Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1857. Full Leather. near Good binding. Item #10562
Octavo. 8 (adverts), xxxiii, [3], 666 pp. Fifth edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. In contemporary sheep with morocco title label. Front board is detached; binding is moderately to heavily rubbed; contents generally and evenly toned with some scattered age spotting.
Previous owner name of Geo. G. Gratton. One wonders if this is perhaps the partner in the firm, Roller and Gratton that practiced in western VA in the 19th century. Additionally, a modern bookplate, both on the front pastedown. Marvin write of this work: "The whole work is marked with that ample and redundant learning and vigorous good sense, which have given his previous legal writings so high an authority, both in England and America. He has every where illustrated the doctrines of the common law, by copious extracts from distinguished writers on Roman and Continental law, and shown us how inevitably the exigences of commerce, and the sense which intelligent merchants have of their own true interests, lead to the same principles in commercial law in England, Scotland, France, and America" Marvin, p. 672.
Price: $125.00