A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nations [with] An Essay on.Usury Chitty, Joseph; Ord, Mark Antiquarian & Scholarly

2 works in 1. London, 1812 & 1809. A Handsome Volume with an Gladstone Association Chitty, Joseph [1776-1841]. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nations, Relative to the Legal Effect of War on the Commerce of Belligerents and Neutrals; And on Orders in Council and Licences. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons [et al.], 1812. xii, 296 pp. [Bound with] Ord, Mark [1772-1805]. An Essay on the Law of Usury. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, Law Booksellers, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1809. [xiv], 190, [26] pp. Two titles in one volume. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"; 21 x 13 cm). Contemporary or near-contemporary three-quarter calf over plain paper-covered boards, gilt fillets and title to spine. Light spotting to boards, negligible light rubbing and shelfwear to extremities, light foxing and faint offsetting to endpapers, private library bookplate ("Fasque," of the Gladstone family library at Fasque House) to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, occasional light foxing (mostly contained to first quarter of text block), faint dampstaining to upper outside corner of last four leaves of A Practical Treatise. A very good volume. $1,800. * Practical Treatise: first edition; Essay: third and final edition. Chitty was one of the most wide-ranging and prolific legal writers of the nineteenth century. This treatise and an edition of Beawes's Lex Mercatoria (1813) were his two contributions to international law. Marvin's Legal Bibliography, though critical of the Practical Treatise, finds merit in its digest of Sir William Scott's judgments in prize cases (190). The work is also interesting because it summarizes the British view of wartime commerce at the outbreak of the War of 1812, a point Chitty makes in the Preface. An Essay on the Law of Usury was first published in London in 1797. A popular and practical work published in both England and America, it covers English, Irish and American decisions and has a robust index and table of cases. Ord was a barrister based in London and York. Fasque House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland was purchased in 1829 by John Gladstone [1764-1851], the father of future prime minister William Ewart Gladstone [1809-1898]. The younger Gladstone was largely responsible for the development of the family's impressive private library. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of t.