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

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  [KAMES, Henry Home, Lord].  Statute Law of Scotland Abridged.
With Historical Notes. The Second Edition.  Printed for A. Kincaid
and J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1769.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, showing
definite wear, but a good clean copy. [70430 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70430     $ 450.00

Lord Kames' summary of Scots statute law from the earliest times,
superior to all prior efforts, still of utility, and "particularly
important for its valuable historical notes"; with the documentary
appendix not found in the first edition.

3.  [MALEFACTORS' REGISTER].  The Malefactors' Register; Or Bloody
Calendar: Containing Genuine . . . Narratives of the Lives, Trials
& Dying Speeches of Some of the Most Notorious Criminals, Who Have
Suffered Death or Other Punishments, in Great Britain, Ireland and
America. Cohen 12109.  Printed by Hardcastle & Van Pelt, No. 86,
Nassau-Street, New-York, 1813.  Modern sheep, browning and foxing,
sometimes severe, some leaves repaired or strengthened, last leaf
with loss, though legible; still a usable copy. [70533 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70533   $ 1,250.00

Only edition of the first work published in this country collecting
criminal trials of all kinds, including murder, coining, piracy,
burglary, abduction and witchcraft; uncommon, six copies in OCLC,
none in RLIN; with the six plates.

4.  MAXWELL, W. Harold (comp.).  A Catalogue of Modern Law Books,
British and Colonial; With A Selection of such Old Works as are
still of value [etc.].  Sweet and Maxwell, Limited, 3, Chancery
Lane, Law Publishers, London, 1895.  Modern maroon cloth, the
original wraps bound in, occasional pencil marks in the appendices,
ex-Royal Historical Society; a sound copy. [70364 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70364     $ 350.00

First edition of what has become the pre-eminent legal bibliography
of the English-speaking world and the former British Empire,
arranged alphabetically, with many items priced and with
chronological lists of Reports for England and elsewhere.

5.  [POUND AND LLEWELLYN].  Roscoe Pound.  Interpretations of
Legal History. Setaro 118.  The Macmillan Company, New York, 1923.
Original crimson cloth, gilt, somewhat worn and faded, a bit
strained, but a good copy; with a number of annotations, possibly
Llewellyn's. [70506 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70506     $ 850.00

Presentation copy of Pound's "masterly panoramic" (in Holmes'
words) "From / K N Llewellyn / Columbia Law School 1930 / to Sterry
Waterman / with affection as deep as is my / admiration 1960" and
"With every good wish / Roscoe Pound / 1961".

6.  SALKELD, William.  Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of
King's Bench: with Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery,
Common Pleas and Exchequer. The Fourth Edition . . . by Knightley
d'Anvers . . . And the Pleadings now first done into English. Two
Volumes in One.  Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for T. Osborne in
Gray's Inn, [London], 1742.  Modern 1/4 calf, some dustiness, small
loss to the last index leaf, else a good clean copy, with a number
of careful, substantive annotations. [70565 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70565     $ 450.00

Salkeld's respected reports, published under the supervision of
Lord Hardwicke, praised by Holdworth, and often found in early
American libraries (Jefferson and John Adams, inter alia); a third
volume "not designed for publication" appeared later.

7.  SAUNDERS, Edmund.  Les Reports Du Tres Erudite Edmund Saunders
. . . Des Divers Pleadings et Cases En le Court del Bank le Roy en
le Temps del Reign sa Tres Excellent Majesty Le Roy Charles le II.
In Two Volumes [in one]. The Second Edition [etc.].  Printed by E.
and R. Nutt and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1722.  Modern 1/4 calf
over marbled boards, morocco label, gilt, occasional dustiness and
foxing, but in general a very good, clean copy. [70456 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70456     $ 850.00

The best early edition of Saunder's renowned reports, bracketed
with Coke's and Plowden's by Holdsworth, calling them "by a long
way, the most famous reports of this period"; with the English
translation of selected cases complementing the French.

8.  SHEPPARD, William.  Englands Balme: or, Proposals By way of
Grievance & Remedy; Humbly presented to His Highness and the
Parliament: Towards the Regulation of the Law, And better
Administration of Justice [etc.]. Wing S3183.  Printed by J.
Cottrel, for Hen: Fletcher [etc.], London, 1657.  Contemporary
sheep, quite worn and scraped, browning and some staining, yet a
crisp if fragile copy; without the vertical half-title. [70394 L77]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70394
                                                       $ 1,500.00

Sheppard's greatest work, called "the most comprehensive design for
the reform of English law and society published in the seventeenth
century" and, by John Baker, "a coherent programme of reform
[which] seems remarkably prophetic".

9.  TREMENHEERE, Hugh Seymour.  The Constitution of the United
States, Compared with Our Own.  John Murray, Albemarle Street,
London, 1854.  Modern boards, paper label, a good clean copy.
[70409 L77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70409     $ 250.00

Represented as the first attempt to make the United States
Constitution accessible to the English public, modelled upon
Story's Commentaries and dependent on it, on Kent's Commentaries,
the Federalist, and St. George Tucker's Blackstone, inter alia.

10.  WENTWORTH, Thomas.  Office and Duty of Executors: Or, A
Treatise of Wills and Executors, directed to Testators . . . To
which is added An Appendix, wherein are the nature of Testaments,
Executors, Legataries general . . . shortly Methodized [etc.]. Wing
M442 & W1362.  Printed for Henry Twyford in Vine Court, Middle
Temple, London, 1676.  Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked,
discreetly ex-library, else quite a good, crisp copy. [70339
ACTL77] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70339
                                                         $ 850.00

An early edition of the first treatise on executors written from a
common law (as opposed to an ecclesiastical law) standpoint,
praised by Holdsworth and published well into the 19th century,
this the first edition to contain Thomas Manley's appendix.

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