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1898346H3096London: George Newnes Limited 1898. Book. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga King of Uganda illustrated article; The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. George Newnes, Limited Paperback
1884906Z3Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1884. First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine. 6.5" by 4". None. The first edition of this very scarce book of poetry by W. W. Story in the original nineteenth century dust wrapper. The first edition. A very scarce work. In the publisher's original paper covers with the original paper vellum early dust wrapper. An example of a nineteenth century dust wrapper rare in this condition. This poetry book was written by William Wetmore Story an American sculptor art critic and poet and contains the poem 'He and She or A Poet's Portfolio'. In the publisher's original paper covers with the original paper vellum dust wrapper. Externally very smart with age toning slight creasing to the spine and minimal edge wear. Front hinge weak. The wrap is excellent with handling marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and age toned pages. Very Good Indeed Houghton, Mifflin and Company paperback
189530283<p>SMALL HARDBACK NODustjacket Date Published: 1895 ON COPYRIGHT PG. 1st edition THUS VG/VG AS-IS NOJACKET SMALL GoldGILT red & BRown CRUSHED LEVANT LEATHER CVR SUPER EXTRA HAND FINISHED EDGES SEWN WITH SILK GILT TOPSHardback: Very Good. Binding firm. Beautiful Art Nouveau cover. Wear to cover sunning of spine. Interior clean and unmarked. No library markings in book. Dust Jacket: NO DJ issued. 4 1/4" by 6 1/4" 258pg. ads.</p> Henry Altemus PHILADELPHIA hardcover
18432933FBStuttgart, Adolph Krabbe Verlag, 1843-1845. Klein-8°. 15,5 x 11,5 cm. Insgesamt 13534 Seiten. Halbleinenbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und ornamenalem, goldgeprägtem Buchschmuck.
18841008161884-1887 A Paris, E. Dentu Editeur, Librairie de la Société des Gens de Lettres - 1884-1887 - 10 volumes petits in-8, demi basane marron foncé à coins; Cartouches et fleurons dorés, titre en doré; tranches de tête dorées - 170 + 194 + 156 + 186 + 208 + 168 + 196 + 216 + 192 + 215 pages - Table générale en fin du vol 10 - Frontispice des conteurs sur les volumes 2 à 10 - Bel ex-libris ancien gravé en deuxième de couverture
18955527New York: The Cassell Publishing Co. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good or better copy -- a little fading to the spine and some loss at the top of the cloth spine where it yaps folds over the textblock no bumps. Pencil period gift inscription contents otherwise clean. A nice solid copy. Red cloth with white contrasts. Over 50 very striking full-page illustrations. OCLC 16349500. Rare -- only one copy in Worldcat. <br/><br/> The Cassell Publishing Co. hardcover
1892719011892. Story on Equity Pleadings Story Joseph 1779-1845. Gould John M. 1848-1909 Editor. Commentaries on Equity Pleadings And the Incidents Thereof According to the Practice of the Courts of Equity of England and America. Revised Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1892. xlviii 823 pp. Octavo 6" x 9". Contemporary law calf blind rules to boards raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine blind tooling to board edges. A few minor stains light rubbing to extremities hinges cracked light toning to text. A notably well-preserved copy. $450. Ninth edition. This distinguished treatise was first published in 1836. According to Simon Greenleaf "there are no works in our language in which the true doctrines and practice of the Law of Equity.are so convincingly taught; and probably no one of his works has been received by the profession with greater thankfulness or is more frequently consulted than this work" cited in Marvin. It remained a standard work for many years; its final edition the thirteenth was issued in 1886. Marvin Legal Bibliography 672. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:670. unknown books
1829707451829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story Joseph 1779-1845. Oliver Benjamin L. 1788-1843 Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. xv 709 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper below small struck-through signature. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to a few leaves. $450. Second edition. This is both the first legal work bearing Story's name and the first American book of entries of precedents. According to Marvin the work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special pleading." Story was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a professor at Harvard Law School and the most respected and prolific legal writer of his time. Edwin Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9275. unknown books
1894218641894. Slavery & Abolition Literature Anonymous. The Story of a Slave: Slavery's Social Evil. Published by the trade. 1894. Original black and white illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 192 pages. This is a rare account of slavery by an anonymous author that romanticizes the Old South and plantation life of the slave Paul who is seduced by the white mistress Virginia. Paul Hamilton Hayes' name appears in the contents page though an author is not attributed. The title page states "A realistic revelation of a social relation of slave times hitherto unwritten--from the one who has felt both the slash and the caress from their mistress." The Story of a Slave is presented as the autobiography of a slave named Paul but is believed to be a fictional account. The work was published anonymously and no author has since been identified. In this account Paul was born in Alabama and learned to read and write as a child. When he was eighteen he began to work as a field hand on a Choteaux family plantation. He later moved to another of his master's plantations to work as a house-boy. Here he met and fell in love with his master's daughter Virginia Choteaux. Soon Virginia discovers she is pregnant but before the lovers can arrange an escape Virginia's unsuspecting parents arrange for her marriage to a young white man. The memoir concludes with news of Paul's former mistress's death some years after the Civil War." This summary was written perhaps about an earlier publication of this book around 1894 published by Wesley Elmore & Benson and this copy may be a later publication in paperback for the trade but is a rare pulp copy. Title page has a 1" chip in the center of some text. The contents page is detached from binding. Edges of front and back covers have chips and tears. Overall condition is clean with no writing underlining or highlighting. unknown
18932111902160200330Kaku Eisaburo Uedaya Main Store 1893. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kaku Eisaburo Uedaya Main Store paperback
187335501502Paris, Gauthier Villars, 1873 ; grand in-quarto br.en fascicule 54 fascicules L'année 1873 en 2 livraison avec ses tables, Tome LXXVI (27 fasc) et Tome LXXVII (27fasc). Importantes publications dont Pasteur, Becquerel , Laplace, Janssen
18291901020001Boston; Washington: Boston daily advertiser; Dutton and Wentworth; J. Munroe; Richardson Lord & Holbrook; J.H. Eastburn; American stationers'; Gales and Seaton 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Sammelband of seven volumes bound as one. An interesting collection primarily containing John Quincy Adams' orations. Of particular note are Adams' remembrances of Monroe Madison and Lafayette. 524 pages. Bound in contemporary leather over marbled boards. Some rubbing to boards binding sound. Scattered foxing rear most pamphlet has some dampstaining. Includes: 1. Correspondence between John Quincy Adams president of the United States and several citizens of Massachusetts concerning the charge of a design to dissolve the union alleged to have existed in that state. Boston daily advertiser 1829. 80 p.; 2. Sermon preached at the annual election May 26 1830 before His Excellency Levi Lincoln governor His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop lieutenant governor the honorable Council and the legislature of Massachusetts. By William E. Channing. Dutton and Wentworth 1830. 46 p. 1; 3. A discourse upon the life character and services of the Honorable John Marshall LL.D. : chief justice of the United States of America pronounced on the fifteenth day of October at the request of the Suffolk bar by Joseph Story. J. Munroe 1835. 74 p. 1; 4. An oration addressed to the citizens of the town of Quincy on the fourth of July 1831 the fifty-fifth anniversary of the independence of the United States of America. By John Quincy Adams. Richardson Lord & Holbrook 1831. 40 p. Fourth of July oration. 5. An eulogy: on the life and character of James Monroe fifth president of the United States. Delivered at the request of the corporation of the city of Boston on the 25th of August 1831. By John Quincy Adams. J.H. Eastburn 1831. 100 p. 6. An eulogy on the life and character of James Madison By John Quincy Adams. American stationers' company 1836. 87 p. Errata 1; 7. Oration on the life and character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette: delivered at the request of both houses of the Congress of the United States before them in the House of Representatives at Washington on the 31st of December 1834. Gales and Seaton 1835. 94 p. 1. <br> Provenance: Contemporary signature of P. Jones. Later ownership by J. Frank Perry 1854-1930 and his son John M. Perry 1895–1973. Boston daily advertiser; Dutton and Wentworth; J. Munroe; Richardson, Lord & Holbrook; J.H. Eastburn; American stationers hardcover
1857STORYROB003872Longman Brown Green Longmans and Roberts London. 1857. First edition. Royal octavo. pp xii 416 6 List of Subscribers. Titles printed in red decorative initials in red and blue. Decorative borders of blue and gilt. Engraved vignette of Alnwick Castle on title-page. Period binding of full red morocco with raised bands decoration in gilt and blind all edges gilt. The author known as the Craven Poet was of humble background and was considered in his lifetime as a successor to Burns. The Duke of Northumberland was largely responsible for financing this edition of his work which may account for the fairly lavish nature of the printing. The list of subscribers includes the names of a number of other aristocrats as well as of a preponderance of residents of the author's native northern England including Titus Salt.Presentation copy from the author inscribed on the second black: ''To John Beach Esq with the Author Robert Story's best wishes - 2 Nov. 1858''. On the first blank is a presentation inscription dated in the following year from John Beach to his niece Mary. John Beach's name doesn't feature in the list of subscribers. A later unconnected inscription appears on the verso of the front free endpaper.Rear cover slightly marked. Joints faintly rubbed. Very good indeed. Scarce. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, London. hardcover
183310428Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1833. Half Leather. near Very Good binding. Octavo. xliii 1 736 pp. First edition thus. Rebound in modern calf-backed boards. The binding is sharp without wear; the textblock has early dampstaining with tideline heavier to the preliminary pages after which the tidelines are intermittent and generally minor; foxing and pencil marginalia throughout. <br /> <br /> Issued the same year as the 3-volume first edition this is an abridged version of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice's most important and enduring work on the history of constitutional law in America. In his "Legal Bibliography" J. G. Marvin describes Story's credentials as its author thus "The judicial station of the author his opportunities for hearing constitutional questions mooted and settled for the last quarter of a century his habits of patient and thorough investigation give a weight and value to Judge Story's writings upon Constitutional Law which few similar works can claim." Further he describes Commentaries as an essential work for the student of constitutional history "written with great candour and characterized by extended research and careful examination of the vital principles upon which our government reposes" p. 669. Early editions of Story's Commentaries are fairly uncommon in the trade. Marvin p 669. Howes S-1047; Sabin 92292; Oxford American National Biography. Hilliard, Gray, and Company unknown
1845law2<p>Eleven Chapters on apromissory Notes and related subjects with many pages of cited cases. Front Board is detached. Binding holding and is rear hinge. No foxing. No internal markings. NOT EX-LIB. A very good copy ready for a bookbinders touoch on the reattachment of the front board.</p> Charles C. Little & James Brown hardcover
1836002756Paris, Charles Gosselin et Furne, 1836
1832707461832. Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown 1832. Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown 1832. Story on Bailments First Edition Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments With Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown 1832. xxxiv 411 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing and a shallow scuffing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities a few small chips to head of spine corners lightly bumped early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper and head of title page and p. 25. Moderate toning to text browning to a few leaves light foxing in a few places. A nice copy. $950. First edition. "Whatever was to be found in the English and American decisions whatever Roman and Continental jurisprudence afforded on illustration of the law of bailments Joseph Story collected and combined with surprising industry and wonderful learning.Story's Bailments affords one of the best examples in modern times of the illustration which our laws are susceptible of by the aid of foreign jurisprudence"Marvin. Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668-669. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2451. unknown books
1841668361841. Boston 1841. 1st edition. Boston 1841. 1st edition. "A Truly Luminous Exposition" Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown/London: A. Maxwell 1841. xxi 690 pp. Octavo 9" x 6". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards raised bands and small lettering piece to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities somewhat heavier rubbing to spine corners bumped. Moderate toning to text light foxing in places upper corners of some leaves have fold lines a few have early underlining and other marks in pencil. An appealing copy. $950. First edition of one of Story's great treatises. Like the others it was a standard work in the United States and to some extent Great Britain. In his Law Studies Samuel Warren said the Commentaries on the Law of Partnership is "a truly luminous exposition of a subject noted for its intricacy and the subtlety of the rules upon which the system depends" 451. It was a deeply influential work as well. Indeed Pound mentions it his list of texts that were "a significant force in our legal development.": The Formative Era of American Law 140. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9321. unknown books
1841c398jA. Maxwell 1841. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 2nd edition revised corrected and greatly enlarged. Discarded from Harvard Law Library whose stamp can be found on the verso of the title page. Fully rebound in red leather retaining the original labels on the spine. Internally the early and late pages are worn along the edges and there is a previous owner's signature on the title page in faded ink. There is age related tanning throughout but there appears to be no other markings or inscriptions and the pages within are neat and complete. The binding is secure. A handsome book indeed considering its age! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. A. Maxwell hardcover
18039028821Salem: Bernard B. Macanulty 1803. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Full sheep with blind stamped border on front and back covers; five raised bands and maroon leather label stamped in gilt on spine. Rubbing to boards and extremities with small chip to heel of spine. Quarter inch closed tears to head of spine. Bookseller stamp of Dresser McClellan & Co. Booksellers and Stationers Portland ME on front paste down end paper. Small tear to bottom of front free end paper at inner hinge and slight creasing of front free end paper. Previous owner's signature on title page. Moderate foxing throughout as usual. Octavo; 6 in. x 9.5 in. Includes a catalog of law books sold by Bernard B. Macanulty. <br/><br/> Bernard B. Macanulty hardcover
1836002795Paris, Charles Gosselin et Furne, 1836
181715973New Haven: Sidney Press 1817. First edition. 12 illustrations in color and black and white. VERY RARE. Small 8vo publisher’s original decorated wraps. 31 pp. A well preserved copy some with expected wear. This children’s book is called a chapbook a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their goods in towns and villages and at country fairs. In 1553 Edward VI proclaimed that champmen must be licensed and Chettle in Kind Hart’s Dreame 1592 wrote that “‘Chapmen are able to spred more pamphlets.then all the booksellers in town.’†Although they sold other wares too they always had cheap booklets sometimes ballad sheets which eventually assumed the familiar form af a miniature booklet with a paper cover thatusually had a picture. Even Shakespeare in Henry IV mentioned the chapmen as did Urquhart’s Rabelais in 1653. With the growth of small printers miniature editions of old favourites could be printed. While chapbooks were ostensibly designed to help children learn how to read they often broached adult subjects and were the source of entertainment in families and villages. <br> This edition contains: “George and Adolphus†“The Little Wanderers. A True Story.†“The Little Prisoners†and “The Illnatured Boy.†Sidney Press paperback
188680494Boston: Little Brown and Company 1886. Modern half leather over buckram boards crimson morocco labels neatly gilt ruled and decorated a very good clean set The penultimate American edition one undertaken by Melville Bigelow carefully based on Story's own last edition of 1846 restoring Story's text and footnoted and then adding Bigelow's own commentary often substantial separately in double column Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1834715771834. Boston 1834. First edition. Boston 1834. First edition. Handsomely Bound First Edition of One of Story's Most Important Treatises Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Superbly bound in period-style full calf blind rules to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine original endpapers retained. Moderate toning to text somewhat darker or browned in places light foxing faint gradually diminishing dampstaining to margins of several leaves at beginning and end of text. A handsome copy. $1500. First edition. Story's Conflict of Laws the first systematic treatise on the subject is one of his greatest and most influential works. Warren says: "It is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts." Expanding on this latter point Marvin quotes "a late English writer" who says that "no work on international jurisprudence merited nor received greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for Story's extensive learning." Marvin Legal Bibliography 471. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2723. unknown books
