A Practical Treatise upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in Criminal Prosecutions
by Daniel Davis
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Sold as a scarce edition despite difficult condition. An ex-college library copy with marking to the spine and front endpaper, otherwise quite clean, paper supple and ready for binding. This is the original publisher's issuance, with temporary boards and ready to bind according to the customer's wishes as was the custom at the time. Octavo, 10" tall, viii + 687 pages, publisher's boards. A good hard cover overall with general exterior shelf wear, boards stained, hinges broken and front cover loose, paper back strip chipped; interior very good, binding solid, paper supple and lightly yellowed with moderate foxing throughout primarily at the gutters.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35053
- Title
- A Practical Treatise upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in Criminal Prosecutions
- Author
- Daniel Davis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cummings, Hilliard & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1824
- Keywords
- Legal Procedure; Legal History; Common Law; Courts; Crime; Justice
- Bookseller catalogs
- Law;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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