SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON ALABAMA QUESTIONS. BY GEO. H. YEAMAN.
[Copenhagen: Fritz Moller, 1867]. Stitched with caption title as issued. Narrow remnant of original wrappers at inner margin of title and last leaf. Schuyler Colfax's copy, with presentation inscription from Yeaman: "Hon S Colfax with the regards of his friend Geo H Yeaman". Colfax, an early Republican, had been Speaker of the House, Grant's first vice president, and an Indiana Congressman. Lightly dusted, short chip at blank lower margin of title leaf. Good plus.
Yeaman [1829 - 1908] was a Kentuckian, a lawyer, and a Union Congressman 1862-1865. He provided a crucial vote to enact the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery and lost his seat in the House. He was Ambassador to Denmark when he wrote this essay on maritime captures.
This copy, with the presentation to Colfax, was originally catalogued by Ernie Wessen in his Midland Notes catalog 41 in 1948 [see Rare Book Hub]. Yeaman discusses the "extremely interesting, if not entirely new, questions of international law, some of them so sharp, and well defined, that they cannot, with any degree of convenience, remain long unsettled, especially while maritime capture, either by privateers of public armed cruisers, is recognized as a substantive and legitimate mode of hostility,"
OCLC records eleven locations under several accession numbers as of June 2026. Item #42125
Price: $250.00