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

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
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1.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. Four
Volumes.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979.  Original
wraps, as new. [70379] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70379     $ 110.00

The facsimile re-issue in paperback of the first edition printed at
Oxford between 1765 and 1769; with four brief scholarly
introductions, one for each volume.

2.  BROOM, Herbert.  A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classified and
Illustrated. Cohen 5379.  T. and J.W. Johnson, Law Booksellers,
No.5 Minor Street, Philadelphia, 1845.  Original sheep, crudely
rebacked, ex-Minnesota Territorial Library (with a lengthy and
unusual manuscript de-accession statement), else a clean copy.
[70393 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70393   $ 1,250.00

First American edition of Broom's most famous work and likely the
most popular work on legal maxims ever published, praised by
Holdsworth, each maxim stated, translated, its source provided, and
Broom's essay (extensively annotated) then exploring it.

3.  [CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N.].  Cyrus Adler.  Lectures, Selected
Papers, Addresses, Collected and published by his colleagues and
friends on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, September 13,
1933.  Privately Printed, Philadelphia, 1933.  Original dark cloth,
a bit rubbed and faded, yet a good, clean copy. [70521] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70521     $ 650.00

Justice Cardozo's copy, with his posthumous bookplate (depicting
him in profile) on the front pastedown, reflecting his lifelong
commitment to Jewish affairs and his wide-ranging reading, "the
other source that informed his judicial career".

4.  [COURT OF SESSION].  The Case of Mr. Patrick Haldane, Advocate:
With Some Remarks upon His Defence.  Printed [by Thomas Ruddiman],
[Edinburgh], 1723.  Modern marbled boards, paper label, title quite
dusty with pen squiggles, margins cut close affecting some
catchwords and page numerals; sound. [70336 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70336     $ 350.00

A hugely inflammatory polemic accusing Haldane of bribery,
corruption, "drinking the Pretender's health", and much else,
arising from his nomination to the Court of Session and resulting
in the Court's losing its veto power over those appointed to it.

5.  DAVIS, Derek.  The Perspective of William H. Rehnquist on the
First Amendment Religion Clauses in the Light of the Original
Intent of the Framers.  Privately Printed, Waco, 1988.  Original
green buckram, gilt, double-spaced typescript, photocopied on the
rectos only, oversized, well-preserved; one copy only in OCLC.
[70517 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70517     $ 150.00

Mr Davis' Master's Thesis at Baylor, forming the basis for his 1991
work "Original Intent, Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of
American/Church State Relations", and leading to his association
with Baylor's Institute of Church-State Studies.

6.  [ERSKINE, THOMAS].  Proceedings in Cases of High Treason, Under
a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, Which Was First Opened
at Hicks's Hall, Oct. 2, 1794, and Afterwards Continued at the
Sessions House, in the Old Bailey. The Second Edition.  Printed for
James Ridgeway . . . and H.D. Symonds [etc.], London, 1794.
Original paper-backed blue boards, a bit of foxing and pencilling,
some browning, ex-Essex Institute, in a later informal
"dustjacket"; a clean copy. [70428 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70428     $ 850.00

The rare second edition reporting "one of the great speeches of
[Erskine's] career", securing Hardy's acquittal in the first major
treason trial of 1794, as the French Revolution's effects swirled
throughout England; no copy in England in ESTC.

7.  [ERSKINE, THOMAS].  The Trial of Robert Gordon, Esq. for
Adultery with Mrs. Biscoe, Wife of the Plaintiff, Joseph Seymour
Biscoe, Esq. before Lord Chief Justice Kenyon and a Special Jury.
N.p., [London], [1794].  Modern 1/4 calf, joints cracking,
ex-library, drop-head title, possibly extracted from a larger work;
with two plates. [70474 W0*] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70474     $ 450.00

An unusual case in which Erskine represented the defendant and,
even more unusually, was unsuccessful, with the jury awarding 5,000
pounds damages; with Erskine's jury address reported at length,
including a delicate handling of Lord Kenyon's views.

8.  GOEBEL, JR., Julius.  Felony and Misdemeanor, A Study in the
History of Criminal Law. Volume I [all published].  The
Commonwealth Fund, New York, 1937.  Original cloth, in a chipped
dustjacket, bookplate removed, else a very good copy. [70384]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70384
                                                         $ 250.00

Original edition of a classic, praised by Plucknett as "a book of
great distinction", part of a larger work Goebel never completed
and giving us "the best and most complete treatment in English of
European criminal procedure".

9.  HARPER, Fowler Vincent.  A Treatise on the Law of Torts, A
Preliminary Treatise on Civil Liability for Harms to Legally
Protected Interests. Second Printing.  The Bobbs-Merrill Company,
Indianapolis, 1937.  Presentation copy "To Lillian Tooffer, with /
affectionate regards / Fowler Harper"; original blue buckram, gilt,
a bit of browning, but a good copy. [70458 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70458     $ 250.00

The work which launched Harper's career as one of the principal
torts scholars of this century, said by Francis Bohlen (whose
contributions Harper acknowledges) to be "the most satisfactory
statement of modern tort law that exists".

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