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179325039Rutland: Printed by Anthony Haswell 1793. 9 10-296 pp. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Title page margins browned light scattered foxing. Signature of "T. Baldwin 1795" at head of title page. Very Good. <br/><br/> Born in Connecticut a Yale graduate and Revolutionary War veteran Chipman settled in Vermont where he practiced law and was a judge then became one of its Senators serving as a Federalist from 1797 to 1803. Chipman's work is the first publication of Vermont's case reports. <br/>Evans 25296. McCorison 256. Cohen 5384. Printed by Anthony Haswell unknown books
186733613N. Y.: Baker and Godwin 1867. First Edition. 102pp. Original gold stamped cloth boards small chip on top of spine. A promotional piece extolling the virtues of Mexico for prospective businesses education silver mining great Sierra Madre scenery cities and towns political situation etc. Baker and Godwin hardcover books
19331219976Washington D.C.: United States Department of State Circa 1933. Typescript Copies. Folio; hundreds of pages of typescript copies of memoranda bound in an old black memoranda portfolio gathered at spine; contents are occasionally annotated and include 1 Russian governmental indebtedness to the Government of the United States; 2 Russian governmental indebtedness to American citizens; 3 Private American claims against Soviet Russia; 4 Question of Communist propaganda; 5 Treaty rights essential to the welfare and protection of American nationals in Russia; 6 Russian Government property in the United States; 7 Annual imports of Russian origin; 8 Statements by Litvinov. Shelved 12 Folio. 1219976. FP New Rockville Stock. [United States Department of State] unknown books
1998171559Santa Fe NM: Museum of Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico 1998. Paperback. VG- light wear and minor soiling to wraps. White and color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. 47 pp. Color illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico Santa Fe N.M. May 15 to August 24 1998. Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico paperback books
1849JC12532Middlebury: Printed for the Author 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary printed paper over boards backed in morocco; 12mo 176x109mm; pp. iii-viii v-vi 9-222; complete despite insane pagination. Binding scuffed; crack down middle of front board; text block foxed and waterstained; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. <br/><br/> Printed for the Author hardcover books
191163423Sacramento CA: The author 1911. Second edition revised and enlarged. 8vo. 532 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates portraits map and plan. Wirz 1823-1865 was one of two people convicted and executed for war crimes committed during the Civil War. Harry Houdini's copy with three of his stamps one each on front and rear endpapers and one on an internal leaf. Nevins I p. 188: "This work greatly expands and largely supersedes Chipman's 1891 89-page pamphlet covering the subject." Dornbusch III 626. Nicholson p. 149 for the 1891 first edition. Still a good solid copy with an intriguing association. Original white black and gilt-stamped decorated cloth rubbed spine heavily sunned spine ends somewhat frayed. 9967. <br/><br/> (The author hardcover books
19674565Glendale CA: The Arthur . Clark Company 1967. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1967 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp Near Fine example of the plain brown dustjacket. Octavo 322 pgs. Vol. X in Arthur Clark's "Spain in the West" series. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> The Arthur . Clark Company hardcover books
1846681541846. Boston 1846. 1st ed. Boston 1846. 1st ed. Notable Biography of an Important Figure in Vermont's Political History Chipman Daniel 1765-1850. The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman LL.D. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1846. xii 402 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Original cloth with decorative blind stamping gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities light fading to upper edges of boards and spine spine ends lightly bumped. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining and light foxing to a few leaves early owner signature to front free endpaper. $125. First edition. An important figure in the political history of Vermont Nathaniel Chipman 1752-1843 was instrumental in bringing Vermont into the Union in 1791. Nathaniel Chipman's brother Daniel Chipman was a distinguished Vermont politician. unknown books
2003365222003. ISBN-13: 9781584773078; ISBN-10: 1584773073. Gray John Chipman. The Rule Against Perpetuities. Third Edition. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1915. xlii 714 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773078; ISBN-10: 1584773073. Hardcover. New. $125. Reprint of the third edition. This work was first published in 1886 and became a standard work among conveyancers and was adopted by law schools within a few years. Considered a work of authority it is distinguished by its organization and thoroughness as well as the extent of Gray's historical research and boldness of his analysis. unknown books
188732427Buffalo NY: Np c. 1887. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Buffalo NY: Np c. 1887. Several b/w engraved illustrations. 78 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to front board. Extremities bumped and rubbed; corners worn; ink to front free endpaper; edges and page perimeters lightly soiled and yellowed. Else interior clean. Very good/No dust jacket. Np hardcover books
19042821San Francisco: California State Board of Trade 1904. Softcover. Near fine. 55 pp with chromolithograph frontispiece of a poppy folding map Geographical Topographical and Railroad Map of California with birdseye view of San Francisco in 1903 on the verso tables one folding and illustrations from photographs. Minimal general handling wear; near fine. An attractive promotional piece containing detailed statistics on demographics agricultural production natural resources imdustry and other aspects of commercial development. California State Board of Trade paperback books
1888WRCAM11931Buffalo 1888. 78pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Front wrap detached and chipped rear lacking else good. Mainly devoted to events in western New York around the time of the War of 1812 with several engraved illustrations. unknown books
1892WDD16Philadelphia 1892. Spine ends chewed and spine and edges splashed and spotted. Some looseness in the binding. An interesting account of the travels of the Denver Club of Philadelphia by train through the wilds of Idaho on a fishing expedition. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Privately Printed. Hardcover books
186531643Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1865. Three quarter calf over marbled boards. Front joint tender some wear at head and heel of spine corners worn the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip occasional pen editing; accession number on title page in blue binding solid leaves clean a good copy. viii 279 pp. 8vo. An earlier edition by George Chipman covered period 1817-1852. U.S. Government Printing Office hardcover books
2006437102006. ISBN-13: 9781584776369; ISBN-10:1584776366. The First American Treatise on the Law of Contracts Chipman Daniel. An Essay on the Law of Contracts for the Payment of Specifick Articles. Originally published: Middlebury Vt.: Published by the Author 1822. xvi 17-224 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776369. ISBN-10: 1584776366. Cloth. New. $65. Reprint of the uncommon first edition. Chipman's Essay was the first original treatise on the subject written in the United States. Verplanck's An Essay on the Doctrine of Contracts 1825 was the second. In his Legal Bibliography 1847 Marvin criticized Chipman for "showing what the law of contracts ought to be rather than what the law of contracts is" 189. This remark indicates Marvin's failure to grasp the changing nature of contract law and it shows that Chipman's ideas were ahead of their time. Indeed as Horwitz points out Chipman was the first American to submerge the "dominant equity theory of contract in a conception of contractual obligation based exclusively on express bargains" determined by market values. Chipman 1765-1850 was a Vermont lawyer a professor of law at Middlebury a representative to the state legislature and the U.S. Congress and a delegate to several Vermont constitutional conventions. unknown books
19909019926Birmingham: Gryphon 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Published exclusively for members of the Notable Trials Library. Bound in the publisher's original brown composition leather spine stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Marbled end papers. Previous owners bookplate. <br/><br/> Gryphon hardcover books
19821776Culver City CA: California Spectrum 1982. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Soft crease at spine light shelf wear and rubbing focused at edges else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo. 123pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Bibliography. <br/><br/>One of the first books by the now well established Jack Chipman specialist in Bauer Pottery. A rather handsome copy of this exceptional reference volume. California Spectrum paperback books
1967106350Glendale CA: The Arthur A. Clark Company 1967. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 322 pages. Volume X of Spain and the New World series. Conquest and colonization of the Panuco region of colonial Mexico focusing on the governorship of Nuno de Guzman. Appendix bibliography and index. Edges of boards and spine slightly worn. Writing in pencil on front endpaper. The Arthur A. Clark Company unknown books
19672389Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company 1967. First Edition. 322pp. Octavo 24.5 cm Burgundy cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Spain in the West Series X 10. "Nuno Beltran de Guzman ranks second only to Hernan Cortes in importance in the early conquest of New Spain. This is the first biography of a very important figure in the early history of Spanish colonization and it corrects misconceptions about Guzman fostered by earlier writers including Bancroft. In particular Chipman shows that Guzman more vigorously protected the natives than previously assumed. He served as governor of the province of Panuco president of the First Audencia of Mexico and was conqueror and governor of New Galicia. He and Cortes were fierce competitors." - Clark & Brunet 46. Arthur H. Clark Company unknown books
1919WRCLIT54392New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1919. Pictorial wrapper over boards. First edition of the author's first collection preceded by a pamphlet Prize Poem. YSYP II. A neatly and properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate with bookplates each bearing a small withdrawal stamp otherwise about fine. Yale Univ. Press hardcover books
2011287452011. ISBN-13: 9781584770466; ISBN-10: 1584770465. Notable Early Treatise on the Principles of American Government Chipman Nathaniel. Principles of Government. A Treatise on Free Institutions Including the Constitution of the United States. Originally published: Burlington: Edward Smith 1833. viii 144 145a-188a 145-330 pp. Reprinted 2001 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770466; ISBN-10: 1584770465. Hardcover. New. $39.95 A revised version of Nathaniel Chipman's Sketches of the Principles of Government 1793 this early treatise on the underlying principles of American government addresses civil laws and obligations the social state rights of property sovereignty and political power. An important early contribution to American constitutional law it is also interesting for its Federalist perspective on the evolutions of political institutions from Washington to Jackson. Nathaniel Chipman 1752-1843 was a leading Vermont Federalist who was instrumental in that state's admission to the Union. He became Vermont's chief Justice and went on to represent Vermont in the U.S. Senate. He was also one of America's first significant legal writers. One of his books the Reports and Dissertations 1793 is included in Warren's list of "the four general works on the Common Law. of permanent value in American Legal Literature.": Warren A History of the American Bar 335-336. See Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 5752 Sabin A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 12824 Dictionary of American Biography II:73-74. unknown books
1905256473New York: A. L. Burt 1905. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. J. Watson Davis. Some bumping to extremities of binding; binding sound; no markings in text. Very Good binding. A. L. Burt unknown books
196758309Glendale California: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Nine illustrations. First edition limited to 1504 copies. "Nuno Beltran de Guzman ranks second only to Hernan Cortes in importance in the early conquest of New Spain. This is the first biography of a very important figure in the early history of Spanish colonization. He served as governor of the province of Panuco president of the First Audiencia of Mexico and was conqueror and governor of New Galicia. He and Cortes were fierce competitor." The tenth volume in the Spain in the West series. From the James S. Copley Library with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Original red cloth binding with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A bit of light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise a near fine copy. Clark and Brunet 40. The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
1967WRCAM27687Glendale Ca.: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1967. 322pp. including illustrations and map. Frontis. Red cloth gilt. Very good in dust jacket. Guzman was governor of Panuco from 1527 to 1533 after which he was tried for allegedly mishandling governmental business. The tenth volume in the "Spain in the West" series. CLARK & BRUNET 40. The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
009606Providence: Brown University Press 1966. Cloth. Fine/A Very Good Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight wear to extremities of jacket. In a three and one-half year whaling voyage in the Arctic the captain's wife captures a sense o f the great whaling community - allies against perpetually impending disaster. Crew lists glossaries etc. in appendixes. Endnotes. Index. 311 pp. Providence: Brown University Press, 1966 unknown books
