A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Four Parts: I) Of the Owners of Merchant Ships; II) Of the Persons Employed in the Navigation Thereof; III) Of the Carriage of Goods Therein; IV) Of the Wages of the Merchant Seamen. Enlarged with an Addenda Relative to Some Laws and Customs of the United States.
Philadelphia: Printed by James Humphreys for Cushing and Appleton, 1802. First US Edition. Hardcover. First US edition published the same year as the British. xvi, [17]-342pp + [4]pp of subscribers' names and [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, gilt lettering..... More