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2013196722013. International Court of Justice. Reports of Judgments Advisory Opinions and Orders. United Nations Publications 1947-2017 in 58 books. Maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spines. Reprint edition W.S. Hein 1947-2003; United National Publications 2004-2017. Hardcover. New. $7130. The International Court of Justice was created by the orignial Charter of the United Natinos. It operates under its own statue and is the only truly worldwide tribunal. Its jurisdiction extends to all countries of the world regardless of whether they are members of United Nations. The Court only considers issues submitted to it by parties to a dispute. The decisions issued by the Court are based on general principles of international law international conventions and international custom. The Court first publishes its decisions in advance-sheet form then later in an annual bound volume with an index. These volumes bring together the complete bound collection of all court decisions published to date. The set should be found in any serious international law collection. Originally Published: Leyden; A.W. Sijhoff's Publishing Co. Bound in the following books and available individually: 1947-49; 1950; 1951-52; 1953-55; 1956-58; 1959-61;1962; 1963-65; 1966; 1967-70; 1971-72; 1973; 1974; 1975-81; 1982; 1983-84; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992-1; 1992-2; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996-1; 1996-2; 1997; 1998; 1999-1; 1999-2; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004-1; 2004-2; 2004-3; 2005; 2006; 2007-1; 2007-2; 2008; 2009; 2010-1; 2010-2; 2011-1; 2011-2; 2012-1; 2012-2; 2013; 2014; 2015-1; 2015-2; 2016-1; 2016-2. unknown books
220955S.l., s.d. (vers 1695) 2 parties en un vol. in-folio, [71] ff. n. ch., généralement anopisthographes, dont le titre dans un beau cartouche aquarellé et dans un encadrement de filet rouge, nombreuses armes finement aquarellées, veau fauve granité, dos à nerfs cloisonné et fleuronné, pièce de titre cerise, tranches mouchetées de rouge (reliure de l'époque). Petites restaurations aux coiffes et aux coins.
rel. en demi-chagrin brun/fauve pour la période 1894 à 1972 (tit. & tom. dorés sur dos à nerfs avec filets dorés encadrants et filets à froid soulignant), broché à partir de 1973, bon état général hormis qq. reliures légt frottées et qq. rousseurs, brochages fanés Rarissime exemplaire de cette revue depuis sa création en 1894. On retiendra, parmi les directeurs de la revue, entre autres, MM. F. Larnaude (1984-1903), G. Jèze (1904-1953), M. Waline (à partir de 1953) puis J. Robert ou encore Y. Gaudemet.
1720ABC_50107Amsterdam 1720. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with the title and year lettered in gold on the spine sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine bound by the Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam Storm van Leeuwen. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black and 79 engraved plates most double-page and several larger folding sheets including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards. The copy contains the register listing 74 items and 4 plates not in Mullers principal list Muller 3611note 3612 3613 and 3615. Second edition according to Muller of one of the most remarkable works in the history of finance. Few books equal the visual power satirical brilliance or bibliographical complexity of Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid. First published in Amsterdam in 1720 in the very year of the financial collapses it depicts this extraordinary work stands as the most ambitious and visually arresting contemporary response to the speculative mania that engulfed France England and the Dutch Republic.The work chronicles the rise frenzy and catastrophic collapse of the Mississippi Scheme in France under John Law 1671-1729 and the South Sea Bubble in England speculative ventures designed in part to consolidate and manage national debt in Englands case tied to the funding of the navy but which spiralled into one of the first great international stock market crashes. Laws Compagnie dOccident with its monopoly over Louisiana and trade along the Mississippi ignited feverish dealing in Paris Rue Quincampoix London answered with its own speculative excesses and the contagion swiftly spread to Amsterdam.The Dutch seasoned participants in organised finance responded not merely with alarm but with satire of unparalleled inventiveness. The Tafereel der dwaasheid gathers together emblematic engravings caricatures poems plays pamphlets and moralising texts all exposing the greed credulity and collective madness of the wind trade transactions in nothing more substantial than air.The engravings are by turns humorous grotesque theatrical and occasionally deliberately obscene. They chart the entire arc of speculation: the seduction of investors the carnival atmosphere of trading houses and coffee rooms the frenzied crowds and finally ruin and flight. Law himself appears in portrait placed squarely at the centre of events.The publication history of the Tafereel der dwaasheid is famously intricate. Four editions of the letterpress are known the present work corresponds to the second edition as classified by Muller. Within each edition the number and arrangement of plates varies considerably from copy to copy. Muller recorded 74 plates in the most extensive contemporary published list and several plates frequently encountered are listed seperately. The present work is complete according to the engraved register listing 74 items also present at the start of the work although several plates appear here in their variant often later states. It also includes 4 plates showing portraits and a map of Louisiana not in Mullers principal list Muller 3611-3613 and 3615 including different portraits and the map of Louisiana on the Mississippi.Together they form one of the most striking and bizarre monuments in all economic literature a merciless visual anatomy of financial hysteria.The present work appears here in a striking contemporary gold-tooled binding. This binding is the work of the so-called Double Drawer Handle Bindery according to Jan Storm van Leeuwen. The decorations are made up from numerous impressions of 12 different stamps and 4 different rolls. The bindery was active in Amsterdam between circa 1697 and 1742 and is regarded as the most important Amsterdam workshop of the eighteenth century.The binding is very slightly rubbed the hinges and edges and corners of the boards show signs of wear. Occasional browning and staining some plates show small tears mainly along the folding lines and often repaired/reinforced with paper on the verso without any loss. Plates 33 no. 32 in Muller 77 and 78 nos. 73 and 74 in Muller loose in binding. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cole The Great Mirror of Folly nrs. 1-4 6-8 10-71 73; De Bruyn Het Groote Tafereel in: Eighteenth-Century Life XXIV 2000 pp. 62-87; Goetzmann The Great Mirror of Folly 2013 esp. pp. 35-51 bibliogr. analysis by K. Forrer; Kress 3217; Landwehr 230; Lipperheide Xf 5; Muller Historieplaten esp. nos. 3536-3609; pp. 103-131; Sabin 28932; STCN various issues and made-up copies: the present work resembles 254984185; cf. for the binding: Storm van Leeuwen Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century pp. 228-284. hardcover
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Translated from the original Latin of Cornelius Van Bynkershoek, 1 vol. 8vo, original full leather binding, Published by Farrand & Nicholas, Philadelphia, also by Farrand, Mallory & co, Boston, P. H. Nicklin & Co, Baltimore, D. Farrand & Green, Albany; Lyman, Mallory & Co, Portland, and Swift & Chipman, Middlebury, Fry and Kammerer, Printers, 1810, 1 f. blanc, 1 f. n. ch., xxxiv-218 pp. , pp. 249-251 (Index from another book) et 1 f. blanc Very good copy in its contemporary binding (slighlty rubbed, foxing) coming from Caesar Augusts Rodney' library (contemporary signature of C.A. Rodney on title page, and 4 autograph lines written by "C.A.Rodney A.G." to "William Lee"). Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772 – 1824) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware.Member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he served in the Delaware General Assembly, as well as a U.S. Representative and Senator, and became U.S. Attorney General (A.G.) on January 20, 1807, named by President Thomas Jefferson. Unhappy about being passed over for a U.S. Supreme Court appointment, he resigned on December 1811. During the War of 1812, he was captain of a rifle corps which became the Delaware 1st Artillery then served at Fort Union in Wilmington, on the Canadian frontier, and assisted in the defense of Baltimore in 1814. He was the nephew of Caesar Rodney who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. This title, translated by Du Ponceau (1760-1844), is important for its insights into the American reception of the civil law in the early 1800s. Anglais
In -4°, 56 cc. Cartonato. Frontespizio inciso con bordura ai quattro lati; secondo frontespizio compreso entro bordura di quattro legni. La prima parte del libro è in latino, la seconda in spagnolo. Esemplare particolarmente fresco e marginoso, cartonato d’aspetto (cm. 20 x 15,4). Engraved title page with border on sides; the second title page is included in wooden border: the first part of book is in latin, the second in spanish. A very fresh and wide margined copy, boards.
Folio. With title-page printed in red and black with the Endters' woodcut device, engraved architectural frontispiece, full-page engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Johann Georg III (1647-1691), engraved dedication, and 50 engraved illustration plates (2 double-page and some with more than 1 illustration). Further with woodcut tailpieces, woodcut figural and decorated initials, and headpieces built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary vellum. First and only edition of a magnificently illustrated encyclopaedic survey of the cultures, traditions, manners and customs of non-European peoples, notably the Japanese and the Chinese. The work is not arranged geographically but divided into six books successively treating (natural) history, politics and warfare, religious ceremonies, arts and sciences, hunting, and funeral traditions. The plates include depictions of a Japanese crucifixion, a lady from Nagasaki, Chinese temples, Brazilian cannibals, Japanese wrestlers and musicians, Indians from Florida, several torture methods, a tower cemetery, etc. - Erasmus Francisci (or Finx) was a prolific polyhistor and is considered one of the most influential figures of the German Baroque period. The present work carries on from his 1668 Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten, which was also arranged by topics rather than regions. - In very good condition. Binding slightly soiled and with a chip at the head of the spine. Alt-Japan-Katalog 497; BLC STC German (17th cent.), F700; Cordier, Japonica, cols. 382-383; Lipperheide 476; Sabin 25462; VD17 3:307864G; not in Borba de Moraes.
1700708291700. London 1700. First edition. A superb copy. London 1700. First edition. A superb copy. First Edition of the First English Treatise on Family Law Marriage Law. Great Britain. Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives. Wherein is Contained the Nature of a Feme Covert And of Marriages Bastardy The Privileges of Feme Coverts: What Alterations are Made by Marriage as to Estates Leases Goods and Actions. What Things of the Wife Accrue to the Husband by the Intermarriage Or Not. What Acts Charges Forfeitures by the Husband Shall Bind the Wife After His Death Or Not; Of Jointures and Pleadings Fines and Recovery Conveyances and Other Law Titles Relating to Baron and Feme. Of Wills And Feme Covert Being Executrix. Of the Wife's Separate Disposition and Maintenance. What Amounts to the Disposition of the Wife's Term by the Husband. Of Actions Brought by or Against Baron and Feme. What Actions Done Or Contracts Made by the Wife Shall Bind Her Husband. Of Indictments and Informations Against Them. Of Baron and Feme's Joinder in Action. Of a Feme Sole Merchant. Declaration and Pleas &c. of Divorces &c. With Many Other Matters Relating to the Said Subject; And Some Useful Precedents. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires for John Walthoe 1700. xxxii 380 36 pp. Publisher advertisement facing title page. Four numbered advertisement leaves following index not present in our copy. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2" Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and early hand-lettered title to spine gilt tooling to board edges. Negligible light rubbing to boards tiny inkspot to rear boards corners bumped and lightly worn rear hinge starting. Light toning slightly heavier in places occasional early annotations in contemporary hand to margins additional annotations to rear free endpaper faint often very faint dampstaining to foot of text block in a few places. Book housed in recent cloth clamshell box quarter morocco over cloth gilt title and gilt-edged raised bands to spine. A choice copy. $6500. First edition. Passing through subsequent editions in 1719 and 1738 this was the first English treatise devoted exclusively to family law. It is a broadly conceived work. "I have herein considered Baron and Feme in all the circum. unknown books
1700686351700. London 1700. First edition. London 1700. First edition. First Edition of the First English Treatise on Family Law Marriage Law. Great Britain. Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives. Wherein is Contained the Nature of a Feme Covert And of Marriages Bastardy The Privileges of Feme Coverts: What Alterations are Made by Marriage as to Estates Leases Goods and Actions. What Things of the Wife Accrue to the Husband by the Intermarriage Or Not. What Acts Charges Forfeitures by the Husband Shall Bind the Wife After His Death Or Not; Of Jointures and Pleadings Fines and Recovery Conveyances and Other Law Titles Relating to Baron and Feme. Of Wills And Feme Covert Being Executrix. Of the Wife's Separate Disposition and Maintenance. What Amounts to the Disposition of the Wife's Term by the Husband. Of Actions Brought by or Against Baron and Feme. What Actions Done Or Contracts Made by the Wife Shall Bind Her Husband. Of Indictments and Informations Against Them. Of Baron and Feme's Joinder in Action. Of a Feme Sole Merchant. Declaration and Pleas &c. of Divorces &c. With Many Other Matters Relating to the Said Subject; And Some Useful Precedents. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires for John Walthoe 1700. xxxii 380 36 pp. Main text preceded by publisher advertisement; this copy does not have the additional advertisement leaves that follow the text in some copies. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Recent period-style paneled calf raised bands and lettering piece to spine gilt tooling to board edges endpapers renewed early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places light foxing and faint stains to a few leaves. A very nice copy in a handsome binding. $6500. First edition. Passing through subsequent editions in 1719 and 1738 this was the first English treatise devoted exclusively to family law. It is a broadly conceived work. "I have herein considered Baron and Feme in all the circumstances of life from the solemnization of marriage to the divorce and have not omitted 'those collateral by-blows the title of bastardy making a considerable figure in our books; and the variety of the matter made me some attonement for the labour" To The Reader. According to the int. unknown books
1720182235The Hague: Chez Jean Neaulme 1720. Stimulating the French economy after the wars of Louis XIV First edition in French of Law's seminal disequilibrium theory of money published as the Mississippi Bubble was coming close to bursting. By 1720 Law had finally been appointed minister of finance in France and was in near-total command of the French economy. At the same time his scheme to monopolize the commercial development of French North America was running into difficulties: shares in the Mississippi Company stagnated amid increasing reports of underdevelopment in the French colonies. By December these shares had crashed completely sparking a general stock market crash in France and prompting Law to flee to Venice. Considerations had originally been published in English as Money and Trade Considered in 1705 when Law was attempting to persuade the Scottish government of his ideas. He was bitterly opposed to this French edition not least because it revealed details of the man he had killed in a duel 25 years earlier. Although ruinous to many individual investors Law's system is generally credited with stimulating the French economy exhausted after Louis XIV's wars. Octavo 158 x 95 mm pp. viii 168 167-187 19. Engraved portrait frontispiece title page printed in red and black and with woodcut device woodcut headpiece. Contemporary mottled calf spine ruled and decorated in gilt and with red morocco label marbled endpapers edges red green silk book marker. With 20th-century library ticket. Restoration to joints and extremities. Minor browning and foxing to contents: a very good copy. Einaudi 3274; Goldsmith's 5820; Kress 3235; STCN 202328686. unknown
179360748Paris, Impremerie du depot des lois, An II (1793). 4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities. Upper part of back hinge split, with minor loss of letters. Small dampstain to upper inner margin, otherwise a nice copy. (2), VII, (2)-116, 100, 8 pp.
1720B4227Netherlands c. 1720. A few tears in the plates expertly repaired; mispagination in 3rd part pp. 26 jumps to 29 but foliation remains constant no loss; see below for information on plates; otherwise a fine copy of this infamous work bound in decorative gilt 18th-century Dutch full calf.<br>Plates and text are clean and crisp.<br>. Edition: First edition later issue Binding: Contemporary 18th-century gilt-panelled mottled calf with arabesque centerpiece on covers spine in seven compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs morocco label on two board edges gilt-tooled. Rebacked skillfully. Notes: Text in Dutch. “This great Theatre of Folly representing the origin progress and downfall of the South Sea Bubble in France England and Holland is an exceedingly curious collection of emblematical plates and caricatures on the scheme of J. Law and the Mississippi Company and the imitations of it in Holland with their fatal results. Not a few of the scenes here depicted have been reproduced in the New York Exchange. The engravings which illustrate the rise and fall of the great speculation are full of humor; many of them are exceedingly ludicrous and some very obscene. They are finely engraved on copper and are accompanied with full descriptions in prose and poetry. So much offence was given to the English and French by this book that medals were struck by them in ridicule of the Dutch which was perhaps the beginning of the hostility which long existed in the minds of the English against the latter. The number of the plates in copies varies from sixty to seventy-four.†<br><br>The first edition of the most elaborate publication was inspired by the economic events of 1720 primarily satirizing Dutch manifestations of the speculative mania that led to the Mississippi Bubble in France a financial scheme that shook the French economy to its core and instigated the use of paper money in the country; engineered by Scottish economic theorist John Law and the South Sea Bubble in England.†Sabin<br> Size: Folio 390x240mm Illustration: With 61 copper engraved plates including caricatures portraits and 2 maps – one finely hand-coloured- of which some are single- page many double-page and larger some folding. Title in red and black.<br>At publication copies of this book were composed with whichever caricature plates were at hand at the time resulting in a great variation in the number of plates contained in each some as few as 46 others as many as 84. Generally the typical complement of illustrations of the first edition was 74 plates --this copy has 61 in total. It contains plates# 3-8 10-26 28-33 35-37 39-43 45 47-56 58 60-64 66x2-68 70 73 according to Koninck's rarely preserved list of plates seen in early editions plus a portrait entitled ‘’een schooner Lotkrans…’’. Volume: 5 parts in 1 volume. References: Ref: Alden European Americana 720/114; Cole The Great Mirror of Folly pages 23-35; Sabin Bibliotheca Americana 28932; Goldsmith 5879; Howes G 442; Muller America 1503 Pages: P. Plate 64 Map illustrated title bl. 1-25 list of towns in report 1-31 bl. 1-26 29-52 1-8 1-9 bl. including 60 engravings. Category: Book Caricatures; Book Plate Books General; Book Europe Benelux; unknown
14222599612/04/1422. <div class=""gs""><div class=""""><div id="":2pv"" class=""ii gt""><div id="":2pu"" class=""a3s aiL ""><blockquote><div dir=""ltr"">Part of an important professors collection the majority of which was assembled and last offered for sale 25 years ago</div></blockquote><div class=""adL""></div></div></div></div></div><p>Myles Standish was an English military officer hired to accompany the Pilgrims in 1620 on the ship Mayflower as their military adviser. He played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony. He was one of the first settlers and founders of the town of Duxbury Massachusetts. He died on October 3 1656 in the New World in Duxbury-- a town the Pilgrims had named after his likely ancestral home in Lancashire England and an estate that occupied by these very men. what does this mean On February 17 1621 the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served at various times as an agent of Plymouth Colony on a return trip to England as assistant governor of the colony and as its treasurer.</p><p>Taking the Standish Family back to their home in the Greater Manchester towns of Standish Chorley and Duxbury we see this important family’s expansion in terms of land and power. Since the 1200s the Standish Family had been the Lords of the Standish Manor.</p><p>Ralph de Standish was the Lord of the Manor from 1396-1415; in 1406 he acquired the estates of his uncle Sir Ralph de Standish of Scholes. As the Lord of the Manor he supplemented the family’s landholdings through purchases in nearby Wigan Shevington and Winstanley. In 1415 John de Standysshe likely Ralph’s brother was recorded at the Battle of Agincourt. Other Standishes at this important turning point in the Hundred Years War included Thomas Sir Rowland Sir Hugh and Christopher the latter two of which were of the Duxbury Branch of the Standishes. Christopher would become Lord of the Manor of Duxbury from 1421 to 1437 and die shortly thereafter.</p><p>Ralph’s death passed the Lordship of the Manor to his eldest son Lawerence; however he had two other sons Robert and Gilbert. Records about Gilbert only give few details. He was “living in 1423/4†and “in 1400 he was mentioned in a deed and entered into covenants with John Smith chaplain and Henry Matthew chaplain 1411/2 authorized by his mother and father.â€</p><p>Though the records remain inconclusive The Families of Standish states that “Sir Ralph de Standish of Scholes is considered to be the ancestor of the Standishes of Ormskirk and through them the ancestor of Captain Myles Standish of Plymouth and Duxbury Massachusetts who came in the ‘Mayflower’ 1620†p. 51.</p><p>Lancashire England 1422 <strong>Small indenture in Latin</strong> with two seals attached 103mm by 180mm approximately 12 April 1422 10th year of the reign of Henry V affirming a debt of 40 pounds by Gilbert de Standyssh Esq. of Blakerode i.e. Blackrod Lancs. Roger de Molyneux Esq. of Pemberton Lancs. and William son of Roger de Assheton Esq. of Abram Lancs. to Christopher de Standyssh. With original seals attached.</p><p>Through a small document the consolidation of Standish wealth is demonstrated. Further the exchange of £40 equivalent to approximately £34572 or $41700 in modern currency between Gilbert Standish Roger de Molyneux and William de Assheton son of Roger to Christopher Standish demonstrates the intimate ties between important families. Roger Ashton’s father was a soldier under King Henry IV and Henry V; his father before him was Sir John de Ashton who served with John of Gaunt in 1369 and whose part in the siege of Noyon in 1370 is mentioned by name by Froissart’s Chronicles in French.</p><p>Roger’s brother and William’s uncle was the famed alchemist given permission by Henry IV for his experiments.</p><p>See also:</p><p>Weis Frederick Lewis. The Families of Standish of Standish Lancashire England and Standish of Duxbury Arley Ormskirk Gathurst Croston Park Brook and Wantage… 1959.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
2015688622015. Vol. 574 is the last bound vol issued by the GPO. Vol. 574 is the last bound vol issued by the GPO. United States Reports. Official edition. United States Supreme Court. Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court. opinions and decisions. New York and Washington: Banks Law Publishing and U.S. Government Printing Office. Vols. 300 to 574 1937-2015 Hardcover. 275 bound volumes. Volume 574 covers decisions through March 2 2015 and was released from the Government Publishing Office January 2021. Publisher's tan cloth bindings with upper red and lower black spine lettering pieces. Moderate shelfwear ex-library with property stamps on outer edges and inside covers. Many stamped on outside lower front cover. All volumes internally clean and bright. Reprint Publisher's Price USD 24750. Special $5995. The official reports of decisions for the United States Supreme Court. The bound volumes of the United States Reports contain the fourth and final generation of the Court's opinions. Only the printed bound volumes of the United States Reports contain the final official opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States. In case of discrepancies between a bound volume and any other version of the same materials whether print or electronic official or unofficial - the printed bound volume controls in a court of law. Opinions of the court in each case are prepended with a headnote prepared by the Reporter of Decisions and any concurring or dissenting opinions are published sequentially. unknown books
8vo. 40 pp. (With:) De la dépense des deniers publics, & de la méthode la plus assurée d'y mettre de la clarté, del'ordre & de l'economie. 40 pp. Contemporary marbled wrappers. First and only edition. One of the rarest works by Badeau (1730-92), an advocate of physiocracy: a plea for free trade with Asia and Africa, with suggestions for the administration of the Compagnie des Indes. While the book is complete with 40 pages in spite of ending on p. 40 with the catchword 'Chapitre II' (all known copies - BnF, BSB, Univ. de Poitiers, Bibl. Sainte Genevieve, Minist. Affaires étrangères - have 40 pages), a "Chapitre II" was published separately under the title "De la dépense des deniers publics". This extremely rare additional chapter, comprising another 40 pages, is present here, being loosely inserted at the end of the volume. While it for its part bears the catchword "Chap. III" on its final page, no such third chapter is known to have appeared. - An untrimmed copy. Kress 6073 (40 pp.). INED 282 (a similar copy, but bound with the third part of the quoted book). Not in Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.
1804ABC_48704Paris 1804. 12mo. Louis Courcier; Angoulême Adrien Marrot; Bordeaux Thiron and Sigal Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a black morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold marbled endpapers. 2 parts in 1 volume. 2 329 1 blank; 4 268 pp. Very rare early edition only one copy found in WorldCat of this famous French civil code published in two volumes in 1804 the year in which also the first edition appeared Paris Imprimerie de la République An XII - 1804. In 1807 its title was changed into Code Napoléon Napoleonic Code under which it is commonly known today.The initiative for drawing up a civil code of laws was taken by Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 in 1800 at that time First Consul of France. The text was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists under the presidency of the French lawyer Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès 1753-1824 who had made a first attempt in 1793 to concipiate a codification of French civil law. In France civil law was mainly based on customary law which differed greatly from each other in various parts of the country. With a single set of laws the traces of feudal law could also be eliminated as a consequence of the French Revolution.This legal code is divided into three parts comprising 36 laws and 2.281 articles written in a clear and concise style. It is known that the famous French writer Stendhal pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle 1783-1842 read a few pages of it every day to obtain its qualities of clarity and simplicity. The first part is mainly concerned with family law the second part mainly with the property of goods and the third part mainly with contracts. After the publication in 1804 a series of new French codes of law followed: in 1806 the Code de procédure civile Code of civil procedure in 1807 the Code de commerce Commercial code in 1808 the Code dinstruction criminelle Code of criminal procedure and in 1810 by the Code pénal Criminal code. Due to Napoleons occupations to Germany Italy the Low Countries and Poland the French civil code became highly influential in European legal history. It still leaves its mark in private law particularly in the field of contract law family law and property law.With traces of use binding slightly worn along the extremities two corners of the back cover slightly damaged first free endpaper missing owners entry in black ink on the title-page of the first part a few text pages loosening occasionally slightly soiled/browned. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
8vo. 16 pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition of Lenin's historic appeal that advanced to the Bolsheviks' programme of struggle for unity during the party crisis. It advocates the immediate convention of the Third Party Congress as the only means to "clarify the situation, settle the disputes, and confine the struggle within proper bounds". The appeal was presented and adopted at the conference of the 22 Bolsheviks held in Switzerland in August 1904 under Lenin's leadership. A total of 19 persons actually attended, and three others subscribed to its decisions. Eventually, the Third Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held from 25 April to 10 May 1905 in London. - A few insignificant marginal flaws. With additional German title "An die Partei" near top margin of title-page. Lenin Collected Works VII, 454-461. OCLC 34492235.
1720ABC_50108Amsterdam 1720. Near- Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with the title and year lettered in gold on the spine sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. Bound by the Bird's Head Bindery in Amsterdam ca. 1728-1765 see Storm van Leeuwen. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black and 79 engraved plates including 1 repeat of plate 54 3589 Muller most double-page and several larger folding sheets including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards Pasquin variant. The copy contains the register listing 74 items and 4 plates not in Mullers principal list Muller 3611-3613 and 3615 but unfortunately lacks plate 18 3553 Muller. Third edition of one of the most remarkable works in the history of finance. Few books equal the visual power satirical brilliance or bibliographical complexity of Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid. First published in Amsterdam in 1720 in the very year of the financial collapses it depicts this extraordinary work stands as the most ambitious and visually arresting contemporary response to the speculative mania that engulfed France England and the Dutch Republic.The work chronicles the rise frenzy and catastrophic collapse of the Mississippi Scheme in France under John Law 1671-1729 and the South Sea Bubble in England speculative ventures designed in part to consolidate and manage national debt in Englands case tied to the funding of the navy but which spiralled into one of the first great international stock market crashes. Laws Compagnie dOccident with its monopoly over Louisiana and trade along the Mississippi ignited feverish dealing in Paris Rue Quincampoix London answered with its own speculative excesses and the contagion swiftly spread to Amsterdam.The Dutch seasoned participants in organised finance responded not merely with alarm but with satire of unparalleled inventiveness. The Tafereel der dwaasheid gathers together emblematic engravings caricatures poems plays pamphlets and moralising texts all exposing the greed credulity and collective madness of the wind trade transactions in nothing more substantial than air.The engravings are by turns humorous grotesque theatrical and occasionally deliberately obscene. They chart the entire arc of speculation: the seduction of investors the carnival atmosphere of trading houses and coffee rooms the frenzied crowds and finally ruin and flight. Law himself appears in portrait placed squarely at the centre of events.The publication history of the Tafereel der dwaasheid is famously intricate. Four editions of the letterpress are known the present work corresponds to the third edition as classified by Muller. Within each edition the number and arrangement of plates varies considerably from copy to copy. Muller recorded 74 plates in the most extensive contemporary published list yet barely any copy of any edition contains them all some serving as alternatives and several plates frequently encountered are absent from that list. The present work includes 73 plates from Muller's list of 74 omitting no. 18 contains a duplicate of no. 54 and includes the engraved register listing 74 items together with 4 plates not in Mullers principal list Muller 3611-3613 and 3615 including different portraits and the map of Louisiana on the Mississippi. Together they form one of the most striking and bizarre monuments in all economic literature a merciless visual anatomy of financial hysteria.The present work appears here in a striking contemporary gold-tooled binding. This binding is the work of the so-called Bird's Head Bindery active ca. 1728-1765 according to Jan Storm van Leeuwen. The decorations are made up from several impressions of 5 different stamps and 5 different rolls. Two stamps on the present binding seem to be unrecorded by Storm van Leeuwen for this bindery namely the lozenge-shaped stamp on the spine and the small cornerpieces on the spine surrounding the lozenge-shaped stamp. These seem to be variants of the bindery's recorded stamps but several stamps also do bear similarities to other major Amsterdam binderies of the early 18th century like the so-called "Double Drawer Handle Bindery".With plate "Lauw-maands herdenking . Nieuwjaarsgeschenk" no. 54 - 3589 Muller included twice as plates 54-55 and lacking plate "Monument consacré - Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse." no. 18 - 3553 Muller. The hinges are weakened the head of the spine is slightly damaged the corners and edges of the boards show slight signs of wear with a 3.5 x 1 cm repair to the leather on the back board not affecting the gold-tooling. The first flyleaf is partially loose a large tear in plates 7 and 12 resp. nos. 6 and 11 Muller repaired on the verso some plates with small tears along the folding lines slightly affecting the illustration of plate 51 same no. Muller and the map of Enkhuisen is torn along the paper stub it is mounted on not affecting the plate. Some occasional browning foxing and staining. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cole The Great Mirror of Folly nrs. 1-4 6-8 10-71 73; De Bruyn Het Groote Tafereel in: Eighteenth-Century Life XXIV 2000 pp. 62-87; Goetzmann The Great Mirror of Folly 2013 esp. pp. 35-51 bibliogr. analysis by K. Forrer; Kress 3217; Landwehr 230; Lipperheide Xf 5; Muller Historieplaten esp. nos. 3536-3609; pp. 103-131; Sabin 28932; STCN various issues and made-up copies: the present work resembles 228136539; Van Leeuwen Dutch Decorated Bookbinding I 2006 pp. 228-284. hardcover
In -4°, cc. 120 + 5 + 1. Pergamena, caratteri gotici, bella silografia al titolo in cui compare abusivamente la marca tipografica giuntina in rosso. Il titolo è in rosso e nero. Timbro alla prima e all'ultima pagina e alla fine dell'opera una bella marca tipografica. Capilettera decorati. Rara edizione dei “Mercuriales” di Giovanni D’Andrea nel commento del giurista francese Nicolas de Bohier. Giovanni D’Andrea (1271-1348), detto anche “Bononiensis” fu considerato anche in vita uno dei maggiori giuristi della sua epoca: le sue “Quaestiones mercuriales” sono una raccolta sistematica di problemi giuridici e dottrina, che l’autore chiamò così perché venivano dibattute di mercoledì nello Studio bolognese. Amico di Petrarca e Cino da Pistoia e sodale di Papa Giovanni XXII, D’Andrea fu anche un personaggio chiave nella storia dell’ateneo bolognese: le sue “quaestiones” furono considerate da subito un’opera fondamentale del diritto canonico. Una sola copia in Iccu. Nice xilography on title, with an abusive Giunti printer’s mark on red; title on red and black, initials. A rare edition of D’Andrea “Mercuriales”, with remarks of Nicholas de Bohier. Giovanni D’Andrea (1271-1348) was one of the major juris of his time: this is a deep collection of juridic questions, early considered a cornerstone of Canon Law. A friend of Petrarca and Cino Da Pistoia, D’Andrea was also a key player of the Bologna university.
8vo. VI, (7)-146, (2) pp. Contemporary cloth with remains of a spine label. In custom-made cloth slipcase with giltstamped spine label. Rare first edition, published in Zurich while the Anti-Socialist Laws were in force in Germany and illegally distributed there. Engels's motivation for this work was the 1877 book "Ancient Society" by the American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan, discussing the origins and development of the family. Marx had investigated the same subject and left notes which Engels combined with copious research of his own, blending it with the principal ideas of historical materialism: "thus, the book becomes a fundamental work on the development of society from the viewpoint of historical materialism" (Laffont). For the first time in Marxism, Engels here studies extensively the development of the family and of marriage, as well as the various positions of women in society. "This is the most instructive application of the materialist conception of history to the early forms of human society" (cf. NDB IV, 525). - Browned as common, but very evenly so. Some staining to the characteristic original binding, otherwise well preserved. Red ownership stamp from a Japanese private collection on verso of title. Rubel (Appendix) 93. Stammhammer I, 73, 20. Marx-Engels Erstdrucke 45f. (pictured).
In-8°, 215cc, (1), marca sul frontespizio col giglio giuntino, stampato in rosso e nero. Il testo è circondato dal commento, il tutto impresso in due colonne a caratteri gotici. Una xilografia a prima pagina e 22 gustosissime piccole xilografie rappresentanti scene varie di vita agreste, cittadina, di caccia, combattimenti, professori in cattedra con scolari, giudice che sentenzia, etc. Prima edizione illustrata. Bellissimo libro figurato in antica legatura restaurata (legatura quasi sicuramente originale, con fregi a secco ai piatti, rimontata su pelle, fermagli rifatti). Renouard, pag. XXII, n.52 lo riprende (non avendolo egli visto); Dal Panzer VIII, pag. 435; Brunet III, 672 lo descrive accuratamente e dà solo 215 fogli, (al suo esemplare mancava evidentemente l’ultima carta bianca); Camerini I, n. 190
8vo. 29, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Exceedingly rare political brochure wherein Lenin advocates one of his key slogans: "The struggle for bread is the struggle for socialism". During a serious food crisis in the summer of 1918, involving suppliers hiding grain in an effort to starve out the revolution, Lenin calls for a crusade against grain speculators, wealthy peasants, exploiters and saboteurs. Delivered as a speech to the Central Committee. - Only a handful of copies traceable in libraries worldwide, none outside of the US or the UK. Not listed among Lenin's works in the otherwise thorough Marxists Internet Archive. - A few insignificant marginal flaws. OCLC 29269099.
8vo. 62, (1) pp., final blank page. Original printed wrappers. Rare example of what is presumably the first edition of Lenin's pamphlet on rural politics and poverty. - Old handwritten shelfmark to front wrapper. Wrappers slightly soiled; interior very well preserved. OCLC 1033835017.
8vo. 4 vols. in one. 120, 142, 175, (1), (6), 176 pp. Contemporary full vellum. Early editions of a widely used manual for commercial arithmetic, rarely found complete in all four volumes. The various parts were published separately and reprinted many times from the end of the 17th until the middle of the 19th century, revised and brought up to date by various other writers. Though separate parts are well represented in libraries, complete sets are rare in the trade. - Binding somewhat dustsoiled with two small flaws to spine. 19th c. bookplates to pastedowns (library of John Jackson, Warrington, gifted to the Warrington Museum in 1875). Bierens de Haan 2767-2774. EHB 544.
