Rome, Italy: Catholic Church, June 1, 1565. Stunningly colorful and attractive Papal Proclamation, secreterially signed for Pope Pius IV. The document confers: "...we exalt you with honorable titles. Therefore, the Sacred Lateran. Palatine Hall, Knight, Count Palatine, and Knight of the Golden Horde.". Scores of gold leaf letters and words.....
London: Benjamin Motte, 1729. First English Language Edition. Contemporary 3/4 maroon leather with matching marbled paper over boards. titling in gilt on the spine, blue endpapers. Red edging on all three sides and contemporary silk bookmark. This second volume is part of what is hailed as the most important scientific.....
Grand rue [Paris]: A Besancon, De l'impririe de la V Bogillot, c. 1775. Silk cover, near fine, minus less than 10, small wear holes through the silk. Tarnished silver wire filigree loops around the entire perimeter of the book, as well as the spine. Both the front and back cover.....
5.25" x 1.75", signed in ink on clipped letter. Strong clear, light fade at corners, attractively matted beneath an etching of Taney signed in pencil by the artist Alfred Rosenthal Roger Brooke Taney, a graduate of Dickinson College, might well be the most controversial Supreme Court justice in American history.....
