Village Communities in the East and West, Signed Binding.
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.
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