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Miscellaneous Pamphlets, 19th-Century -- 18 pamphlets in one vol., most 8vo, on contemporary legal, humanitarian and finacial issues, several inscribed by or to Reuben H.Walworth, contemporary half calf (rubbed), including:
1. Bentham (Jeremy): Defence of Usury ... in a Series of Letters to a Friend to Which is Added a Letter to Adam Smith, Esq. L.L.D., Albany, by Croswll, Van Benthusyen and Burt, 1837, 60pp. (? lacking a preliminary)
2. Tallmadge (Daniel): Review of the Opinion of Judge Cowen, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in the Case of Alexander McLeod, New York, by N.T.Eldredge, 1841, 44pp.
3. How Shall the Lawyers Be Paid, New York, Alexander S.Gould, 1840, 32pp.,
4. A Brief Account of the Tyrannical Imprisonment of Thomas Birch, New York, 1837, 12mo, 12pp.
5. Field (Edwin): Obsevations of a Solicitor on Defects in the Offices, Practice, and System of Costs of the Equity Courts, London, William Pickering, 1840, 102pp.
6. Sedgewick (Theodore): A Statement of Facts in Relation to the Delays and Arrears of Business in the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, New York, Alex.S.Gould, 1838, 80pp.
7. Examination of the Charges of the Board of Trade against the Phenix Bank, New York, by M.B.Long, 34pp. (title cleanly torn)
8. Correpondence between the Commisioners of New York Appointed to Revise the Laws of that State, and Anthony Hammond, London, by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1826, 32pp.
9. The Power of Congress over the District of Columbia, New York, published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838, 58pp.
10. Butler (Benjamin): Plan for the Organization of a Law Faculty and for a System of Instruction in Legal Science in the University of the City of New York, New York, the University Press, 1835, 40pp.