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1961réf. 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
1757réf. 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
1988réf. 46668São Paulo: Editora Ex Libris 1988. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. First printing of this history of Christiano Jr.'s photographs of African enslaved people and laborers in Brazil a collection he sold as a souvenir to European tourists - a rare title. Portuguese photographer Christiano Jr. maintained a photography studio in Rio de Janero and first presented this souvenir photo album at the Porto International Exhibition. This reflection on his work and collection of his photographs is rare on the market. 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth boards. Original unclipped no price color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white and sepia. 78 pages. Jacket with some edgewear a few small closed tears. Clean. Editora Ex Libris unknown books
1977réf. 59363Durham: The Friends of Duke University Library 1977. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies of which 250 are for public sale specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator this being copy no.92. Octavo 23.75cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; 46pp; illus. A Fine copy with the original prospectus laid in. The Friends of Duke University Library unknown books
1993réf. 334936Seattle Washington 1993. 2 quarto sheets writing on rectos only. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. The letter is lightly creased twice where folded for mailing else near fine. 2 quarto sheets writing on rectos only. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. ALS from Jacob Lawrence to noted author and art critic Selden Rodman. It states in part: "Dear Selden; This is a reply to your letter of September 7th 1993 in which is requested biographical data for a book that you are working on 'Geniuses and other Ecentrics sic'. Please find enclosed a statement from the Rutgers University Two-Hundred Twenty-Second Anniversary Commencement. I am complimented that you wish to include me in your study. Along with others I thank you for your overall contributions and interest to the arts. Gwen and I send our love and wish you continued success- Sincerely signed Jake." Lawrence has also signed his full name at the heading of the letter also providing his Seattle address. Rodman interviewed Lawrence for his 1957 book Conversations with Artists and they remained friends for the rest of their lives. The book Geniuses & Other Eccentrics: Photographing My Friends was published in 1997 and does feature Lawrence. Jacob Lawrence is one of the most influential African-American artists of the 20th Century. Selden Rodman is the author of a number of books including poetry fiction and art biographies of Horace Pippin and Ben Shahn and studies of Haitian art. unknown books
1716réf. 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
1935réf. 59294New York: The Daily Worker 1935. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no. 50 of 100 clothbound copies signed by Burck. Quarto; tan buckram with titles and decorations stamped in brown on front and rear covers; 247pp. A lovely fine copy free of soiling or wear. There was a simultaneous trade issue in pictorial wrappers. The very scarce limited issue of this compilation of Burck's Depression-era cartoons most originally published in the Daily Worker and The New Masses. Burck trained at the Art Students' League under Boardman Robinson; became the full-time editorial cartoonist for the Daily Worker in 1929 and worked as a political cartoonist for the rest of his life though following a 1936 trip to the Soviet Union he renounced Communism and began working for mainstream periodicals including the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Chicago Daily Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941; survived a period of persecution during the 1950s Red Scare and continued to produce new work until shortly before his death in 1982. This volume quite scarce and the few copies we have seen previously were well-worn. The Daily Worker unknown books
réf. 324488New York: The Limited Editions Club 1989. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence. This is number 341. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence printed on fine Whatman paper by Osiris Printing. Original prospectus laid in. Folio. Original blue cloth clamshell box by Karl Folkes at the Spectrum Bindery and John Isakovics of Jovonis Bindery. Fine. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence. This is number 341. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence printed on fine Whatman paper by Osiris Printing. Original prospectus laid in. Folio. The prints illustrate and accompany the King James version of the book of Genesis. "The silk-screen stencils of Jacob Lawrence's paintings were expertly processed in New York City. Anywhere from 17 to 21 screens were required to bring out the coloring of each illustration making a total of 144 separate stencils all of which were destroyed after the strictly limited number of some 400 original sets of prints had been achieved on the fine Whatman paper. Jacob Lawrence one of the great figurative painters of the 20th century. rose to fame in 1941 after creating one of the most original and forceful series of narrative works in the history of American art - the 'Migration of the Negro.' He was the first African American artist to be represented by a major New York gallery and one of the first to have a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Regina Hackett. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1729réf. 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
1720réf. 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
1961réf. 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
1839réf. 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
1973réf. 58287New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. First Edition. First printing. Two volumes. Small square octavos 18cm; cloth hardcovers in dustjacket and publisher's pictorial slipcase. Fine in crisp unclipped dustwrappers priced $12.95 on front flap and the original slipcase lightly dusted and very slightly sunned at extremities Near Fine. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak who also helped select the tales. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
réf. 323989New York: The Limited Editions Club 1983. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Hersey Warren and Lawrence. With 8 color silk-screens by Jacob Lawrence. 1 vols. Folio. Full black aniline calf lettered in blind. Fine in black silk over boards slipcase. Lawrence Jacob. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Hersey Warren and Lawrence. With 8 color silk-screens by Jacob Lawrence. 1 vols. Folio. Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1875réf. 55417London: Trübner & Co 1875 1885. First Edition. Mixed set: first edition of vol. I third edition of vol. II. Octavo 20cm; 21cm in two vols. In brick red cloth stamped in black and gold; dark gray coated endpapers; vol. I: xii 419 17pp with 16pp of the "Co-operative Advertisement Sheet" at rear; vol. II: x 501pp. Ex-library from the Mark Skinner Library Manchester VT with remnants of labels at base of spines pencil call numbers to dedication leaves and library card pockets to rear pastedowns but no other library markings. Tight straight bright copies with minor shelf wear vol. I with slight rubbing to head and tail vol. II with two quarter-inch tears at head both internally clean: Very Good or better. An appealing set though mixed. The two volumes were first published in different years 1875 and 1879 and are now uncommon in the trade. Holyoake 1817-1906 was an active figure in the British co-operative movement as well as its historian. He was an active promoter and propagandist for the Rochdale Pioneers who are now identified as a starting point of the modern British co-operative movement; and he presided over the opening of the Co-operative Congress in 1887. Today over 7000 cooperatives with 17 million members are active in the UK. Holyoake was also influential as an Owenite social missionary and as editor of freethought periodicals including the atheist Oracle of Reason The Reasoner and The Secular Review in which he developed the term "secularism" in its modern sense. Trübner & Co unknown books
1867réf. 324321London: John Camden Hotten Piccadilly 1867. Large Paper copy limited to 100 copies. With tipped in color frontispiece 19 plates 8 Extra Plates with 72 signs inserted plate at end. 536 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. Publisher's quarter black morocco and crimson paper over boards. Bookplate of Thomas Charles Venables. Very good heel of spine worn board edges rubbed. Large Paper copy limited to 100 copies. With tipped in color frontispiece 19 plates 8 Extra Plates with 72 signs inserted plate at end. 536 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. The uncommon large paper issue of this important study of sign boards and the history of town and city in England. OCLC: 874198284 Edinburgh Univ. John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly unknown books
1844réf. 724521844. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown 1844. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown 1844. The Author's Final Comprehensive Statement on the Subject of Equity Pleadings Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on Equity Pleadings And the Incidents Thereof According to the Practice of the Courts of Equity of England and America. Revised Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown 1844. xxii 923 1 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind tooling to board edges raised bands lettering piece and early owner signature to spine. Some spotting and minor staining minor scuffs nicks and worming to boards moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped. Front hinge cracked rear hinge starting offsetting to margins of endleaves. Moderate toning early owner signatures Jacob K. Shafer other illegible to front pastedown. $750. Third edition and particularly significant because it was the last edition personally revised corrected and enlarged by the author before his death in 1845. Subsequent editions were published posthumously and edited by others. Jacob K. Shafer 1823-1876 was an American lawyer district attorney mayor and congressman. This distinguished treatise was first published in 1838. According to Simon Greenleaf "there are no works in our language in which the true doctrines and practice of the Law of Equity.are so convincingly taught; and probably no one of his works has been received by the profession with greater thankfulness or is more frequently consulted than this work" cited in Marvin. It was one of the five treatises Abraham Lincoln assigned to his law apprentices. A standard work for many years its final edition the thirteenth was issued in 1886. Marvin Legal Bibliography 672. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 5023. unknown books
1689réf. 724571689. 18-3/4" x 14-1/2" Mezzotint broadside. 18-3/4" x 14-1/2" Mezzotint broadside. Print Commemorating an Event that Led to the Glorious Revolution Gole Jacob 1660-1724 Engraver. De Seven Bisschoppen van Engeland. Amsterdam: Published by P. Savoret and Jacob Gole 1689. 18-3/4" x 14-1/2" 47.5 x 37 cm mezzotint broadside image size 14-3/4" x 11" 37.5 x 28 cm. Faint horizontal crease through center light soiling to lower-right corner. Well-preserved wide margins. $750. This rare striking broadside commemorates a pivotal catalyst of the Glorious Revolution: the resistance imprisonment and trial of the Seven Bishops of the Church of England. In 1688 the Catholic King James II issued the Declaration of Indulgence which granted religious freedom in England by suspending penal laws against Catholics and non-conforming Protestants. Crucially the decree stripped away the requirement of affirming an oath to the Church of England to hold government or teaching positions. Viewing this as a direct assault on the established Church seven prominent bishops petitioned against the reforms and refused to read the Declaration from their pulpits. James II promptly had them imprisoned in the Tower of London and tried for seditious libel. Overnight the bishops became celebrated defenders of the Protestant faith; their subsequent acquittal provoked widespread public rejoicing and severely undermined the King's authority paving the way for the ascension of William of Orange later that year. The central engraving features portrait ovals of the seven defiant bishops. Above them are symbolic counterweights of power and justice: a bishop's mitre a circular medal depicting the Tower of London where they were held and a scale of justice. The print is captioned below the image in both Dutch and French reflecting its contemporary distribution across Continental Protestant networks. Jacob Gole was an acclaimed early master of the mezzotint technique and a prominent publisher of playing cards and prints. A French-born Huguenot Calvinist Gole fled to Holland around 1684 to escape religious persecution just prior to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Settling in Amsterdam he achieved high regard for his finely detailed portraits and genre scenes. Today Gole's work is well-represented in major international institutions including the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. O'Donoghu. unknown books
1908réf. 50181NY: Privately Printed 1908. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #216 of 500cc. xiv 127pp index. Publisher's green boards and matching slipcase repaired at one joint. Light foxing to prelims else very good. Privately Printed hardcover books
1950réf. 464818New York: Philosophical Library 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. 152pp. Illustrated with 2pp. of photographic plates one in color. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist and cofounder of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis on the front fly spine ends gently bumped else fine in a lightly edgeworn very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of tiny ink stains on the lower panel and a few couple of tiny tears. Very likely Signed by the author on the front fly see image. Philosophical Library hardcover books
1861réf. 322790New York or Washington D.C. 1861. Portrait frontispiece engraved by J. Rogers 367pp. paginated erratically with added manuscript page numbers after page 111. 8vo. Half purple morocco and cloth rebacked. Bookbinder's label on the front pastedown A. D. Bloodgood. Portrait frontispiece engraved by J. Rogers 367pp. paginated erratically with added manuscript page numbers after page 111. 8vo. Comprises a 5-page epistolary Preface dated 25th July 1861 and addressed to his son Abraham with caption title as above followed by 22 sections including various appendices as detailed on p. 4 including: Brief and speech of Mr. Jacob Barker of New Orleans. 1857 -- United States Court of Claims. R.R. Ward Fitz G. Halleck and Jacob Little assignees of Jacob Barker vs. the United States. 1859 -- Court of Claims. Ward and others vs. the United States: brief of Jacob Barker counsel for plaintiffs 1859 -- R.G. i.e. R.R. Ward Fitz G. Halleck and Jacob Little assignees of Jacob Barker vs. the United States: brief of Jacob Barker counsel for plaintiffs on the rehearing granted the 16th March 1859 -- Court of Claims. R.R. Ward and others assignees of Jacob Barker Washington the last week in March 1860 : substance of the speech of Jacob Barker . 1860 -- To the honorable the members of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled : the petition of R.R. Ward Jacob Little and Firz G. Halleck assignees of Jacob Barker . 1861; etc. Each of the sections was evidently separately printed and here collected for distribution by Barker to present his case. His claims centered on non-payment of a $5 million loan he gave the U.S. government during the War of 1812: "My advanced age approaching 82 years admonishes me to place before the world a full history of the wrongs which have been done me by the officials to whom our national affairs have been intrusted" Preface. American banker financier and insurance lawyer Barker 1779-1871 founded the Exchange Bank of New York in 1815 was an early investor in the New York Life and Fire Insurance Company for which he was later charged with fraud which was eventually dismissed and a member of the New York State Senate. He removed to New Orleans in the 1830s and became an insurance lawyer but by 1867 his fortunes had dwindled and he declared bankruptcy. unknown books
1927réf. 320297New York: Joseph P. Day 1927. Each property with photo llustration. 13 pp. 4to. Grey wrappers. Fine tipped in newspaper artricle at front saying the properties brought $1423 000. Each property with photo llustration. 13 pp. 4to. With a flyer for 40 acres in Bedford Hills NY auction on Feb. 15 1927 laid in. WH/9/alex Box 1/69/1 Joseph P. Day unknown books
1929réf. 317435London: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First American edition. Illustrated. Folding map at end. 298pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards leather title label. Fine. First American edition. Illustrated. Folding map at end. 298pp. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1722réf. 710581722. Frankfurt 1722. 1st ed. Frankfurt 1722. 1st ed. Rare First Edition of Schmauss's Monumental Guide to Holy Roman Empire Law in Contemporary Armorial Calf Schmauss Johann Jacob 1690-1757. Corpus Juris Publici Academicum: Enthaltend Die Vornehmsten Grund-Gesetze Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Als: Die Guldene Bulle Profan- und Religions-Auch Westphalisch- Und Andere Frieden Die Cammer-Gerichts- und Reichs-Hof-Raths-Ordnungen Reichs-Matricul und Neueste Wahl-Capitulation Nebst einigen Andern Reichs-Constitutionen; Zum Gebrauch so Wohl der Studirenden Jugend Als auch Anderer dem Studio Juris Publici Beflissenen. Frankfurt and Leipzig Zu Finden bey August Martini 1722. First edition. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4". xiv 1072 pp. Calf thumb-tabs. Main text in parallel columns. Copperplate portrait frontispiece of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Contemporary speckled calf gilt armorial crests to center of boards raised bands blind tooling and lettering piece to spine. A few minor nicks to boards light rubbing to extremities gilding mostly rubbed away from crests corners bumped and somewhat worn front hinge starting at foot minor worming to upper corners of front pastedown and preliminaries with no loss to text or plate. Moderate toning to text faint dampspotting in places a few tabs stuck to adjacent leaves a few minor tears where tabs were peeled away. A handsome structurally sound copy of a scarce title. $1750. Schmauss was a celebrated professor of law at the University of Gottingen. A comprehensive historically grounded work his Corpus Juris Publici established his reputation as the leading expert of his day on the constitutional law of the Holy Roman Empire. Stintzing-Landsberg holds this book in high regard recommending it as a "convenient collection of sources" for the study of the Empire's constitutional history. It went through several editions and reissues the last appearing in 1794 reprinted in 1973. Published in 1722 this collection captures the legal and constitutional architecture of the Holy Roman Empire at a crucial moment of relative stabilization between the devastating geopolitical realignments of the seventeenth century and the mid-eighteenth-century rise of Prussian-Austrian dualism. Schmauss's textbook represents the zenith of German Reichspublizistik: the Enlightenment-era academic movement dedicated to treating th. unknown books
1826réf. 316088Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Covers scuffed and worn small semicircular portion of rear cover fire damaged with loss wear extending into final 25 pages at top margin touching a few letters text foxed and faintly dampstained some contemporary pen annotations 1839 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. 8vo. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap 1742-1775 whom Jefferson echoing others blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated and the Virginian Daniel Greathouse is now blamed for the massacre of Logan's family. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter. Streeter Sale 1335; Howes J32; Graff 2185; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379 Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan unknown books
