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"Justice Holmes Dissents" in Scribner's, January, 1929.
Pollard, Joseph Percival. "Justice Holmes Dissents" in Scribner's, Volume 85, Number 1 (January, 1929). Pp. 22-29. Softbound, light shelfwear and soiling to exterior, internally clean. Item housed in custom cloth folder, reproduction on paper of magazine's front cover to folder's front cover, printed paper title label to spine. $75. More
Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of...
Hulsebosch, Daniel Joseph. Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic world, 1664-1830. Chapel Hill, [N.C.]: University of North Carolina Press, [2005]. 494 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $65. * Contents: Empire and Liberty; Time Immemorial: The Foundations of Common-Law Culture in an..... More
Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter, LLD, Boston, 1816.
Story Eulogizes An Exemplary Lawyer-Statesman Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter, LL.D. By the Hon. Joseph Story, LL.D. Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, And Presiding Judge of the Circ. Court of the U.S. for the First Circuit, As Delivered to the Grand..... More
A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions Subsequent to the...
The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions Subsequent to the Declaration. With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. Salem: Published by Barnard B. Macanulty, 1805. viii, 697, [6] pp. Includes six-page publisher catalogue of law books. Octavo (9" x...... More
Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland...
One of the Standard American Texts of the Nineteenth Century Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. [Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895), Editor]. Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland, As Administered in England and America; With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. London: V...... More
Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, Second Edition.
Story's Final Treatise Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, And Guarantees of Notes, And Checks on Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown; London: Stevens and Norton, 1857. xxxi, 700..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and...
First Edition of Story on Agency Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839. xxiii, 544 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Recent period-style morocco..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, First Edition.
First Edition of Story's Final Treatise Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, And Guaranties of Notes, And Checks on Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1845. xxviii, 675 pp..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Bailments... First Edition, Boston, 1832.
Story on Bailments, First Edition Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments, With Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1832. xxxiv, 411 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Period-style calf, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine. Fading and a...... More
Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland...
First Edition of One of the Standard American Texts of the Nineteenth Century Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland, As Administered in England and America; with Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Boston: Charles C. Little..... More
The International Joint Commission between the United States of...
Chacko, Chirakaikaran Joseph. The International Joint Commission between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. 431 pp. Hardcover. Ex-library. Moderate shelfwear and soiling. Ink location label to foot of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Library stamps to endleaves. Punch stamp to..... More
A Treatise on the Law of Obligations, or Contracts... 1826. 2 vols.
First American Edition of Evans's Pothier on Obligations Pothier, Robert Joseph [1699-1722]. [Evans, William David (1767-1821), Translator and Editor]. A Treatise on the Law of Obligations, or Contracts. Translated From the French, With an Introduction, Appendix, and Notes, Illustrative of the English Law on the Subject. Philadelphia: Published by Robert..... More
The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, At the Sessions House...
The Most Extensive Account of an Important Trial Inspired by Fear of the French Revolution [Trial]. Hardy, Thomas [1752-1832], Defendant. Gurney, Joseph [1744-1815], Reporter. The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, On Tuesday the Twenty-Eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-Ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth..... More
Code Civil: Livre Premier, Des Personnes, Titres V Du Mariage, VI....
A Witty (And Very French) View of Family Law Hemard, Joseph [1880-1961], Illustrator. Code Civil: Livre Premier, Des Personnes: Titres V. Du Mariage. VI. Du Divorce. VII. De la Paternite. VIII. De l'Adoption. IX. De la Puissance Paternelle. X. De la Minorite. XI. De la Majorite. Paris: Rene Kieffer, [1925]..... More
The Trial of Joseph Gerrald, Delegate from the London Corresponding...
A "Martyr" to an Anti-Radical Crackdown [Trial]. Gerrald, Joseph [1763-1796]. The Trial of Joseph Gerrald, Delegate from the London Corresponding Society, To the British Convention. Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, On the 3d, 10th, 13th, And 14th of March, 1794. For Sedition. Taken in Short-Hand by Mr..... More
Men-At-The-Bar: A Biographical Hand-List of the Members...
Interesting 1885 Biographical Directory of British Lawyers and Judges Foster, Joseph [1844-1905]. Men-At-The-Bar: A Biographical Hand-List of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc. London and Aylesbury: Printed for the Author. Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Limited, 1885. xvi, 528, Quarto (10" x 7-1/2"). Later..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, Third Edition.
Story's Final Treatise Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, And Guaranties of Notes, And Checks on Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1851. xxxiv, [2], 718 pp. Octavo (9-1/4"..... More
Account Book of Joseph and William Burgess, Chester, 1778-1846.
Account Book and Client Ledger of a Chester Lawyer [Manuscript]. [Burgess, Joseph]. [Burgess, William]. [Account Book of Joseph and William Burgess]. Chester, UK, 1778-1846. [xiii], 151, [1] ff. Final leaf numbered 251, 100 ff. neatly removed after fol. 151. With an index. Folio (12-3/4" x 8"). Contemporary green laced vellum..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland...
One of the Standard American Texts of the Nineteenth Century Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland, As Administered in England and America; With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. xxx..... More
Trial, Commonwealth vs J T Buckingham, Of an Indictment for Libel...
A Famous Massachusetts Libel Case [Trial]. Buckingham, J[oseph] T[inker], Defendant. Trial: Commonwealth vs. J.T. Buckingham, Of an Indictment for Libel Before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, December Term, 1822. Boston: Published at the Office of the New-England Galaxy, 1822. [iii], iv-60 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Stab-stitched..... More
Calendars of the Ancient Charters, And of the Welch and Scotish Rolls.
A Notable Collection of Early English Records Ayloffe, Sir Joseph [1709-1781]. Calendars of the Ancient Charters, And of the Welch and Scotish Rolls Now Remaining in the Tower of London: Also Calendars of All the Treaties of Peace Entered Into by the Kings of England with Those of Scotland; And..... More
Der Ungarische Hausadvocat, Ein Theoretisch-Practisches Handbuch...
A Rare Hungarian Layman's Guide Vojdisek, Joseph (Jozsef). Der Ungarische Hausadvocat. Ein Theoretisch-Practisches Handbuch zur Abfassung Verschiedener im Burgerlichen Leben Vorkommender Geschaftsaufsatze. Budapest: Verlag Von C.A. Hartleben, 1831. [vi], 207, [1] pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Original printed wrappers, untrimmed edges. Moderate soiling and a few minor stains, light wear..... More
Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954.
Hodos, George H. Stalin, Joseph. Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954. New York: Praeger, 1987. xvi, 193 pp. Hardcover, fine. $65. More
Syntagma Juris Hungarici, Honoribus Perillustris, Reverendi....
A Rare Eighteenth-Century "Institutes" of Hungarian Law Daniel, Joseph. Syntagma Juris Hungarici, Honoribus Perillustris, Reverendi, Ac Eruditi Domini Domini Joannes Rakovszki De Eadem, Sem. Kisd. S.L.R.H. Convictor. Dum in Alma Episc. S.J. Univ. Cassoviensi. Promotore R.P. Josepho Daniel e Soc. Jesu, AA. LL. & Philosophiae Doctore, Ejusdemq; Professore Emerito, Nec..... More
Justus Et Aequus Iudex, Quem Post Emensum Legitimi Studii Tramitem...
Rare Thesis on "Just and Equitable Judges" by an Austrian Noble Schlick (Schlik), Franz Joseph Heinrich von [1696-1766]. Justus Et Aequus Iudex, Quem Post Emensum Legitimi Studii Tramitem, Publica De Praetorum Edictis, Et Eorundem Aequitate Instituta Dissertatione Exhibet, Atque Sub Gloriosissimis Auspiciis Caroli Sexti, Romanorum Imperatoris, Hispaniarum, Germaniae, Hungariae, Bohemie..... More