light wrapper wear [couple of closed margin tears, wear along spine, slight discoloration]. A pristine text. Near Fine. The final three pages print the prospectus of Family's Defender, "An Independent, Non-Partisan, Non-Sectarian, Monthly..... More

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