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Price: $125.00
Publisher: 1800
Seller ID: 5050
"Commissioner's Report on Estate of Nathan Brooks." Manuscript Document signed by Chris Leffingwell, Elisha Hyde, and Jobez Perkins. Document measures 7 1/4 x 12 1/2, four pages, two are blank. Slight chipping three sides. Previously repaired with document repair tape. Handwriting is beautiful, even hand, with some fancy letters. Huntington (1754-1834) was born in Norwich, graduated from Yale in 1775, and served in both the Revolutionary and Regular U. S. Army fr... View more info
By: Huntington, Jabez Williams
Price: $100.00
Publisher: 1812
Seller ID: 5043
Document measures 7 1/4 x 9 1/2, on three pages; fourth page has notation regarding travel expenses (for a total cost of $0.81). Small hole in middle of pages affecting some text. Handwriting with much flourish. Huntington (1788-1847) was a Congressman from Connecticut (1829-34) and later a U. S. Senator (1840-47). In this interesting decree, signed by Huntington early in his legal career, the sheriff of New London County is summoned to bring to court one Jonathan Wilkin... View more info
By: Johnson, Henry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: 1874
Seller ID: 12349
Manuscript document signed and dated August 1874 (8 x 12 1/2 inch), one page. Henry Johnson (1819-1895) was a longtime Muncy, Pa lawyer. in 1860 he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate, eventually rising to the position of chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From this position he shepherded a bill through the state Senate that eventually allowed Pennsylvania soldiers during the civil war to vote from where they were stationed. Some attribute the passage o... View more info
By: Jordan, Frank C., Compiler
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sacramento, California, State Printing Office.: 1912
Seller ID: 9796
[cont] . Against Each Amendment, 1883-1911. viii, 208 pages; illustration (state flag); index; bound in brown cloth with title on cover and spine. Signed by the former owner "Geo B. Finnegan", Assemblyman 9th District, elected in 1912. Democrat, Nevada City, California. Has a leather label on front cover with Finnegan's name. U.S. documents pages 5-57, California constitution 58-187. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, The John C. Winston Company: 1907
Seller ID: 11310
2 volumes. I:xxxviii, 472 pages; portraits; bibliography. II: 533 pages; portraits. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean copies inside and outside. Contains a series of biographies of American lawyers - Andrew Hamilton, George Sythe, Patrick Henry, James Wilson, William Paterson, John Jay, Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Livingston, Luther Martin, Theophilus Parsons, Zephaniah Swift, William Tilghman, William Pinkney, John B... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Wright & Potter Printing Co.: 1905
Seller ID: 10270
134 pages; appendix; bound in brown cloth (4 1/2 x 5 3/4 inch) with gilt title on the cover. Scuff markings to the cover and back side. Damage to the top of the spine with missing piece (1/4 x 1/4 inch). Contains International, American and Massachusetts laws for authority, organization and administration of military units. View more info
By: Lloyd, Clinton.
Price: $75.00
Seller ID: 12350
circa.1857-58. Two manuscript documents signed in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. First document (7 1/2 x 12 inch) dated 1857 and 1858. Second document, dated 1857 (7 3/4 x 9 1/4 inch). Both documents are in Clinton Lloyd's hand writing and signed by him. Clinton Lloyd (1828-1901) was born in Williamsburg, Pa and graduated from Dickinson College in 1847. In 1853 he became Lycoming County District Attorney. In 1863 he was appointed Chief Clerk of the U.S. House of Represen... View more info
By: Long, Sol. L
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Oklahoma City, General Counsel for the National Association of Suggestive Therapeutics: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 017652
Original tan cloth half bound with tan leather with red and black leather and gilt lettering on spine. 6 1/2 X 9 inches. 220 pages which include 1 page of table of contents, 2 pages of authorities cited and 15 pages of index. 7 rubber stamp marks which read, "Richard Ingalese, Attorney at Law, 330 H.W. Hellman Bldg. Los Angeles, Cal" throughout copy and both covers. A previous owner wrote in black ink "Nov. 11/12" on the first page. Pages are printed on h... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: 0
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019246
Signature on small beige envelope by Donald Mitchell in black ink. No date, circa 1853-1854. 4" x 2 1/2." Envelope reads: "To introduce Mr. Bradford, Donald G. Mitchell, Esq. Venice." Former ownership inscription on back in pencil. Envelope, signature, and inscription are clean and intact. Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) was an American essayist and novelist best-known for his two works, Reveries of a Bachelor, or Book of the Heart (1850) and Dre... View more info
By: Morgan, Lucas
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1797
Seller ID: 12374
Printed form document completed and signed by Lucas Morgan, Justice of the Peace of West Springfield, Mass. Dated June 8, 1797 (6 1/2 x 8 inch). Lucas Morgan (1743-1817) orders the Sheriff of hampshire County or the Constable of West Springfield to satisfy the claim of Azoriah Parsons of Springfield against Gideon Joner Junior of West Springfield. The claim is for $40.53. The law officials are to seize property to cover the amount owed or to imprison Jones until the clai... View more info
By: Nelson, Samuel
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York City.,
Seller ID: 12354
May 6, 1837. Four documents, legal sized. Six total pages. Samuel Nelson (b. 1792, d. 1873) was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1845 to 1872. He is remembered for his strict interpretation of the United States Constitution and for writing a preliminary majority opinion in the Dred Scott case. Nelson was earlier a lawyer in New York and sat on the State Supreme Court from 1831 to 1845. This ruling is from his time on that court. In this document, the lawyers fo... View more info
By: North, Norman
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut, 1841
Seller ID: 11786
One page printed deed (8 1/4 x 13 inch) with autograph additions and signed by Norman North, dated July 1841. North sells a parcel next to "North's Factory" to Henry Ashton for $400.00. The land, located in Middletown, contains 'three roads and three rods of land'. Signed by Norman North and also signed by Wm. Woodmar and P. Fagan as witnesses. Signed on the back by Woodmar as Justice of the Peace and by the county register as having been received and registered.... View more info
By: Palmer, Denison
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New London County, Connecticut, 1828
Seller ID: 11782
2 pages (6 1/2 x 9 inch) one side printed, the other in ink, signed by Denison Palmer, Justice of the Peace and others. Denison Palmer signs a writ requesting the sheriff of New London county to summon Moses Palmer to appear before Chester Smith, Justice of the Peace. Palmer apparently owes the defunct firm of Ansel and Asher Coates ten dollars. Also signed by A.P. Brown as a witness. Signed on the back by David Baldwin, Deputy Sheriff, that the writ has been served. Als... View more info
By: Pattison, James
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Olympia, Thurston County, Washington Territory, 1864
Seller ID: 14038
Two lined pages (8 x 12 1/4 inch) in ink, along with related title abstract of six pages. James Pattison (1824-1898) in this document assigns the mortgage for lots in Olympia and nearby acreage in Thurston County to Daniel J. Hubbard in exchange for $678.00. James Pattison came overland to the Pacific Northwest in 1849, living first in Oregon and later in Washington Territory. He was engaged in real estate development in Thurston County. The document is also signed by A.... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, California, Horace W. Philbrook: 1902
Seller ID: 11699
23 pages; paper wrapper (5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inch) stapled. An appeal by Philbrook to prevent the re-election of Justices William H. Beatty, Charles H. Garoutte and Ralph C. Harrison. He was the lawyer for the Levinson family against John Levinson's partners in the mercantile firm Newman & Levinson which upon John's death attempted to strip the widow of her share in the company. It seems the judges were showing their bias in the case before going to court. According to the pam... View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: 1866
Seller ID: 3715
Edward Lillie Pierce (b. 1829 -- d. 1897). Letter to Congressman Thomas Dawes Eliot. Milton, Massachusetts, October 6, 1866. Pierce was a lawyer, civil servant and author. He is remembered as a close friend of Charles Sumner and his biographer. In this letter he writes Congressman Eliot (b. 1808 -- d. 1870) encouraging him to seek re-election. View more info
By: Pierson, William M., Garret W. McEnerney.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Washington, DC, Judd & Detweiler, Printers: 1899
Seller ID: 13518
'Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1899'. 10 pages; pale green paper wrapper (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Small fraying to the lower right corner. Involves a case between the estate of James G. Fair and William Irvine over stock in the Morgan Mining Company for $14,221.76. Very good clean copy. View more info
By: San Francisco Teachers' Pension Committee
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Neal Publishing Company: 0
Seller ID: 020021
Beige pamphlet with black text. No date, circa 1913. 6" x 8 3/4." Ten pages, complete. A bit of tearing at the spine. Pages are otherwise very clean and intact. A pamphlet that teachers are encouraged to read before they attend a meeting about a bill that would address teachers' pensions and a pension bill. The pamphlet includes a letter by Agnes Regan, Chairman of the Pension Committee of Fifteen, which summarizes the pension bill. The pages that follow ... View more info
By: Selby, William
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Bucks County, England, 1795
Seller ID: 11891
Signed handwritten manuscript on vellum (14 1/2 x 17 inch) for the transfer of leaseholder, dated 8 May, 1795. The document is a ruling from the Special Court Baron William Selby honoring the request of Sarah and Anthony Ridgeway to transfer Sarah Ridgeway's half of the leasehold of her late father, William King, to her sister Ann Clarke and her husband William Clarke. Signed by George Griffin, Steward, attesting to the fact that he has examined the document. Summary of ... View more info
By: Shaffrath, Paul
Price: $2,000.00
Seller ID: 12087
83 letters from Paul Shaffrath, along with 2 pieces of related ephemera and 2 photographs. Paul Shaffrath (1877-1961) was a long time Seattle lawyer who moved to Seattle in 1906 looking to establish himself on the West Coast. He was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States with his family circa.1885. Their home became Waterbury, Connecticut. Shaffrath graduated from Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before graduating from Yale University (1904) and Yale Law Scho... View more info
