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- Author:
- Williams, John
- Title:
- The Laws of Trade and Commerce, Designed As a Book of Reference in Mercantile Transactions
- Publisher:
- Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row [etc.], London, 1812.
- Description:
- First edition of a wide-ranging treatise, partly based on the works of Adam Smith and Lord Kames, with substantial portions devoted to international law, both in peace and war, and to insurance, principal and agent, bills of exchange, and bankruptcy
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, the spine rubbed, some mainly marginal pencil notations, else a very good fresh copy
- Book No.:
- W-76654
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, international law, bankruptcy, insurance law, Bills and Notes
- Author:
- Theobald, William
- Title:
- A Practical Treatise on the Law of Principal and Surety, Particularly with Relation to Mercantile Guaranties, Bills of Exchange, and Bail Bonds
- Publisher:
- S. Sweet, Chancery Lane, Stevens and Sons, Bell Yard [etc.], London, 1832.
- Description:
- Only English edition of a work based on lectures delivered at the University of London by an Inner Temple barrister, seemingly the only part of his ambitious plan to "put in an institutional form" the private commercial law of England
- Condition:
- Contemporary boards, printed paper label, front joint just cracking and a bit tender, else a very good, untrimmed, unsophisticated copy
- Book No.:
- W-76039
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Agency, Bills and Notes, Bail and Bail Bonds, Commercial Law
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, and Guaranties of Notes, and Checks and Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Second Edition. Cohen 2562
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little & James Brown [and] Stevens and Norton [etc.], Boston [and] London, 1847.
- Description:
- Story's last Commentary, here based in part on his posthumous manuscript notes, completing his "grand effort to create an American commercial common law suitable both to the needs of the new capitalism and to the values of the old republicanism"
- Condition:
- Original polished sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else a very good, clean copy now housed in a modern cloth box
- Book No.:
- W-77962
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Negotiable Instrum, Bills and Notes, Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Phillipps, S.M.
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. Second Edition, with Considerable Additions
- Publisher:
- Printed by A. Strahan . . . for J. Butterworth and Son [etc.], London, 1815.
- Description:
- The much expanded first revision of Phillipps' principal work, earning him a reputation of "high rank -- accurate, perspicuous and well-organized -- expound[ing] the principles of his subject in a clear and systematic way"
- Condition:
- Original blue boards, quite rubbed, rebacked, a bit of light pencilling and some partial pencil erasures, else a very good, untrimmed, clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-75992
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes, Evidence
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, and Guaranties of Notes, and Checks and Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Cohen 2561
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little & James Brown [and] A. Maxwell and Son [etc.], Boston [and] London, 1845.
- Description:
- First edition of Story's last Commentary, appearing two months before his death and completing his "grand effort to create an American commercial common law suitable both to the needs of the new capitalism and to the values of the old republicanism"
- Condition:
- Original polished sheep, lightly rubbed, a very good clean copy; with the contemporaneous ownership signature of N. Butler, Junior, dated August 1847
- Book No.:
- W-74984
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Negotiable Instrum, Bills and Notes, Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Forbes, William
- Title:
- A Methodical Treatise Concerning Bills of Exchange . . . illustrated and confirm'd from Civil Law; the Authority of Lawyers and Writers . . . With incident comparative Views of the Laws and Customs of England, and other Countries [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Mosman . . . for John Russell [etc.], Edinburgh, 1718.
- Description:
- The expanded edition of Forbes' first work, and the first treatise published in Scotland on the subject, antedating Forbes' appointment as the first professor of civil law at the University of Glasgow in 1714 and as its Dean in the 1730's
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint just cracking (but quite firm), title dusty, a crisp usable copy; with the advertising leaves
- Book No.:
- W-76615
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes, Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Kyd, Stewart
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. The Third Edition, with Considerable Additions. ESTC T69630. Octavo
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard [etc.], London, 1795.
- Description:
- The much expanded third edition of a very early treatise on bills of exchange, written by the redoubtable Middle Templar of whom Holdsworth had a high opinion, calling his works, including this one, "well arranged and clearly written"
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, crimson morocco label gilt lettered and double ruled, generally very clean and fresh with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80181
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes, arbitration
- Author:
- Cunningham, Timothy
- Title:
- The Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes and Insurances: Containing All the Statutes, Cases at large [etc.] . . . The Third Edition corrected, With the Addition of several Cases, determined by the Earl of Hardwicke and Lord Mansfield
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Baldwin, W. Owen, and S. Crowder, London, 1766.
- Description:
- The third and further expanded edition of the first English legal treatise on the subject, comprehensive in its coverage and praised by Holdsworth as "a pioneer book . . . a creditable piece of work [whose] arrangement is clear"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, the joints cracked but firm and the spine hand lettered, light browning, else clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79539
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes, maritime law
- Author:
- Britton, William Everett
- Title:
- Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes
- Publisher:
- Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 194l.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn wraps, crudely reinforced with tape; much pencilling; usable
- Book No.:
- W-63106
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes
- Author:
- Cunningham, Timothy
- Title:
- The Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes and Insurances: Containing All the Statutes, Cases at large, Arguments, Resolutions, Judgments, Decrees, and Customs of Merchants concerning them, methodically digested [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Owen, near Temple-bar, London, 1761.
- Description:
- The second and considerably expanded edition of the first English legal treatise on the subject, comprehensive in its coverage and praised by Holdsworth as "a pioneer book . . . a creditable piece of work [whose] arrangement is clear"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind ruled calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, without pastedowns as bound, quite clean and well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79294
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Bills and Notes
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