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. Also signed on the back by Chester Smith that Palmer has failed to appear and that his in default of the judgment against him. (... View More...
Four volumes, complete. Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Red leather spine labels. 8 1/4" x 11." All pages of each volume, complete. Black-and-white plates, complete. Volume I: Pages [i]-xviii, [1]-245. Volume II: Pages [246]-518. Volume III: [519]-763. Volume IV: [764]-1015. Preface and Foreword in Volume I. Index in back of Volume IV. Pages are very clean and intact except for occasional offsetting from the plates and marginal smudges on a few pages. Covers are also very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear and rubbi... View More...
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.W. Moore (1820-1875) and Richard Lane (1816-1877) as notary public. Very good clean copy. View More...
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 pamphlet the judges and lawyers were in conspiracy with the Southern Pacific Company. This is part of a series of appeals to the... View More...
'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...
3/4 beige leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards. Rebacked, using original spine label. Spine label is red leather with gilt lettering. 6 1/4" x 8 3/4." 409 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for slight age toning. Covers are clean and intact overall. Covers have some corner and edge wear. Head and tail of spine are slightly chipped. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A compilation of the daily sessions of the Senate of the Territory of Alaska from March 3, 1913 to May 1, 1913. Intriguing record of early Alaskan history when Alaska was a ter... View More...
Original publisher's light brown paper wrappers with staple binding. 6 1/2" x 10." Circa 1931. Pages 364-377, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Staples not rusted. Small bump on fore-edge of front cover. A light dampstain extending upward about 1 1/2" from the bottom edge affects all the pages but text is unaffected. A Very Good copy. "Reprinted from the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Dec. 1931" printed on front cover. "The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, IA" printed on back cover. An essay about western railroad pools in t... View More...
One of 400 copies printed by the Tamalpais Press for Francis P. Farquhar and the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers with staple binding. Black lettering that reads, "Yosemite in 1896," on front. No lettering on spine. 5" x 7 1/2." Sixteen pages, complete. One black-and-white, tipped-in frontispiece, complete. The frontispiece is a portrait photograph of Colonel S. B. M. Young. Pages are virtually pristine and intact. Covers are very clean and intact except for some fading along the edges (most apparent along spine) and slightly bumped corners. Bind... View More...
Collection of twenty-nine documents related to Samuel Hazlett. Most are entirely handwritten in black ink. A few have printed and handwritten text. 1837-1871. Document sizes range between about 8 1/4" x 10 1/4" and 4 3/4" x 7 1/2." Most documents are one page, c. thirty pages for whole collection. The collection is clean and intact overall. The documents as a whole have fold lines, wrinkling, age toning, darkening, a few small cut-outs (may affect a small bit of text), and occasional tape repair for small closed tears. Documents are Good to Very Good. The entire collection is Good. T... View More...
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 describe the main points of the bill in more detail. View More...
Original typescript on white paper in black ink. Stapled in upper-left corner. July 18, 1947. 8 1/2" x 11." Eleven pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for minuscule spots, some of which are rust marks, and slight edge wear. A Near Fine copy. A research paper about the early government of the Territory of Washington with references to different court cases and legal matters and information taken from the Washington Law Review and State Bar Journal. View More...
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 court action on back of document. Fine clean copy. View More...
Original handwritten and printed bond between Stephen Self, Son (?), and Fisher & Cunningham. Fill-in-the-blank format where printed text is interspersed with handwriting in black ink. Signed by Stephen Self and Son and signed and witnessed by James Jennings. July 18, 1774. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2." One page, complete. Small bit of handwriting on the back. Horizontal and vertical fold lines, possibly original. Document is clean and intact overall. Slight splitting at the edges along the fold lines. Several chips with the largest being about 1" x 2 1/2" in the lower-left corner. None of the c... View More...
3/4 vellum with boards. In French. Spine partially missing. Damage to cover surface on lower right corner. Worm holes do not affect text. Jurisprudence of the Tribunal of Cassation, or summary of all the judgments of rejection and causation, of the important points of law and of procedure, in civil matters. View More...
Limited Edition, one of 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Front colophon on copyright page: "750 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy." Original publisher' red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Offset illustration of Lady Justice on front cover. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2." Eighty pages, complete. Four illustrations in black-and-white and color (mostly in black-and-white), complete. Two black-and-white maps (one of which is a folding map) in the back, complete. Illustrations and maps named under List of Illustrations. Some leaves unopened. Pages and covers are virtually ... View More...
Publisher's green pebble cloth, gilt lettering, impressed design. Contents include: Membership Organizations; Sessions, Order of Business; Officers; Committees; Rules; Questions; Debate; Voting; Spofford was United States Librarian of Congress. 204 pages, including index. View More...
LATIN LANGUAGE.4 parts - 291, [11] pages; [8], 306, [12] pages; 367, [13] pages; [8], 319, [9] pages; bound in full vellum with labels pasted on the spine "Theologia Mor -- lis Rndi Pairis Patri iii Sporer. Tomus I, II, & III. / S. / F". Titles in red and black lettering. Two partial clasps remaining. Folio (15 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch). Pages 291 (first part) and 3 pages of index loose. Small worm holes detected in the first few pages and pages 293-on in the final part. Father Sporer's study of the conduct of life, Ecclesiastical Law. View More...
Autograph letter signed (7 3/4 x 12 3/4 inch) by J. Sprague, dated April 27, 1829, and written in Brooklyn. Sprague writes an unknown party instructing him to accept a business offer made by a Mr. Toler, after it is certain that Toler has the cash and assets to proceed with the deal. Evidence of folding for mailing, a fine clean copy. View More...
Original land deed establishing the claim of Albion Wilson Starbird near the Willamette Meridian by the Land Office of Roseburg, Oregon and the United States General Land Office. Printed in black ink on light beige paper. NOT signed by William Howard Taft but signed on his behalf by his secretary or assistant. December 9 , 1909. 10" x 16." One page, complete. Horizontal and vertical fold lines, perhaps original. Document is very clean and intact overall except for a few small stains. A Very Good copy. Primary source document, a land deed, that resulted from the Homestead Act of 1862 a... View More...
Published in a small edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 6" x 9 1/4." 246 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for occasional foxing (most of the foxing is limited to the endpapers). Covers are very clean and intact but have slight chipping at head and tail of spine, slight bumping and wear to corners, a small bump at top edge of back cover, minuscule fading to spine, and some wrinkling or rippling on back cover. A Near Fine copy. Excerpt from Preface: "This history contains ... View More...
