A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, with some of his professional and miscellaneous writings (2 vols.)
Boston: Liittle, Brown, and Company, 1879. Hardcover. Green cloth, 2 vols., 490, 440 pp., 2 BW plates as frontispieces. G+ (Ex-library, with usual library markings, bookplate on front inside cover, pocket at back inside cover, perforation stamp used on illus., pages are aging particularly at top, hinges are loose esp. front of v.1, no djs, covers show moderate wear with rubbed corners and spines, overall not too bad.). Item #135097
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874) served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1851-1857, and was therefore involved in the Dred Scott decision. His son Benjamin R. Curtis compiled these volumes and used as a base a memoir written by his uncle, George Ticknor Curtis.
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