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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.   Summary of the Commentaries in Question and Answer Format
Brewster, F. Carroll. Blackstone's Commentaries For American Students
In the Form of Questions and Answers prefaced by Questions and Answers
on the Introduction to Robertson's Charles V. Together with A Note on
the Rule in Shelly's Case as Applied in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia:
[Allen, Lane & Scott], 1887. Full calf with red gilt stamped spine
label, minor shelf wear. Hinges cracked, but holding. Inscribed by
previous owner on front paste down. Very good. $250.
* Student summary of Blackstone's Commentaries arranged in question
and answer format including page references, also with table of cases
and index. A useful reference. Eller, The William Blackstone
Collection in the Yale Law Library 143.
(Inventory # 31801)

3.                 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)

4.          Signed "Felix Frankfurter"
Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. The Public And Its Government. New
Haven: Yale University Press. 1931. [viii], 170 pp. Octavo (5" x 7-
1/2"). Original cloth very good, gilt spine, deckle fore and bottom
edges. "Felix Frankfurter" in bold hand to front free endpaper. $500.
* First edition, second printing. Based on his 1930 "Yale Lectures on
the Responsibilities of Citizenship," this book offers an
interpretation of democracy as a theory of political organization.
"Charles Beard remarked not long ago to this reviewer that no first
class political thinking had appeared in the United States in the
twentieth century. The quality of this little book of
Frankfurter's...should lighten Beard's discouragement.": C.P. Howland,
Yale Law Journal 40: 672-673 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law
Collection at New York University (1953) 938.
(Inventory # 34582)

5.              Inscribed Presentation Copy
Pound, Roscoe [1870-1964]. The Development of Constitutional
Guarantees of Liberty. Notre Dame: The College of Law, University of
Notre Dame, [1945]. 98 pp. Textured limp calf, title and "George
Riley" in gilt to front cover. Light edgewear, negligible rubbing to
boards. Offsetting to outer margins of endleaves, "For Mr. George
Riley/Roscoe Pound/November 23, 1945" to front free endpaper in fine
hand. An appealing copy of a work scarce in the trade. $250.
* This volume was produced in a small printing for private
distribution. It contains the text of four lectures delivered at the
Notre Dame College of Law in 1945. Pound conceives the balance between
liberty and restraint as a process that was achieved through the
pragmatic actions of Anglo-American institutions. He concludes that
these institutions will probably surmount the economic, industrial and
social challenges presented by the modern world. Pound later expanded
these lectures into a 200-page book that was published by Yale
University Press in 1957.
(Inventory # 37479)

6.              Was Shakespeare a Lawyer?
Senter, John H. [1848-1916]. Was Shakespeare a Lawyer? An Address
Delivered Before the Annual Meeting, October 27, 1903. Montpelier:
Argus and Patriot Press, 1903. 60 pp. $125. Original quarter cloth
over paper boards, title red-stamped to front, hand-lettered paper
label to spine. Ex-library. Residue of location label to foot of
spine, institution bookplate to front pastedown, stamp embossed to
title page, remains of card pocket to rear pastedown. Internally
clean. $125.
* Senter was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S.
District Attorney for Vermont and President of the state's bar
association. This booklet reprints his presidential address for 1903.
(Inventory # 38623)

7.          "When Gratuitous, Please Circulate"
Taylor, John. [1790-1863]. A report of the trial of the cause of John
Taylor vs. Edward C. Delavan, prosecuted for an alleged libel; tried
at the Albany circuit, April, 1840. And Mr. Delavan's correspondence
with the ex. committee of the Albany City temperance Society, &c.
Albany: Printed by Hoffman, White & Visscher, 1840. 48 pp. Octavo (5"
x 8"). Illustrated. recent period-style quarter calf over marbled
boards, endpapers renewed. Occasional light foxing, interior otherwise
clean. An attractive copy of a work uncommon in the trade. $600.
*  First edition. "Taylor, a brewer, charged Delavan with libel for
having stated in the Evening Journal that Taylor's brewery used
"impure, dirty and filthy water" in brewing its beer. A jury acquitted
Delavan apparently on the ground that the statement was true." An
interesting record of a newspaper libel trial in which the plaintiff
prevailed. At the top of the title page is printed "When Gratuitous,
Please Circulate." This report was issued in a microfiche edition in
1984. Sabin, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 19369. McCoy,
Freedom of the Press D92. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law
12061.
(Inventory # 31416)

8.       Warren on the Law, Lawyers and Legal Ethics
Warren, Samuel [1807-1877]. The Moral, Social, and Professional Duties
of Attorneys and Solicitors. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. x,
[11]-306, 14 pp. Includes 14-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (4-1/4"
x 6-1/2"). Original textured cloth with decorative blind stamping,
later plain leather label to center of spine. Moderate rubbing with
some wear to corners and spine ends. Early owner bookplate and later
library bookplate to front pastedown, early owner inscription to front
free endpaper, later library stamp to rear pastedown. Early
annotations and underlining in pencil to a few passages, interior
otherwise clean. An appealing copy. $350.
* First American edition, a reissue of the first London edition, 1848.
Warren wrote several fictional and non-fictional works about the law,
such as the novel Ten Thousand a Year (1800) and the classic primer A
Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies (1836). The present
book contains revised texts of four lectures presented to the
Incorporated Law Society of Great Britain. This copy was owned by the
noted New York attorney William Curtis Noyes [1805-1864], who may have
written "Practice this" in the margin next to the passage that reads
"Never permit yourselves to utter a disparaging observation concerning
your brethren, before laymen, especially before those who are, or have
been, clients of such brethren. Stand by one another!" (230). It is
one of the 5,000 law books he donated to Hamilton College. Cohen,
Bibliography of Early American Law 8493.
(Inventory # 39854)

9.      Popular 1857 Business Law Manual and Formbook
[Wells, John G.]. Wells' Every Man His Own Lawyer and United States
Form Book: Being a Complete Guide in All Matters of Law and Business
Negotiations, for Every State in the Union, Containing Legal Forms...
With Full and Complete Instructions for Proceeding, Without Legal
Assistance, in Suits and Business Transactions of Every Description:
Also Containing List of Property Exempt from Execution, Lien Law, Law
of Limitations, Law of Contracts, Usury Laws, Guide for Proceedings in
Cases of Divorce, Constitution of the United States, a Complete System
of Book-Keeping, Interest Tables, Gold and Silver Coin Tables, Seals
of Every State in the Union, &c., &c., &c. New York: John G. Wells,
1857. v, [6]-361, 89-[108] pp. (Pagination irregular; this copy
complete according to Cohen). Woodcut illustrations of U.S. and state
seals. Octavo (4-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Original black quarter calf, gilt
spine, over printed paper boards. Moderately rubbed, some wear to
extremities, sporadic foxing. A good copy in all. $150.
* Second edition. A legal digest for the businessman, along with
sample leases, contracts, apprenticeship indentures and other forms.
Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8260.
(Inventory # 34343)

10.        "How and Where to Find the Law"
Woodruff, Edwin H. Introduction to the Study of Law. New York: Baker,
Voorhis & Company, 1898. 89 pp. Original maroon cloth, with gilt
lettered cover and spine. Covers with light wear, soiling and stains.
Previous owner's stamps to endpapers. A good copy. Uncommon. $150.
* Woodruff, a Professor at Cornell Law school, wrote this guide for
students "just entering upon the study of law." The contents include
"The Scope of Law," "How and Where to Find the Law," "The Operation of
Law" and "Courts and Procedure."
(Inventory # 33162)

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