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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
Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and..
Nicholas St. John Green's Notable Edition of Story on Agency Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Green, Nicholas St. John [1830-1876], Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874. xl, 706..... More
A Practical Treatise on Pleading, In Assumpsit, With the Additions..
With Decisions by Joseph Story [C] Lawes, Edward [d.1849]. [Story, Joseph (1779-1845)]. A Practical Treatise on Pleading, In Assumpsit. With the Addition of the Decisions of the American Courts. By Joseph Story. Boston: Published by James W. Burditt & Co., 1811. viii, [12]-621, [30] pp. With a one-page publisher advertisement..... More
The Miscellaneous Writings, Literary, Critical, Juridical, And...
Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. The Miscellaneous Writings, Literary, Critical, Juridical, And Political, Of Joseph Story, LL.D., Now First Collected. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1835. viii, 527, [1] pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Original paneled cloth, gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners..... More
Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, First English Edition, 1839.
"A Major Step in the Transformation of Equity" Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, As Administered in England and America. Revised, Corrected, And Enlarged. London: Reprinted...Under the Direction and Sanction of the Learned Author, By A. Maxwell, 1839. Two volumes. [i], xxxiii, 773; xl, 947 pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x...... More
Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and...
First English 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 & Foreign Law. London: Reprinted Under the Direction and Sanction of the Learned Author, By A. Maxwell, 1839. xxiv, 476..... More
The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story, Associate Justice...
Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Story, William W. [1819-1895], Editor. The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, Edited by his Son. Boston: Charles C. Little and J. Brown, 1852. 4..... More
Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and..
Nicholas St. John Green's Edition of Story on Agency Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Green, Nicholas St. John [1830-1876], Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874. xl, 706 pp..... More
Autograph Letter, Signed, Salem, MA, June 9, 1829, Framed.
"I Am Now Very Busy" [Manuscript]. Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. [Sewall, Samuel E. (1799-1888)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, Salem, MA, June 9, 1829]. Single-page letter on 10" x 8" sheet and 9-1/2" x 7" engraved portrait of Story in judicial attire in attractively matted and glazed 13-3/4" x 19-1/4" frame. Moderate toning..... More
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, During the...
A Copy Owned by Joseph Story, Benjamin Butler and Henry Fowle Durant Shower, Bartholomew. Leach, Thomas, Editor. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, During the Reigns of Charles the Second; James the Second; And William the Third. By Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knt. In Two Volumes. Volume..... More
A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen, Fifth Ed.
Classic Maritime Treatise with Notes by Joseph Story Abbott, Charles, Lord Tenterden [1762-1832]. Shee, William [1804-1868], Editor. Perkins, J[onathan] C[ogswell] [1809-1877], Editor. Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen. In Five Parts. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. lxiii, [1], 1004..... More
A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature... [And 3 Other Titles]
Four Interesting Titles on Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy Mackintosh, Sir James [1765-1832]. Marvin, J[ohn] G[age] [1815-1855], Editor. A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations, Together with a Collected List of Works Upon International Law, A Sketch of the Author's Life, Etc. Boston: Pratt and Company..... More
Commentaries on Equity Pleadings, And the Incidents Thereof...
Story on Equity Pleadings, A Standard Work for Many Years 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..... More
Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic 1st ed 1834
First Edition of One of Story's Most Important Treatises in a Superb Binding Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, In Regard to Contracts, Rights, And Remedies, And Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, And Judgments. Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1834. xxv..... More
A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions, With Occasional...
The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Oliver, Benjamin L. [1788-1843], Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions, With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee, 1829. xv, 709 pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 6-1/4")..... 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
Commentaire Sur la Constitution des Etats-Unis Traduit...
Early French Edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Odent, Paul, Editor and Translator. Commentaire Sur la Constitution des Etats-Unis Traduit du Commentaire de J. Story, Professeur de Droit a L'Universite de Harvard, Et Augmente des Observations de Mm. Jefferson, Rawle, De Tocqueville, Etc., Et de Notes..... More
A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States..
Story, Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School, Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution. Originally published..... More