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1774183732Berlin. : Christian Friedrich Himburg. 1774. 1st edition. Contemporary half mottled calf over decorative paper boards gilt spine title. Very good light shelfwear some toning to pages and map. 8vo. 19.8x12 cm. . German text. Important early mineral survey of Bohemia by the noted Swedish mineralogist. weight: 0.5 lb. One color folding map one folding plate. Christian Friedrich Himburg. hardcover books
184254602Philadelphia: published at the Assay Office of the Mint 1842. First edition 4to pp. 4 iv 1 6-220; inserted half-title printed in silver on glazed paper and 16 composite plates printed on glazed paper; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; small snag at the top of the spine and the cloth binding a little dull; the plates are all bound at the back of the volume in 4 sequential gatherings and the bulk of the plates has caused these gatherings to become extended; otherwise a complete copy with a clean text block and an interesting provenance: on the front free endpaper is the first owner's inscription "Rud. F. Kelker / April 21 1843 / bot. of Eckfeldt & Dubois / United States Mint" and on the top of the title page "Rud. F. Kelker / April 21 1843 / bot. of Eckfeldt & Dubois / United States Mint / paid $5.00." Bookplate of Rudolph F. Kelker Harrisburg Pa. A landmark work in American numismatics. The authors were assayers of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. For nearly two decades it was the only practical guide available to American coin collectors. It was also the first work to illustrate the 1804 dollar and was one of the earliest works to combine photography electrotyping and the metal rolling machine for illustrative purposes. Sabin 21787. <br/><br/> published at the Assay Office of the Mint hardcover books
1985GG01761Los Angeles:: Leigh Wiener 1985. 1985. 10 x 8 inches. With the photographer's rubber-stamp on verso. Inscribed by Zeitlin to Mary H. Owen sister of Neal Harlow "To Mary Happy Days Jake Zeitlin". Zeitlin had a special relationship with the Harlows as he used to live and meet next door to their home and talk & drink in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles. "During his 50-year career as a photographer and photojournalist Leigh Wiener photographed every U.S. president from Truman to Reagan Hollywood legends from Marilyn to Marlon and musicians from Miles to Sinatra. After moving to Los Angeles in 1946 Wiener went on to become a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times before shooting freelance for Life Time Fortune and Sports Illustrated. He created and co-hosted the Emmy-winning television show "Talk about Pictures" on KNBC. Wiener's photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery. He passed away in 1993 leaving behind a rich archive of images that uniquely captures the second half of the 20th century." – LWG. See: Wiener Leigh How do you photograph people BIO: "Mr. Wiener was born in Manhattan and attended the University of California at Los Angeles. In the early 1950's he worked for The Los Angeles Times as a staff photographer then joined the military and worked in Europe on the staff of Stars and Stripes the Army newspaper." Wiener died at just 62 years of age. "The cause was complications of a blood disease said Cliff Dektar his publicist. Mr. Wiener's doctors attributed the disease Sweet's syndrome to radiation Mr. Wiener had been exposed to when he photographed atomic-bomb tests near Las Vegas Nev. after World War II for Life magazine Mr. Dektar said." – Los Angeles Times obituary written by Wolfgang Saxon "Leigh Wiener 62 Photographer Of the Famous and the Historic." May 14 1993. Leigh Wiener, 1985. unknown books
1177Title with lithographed port. of the collector a little foxed. 3 p.l. lxxv 8 408 pp. one leaf of ads. 8vo cont. cloth-backed marbled boards first & last few leaves a little browned uncut. The Hague: S. & J. Luchtmans and C.C. van der Hoek 1838. This sale catalogue is tantamount to a bibliography of Greek and Roman archeology and literature published up to that time. Reuvens 1793-1837 son of an eminent Dutch jurist originally studied the law but switched professions and became professor of Greek Latin and archaeology at Leyden. The compiler of the catalogue Leemans has provided a valuable 75-page biography of Reuvens. 6234 lots of books 86 lots of prints 79 lots of manuscripts and 98 portrait busts and bookcases. Very good copy. ❧ N.B.G. Vol. 12 cols. 63-64. hardcover books
186738307San Francisco: Alta California Printing House 1867. 1st edition Cowan II pp. 375-376; Rocq 9192. Original printed pale green paper wrappers. Some modest wear & soiling to wrappers though spine paper mostly perished. A VG copy. 64 pp. Numerous mss corrections to text. Intratextual lot plans ~ 55 describing by city blocks the property of Jacob C. Beideman. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Auction of over 100 pieces of property located throughout the city of San Francisco as amassed by Jacob C. Beideman. One of the largest estates of the era neighborhoods include the Tenderloin area of downtown and along Van Ness Ave. Western Addition & Hayes Valley. OCLC records 6 holding institutions. No copies at auction the past 30 years. Rare in the trade. Alta California Printing House unknown books
17751087573 vols. London: T. Payne 1775/1776. 3 vols 4to xx 516; 2 vi 535; viii 602 pp with 31 engravings on the 30 listed plates. A very good and attractive set in clean condition bound in original calf with gilt decorated rules to covers and gilt decoration to spine panels with six compartments and red and black labels. § Vols I and II second edition 1775 and Vol III only edition 1796. The three maps are lacking. All other illustrations are present in good condition but including usual offsetting and a few showing minor mottling and browning. Plate XI stated in the List of Plates to be a Bartolozzi engraved plate designed by Cypriani from an original onyx Camaio by the Greek artist Tryphon is the correct plate although in fact it bears no plate No. and the imprint " G. B. Cipriani Del I.K. Sherwin Sculp.". Although Bartolozzi normally signs his studio's plates J. K. Sherwin was an apprentice of Bartolozzi's and presumably was allowed to sign his engraving in this instance. The plate's design matches "The Marriage of Eros and Psyche" from Tryphon's Camaio in the Duke of Marlborough's Collection see e.g Wikipaedia: "The Marlborough Gem". Bentley BB 439. Essick CBI p. 117 entry C. T. Payne unknown books
1740811231740. CATS Jacob. HUWELYCK dat is Het gantsche beleyt des Echten Staats; afgedeelt in zes hoost-stukken Marriage or the whole account of the wedded state divided into six sections: maidenhood courtship the bride the wife the mother the widow. Illustrated with life-like plates. s'Gravenhage Pieter van Thol 1740. Octavo. xxii538pp. 1f. Contains approximately 36 engravings by Noach van der Meer roughly based on Adriaen Van de Venne's illustrations for the first edition of 1625. Although smaller and simplified they're finely rendered. This verse compendium of advice to young women was first published in 1625 and went into many editions until at least 1779. Jacob Cats 1577-1660 the beloved and prolific poet known as "Father Cats" was a jurist statesman and diplomat and for fifteen years Raad-Pensionaris of Holland. With small marginal tears to pp. 3984108183 and 411 small worm hole along inner margin of pp. 108-120 and small dampstain to corners of pp. 378-428 none of these flaws affecting the printed area. Two signatures slightly starting; and the folding plate of children's games torn 4" along the fold line. In early vellum lightly soiled. Light to moderate foxing. This edition not in OCLC BL or NUC. unknown books
1927106211Chicago/ New York: The Leonard Company 1927. First edition of this Herzl biography by the British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States. Octavo 2 volumes original cloth top edge gilt pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page "To my friend Louis Karasik Jacob de Haas Oct '27." Fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. With sixty illustrations index chronological table appendices and bibliography. Rare and desirable signed by de Haas. Theodor Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian journalist playwright political activist and writer who was one of the fathers of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Though he died long before its establishment he is generally considered a father of the State of Israel formed in 1948. The Leonard Company hardcover books
173866890An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England CHARLES I King of England. HOOPER Jacob. An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. During the Reign of King Charles the First. London: Printed and Sold By All the Booksellers in Town and Country 1738. Quarto. Contemporary calf boards rebacked with a new spine and black morocoo label. Frontis. 628p 26 plates. Measures 29 1/2 x 18 cm. Complete with frontispiece and 26 plates. A very good copy. HBS 66890. $1250 Printed, and Sold By All the Booksellers in Town and Country hardcover books
1811529Ephrata in Pennsylvanien: Gedruckt bey J. Ruth 1811. 12mo. 165 x 105 mm. 6 12/2 x 4 inches. 395 i.e. 400 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait engraved frontispiece image of Christ revealing divine truth 5 engraved plates and one woodcut image of the serpent printed in the text; the portrait and the frontispiece are added and are not usually found with this edition. The book is bound in contemporary calf red leather label which reads "Der weg zu Christo"; some light rubbing to binding; paper stock is brown with age fore edges a bit fragile in places; a very good copy. First American edition originally printed in Goerlitz Germany in 1624. This American edition of Boehme's mystical text was printed at the Ephrata Cloister by Jacob Ruth and is one of only two titles produced by this printer at the Cloister press. K.J.R. Arndt gives Ruth's dates as 1794-1878 but provides no other information about the biography of the printer and his relationship to Ephrata. This question is of interest because the engraved images in this book are all unsigned and are apparently re-engravings of plates form an earlier edition published anonymously in Leiden in 1730 which contains five plates. If Ruth re-engraved these plates it demonstrates a very sophisticated skill with the burin and familiarity with the creation of fine lines tonality and readily recognizable symbols. The engravings are not only fine work but early examples of the art form produced in the Pennsylvania German community of the period. Shaw & Shoemaker 22416. Arndt German Language Printing in the United States 1805. Gedruckt bey J. Ruth unknown books
185962094Wellsburg VA: Jacob & Smith Publishers and Printers 1859. First edition. 12mo. 280 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three plates. The story of the Corps of Discovery and its exploration of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase seen through the lens of this biography of the last surviving member of the expedition. "The biography of its citizens is the history of a nation and we trust that the reputations of history will not suffer from one departure in permitting the humble biography of a hero of the ranks to stand by those of the great and title" from the preface. Howes J-31. Graff 2183. Wagner-Camp 6:10: "Gass became one of the best-known members of the expedition for several reasons: his key role as sergeant brought his name up frequently in the journals of Lewis and Clark his account was the first to be published he was the first to have a biography written about him and finally he outlived the other members of the Corps of Discovery by decades dying at the age of ninety-nine in 1870." Plates with foxing text toned but a very good copy. 20th-century green three-quarter leather and cloth gilt rules and title on spine. 9761. <br/><br/> Jacob & Smith, Publishers and Printers hardcover books
30800<p>quarto three pages plus address leaf formerly folded neatly written in ink in a clear legible hand very good clean condition.</p><p> Jacob a city toll gate keeper writes his teen-age sister about the execution of Henry Shorter a 24 year old African American man for the murder of Stephen Brush a 19 year old white youth who offended Shorter inciting an angry exchange and resulting in Shorter's stabbing Brush to death.</p><p> Close to midnight on a September evening in 1848 Stephen Brush a 19 year-old white youth and several friends who lived in a blue-collar industrial section of Buffalo were returning from a Minstrel show laughing about one of the characters in the cast who had played a "Negro servant". Brush apparently used the "N" word just as he was passing two young African American men – 24 year-old Henry Shorter a hotel barber from Fredonia and a friend who had just moved to New York from Ohio. Shorter took offense and an angry exchange ensued. Shorter pulled out a short knife and attacked Brush pursuing him into the street where he stabbed him in the abdomen on the arm cutting off one of his fingers and above the eye. The African American men ran off as bystanders carried Brush to a tavern where he soon died. A police investigation led within hours to the home of Shorter who was awakened and arrested when blood was found on his hands and clothing. He allegedly confessed to the killing saying it was not premeditated "the impulse of the moment" and that his friend had nothing to do with the crime. Local newspapers called this a "cold blooded murder committed in our streets upon an unsuspecting and inoffensive citizen". Brought to trial Shorter was represented by two brothers leading criminal attorneys of Buffalo; they found most prospective jurors had already formed an opinion of Shorter's guilt. During the trial the lawyers argued that Shorter despite his alleged confession had acted in self-defense. Twenty witnesses were called for the prosecution ten for the defense who testified as to Shorter's "good character". The Judge instructed the jury not to regard Shorter as rich or poor white or black but just to consider the facts as presented in court. The jury deliberated for eight hours and returned with a verdict of guilty. Before pronouncing sentence the Judge stressed that he Shorter had received a fair trial as was Shorter's friend who was acquitted of the crime and set free. He then pronounced the sentence of death by hanging as Shorter silently betrayed "considerable emotion". Shorter's lawyers appealed to the New York Supreme Court. Shorter told the Justices that he had "provocation" for attacking Brush and that some witnesses had lied about details of the incident. His Appeal was denied; the execution delayed for eight months was set for August 1849 – the event described in Jacob's letter. According to news reports Shorter's last words on the scaffold were "I am about to leave you. I die innocent of the crime of murder." He hoped "God will forgive" the city officials who had "testified falsely against me". </p><p> "Dear Sister Harriet</p><p> … I have been quite busy since I was down to see you I arrested 8 duchmen sic in one day and on Friday last went to attend the execution of Shorter who was condemned to be hung for the murder of Brush it being the first time I ever beheld a mans life taken amid shouts of applause or joy and that was the case from those from without the limits of the jail yard who could not see but hear when the platform fell and which was heartrending to hear I was one of the officers chosen for assisting in the execution when he was taken down I assisted in extricating the Rope from his neck and then carried him aloft in the jail for his friends to take and there left him it was a solemn thing to behold him drop the distance of six feet and fetch up on nothing but air. When he was led forth from the dungeon dressed in a white robe and a white cap upon his head I was inspired with feelings which I never shall forget I had been in and conversed with him about a week before his execution he seemed resigned to his fate but when he ascended the scaffold and beheld the group of officers ministers & jurymen that were to behold him plunged into eternity he there declared himself innocent and censured the officers & mayor for perjuring themselves against him at that time my feelings left me and I was ready to see him drop when he was led forth on the drop he said I die an innocent man the world knew better. But alas he died with a lie in his mouth … he said nothing more to the ministers there on the scaffold …"</p><p> No printed account of the crime or trial is recorded in McDade <i>The Annals of Murder</i>. </p> books
1983WRCLIT64655New York: The Limited Editions Club 1983. Large quarto. Full black aniline calf lettered in blind. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens printed in eleven colors. Bookplate on front pastedown otherwise about fine in modestly rubbed black silk over boards slipcase. First edition in this format the text accompanied by eight original full-page color silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence resulting in a haunting conjunction of text and image. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd. Each copy is signed by Hersey Warren and Lawrence. One of the most heralded of the Club's publications of the 1980s and justly so. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
304836New York: Mulberry St Sept 20-94. 8 pages. 8vo. Old folds with some tape marks some splitting. Very Good. 8 pages. 8vo. Playgrounds In NYC Schools. Riis writes in reply to Miss Elizabeth Van Winkle calling for more adequate playgrounds in New York City schools and including his views on recreation housing and scholarship. Mulberry St unknown books
183022777London: published for the Author by Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1830. Imperial octavo. 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Additional title on india paper mounted with etched vignette 49 etched plates by Strutt all on India paper mounted. Original oatmeal-coloured cloth rebacked.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Edward Kynaston Bridger d.1898 armorial bookplate; William Russell Grace 1832-1904 armorial bookplate<br/> <br/>An attractive copy of the first octavo edition of this charming work: the deluxe issue with the plates all printed on india paper.<br/> <br/>Rather than concentrating on generic descriptions of species of trees although these are given Strutt here provides a portrait in words and pictures of 50 of the greatest trees or stands of trees in England and Scotland: a snapshot of the trees as they stood in 1830. "Greatest" is here interpreted by Strutt in various ways: tallest largest girth largest spread oldest etc. The preponderence of the examples given are oaks 21 but he also includes examples of elm 6 beech 2 ash 2 chestnut 4 cedar 3 yew 3 and one each of lime poplar willow plane maple sycamore Scotch fir silver fir and larch. This work was first published by Strutt in 1826 in a folio format and was available by subscription at 9 guineas for the normal issue or for the issue with the plates on india paper 15 guineas a list of the subscribers to this folio edition is included in the present octavo edition. For the present work the folio plates were reduced and the folio text was modified to allow for the re-ordering of the trees into more coherant groupings. As with the folio edition this work was offered in two forms: at £1 11s. 6d. for the normal issue or 3 guineas for the deluxe issue with the plates on india paper as here. The early owner of this copy William Russell Grace the co-founder of W.R Grace and Co. was an American success story who rose from relative poverty to be one of the richest men in the country. He was also a noted philanthropist and served two terms as Mayor of New York.<br/> <br/>Lowndes III p.2534; Nissen BBI 1907. published for the Author by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green unknown books
16222666Middelburg: Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne 1622. 4to 233 x 176 mm. 16 60 19 1 blank pp. Large emblematic publisher's mark on title-page four half-page engraved illustrations by Pieter de Jode 2 Pieter Serwouters and Willem van der Passe after Adriaen van der Venne. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Short marginal tear to title light dampstaining to first and last leaves. Later parchment over pasteboards ms. spine title. Provenance: Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates 1842-1903 bookplate dated 1894.  First Edition of Cats' retelling of the Biblical tale of Queen Vasthi the wife of Ahasuerus who refused her husband's summons to appear before his guests wearing the royal crown and presumably nothing else and who was duly punished. The first part of Cats' word-playing verse adaptation whose title may be translated as The Theater of Manly Respectability is a long speech in the Queen's defense and in defense of all women followed by a speech against her and in favor of "Manly Respectability." The work concludes with the Judgment which is that Vasthi should obey her husband because women's subservience to men is a law of nature. A final poem titled "Aller Princessen Spiegel aller Vrovwen Spoor" is illustrated with an engraving showing the humbled queen wearing a yoke around her neck. The parallels and differences between the Biblical Ahasuerus and Herodotus' tale of King Candaules supplied in Latin and Dutch translations in an appendix whose wife's rebellion was more successful are fully exploited by Cats and by the illustrator Cats' usual partner the painter and engraver Adriaen van de Venne whose brother Jan published the edition.Van de Venne's engravings notably the scene of Candaules' naked wife being surprised by Gyges served as models for a number of Dutch painters. The Van de Venne brothers played a central role in the dissemination of Cats' poetry and it is their joint production that makes the works come alive: "The complete works of Cats together with Van de Venne's illustrations formed a sort of housebook of the Dutch people which remained popular for two centuries." Bol p. 117.Following the privilege on the title verso is a letter from the publisher to all bailiffs officials and readers "Noodige Waersschouwinge." complaining of the many counterfeit editions of an earlier Cats work the 1620 Self-stryt and explaining how to tell them apart. A second edition without the Noodige Waersschouwinge appeared later in 1622 and several further editions followed. De Jonge van Ellemeet Museum Catsianum 97; Bol Adriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne 1989 p. 118. Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne unknown books
17753220Bath: S. Hazard for T. Mills 1775. 8vo. xvii 3 445 1 pp. Modern full calf red morocco spine label. Displeasing glue residue in gutter margin of first blank and title-page both of which are a little browned age-toning throughout not objectionable; top edge of textblock with stain near the head-cap which did not permeate through the text itself. Provenance: Mary Knowles contemporary signature on title - see below. A good copy with faults and priced accordingly. Was the "Mary Knowles" who first owned this 18th-century English translation of Boehme's first work the same as the well known English Quaker mystic poet feminist and abolitionist namely Mary Morris Knowles 1733-1807. While we have been unable to procure an autograph of Mary Morris Knowles with which to compare the two signatures if she did not own this particular copy of Boehme it is almost certain that she had in her library at least one of Boehme's texts.<br/><br/>This edition was published by Thomas Mills ca. 1735-1820 formerly a clerk in the one of the Countess of Huntington's chapels where he preached "in the Methodist way." It is not without interest that in 1778 Mills became a Quaker sic.<br/><br/>A German shoemaker turned mystic Boehme's writings found renewed interest in England during the late 18th century influencing Quakers Methodists and mystics alike William Blake in particular. Indeed Blake "inherited from Boehme the ideas which formed the foundation of his philosophy and his myth" Gerald Bentley "William Blake and the Alchemical Philosophers" B.Litt. Thesis Oxon. 1954 p. 233<br/><br/>Our copy is COMPLETE. The only other copy of this edition on the market is both ugly and seriously defective lacking everything after p. 390.<br/><br/>ESTC T216620. On Mary Knowles see: J. Jennings Gender Religion and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing 2006. J. Jennings "Mary Morris Knowles: Devout Worldly and 'Gay'" in: Quaker Studies Mar. 2010 vol. 14 No. 2 pp. 195-211. S. Hazard for T. Mills unknown books
1782043844Dessau: Societé Typographique 1782. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 19th century half green morocco over marbled boards. Moderate foxing and browning throughout but clean otherwise. There was a Leipzig edition published in 1788. Mauvillon was powerful figure in 18th century German liberalism a proponent of a robust private sector and extreme laissez-fair governmental policy. xxiv 502 XV pp with 7 folding plates at the rear. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; Inventory No: 043844. <br/><br/> Societé Typographique hardcover books
1729669971729. Provenance: Thomas Carpenter NJ Supreme Ct Judge. Provenance: Thomas Carpenter NJ Supreme Ct Judge. With A "Merchant's Dictionary of Words and Terms" Jacob Giles 1686-1744. Lex Mercatoria: Or The Merchant's Companion. Containing all the Laws and Statutes Relating to Merchandize. Wherein Our Trade with Foreign Nations and Trade in General Amongst Our Selves With What Belongs to Particular Companies and all Maritime Affairs in the way of Traffick are illustrated and Concisely Treated of; Under the Heads of Merchants and Owners of Ships Masters Mariners Pilots Freight and Charter-Parties of Affreightment Insurance Bottomry Customs Wrecks Factors Planters and Plantations Letters of Marque and Reprisal Privateers Piracy Treaties of Commerce Exchange &c. With an Introduction Setting forth the Laws of Nature and of Nations Dominion of the Sea &c. Some Curious and Useful History and Variety of Special Cases and Determinations Interspers'd Thro' the Whole. To which are Added in Proper Places The Best Adapted Precedents of Instruments and Writings Made Use of in All Cases Relating to Trade. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt 1729. xii 404 12 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 5". Recent period-style calf raised bands and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Some toning light foxing to portions of text. Early annotations and signatures including that of Thomas Carpenter to preliminaries two tiny glue spots to title page. A handsome copy. $1100. Second and final edition "Corrected with the Addition of Three Entire New Chapters. And Also A Merchant's Dictionary of Words and Terms &c." Jacob best-known for his New Law-Dictionary was the most prolific English legal writer of the eighteenth century. Although he was interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible Jacob was also an idealist who believed that widespread knowledge of the law would help create a more just society. This is the goal of Lex Mercatoria 1718 and several other publications such as Every Man His Own Lawyer 1736 and Treatise of Laws 1721. Thomas Carpenter 1804-1876 was a prominent New Jersey attorney and a judge of that state's Supreme Court. English Short-Title Catalogue T137820. unknown books
194667BOSTON BROWN 1850. BOSTON, BROWN, 1850 unknown books
1729688321729. London 1729. 1st ed. London 1729. 1st ed. First Edition of Jacob's Great Dictionary Jacob Giles 1686-1744. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing The Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms Used in the Law; and Also the Whole Law and the Practice Thereof Under All the Heads and Titles of the Same. Together With Such Informations Relating Thereto as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law and Our Manners Customs and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted From All Dictionaries Abridgments Institutes Reports Year-Books Charters Registers Chronicles and Histories Published to This Time. And Fitted for the Use of Barristers Students and Practisers of the Law Members of Parliament and Other Gentlemen Justices of Peace Clergymen &c. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling 1729. 772 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Folio 13" x 8-1/4". Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth raised bands and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate toning faint dampspotting in places faint dampstaining to lower corners of first five leaves. A handsomely bound copy of a landmark title. $1000. First edition. As Cowley has pointed out A New Law-Dictionary was both Jacob's masterpiece and "an entirely new departure in legal literature" that provided a model for several subsequent efforts. In contrast to earlier works each entry summarizes all of the laws relating to the subject and offers extensive interpretive commentary. Obsolete terms are omitted. It was recognized almost immediately that Jacob created a highly useful legal encyclopedia that was more detailed and concise than any other abridgment of the period. An extremely popular work that went through twelve editions between 1729 and 1800 it offers unparalleled insights into Anglo-American law during the eighteenth century. Cowley A Bibliography of Abridgements Digests Dictionaries and Indexes to the Year 1800 217. English Short-Title Catalogue T137460. unknown books
1719673001719. London 1719. 1st ed. London 1719. 1st ed. Legal Guide for "Gentlemen of All Ranks" in a Well-Preserved Contemporary Binding Jacob Giles 1686-1744. Lex Constitutionis: Or The Gentleman's Law. Being A Compleat Treatise of All the Laws and Statutes Relating to the King And the Prerogative of the Crown; The Nobility And House of Lords; House of Commons; Officers of State; The Exchequer and Treasury; Commissioners and Officers of the Customs; Of the Excise; Of the Post-Office; Stamp-Office; Forfeited Estates; Publick Accounts; The Navy-Office; War-Office; Lieutenancy of Counties; Justices of Peace &c. Wherein Near One Hundred Authors of the Best Reputation Both Ancient and Modern On the Subject Have Been Consulted And are Referr'd to. And also An Introduction to the Common Law of England With Respect to Tenures of Lands Descents Marriage-Contracts Coverture &c. Of Property Creation and Forfeiture of Estates; Trials of Offenders Courts at Westminster &c. To Which are Added Under Their Proper Heads The Manner of Passing Bills in Both Houses of Parliament the Judicature of the Lords; Variety of Adjudg'd Cases; And some Curious History of Antiquity. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq; for B. Lintot 1719. ii v-xiv 360 12 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and fragment of paper shelf label to spine blind tooling to board edges. A few minor scratches and scuffs to boards corners lightly bumped front hinge cracked light toning to text. A notably well-preserved copy. $1000. First edition. Holdsworth thought highly of this book noting its "a learned book-the author tells us that he had consulted nearly a hundred authorities; the idea of making such a book was original; and the main features of the constitution are set out." In his preface Jacob indicates that he did not write this treatise on England's Constitution for the landed gentry exclusively but for "gentlemen of all ranks" that is the literate general public. This distinction is significant. Jacob though certainly interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible was an idealist who believed that widespread knowledge of the law would help create a more just society. This is also evident in his other publications such as A Tr. unknown books
1729641821729. London 1729. 2d ed.; 1761 ed in Sowerby 2101. London 1729. 2d ed.; 1761 ed in Sowerby 2101. With A "Merchants's Dictionary of Words and Terms" Jacob Giles 1686-1744. Lex Mercatoria: Or The Merchant's Companion. Containing all the Laws and Statutes Relating to Merchandize. Wherein Our Trade with Foreign Nations and Trade in General Amongst Our Selves With What Belongs to Particular Companies And all Maritime Affairs In the way of Traffick Are Illustrated and Concisely Treated of; Under the Heads of Merchants And Owners of Ships Masters Mariners Pilots Freight and Charter-Parties of Affreightment Insurance Bottomry Customs Wrecks Factors Planters and Plantations Letters of Marque and Reprisal Privateers Piracy Treaties of Commerce Exchange &c. With an Introduction Setting Forth the Laws of Nature and of Nations Dominion of the Sea &c. Some Curious and Useful History And Variety of Special Cases and Determinations Interspers'd Thro' the Whole. To Which are Added in Proper Places The Best Adapted Precedents of Instruments and Writings Made Use of in All Cases Relating to Trade. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt et al. for B. Motte et al. 1729. xii 404 12 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 5". Contemporary calf blind fillets and rules to boards raised bands to spine gilt dentelles to board edges. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities joints and hinges starting. Light toning to text negligible foxing to a few leaves internally clean. A handsome copy. $1000. Second and final edition "Corrected with the Addition of Three Entire New Chapters And Also A Merchant's Dictionary of Words and Terms &c." Jacob best-known for his New Law-Dictionary was the most prolific English legal writer of the eighteenth century. Although he was interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible Jacob was also an idealist who believed that widespread knowledge of the law would help create a more just society. This is the goal of Lex Mercatoria 1718 and several other publications such as Every Man His Own Lawyer 1736 and Treatise of Laws 1721. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:522 46. English Short-Title Catalogue T137820. unknown books
18111303022London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto xiii 1 blank 2 407 1 36 7 1; VG; bound in 3/4 contemporary brown leather marbled boards; paneled spine with black label and gilt lettering; with 13 folding plates; EM consignment; shelved case 9. 1303022. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed for J. Johnson and Co hardcover books
17683484Amsterdam: Jacobus Loveringh and Abraham Blusse 1768. Full-Leather. Thick Octavo. Three volumes in one Dutch language 1 blank half-title xxviii 1-854pp. Includes 34pp.consisting of 4 tables 1pp. errata 3 blanks. Illustrated with 29 engraved plates most folding. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf 5 raised bands with compartments fully decorated in gilt all edges stamped in red and black outer joints somewwhat cracked but sturdy; corners worn small chip to upper board near spine; very light damp staining to upper gutter of first half of text. Translation of: Biblischer mathematicus oder Erlauterung der H. Schrift aus den mathematischen wissenschaften der arithmetic geometrie static architectur astronomie horographie und optic . Als ein anhang ist beygefuget herrn George Sarganecks Versuch einer anwendung der mathematic in dem articul von der grosse der sunden-schulden. A scarce work on various perspectives; the Tower of Babel Noah's Ark Ptolemy Copernicus and Tycho de Brahe's perspective of earth and the planets Jerusalem and Norway map perspective Architectual perspective ot the Temple of Jerusalem etc. <br/><br/> Jacobus Loveringh and Abraham Blusse hardcover books
