[Rarebooks] fs-Intellectual Property [I]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on intellectual 
property law and related subjects; for others, please feel free 
to browse our web site, where you may search our entire inventory 
by any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress
of the United States.  William A. Davis, Washington, 1831. Original blue wraps, 
quite worn and discolored, the paper backstrip
damaged; yet a usable copy. [91161]                       $ 45.00

Contains acts prohibiting the abduction of free blacks from the
District of Columbia; authorizing the extension of the B & O
Railroad; and amending various aspects of the U.S. law of
copyright, among many others.

2.  BERLE, Alf K. and L. Sprague de Camp.  Inventions and Their
Management.  International Textbook Company, Scranton, 1948. [55849 L29L51] 
$ 45.00

3.  BROWNE, William Henry.  A Treatise on the Law of Trade-Marks
and Analogous Subjects, (Firm-Names, Business-Signs, Good-Will,
Labels, &c.).  Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1873.  Original
sheep, morocco label, gilt, showing definite wear, light browning,
but a good copy. [71982]                                 $ 450.00

First edition of one of two early American treatises on trademarks,
and the first following the seminal 1870 Congressional act, seeking
to encompass European and English authorites, and detailing the
1,100 marks registered under the 1870 legislation.

4.  BUGBEE, Bruce W.  Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Public 
Affairs Press, Washington, 1967.  Original blue cloth, gilt,
the spine faded, ex-library; a usable copy only. [71944] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71944     $ 150.00

A work examining fully the antecedents of United States patent and
copyright laws, with chapters on their European origins, the
American colonial period, and contemporaneous state patent and
copyright laws; with a foreword by Luther H. Evans.

5.  CALVERT, Robert.  Patent Practice & Management, For Inventors
and Executives.  Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, 1950. Original 
cloth, worn and spotted, but a usable copy. [64194 L57]
                                                           $ 45.00

6.  [COPYRIGHT LAW].  Copyright Law Symposium Number Twenty. Columbia 
University Press, New York, 1972.  Red cloth, a very good
copy. [30540]                                             $ 25.00

The twentieth Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition, with an index to
the preceding nineteen volumes accompanying the essays appearing
here.

7.  [FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND LEGAL DEPOSIT].  [John Cochrane]. The Case Stated 
Between the Public Libraries and the Booksellers.
Not in McCoy.  Printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden,
London, 1813.  The copy of Archibald Constable, publisher of Scott
and the Edinburgh Review, presented to him "With the Author's best
Compl[imen]ts"; later cloth dusty. [69747 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69747   $ 1,250.00

The cogent, influential essay thoroughly surveying the intensely
debated issue of legal deposit, originating in the 17th century as
a means of curtailing freedom of the press, its Parliamentary
resolution forming the basis of modern law.

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