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Le Musée Grotesque.

Le Musée Grotesque. by Various Artists.

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Title
Le Musée Grotesque.
Author
Various Artists.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
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Folio, with some images full page and most somewhat smaller on the page. Collection of 56 hand-colored satirical French lithogra
Description
Folio, with some images full page and most somewhat smaller on the page. Collection of 56 hand-colored satirical French lithographs and engravings. Most, but not all, published by Chez Martinet, early 19th century. Some of the series from which these humorous prints were selected are "Musee Grotesque," "Compensations," and "Tableaux de Paris." Waterstains and foxing on margins of many pages, rarely intruding on print area. Some pages showing paper repair. Bound in half morocco over boards, corners and joints worn. .
Speeches of the Fifties - Hamlin, Everett, Clayton, Sumner (Spine title).

Speeches of the Fifties - Hamlin, Everett, Clayton, Sumner (Spine title). by Various authors.

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Speeches of the Fifties - Hamlin, Everett, Clayton, Sumner (Spine title).
Author
Various authors.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description
Various places and publishers, 1850s. A gathering of 25 speeches, totaling several hundred pages, delivered in the 1850s by luminaries such as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, and Stephen Douglas, on boundary issues, American colonization, a transcontinental railroad, protectionism, the Mexican War, the Monroe Doctrine, the Fugitive Slave Bill, an interesting 8-pager on the duel between Rep Graves of Kentucky and Rep Cilley of Maine (which resulted in Cilley's death) chronicling the remorseless progress of the conflict, and three on North American fisheries. Bound in green cloth with spine label. Ex-libris the Bath Maritime Museum, with call numbers on backstrip in white ink and no other markings.
Diccionario Juridico-Commercial, Porto, 1856

Diccionario Juridico-Commercial, Porto, 1856 by Borges, Jose Ferreira

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Diccionario Juridico-Commercial, Porto, 1856
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Borges, Jose Ferreira
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
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1856. Porto, 1856. 2d & final ed.. Porto, 1856. 2d & final ed. Final Edition of a Rare Portuguese Commercial Law Dictionary Borges, Jose Ferreira [1786-1838]. Diccionario Juridico-Commercial. Porto: Typographia de Sebastiao Jose Pereira, 1856. viii, 423 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6"; 21.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary tree sheep, lettering piece, gilt ornaments and small owner label to spine, marbled endpapers. A few minor nicks, some rubbing to extremities, corners lightly bumped, small owner bookplate to front pastedown, front free endpaper partially detached. Light toning to text, light foxing to some leaves, recent owner signature to front endleaf, early owner stamp ("Thomaz Fiel Gomes Ramalho / Advogado / Evora") to title page. A nice copy. $250. * Second and final edition. This highly regarded dictionary dealing with commercial law, commerce and political economy was originally published in 1839. According to the preface, it was intended to be a companion to the author's Codigo Commercial Portuguez (1836). Borges was an eminent jurist and state official who played an important role in Portugal's Liberal Revolution of 1820, which established Portugal as a constitutional monarchy. Both editions of this dictionary are rare. OCLC locates 2 copies of the first in North American law libraries (Harvard, UC-Berkeley), 1 of the second (at the Library of Congress). Catalogo da Livraria de Azevedo-Samodaes 1204.