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1.   With Actuarial Tables for Whites, Slaves and Free Blacks
Angell, Joseph K[innicutt] [1794-1857]. A Treatise on the Law of Fire and Life
Insurance, With an Appendix, Containing Forms, Tables, &c.  Boston: Little,
Brown, 1855. xxvi, [2], 511, cxviii, [631]-644 pp. Recent period-style quarter
calf over cloth, raised bands, lettering piece, endpapers renewed. Light browning
to outer margins of title page and following two leaves, interior otherwise clean.
A very nice copy. $500.
* Second edition, enlarged. With an index of American cases, an index of British
cases and fascinating actuarial tables containing fees and mortality rates for
whites, slaves and free blacks. Angell was a Boston attorney and one of America's
first significant legal writers. A prolific author, he published treatises on the
law of corporations, watercourses and other topics. His works were esteemed highly.
James Kent said they were indispensable to the intelligent lawyer (DAB); several
were required reading at Harvard Law School. The present volume was the last to
be published during Angell's lifetime. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law
7049. Dictionary of National Biography I:310. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law
Collection at New York University (1953) 559. Catalogue of the Library of the
Harvard Law School (1909) I:52. 
(Inventory # 36268)

2.              Bacon's Maximes of the Common Law, 1636
Bacon, Sir Francis [1561-1626]. The Elements of the Common Lavves of England,
Branched into a Double Tract: The One Containing A Collection of Some Principall
Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, With Their Latitude and Extent. Explicated
for the More Facile Introduction of Such as are Studiously Addicted to That Noble
Profession. [with] The Use of the Common Law, for the Preservation of our Persons,
Goods, and Good Names. According to the Lawes and Customes of this Land. London:
Printed by the assignes of J. More for Anne More and Henry Hood, 1636. [xx], 94
[i.e. 90], [8], 72 pp. Quarto (5-3/8" x 7-1/4"). Early nineteenth century diced
Russia, rebacked, worn, some soiling, clean tear to a leaf expertly
repaired minor worming in lower left margin not affecting text.$1,500.
* Second edition. See Gibson, Francis Bacon A Bibliography of his Works and of
Baconiana to the Year 1750: 194. Each tract has separate title-page and paging.
Page numbers 45-48 in the first tract omitted in paging: text and signatures
continuous.
(Inventory # 30188)

3.            Scarce Introduction to International Law
Baker, Sir [George] Sherston [1846-1923]. First Steps in International Law Prepared
for the Use of Students. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Truebner & Co., Ltd., 1899. xxxi,
428 pp. Octavo (6" x 8-1/2"). Textured cloth with decorative blind stamping, deckle
fore and bottom-edges. Negligible rubbing to boards, light wear to corners and spine
ends, internally clean. A very good copy of a title scarce in the trade.  $150.
* "The late war between Spain and the United States of America raised several questions
of International Law, particularly those concerning the rules of warfare and the
position on neutrals. This caused me to deliver a public lecture on "The Rights of
Belligerents and Neutrals" (...) on the 4th of May, 1898. The keen interest which was
manifested in this lecture by the general public, and especially by the mercantile
community, made me think that a manual of International Law, written in easy language,
and not too large in volume, might meet with the approbation of the community, and
also supply a want to students. Hence the present book" (Preface, vii). British
Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 2:178.  
(Inventory # 37331)

4.      Unusual 1800 Newark, NJ Imprint in Handsome Contemporary Binding
[Bertrand, Jean (1708-1777), and Others]. Essays on the Spirit of Legislation, in the
Encouragement of Agriculture, Population, Manufacturers, and Commerce. Translated from the
Original French, Which Gained the Premiums Offered by the Economical Society of Berne, in
Switzerland, for the Best Compositions on This Subject. Newark, [N.J.]: William Reid, 1800.
Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"). 479, vii pp. Contemporary sheep (treated to look like tree calf),
lettering piece. Rubbed and scuffed, head of spine worn. Early owner signatures to front free
endpaper and title page. A very good copy of an usual work.$450.
* The first essay by Jean Bertrand [1708-1777], the second by Benjamin Samuel Georges Carrard
[b. 1740], and the third by Gabriel Seigneux de Correvon [1695-1776], which were taken from the
first English translation done in London in 1772. Indexed. Felcone, New Jersey Books 1698-1800,
82. Evans, American Bibliography 37382. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law, 7820. OCLC
locates 9 copies.
(Inventory # 19499)

5.                                       Not in Eller
Blackstone, Sir William [1723-1780]. [Chase, George, Editor]. Commentaries on the Laws of England;
In Four Books. So Abridged as to Retain All Portions of the Original Work Which are of Historical
or Practical Value, With Notes, and References to American Decisions; For the Use of American
Students. New York: Banks & Brothers, 1896. xx, 1148 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Recent period-style
quarter calf over cloth, endpapers renewed. Annotations to margins in pencil scattered throughout,
text otherwise clean. An appealing copy.                                                                                                                    $350.
* Third edition. "[These volumes have been] rendered less useful than formerly for purposes of
instruction, since students find in them ...much that is dead law.... This defect is all the more
serious from the fact that students read this work at the outset of their studies, when they have
no fund of acquired legal knowledge which would enable them  to discriminate  between those
rinciples that are still in force and those which have ceased to be a part of the law. A large part
of the original work is, moreover, given up to the consideration of topics which relate exclusively
to the English governmental government and ecclesiastical system, and are of little value to the
American student.... The object of this edition has been to retain all the conspicuous and
acknowledged merits of the Commentaries in their unabridged form, while the defects and
imperfections which impair the usefulness of the work are carefully removed.": Preface, iii-iv.
Not in Eller. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:189 (citing other Chase
editions).
(Inventory # 36627)

6.                                Blackstone's Analysis, Third Edition
Blackstone, Sir William. An Analysis of the Laws of England...To Which is Prefixed An Introductory
Discourse on the Study of the Law. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1758. Folding table of
descents. lxx, [6], 189, blank page, [14] pp. Octavo (5" x 8"). Contemporary polished calf, frames to
boards, scalloped edge at spine. Rebacked, red leather lettering piece, gilt stamping, raised bands.
$750.
* Third edition. This is the first edition with Blackstone's name on the title-page. "According to the
preface dated2 Nov. 1758, this is a revision of the text, to which is added 'a greater variety of
precedents and forms in the appendix'" (Eller). The Discourse on the Study of Law was Blackstone's
introductory lecture as Vinerian professor of law at Oxford. This edition is also the first to
contain "an alphabetical index of the general titles and particular examples comprised in the
Analysis and appendix." Eller, The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library 219.
Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I:27(6). Marke, A
Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 135. Marvin, Legal Bibliography
(1847) 127 (citing 6th ed., 1771).
(Inventory # 30371)

7.               A Well-Preserved Copy of Bouvier's Institutes of American Law
8. Bouvier, John [1787-1851]. [Gleason, Daniel A., Editor]. Institutes of American Law. New Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1880. Two volumes. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-3/4"). Contemporary law calf,
raised bands, red and black lettering pieces, blind-stamped frames to boards, faint residue of owner
labels to spines. Light rubbing to boards, some wear to board edges, corners and joints, hinges just
starting. A few minor annotations to rear free endpaper of Volume II. Offsetting to margins of endleaves,
interiors otherwise fresh. A well-preserved set. $500.
* Later edition of a work first published in 1851. A compendium of American law by a Philadelphia jurist
best known for his Law Dictionary (1839). Extensively notated and indexed, it is divided according to
Pothier's system into six books: law and government, persons, things, wrongs, remedies, equity. He
covers a variety of topics ranging from the nature of law, sovereignty and civil rights to bills of
exchange, property and remedies. This edition not listed in the Harvard Law Catalogue.
(Inventory # 39939)

8.                         A Defense of Austin's Theory of Sovereignty
Brown, W. Jethro. The Austinian Theory of Law. Being an Edition of Lectures I, V, and VI of
Austin's "Jurisprudence," and of Austin's "Essay on the Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence:
with Critical Notes and Excursus. London: John Murray, 1906. xv, 383 pp. Original leather,
raised bands, decorative gilt, "Council of Legal Education" gilt seal on front cover, residue
of tape on base of spine and covers. Front hinge starting. All edges and endpapers marble.
Bookseller's label on inside front cover. Still an attractive copy. $150.
* First edition. This work is cited by scholars as an authoritative defense and critical
analyis of Austin's theories of sovereignty and law. John Austin is widely regarded as the
father of positive law. Brown went on to develop his own theories in The Underlying Principles
of Modern Legislation, published in 1912, which Pound recommended highly. Marke, A Catalogue
of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 900. Catalogue of the Library of the Law
School of Harvard University (1909) I:253.      
(Inventory # 31053)

9.                                       A Classic Textbook
Cooley, Thomas M. [1824-1898]. The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States
of America. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. [i]-xlv, 390 pp. Includes twelve-page publisher
catalogue. Octavo (5" x 7-1/2"). Rebacked retaining original calf boards. Signature to front free
endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown of Sherman R. Moulton. Text clean and tight.                                                                             $250.
* Second edition by Alexis C. Angell. The leading textbook of its time on the subject of constitutional
law. In this work Cooley "presents briefly yet comprehensively the general principles of constitutional
law as developed under the American system both national and state." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law
Collection at New York University 396. The Dictionary of American Biography II: 392-393.      
(Inventory # 33433)

10.                         Attractive Elzevier Epitome of the Institutes
12. Corvinus, Johannes Arnoldi [1582?-1650]. Elementa Iuris Civilis. 
[With]
Covsinii, Germ[ain]. Receptarum Iuris Utrisqve Regularum Partitiones. In Quibus Utriusque Iuris Regulae
Specialibus Titulus Comprehensae as Sua Genera Revocantur, & ad Usum Forensem, Quantum Fieri Potuit,
Accommodantur. Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1645. [xii], 248; 54, [10] pp. Two works in one,
each with title page bearing woodcut Elzevier Minerva device. First work preceded by handsome general
copperplate pictorial title page with allegorical figure of justice. 12mo. (2-3/4" x 5"). Contemporary
sprinkled calf with decorative blind-tooling to boards and spine. Small scuff to front board, minor chip
to head of spine, some wear to corners and board edges. Attractive woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and
decorated initials. Front hinge cracked but secure, rear hinge starting. Early armoral bookplate to front
pastedown, early annotations to front free endpaper, later bookplate to verso. "18 Shill" and "34" to
head of engraved title page in fine early hand. Faint dampstainng to lower half of text block, interior
otherwise fresh. Appealing. $450.
* First Elzevier edition. Second work has an index. One of the writings from the Corpus Juris Civilis,
the Institutes is a synopsis of the legal system reformed under Justinian's direction. It supplanted
the earlier Institutes of Gaius. This book is an epitome of the Institutes. All of its sections are
condensed and placed under headings written in the form of questions. The second work summarizes the
law of estates and property in Roman law. Willems, Les Elzevier: Histoire et Annales Typographiques
1025. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 6:341.     
(Inventory # 37687)

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