Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, 1848. Paperback. 16 p.; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "20" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Enoch Lewis (1776-1856) was a Pennsylvania Quaker and a mathematician who edited several mathematical works and published several textbooks, including one..... More

Boston: Pratt and Company, 1843. Paperback. 103, [1] p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a nonce volume. With a collected list of works on international law, a sketch of the author's life, etc., by J.G. Marvin. The author, Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), was a Scottish jurist whose wide interests resulted in..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. Hard Cover. First American edition. xx, 335 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's green cloth with embossed pattern; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Top page edges gilt. These essays were published previously in the Independent. Contents: The Mystery of Justice -- The Evolution of Mystery..... More

New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. [10], 95 p.; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. White dust jacket printed in blue with portrait of the author on the front section. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with added inscription noting that he died in January..... More

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Hardcover. xi, [1], 363 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Title page repeats portrait from dust jacket. The Ohio legislature passed the first in a series of discriminatory laws known as Black Laws in..... More

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 516 p.: frontispiece; 21 cm. Contemporary dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: Life of Smith. Blind-stamped decoration on spine; blind-ruled borders on both boards. Added engraved title page. Frontispiece portrat of Smith engraved by D...... More

1811. 1 handwritten document. [4] p.; 35 cm. Embossed stamp indicating the payment of one pound 10 shillings. signed by John Osborne with his seal. Also signed by witnesses P. A. French and Charles Wardroper. A deed of gift from John Osborne, esquire, of Lillesden in Hawkhurst Parish in Kent..... More

Mexico: Imprenta a Cargo de Juan Ojeda, 1835. Hardcover. 3 volumes (of 4?) (xix, [1], 536, [2] p.; 612 p.; 419, [1] p.); 21 cm. Contemporary? calf with gilt-tooled spine titles and elaborate gilt-tooled decoration on spines and boards; gilt-tooled edges and turn-ins. All edges gilt. Beige silk endpapers. Vol..... More

Philadelphia: s.n., 1847. Pamphlet. 16 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "22" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. Caption title. At head of title: "Supreme Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. July 1847, No. 40." William M. Kennedy claimed that his property running..... More

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Bourse, 1891. Paperback. Printed by Allen, Lane & Scott, Philadelphia. [2], 10 p. and [4] p. tipped in before p. 9 (1 folded); 15 cm. Light green wrapper printed in black. Written at head of front wrapper: "Amended." One leaf bearing an amended Article VIII {Stock and Stockholders}..... More

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1831. Hardcover. 976 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Purdon's Digest 1830. Formerly there was a second label in the fourth compartment. Blind-rolled chain border on each board. Former owner's name..... More

Edinburgh: James Robertson, 1794. "Carefully corrected, and many sentences added, which, owing to the low tone of voice used by some of the witnesses, are omitted in the London copy. The public may therefore by assured that this is the genuine edition." 195, [1] p., engraved frontispiece portrait; 20 cm..... More

Philadelphia, Pa. 1801. Hardcover. "To which is added, an appendix, containing a variety of precedents (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace, sheriffs, attornies and conveyancers." "Printed for the Author." [4], lvi, [[3], 468, [28] p.; 22 cm. Full calf; red morocco spine label..... More