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1861Best.-Nr. 854901861. London: John Murray 1861. 1st ed. London: John Murray 1861. 1st ed. Copy of a Landmark of Legal Thought Owned by the Son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society And Its Relation to Modern Ideas. London: John Murray 1861. viii 415 1 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2"; 21.6 x 14 cm. Contemporary calf retaining existing gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece gilt rules and corner fleurons to boards gilt tooling to board edges marbled endpapers and edges hinges mended. Minor nicks and scratches to boards moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to corners gilding mostly rubbed away from spine and board edges. Light toning to interior owner inscription of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Jr. to head of title page marks in pencil most likely in his hand to margins of a few leaves. A very good copy with an interesting association. $950. First edition. Famous for its dictum that civilization progresses "from status to contract" this landmark work in legal history and anthropology traces the evolution of legal systems from divine command to customary law and finally contracts and codified law. Maine's historical model resembled the biological model of Darwin's On the Origin of the Species 1859 though there is no evidence that it was a direct influence. Brunel 1837-1902 a London barrister of Lincoln's Inn was the eldest child of the eminent civil and mechanical engineer. Grace's Guide to British Industrial History "Isambard Brunel Junior 1837-1902" accessed online. Dauchy et al. The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing 115. unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 822241976. Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Popular Government. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics 1976. 254 pp. White and red cloth. Fine. Patterned endpapers. Internally clean. $15. Contents: The Prospects of Popular Government; The Nature of Democracy; The Age of Progress; The Constitution of the United States. unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 825671888. Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas. London: John Murray 1888. Twelfth edition. x 415 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettered spine and blind frames to boards. Worn. Deckle edges. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Card pocket to rear pastedown. Date due slip to rear free endpaper. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature to front endleaf. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page "Property of/ J.P. Gram/ 1903 June 13." Number stamp to verso title page. Some pencil underlining internally. A good copy. $45. The previous owner of this copy was Jesse Peter Gram 1867-1924. An alumnus of Harvard Law School he served creditably under Roosevelt in the Civil Service Commission. Joseph M. Gleason 1869-1942 was a Catholic priest historian and collector. unknown books
1864Best.-Nr. 810821864. First American Edition of Ancient Law Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Dwight Theodore W. 1822-1892 Introduction. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society And its Relation to Modern Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner 1864. lxix 400 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Three-quarter morocco over pebbled cloth raised bands and gilt title gilt owner name "R. Ross Perry" to foot of spine edges rouged patterned endpapers. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities hinges cracked. Moderate toning to interior Perry signature and inscription "Nov. 8th 1886/ Washington D.C." to front endleaf small stain and Perry signature mostly trimmed away to title page. $650. First American edition from the second London edition 1863. "Maine indicates the place in the development of a legal system of such agencies as legal fictions and equity. He explains the history of the concept of a law of nature; and in his account of the contrast between primitive and modern society--between the place which the law of persons occupies in primitive and modern law--he comes to the famous conclusion that the government of progressive societies has been from status to contract" Holdsworth. R. Ross Perry 1846-1914 was a Washington DC lawyer Georgetown Law School professor and the author of a notable treatise Common-Law Pleading: Its History and Principles Boston 1897. Holdsworth A History of English Law XV:363-364. unknown books
1876Best.-Nr. 793811876. Maine's Village Communities in an Attractive Signed Binding Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Village Communities in the East and West. New York Henry Holt and Company 1876. xii 413 3 pp. Main text followed by 2 pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Contemporary signed three-quarter morocco over cloth by Stikeman & Co. gilt rules to boards raised bands gilt fillets and gilt title to spine top-edge gilt patterned endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities moderate toning to interior tiny later owner stamp Michael Lee Warner Valhalla to verso of front free endpaper contemporary gift inscription "James Lowndes. June 2. 1880. from the graduating class of the Law School of Georgetown University" to front endleaf. $250. Third edition enlarged. Maine's classic comparison of Indian and European property law was first published in 1871. It contains the texts of six lectures given at Oxford and other essays and lectures on Roman and Indian law. As Pound notes: "These works.are at the foundation of all study of historical jurisprudence." James Lowndes was a professor at Georgetown Law School in the nineteenth century lecturing on the law of personal property pleading and evidence. The charming gift inscription indicates he was held in high esteem by his students. Pound Outlines of Jurisprudence 5th. ed. 196. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown University 1873 8. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:34. unknown books
1861Best.-Nr. 755791861. First Edition of Maine's Ancient Law Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas. London: John Murray 1861. viii 415 1 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4"; 21 x 13.3 cm. Contemporary three-quarter sheep over patterned cloth gilt-edged raised bands and gilt title to spine colored endpapers. Moderate rubbing to boards very slight bubbling and light wear to edges of cloth in places rubbing and light wear to extremities joints starting at ends chipping to head of spine corners bumped and worn hinges cracked faint offsetting to endpapers a few tears to front pastedown pencil annotations to rear free endpaper. Moderate toning a few partial cracks to text block all leaves secure early pencil annotations and marginal marks to a few leaves light soiling to title page. $450. First edition. "Maine indicates the place in the development of a legal system of such agencies as legal fictions and equity. He explains the history of the concept of a law of nature; and in his account of the contrast between primitive and modern society--between the place which the law of persons occupies in primitive and modern law--he comes to the famous conclusion that the government of progressive societies has been from status to contract" Holdsworth. Dauchy et al. The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing 115. Holdsworth A History of English Law XV:363-4. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 1611Augusta Maine: Maine State Library 1920. Cloth. Very good . 4to; xiii ii 338pp; dark green cloth over board blind-stamped with pinecones gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; b&w fp and illustrations; light shelf-wear to boards sunned spine and lettering scattered light foxing; b&w illustrations; very good plus. Part I of the book contains historical and literary information about the state of Maine Part II the social and industrial history. [Maine State Library] unknown books
1895Best.-Nr. 734611895. Village Communities in an Oriel College Binding Maine Henry Sumner 1822-1888. Village Communities in the East and West. London: John Murray 1890. xii 413 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Contemporary calf blind frames and gilt ornaments to boards gilt armorial stamp of Oriel College Oxford to front board raised bands gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine gilt ornaments to compartments gilt tooling to board edges top-edge of text block gilt blind inside dentelles marbled endpapers silk ribbon bookmark. Light scuffing light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities small early bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior crack in text block between pp. x and xi internally clean. $250. Later edition. Maine's classic comparison of Indian and European property law. It contains the texts of six lectures given at Oxford and other essays lecture and addresses on Roman and Indian law. The first edition appeared in 1871. "These works.are at the foundation of all study of historical jurisprudence.": Pound Outlines of Jurisprudence 5th. ed. 196. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:34. unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 797Boston and Maine Transportation Company 1925. Document no binding. Very good. 9" x 11"; tri-fold title and half-tone illustration of a motor coach; fee and ticket information on rear panel; routes with time and a larger half-tone illustration of the motor coach to verso; a few pin holes from tacks some creasing; very good. Not recorded. Advertising brochure for bus service that ran from Boston through Newburyport Mass. Hampton Portsmouth N.H. then up into Maine through York Ogunquit Wells Beach Biddeford to Portland. This was a major tourist route and transverse "over the old Newburyport Turnpike the longest perfectly straight road in New England laid out years ago and now a splendid State highway". Boston and Maine Transportation Company unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 893Augusta Maine: Maine Development Commission 1940. Staplebound. Fine. 12mo; 61 3pp; stiff pictorial glazed wrapper printed in green; two staple binding; half-tone b&w photographic illustrations throughout text; fine. Booklet covers equipment needed for hiking and climbing and local accommodations. Includes a chart of named mountains local towns with their counties the elevation at both the summit and base and the height of the climb. Maine Development Commission unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 347Collierville TN: Fundcraft Publishing 1996. Stiff wraps. Very good. 8vo; A-D iv130pp A-D index 1-31pp 1 Making the Right Food Choices; white glazed stiff wrapper printed with title and church name vignette illustration of church; black comb-style plastic binding; b&w photographic illustration of church with worship schedule on pC; full page color pictorial chapter divisions; recipes with author; scuffing to wrapper light soiling of wrapper and a few pages; very good. Cushing Maine is a town in Knox County located in the mid-coast region of Maine just south of Thomaston. Fundcraft Publishing unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 1None listed: State of Maine Highway Commission 1941. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good. Elephant folio; 56pp; 55 full page maps in black and blue ink; blue textured wrappers with title on front cover and state seal 5 staple binding; soiling to wrapper some light page edge soiling soiling to pp 21-22 binding sound without pulling. Very Good. The first of traffic flow maps issued by the state the next not issued until 1955. The maps are of each county with details that include road types bridges water features boundaries natural features railroads airways parks and reservations and city and village centers. Traffic patterns indicated in blue ink. Fascinatingìì detailed look at each Maine county. [State of Maine Highway Commission] unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 305Rockland Maine: Courier-Gazette 1973. Stiff wraps. Very good . 8vo; 65pp a-h 8pp cooking aids 4 blank for recipes; white glazed stiff wrapper with white plastic comb binding illustration of a sailing ship to front; b&w vignettes to chapter heads; light staining to front wrapper; very good plus. Not in WorldCat. Scarce. Listing of the Women's Auxiliary of the Thomaston Fire Department with the 1972-73 Officers on the first page. Recipe recipe title and contributing author on each page. Courier-Gazette unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 559Augusta Maine: Maine Development Commission 1941. Cloth. Near fine. 8vo; 24pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper 2 staple binding; verso front and recto rear wrapper printed decoratively with title; vignette of state seal to title page; b&w half-tone photographic illustrations with titles; message from Governor; faint vertical fold; near fine. Date of pamphlet based on the forward from Lewis O. Barrows Governor of the State of Maine from 1937-1941. Maine Development Commission unknown books
1865Best.-Nr. 586Augusta Maine: Head Quarters John L. Hodson Adjutant General's Office 1865. String. Very good. 8vo; 48pp; publisher's tan wrapper string binding; stab hole in upper left corner through wrappers and all leaves 1" chip to rear wrapper light soiling to wrapper scattered foxing light chipping to spine; very good minus. Laws concerning the military in the state of Maine. Detailed review of Chapter 307 and its sections. Interesting in that there was an exemption for Quakers and Shakers. In addition no "idiot lunatic common drunkard vagabond pauper or person convicted of any infamous crime" could be allowed to serve. Head Quarters, John L. Hodson, Adjutant General's Office unknown books
1799Best.-Nr. 707161799. 1799 Document Appointed a Judge to the Kennebeck County Maine Court of Common Pleas Judges. Maine. Dummer Nathaniel 1755-1815. To All Unto Whom These Presents Shall Come Greeting. Boston February 28 1799. 17" x 11" part-printed document inscribed in neat hand docketed on verso large embossed Massachusetts seal to upper-left corner signed by Governor Increase Sumner countersigned by John Avery first Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Light browning and edgewear light soiling and a few minor spots vertical and horizontal fold lines a few minor tears along folds with no loss to text. An interesting item. $350. Dummer resided in Hallowell Maine and was judge of the Kennebeck County Court from 1799 until his death in 1815. He was also Hallowell's postmaster from 1792 to 1802. The docket note witnessed by Joseph North and William Howard attests that Dummer took his oath of office on April 2 1799. unknown books
1821Best.-Nr. 688411821. Brunswick 1821. 2 vols; Portland 1822. vol. 3. Brunswick 1821. 2 vols; Portland 1822. vol. 3. The First Compilation of the Laws of Maine With the Uncommon Third Volume Maine. Laws Of The State Of Maine; To Which are Prefixed the Constitution of the U. States and of Said State With an Appendix. Published According to a Resolve of the State Passed March 9 1821. Brunswick: Printed and Published by J. Griffin For the State 1821. Two volumes. ii lxx 456 xciii 3; ii xlii 457-872 xciii 3 pp. With Laws of the State of Maine. Vol III. Published According to a Resolve of the State Passed March 30th 1831. Portland: Printed by Thomas Todd For the State 1831. xlviii 413 1 xxxvii 1 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing and small stains to boards moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped a few hinges cracked front free endpapers removed from Volumes I and III. Light to moderate toning light foxing in a places in each volume. An attractive set in uniform bindings. $650. First editions. Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1819 and entered the Union in 1820. "Published According to a Resolve of the State" the two-volume 1821 compilation was the first collection of Maine state laws. Complete three-volume sets are uncommon. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 159. unknown books
1830Best.-Nr. 392391830. Maine Acts January Session 1830 Maine. Public Acts of the State of Maine Passed by the Tenth Legislature at Its Session Held in January 1830. Published Agreeably to the Resolve of the 28th June 1820. Portland: Day & Fraser 1830 iv 1225-1267 8 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers bound into recent maroon textured cloth endpapers renewed. Browning to half-title foxing to wrappers minor dampstaining to first few leaves. Occasional light foxing interior otherwise fresh. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown stain from removed label below small inventory label to head of Table of Contents. A nice copy in a good-quality binding. $50. With index. This book is often bound with public acts of the Sixth through Eleventh Legislatures. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 156. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 9033470London: John Murray 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Text block clean and bright. Light wear to extremities corners head and heel of spine. Quarter-inch narrow split to cloth of back cover at spine head. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. 415 pages. John Murray hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 15686MAINE MURDER 1811. The Trial of Ebenezer Ball before the Hon. Samuel Sewall . . . For the murder of John Tileston Downes at Robinstown Jan. 28 1811. Castine: By Samuel Hall 1811. 40 p. Removed from a bound volume. Old library stamps minor overall browning and foxing. Very good. John Tileston Downes was shot and killed by Ebenezer Ball in Robbinston Maine while attempting to arrest Ball on suspicion of forgery. Ball was found guilty and was hanged in what was the first legal hanging for murder in Eastern Maine. See W. L. Welch "Hanging Ebenezer Ball" Maine History 45 2010 pp. 151-167. Shaw and Shoemaker 24056; Skillin Bibliography of Maine Imprints 11-09; McDade Annals of Murder 65. unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 141627Middlesex: Amicus Productions 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Amicus Productions film. Laid in are eight pages of notes and letters to and from Hollywood agent Paul Kohner. Based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Charles Eric Maine. A man has been in a coma since his literal birth and thirty years after his birth he awakens for the first time with the mind of an infant. Set in London. Dark green wrappers with die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Stanley Mann and John Hale and author Charles Eric Maine. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Amicus Productions unknown books
1862Best.-Nr. 4211862. MAINE. A Business Directory of the Subscribers to the New Map of Maine with a Brief History and Description of the State Prepared by William Willis. Portland 1862. 344 p. Cloth. Spine faded else a fine copy. With an 1862 presentation inscription on the title page. A detailed statewide business and occupation directory arranged by county and town. In the same year the publisher Chase issued its large wall map of Maine. unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 578831936. 1 vols. 10-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 10-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches. unknown books
1680Best.-Nr. 353098Likely Boston 1680. 4pp. Clerically signed Robert Warwick and Edward Gorges above an additional reaffirmation of grant dated June 1631 clerically countersigned by Thomas Wiggin James Parker James Watts and George Donglan. Docketed "Patent Saco: east of the river". Bifolium. Usual folds minor separations two repaired. 4pp. Clerically signed Robert Warwick and Edward Gorges above an additional reaffirmation of grant dated June 1631 clerically countersigned by Thomas Wiggin James Parker James Watts and George Donglan. Docketed "Patent Saco: east of the river". Bifolium. In 1629 less than a decade after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock the Council of New England an English joint stock company founded to establish colonial settlements in America issued a series of grants subdividing their royal charter that had ceded to them all land between "degrees 34 and 44" from sea to sea. These grants were important being among the earliest grants independently issued within the colonies. The present grant is of particular note for the history of Maine being the grant made to Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonython for the land north of the Swanckadocke River i.e. the Saco River. The text of the grant reads in part: ".Whereas King James of famous memory late King of England Scotland France and Ireland by his Highness' letters patent and royal grant under the great seal of England bearing date the third day of November in the eighteenth year of his reign of England France and Ireland etc. for the causes therein expressed did absolutely give grant and confirm to the said Council for the affairs of New England in America and their successors forever all the land of New England lying and being from forty to forty-eight degrees of northerly latitude and in length by all that breadth aforesaid from sea to sea throughout the main land . that the said council for the affairs of New England in America as well for and in consideration that Thomas Lewis Gentleman has already been at the charge to transport himself and others to take a view of New England in America aforesaid for the bettering of his experience in advancing of a plantation and does now wholly intend by God's assistance with his associates to plant there both for the good of his Majesty's realms and dominions and for the propagation of Christian religion among those infidels and in consideration also that the said Thomas Lewis together with Captain Richard Bonighton and also with their associates and company have undertaken at their own proper costs and charges to transport fifty persons there within seven years next ensuing to plant and inhabit there to the advancement of the general plantation of that country and the strength and safety thereof among the natives or any other invaders also for the encouragement of the said Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonighton and other considerations the said council thereunto moving have given granted enfeoffed and confirmed and by this present writing do fully clearly and absolutely give grant enfeof and confirm to the said Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonighton their heirs and assigns for ever all that part of the main land in New England in America aforesaid commonly called or known by the name of Swanckadocke or by whatsoever other name or names the same is or shall be hereafter called or known by situated lying and being between the cape or bay commonly called Cape Elizabeth and the cape or bay commonly called Cape Porpoise containing in breadth from northeast to southwest along by the sea four miles in a straight line or accounting seventeen hundred and three score yards according to the standard of England to every mile and eight English miles upon the main land on the north side of the river Swanckadock after the same rate from the sea through all the breadth aforesaid ." The original vellum grant with seals is located in the archives of the Maine Historical Society. The present example is one of several extant early manuscript copies made during the subsequent conflicts and competing claims between the crown Massachusetts and Maine. In 1652 commissioners were appointed to determine the correct boundary between Massachusetts and several of the early patents with the former gradually extending their claim northward. In 1653 the settlers of Saco and other parts of Maine yielded to Massachusetts and the region was renamed Yorkshire or County of York. In 1664 after the Restoration the region was restored as an independent province but much of the region sold back to Massachusetts in 1678. After the charter of Massachusetts was annulled in 1684 and James II ascended to the crown in 1685 the region was once again assigned as part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Maine would remain part of Massachusetts until the final separation in 1820. The present undated copy likely dates from the period circa 1664 when a royal commission consisting of Richard Nicolls Sir Robert Carre George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick was sent to oversee the government of the colonies in New England. However it could also date as late as the period from the 1680s when Sir Edmund Andros became the Commissioner for the Dominion of New England. Documentary History of the State of Maine vol. 7 p. 117 unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 316097Dallas: The Somesuch Press 1981. Limited edition no. 56 of 200 copies signed by the printer and the publisher. vii 10 33 9 pp. 1 vols. Miniature 2-5/8 x 3 inches. Printed wrappers. As new. Limited edition no. 56 of 200 copies signed by the printer and the publisher. vii 10 33 9 pp. 1 vols. Miniature 2-5/8 x 3 inches. Facsimile of a rare and curious miniature book printed in 1858 reporting on a hunting trip to Maine. The Somesuch Press unknown books
