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1.  JONES, William.  An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing
Riots. With a Constitutional Plan of Future Defence [etc.]. Second
Edition.  Printed for C. Dilly, in The Poultry, London, 1782.
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a bit embrowned; attractive.
[49111 L23EL28EL33EL47L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49111     $ 650.00

The expanded edition of Jones' first legal and political polemic,
arising out of the Gordon Riots, invoking the spirit of Selden,
Locke and Milton in his proposals to avoid martial law and defend
the realm civilly via a version of the posse comitatus.

2.  MAINWARING, Thomas.  A Reply to an Answer to the Defence of
Amicia, Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester.  Printed for S.
Lowndes [etc.], London, 1673.  Modern blind-ruled calf, quite
attractive. [49583 L24L47EL48EL65EL75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49583     $ 450.00

3.  POWELL, John Joseph.  An Essay upon the Learning of Devises,
from Their Inception by Writing to Their Consummation by the Death
of the Devisor. Cohen 4724.  Published by Brisban and Brannan, No.
1, City-Hotel, New-York, 1807.  Contemporary sheep, rubbed and
chafed, embrowned, but still sound. [49487 L24L43L51EL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49487     $ 350.00

The first work on the law of devises to appear in this country, one
of two by Powell (the other his pioneering work on powers) which
Holdsworth calls "equally able", first published while Powell was
likely a pupil of Fearne some twenty years before.

4.  REEVE, Tapping.  The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and
Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the
Powers of Courts of Chancery.  With an Essay on the terms, Heir,
Heirs, and Heirs of the Body.  Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven,
1816.  Contemporary calf, worn, some staining, well rebacked;
sound. [49579 L24L49EL63EL64EL71E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49579   $ 1,250.00

First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of
women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law
school, at Litchfield.

5.  ROBINSON, Thomas.  The Common Law of Kent: or, the Customs of
Gavelkind. With an Appendix Concerning Borough-English. Second
Edition.  Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers, for P. Uriel
[etc.], London, 1788.  Modern 1/4 calf, some foxing, yet still
attractive. [49506 L23L42L50EL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49506     $ 450.00

The principal work on the custom of gavelkind, peculiar to Kent and
significantly different from the English law of inheritance and
intestacy, providing much comparative value; first published in
1741, Robinson's work appeared as late as 1897.

6.  [SOMERS, John, Baron].  The Judgment of Whole Kingdoms and
Nations, Concerning the Rights, Power, and Prerogative of Kings .
.Fifth Edition.  Printed for, and sold by T. Harrison [etc.],
London, 1710.  Modern 1/4 calf, some embrowning, but quite sound.
[49355] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49355
                                                         $ 450.00

7.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  The Dialogue in English, betweene
a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England.
Printed by the Assignes of John More, Esquire, [London], 1638.
Modern 1/4 morocco, title repaired, embrowned but sound. [49366
L28NYL33L47EL48EL64] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49366     $ 650.00

An early 17th century edition of the first classic of English
equity, recently described as "a brilliant, comprehensive and
intellectually satisfying attempt to construct a systematic theory
of law within an English context".

8.  STAUNFORD, William.  An Exposition of the Kinges Praerogatiue
collected out of the great Abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert, and
other old Writers of the Lawes of England [etc.]. S.T.C. 23217;
Beale T496.  Imprinted . . . in Fleet-streat . . . by Richard
Totthil, London, 1590.  Modern full calf, 16th century style,
attractively blind tooled. [49499 L23L53EL64L69EL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49499   $ 1,500.00

One of the first English legal treatises of substance to
concentrate on a discrete subject area of the law, in this case the
powers of the King upon such matters as marriage, wardship, idiots,
lunatics, escheats and wrecks, among other matters.

9.  [TURNER, Thomas].  The Case of the Bankers and Their Creditors
[etc.].  n.p., [London], 1675.  19th century 3/4 brown morocco,
rubbed but quite sound. [49424 L28E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49424     $ 850.00

10.  [VATTEL, Emerich de].  Le Droit Des Gens. Ou Principes de la
Loi Naturelle, Appliques a la conduite & aux affaires des Nations
& des Souverains. Two Volumes.  N.p., London [i.e. Neuchatel],
1758.  Contemporary boards, well worn, else a lovely, fresh
untrimmed set. [49497 L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49497   $ 3,500.00

First edition of one of the most influential treatises on
international law ever written, particularly so in this country,
grouped by Jefferson with the works of Grotius, Pufendorf and
Wolff, and cited more than any other by early American courts.

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