Oxford University Press 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford University Press 1974. Very good. Hardcover Ex-library otherwise clean tight. Yellow cloth no dust jacket. 310 pages. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Oxford University Press hardcover
Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock 1797. 39 1 blank pp. Disbound and lightly toned mild wear. Else Very Good. On the Yazoo Land Fraud. The introduction states "This Pamphlet is an.answer to the 'State of Facts' published by the Georgia Companies. It contains the outlines of the present state of the Georgia business and a brief sketch of the arguments on both sides with such Commentaries as the compass of the work would allow." Georgia's Companies had issued their defense in 1795. See Howes G126. Georgia had granted four land companies the right to buy what later became Mississippi and Alabama for a half million dollars. Virtually the entire Georgia legislature was bribed. Enraged Georgia's Crawford-Jackson political faction spearheaded the election of a new legislature the next year which rescinded the grant. A State constitutional amendment ratified the rescission. Bishop says Georgia's land grant is void: in addition to the rampant fraud Georgia had never acquired title to the lands which belonged to the resident Creeks Chickasaws and Choctaws. But the Companies had nevertheless made many sales of the lands to settlers and speculators. These purchasers known as the 'Yazoo Claimants' disputed Georgia's rescission. In 1810 after years of litigation the U.S. Supreme Court decided Fletcher v. Peck the landmark case construing the Constitution's prohibition on a State's impairment of the obligations of a contract. The Court held unanimously that Georgia's rescission was unconstitutional. FIRST EDITION. Howes B471. Cohen 7859. Evans 31830. 111 Eberstadt 227. DeRenne 278. Not in Field or Gilcrease-Hargrett. Printed by Elisha Babcock unknown
à Paris: Chez Pierre Emery 1710. Fine. Chez Pierre Emery à Paris 1710 in-folio 26x385cm 8 787pp. 112 et 4 553pp. 57 2 volumes reliés. - 41534 - FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS Nouvelle édition augmentée la première en deux volumes avec d'importantes tables publiée à la demande du Chancelier. L'originale parut pour la première fois en 1676 elle fut poursuivie dans cette édition par René Le Comte pour les pièces justificatives pour la période 1676-1705 en outre la matière collationnée par Tessereau fut entièrement refondue pour cette nouvelle édition. Reliure en pleine basane brune de l'époque. Dos à six nerfs ornés de caissons et fleurons dorés ainsi que de pièces de titre et de tomaisons de maroquin rouge. Toutes tranches mouchetées rouges. Dos défraîchis absence de coiffes et manques de basane. Epidermures et coins émoussés. Ex-libris de l'époque contrecollé sur les contreplats. Source majeure sur l'histoire de la Chancellerie en France ; celle-ci aussi ancienne que la monarchie était constituée par le corps des chancelliers tels que le chancelier le garde des sceaux les grands audienciers secrétaires du roi du grand collège les trésoriers contrôleurs chauffe-cire et autres officiers la chancellerie n'étant plus aujourd'hui que le ministère de la justice. Tessereau a réuni un ensemble de pièces précieuses pour l'historien sur les officiers de la chancellerie leurs fonctions et prérogatives sur les chancelleries diverses dans le royaume. Il s'agit davantage d'une compilation et publication de documents que d'un travail d'historien l'ouvrage n'en est pas moins important. Chez Pierre Emery unknown
El Cajon: Nineteen Hundred Press 2007. First edition. One of 115 numbered copies. 50 10 pp. plus four full page woodcuts by Horton each with a cover leaf with text printed in red. Publisher's quarter brown morocco over marbled boards gilt spine lettering map endpapers. Original prospectus laid in. Fine. Nineteen Hundred Press hardcover
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. No year. 165 pp. Index. Coloured and b/w illustrations. Edges of the bookblock browned rusty. Soft Cover. Some traces of use. Harry N. Abrams Inc. Paperback
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