O Tratado Anglo-Portuguez de 26 de Dezembro de 1878. O Sr. João de Andrade Corvo e Os povos da India Portugeza. Seguido da traducção do Bombay Abkary Act 1878 por Constancio Roque da Costa by [Goa] - 1879

Paris: Pagnerre, 1839. Hard Cover. Good +. [4], 135, [1] p.; 20 cm. Disbound. An account of the trial against the Messager by the ex-prefect of Police and State Councilor Joseph Henri Gisquet (1792-1866) for accusing him of fraud and financial offenses. In Good+ Condition: light foxing throughout; otherwise, clean and solid.

Philadelphia: Kay & Brother, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. 8, 791 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf; black spine labels reading: Smith's Forms of Procedure Pennsylvania." Small stamp on front fixed endpaper and title page verso: "Law Office of Thomas Lack, 115 North High St., West Chester, Pa." Blank leaf following front free endpaper inscribed: "Thomas Lack April 28th, 1891" and "Geo. Guier Cardwell." A few notations; small slip tipped in between p. 162 and p. 163 (section on decedents). Includes 65 items under Lunatics and Habitual Drunkards. In Very Good Condition: both boards have been sensatively re-attached by conservator, whose report is available on request; lacking original leather spine labels, which have been reproduced in period style; small loss of leather at ends of spine; occasional soiling, primarily in the table of contents. A solid copy of this mid-19th-century Pennsylvania legal form book.

Harrisburg: Pennsylvania General Assembly, 1849. Paperback. Very Good. 15, [1] p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "5" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Light marginal pencil marks throughout. No date of publication. Information in the publication goes up to 1848; the State Library of Pennsylvania gives 1849 as the year of publication. Lawyer and judge Garrick Mallery (1784-1866) served in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1827 to 1830. He was the father of Garrick Mallery (1831-1894), an ethnologist who specialized in Native American sign language. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; first leaf and last leaf detached but present; light marginal pencil marks; otherwise, clean and tight.

Philadelphia: the committee, 1851. Paperback. Very Good. 8 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "4" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Caption title. The address was put together by a committee chaired by William M. Meredith. The address is followed by a statement by Daniel L. Miller, Jr., president of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, about the railroad proposed to connect Sunbury to Erie. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company had been chartered in 1837, but did not begin construction until 1852, when the state passed enabling legislation. No date of publication; based on information in the address, 1851 is the most likely date. William Morris Meredith (1799-1873) was a lawyer in Philadelphia; he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Zachary Taylor in 1849 and 1850. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; minor foxing along gutter; otherwise, clean and tight.

Edinburgh: James Robertson, 1794. Good. "Carefully corrected, and many sentences added, which, owing to the low tone of voice used by some of the witnesses, are omitted in the London copy. The public may therefore by assured that this is the genuine edition." 195, [1] p., engraved frontispiece portrait; 20 cm. (8vo). Disbound; housed in new brown clamshell box with gilt-tooled spine label. Sold in London by D.I. Eaton, J. Jordan, W. Ramsey, and J. Marsom. Publisher's advertisement for records of the trials of Muir, Palmer, and Skirving on one page following text. ESTC T122114. Maurice Margarot (1745-1815) was one of the founders of the London Corresponding Society, which sought parliamentary reform in England. In 1793 he was arrested and charged with sedition. He was convicted and transported to New South Wales in May 1794. After his return to England in 1810 he testified regarding corruption in New South Wales. In Good Condition: disbound; first (blank) leaf and… Read More

London: Butterworth & Co. 1896, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 570pp. Very good. Index. The spine is slightly discolored, and there is some underlining on a few pages near the front. Originally published as Histoire de la Legislation Romaine et Generalisation du Droit. Revised by John Cutler. Translated by David Nasmith & Iltudus T. Prichard. Locale: Ancient Rome. (Law).

London: William Maxwell & Son, 1876. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [xliv], 962, with a Second part at the end covering the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 pp. [4], 59, [3]. Maroon cloth, sturdily re-backed preserving original spine. Paper spine label worn. Cloth discolored on the lower front cover near the hinge. Small area of discoloration at the bottom of the spine caused by former shelf sticker. Library impress stamp on the title page. "Withdrawn" ticket on inside front cover. Pages are generally clean with a few miniscule marginal tears and a couple of light pencil notations.

John O'Meara State Printer. Good with no dust jacket. 1858. No Edition Stated. Leather Bound. Covers are rubbed w/some small tears, spine edges are cracking and have 2 tears, some foxing and toning, some light soiling; 3 fold-outs, one of which has 4" tear .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. First American Edition. Preface by the Bishop of Exeter, the author's father. Publisher's blue cloth with red border and stamped vignette in gilt. Bindings tight and square. Over opened at page 64/65. Text clean, light even toning some spotting. Moderate handling wear. Corners touched. Illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and photographs. --- 8vo, xvi, 354 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 21 1/2cm. index and notes. In 1891 The Bishop of Exeter accompanied by Miss Bickersteth went to Japan for two months to visit his son the Bishop of Japan This is an admirable account of Japan from the point of view and there is a full description of the earthquake of October 1891 and among other two views of the destruction caused by the earthquake. [The Parents' Review, Volume 4, page 743.]

Chunghwa Post, 2004. Hardcover. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. All stamps and postcards are included in the book. The plastic holders for the postcards on pg. 17-23 are coming slightly unglued. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.