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185621545New York: Not Published 1856. Collection includes c. 70 individual items; mostly involved with clearing the estates of James Wright and that of Nathaniel Pearsall; with many of the documents involving both of these families and heirs from each; interesting accounts of estate contents will bequests debts being paid; Pearsall appears to have been a wagon maker and this is reflected in various documents; James Wright seems to have been an attorney or legal advisor and is also an executor for some of the materials; there are documents relating to the estate of Israel Wright and other relations as well; various paper sizes and qualities; some wear and soiling old fold lines; a few of the documents with old tax-stamps still affixed; about 1/2 dozen of the James Wright receipts' writing going pale still legible; overall in good to very good condition and a good micro-glimpse of these family's fortunes and legal arrangements on Long Island in the middle part of the 19th century. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
185726793United Kingdom: Various 1857. United Kingdom: various dates and publishers as below. Group of speeches and political pamphlets bound in one volume; as they appear and including: Rules and Regulations of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom. 1863. 31 pages; first and last leaves a little spotty trimmed close at bottom edges. Previous owner note at top edge in pencil "by John Stuart Mill Sir Robert Lowe and others." Rules and Regulations of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom. 1866. 29 pages; also trimmed close at bottom edge. Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Bill for the Extension of the Suffrage in Towns. May 11 1864. Second Edition. John Murray 1864. With a couple of previous owner blue-pencil notes: "If the speech does not mean "manhood suffrage" what does it mean" and later in the Speech "like Sibthorp he has no confidence in either party." And marking a section "A hint for agitators to follow and a threat to intimidate his opponents" and a couple of other comments; this closely read & commented-upon. Couple of spots very good. Borough Franchise Extension Bill. The Speech of the Rt. Hon. Robert Lowe M.P. Upon the Second Reading of Mr. Baines' Bill for the Extension of the Borough Franchise Delivered in the House of Commons on Wednesday May 3rd 1865. London: Bickers and Son. 16 pages. Previous owner initial at top of title page edge. 1831-32 A Sketch. Reprinted from "Fraser's Magazine" of February 1862. By Lord Campbell. London: William Ridgway 1866. Previous owner name of Joseph Radcliff at top of title page edge. 49 pages. Parliamentary Reform Considered as a Question of Principle and not of Party. Dedicated by Permission to the Right Hon. Earl Grey by Edward J. Gibbs M.A. London: William Ridgway & William Parke. Not dated. 51 pages. Speech of the Right Hon. E. Horsman M.P. on the Second Reading of Mr. Baines' Borough Franchise Extension Bill in The House of Commons May 8th 1865. Westminster: Vacher and Sons 1865. 29 pages. Plea of the Unrepresented Commons for Restitution of Franchise. An Historic Enquiry. By Thomas Chisholm Anstey Esq. of the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple. London: William Ridgeway 1866. 143 pages. Speech of the Right Hon. Robert Lowe M.P. on the Irish Tenant-Right Bill; and A Letter of Lord Oranmore's to 'The Times.' Reprinted at the Expense of an Irishman. London: Trubner and Co. 1866. 22 pages. Name of Joseph Radcliff at top of title page edge. The Growth of our Law of Personal Property. An Introductory Lecture. Delivered to the Law Students at King's Inn. By William O'Connor Morris Esq. Barrister-at-Law Professor of the Law of Personal Property Pleadings and Evidence to the Hon. Society of the King's Inns Dublin. Dublin: Hodges Smith & Co. 1863. 24 pages. The History and Uses of The Law of Entail and Settlement. Buy Charles Neate Barrister-at Law Fellow of Oriel College and Member of Parliament for the City of Oxford. London: William Ridgway 1865. 44 pages. Considerations on the Punishment of Death. By Charles Neate Esq. Barrister-at Law Fellow of Oriel College and Member of Parliament for the City of Oxford. London: James Ridgway 1857. 83 pages. Speech of John Stuart Mill Esq. M.P. Etc. Speech only; no additional title page; 8 pages. Colophon notes as Judd & Glass Phoenix Printing Works London E.C. Representation of the People Bill. Second Reading. Speech of the Right Hon. Robert Lowe M.P. House of Commons Thursday April 26 1866. London: Robert John Bush. 31 pages. Name of Joseph Radcliff at top of title page edge. Reform Bill 1866. Epitome of the Debate on the Motion of the Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone for Leave to Bring in a Bill To Extend the Franchise in England and Wales 12th and 13th March 1866. London: Harrison 1866. 74 pages. Speech of H. Hussey Vivian Esq. M.P. F.G.S. on the Coal Question: Delivered in the House of Commons Tuesday June 12 1866. London: William Ridgway 1866. 61 pages. Last few leaves spotty. Approx. 6" x 8 1/4" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards polished calf corners and spine with simple dotted line and rules red leather spine label gilt titles all edges marbled endpapers to match. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; in very good condition. . Ephemera. Leather. Very Good. Various books
188625437Denver Colorado: Not Published 1886. Handwritten letter one side; dated Denver Colorado Sept 13 1886; accomplished on lined Hampshire watermark paper. Written to C.P. Buckley Esq. an attorney for the firm of Messrs. Smith & Woodward counselors at law No. 167 Broadway New York. ".I believe the time for me to answer in the Escoriaza case under the last stipulation must expire about this time. I came away from home about July 1 confidently expecting to return within 4 or 6 weeks. I am however still detained here and cannot expect to leave till after the return hither of a gentleman now absent in New Mexico and who will be gone all the week.Faithfully Yours Lucille M. Livesey" With the original mailing envelope postmarked Colorado & with 2 cent stamp sent to the firm employing Buckley. Old fold lines darkening; envelope with travel-wear and dustiness; in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
1851587711851. Cambridge 1851. Cambridge 1851. "Cumulative" 1851 Harvard Law School Catalogue Harvard Law School. A Catalogue of the Students of Law in Harvard University From the Establishment of the Law School To the End of the Second Term in the Year 1851. Cambridge: Metcalf and Company Printers to the University 1851. 96 pp. Octavo 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. A few minor stains chipping to foot of spine. Light toning to text internally clean. $150. This catalogue was published for prospective and incoming students in the year when the faculty consisted of Jared Sparks Theophilus Parsons Joel Parker and Luther Stearns Cushing. It contains general information about the school regulations course outlines and lists of required and recommended texts. This catalogue is especially interesting because of its complete lists of alumni and former faculty members a distinguished group that includes Joseph Story Simon Greenleaf and Henry Wheaton. unknown books
185932945Burnet County Texas 1859. Single-page manuscript 23 lines plus signatures on pale blue paper 8" x 12". Light old folds a few minor spots Near Fine. <br/><br/> Burnet County in central Texas was created as a separate entity in 1852. The Committee appointed by Hon. Edward H. Vontress Judge of the 17th Judicial District included John Henry Brown Alexander Stuart Walker Thomas Proctor Hughes William C. Wiseman prominent and powerful Texans all. <br/> Brown 1820-1895 was evidently not a lawyer; a newspaper editor politician and historian he was among the earliest writers of Texas histories. Brown would chair the committee that prepared Texas's articles of secession; during the Civil War he was on Ben McCulloch's staff and fought at Palmito Ranch the last battle of the War. After the War along with other disaffected Texans he moved to Mexico for several years. <br/> Hughes 1826-1899 was born in Kentucky and settled in Texas around 1850. A member of the Texas Secession Convention he voted against secession but then joined the Confederate Army. Walker studied law with David Burnet after whom the County is named; and served in the Confederate Army and as a Confederate judge. Wiseman was Texas Reconstruction Governor A.J. Hamilton's appointee as Chief Justice of Guadalupe County.<br/> Edward H. Vontress 1825-1864 was an attorney judge state representative for Texas and Confederate officer. Born in Kentucky he moved to Texas and opened a law firm with Thomas P. Hughes. He represented Williamson and Burnet Counties in the Fifth Texas Legislature from 1853-54. When the Seventeenth Judicial District was created in 1856 he was elected its first district judge. He fought under Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston; returned to Texas and was elected Captain of Co. A Morgan's Regiment 18th Texas Cavalry; and was killed in June 1864 while on his way to deliver a message to Gen. Richard Taylor. Online Handbook of Texas.<br/> Alexander Stuart Walker 1826-1896 was born in Virginia and settled in Texas in 1852. A lawyer he was elected district judge while serving in the Confederate Army in 1862 . He was removed as judge by the U.S. military in 1865 for being an "impediment to Reconstruction. unknown books
184049493Savannah GA: The society 1840. First edition. 8vo. 43 pp. Review of the founding of the colony of Georgia. Disbound pamphlet. <br/><br/> The society unknown books
186062688New York: Mason Brothers 1860. First edition. 8vo. xvi 11-492 pp. With the half-title. Howes O-77. Sabin 57241. Clark Old South III 481: "A record of Olmsted's observations made during a trip through Mississippi Alabama Tennessee and the back country of the Carolinas and Virginia. He passed through such towns as Woodville Miss. Natchez Jackson Vicksburg Memphis Tuscaloosa Asheville and Richmond. However the value of the book lies in his description of rural life . one of the outstanding features of the book is the author's attempt to compare and contrast the various social classes of the North and South. Although it is known that Olmsted privately acknowledged that there was a great deal of rowdyism and commonness among the northern farmers and laborers and no true aristocrats in the southern sense still he avoided this in his writing and played up what he considered the higher general level of culture in the North as compared with the general backwardness of the South." Some age-toning to text but very good. Late 20th-century green half-morocco and marbled boards with new endpapers. 9463. <br/><br/> Mason Brothers hardcover books
1856140939282New York: Dix & Edwards 1856. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with dulling to gilt titles shallow chipping at head of spine. Several small stains to top edge of textblock. Small corner missing from front free end paper. A nice and sharp copy of a book which usually turns up much worse for wear. Olmsted was interested in the slave economy and was commissioned by The New York Daily Times currently The New York Times to travel in the American South and gather extensive research. His dispatches vivid first-person accounts of the antebellum South were collected into three volumes this being the first. Dix & Edwards unknown books
18603040New York: Dixon & Edwards 1856-1860 1860. First edition of each book in Olmsted's trilogy on the slave states. Octavo three volumes original cloth. A Journey In The Seaboard Slave States is inscribed by the author to his cousin Charles Olmsted. Each volume is in very good condition A Journey In The Seaboard Slave States has been rebacked. Books inscribed by Frederick Law Olmsted the father of American Landscape Architecture are rare. Interested in the slave economy he was commissioned by the New York Daily Times now The New York Times to embark on an extensive research journey through the American South and Texas from 1852 to 1857. His dispatches to the Times were collected into three volumes A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States 1856A Journey Through Texas 1857 A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 1860 which remain vivid first-person social documents of the pre-war South. Dixon & Edwards, 1856-1860 hardcover books
1857TB31424New York: Dix Edwards & Co. 1857. First Edition. An ex-library copy in good condition in its original brown cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text stamping on the spine and blind embossed borders and designs on the boards. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 7/8 inches with the cloth of the back strip worn down to the edges of the text block the back strip has been varnished there is an early prior owner's name and date of "July 22 '57" on the first free end page and the typical library markings on the rear end pages. 516 including an appendix an index at the front of the book and text. Illustrated with an frontispiece from an engraving a fold-out map of part of the State of Texas This is the second volume of Olmsted's three book series A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States which details his travels through the South which was financed by what is now The New York Times. Howes O-79 Dix, Edwards & Co. hardcover books
18037400Albany: Pr. for and sold by D. & S. Whiting 1803. 8vo. xv 1 blank 17479 1 pp. <br><br>When the undertaking was first commenced nothing more was contemplated than a revision of the old "Conductor Generalis" in those parts merely that had been predicated upon British statutes differing from ours: But this formed so considerable a part of the book that after a few of the first subjects it was laid aside as almost an useless auxiliary" p. v. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 4718. Lacks covers leather spine chipped and worn with title gilt-stamped on a red leather label. Moderate spotting. One long tear to pp. 17778 without loss. Pr. for and sold by D. & S. Whiting hardcover books
1821BL4569Boston:: T. Bedlington 1821. 1821. 12mo. xxvi 27-346 pp. Original full tree calf gilt ruled spine black leather title label; spine head worn shaken some leaves loose thoroughly waterstained. AS IS. James Boswell quoting his close friend Samuel Johnson: "When at Oxford I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life expecting to find a dull book as such books generally are and perhaps to laugh at it; but I found Law quite an overmatch for me and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." – Life of Johnson 3rd. ed. vol. 1 p. 43. ". . . the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language." – ibid vol. 2 p. 118. See: Printing and the Mind of Man #187. T. Bedlington, 1821. hardcover books
183314178Washington 1833. Original Congressional leather rubbed pp cxxxv 685. Tanned Very Good. unknown books
1830256492Philadelphia: J. Harding 1830. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 132 pages; lacking the wrappers. Very Good binding. J. Harding unknown books
181743651London: Printed and Published by T.J. Wooler at the Black Dwarf Office 1817. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; disbound wrappers sheep and wastepaper remnants to spine all edges speckled grey; 4143pp. Foxing and light soil to title page serving as cover else Very Good and sound internally fresh. Thomas Jonathan Wooler began publishing the radical newspaper "The Black Dwarf" in January 1817 as an unstamped journal criticizing the Gagging Acts passed by the British government earlier that month. Within three months of publication Wooler was arrested and tried for seditious libel against Lord Liverpool's government. However Wooler managed to convince the jury that because he had only printed the defamatory piece but had not written it he was not guilty. Printed and Published by T.J. Wooler, at the Black Dwarf Office unknown books
1862255475Montpelier: Freeman Printing 1862. First. pamphlet. good. 22 pages. Slim 8vo original printed wrappers wrappers lightly soiled wrappers and pages in right margin just barely dampstained throughout. Montpelier: Freeman Printing 1862.<br/><br/> Freeman Printing unknown books
183511047Birmingham: Richard Davies 1835. 8vo. 16 pp. <br><br>Sole edition. James Thomas Law 17901876 chancellor of the diocese of Lichfield and master of St. John's Hospital Lichfield took much interest in the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery Queen's College Birmingham and was elected honorary warden of that institution in 1846. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2L6065. Disbound; respined with archival tissue. Waterstained throughout. Rubber-stamp of the Union Theological Seminary Library on verso of title-page with ink "bleeding" slightly onto recto of title-page and facing page. A couple of small chips and tears in margins affecting only the page numbers of the last leaf. Good . Richard Davies unknown books
1814282551814. Act Regulating the Marriage of the Royal Family. Act Regulating the Marriage of the Royal Family. Great Britain. Marriage. The British Royal Family. An Appeal to The Legislature for the Repeal of the Act Regulating the Marriage of the Royal Family. n.p.: n.p. 1814. 2 477-487 pp. Disbound. $25. unknown books
180937327Hartford: Self Published. Very Good. 1809. Hardcover. 3rd ed comprising the later decisions in England Ireland and America with notes and references by Thomas Day Counsellor at Law. Hartford Con. printed for the editor 1809. Ex-library copy the spine has been taped and lettered and the edges of the boards have been taped. Moderate foxing. . Self Published hardcover books
180837183London: Printed by W. Wilson / Printed for J. Hatchard 1808. 1st editions. Cf. Goldsmith 17989 for the 1st Copenhagen edition. Later tan half calf with marbled paper boards. Modest wear. A bit of foxing. "Not true" written in margin p. 65. A solid VG copy. 4 164 24; 4 26 2 blank pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>Includes: "A Report of the Judgment of the High Court of Admiralty on the Swedish Convoy : pronounced by Sir William Scott on the eleventh June 1799 / by Sir Christopher Robinson" p. 117-150 and "A List of Treaties concluded since July 1780 in which the principle is adopted of free ship free goods" p. 151-155. Includes addenda in English to French translation of Schlegel's work printed at Copenhagen and consisting of the judgment in the case of Saleucci vs. Johnson at the Court of the King's Bench p. 156-164. The first title has an additional 24-pp. section bound in at the end with the drop-title: Explanatory Answer to the Observations on the Subject of the late Capture of Neutral Ships also printed by W. Wilson. Printed by W. Wilson / Printed for J. Hatchard hardcover books
183727126Boston Massachusetts: Samuel N. Dickinson 1837. Cloth. Good. viii 438 pages. Vol 1 of a two volume set lacks the appendix. Period cloth with embossed circle design. Gilt titles on spine. Ex-library properly withdrawn with spine label under title removed sticker at base of spine large institutional withdrawn bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing throughout corners worn. Cloth. Samuel N. Dickinson unknown books
18035696Stanford N.Y.: Printed by Daniel Lawrence for Samuel Thorn and Joseph C. Deane 1803. 12mo. 140 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 4511. Ex-library: quarter cloth over marbled paper: stained rubbed on edges with chipping of paper especially on corners and a little tattering of cloth at head and foot of spine. Spine with paper library label and inked title. Charge pocket on verso of rear free endpaper. Soiling to endpapers and on top edges of some pages. All edges speckled blue. Printed by Daniel Lawrence, for Samuel Thorn and Joseph C. Deane hardcover books
18195767Philadelphia: Pr. by S. Probasco for William Marot 1819. 12mo. 192 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 48461. Ex-library. Contemporary speckled sheep; spine divided into compartments by double gilt rules and with black leather label gilt-lettered and paper library label. Some abrasions; front cover all but detached; rear joint open but sewing holding. Library bookplate on front pastedown. Browning from turn-ins onto endpapers flyleaves and first and last few pages. A few dog ears and some instances of light foxing. All edges yellow. Pr. by S. Probasco for William Marot hardcover books
1887506241887. Attorney-General. Annual Report of the Attorney-General of the United States for the Year 1887. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1887. xxiv 280 pp. Original cloth gilt title to spine stamp to cover. Moderate shelfwear. Internally clean. Ex-library. Stamps to front and rear free endleaf bookplate on front pastedown. $5. unknown books
1885506201885. Attorney-General. Annual Report of the Attorney-General of the United States for the Year 1885. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1885. 350 pp. Original cloth gilt title to spine stamp to cover. Moderate shelfwear. Internally clean. Ex-library. Stamps to front free endpaper. $5. unknown books
