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Report of the d'Hauteville Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the Suggestion of Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville versus...Ellen Sears Grand d'Hauteville. Habeas Corpus for the Custody of an Infant Child

Report of the d'Hauteville Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the Suggestion of Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville versus...Ellen Sears Grand d'Hauteville. Habeas Corpus for the Custody of an Infant Child by [Family Law] [Women's Rights] [Sears, Ellen]

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Report of the d'Hauteville Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the Suggestion of Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville versus...Ellen Sears Grand d'Hauteville. Habeas Corpus for the Custody of an Infant Child
Author
[Family Law] [Women's Rights] [Sears, Ellen]
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: W. S. Martien, 1840. First edition. [bound with] The Petition of Henry C. De Rham, to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, To Except Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville, From the Operation of the Law 'To Secure the Fulfillment of Certain Contracts and for the Relief of Married Women in Certain Cases.' Together with a Remonstrance of Ellen S. d'Hauteville...Providence: Knowles & Vose, 1841. First edition. [bound with] Review of the d'Hauteville Case: Recently Argued and Determined in the Court of General Sessions...Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Co., 1841. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Finely bound by Bradstreet's in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Samuel F. Barger to front pastedown. Measuring 225 x 135mm and collating complete including titles: 295, [1, blank]; 124, [2, errata]; [2], 44. A just about Fine copy, with some inoffensive pencil annotations and corrections to volume I and occasional faint foxing; overall a pleasing copy of three scarce legal works related to women's custody rights according to international and interstate law. Three scarce tracts documenting the international custody battle that became highly publicized and debated in its time. In 1837, American citizen Ellen Sears married Daniel Gonsalve d'Hauteville, a member of the Swiss nobility. During their brief union, Ellen survived emotional neglect and mental cruelty from her husband, whose "self-image as paterfamilias conflicted with Ellen's growing sense of herself as a mother tormented by an unfeeling spouse" (DiFonzo). Pregnant and unhappy, she left her husband for the U.S., giving birth to her son after her arrival. Under Common law doctrine, d'Hauteville demanded that his wife and child return to his household in Switzerland. "But Sears and her Philadelphia lawyers devised a strategy that would challenge the accepted legal formulation along its emerging cultural fault line...leveraging mental cruelty into an accusation that d'Hauteville had violated the standards of the changing American family" (DiFonzo). This strategy, combined with gains that the women's movement had made in the U.S. and Europe marital property laws within the century, helped bolster her position and win her custodial rights. "The d'Hauteville case was not a single event in a courtroom, but a set of multiple legal experiences that exposed timebound and timeless realities of American legal culture. The case began in an insular way, as a domestic drama must, with the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of the d'Hauteville marriage. But as the fight for the son Frederick displaced their marriage as the central focus of Ellen and Gonsalve's relationship, the law assumed a greater and greater presence in their lives. The pair not only confronted contradictions between their own ideas about justice and the legal rules they had to learn, they also experienced the transformation of their domestic tragedy into a legal event with innumberable participants, from lawyers, judges, and legislators, to courtroom spectators, newspaper reporters, and diarists" (Grossberg). The present tracts trace d'Hauteville's initial petition for Habeas Corpus, followed by his petition to be exempted from a Rhode Island law protecting the rights of mothers. The final title tracks the case's conclusion, providing a review.
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Overland to California on the Southwest Trail, 1849. Diary of Robert Eccleston by Eccleston, Robert

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Overland to California on the Southwest Trail, 1849. Diary of Robert Eccleston
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Eccleston, Robert
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1950 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Quite scarce. One of 750 copies printed at The Westgate Press. Edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes. 256pp. Frontis, 2 folding maps. Rust cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket spine slightly faded). An account of a 19 year old traveling from Texas to California in the year 1849. Eccleston was a New Yorker who joined a California company (the Frémont Association) that decided to go to Galveston, Texas by sea and then take the southwestern trail to California. Despite his youth, Eccleston was a keen observer and a compulsive recorder leaving us with a vivid picture of life on the trail. His journal was of special value for the historian because it established a new date for the opening of the Tucson cutoff to wagon traffic. "As the editors point out, the party charted new ground by opening wagon travel over the Tucson Cutoff or Apache Pass Trail. From Tucson, Eccleston and companions traveled with Texas Ranger Colonel Jack Hayes. They headed north to Maricopa Wells, followed the Gila route to Yuma, and crossed the Colorado Desert to a campsite on New River named (by Cave Johnson Couts) Camp Salvation. It was ninety-five miles from Warner's Ranch" (Kurutz). It has been noted that Eccleston's diary is the only one that has come to light describing 1849 travel on the trail. [Howes I: E-34; Howes II: E-34; Kurutz: 216]..
KYDD

KYDD by Stockwin, Julian

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KYDD
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Stockwin, Julian
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780340794739
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Fine
Description
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Stockwin on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First volume in Stockwin's Thomas Paine Kydd naval series and his first novel. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
ANYTHING GOES

ANYTHING GOES by Bell, Madison Smartt

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ANYTHING GOES
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Bell, Madison Smartt
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
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9780375421259
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Fine
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NY: Pantheon, 2002. Uncorrected bound galleys for the first edition. Printed perfect-bound wraps.Signed by Bell on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed proofs for this Bell title are not common.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Galley/Proof.The images are of the book described and not stock photos.
5th Avenue

5th Avenue by STEIN, Fred; Amdy LOGAN (text)

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5th Avenue
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STEIN, Fred; Amdy LOGAN (text)
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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A near-fine copy in a good jacket with splits and losses along spine, chips along sheet edges
Description
New York: Pantheon, 1947. A near-fine copy in a good jacket with splits and losses along spine, chips along sheet edges. 8vo. 100 photos by Stein. Original red cloth; dust jacket. First edition.
“Brooklyn Bridge. New York, N.Y. No. 2405”

“Brooklyn Bridge. New York, N.Y. No. 2405” by [STEREOVIEW]. LINGLEY, B. L.

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“Brooklyn Bridge. New York, N.Y. No. 2405”
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[STEREOVIEW]. LINGLEY, B. L.
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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In fine condition
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Meadville, PA and St. Louis, MO: Keystone View Company, 1896. In fine condition. Original stereograph format photograph mounted on card, 9 x 18 cm including mount.
EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF MR. BOND, OF OHIO. DELIVERED IN CONGRESS, 1838. ON THE RESOLUTION OF MR. HOPKINS TO DIVORCE THE GOVERNMENT FROM THE PRESS

EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF MR. BOND, OF OHIO. DELIVERED IN CONGRESS, 1838. ON THE RESOLUTION OF MR. HOPKINS TO DIVORCE THE GOVERNMENT FROM THE PRESS by Bond, William Key

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EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF MR. BOND, OF OHIO. DELIVERED IN CONGRESS, 1838. ON THE RESOLUTION OF MR. HOPKINS TO DIVORCE THE GOVERNMENT FROM THE PRESS
Author
Bond, William Key
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
np. Washington?, 1838. 32pp. Caption title [as issued], stitched, some spotting. About Good+. A Whig, and thus opposed to the Jackson-Van Buren administrations, Bond supported efforts to diminish the patronage power of the President, especially the selection of the printer of government documents and proceedings. Morgan 7567. OCLC 20103892 [3]. Not in AI, Sabin.
Grant Takes Command

Grant Takes Command by Catton, Bruce

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Grant Takes Command
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Catton, Bruce
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo., 556pp. Sharp Stated First Edition. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A touch of toning to spine ends but barely. One or two tiny spots on rear edge. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($10.00), has a few tiny closed tears. some mild spotting on the rear panel and spine lightly toning. Still fresh and bright with no creases or chipping. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.
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Woodstown Friends Meeting 1785-1985

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Woodstown Friends Meeting 1785-1985
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Very Good
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NJ, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Paperback, staple binding, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners.

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