The Rare Book Collection's image galleries on Flickr are now part of the Yale Law Library's Flickr site. All the previous content is still there -- Legal Trees, Dutch Court Scenes, and Provenance Markings -- and I continue to add images to these sets. New sets include:

• 21 images from Francesco Maria Pecchio's profusely illustrated Tractatus de aquaeductu (1713), a 4-volume treatise on the Roman law of aquaducts and riparian rights (see an example at right).
• Images of Justitia (or Themis), or "blind-folded Justice with her scales."
  
• Title pages from a half-dozen 18th-century German legal dissertations. Our rare book cataloger, Susan Karpuk, spoke at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries on how to decipher their long-winded and complicated titles.
• Two pamphlets relating to the prosecution of William Lanson, a leader of New Haven's African-American community in the early 19th century. Lanson built the original Long Wharf and several other developments. In 1845 Lanson was accused of operating a house of ill repute. Isaiah Lanson's Statement and Inquiry, Concerning the Trial of William Lanson (1845) is a defense of Lanson by his son Isaiah, and William Lanson's Book of Satisfaction (1848) is William Lanson's own defence, including a poem describing the events.

More to come...

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian