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London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1775. Very Good +. Title continued: "within the Province of Quebec, in America." [2], 1227-1228 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . Being the First Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. The act allows run, brandy, and other spirits to be brought into Quebec through additional ports of entry. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound; lightly creased along lower half of spine; clean and bright.

London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1764. Fine. [2],403-407,[1] p.; 33 cm. (folio). Three stab-holes, but no other evidence that this was ever bound. Edges are untrimmed. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Nineteenth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1761., in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued by several Prorogations to the Fifteenth Day of November, 1763, being the Third Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut historiated initial at the beginning of the act. In order to increase the supply of hemp and flax for the production of sail cloth and cordage, needed by the Royal Navy and the merchant marine, this act granted a bounty to those who brought those materials from the American colonies to England. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. Near Fine. Complete title: "An Act for Making Perpetual so much of an Act, made in the Eighth Year of His Present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to continue and amend an Act, made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, intituled, 'An Act for Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter, from Ireland, for a limited Time; and for Allowing the Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter, from the British Dominions in America, for a limited Time,' as relates to the Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter from Ireland: And also another Act, made in the Fifth Year of His Present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to Permit the Free Importation of Cattle from Ireland." [2], 287-288 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth… Leer más

Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, printers, 1857. Pamphlet. Very Good. 15, [1] p.; 24 cm. Off-white paper covers; front cover printed in black within decorative border; back cover blank. The Academy of Music, officially named the American Academy of Music, was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1852 and built in 1855-57 on Locust St. in Philadelphia. It is the oldest opera house in the United States still used for its original purpose. Its inaugural ball was held in Jan. 1857 and the next month the first opera performance was given by Max Maretzek's opera company. In Very Good Condition: back cover and final blank leaf are soiled; one light vertical crease throughout; otherwise, clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Maas & Vogdes, printers, 1862. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 16 p.; 24 cm. Yellow paper covers; front cover printed in black within decorative border; back cover blank. The Academy of Music, officially named the American Academy of Music, was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1852 and built in 1855-57 on Locust St. in Philadelphia. It is the oldest opera house in the United States still used for its original purpose. Its inaugural ball was held in Jan. 1857 and the next month the first opera performance was given by Max Maretzek's opera company. In Near Fine Condition: clean and bright.

London, Eng: Thomas Baskett, 1750. Near Fine. Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett. [8] p.: wood engraved title vignette and historiated inital of the English coat of arms; 32 cm. Folio. Disbound; the second to fourth leaves are paginated 451-456. Blank p. [2] bears small blue stamp reading: Exchange Baker Library Harvard University January 1, 1944. This law was passed by Parliament in the session that ran from Nov. 10, 1747, to Nov. 16, 1749. In Near Fine Condition: one light horizontal crease in upper section. A clean and bright copy.

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. Near Fine. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of October, 1776; Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. "Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of… Leer más

Philadelphia, Pa: J.W. Scott, 1808. Paperback. Very Good -. Title page continued: "With Observations on the cording it, its qualities, and the grievances we lie under by not having sufficient room to cord it in a reasonable time after it has come to market, where more landings may be made, or the present enlarged, &c. &c." 39, [1] p.; 21 cm. Last page contains an advertisement for a weekly literary publication, The Eye, sold at the printer's bookstore. Disbound from a nonce volume. Not in Early American Imprints, 2nd series (Shaw & Shoemaker). A detailed discussion of the use of firewood in the city of Philadelphia and the various city ordinances regulating its sale within the city, signed Another Citizen (p. 34). The printer, John Welwood Scott, started The Religious Remembrancer in 1813, which has been called the first religious weekly published in the United States. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1824. Extremely scarce early 19th-century… Leer más

Salem, Mass: Salem Press, 1889. Paperback. Good. [2], 50 p., 3 leaves of plates; 24 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. "Choate -- Cushing -- Rantoul" -- at head of title page and front wrapper. Pages are unopened. Reprinted from Historical Collections Essex Institute, vol. 26. Eben F. Stone (1822-1895) was an attorney; led the 48th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War; served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, 1877, 1878, and 1880; and served in Congress from 1881 to 1887. In this address he discusses the history of the law in Massachusetts, in particular focusing on Massachusetts attorneys Rufus Choate (1799-1859), Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), and Robert Rantoul, Jr., (1805-1852). Scarce. In Good Condition: front and back wrapper are soiled and detached, with loss along edges; a few page corners dusty; otherwise, clean and solid.

Amherst, MA: Law and Society Association, 1976. Paperback. Very Good -. [1], 120-184 p.; 25 cm. Light blue wrapper with black wrapper title. Reprinted from Law & Society Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Fall 1975. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is rubbed; front wrapper is lightly brown along edges; back wrapper has significant browning; pages are clean and tight.

Philadelphia: D.B. Canfield & Co, 1857. Paperback. Good. Editors: Asa I. Fish and Henry Wharton. pp. [1], 130-192, [4] (68 p.); 24 cm. Light blue wrappers printed in black. Former owner's name at upper edge of front wrapper: Amos Briggs. Amos Briggs (b. 1825, d. after 1885) was an attorney and a judge in Philadelphia. Includes advertisements on last four unnumbered pages and back wrapper. Pages are unopened. This issue addresses maritime liens, and recent American decisions relating to the Lehigh Navigation Co., the Spring Creek Mining Co., and others. Scarce. In Good Condition: front and back wrapper are detached but present with chipping on edges; pages are clean and solid.

S.l.: s.n., 1931. Pamphlet. Good +. 11 p.; 23 cm. Stapled grey wrapper. Morrill Allen, Jr., and others argued that the Rancho de los Palos Verdes grant was not a valid Mexican grant made by Mexico before May 13, 1846, and was therefore available for homesteading. They were not successful in their efforts. In Good+ Condition: discoloration along lower edge of front wrapper; lightly creased; pages are clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott's Printing House, 1883. Pamphlet. Very Good -. 32 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black. Franklin Benjamin Gowen (1836-1889) served as president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad from 1870 to 1884 and again briefly in 1886. During his presidency, he was responsible for the railroad illegally running its own mining operations and for violent and indiscriminate attacks on the Molly Maguires and mineworkers in general. In this speech, Gowen argued against aspects of a bill to control railroad freight discrimination, proposed by Willis James Hulings (1850-1924), representative from Venango County in the Pennsylvania legislature. The text of the bill in included here; it was enacted. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: minor loss over lower spine; wrapper lightly soiled; dampstain at lower edge of final 3 leaves and back wrapper; one vertical creased throughout; otherwise, clean and solid.

Monroe, N.Y.: s.n., 1845. Very Good. [approx. 120] p. book, with writing on the first half. Original calf back board. Attached is the official printed order to Samuel Pelcer, the collector of Monroe, for tax collection based on the assessment roll, with directions for the distribution of the collected money to the town superintendent of schools, the commissioners of highways, the town supervisor, and the county treasurer; signed by 15 men on 22 Nov. 1845. Contains the assessment of real and personal property of approximately 350 residents of the town of Monroe, Orange Co., N.Y. Lacking original front board and most leather over spine; otherwise, in Very Good Condition: text block split; manuscript text is complete; pages lightly soiled; printed order is intact and clean.

1816. Very Good. 1 leaf folded, dated Sept. 2, 1816, from John Johnson, Sussex Brigade Judge Advocate, addressed to Jacob S. Thomson, Brigade Paymaster, Marksborough [Marskboro, N.J.]. Thomson is asked to collect the $50 fine from Captain Thomas M. Armstrong. Jacob S. Thomson was the paymaster of the Sussex Brigade in New Jersey. On July 2, Captain Thomas M. Armstrong had been found guilty of disobedience of orders and unbecoming conduct to his superior officer. The judge, John Johnson (1764-1829), represented Sussex Co. in the New Jersey Assembly in 1804 and 1805, and was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1816 to 1825. In Very Good Condition: folds; exterior lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright.

Philadelphia, Pa: Bennett & Walton, 1814. Paperback. Good +. [48] p.: woodcut title vignette and illustration, tables; 18 cm. Publisher's advertisement on last page. Although Sharp is named as the calculator of this issue, the calendar pages and the eclipse predictions (except for changes at the head and foot of the former) are offprints from Bailey's Rittenhouse Almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey) calculated by William Collom. Sharp's name has, apparently unintentionally, been retained on the title page by Bennett & Walton from previous editions. Includes a poem by Henry Cogswell Knight, "The Orphan Benighted," and the poem "The Kitten," here published anonymously but written by Joanna Baillie. Also contains the schedule for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware court sessions. Early American Imprints, 2nd series (Shaw & Shoemaker), 30849; Drake, Almanacs, 11039. In Good+ Condition: removed from a nonce volume; old dampstaining;… Leer más

New York: W. Reid Gould, 1866. Very Good +. 1 mortgage (4 pages; 42 cm.) published by W. Reid Gould, successor to Jansen & Bell, 158 Nassau St., N.Y. Printed and handwritten with one Internal Revenue stamp. On Aprl 10, 1866, Bernard S. Bate and Maria Bate mortgage three tracts totalling 70 acres in Shawangunk, Ulster County, N.Y., to John B. Kernochan of New Windsor, Orange County, for $1,000. Signed by Bernard S. Bates and Maria or Mariah by her mark, and by Elias Ostrander, Ulster County justice of the peace. In Very Good+ Condition: light folds; ink blot on third page; otherwise, clean and crisp.

Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun., & Brother, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good -. "Including All the Required Forms of Process and Docket-Entries, and Embodying not Only Whatever May be Deemed Valuable to Justices of the Peace, But to Landlords, Tenants, and General Agents; and Making this Volume, What it Purports to be, A Safe Legal Guide for Business Men." 720, 36 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Lacking original labels from second and fourth compartments. Catalogue of the National Pennsylvania Law Publications of Kay & Brother, Law Booksellers and Publishers, 1853 on 36 p. following text. John Binns (1772-1860) was born in Ireland and by 1807 had arrived in Philadelphia, where he was a journalist and served as an alderman of the city from 1822 to 1844. In Very Good- Condition: lacking spine labels; leather is rubbed; front joint just starting at each end; foxing; table of contents is partially detached; otherwise clean and solid.… Leer más

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 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 1803. These laws made it difficult for Blacks to enter the state and for them to testify against Whites in court, among other things. As the movement to abolish slavery grew, there was increasing resistance to the Black Laws. Beginning in 1849, some aspects were repealed, but others remained in place until 1886. The author examines the development and response to these laws in Ohio. Book and Dust Jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 506, [2] p.; 24 cm. Black cloth with black-on-red spine title. Red endpapers. Dust jacket. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. The author examines the impact of and reaction to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal fair-employment practices statute. He concludes that, although there had been some gains, unions and employers were fighting the reforms intended by the law. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine is slightly faded; closed 2-cm. tear from lower edge of back section; corners rubbed; clean and bright.