The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819-1947, in Two Volumes: Volume I: The Predecessor Firms, 1819-1906; Volume II: The Cravath Firm Since 1906

xxi, 782; xxvii, 798 pp. Two volume set. A history of the law firm co-founded by William H. Seward, who later served as U.S. Secretary of State, and negotiated the purchase of the Alaskan Territory (i.e., "Seward's Folly").