How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

Location and dates vary, largely ca. 1770-1860. In 133 volumes, some containing as few as five pamphlets and some containing as many as 20. Mostly 8vo. Large group of legal tracts on a variety of subjects (largely English-related, the remainder mostly American-related). Each in a library-style buckram binding, many with red and black morocco spine labels; some tracts loose and laid in; each volume with typed contents leaf at front; each pamphlet with ink or blind stamps of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; some pamphlets with contemporary ownership signatures, or gift inscriptions. Condition varies; wear and soiling throughout, many pamphlets starting or sprung; some possibly imperfect.

A very large and extensive legal library formerly belonging to the Bar Association of New York. Legal topics covered include property law, inheritance and wills, marriage, sporting law, copyright, forgery, selection of juries, canon law, and much more. Notable pamphlets include:

1.The Rights of Tithes Asserted by Our Old Saxon Laws... (London: 1653); 2. The Wickedness of a Disregard to Oaths... (London: 1723); 3. Some Considerations on the Game Laws... (London: A. Dodd, 1753); 4. Sharpe, Granville. A Tract on Dueling... (London: B. White 1790); 5. Paulding, James Kirke. The United States and England: Being a Reply to the Criticism, or Ichiquin's Letters (New York: A.H. Inskeep, 1815); 6. Webster, Daniel. Report Upon the Constitutional Rights and Privileges of Harvard College... (Russell and Gardiner, 1821); 7. Pamphlets regarding the Greek Frigates Incident of 1826, such as Report of the Evidence and Reasons of Award..., Refutation of the Reasons Assigned by the Arbitrators..., A Vindication of the Conduct and Character of Henry D. Sedgwick...; 8. An Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt... (Albany: Croswell, Van Bethuyson, 1831); 9. Adams, John Quincy. The Jubilee of the Constitution... (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839); 10. (Greely, Horace). Mr. Greely's Letters from Texas and the Lower Mississippi... (New York: Tribune Office, 1871); and many, many others.