[Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  A BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott.  The Comic Blackstone. Not in Eller.
Published at the Punch Office, 92, Fleet-Street, London, 1846.
Modern burgandy straight grain calf, extra gilt; attractive. [47994
L19L23EL51L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47994     $ 450.00

First edition in book form of the highly successful and
sophisticated spoof parodying Blackstone closely while giving free
reign to A'Beckett's acerbic views of just about every legal
writer; with the famed illustrations by George Cruikshank.

2.  [ANCIENT WELSH LAW].  William Probert (trans.).  The Ancient
Laws of Cambria: Containing the Institutional Triads of Dyvnwal
Moelmud, the Laws of Howel the Good, Triadical Commentaries, Code
of Education, and the Hunting Laws of Wales, to Which are Added,
the Historical Triads of Britain.  Sold by E. Williams, No. 11,
Strand [and others] [etc.], London, 1823.  Later crimson cloth,
lacking a free endpaper, but sound. [46853 L16L55L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46853     $ 450.00

The first English translation, (and incidentally the first
valuation of dogs in Britain), of the Laws of Howell the Good,
which date to the ninth century and were recently described as "the
greatest intellectual achievement of mediaeval Wales".

3.  [CALIFORNIA].  [David Price Belknap].  Bancroft's California
Lawyer and Book of Forms; Containing Instructions for Ordinary
Transactions [etc.].  H.H. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco,
1860.  Contemporary sheep, stained and worn; usable. [47178 L20L47]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47178
                                                         $ 250.00

4.  [CARE, Henry].  English Liberties: Or, the Free-born Subject's
Inheritance [etc.].  Printed and Sold by Benj. Harris, London,
1799(?).  Later 1/2 sheep, title and one leaf torn with some loss;
embrowned. [48007 L17EL26EL40EL66E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=48007     $ 450.00

5.  [CHARLES I].  Jean Latch.  Plusieurs Tres-bons Cases, Come ils
estoyent adjudgees es Trois Premiers ans du Raign du feu Roy
Charles le Premier en La Court de Bank le Roy [etc.]. Wing L537.
Printed by T.R. for H. Twyford, T. Dring, and J. Place [etc.],
London, 1661.  Early calf, a bit defective, yet quite clean and
sound. [47813 XYL18L33EL42EL54L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47813     $ 350.00

The first edition of Latch's Reports, containing cases during the
first four, crucial years of the reign of Charles I, culminating
with the Petition of Right in 1628; so far as I can determine, the
only reports devoted exclusively to this period.

6.  GRADY, Thomas.  No. III, or The Nosegay; Being the Third Letter
of the Country Post-Bag, From the Man to the Monster. Second
Edition.  Printed for the Author, Dublin, 1816.  Modern 3/4 calf
over marbled boards, quite nice. [47025] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47025     $ 350.00

7.  [HALE, MATTHEW].  The Perjur'd Fanatick: Or, the Malicious
Conspiracy of Sir John Croke. . .Justice of Peace. . .Henry
Larimore, Anabaptist preacher, And other fanaticks, Against the
Life of Robert Hawkins. . .Before the Right Honourable, Sir Matthew
Hale. . .Third Edition.  Printed for, and sold by, J. Wilford at
the Crown [etc.], London, 1728.  Quite a nice, new 1/4 calf over
marbled boards, spine richly gilt. [48171] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=48171     $ 650.00

Not in the 1909 Harvard Law Catalogue.

8.  [HALE, Matthew].  The History and Analysis of the Common Law of
England.  Printed by J. Nutt, Assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq [etc.],
[London], 1713.  Modern panelled calf, quite embrowned, but a sound
copy. [47577 XYL17L67EL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47577   $ 1,500.00

First edition of what may properly be called the first general
history of English law, focusing (as Pollock and Maitland were to
do) on the earlier centuries, ending with comparisons of Welsh,
Irish and Scots law, and an examination of trial by jury.

10.  [KENT, JAMES].  Joseph Willard.  An Address to the Members of
the Bar of Worcester County [etc.]. Cohen 8570 [not noting an
errata slip present in this copy].  Carter, Andrews, and Company,
Lancaster, 1830.  Modern 1/4 calf, some lightish embrowning, but a
good copy. [47040 L42L55L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47040     $ 450.00

James Kent's copy (presented to him by the author) of a major essay
on the bench and bar of Massachusetts from its inception, with
biographical vignettes of dozens of its members and general
observations on the common law's evolution in the state.

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