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Our complete Publications Catalogue is available on our website. On-Line Catalogues: Our latest catalogues, some featuring specifi c subjects and special offers, can be viewed on our website. No 51 No 56 No 88 No 154 { 4 { CATALOGUE 78 No 1 No 7 No 2 THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD. { { I • UNITED STATES 5 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 2 BENTHAM, JEREMY. UNITED DUMONT, ETIENNE [1759-1829]. NEAL, JOHN [1793-1876]. [SISMONDI, JEAN-CHARLES-LEONARD, SIMONE DE STATES (1773-1842)]. Principles of Legislation: From the Ms. of Jeremy Bentham. By M. Dumont. Translated from the Second Corrected and I Enlarged Edition; with Notes and a Biographical Notice of Jeremy Bentham and of M. Dumont by John Neal. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1830. Frontispiece with tissue overlay. viii, [9]-310 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Octavo (8-1/2” x 5-1/2”). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt fi llets and lettering piece to spine, speckled edges. Moderate rubbing with some wear to corners and head of spine, hinges cracked. Light toning, faint dampspotting to most of text. Early signatures in pencil to front free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Shelf label to spine, bookplate to front pastedown, small inkstamps to head of frontispiece and a few text leaves, date due sheet and stamps to rear endleaves. A solid copy. $500. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Arguably Bentham’s greatest work, it is the clearest exposition of the principles of utilitarianism and the most concise statement of his chief principles. This volume is prefaced by lengthy biographical notices of both Bentham and Dumont. It also includes a chapter on utilitarianism by Neal and a biographical sketch of Dumont by Sismondi. Cohen 7801. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION A NOTABLE JURIST OF BENTHAM’S CLASSIC ESSAY ON USURY EXAMINES SECESSION AND SLAVERY 1 BENTHAM, JEREMY [1748-1832]. 3 BISHOP, JOEL PRENTISS [1814-1901]. Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Secession and Slavery: Or The Constitutional Duty of Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains. To Congress to Give the Elective Franchise and Freedom to Which is Added, A Letter to Adam Smith, Esq. LL.D. On the All Loyal Persons, in Response to the Act of Succession. Discouragement of Inventive Industry Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1866. [ii], 112 pp. Octavo (9” x 5-3/4”). Philadelphia: Printed for Matthew Carey, 1796. [iv], [5]-149, [2] pp. Includes two-page publisher advertisement. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling, a few minor chips to (5-3/4” x 3-1/2”). wrappers, some rubbing to spine ends. Light toning to text, occasional faint dampspotting, internally clean. $350. Contemporary tree sheep, lettering piece and gilt fi llets to spine. Spine ends bumped, corners somewhat worn, minor wear along FINAL EDITION. Bishop was one of the most infl uential joints, a few minor scuffs to boards, a bit of chipping to edges American legal writers of the nineteenth century. According to of lettering piece. Some toning to text, heavier toning and some Roscoe Pound, he belonged to the class of jurists whose works edgewear and dampstaining to preliminaries, foxing to a few “went far to shape the law.” First published in 1863, this essay is a leaves. Early owner annotation to front free endpaper, early consideration of secession and slavery under constitutional law. signature to head of title page, interior otherwise clean. $2,500. It was substantially revised in 1864 and issued as a new work. Our 1866 edition, designated the second, addresses the legal THIS WAS BENTHAM’S FIRST ESSAY on a legal aspect of conclusion of the Civil War, such as the status of freedmen and the economics. Presented in the form of a series of letters from Russia, re-admission of states that were part of the Confederacy. Pound, it takes issue with Adam Smith’s argument that a maximum interest The Formative Era of American Law 140-141. Sabin 5698a. rate of 5% would prevent speculators from tying up the supply of available currency. It was written in 1787 and fi rst published in Dublin in 1788. Later American editions were published in 1796, 1837, 1841 and 1842. OCLC locates 6 copies of the 1796 imprint in North American law libraries (Georgetown, Harvard, Library of Congress, Southern Illinois University, University of Minnesota, Yale). Cohen 2641. www.lawbookexchange.com | 800.422.6686 { 6 { CATALOGUE 78 No 4 No 6 SIGNED BY BRANDEIS “MUCH THE BEST APPRAISAL OF BRANDEIS’S WORK AS JUSTICE,” SIGNED BY BRANDEIS 4 BRANDEIS, LOUIS D. [1856-1941]. 6 [BRANDEIS, LOUIS D.]. The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis MASON, ALPHEUS THOMAS. D. Brandeis. Brandeis: Lawyer and Judge in the Modern State. Edited by Osmond K. Fraenkel. New York: The Viking Press, 1935. ix, 339 pp. Princeton: Princeton University press, 1933. vi, 203 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket, some soiling to Cloth in dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, some spine, minor chipping to ends. “Louis D. Brandeis” in bold hand to soiling to spine, chipping to ends. “Louis D. Brandeis” in bold hand to center of title page, internally clean. $950. head of title page, internally clean. $650. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. “Preceding the FIRST EDITION. “Much the best appraisal of Brandeis’s text of the reprinted matter each section of this work contains work as justice”: Corwin, Constitutional Revolution, Ltd., cited in a brief note and following it a bibliography of the articles and Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University addresses on the subject covered by that section. The reprinted (1953) 1061. articles are given in full even when parts of them appear more than once.”: Foreword. “YOU OFT BENEATH A RIGHTEOUS ROBE, MAY FIND A WOLF CONCEALED” TITLE PAGE SIGNED “LOUIS D. BRANDEIS” 7 [BROADSIDE]. [MURDER]. 5 BRANDEIS, LOUIS D. [AVERY TRIAL]. LIEF, ALFRED [1901-1971], EDITOR. The Death of Sarah M. Cornell. The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis. N.p: S.n., c.1832. With a Foreword by Charles A. Beard. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1930]. xxi, 419 pp. 11-1/4” x 8” broadside mounted to 11-/12” x 8-3/4” backing, text enclosed by woodcut typographical border. Printed in Cloth in dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, some two columns within border of type ornaments. Poem in twelve soiling to spine, chipping to ends. “Louis D. Brandeis” in bold hand stanzas about the murder of Sarah Cornell by her seducer, to head of title page, internally clean. $850. Ephraim Avery. Some toning, some chipping, edgewear and tears to margins and small hole near center remedied by mounting, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. “The papers are no loss to text. $450. primarily the work of a great lawyer. His work is considered to have a tremendous effect upon not only the body of law already ONLY EDITION.