[Rarebooks] FS: Daniel Webster's SIGNED Copy of Macomb's TREATISE ON MARTIAL LAW, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1800 NET postpaid

[WEBSTER, Daniel] MACOMB, Alexander. A TREATISE ON MARTIAL LAW, AND 
COURTS-MARTIAL; AS PRACTISED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
Charleston, SC: Printed and Published for the Author, by J. Hoff, 1809. 
First Edition. Octavo (5-1/8" x 8-1/4"), [10], [7]-340 pages, in 
contemporary sheep with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Daniel 
Webster's copy of the first important original American work, 
specifically adapted to United States law, on martial law and 
courts-martial with Webster's SIGNATURE as "D. Webster" on the front 
endpaper and again on the half-title page. There are also 6 pages with 
brief underlining or annotations including the following phrase 
underlined: "for lawyers being in general as utterly ignorant of 
military law and practice." Laid in are 2 black-and-white snapshots from 
1955 of Webster's birthplace and an envelope containing a 6" x 5-1/2" 
sample of the wallpaper from Webster's boyhood bedroom. A rare book in 
itself, especially interesting as Webster's copy and with the added 
ephemera. Early ink writing on the endpaper and half-title page but not 
marring Webster's writing. The front board, with the armorial bookplate 
of the Pepperrell family, is detached along with the front endpaper. But 
for the detached cover the book is in clean, Near Fine condition.

Macomb was the first student to receive formal training at West Point. 
(#017951)        $2,500.00

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