Life of Edward Livingston, With an Introduction by George Bancroft

Authorial Presentation Copy with Two Livingston Associations Hunt, Charles Havens [1824-1872]. Bancroft, George [1800-1891], Introduction. Life of Edward Livingston. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. xxiv, 448 pp. Frontispiece and plates with tissue guards. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary quarter calf over paper-covered boards, gilt title and ornament to spine. Moderate rubbing, heavier rubbing to extremities, joints starting, corners bumped and somewhat worn, light gatoring to calf, front free endpaper lacking, bookplate of the New-York Historical Society indicating this copy was donated from George A. Zabriskie (and a withdrawn stamp) to front pastedown. Moderate toning, foxing to plates and tissue guards, "Henry N. Beach, Esquire,/ With the kind regards of/ the author" to half-title, early marks in pencil to a few leaves and a few brief notes (citations of U.S. Supreme Court reports) to endleaves, most likely by Beach. $250. * First edition. An early biography of Livingston [1734-1864], the statesman and jurist and primary author of the influential Louisiana Civil Code. A second edition was published in 1873. Beach, the original recipient of our copy, was a New York City lawyer who was related to Livingston. Zabriskie, also related to Livingston, was a notable collector of art, books and manuscripts, and the author of a classic cocktail manual, The Bon Vivant's Companion (1933). He was a member (and sometimes officer) of the Grolier Club, the New-York Historical Society, the Sons of the American Revolution and other cultural and historical organizations. Howes, USIana H-798.…