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  William Cooke's The Bankrupt Laws; From the Library of Alexander Hamilton; Signed Twice by Alexander Hamilton and Additionally by his Eldest Son Philip Hamilton

  COOKE, William. [Alexander Hamilton] .

  The Bankrupt Laws.

  London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar, 1793.

  Third edition of this important late-eighteenth-century legal treatise from the library of Alexander Hamilton, signed twice by him and additionally by his eldest son Philip Hamilton. Octavo, bound in full calf with stamping to the spine and panels in blind. Signed by Alexander Hamilton on the title page, “A. Hamilton” and again on the final leaf, "Alexander Hamilton." Additionally signed twice by Hamilton's eldest son Philip Hamilton on the verso of the front board. In November 1801, Philip Hamilton (1782–1801), a recent Columbia College graduate then beginning the study of law, was killed in a duel with the New York attorney George Eacker. The quarrel arose from remarks Eacker had made disparaging Alexander Hamilton, which Philip, then nineteen, took it upon himself to answer. He died of his wound the following day. Less than three years later, on 11 July 1804, his father met Vice President Aaron Burr on the duelling ground at Weehawken and was himself mortally wounded, dying the next afternoon. In good condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Books bearing Alexander Hamilton’s signature are known; examples bearing Philip Hamilton’s signature are markedly uncommon, owing to his early death. Volumes containing the signatures of both father and son together are of th...

  Price: $88,000.00     Item Number: 151910

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