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2024ref. 17676New York: Harper 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jennifer Aniston in ink to pictorial bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 10 1/4" X 10 1/4". Unpaginated. Mild shelfwear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in pictorial paper over boards with slight lean to spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are bright clean and unmarked. A very presentable signed first edition of this delightful picture book starring her food-loving dog Clydeo from global superstar Jennifer Aniston. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From global superstar and everyone's F-R-I-E-N-D Jennifer Aniston comes a delectable and fun-filled picture book about self-discovery and self-confidence starring her food-loving dog Clydeo! Everyone in the Clyde family knows what their "thing" is except Clydeo. Clydeo doesn't love to surf like his uncle. He isn't into painting blindfolded like his cousin. And digging for dinosaur bones like his aunt is definitely not his thing. Clydeo tries everything he can think of but nothing seems to make his world sparkle. Will Clydeo ever find what he loves to do most Find out in this relatable and heartwarming story brought to you by actress producer and entrepreneur Jennifer Aniston.Publisher. Signed by Jennifer Aniston in ink to pictorial bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 10 1/4" X 10 1/4". Unpaginated. Mild shelfwear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in pictorial paper over boards with slight lean to spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are bright clean and unmarked. A very presentable signed first edition of this delightful picture book starring her food-loving dog Clydeo from global superstar Jennifer Aniston. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From global superstar and everyone's F-R-I-E-N-D Jennifer Aniston comes a delectable and fun-filled picture book about self-discovery and self-confidence starring her food-loving dog Clydeo! Everyone in the Clyde family knows what their "thing" is except Clydeo. Clydeo doesn't love to surf like his uncle. He isn't into painting blindfolded like his cousin. And digging for dinosaur bones like his aunt is definitely not his thing. Clydeo tries everything he can think of but nothing seems to make his world sparkle. Will Clydeo ever find what he loves to do most Find out in this relatable and heartwarming story brought to you by actress producer and entrepreneur Jennifer Aniston.Publisher. Harper hardcover books
1961ref. 840701961. Meulen Jacob ter 1884-1962. Diermanse Pieter Johan Jurriaan 1896-1980. Bibliographie des ecrits sur Hugo Grotius: Imprimes au XVIIe Siecle. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff 1961. xx 224 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover near fine in lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Some offsetting to endpapers. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. Written in the original French. unknown books
1950ref. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2002ref. 17513Boston Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2002. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii 329pp. A hint of edgewear to dust jacket with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Bound in cream cloth over boards with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding with bumping to corners. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. ABOUT THIS BOOK: If Moses Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad were to meet what would they tell one another about Judaism Christianity and Islam Three of today's leading scholars explore the topics such a conversation might entail in this comparative study of the three monotheistic faiths. In systematic side-by-side descriptions they detail the classical theologies of Judaism Christianity and Islam and the authoritative writings that convey those theologies-Torah Bible and Qur' n. They then compare and contrast the three faiths which though distinct and autonomous address a common set of issues. While asserting that this book is by no means a background source for issues and conflicts among contemporary followers of Judaism Christianity and Islam the authors nevertheless aspire to reveal among the three a common potential for mutual understanding. Publisher. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii 329pp. A hint of edgewear to dust jacket with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Bound in cream cloth over boards with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding with bumping to corners. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. ABOUT THIS BOOK: If Moses Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad were to meet what would they tell one another about Judaism Christianity and Islam Three of today's leading scholars explore the topics such a conversation might entail in this comparative study of the three monotheistic faiths. In systematic side-by-side descriptions they detail the classical theologies of Judaism Christianity and Islam and the authoritative writings that convey those theologies-Torah Bible and Qur'Än. They then compare and contrast the three faiths which though distinct and autonomous address a common set of issues. While asserting that this book is by no means a background source for issues and conflicts among contemporary followers of Judaism Christianity and Islam the authors nevertheless aspire to reveal among the three a common potential for mutual understanding. Publisher. Brill Academic Publishers hardcover books
1944ref. 167538Munich Munchen: Film-Bühne 1944. Vintage program for the 1944 German film. Text and titles in German. Based on Hermann Bahr's 1907 play "Die gelbe Nachtigall" "The Yellow Nightingale". German director and actor Theo Lingen appeared in over 200 films between 1930 and 1980 and directed 21 films between 1929 and 1978. Bi-fold measuring 5.75 x 8 inches when folded. About Fine. Film-Bühne unknown books
1744ref. 834131744. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4". Rare. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4". Rare. A Superb Copy with Distinguished Country-House Provenance: From the Library at Ombersley Court Barons Sandys Jacob Giles 1686-1744. A Law Grammar; Or Rudiments of the Law: Compiled From The Grounds Principles Maxims Terms Words of Art Rules and Moot Points of Our Law In a New Easy And Very Concise Method. For the Particular Instruction of All Young Gentlemen Either at Schools Colleges Or the Universities Or if Privately Educated Attornies Clerks And Other Persons; Whereby They Will Acquire a Great Deal More Useful Law-Learning Than by Any of the Books Yet Publish'd. London: Printed by Henry Lintot Assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq; for Aaron Ward At the King's Arms in Little Britain 1744. 12mo. ii iv 138 6 pp. Publisher advertisement facing title page. 6-1/2" x 4"; 10 cm x 16.5 cm. Contemporary sheep boards ruled in blind spine with raised bands and blind fillets. Moderate rubbing and wear to extremities small nicks and scuffs to boards corners bumped joints and hinges starting. Penciled shelf mark to front free endpaper. Light toning somewhat heavier in places. A very good copy the text notably fresh. $1250. First edition. A compact but ambitious introduction to English law designed for a wide readership extending from university students to attorneys' clerks and the "privately educated." Characteristic of Jacob's practical and commercial sensibility the work distills foundational doctrines terminology and maxims into an accessible format; it proved enduringly popular reaching eleven subsequent editions by 1792. It belongs with his other successful efforts to democratize legal knowledge including The Common Law Common-Placed 1726 and Every Man His Own Lawyer 1736. From the library of the Barons Sandys second and third creations housed at Ombersley Court Worcestershire-one of the notable country-house libraries of England. The original owner was likely Samuel Sandys 1st Baron Sandys 1695-1770 Whig politician Chancellor of the Exchequer and Justice in Eyre. Though not formally trained in the law Sandys occupied offices in which a practical command of legal principles was advantageous making a manual of this kind entirely apposite. Rare in commerce; the second copy we have handled. English Short-Title Catalogue. unknown books
2018ref. 2347210Dalcassian Publishing Company 2018. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 6x0x9. Reissue. Brand new from publisher. 2018 Hard Cover. 324 pp. Based on the 1928 translation of Rev. Montague Summers edited by D.P. Curtin. Woodcut illustrations reproduced from the 1626 Compendium Maleficarum. A treatise on the prosecution of witches or at least those accused of witchcraft written by a German Catholic clergyman named Heinrich Kramer but rejected by the clergy at the University of Cologne. The common English translation of the title is The Hammer of Witches. A posthumous author credit has been given to Jakob Sprenger though there is cause to believe this is an erroneous attribution. Whatever the case its publication exacerbated the proliferation of witch trials over the next two centuries and its advocacy of torture and deception to obtain convictions in these trials is partly responsible for the frequently brutal nature of inquiries and punishments. Dalcassian Publishing Company hardcover books
2002ref. 166049Madrid: El Croquis 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Issues No. 86 and 111. Text in English and Spanish. Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. El Croquis unknown books
1860ref. 1726401860. CHEVREUL Michel-Eugène and M. JACOB editors. Le teinturier universel: echo des applications des Matières colorantes. 96 fascicles in four volumes. 192; 192; 192; 192 pp. together with 192 specimens of various dyes on paper cotton silk rope and leather. Folio 310 x 228 mm. bound in original printed wrappers together in a new red cloth box. Paris: Teinturier Universel 1860-1864. Complete set containing every issue from 1 année no. 1 1 avril 1860 through 4 année no. 24 15 mars 1864. The periodical was issued semi-monthly; each issue includes lecture notes from M.E. Chevreul's "Cours de teintures des Gobelins" here in its first printing. Chevreul's colour studies made him one of the most influential scientists in France during the nineteenth century. From 1824 he was director of dyeing at the Manufactures Royales des Gobelins where he taught chemistry for nearly sixty years. "Chevreul's immediate task at Gobelins was to work on the improvement of colour intensity and fastness in wools. He had been selected for this position because he was an outstanding chemist; and his initial studies were on the chemical aspects of dyes and dyeing attempting to place the art of dyeing on a more rational basis than the complicated and empirical procedures then employed.Chevreul rendered an important service to the dye industry during the years prior to the advent of synthetic dyestuff" DSB. With nearly two hundred specimens of various colour dyes on paper cotton silk rope and a few illustrating the tanning and colouring of leather. The final volume investigates a large number of contrasting colours on the same type of sample Échantillon de Papier. Fragile spines somewhat worn but an excellent copy in original condition with many gatherings unopened. A desirable copy of a rare and important work. Bibliotheca Tinctoria 1218. hardcover books
1887ref. 16175Dayton Ohio: W.J. Shuey Publishers 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. The first edition of The Great Invasion of 1863; or General Lee in Pennsylvania by Jacob Hoke. Thick octavo xxxi 30-613pp 3. Publisher's green cloth title stamped in gilt on spine. Floral endpapers solid hinges. This work is complete with fold-out map of the Gettysburg Battlefield tipped into rear fine condition three engraved portraits with tissue covers and 31 illustrations and photographic plates. Light wear to cloth small stain to spine some wear to tips and head of spine. Dust remnant along top of text block. Solid text block. Nevins I 32 Eicher 89. From Eicher: "Hoke offers an eyewitness account of the Pennsylvania campaign by a Chambersburg businessman along with sporting material drawn from many official documents.Hoke's great contribution may be in describing the reaction of Pennsylvania citizen to a coming raid as well as the reaction of local defense forces. W.J. Shuey, Publishers unknown books
1958ref. 163718Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage reference photograph taken on location for the 1958 film showing Stanley Kramer directing actor Sidney Poitier. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Two prisoners-one white one Black-are shackled together on a chain gang. Deciding to escape they are forced to cooperate in order to survive in the countryside eventually finding empathy for each other in the process. The film was shot on a closed set due to the then-provocative subject matter with special screenings orchestrated in the southern United States for integrated audiences a fairly uncommon occurrence at the time. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine lightly toned and worn at the corners. United Artists unknown books
1940ref. 162271N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage photograph of heavyweight boxing champion Buddy Baer circa 1940s. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to a fruitful boxing career Buddy Baer appeared in seventeen films largely in the 1950s and 1960s as well as several television episodes. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned with a nick at the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 804801968. Ziadeh Farhat Jacob. Lawyers the Rule of law and Liberalism in Modern Egypt. Stanford Calif: Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace Stanford University 1968. xi 177 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Very good in a worn price clipped dust jacket. $20. unknown books
1903ref. 10825Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated with photographs. Near Fine lacking the jacket. Blue cloth lightly rubbed at the surface with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge clean internally. From the author of How the Other Half Lives a collection of three lectures about the state of urban home life during the turn of the century. George W. Jacobs & Co hardcover books
1968ref. 806291968. Meulen Jacob Ter. Der Gedanke der Internationalen Organisation in Seiner Entwicklung. 1300-1889. The Haag: Nijhoff 1917-1940. Reprint. The Haag: Nijhoff 1968. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Light shelfwear internally clean and bright. Very good. $45. unknown books
1774ref. 15772Philadelphia: John Dunlap 1774. First Edition. Full leather. Very good. First edition of Observations on a Variety of Subjects; Literary Moral and Religious published by John Dunlap in 1774. Twelvemo x 241pp 1. Full calf thin gilt trim to fore edge of covers. Five raised bands title in gilt on morocco label affixed to spine. Binding heavily worn some peeling and a few wormholes to covers rubbed head and tail of spine still sound. Heavy toning internally text is still legible. George Brinley 3135 Hildeburn 3008 Evans 13259 Sabin 21055 Inscription on front free endpaper: "The following Letters are supposed to be wrote by The Rev. Mr. Dushe. such was the information of Dr. Henry Purcel Recnor of Sr. Micheals Charleston S.C. to Col. John Beale; from the same information as it appears the name of Tamoc Caspipina was formed of the following initials. The Assistant Minister of Christ Church And St. Peters or Pauls In Philadelphia In North America." A very rare example with only one other copy on the public market. This is the original edition of "Caspipina's Letters" with the final letter of the volume signed by "Tamoc Caspipina." Jacob Duché 1737-1798 was an American Episcopal clergyman known for his role in the early days of the American Revolution. He gained historical significance as the first chaplain to the Continental Congress and for delivering the opening prayer at the First Continental Congress in 1774. However in 1777 he defected to the British side and urged George Washington to negotiate peace with the British. Duché fled to England to escape criticism from the revolutionaries only returning to the states after suffering a stroke in 1792. John Dunlap unknown books
1918ref. 16025London: T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd circa 1918. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Descend into the depths of enchantment on a spiral staircase of stories by the Brothers Grimm Hans Christian Andersen Nathaniel Hawthorne Maria Edgeworth Ouida the women's suffragist animal rights activist and socialist Mary de Morgan and more! In this circa 1918 collection bound in cloth the color of pumpkin spice and bearing a witch whisking away a slumbering child on its cover you'll encounter a girl who marries a skull magic candles that summon fairies good or bad based on one's intentions enchanted streams guarded by fearsome dragons and a princess who escapes the unbearable politeness of the court when a witch places an automaton in her stead as well as timeless tales from Celtic Norse Italian West African Russian Japanese Greek and Arthurian folklore. This "staircase of stories" is arranged by ascending complexity for growing readers from ages 4 to 14 and beyond bountifully illustrated in a color frontispiece by Minnie Dibdin Spooner 30 colored plates and 41 black and white plates 4 of which have been colored in rather well by a previous reader by such artists as Cecile Walton Katharine Cameron Olive Allen Evelyn Beale Cecil Aldin and the great Walter Crane. 9 1/4" X 6 3/4". viii iv 521pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in deep orange cloth over boards with color pictorial plate of M. D. Spooner's rendering of the witch and princess from Mary de Morgan's "The Toy Princess" to upper board lettered in black to upper board and spine with small vignettes of owls and staircase stamped in black. Moderate wear to binding with rubbing bumping and small tears to corners and head and tail of spine as well as faint scattered scratching and soiling to cloth. Substantial foxing to edges of text block and preliminaries with scattered foxing to pages throughout and small neat tear to margin of pages 25-26. Bookseller's ticket of J. J. Banks & Son of Imperial Library Cheltenham to front pastedown. Toning to endpapers. Binding is sound. Fully illustrated throughout in 31 color plates and 41 black and white plates with black and white plates facing pages 235 286 509 and 514 colored in rather well by a previous owner. Christmas card signed Maude and drawing of sailboats laid in. Descend into the depths of enchantment on a spiral staircase of stories by the Brothers Grimm Hans Christian Andersen Nathaniel Hawthorne Maria Edgeworth Ouida the women's suffragist animal rights activist and socialist Mary de Morgan and more! In this circa 1918 collection bound in cloth the color of pumpkin spice and bearing a witch whisking away a slumbering child on its cover you'll encounter a girl who marries a skull magic candles that summon fairies good or bad based on one's intentions enchanted streams guarded by fearsome dragons and a princess who escapes the unbearable politeness of the court when a witch places an automaton in her stead as well as timeless tales from Celtic Norse Italian West African Russian Japanese Greek and Arthurian folklore. This "staircase of stories" is arranged by ascending complexity for growing readers from ages 4 to 14 and beyond bountifully illustrated in a color frontispiece by Minnie Dibdin Spooner 30 colored plates and 41 black and white plates 4 of which have been colored in rather well by a previous reader by such artists as Cecile Walton Katharine Cameron Olive Allen Evelyn Beale Cecil Aldin and the great Walter Crane. 9 1/4" X 6 3/4". viii iv 521pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in deep orange cloth over boards with color pictorial plate of M. D. Spooner's rendering of the witch and princess from Mary de Morgan's "The Toy Princess" to upper board lettered in black to upper board and spine with small vignettes of owls and staircase stamped in black. Moderate wear to binding with rubbing bumping and small tears to corners and head and tail of spine as well as faint scattered scratching and soiling to cloth. Substantial foxing to edges of text block and preliminaries with scattered foxing to pages throughout and small neat tear to margin of pages 25-26. Bookseller's ticket of J. J. Banks & Son of Imperial Library Cheltenham to front pastedown. Toning to endpapers. Binding is sound. Fully illustrated throughout in 31 color plates and 41 black and white plates with black and white plates facing pages 235 286 509 and 514 colored in rather well by a previous owner. Christmas card signed Maude and drawing of sailboats laid in. T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd hardcover books
1969ref. 163106N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless press photograph of writer Norman Mailer circa 1969. PIX agency stamp on the verso crediting photographer Jacob Lofman. In 1969 Mailer unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York City proposing New York City secession and the creation of a 51st state. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 9.75 x 6.75 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 767031961. Meulen Jacob ter. Diermanse P.J.J. Bibliographie des ecrits sur Hugo Grotius: Imprimes au XVIIe Siecle. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff 1961. xx 224 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover lightly worn. Owner notes throughout book. $25. unknown books
1757ref. 755231757. Handsome Binding Jacob Giles 1686-1744. Every Man His Own Lawyer: Or A Summary of the Laws of England in a New and Instructive Method Under the Following Heads Viz. I. Of Actions and Remedies Writs Process Arrests and Bail. II. Of Courts Attornies and Solicitors Therein Juries Witnesses Trials Executions &c. III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods and How Acquired; Ancestors Heirs Executors and Administrators. IV. Of the Laws Relating to Marriage Bastardy Infants Ideots Lunaticks. V. Of the Liberty of the Subject Magna Charta The Habeas Corpus Act and Other Statutes. VI. Of the King and His Prerogative The Queen and Prince Peers Judges Sheriffs Coroners Justices of the Peace Constables &c. VII. Of Publick Offences Treason Murder Felony Burglary Robbery Rape Sodomy Forgery Perjury &c. And Their Punishment. All of Them so Plainly Treated of That All Manner of Persons May be Particularly Acquainted With Our Laws and Statutes Concerning Civil and Criminal Affairs And Know How to Defend Themselves and Their Estates and Fortunes; In All Cases Whatsoever. With Additions. London: Printed by Henry Lintot 1757. ii vi 456 14 pp. Publisher advertisement facing title page. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Light rubbing and some minor scuffs and scratches to boards moderate rubbing to extremities faint creasing to spine small chip to head of spine another to foot corners bumped and somewhat worn hinges cracked a few cracks to text block signature R pp. 241-256 somewhat loose but secure rear free endpaper partially detached. Moderate toning light soiling faint dampstaining and offsetting from pressed leaves in places moderate edgewear to preliminaries a final leaves of text block annotations in early hand to endleaves early inscription Thomas Palmer/ His Lawbook to verso of title page. $450. Fifth edition. This popular guide reached its eleventh and final edition in 1791; it was reissued at least two more times in the 1800s. The mention of "All Manner of Persons" in the subtitle is significant. Jacob though certainly interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible was an idealist who believed that widespread knowledg. unknown books
1716ref. 742631716. London 1716. First edition. London 1716. First edition. The First Edition of Jacob's Classic JP Manual Jacob Giles 1686-1744. The Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law And of the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace Constables And Other Parish Officers Under Them Compleat Down to this Time And Some Special Cases in Law to Illustrate the Same. With Great Variety of the Best Approved and Authentick Precedents of Precepts Summons Warrants Examinations Commitments &c. Regularly Interspersed Fitting all Occasions for Putting of the Laws in Force. To Which is Added A Particular Account of the Constitution and Government of a Considerable Work-House for Employing and Maintaining of the Poor Within the City of Bristol As Settled by Act of Parliament With Precedents Relating to It. And an Alphabetical Table Shewing What Acts of Parliament do Concern the Business of a Justice. With a Compleat Table to the Whole And Particular Marginal Heads &c. Throughout; In a More Informing Method Than in Any Other Book Extant on This Subject. London: Printed by the Assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for Bernard Lintott 1716. viii 409 39 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few small scuffs nicks scratches and stains to boards moderate rubbing to extremities front joint just starting at ends corners bumped front hinge starting early bookplate of Sir Timothy Waldo to front pastedown recent pencil notes and early date 17th June 1719 in ink to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places small hole to title page with minor loss to text residue from removed bookplate to its verso. An appealing copy. $650. First edition. One of the most interesting features of this important JP manual is its detailed five-page description of the workhouse at Bristol. It forms part of a full chapter devoted to the Poor Law pp. 272-294. Subsequent editions appeared in 1718 and 1720. This copy of the first edition belonged to the British lawyer Sir Timothy Waldo 1711-1780 of Hever Castle. The first edition is scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies in North American law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue T136996. unknown books
1729ref. 748841729. 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 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf rebacked in period style blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints lettering piece gilt-edged raised bands and gilt publication date to spine hinges mended. Light rubbing and a few nicks and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to board edges corners bumped and somewhat worn small faint stain to foot of spine front hinge cracked minor gradually diminishing worming at foot of gutter of first quarter of text block. Moderate toning to interior light soiling to title page. $1150. Second and final edition "Corrected with the Addition of Three Entire New Chapters. And Also A Merchant's Dictionary of Words and Terms &c." Both a treatise and a handbook it provides information ranging from a form for "An Assignment of Negroes" pp. 170-171 to a discussion of the South Sea Company pp. 288-295. Its first edition was published in 1718. Known for his New Law-Dictionary Jacob 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. unknown books
1720ref. 748771720. With Interesting Content on Land Valuation Land Law. Great Britain. Jacob Giles 1686-1744 Attributed. The Land-Purchaser's Companion: And the Laws Relating to Tenants and Tenures. Containing I. The Years Purchase All Sorts of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions &c. Are Worth Valuation of Wood Timber Tithes Annuities &c. With Contracts for Sales. II. A Summary of All the Laws and Statutes Concerning Purchases of Lands tenements Rents &c. And the Common Deeds for Conveying and Assigning of the Same Mortgages &c. III. An Abridgement of the Laws Relating to All Kinds of Tenures and Occupiers of Estates: Of Leases demand and Tender of Rent Distresses or Replevin Waste &c. With Precedents of Grants Leases &c. Interspersed. To Which are Added The Laws and Statutes Relating to Tithes So Far as They Concern Tenants: The Law of Ejectments; Rentals of Estates Accounts of Rents &c. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1720. xi1 283 17 pp. Final leaf is a 2 pp. publisher catalogue 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards gilt tooling to board edges. Blind fillets along joints raised bands to spine. A few light stains and minor nicks and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities front joint starting at head corners bumped rear hinge cracked crack in text block between front endleaf and title page "Glass Cuphoard" and struck through signature both in early hands to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places. $1350. Only edition. Directed at potential purchasers this unusual guide discusses land valuation and its associated legal problems. Some sources attribute this work to Giles Jacob a claim rejected by the ESTC. This is a scarce title. OCLC locates 3 copies in North American law libraries Library of Congress University of Washington Yale. The ESTC adds 1 more Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC T82732. unknown books
1961ref. 738021961. Ter Meulen Jacob. Diermanse P.J.J. Bibliographie des Ecrits sur Hugo Grotius. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1961. xx 224 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth negligible light shelfwear otherwise fine. $35. unknown books
1839ref. 738111839. Murder at Sea Trial. Ehlert Jacob Frederich Defendant. Sunderland Murder. The Trial of Jacob Frederich Ehlert For the Murder of Capt. Johan Fredrick Berkholdz Of the Ship Phoenix While Asleep in his Cabin On the Night of the 12th of June 1839. Convicted on the Evidence of his Accomplice Daniel Fredrick Muller. With an Account of His Execution. &c. Durham: Printed by George Walker 1839. 24 pp. Octavo 6-3/4" x 3-3/4". Unsewn pamphlet edges untrimmed. Light toning light foxing in a few places light soiling to edges light edgewear to bottom edge fold line to bottom right corner of final leaf which is starting to separate at ends but secure. $450. Only edition. Ehlert a sailor on the Norwegian brigantine Phoenix murdered the ship's captain Johann Friedrich Berkholdz while he was sleeping and threw the body overboard. The apparent motive was robbery as Muller his accomplice and a witness to the event later testified. Our account concerns Ehlert's trial and execution and ends with a poignant description of Captain Berkholdz's tombstone and the epitaph there. OCLC locates 8 copies 4 in North America Harvard Harvard Law School Harvard Medical School Princeton. unknown books
