Nichols william ed (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood hardcover, no dust jacket. Some underlining and marginalia. Rubbing and light wear to cover and spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illus. (in blue ink) by Bill Hoffman, 8.25 x 5.5", cloth backed boards, 86pp, top of spine bumped, extremities a bit worn, covers darkened, textblock edges spotted, minor spotting to front blank, former owner's ink inscription ("Paul.From Pat and Dick 4-4-64", but not THE Pat and Dick Nixon), in a rubbed, edgeworn, soiled, chipped, toned and spine-darkened dustjacket. No indication of printing. SCARCE, but SWAF.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 86pp. Black cloth spine, blue boards. Gilt titles on spine, facsimile gilt signature on front board. Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Pages bright and clean, unmarked. Blue dust jacket is crisp and intact, with original $3.00 price on front flap. Some offsetting to front jacket flap, likely from a sheet laid in at some past date. Mild toning to white back panel. Signed by Hoover in black ink on half-title page and inscribed, "To Dr. Michael Lepore, the good wishes of Herbert Hoover." His love of the outdoors and lifelong fishing practice led Hoover to write this slim volume on the deterioration of environmental conditions, the unwieldy rise in population, and the need to rehabilitate our rivers by ridding them of pollution. Book.…

First Edition. London: J. Nichols; Charles Dilly, 1781. 1st ed. "One of the Most Remarkable Books of All Time" Jones, Sir William [1746-1794]. An Essay on the Law of Bailments. London: Printed by J. Nichols; For Charles Dilly, 1781. [iv], 130, [2] pp. With a half-title, errata leaf at rear of text. Octavo (8" x 5"; 20.3 x 12.7 cm). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, with original burgundy lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, tiny stain near upper outside corner of front board, moderate rubbing to extremities, tiny chip to front joint, later armorial bookplate (of W.H.M. Hodder) to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, minor stains to a few leaves, faint offsetting to margins of endleaves. An attractive copy. $1,500. * First edition. This exceptional treatise on a fundamental aspect of commercial law was called "incomparable" by Joseph Story in his own book on the subject and "one of the most remarkable books of all time" by Holdsworth. It was also one of the first significant Anglo-American treatises to use principles derived from Roman and civil law sources. Our copy belonged to Colonel William Henry Moore Hodder [1791-1859]. A resident of Hoddersfield in County Cork, Ireland, he served as a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of the county and was the highest-ranking officer in the North Cork Riflemen, serving under Wellington. Holdsworth, A History of English Law 12:393. Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory (1850) 463-465. Dauchy [et al.], The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing 93. English Short-Title Catalogue T69325. London: J. Nichols; Charles Dilly, 1781. 1st ed. (illustrator). …