‎Constitution‎

‎Constitution belge‎

‎La Constitution, texte intégral suivi d'un vocabulaire français-néerlandais et néerlandais-français renvoyant aux articles/De Grondwet volledige tekst met een Nederlandsch-Fransche en Frensch -Nederlandsche woordenlijst waarin naar de artikelen verwezen wordt.‎

‎Bruxelles, Editeur L.-J. Kryn, s.d. (ca 1921). 14 x 21, 78 pp., broché, bon état (couverture défraîchie).‎

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‎CONSTITUTION UNIGENITUS .‎

‎RECUEIL DE PIECES .‎

‎.Petit in 8° relié plein veau d'époque .Dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés .Pièce de titre rouge .‎

‎Mémoires et réflexions sur la constitution Unigenitus de Clément XI et sur l' instruction pastorale des XL prélats acceptans par Dupin (Barbier 11634) ..Amsterdam ,1717 192 pp.$-Préjugés légitimes pour la défense des réflexions sur le nouveau testament‎

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‎Confederate States of America Constitution‎

‎Provisional and permanent constitutions‎

‎Thomson Gale 1861. Paperback. New. 158 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.39 inches. Thomson Gale paperback‎

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‎CONSTITUCION DE LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA‎

‎Constitución de la República Argentina sancionada por el Congreso General Constituyente el 24 de Diciembre de 1826.‎

‎Buenos Aires: Imprenta del Estado 1826. First Edition — Primera edición. Softcover — Tapa blanda. 190x135mm. 7½x5¼". Buenos Aires Imprenta del Estado 24 de Diciembre de 1826. En 4º 190 x 135mm. 2 55 pp. Guardas de papel. Primera edición. Comienza con un Manifiesto del Congreso General Constituyente a los pueblos de la República Argentina. La Constitución de la República Argentina de 1826 estableció una forma de gobierno "representativa republicana consolidada en unidad de régimen adoptando oficialmente la religión Católica Apostólica Romana". Para la sanción de aquella constitución fueron consultadas las Provincias acerca de la forma de Estado: Salta y La Rioja se pronunciaron por el régimen unitario al igual que Tucumán pero curiosamente aclaró que quería conservar sus instituciones. Mendoza San Juan Santiago del Estero Tarija Entre Ríos Santa Fe y Córdoba se manifestaron por el sistema federal. San Luis Catamarca Corrientes y la Banda Oriental por lo que resolviese el Congreso en tanto que Buenos Aires y Misiones no opinaron. Primeras hojas ligeramente amarronadas. Imprenta del Estado paperback‎

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‎Constitucion de Mexico‎

‎Cuba Mexicana: Colección de Artículos Seguida de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Classic Reprint Spanish Edition‎

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‎CONSTITUTION‎

‎A History of Harvard University; North Carolina Debates Ratifying the Constitution; and a List of Newly-Minted U.S. Senators‎

‎Philadelphia PA 1788. Softcover. Fine. The Columbian Magazine. Magazine. The Columbian Magazine Philadelphia Pa. December 1788. 52 pp. 5 x 8 in. Lacking plates. This title has the honor of being the first successful American magazine having begun in September 1786 and lasting until December 1792. Although many titles existed earlier none enjoyed the success of lasting beyond a few issues or a couple of years.Opens with five pages on ""An Account of the Ancient Colleges at Cambridge in New England."" that being Harvard University. pp. 669-673.A recipe for making artificial Asses milk p. 698.With ""The American Plutarch - Memoirs of Captain John Smith"" pp. 699-703 continued for a previous issue and concluded in the next.A section on ""American Intelligence"" pp. 715-718 with the latest news reports including an item from Edenton North Carolina:""a new convention be recommended for the purpose of reconsidering the new constitution held out by the federal convention as a government for the United States."" p. 716.With a ""List of Senators of the United States Already Chosen"" by state pp. 717-718.Also mention of the officers for the Masonic Lodge at Philadelphia p. 716. paperback‎

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‎CONSTITUTION DORR Thomas Wilson‎

‎Address to the People of Rhode-Island‎

‎1834. First Edition. DORR Thomas Wilson. An Address to the People of Rhode-Island From the Convention Assembled at Providence on the 22nd Day of February and Again on the 12th Day of March 1834 to Promote the Establishment of a State Constitution. Providence: Cranston & Hammond 1834. Octavo period-style half diced calf gilt marbled boards pp. i-v 6-60. $2400.First edition of Dorr's foundational Address prompting his role as instigator and leader of the Dorr Rebellion placing him ""in the front rank of the political reformers of Jacksonian America.”Born into privilege Rhode Island's Thomas Dorr became ""a political insurrectionary… who hastened the demise of the royal charter of 1663 and the adoption of a written constitution"" Wiecek Peculiar Conservatism 242. Following the American Revolution by the 1820s Rhode Island remained the only state that clung to its colonial charter which ""restricted suffrage to white men who possessed real estate valued at a minimum of $134"" Chaput Proslavery and Antislavey Politics 662-63. It had ""evolved from the most to the least democratic state"" Lemons Rhode Island's Ten Turning Points 62. ""Dorr's political goals—'free suffrage' with no discrimination against the foreign-born 'one-man one-vote' an independent judiciary a more powerful and dynamic executive the secret ballot—though not permanently achieved in Rhode Island during his lifetime placed him in the front rank of the political reformers of Jacksonian America"" ANB.In 1834 Dorr ""asked the General Assembly to call a convention to revise the state constitution in favor of taxpayer-militia suffrage and to adopt… 'equal representation'"" Wiecek 242. In this major Address delivered at that convention and ""composed primarily by Dorr"" Conley Democracy in Decline 255 he states: ""No form of a Constitution can be worth much if… in this State the Legislative power is… in the hands of less than one third part of the qualified voters. A few political managers… rule the whole State as they please against the will of two thirds of the freeman and three fourths of the people"" emphasis in original."" To Dorr the state's ""strange adherence to the charter"" left Rhode Island with an ""inequality of representation… too unjust to be much longer tolerated."" In 1841 after Dorr was elected ""the People's governor"" under the state's ""People's Constitution"" he became the leader of the 1842 Dorr rebellion which historian Sean Wilentz calls ""'a striking and exceptional case in the history of American democratization before the Civil War' calling it no less than 'a deadly serious test of democracy's meaning and democracy's future.'"" The Dorr Rebellion increasingly viewed as the ""most significant political and constitutional event between the Age of Jackson and the election of Lincoln…Dorr's constitutional understanding had roots not only in the Revolution and the post-Revolutionary era; it remained a vibrant part of American constitutionalism"" Chaput Rhode Island Question 55-56. Sabin 70537. American Imprints 26527. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing. hardcover‎

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‎Constitution Espagnole‎

‎Catéchisme Politique de la Constitution Espagnole Applicable à Toute Constitution Fondée sur les Principes Classic Reprint French Edition‎

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‎Constitution, Costa Rica‎

‎Constitucion Politica De.costa Rica. Spanish Edition‎

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‎Constitution, Arizona‎

‎Constitution Adopted by Arizona. Letter From the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting Copy of the Constitution Adopted by the Constitutional Convention of Arizona‎

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‎Constitution, Idaho,‎

‎Constitution Of the State Of Idaho Adopted By a Constitutional Convention Held At Boise City In the Territory Of Idaho August 6 1889‎

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‎Constitution, Montana‎

‎Constitution of the State of Montana: As Adopted by the Constitutional Convention August 17 1889; Ratified by the People October 1 1889; Amended . State Admitted November 8 1889: 1967‎

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‎Constitution‎

‎Constitution and Organization of Land Forces Reformed‎

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‎CONSTITUTION SPOONER Lysander‎

‎Defence for Fugitive Slaves‎

‎1850. First Edition. CONSTITUTION SPOONER Lysander. A Defence for Fugitive Slaves Against the Acts of Congress of February 12 1793 and September 18 1850. Boston: Bela Marsh 1850. Octavo original wrappers; pp. 1-2 3-4. i-iv 5 6-72. $3200.First edition of the rogue abolitionist's provocative call for ""vigorous"" public resistance to a pattern in the 1793 and 1850 Acts and court decisions such as Prigg v. Pennsylvania that demonstrated the government's refusal ""to champion liberty or justice"" especially elusive in original wrappers.The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act ""exposed the futility of antislavery constitutionalism grounded in a commitment to the 'proper rules of interpretation'"" Knowles Seeing the Light 544. It ""evinced a clear congressional policy favoring harsh and summary enforcement of the rendition policy over any solicitude for procedural or substantive rights of alleged fugitives"" Cover Justice Accused 121. Spooner crafted his answer to this in a ""devastating critique"" of both the 1793 and 1850 laws Smith Lysander Spooner. Defence one of his most elusive and provocative works offers ""significant evidence of the ways in which the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act shook his faith in the ability of the nation's courts to interpret the constitution in a manner consistent with the dictates of natural justice"" Knowles 546. Closely analyzing ""reasons why the 1793 and 1850 laws were unconstitutional… he made it very clear why the passage of the 1850 law pushed him away from the 'quiet argument' of the courtroom to 'more vigorous'"" public action. In Defence while he continued to argue the importance of ""procedural objections to the laws… Spooner spent far greater time 1 explaining why the courts would not actually strike down either of the laws and 2 outlining 'The Right of Resistance': ways in which 'The People' could respond to what he now recognized as the 'ugly reality' of proslavery constitutionalism."" He notably pointed to ""the 1842 decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania in which the Supreme Court held that under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act trumped Pennsylvania's personal liberty law which had made it far more difficult… for slaveholders to recover individuals they alleged were fugitive slaves… In the face of this judicial reality and to ensure the 'maintenance' of the Constitution Spooner encouraged popular resistance"" arguing the Second Amendment ""gave 'The People' an absolute and unqualified' Constitutional 'right' to do so."" By 1860 he would utterly lose ""faith in the ability or willingness of the government especially the courts to champion either liberty or justice"" Knowles 545 552. First edition: as issued with printing of 1793 Act of Congress and 1850 Fugitive Slave Act preceding title page; front and rear wrapper interior with publisher's advertisements. Sabin 89607. Work 335. Text very fresh a few minor stains to front wrapper expert repairs to wraps on the spine. Near-fine. paperback‎

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‎Constitution, Germany‎

‎Deutsche Reichsverfassung German Edition‎

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‎Constitution, Societe des Amis de la‎

‎Dialogue en Forme d'Instruction Familière Entre un Curé Constitutionnel de la Métropole du Sud-Ouest Et un Maire du Département de la Gironde: Sur . Bordeaux le 14 Juin 1792 French Edition‎

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‎CONSTITUTION OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN -‎

‎Entwurf eines „Staatsgrundgesetzes für die Herzogthümer Schleswig = Holstein Arbeit der am 24sten Juli 1848 von der provisorischen Regierung Niedergesezten Commission.‎

‎Kiel Schmers'sche Buchhandlung 1848. 8vo. In the original blank blue wrappers. Provisional repair with tape to spine. Front-wrapper missing upper inner corner. Two stamps to half-title title-page and verso of title-page. Upper outer corner of half-title missing far from affecting text. Occassional brownspotting throughout. 34 pp. with a blank leaf inserted between every printed leaf giving a total of 33 ff. including the blanks. <br/><br/><em>The rare first printing of the drafting of the constitution by the provisional government for the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1848 the Schleswig-Holsteiners decided to establish a provisional government and oust the Danish king. The subsequent war 1848-1851 achieved a status quo until a permanent solution between Denmark and Germany was reached in 1920. The 1848-1852 events in Schleswig-Holstein were a Danish-German confrontation. The underlying issues were complex: The kingdom of Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were component parts of the Danish Monarchy and were united in the person of the king/duke. Schleswig was a Danish fief Holstein a member of the German Confederation. A 1665 law introduced succession through the female line in Denmark with the survival of Salic law in the duchies held in abeyance. Schleswig had a strong Danish element in the north Holstein was German. "With the extinction of the male royal line in the offing Christian VIII declared in 1846 that the 1665 law applied to Schleswig and with some reservation to Holstein. Protests in the duchies had not been resolved when in the wake of the February revolution the liberals in Copenhagen took over and moved toward the annexation of Schleswig. In defiance the estates of Schleswig and Holstein set up a provisional government on March 24. Being composed of liberals and conservatives it obtained popular and official support in Germany and with Prussian military support gained control of most of the duchies by midsummer. But then Britain and Prussia intervened pressuring Prussia to make a truce with Denmark at Malmö August 26 1848 a truce which caused a parliamentary crisis in Frankfurt. In a short time Schleswig-Holstein had become the national issue and by acceding to the Malmö truce the Frankfurt Assembly severely damaged its political credit.Fighting resumed in 1849 and was ended by a July truce. After losing German military support the duchies were defeated in the 1850 campaign. The government abdicated on February 1 1851 and the Danish authorities took over a year later. In the final settlement the powers restored the Danish monarchy with the succession in the duchies to follow that of the kingdom Second London Protocol of May 8 1852. In separate notes the Danish government agreed to preserve the status of Schleswig and to abstain from steps leading to its incorporation. While the agreements restored the balance of power the relations between Danes and Germans suffered eroding popular sentiment for the Danish monarchy. Also Schleswig became a matter of outside concern permitting Prussian intervention in the case of Danish non-compliance." Ohio Univerty; Lawrence D. Steefel Sleswig-Holstein Question. </em> unknown‎

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‎Constitution, United States; Congress; H‎

‎Flag Desecration Amendment to the Constitution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary House of . H. J. Res 79 May 24 1995 Classic Reprint‎

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‎Constitution, Us‎

‎Great Words From Great Americans‎

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‎CONSTITUTION UNIGENITUS‎

‎Instruction pour calmer les scrupules au sujet de la constitution Unigenitus et de l'appel qui en a été interjetté.‎

‎Sans lieu d'édition 1719. Bonded Leather. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture rigide. Seconde édition revue corrigée et augmentée où l'on répond à ce qu'il y a de plus spécieux dans les avertissements de Soissons. Reliure plein veau d'époque dos manquant. 279 pages. Mouillure à une dizaine de pages. Petite tache d'encre à la marge inférieure. <i>ref. 47102</i> Sans lieu d'édition hardcover‎

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‎Constitution, Us‎

‎Leading Cases on the Constitution of the United States Arranged for use in Government 1 at Harvard University‎

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‎Constitution, by-Laws, Officers, Membership‎

‎New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution‎

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‎Constitution and Rules, Revised June 11, 1912‎

‎Pension Fund‎

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‎CONSTITUTION SPOONER Lysander PHILLIPS Wendell‎

‎Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay‎

‎1847. First Edition. CONSTITUTION PHILLIPS Wendell. Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Reprinted from the ""Anti-Slavery Standard"" With Additions. Boston: Andrews & Prentiss 1847. Octavo modern half calf gilt marbled boards; pp. 1-3 4-95 1. $1600.First edition in book form of Phillips' bold and influential antebellum work on the U.S. Constitution and the question of slavery revised and ""with additions"" to its serialization in the Anti-Slavery Standard.Controversy over slavery ""was the most important single influence on American constitutional development before the Civil War"" Wiecek Sources 15. Leaders in that controversy were William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips and Lysander Spooner. As an anti-constitutionalist Phillips deemed ""Prophet of Liberty Champion of the Slave"" made his ""first public pronouncement that the Constitution should be abandoned"" when in 1842 he asserted the ""'spirit of liberty' is 'chained down in the iron links of the United States Constitution'"" and subsequently argued the Constitution was a ""'compromise'… between freedom and slavery"" Knowles Securing the 'Blessings'"" 41. Phillips' 1844 work Constitution: A Pro-Slavery Compact prompted Spooner to author Unconstitutionality of Slavery First Part: 1845 Second Part: 1847 arguing it was instead slavery that was unconstitutional not the founding document. Phillips quickly countered with this Review.""Phillips insisted the only path to justice 'is over the Constitution trampling it under foot'. and raised pertinent questions about the processes of constitutionalism. Must a just person reject an imperfect constitution or even one that sanctioned and protected an evil like slavery to work effectively for constitutional reform and to abolish injustice Or was it possible to regard the constitution as an imperfect but amendable instrument… the only thing available in the here and now of a heterogeneous secular society that can serve as a means of changing a society's goals and structuring"" Wiecek 246. To Phillips Spooner's approach essentially ""leaves every one to do 'what is right in his own eyes.'"" Spooner and Phillips also disagreed on remedies to immoral laws. ""Spooner did not consider an immoral contract binding"" and argued for example that judges rely instead on natural law for their decisions. Phillips felt that in such circumstances a judge should resign. In this Review Phillips also offers ""a new area in which antislavery and anarchy"" could be connected when he describes Spooner's ""antislavery constitutionalism… as 'the first step toward anarchy'"" Perry Radical Abolitionism 165-66. First edition first printing. Serialized earlier the same year in the Anti-Slavery Standard the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society which was co-founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappen. Sabin 62524. Dumond 93. Not in Blockson. Text fresh and about-fine. hardcover‎

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‎CONSTITUTION SOMERS John‎

‎Security of English-Mens Lives‎

‎1682. CONSTITUTION SOMERS John. The Security of English-Mens Lives Or the Trust Power and Duty of the Grand Jurys of England. London: Printed for Benj. Alsop 1682. Small octavo 4 by 6-1/2 inches 18th-century brown morocco raised bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt; pp. 1-2 3-168. $3400.1682 edition of Somers' profoundly influential work on the power of the grand jury the second of only two 17th-century editions issued the year after the first—""one of the fundamental foundations of the common law in the American colonies""—prompting revolution with Somers' invoking the grand jury and its protection of secrecy as key in opposing ""corrupt Ministers of State"" and those who ""abuse or oppress the People… in the form and course of Justice"" seminal in the creation of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment with Jefferson calling grand juries ""the true tribunal of the people.""British statesman Baron John Somers' most famous and influential work is Grand Jurys. ""Of the legal scholars writing about the grand jury in the late 17th century Somers is not only representative but eminent having been read in both England and the colonies"" Kadish Behind the Locked Door 5-10. Grand Jurys is considered a seminal influence on Locke and America's Founding Fathers and it is ""likely that Locke knew Somers by the early 1680s… The opposition of absolute monarchy to the security provided by 'impartial law' was structurally central to Locke's Second Treatise 1689 which attacked the threat to life liberty and property posed by a loss of 'impartial justice'… Locke's arguments are a logical extension of the arguments that juries provided the only security of life"" Marshall John Locke 52. To Somers similarly the grand jury offers ""security"" from the ""Ill Designs of corrupt Minsters of State"" and those who ""dare to abuse or oppress the People."" Somers' Grand Jurys is ""a classic statement of political freedom. He works his way through a number of themes that will be frequently repeated by others."" Chief among these is his argument that ""the independent grand jury is the linchpin of the entire criminal justice system. It brings offenders to justice and protects the innocent from false accusation guaranteeing the traditional rights of Englishmen particularly their political rights in relation to the Crown… and joins Parliament as a counterweight to the arbitrary power of the monarch and his judges"" Shapiro Beyond Reasonable Doubt 67. With its origins found deep within English legal history the grand jury was ""eulogized by Coke and Blackstone… and crossed the Atlantic as one of the fundamental foundations of the common law in the American colonies"" Roots If It's Not a Runaway. ""Indeed there is an important sense in which the jury issue united not only America's revolutionary period and Founding era but also the 'settlement' years immediately following 1789"" Stimson Juries and American Revolutionary Jurisprudence 34-5.As American ""opposition to the British became more overt grand juries became more sympathetic to the colonists… the famous case of John Peter Zenger is a prime example… as two separate N.Y. grand juries refused to indict him for criminal libel. Further in 1765 a Boston grand jury refused to find an indictment against the leaders of the Stamp Act Riots"" Paule Perversion of the Historic Function 304. ""Perhaps the best known case of grand jury independence involved the twice-unsuccessful efforts to indict former Vice President Aaron Burr for attempting to involve the U.S. in a war with Spain… Burr was finally indicted when a grand jury was convened in Virginia the stronghold of Burr's enemy Thomas Jefferson. Despite Jefferson's best efforts Burr was acquitted at trial in part because the judge gave such a narrow jury instruction and made evidentiary rulings so favorable to the defense that conviction was nearly impossible. The trial judge was John Marshall one of Jefferson's rivals"" Leopold Why Grand Juries 286.""The framers of the Constitution perceived the function of the grand jury as so essential to liberty that they specifically provided for it"" in the Fifth Amendment Paule 305. ""With its Grand Jury Clause insuring that 'no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury'… the Clause protected the people against arbitrary and overzealous government by protecting 'against hasty malicious and oppressive prosecution.' Secrecy in grand jury proceedings played a role in that protection."" For Somers in particular the secrecy requirement was absolute. In Grand Jurys he describes ""how grand jurors were sworn not to disclose the subjects of the inquiry the witnesses or any of the evidence. In addition grand jurors were sworn not to reveal their own personal knowledge the knowledge of their fellow jurors their investigative plans or their deliberations… according to Somers… secrecy made possible the discovery of truth and protected individuals from malicious or hateful prosecution. In sum neither the king the general public nor the individual accused could benefit by making public the proceedings of a grand jury. The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment made grand jury secrecy an implicit part of American criminal procedure"" Kadish 5-16. ""In a petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia Jefferson once termed the Anglo-Saxon tradition of trial by grand and petit jury 'the true tribunal of the people'"" Shannon Grand Jury 141. Jefferson owned and held two other works by Somers in his library. Preceded only by the 1681 first edition. Anonymously issued with Wing identifying Somers as author. Precedes the 1773 American edition. Pages 156-167 containing Latin and English text printed on opposite pages; final text page with ""Finis."" ESTC R10363. Wing S4643. Sweet & Maxwell I:378 34. See Sowerby 2015 2712. Early owner signature above title page.Text very fresh expert restoration to handsome binding. A very good copy. hardcover‎

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