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The Compleat Sheriff Wherein is Set Forth, His Office and Authority
$300.00
Savoy: Printed by John Nutt, Assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Walthoe, 1710. SECOND EDITION. SCARCE. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good. Full brown leather binding with five raised bands to the spine. Bumping to corners and spine ends. Chipping to leather at foot of spine revealing end band, which is partially loose. Lacks spine label. Other wear to exterior includes rubbing and scuffing. Lacks front free end papers and advertisement. Foxing and browning throughout though text remains bright. Defect to paper on the last page of the table of contents and first page of text which does effect the last chapter number on the table of contents and caused a small .75" hole on first page which does effect the title and a few words on the second page. Pictured. Ownership inscription dated 1758 to rear free end paper as well as a name written upside-down in pen three times to margin of last page of text. Appears to be penmanship practice. 496 pages + Table. More photos available. ENGHIS/042026
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Scarce 1857 Dred Scott decision, Grolier Club #68
Scott, Dred Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States And the Opinions of the Judges Thereof in the Case of Dred Scott Versus John F. A. Sandford. December Term, 1856
$495.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Washington DC: Benjamin C. Howard, 1857. First Thus. Soft cover. Poor. Item #2507047 1857 Washington printing said to be issued at or about the same time as the New York edition. Original string-tied printed wraps. LACKING ORIGINAL PAPER COVERS, TITLE PAGE, AND LAST LEAF (page 239) the last two of which have been replaced by your bookseller as new pages. In this famous and convoluted case Scott, a slave who had also lived in free Wisconsin Territory and Illinois, sued for his freedom (as did his wife). A lower court in Missouri ruled in his favor. This ruling was reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court, whereupon Scott appealed to the US Supreme Court where he lost in a 7-2 decision when the winds of slavery politics blew to smithereens the up-to-then accepted “doctrine” that, “once free” (as in having lived in a free state or territory), “always free.” This decision has come down through US history as one of the biggest failures of the US Supreme Court. As noted above, the title page is missing. I have supplied. cutting to proper dimension, a modern page of the same, which is laid in. This copy is also missing the last page (p.339), but I have supplied the entire text of the last page and also cut it to proper dimension and laid it in. Otherwise the copy, string-tied as noted, has water tidelines upper half of the first leaf, which tideline extends to a decreasing degree into the 63pps. Clarity of readability is not compromised. Quite minor foxing to a few margins. Minor edge chipping to first and last pages. To be obviously handled with care, but a quite serviceable reading copy if you desire this text in its original form pps (3) – 228. Very scarce. This document in book form is #68 in the famed Grolier Club’s One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900 published in 1947.
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First English continental handbook for travelers
James Howell Instructions and Directions for Forren Travell … (Second Ed.)
$1,500.00London: Printed by W.W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. Second Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather). Book Condition: Very Good+ Condition. Size: 5″-6″ – Vigesimo-quarto (24mo). 140 pages. ESTC Citation R202463; Wing (2nd ed.), H-3081; Thomason, E.1374[2]. 140 p. (Illustrated title, title, portrait of Prince Charles). James Howell (c.1594-1666) was an author of political and historical works who traveled widely in Europe and produced this book, which is often described as the first continental handbook for travelers. The full title is: “Instructions and Directions For Forren Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what compas of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes, and States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the Languages, to good purpose. With a new Appendix for Travelling into Turkey and the Levant parts.” The appendix (pp. 129-140) draws heavily from Sir Henry Blount’s account of his trip in 1634-36. It describes ways of getting to Constantinople, touches briefly on travel to Egypt and compares and contrasts Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Of the later Howell writes, “Now ’tis thought that this Religion is like to be of long continuance, because there is no nation where the Church man is more powerful and of greater esteem, in regard that all their Judges and Ecclesiastiques, and so have power o’er the body [and] soule” (p. 135). Neatly rebacked in sheepskin with the title “Howell on Forren Travell” in gilt on a red morocco panel, along with the year 1650 at the foot of the spine. There is shelf wear around the edges, with the board peeking out of the bottom corner of the front cover and the top corner rounded off. The text block is tight and only slightly toned. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This copy is missing the four leaves of advertisements at the end that are reported in the copy at Yale’s library. The title page is supplemented by an additional facing title page, engraved and signed by W[enceslaus] Hollar. There is also a portrait of Prince Charles. Someone along the way has underlined some words or short phrases in red ink on 19 or 20 pages. A previous bookseller has written some notes on the front end papers in pencil.  An early book sale entry for the book clipped from a catalog is laid into the book.  Â
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Rontgen Ray
Borden, W. C. THE USE OF THE RONTGEN RAY BY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN (1898)
$300.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Apparent 1st printing. 4to blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. 98pp. XXXIII plates plus 26 figures. Charts. Statistics. “Prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg, United States Army. Borden was “Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.” Ink stamp of Dr. Oliver C. Melson on front paste down. Melson was a physician in Little Rock, Arkansas. Science Magazine, Sept. 9, 1927, reported that Melson, of the Mayo Clinic, was appointed Head of the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Arkansas. Title actually has the spelling, “röntgen. “Good plus copy with some edgewear and moderate fading to spine. Scarce.
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German book of homeopathic remedies
Dr. Clotar Muller Charakteristik von Dreibig der Wichtigsten Homoopathischen Heilmittel Behufs ihrer Univendung in den Gemohalichsten Erkrankungsfallen
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Leipzig; Dr. Willmar Schwabe, 1880. “Characteristics of thirty of the most important homeopathic remedies for their use in the most common cases of illness”. SCARCE. Very good. 12mo. Brown cloth covered boards with black title to front board and to spine. Minor creasing to front board and minor bumping to spine ends and corners. A few light areas of rubbing to rear board. Minor browning to pages though text remains bright. Previous owner’s writing and stamp to front free end paper. Written in German Fraktur. 104 pages+ ads.Â
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