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Commentaries on American Law by KENT James

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Commentaries on American Law
Author: KENT James
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1832. KENT, James. Commentaries on American Law. New York: O. Halsted, 1832. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan sheep rebacked, raised bands, brown morocco spine labels. $2500.Second edition of one of the most important legal treatises in American history.""Superior to any previous treatise on this subject, and a landmark in the history of international law"" (Chamberlain). ""The foremost American institutional legal treatise"" (DAB). ""Without Kent and Story, it is doubtful that the common law could have been received as readily as it was or that judicial decision could have taken over as the law's growing point Above all, the text writers and their affiliated law schools were a great unifying influence in American law"" (Schwartz, 111). Kent's Commentaries ""contain not only a clear statement of the English law, with all the alterations that have taken place since the time of Blackstone, but a full account of the main principles of Equity, also, a review of the modifications engrafted on the English law by the different states of the Union and on all important questions, an instructive parallel between the English, American, Modern Continental and Civil Laws"" (Marvin, 438). Kent's goal was ""to transplant the English common law to America [His] reliance on precedents had the two-prong effect of helping to maintain the primacy of judge-made law in contrast to codification by legislatures, while providing the legal profession with the degree and kind of certainty it craved"" (ANB). A Columbia University professor and judge in New York, Kent was one of the most influential jurists of his time, and early in his career ""was responsible for two significant innovations: written opinions and published reports"" (ANB). First published in 1826-30. NYU, 249. HLC I: 1088. Bookplates.Interiors quite clean. In handsome contemporary sheep boards.

A New Voyage Round the World by A Course Never Sailed Before. Being A voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders by Defoe, Daniel

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Title: A New Voyage Round the World by A Course Never Sailed Before. Being A voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders
Author: Defoe, Daniel
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, 1725. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. ESTC T70641. Octavo. Two volumes in one. [2], [1]-208, [1]-205, [1]pp. Worn contemporary boards, rebacked. Prior owners names on the back of the frontispiece (one dated 1738, the other 1906). Upper corner of title page cut away, with another owner's name below. 4 illustrations from copper plates: frontispiece with globe, facing page I:40, II:59, II:93, as well as headpieces and initials to the first page of each volume. Professionally repaired to reattach loosening frontispiece and final pages. Defoe's account of an imagined voyage around the world, allowing him to imagine (and make the case for) British colonization of South America.

The Enchafed Flood: Or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea, Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit by Auden, W.H.

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Title: The Enchafed Flood: Or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea, Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit
Author: Auden, W.H.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. First edition signed by Auden on the title page in black ink, crossing-out his printed name. 154 p. Seagreen cloth with white lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Slight wear at foot. Head of jacket spine panel has a thin tear, spine panel darkened, a bit toned, price intact ($2.50). A collection of three lectures by the American poet: "The Sea and the Desert," "The Stone and the Shell," and "Ishmael - Don Quixote.

The Stolen White Elephant, Etc by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]

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Title: The Stolen White Elephant, Etc
Author: Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1882. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First UK edition, first state with ads dated May 1882 - this printing preceded the first US printing (BAL 3404; Johnson p. 111). Edges and endpapers a bit foxed, a few text pages and margins foxed, owner bookplate and small dealer bookplate on front endpaper, corners slightly exposed, spine leans forward a bit. Binding tight, text unmarked. 285, 32 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, black stamped decorations on spine and front board, publisher emblem on rear board, floral decorated endpapers. A satirical tale that revolves around the theft of a rare and valuable white elephant from the ruler of a fictional Asian kingdom. The story is framed as a series of reports and correspondence between various characters, including the police inspector, a detective, and the owner of the stolen elephant. As the investigation unfolds, the characters grapple with the absurdity of the situation and the challenges of recovering the stolen elephant, which has been transported to various locations and disguised in unusual ways. The story satirizes the complexities of law enforcement, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of human behavior.

A Dictionary of Chemistry on the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's ... its applications to ... medicine ... mineralogy ... and manufactures by Ure, A

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Title: A Dictionary of Chemistry on the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's ... its applications to ... medicine ... mineralogy ... and manufactures
Author: Ure, A
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good, clean copy; spine abraded; covers loose.
Description: London: T Tegg, 1823. Second Enlarged Edition.. Original blue paste paper boards and label.. Good, clean copy; spine abraded; covers loose.. 8vo, xviii, 816 pp. + 15 plates and tables. A difficult book to find in such fresh condition. Ure undertook this revision at the suggestion of the publisher. The Nicholson Dictionary was out of date and Ure had to revise the entire book.The introduction gives a general view of chemistry and a suggested order of reading for study. The plates are bright clear impressions of chemical experiment set - ups, mineral crystal forms etc. . This copy also retains the original inserted window advertisement for Berthollet's book on dyeing. Cole #1304.

Liber Librorum 1955 by [Bible]

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Title: Liber Librorum 1955
Author: [Bible]
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1955. Stockholm: Stockholm Royal Library, 1955. Folding cloth portfolio with printed pastedowns containing 42 separate specimens of varying design, together with a small staple-bound catalogue in red wrappers, and a printed announcement from the French printer apologizing that his entry is running late. Light soiling to the portfolio; contents fine. ß A remarkable publishing collaboration done to mark the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg Bible. From the catalogue : "The international project called Liber Librorum is a common manifestation on the part of leading book designers all over the world to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg 42-line Bible. Each participant has designed and printed 1500 copies of his individual solution of the typographic problem of the Bible. The items have been assembled into sets at Stockholm. Each participant receives a limited number of complete sets. Two hundred copies are presented to leading libraries, churches and other learned institutions in various countries. Five hundred copies are for sale... It may be noted, that all participants have agreed to allow their solutions to be copied by anyone wishing to publish a Bible." 37 designers from 15 countries are listed in the catalogue. The USA was represented by Joseph Blumenthal, Grant Dahlstrom, Ismar David, Frank Kacmarcik, Richard McArthur, Algot Ringstrom, Ward Richie, Bruce Rogers, and Frank Kacmarcik.

Signatures in Time: A Living HIstory of Middlesex County, Virginia by CHOWNING, Larry; Archie Soucek, ed; Pat DePina, illus

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Title: Signatures in Time: A Living HIstory of Middlesex County, Virginia
Author: CHOWNING, Larry; Archie Soucek, ed; Pat DePina, illus
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: N.p. [Urbanna?]: Middlesex County, 2012. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 412pp; illus. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; signed on title page by editor Archie Soucek and by Claudia Soucek, Chair of the Publication Committee. A lavishly-produced and very well-illustrated account of this historic county in Virginia's Tidewater region.

[SCIENCE] [ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT...~

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Title: [SCIENCE] [ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT...~
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Marcus, Ward & Co.~. Late 19th century English newspaper cuttings album, chock a block full of steel engraved advertisements for well over a hundred pieces of equipment -- everything from engines for yachts, to steam ploughs, water heaters and revolving ventilators. 61 pp. The binder has been repaired and is quite sturdy.

Handmade Album of Automobile Purchases, Records, and Photographs, 1908-1965

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Title: Handmade Album of Automobile Purchases, Records, and Photographs, 1908-1965
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Ohio, 1965. Cards. Fair. Cards. 8 index cards and 13 photographs taped together to form a binding of 28 pages, unpaginated, forming a typewritten and photo-illustrated account, with one hand-drawn diagram, of 9 vehicles purchased and driven by Milton and Ross Elliott of Ohio from 1908 to 1965. Vehicles include: The 1908 Croxton-Keeton Jewel 2-passenger car, the 1916 Ford Model-T Touring Car, the 1929 Ford Model-A 4-door Sedan, the 1936 Chevrolet Standard, the 1950 Ford V-8 Model BODA, the 1954 Ford V-8 4-door Sedan, the 1965 Ford Falcon. Illustrated in 1-2 photographs of each vehicle, often with owners and family, throughout, with typewritten records including price at purchase, seller and manufacturer information, automotive details and flaws ("gasket blew out often," "[speedometer] was very unreliable as it ran from front wheel..."), alterations ("added radio, hornring"), mileage from purchase to end of ownership, average gas mileage, and more. 5" X 3", taped at top edge in between each index card or photograph. Tape between accounts of the 1929 Ford Model-A 4-door Sedan and the 1936 Chevrolet Standard has lost all adhesive, and this binding is in two parts, hence the "fair" condition. Currently held together with a rubberband. Moderate wear to edges, with yellowing and toning from tape. This is an admittedly worn but fascinating and handmade photo-illustrated artifact of American automobile culture through the first 6 decades of the 20th Century.

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