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182833114Boston: Hilliard Gray Little and Wilkins 1828. 1st edition American Imprints 35420; Bradford 5255; Sabin 92299. INSCRIBED by the author in the t.p. top margin "To his Honor / Lieut Govr Winthrop / with the Respects of / The Author". Disbound. Chemised and housed in a custom brown quarter-leather slipcase with marbled paper boards. Slipcase - Fine. Pamphlet - Top trimmed from first 2 words of inscription. Lacks lower right corner of title leaf otherwise VG. 90 pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Story the famed Supreme Court Justice known for his Commentaries on the Constitution 1833 was the youngest attorney ever be nominated to the court at 32 here inscribes this work to Winthrop while Winthrop was serving as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1826 - 1833. Hilliard Gray Little and Wilkins hardcover books
1845598981845. Early French Edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution Story Joseph 1779-1845. Odent Paul Editor and Translator. Commentaire Sur la Constitution des Etats-Unis Traduit du Commentaire de J. Story Professeur de Droit a L'Universite de Harvard Et Augmente des Observations de Mm. Jefferson Rawle De Tocqueville Etc. Et de Notes Sur la Jurisprudence et L'Organisation Judicaire par Paul Odent Docteur en Droit Avocat a la Cour Royale de Paris Ancien Avocat aux Conseils du Roi et a la Cour de Cassation. Paris: Joubert 1845. Two volumes. ix lxxi 390; iii 498 1 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards raised bands and lettering pieces to spines. Light rubbing to boards and extremities a few minor nicks to spines corners bumped. Moderate toning occasional light foxing internally clean. A handsome copy of an uncommon title. $1500. Reissue of the first French edition 1843 with a slightly different title. The first is entitled Commentaire Sur la Constitution Federale des Etats-Unis. The first complete translation into a foreign language it is taken from Story's first abridged edition 1833. Along with Franz Joseph Buss's Uber die Verfassungs-Urkunde der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika. Historischer Teil Nach Story's Commentarien Bearbeitet 1838 Odent's preface is an important source of information on the European reception of Story's work and the American Constitution. In addition to original notes Odent added relevant commentary by Jefferson Rawle Tocqueville and others and discussed aspects of the American government that could be adopted in Europe. OCLC locates 2 copies in North American law libraries University of Alabama and University of Michigan. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2918. unknown books
1843605041843. First French Edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution Story Joseph 1779-1845. Odent Paul Editor and Translator. Commentaire Sur la Constitution Federale des Etats-Unis Precede d'un Apercu sur l'Histoire des Colonies et des Etats Avant l'Adoption de la Constitution Traduit du Commentaire de J. Story Professeur de Droit a L'Universite de Harvard Et Augmente des Observations de Mm. Jefferson Rawle De Tocqueville Etc. Et de Notes Sur la Jurisprudence et L'Organisation Judiciaire par Paul Odent Docteur en Droit Avocat a la Cour Royale de Paris Ancien Avocat aux Conseils du Roi et a la Cour de Cassation. Paris: Joubert Libraire de la Court de Cassation 1843. Two volumes. ix i x lxxi 1 390; iv 498 1 pp. Octavo 8" x 5-1/4". Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards gilt title fillets and blind-stamped ornaments to spine speckled edges marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities light rubbing and a few minor scuffs to boards hinges starting. Moderate toning to text light foxing in places mostly to margins. Early owner stamp A. Armand to front endleaf of each volume interiors otherwise clean. A nice copy of a scarce title. $1500. First French edition. The first complete translation into a foreign language it is taken from Story's first abridged edition 1833. Along with Franz Joseph Buss's Uber die Verfassungs-Urkunde der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika. Historischer Teil Nach Story's Commentarien Bearbeitet 1838 Odent's preface is an important source of information on the European reception of Story's work and the American Constitution. In addition to original notes Odent added relevant commentary by Jefferson Rawle Tocqueville and others and discussing aspects of the American government that could be adopted in Europe. OCLC locates 3 copies in North American law schools George Washington University University of Alabama University of Michigan. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2918. unknown books
18892111902160200632Kinsakurado 1889. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kinsakurado paperback
1834707421834. Boston 1834. First edition. Contemporary binding. Boston 1834. First edition. Contemporary binding. First Edition of "An Epoch in the Law" 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". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Light rubbing and a few shallow scuffs to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front pastedown below early annotation in pencil. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing. A choice copy of a landmark work. $2000. 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." Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 471. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2723. unknown books
1858542971858. Bennett E.H. Editor. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. Bennett E.H. Editor. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. Attractive Third Edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution The Last Edition Published Before the Civil War Story Joseph 1779-1845. Bennett E.H. Editor. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1858. Two volumes. 8 xxxiii ii 735; ii 702 pp. Eight-page publisher catalogue at beginning of Volume I. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth raised bands retaining original red morocco lettering pieces endpapers renewed. Light to moderate toning negligible foxing to a few leaves some offsetting to margins of Volume II title page internally clean. A nice copy in a handsome binding. $2000. Third edition. First published in 1833 this work is probably the most important work written on the American Constitution during the nineteenth century. Though overshadowed by Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court Story had no peer as a teacher or writer. Comparing the Commentaries to The Federalist James Kent observed that Story's treatise was "written in the same free and liberal spirit with equal exactness and soundness of doctrine and with great beauty and eloquence of composition. Whoever seeks for a complete history and exposition of this branch of our jurisprudence will have recourse to the above work which is written with great candor and characterized by extended research and a careful examination of the vital principles upon which our government reposes" cited in Marvin Legal Bibliography 669-670. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2917. unknown books
18375083Boston; Philadelphia: Wells and Lilly; P. H. Nicklin and T. Johnson Law Booksellers 1837. Two quarto volumes 4 827-1532pp and 7 2104-2632pp. Tan buckram red and black morocco labels on spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Damp staining to lower page edges of the first third or so of each more pronounced in the earlier volume. Pages tanned and somewhat brittle in volume 4 foxing throughout in volume 2 unused card pockets in front of both. Several ownership markings including signatures from John Neely Bryan in each. <p><br /> Historic set of two statute books from the library of the founder of Dallas John Neely Bryan 1810-1877. Bryan left his home state of Tennessee at an early age with law degree in hand first to Arkansas and in 1839-1841 surveying and settling in the area that would later become Dallas. <br /> <br /> The natural features of the landscape the Trinity River being shallow and crossable at the site perhaps drew Bryan to the area but were also a source for disaster shortly after his settling. Stephen R. Butler in his biography John Neely Bryan: The Father of Dallas pg. 46: <br /> "In 1842. A Trinity River flood damaged the so-called 'Gilbert-Bryan cabin.' John Neely Bryan Jr. described this event: 'Shortly after this first cabin was completed my father went back to Colbert's Ferry for a supply of corn. he found that a rise of the river had occurred during his absence. damaging his books and destroying many of his papers. he had brought with him numerous valuable books and papers pertaining to his profession.'" <br /> <br /> </p> <br /> <p>These volumes were later rebound and owned by Maurice Eugene Locke who established a practice in the city in 1891 and built one of the great law libraries of the West. The stamp of a "John B. Seymour" is also present in each perhaps owning the books between Bryan and Locke. We find no record of John Neely Bryan's signature at auction. This wonderful piece of Dallas history also presents a rare case where water damage adds to rather than detracts from the appeal. </p> . Wells and Lilly; P. H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers unknown
1873680951873. Uncommon Cooley Edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution Story Joseph 1779-1845. Thomas M. Cooley 1824-1898 Editor. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1873. Two volumes. xxxii 752; 737 pp. Octavo 9" x 6". Recent period-style calf blind fillets and lettering pieces to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to text moderate edgewear light soiling and small library inkstamps to title pages. Quite uncommon in the trade. $1750. Fourth edition. Commentaries on the Constitution was the most extensive and widely discussed study of the Constitution written during the antebellum period. It was originally published in 1833 and the next two editions appeared in 1851 and 1858. Divided into three books it offers a strongly nationalist interpretation of the Federal constitution. Book I contains a history of the colonies and a discussion of their charters. Book II discusses the Continental Congress and analyzes the flaws that crippled the Articles of Confederation. Book III begins with a history of the Constitution and its ratification. This is followed by a brilliant line-by-line exposition of each of its articles and amendments. Published in 1873 Cooley's edition updated Story's text to include discussion of the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments as well as other changes introduced during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Cooley's additions are enclosed in square brackets some notes by Edmund Bennett the editor of the third edition are retained and attributed. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:669. unknown books
18051234531805. First Edition. STORY Joseph. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions Subsequent to the Declaration. Salem: Barnard B. Macanulty 1805. Octavo period-style full marbled calf raised bands original red morocco spine label laid down. $3000.First edition of the first published book by ""the most commanding legal figure of his age"" Hall 841 handsomely bound.""The appearance of this volume was opportune and serviceable to the Profession in this country who had hitherto been obliged to resort to the voluminous books of English Entries for Precedents. The notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special Pleading at the early age of 26 in which his first attempt at legal authorship was published"" Marvin 668. Six years later Story was appointed to a Supreme Court still very much in its formative stages. He served with distinction for 34 years and was a defining influence on the early Court. With six-page publisher's catalogue of law books bound in at rear. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2156. HLC II:674. NYU 312. Last few leaves of Index and advertisements dampstained at lower corner text generally quite clean period-style binding fine and handsome. hardcover
1810PHO-435Paris, Clament, 1810. 3 vol. In-8° (202 x 136 mm) TOME 1:301pp TOME 2 : [2], 390 pp. ; TOME 3 : 291 pp., avec 4 tableaux et 2 cartes dépliantes de Mentelle and Chanlaire (Chine et Inde) sur papier bleuté , contours coloriés , reliure époque , dos lisse avec pièce de titre et tomaison, petits manques.
1833128644Hilliard Gray and Company: Cambridge 1833. 4th. Leather. Very Good. 9x0x6. 1833 Hilliard Gray and Company: Cambridge 3 volumes set in modern 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Stain to lower 1/3 of volume 1's spine. Tight bindings text unmarked. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Hilliard, Gray and Company: Cambridge hardcover
18220204521822 - 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or staining; "withdrawn" stamps on front and rear pastedowns where there are minor remnants of a pocket. Paper library labels on the spines rubbing to joints slight edgewear. Overall Near Fine. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/2" volumes identically bound in half calf and marbled boards with matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. All the pamphlets are complete except for the original wrappers which were not bound in. Both volumes with Edward Everett's bookplate on the front pastedown along with a presentation bookplate of Frederick W. Putnam to Hamilton College both stamped "Withdrawn." In addition to Emerson and Story other contributors include James Kent Charles Sumner Alexander Everett Theopholis Parson James Percifal William J. Spooner Denison Olmstead Thomas S. Grimke Benjamin Toslin Theron Metcalf Asher Robbins Seth Hawley Virgil Maxcy and Asher Ware. Story's DISCOURSE SABIN 92300 is INSCRIBED "The Honorable/Edward Everett/from the Author" on the title and has a partial correction in the author's hand on page 26. In addition to Story's INSCRIPTION to Everett Maxcy and Ware have also INSCRIBED their addresses to Everett. Emerson's address is certainly the most important present in these volumes. Published in an edition of only 500 copies all of which were sold within a months time it was generally well received and was later described by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." When Emerson included this essay in his seminal collection in 1841 he renamed it "The American Scholar": "The clarion cry to think to create to become a productive scholar and above all to fulfil yourself as an individualist." BAL 5183; GROLIER AMERICAN 100: 43. Each volume also with the owner inscription of Frederick W. Putnam dated 22 November 1910 Binghamton NY. Putnam a student of Louis Agassiz was the first director of the Peabody Museum of Salem president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science president of the American Folklore Society and president of the American Anthropological Association among other honors. He is widely known as the "Father of American Archaeology." A remarkable collection with an exceptional provenance and association. <br/><br/>Edward Everett--a Unitarian minister member of both the United States Congress and Senate and also a governor of Massachusetts--is perhaps best known for his oratory powers. It is he who gave the "other" address at Gettysburg on 19 November 1863. The next day he wrote Lincoln saying "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." hardcover
1833TB32375Boston and Cambridge: Hilliard Gray And Company and Brown Shattuck And Co. 1833. First Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in near fine condition in recent 1/2 calf leather and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with red and black gilt stamped title blocks in two compartments and with gilt bands and gilt banding at the edges of the leather on the boards. All three are octavos of 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with new end sheets. The blank leaves prior to the title pages and at the end of each text block show spots of mild foxing some of which have migrated to the title page and last printed page; otherwise the contents are remarkably clean and bright. Volume I contains 494 pages; volume II contains 555 pages; and volume III contains 776 which includes and index for all three volumes. Story was a noted and accomplished attorney a member of Congress for one term and was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1811. His greatest contribution was this title which is still considered "the standard treatise on the subject" of the Constitution. Wikipedia Howes S-1047; Sabin 92291; DABIX p102-108 A particularly handsome set whose importance to the study of the Constitution is as important as The Federalist. Hilliard, Gray, And Company and Brown, Shattuck, And Co. hardcover
183338148Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company; Cambridge: Brown Shattuck and Co 1833. 3 volumes 8vo. xxxiv 2 1-494; 2 1-555 1; 2 1-776pp. Contemporary sheep expert repairs to joints<br/> <br/>Provenance: James Jackson early signature<br/> <br/>First edition of the first substantial treatise on the Constitution.<br/> <br/>Story's Commentaries was the most substantial and influential work written on the American Constitution since the Federalist Papers. Written while serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court the work defends both the powers of the federal government and economic liberty. The work begins with a review of American history before the Constitution an analysis of the Articles of Confederation and a history of the writing and adoption of the Constitution. The chapters which follow lay out the rules of interpretation of the Constitution and then go through each of the provisions of both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights line-by-line to explain their intent justification and application. Chief Justice John Marshall to whom Story dedicated the work wrote to Story after reviewing his copy: "I have finished reading your great work and wish it could be read by every statesman and every would-be statesman in the United States. It is a comprehensive and an accurate commentary on our Constitution formed in the spirit of the original text."<br/> <br/>Howes S1047; Sabin 92291; Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2914. Hilliard, Gray and Company; Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck and Co unknown books
