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2003365232003. ISBN-13: 9781584773115; ISBN-10: 1584773111. Hare John Innes Clark. The Law of Contracts. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1887. xxxiv 679 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773115; ISBN-10: 1584773111. Hardcover. New. $125. Hare's objective was to trace the doctrine of consideration and to show its influence on contracts in common law. Beginning with Roman law where the doctrine of consideration was unknown he proceeds to an examination of the practical importance of the law of sales. This treatise was taken from a course of lectures given by the author in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania where he also served as a trustee. Hare 1816-1905 edited a number of selections and reports of cases and ".was one of the half-dozen greatest judges that Pennsylvania has produced. He ascended the bench just after equity was introduced as a general system into Pennsylvania and his contribution to its establishment was of great importance." Dictionary of American Biography IV:262. unknown books
198051345Pittsburgh: Museum of Art Carnegie Institute 1980. First edition. Swank Luke. Small 4to. 94 pp. 92 b&w photo-plates. With additional texts by Beaumont Newhall and Robert Doherty. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that is slightly toned lacking a few tiny chips at the spine crown and is scarred on the bottom of the rear panel from the removal of a 1 x 1 inch price label. Swank was born in 1890 in Pennsylvania; after a number of different occupations and serving in the army he turned to photography around 1930. He exhibited in various salons around the U.S. in group exhibitions in major museums exhibed at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932 and was published in several photographic journals. His work is among the best of the American modernist documentarians. Of particular interest are his photos of the circus. <br/><br/> Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute unknown books
190558335New York: P.F. Collier & Son 1905. Oblong folio pp. 256; frontispiece volume comprised mostly of photographic illustrations title page printed in red and black; original cloth-backed boards photographic pastedown on upper cover; edges show shelf wear; front free endpaper creased; a good copy or better. <br/><br/> P.F. Collier & Son hardcover books
1972147493N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for the 1972 play which premiered on April 17 at the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre in New York. <br/><br/>A stubborn young woman is sent to live at her aunt's hotel in Cape Cod after her father discovers she is pregnant out of wedlock leading to deeper and deeper animosities between the two women.<br/><br/>Set in Cape Cod Massachusetts.<br/><br/>Generic circa contemporary report folder with a clear mylar front wrapper and a black vinyl rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for playwright Bill Hare. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-3-32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with lower corner missing from the front mylar wrapper and corner crease to same bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
183723015Philadelphia: Printed by John C. Clark 1837. 29 3 blank pp. Untrimmed and generously margined stitched. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrap light to moderate dusting Good. <br/><br/> Robert Hare professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1818 to 1847 wrote a number of economic tracts and generally as here advocated Whig banking policies favoring a plentiful supply of credit to finance the country's expansion. <br/>AI 44668 5. Printed by John C. Clark unknown books
190728652London: T.C. & E.C. Jack 1907-1910. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 20.5 cm. Brown paper boards with black titling and color pictorial pastedowns. Deckle edge. Each volume with color frontispieces and 8 color plates. Bookplates of Thomas Jefferson Murray on inside fronts. Soiling to boards foxing to pages and fraying to spine ends. A handful of the volumes with chipping to spines. Volumes include: Velazquez Reynolds Turner Romney Greuze Rossetti Bellini Fra Angelico Rembrandt Leighton Raphael Holman Hunt Titian Millais Carlo Dolci Gainesborough Tintoretto Luini Franz Hals Van Dyck Leonardo da Vinci Rubens Whistler Holbein Burne-Jones Vigée LeBrun Chardin Fragonard Memlinc Constable Raeburn and Sargent. Will require extra postage. T.C. & E.C. Jack hardcover books
1981266015London: Soho Poly Theatre & Verity Bargate Award 1981. 20p includes covers 8x11.25 inches memorials from actors playwrights directors friends and family illustrated with photos a slip memorializing the death of C.P. Taylor laid-in as well as a small leaflet advertising the production at Soho Poly of "Stiff" by Tony Marchant program of the event which featured perfrmances by Bob Hoskins and of excerpts from Barrie Keeffe's new play very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. No holdings located in OCLC as of 5/2021. This was the beginning to the Verity Bargate Award for new plays. She was a co-founder of the Soho Theatre Co.She died in 1981 of cancer at 41 just months after marrying playwright Keefe. [Soho Poly Theatre & Verity Bargate Award] unknown books
1978153055Millerton NY: Aperture 1978. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. A depressing look at suburban life whereas Owen's book "Suburbia" was somewhat optimistic Hare's images are dark and poignantly show the ennui in middle America. A very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears and some very slight wear. A very nice copy of this classic monograph. Parr & Badger v2 23. Aperture unknown books
1836288901Philadelphia: J. G. Auner 1836. Third Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A textbook on Chemistry for use by students of the University of Pennsylvania written by a university professor Robert Hare who also provided his name to the Robert Hare Medical and Dental Library 1878-1969. Numerous plates and text illustrations depicting the curious chemical instruments and experiments of the day. Toning to the endpapers; contemporary owner's name on the front flyleaf; foxing throughout. Overly mottled calf with some surface loss to the leather and a black leather label on the spine. Very Good binding. J. G. Auner unknown books
1821WAS44059Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown London 1821. Some soiling and foxing to plates and text leaves untrimmed. 9 x 5 1/2 inches boards with leather spine discoloration and wear to boards and leather Xii 300 4 pages of advertisements plus 2 engraved plates. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London hardcover books
1843S7264Philadelphia:: William S. Young 1843. 1843. Thick 4to. Article 49-51 pp.; article lightly foxed. Whole vol. xi 357 pp. Numerous engraved plates figs. charts; browning foxing throughout. Later gilt stamped green cloth. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Significant work on the Hessian fly by pioneer woman scientist. Morris was an early female American scientist and the first female member of Ac. Nat. Scis. Philad. of Germantown PA. This study of the Hessian fly had particular significance for agriculture as a careful examination of these insects ". . . delineated life history and concluded that eggs were laid in grain rather than stalk." Biographical Dictionary of American Science Elliott p. 185. William S. Young, 1843. hardcover books
185615849New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1856. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Some rubbing fraying of extremities endpapers browned text browned in margins else a good copy. With booklabels of "From Plummer's Cheap Bookstore Davenport Iowa" and "Baldwin's Original Antiquarian Cheap Book Store 199 East Madison St. Chicago" on endpapers also bookplate of Russel van Arsdale Lee. 1 vols. 8vo. Testimony into the validity of mesmerism with chapters devoted to writing of the "causes that have made mesmerism unpopular" on the Mesmeric consciousness and Mesmeric sensation as well as the Mesmeric Medium. A very interesting look into this subject. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
1949WRCLIT84699New York: Valenti Angelo 1949. 16mo. 12.5 x 8.5 cm. Plain wrapper over boards spine lettered in orange. Slight use at crown of spine and fore-tips very good internally fine. First printing in this format with hand- executed color calligraphic initials and decorated title-page device. Copy #28 of two hundred copies handset in Goudy Tory printed illuminated and signed by Valenti Angelo. An uncommon rendering of this popular text. Valenti Angelo hardcover books
20092305Steidl 2009. First edition. Oblong quarto illustrated boards as issued. Signed by the photographer Chauncey Hare on the title page. In near fine condition. Steidl hardcover books
185355058New York: Courrier des Etats-Unis 1853. 16mo pp. 30 2; printed self-wrappers; ink number on title page near fine. Robert Hare was engaged with l'Espy and Peltier in a debate over the nature and source of storms. Hare was a minor player in this debate. His belief was that "vast currents of opposing electrical charge" was the source of storms. This pamphlet appears to be a defense of that position. Scarce with no copies recorded in the US. <br/><br/> Courrier des Etats-Unis unknown books
9229Hare Thomas. Reports of Cases.in the High Court of Chancery 1841-1853. With Notes & References to both English & American Decisions by E. Fitch Smith et al. New York: Banks Gould & Co. 1851-1871. Eleven volumes. Complete set of all volumes published. Contemporary law calf. Ex-library. Worn. Most covers detached crudely repaired with tape. Four vols. missing all or part of spine. Internally sound. $250. Maxwell and Brown Checklist of British and Colonial Reports. 3rd ed. 6. Wallace 529. unknown books
186265870BostonMA: Printed by Prentiss & Deland No. 40 Congess Street 1862. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Plain green paperwraps with inscription on front wrapper "Joseph G. Waters from Dr. F. A. Winsor." American Imprints 48988. <br/><br/> Printed by Prentiss & Deland, No. 40 Congess Street paperback books
184121251Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1841. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First American Edition. x 2 1-539 pages. 8vo. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and blindstamped decorations on the front and rear panels. A bright copy with some fraying at the top of the spine panel and light foxing throughout. With the ownership signature of Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch son of the better known mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch on the title page and dated 1842. Cloth. Nathaniel I. Bowditch was Vice President of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1856-1862. Townshend was a skeptic later a supporter of animal magnetism. The first edition was London 1840 with the title "Facts in Mesmerism With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry Into it" and went through a number of editions. Robert H. Collyer has added an appendix "Report of the Boston Committee on Animal Magnetism as Exhibited by Dr. Robert H. Collyer" to this edition "First American Edition" as stated on the title page There was also a Harper and Brothers edition in 1841 with a page count of 388 pages. Nicely represented in institutional collections but less commonly found in the trade. Charles C. Little and James Brown unknown books
1712308175London: A. Baldwin 1712. 16 pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards black morocco spine label. Covers worn staining to final leaf. 16 pp. 8vo. A reply to Delarivier Manley's The D. of M-h's Vindication 1711 itself a reply to Francis Hare's attack on Swift and the Examiner Bouchain: in a Dialogue Between the Late Medley and Examiner 1711. One of two editions published in 1712. ESTC T125470; Goldsmiths' 4955; Teerink 852A. Provenance: T.A. Hollick pencil attribution sold Sotheby's London 19-20 May 1980 part of lot 24 A. Baldwin unknown books
19082221889<p>First edition. Octavo. Seven b/w illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. Original pictorial brown cloth with design in brown black and cream pictorial wrappers. Dust jacket chips; pencil writing on back panel; rare thus. Fresh bright copy. 343 pages.</p><p>Gift inscription on front free endpaper "Louis Irving from Mrs. Fowler."</p><p>Second title in this sports series for boys.</p> The Penn Publishing Company hardcover books
1893291233London: George Allen 1893. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Many full page black & white illustrations and smaller ones throughout the text. Full burgundy polished calf ornately gilt spines. London: George Allen 1893. Very good .<br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
1711WRCLIT38111London: Printed for A. Baldwin 1711. . Two volumes. Stitched untrimmed self- wrappers. Modest dust soiling early ink name on each title upper fore-corner of last two leaves of second work torn away touching two letters but very good copies. First editions of the first two of four pamphlets the Bishop of Chichester directed against Swift's THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES. ROTHSCHILD 1106 & 7 second editions. TEERINK 1041. ESTC T21265 & T21268. Printed for A. Baldwin unknown books
1854316226London: Thomas Bosworth 1854. 216 2pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth front hinge split. 216 2pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the title-page; "From the Author." Dickens who was also interested in mesmerism dedicated Great Expectations to Townshend and gave him the maunuscript. Townshend desicated his volume of poetry The Three Gates to Dickens. This is his second book on mesmerism andrare. Thomas Bosworth unknown books
1930259007New York: Eyre and Spotiswoode 1930. First edition no. 23 of 50 copies signed by the author and the artist and printed on special mould made paper. Illustrated title page color frontispiece and plate and numerous illustrations throughout the text by Cecil Aldin. 189 pp. 1 vols. Lare 8vo. Vellum spine and red cloth over beveled boards. Fine. Aldin Cecil. First edition no. 23 of 50 copies signed by the author and the artist and printed on special mould made paper. Illustrated title page color frontispiece and plate and numerous illustrations throughout the text by Cecil Aldin. 189 pp. 1 vols. Lare 8vo. ONE OF 50. Tales stemming from the author's fascination with coaching prints. Not in Rittenhouse [Eyre and Spotiswoode] unknown books
1836710461836. New York: Halsted and Voorhies 1836. 1st Am ed. New York: Halsted and Voorhies 1836. 1st Am ed. "It Is Not Merely Practical But in Many Parts Highly Scientific" Hare Thomas 1806-1891. A Treatise on Discovery of Evidence by Bill and Answer in Equity. New York: Halsted and Voorhies 1836. xxxiii 316 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Contemporary calf blind fillets to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. A few nicks and scuffs light rubbing to extremities negligible light toning to text light foxing to a few leaves early owner initial in ink to front pastedown. A well-preserved copy. $500. First American edition a reprint of the first London edition published the same year. Marvin praises its completeness: "It professes to be a complete Treatise upon Discovery; it comprises almost all the authorities upon the subject with accurate investigations into many practical points. It is a work to which the practitioner may refer with every prospect of finding a perfect explanation of any difficulties which he may have encountered. Indeed it has still higher merits. It is not merely practical but in many parts extremely scientific. Later American editions were published in 1849 and 1850. Marvin Legal Bibliography 368. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 5075. unknown books
