The Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes...
"A Pioneer Book" Cunningham, Timothy [d.1789]. The Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes, And Insurances: Containing all the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, Judgments, Decrees, And Customs of Merchants Concerning Them, Methodically Digested. Together with Rules and Examples for Computing the Exchange Between England and the Principal Places of Trade in Europe. Also the Arbitrations of Exchange Set in a Clear and Rational Light, And Illustrated with Variety of Examples. London: Printed for W. Owen, 1761. xxxvi, 519, [1] pp. Octavo (8" x 7-3/4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing to bears and extremities, a few faint creases to spine, a few bumps to board edges and corners, pastedowns partially detached, front pastedown creased and moderately edgeworn, light edgewear to following endleaf. Moderate toning to interior, folds to upper outside corners of a few leaves near center of text, light soiling to endleaves, early owner initials in small hand to front endleaf and head of title page. A handsome copy. $450. * Second edition. The second and considerably expanded edition of the first English legal treatise on the subject, comprehensive in its coverage and praised by Holdsworth as "a pioneer book... a creditable piece of work [whose] arrangement is clear." Holdsworth, A History of English Law 12:389. English Short-Title Catalogue T140361.
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