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- The History of Land Titles in Massachusetts
- ISBN: NA Price: $350.00
- Publisher: Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, for the Author, Date Published: 1801
- Description: first edition; small quarto (slightly shorter than 23.5 cm.), 392 pp.; contemporary sheep badly worn with both sides detached, title leaf clipped at top margin to remove a signature but no letters touched, general age toning with occasional age spotting and speckling, a few leaves missing tips or corners with no loss, good- only; Howes S 1121. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: law, land titles, real estate, Massachusetts mw8x Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 667775
- New Precedents in Conveyancing. Containing Great Variety of curious Draughts, many of them on Special Occasions, Drawn or Settled by Mr. Piggot, Northey, Webb, and other Eminent Hands...
- ISBN: NA Price: $3,762.69
- Publisher: Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for Sarah Cotter, Date Published: 1752
- Description: ...and now Publish'd from Original Manuscripts; 2 volumes, [title leaf], [4 leaves] (Subscribers), [1 leaf] (Preface with the recto numbered as 3 and the verso as v, 310 pp. + [title leaf], 311-576, [32] (Alphabetical Table) pp., contemporary full calf with red leather labels, armorial book plates of Owen Williams of Temple House, Berkshire; binding rubbed, especially at spines and joints, general light age toning, short pen note at end of text in second volume, margins in Alphabetical Table cut short with a few letters barely touched but else a near very good text. Volumes Included: 2
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- Christiani Thomasii iuriscons. Halens. Lectiones de prudentia legislatoria, cum raefatione Gottlieb Stollii, prof. polit. in Academ. Jen.
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,219.08
- Publisher: Francofurt et Lipsiae: (Renger) Date Published: 1740
- Description: small octavo, [4 leaves] (beginning with title), 166 pp.; library book plates, general age toning, small ink smear at bottom of title, parchment covered boards darkened and lightly soiled, still sound and good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: jurisprudence, law mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666685
- The History of the Insurrections, in Massachusetts, In the Year MDCCLXXXVI, and the Rebellion consequent thereon
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,702.44
- Publisher: Worcester: Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, by Isaiah Thomas Date Published: 1788
- Description: first edition; iv, [5]-192 pp.; leather sides very rubbed along with the calf spine (this apparently added later as the label is inappropriate), modern endpapers but hinges cracked, signature of a previous owner at corner of title, age staining and age spotting throughout but never dark, a few words underlined in pen, good+ only but scarce as a first; Howes M 651, Vail 782 ?A History of Shays' Rebellion, a Massachusetts frontier insurrection against the severe laws regarding debt and the heavy taxation during the economic depression following the Revolutionary War.?, and a strictly Federalist view. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Americana, Shays' Rebellion, Massachusetts mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666643
- Sketches of Boston, Past and Present, and of some places in its Vicinity. With one hundred & twenty engravings and three maps
- ISBN: NA Price: $605.94
- Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company/Crosby and Nichols, Date Published: 1851
- Description: first edition; 12mo, [title leaf], viii, 246, 112 (this section mostly about Cambridge), [6] (ads) pp., frontis., 3 folding maps, illustrations in text; original cloth rubbed with chipping at spine, the maps darkened and lightly tattered, one has a short tear from stub, the street map of Cambridge, dated 1852 in the plate, is badly wrinkled, has a break at an intersecting fold, and no longer fits properly into the text block, complete but good only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 667751
- A Description of the Boston Water Works, embracing all the reservoirs, bridges, gates, pipe chambers and other objects of interest, from Lake Cochituate to the City of Boston.
- ISBN: NA Price: $997.24
- Publisher: Boston: Geo. R. Holbrook & Co. Date Published: 1848
- Description: first edition; 16mo (15 cm. tall), 46, [22] (advertising material) pp., frontis., illustrations in text with some full page including a map of the Boston Aqueduct, folding street map of Boston on blue paper at end of advertisements; original fabric covered paper wrappers rubbed at extremities and the pictorial gold stamp on front cover dulled, still near very good; issued during the year of the “great water festival” celebrating the official introduction of the waters of Lake Cochituate into the city and gives a short history of the project and advice for tourists. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Boston, Massachusetts, water supply mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667757
- The History of a Title. A Conveyancer's Romance.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.55
- Publisher: NY: Styles & Cash, Date Published: 1886
- Description: 1886 printing; 12mo, 12 pp, reprinted from American Law Review; library markings, text and paper wrappers chipped at extremities, spine trimmed with later side stapling, reading copy only; problems that need not be worried about when using the services of Title Guarantee and Trust Company, the pamphlet’s sponsor. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: real estate law, title law Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 308153
- Caroli Sigonii De antiqvo ivre civivm Romanorvm libri dvo. Eivsdem De antiqvo ivre Italiae libri tres. Ab ipso auctore multis in locis aucti...
- ISBN: NA Price: $6,901.81
- Publisher: Venetiis: Ex officina Iordani Zileti, Date Published: 1563
- Description: 2 volumes in one as frequently found but this copy with the first edition of the second volume rather than the usual second edition; quarto (20.5 cm. tall), [6 leaves] (beginning with title), 281, [35], [1] pp. + (second volume has special title) Caroli Sigonii De antiqvo ivre Italiae libri tres, ad Senatvm, popvlvmq. Romanum. Venetiis: Apud Iordani Zileti, 1560. [6 leaves] (beginning with title), 128 numbered leaves, [16 leaves] (the last page a printer?s device); library book plate on front cover of binding and private book plates along with a brief bookseller?s description on front pastedown, paper covered board sides with leather spine and tips darkened and rubbed with spine label partially chipped away, title dark with one tip chipped, light damp stain in lower inside corner almost throughout, a few instances of old pen marginalia, sound but good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Italy, Roman law mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666657
- Amendments of the Constitution of Massachusetts, proposed by the Convention of Delegates, assembled at Boston, on the third Wednesday of November, A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Twenty...
- ISBN: NA Price: $4,356.42
- Publisher: Boston: Published by Order of the Convention, Russell and Gardner, printe Date Published: 1821
- Description: ...with their Address to the People of this Commonwealth. first edition, hand signed by Convention Secretary Benj. Pollard at end of text certifying it as a ?true copy?; large octavo (approximately 22 cm. tall), 32 pp.; margins irregularly trimmed but not close and ample at fore edge, age toning and age staining but entirely readable and paper not fragile, tied into self wrappers and overall good; fourteen amendments are proposed, nine of them were approved later. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 667759
- The Elements of the Art of Packing as applied to Special Juries, particularly in Cases of Libel Law
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,403.99
- Publisher: London: Effingham Wilson, Date Published: 1821
- Description: first edition; [title leaf], vii (beginning with Advertisement), [1], 269, [1] pp. bound with Hints to Witnesses in Courts of Justice. By a Barrister (attributed to Barron Field). London: Printed for J. Butterworth and Son, 1815, 24 pp. including the half title; an old leather binding very worn with sides detached and spine covering almost gone but text still well sewn, general age toning and a light damp stain at fore edge almost throughout, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, Freedom of the Press, juries, law mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666680
- Joannis Seldeni Uxor Ebraica, seu De nuptiis et divortiis ex jure civili, id est, divino & talmudico, veterum Ebraeorum, libri tres. Ejusdem De successionibus ad leges Ebraeorum in bona...
- ISBN: NA Price: $4,430.65
- Publisher: Francofurti ad Oderam: Sumptibus Jeremiae Schrey, excudit Andr. Becmanus, Date Published: 1673
- Description: ...defunctorum. Liber singularis: In pontificatum, libri duo. Editio nova; 2 parts in one as issued; small quarto (19.5 cm. tall), [24] (beginning with title in red and black), 456, [14], [2] (part title with its own imprint, Joannis Seldeni De successionibus ad leges Ebraeorum in bona defunctorum. Liber singularis: In pontificatum, libri duo.), 248, [8] pp., a few passages in Hebrew but almost entirely in Latin only; full vellum with hand lettered spine now dark and wrinkled with margins of pastedowns cracked at fold over, pen note of an eighteenth century owner on front free endpaper and another on title, age toning and age speckling to text but paper not fragile and entirely readable, good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Jewish law, marriage, divorce, inheritance, succession mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666706
- A Bill to Provide for the better Establishment & Regulation of the Courts of the United States. 11th March, 1800. Read the first and second time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,560.83
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by order of the House of Representatives, Date Published: 1800
- Description: ...of the whole House on Monday next. first edition; 44 pp.; general age toning with light damp staining on title and one corner of first text leaf; overall good+, untrimmed and tied into self wrappers; the bill that would become the Judiciary Act of 1801. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, Federal judiciary, Supreme Court, law, courts mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666715
- Origines juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books, Grants and Settlements of Estates...
- ISBN: NA Price: $946.89
- Publisher: London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, & Henry Her Date Published: 1671
- Description: ..., Degree of Serjeant, innes of Court and Chancery. The Second Edition with Additions. narrow folio (leaves 34.5 cm. tall x 22 cm.), [4 leaves] (Imprimatur for the 1666 edition, title in red and black, Preface), 336, [2] (index), [2] (section title for the Chronica Series that covers the period 1067-1671), 117, [1], [1] (errata) pp., (printer?s numbering errors in Rr and Ss as issued with no change in the total number of pages and all text present), 33 pages included in the pagination are pictorial and all but one of them show multiple coats-of-arms and heraldic devices; lacks the six portraits as sometimes found, later leather binding now rubbed and worn with front cover and front free endpaper detached, Imprimatur leaf also detached and creased along fore edge, title darkened and a small group of interior leaves with a few spots in bottom margin but most of the text is clean and bright; Wing D2489. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, law, courts, heraldry, chronology, British history mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667764
- The Practice of the High Court of Chancery. With Notes, &c. adapted to the Court of Chancery of the State of New York
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,129.40
- Publisher: Albany: E. F. Backus Date Published: 1818
- Description: xi, [1], 260 pp.; old full leather rubbed with a few peel marks, age toning and age staining throughout but entirely readable, overall good+; the British text is unchanged but an occasional footnote was added by a unnamed "gentleman of the profession". Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, law, pleading and procedure, New York State mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 670667
- Peculiarities of the Shakers, described in a series of Letters from Lebanon Springs, in the year 1832, containing an account of the origin, worship, and doctrines of the Shakers' Society. By a Visitor.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,288.55
- Publisher: NY: J. K. Porter Date Published: 1832
- Description: first edition; 24mo, (slightly taller than 14.5 cm.), 116 pp., original boards with printed paper cover label; binding rubbed with label dark and later cloth tape at spine and hinges, mildew specking in top margin extending into text, complete and sound but good- only; MacLean 77, Richmond 1828 with a long explanation of why the author is Barnabas Bates and not Benjamin Stillman, “A sympathetic first person account which utilizes early Shaker works.”,. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 667756
- The true Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, And one of the best Astronomers that ever were. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $9,038.80
- Publisher: London: Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe, and Nathaniel Thompson, and are to b Date Published: 1672
- Description: A [Work] full of [Curiosity] and [Learning]. Translated and Commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.; first complete edition in English; narrow quarto (leaves 28 cm. tall), [18 leaves] (beginning with title in red and black, in this copy the words Work, Curiosity, and Learning which should be in red were not printed and the word Prognostications and one other were first printed in red and then overprinted in black but slightly off register), 522 pp., there are printer's errors in the pagination, but complete as issued and total number of pages remains the same, the stanzas in French followed by an English translation, and an annotation, usually brief; lacks the frontispiece, later quarter leather badly worn with sides detached and the text block broken into two parts, modern armorial book plate and markings of other owners including Frederick S. Ryman of Boston who has added occasional marginalia in pencil, colored pencils, and ink including the date in red ink on title, all this apparently done in October 1918, the title leaf dark with chipping at extremities, margins cut down with a few running titles barely touched, light general age toning, good; Wing N1399. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: prophecies, prophecy mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666721
- Des calembourgs comme s'il en pleuvoit; contenant un deluge de traits d'esprit.
- ISBN: NA Price: $879.32
- Publisher: Paris: Chez Barba, Date Published: 1800
- Description: Troisieme edition, augmentee entre autres choses de la Lettre a Madame de Kko.; 32mo (leaves slightly taller than 12 cm.); viii, 180 pp., hand colored frontispiece; later paper covered boards with leather spine now worn and detached from text block, 1847 written note on verso of frontis. explaining how it was purchased at an auction sale of books belonging to “the esteemed John Pickering” the previous year and how it was repaired “after a fashion”, signature of “Jno. Pickering jr.” mounted on inside front cover, the text portion of half title mounted on a later sheet, one leaf has a long tear with no loss, general age toning, complete but reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: French literature mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667772
- Ancient Accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan Travellers. Who went to those Parts in the 9th Century; Translated from the Arabic, by the late learned Eusebius Renaudot. With Notes, Illustrations and Inquiries by the same Hand
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,890.39
- Publisher: London: Printed for Sam. Harding, Date Published: 1733
- Description: first edition in English; [xxxviii] (beginning with title in red and black), 260, [12],(index) pp.; modern cloth with an old leather spine label, light general age toning, E7 has a tear in margin that hits a few letters and an old but effective repair and no loss, good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: China, India, Islamic studies mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666647
- (Aggelokratia theon, in Greek) or, A Sermon touching Gods government of the World by Angels. Preached before the learned Societie of Artists and Astrolgers, August 8, 1650...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,908.25
- Publisher: London: Printed by John Legatt and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooks, Date Published: 1650
- Description: ... In the Church of St. Mary Alder-Mary, London, by Robert Gell, D. D.; [title leaf], 49 pp.; general age toning with early and late leaves tattered but no loss, light extraction roughness at spine and now partially disbound in self wrappers, complete but good only; Gell was very interested in astrology and had preached before the society at least once before, most of his sermon is on the nature and activities of angels but a few pages are devoted to demonstrating that astrology is not the work of the Devil but a "Science not unworthy of God?s people": Wing G468A. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 666649
- The Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, D. D. & F. R. S. Late Pastor of the North Church in Boston. Who Died, Feb. 13. 1727,8.
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- Publisher: Boston: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, Date Published: 1729
- Description: first edition; [4] (half title, title), iv, 6 (Preface), 10 (Subscribers), 184 pp.; lacks 185/186, the last leaf of the advertisements, B1 holed with loss of words and letters, I5 chipped at fore edge with loss of a few letters, a few other leaves tip chipped with a letter or two removed; contemporary leather very rubbed, front free endpaper tattered and with old ink scribbling, age toning and age staining throughout, reading copy; Howes M 409. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 666650
