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- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Bailments, With Illustrations from the Civil and the Foreign Law. Cohen 2451
- Publisher:
- Hilliard and Brown, Booksellers to the University, Cambridge, 1832.
- Description:
- First edition of Story's first commentary, as he began his effort to establish an American applied legal science, "[s]uperbly organized, lucidly written, comprehensive in breadth [and] rang[ing] from the Codes of Justinian to the American frontier"
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, gilt, some foxing and browning and the occasional marking and notation, but a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75176
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- bailments
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland, as Administered in England and America; with Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Cohen 2555
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little & James Brown, Boston, 1843.
- Description:
- First edition of the commentary whose substance was at the heart of 'Swift v. Tyson', decided the year before by a unanimous court whose opinion Story delivered, of commercial importance then central to this country; dedicated to Simon Greenleaf
- Condition:
- Modern speckled calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, some foxing and browning, some chips to the upper margin of the last pages, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75555
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Negotiable Instrum
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Agency, as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Eighth Edition, Revised, with Additions. By Nicholas St. John Green
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1874.
- Description:
- The only edition of the only treatise undertaken by Green, friend of Holmes and fellow member of the Metaphysical Club, whose "extraordinary power of [revealing] warm and breathing truth" was perceived by Peirce and equally esteemed by Holmes
- Condition:
- Original brown embossed cloth, the spine a bit chipped and the front joint just cracking (but firm), else a good clean copy housed in a modern box
- Book No.:
- W-75907
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Agency
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Agency, as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Cohen 1628
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1839.
- Description:
- First edition of the first of Story's four Commentaries devoted to commercial law, encompassing in his visionary and expansive analysis both maritime jurisprudence and private international law, with a substantial examination of Roman and civil law
- Condition:
- Modern morocco, gilt, margins of title strengthed (not affecting the text), some foxing, else a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75712
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Agency
- 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:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter . . . As Delivered to the Grand Jurors of the District of Massachusetts, and to the Members of the Suffolk Bar, At the opening of the Court in Boston, Published at Their Joint Request [etc.]. Cohen 1975
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Eliot, Boston, 1816.
- Description:
- Story's eulogy of the Boston lawyer whom he characterized in his 'Autobiography' as "at the head of the Massachusetts Bar, and truly princeps inter pares" and whom Story later chose, in his Dane lecture, as a role model for students in the law school
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, quite browned, last leaf repaired (text legible), now preserved in a modern 3/4 calf case; uncommon, four copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77583
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- biography
- 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:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Foreign and Inland, as Administered in England and America; with Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Second Edition. Cohen 2556
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1847.
- Description:
- The received edition of the commentary whose substance was at the heart of 'Swift v. Tyson', decided by a unanimous court whose opinion Story delivered, this edition expanded and based on Story's manuscript alterations and additions left at his death
- Condition:
- Original sheep, quite rubbed and scraped, but sound, a good clean copy now housed in a modern cloth box
- Book No.:
- W-77980
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Commercial Law, Negotiable Instrum
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