[Rarebooks] 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
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1.  MURFREE, W. L.  A Treatise on the Law of Official Bonds and
Other Penal Bonds.  T.H. Flood & Company, Chicago, 1885.
Contemporary sheep, definitely rubbed, but clean and sound. [41769
L37] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=41769
                                                          $ 75.00

3.  [PROSTITUTION].  Report of the Senate Vice Committee Created
Under the Authority of the Senate of the Forty-Ninth General
Assembly As A Continuation of the Committee Created Under the
Authority of the Senate of the Forty-Eighth General Assembly State
of Illinois.  1916.  Blue cloth, gilt, showing wear but quite
sound. [41790 W0*] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=41790     $ 125.00

4.  [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.
Contemporary sheep, early paper label, rubbed but quite fresh.
[50165 L20L33EL47EL48EL64E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50165     $ 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.

5.  WARREN, Samuel.  Ten Thousand A-Year. In Three Volumes.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1848.  Contemporary polished
calf, extra gilt, exceptionally pretty. [50694 L22EL49] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50694     $ 350.00

6.  WASHBURN, Peter T.  A Digest of All the Cases Decided in the
Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, As Reported in N. Chipman's,
Tyler's, Brayton's, D. Chipman's, and Aiken's Reports [and others]
Together with Many Manuscript Cases Not Hitherto Reported. BEAL
5607.  Published By Haskell & Palmer, Woodstock, 1845.
Contemporary sheep, rubbed and worn, but usable. [41784 XYL40E]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=41784
                                                         $ 150.00

The only edition of the first digest of Vermont's reports,
unrecorded in the National Union Catalogue and seemingly the first
independent work of Washburn, then clerk to court and later the
state's governor; without the second supplementary volume.

7.  WRIGHT, Andrew.  Court-Hand Restored or, the Student's
Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records . . . Neatly
Engraved on Twenty-Three Copper-Plates, Describing The Old Law
Hands, with their Contractions and Abbreviations [etc.]. Eighth
Edition.  John Camden Hotten, 74 Piccadilly, London, 1867.  Morocco
backed crimson boards, marbled endpapers; rubbed but nice. [19173
L39L56EL62E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=19173     $ 175.00

The penultimate edition of the first extensive work examining the
paleography of early English legal documents; with 23 full-page
plates and a brief glossography of Latin words.

9.  [YORKE, Charles].  Some Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture
for High Treason. With an Appendix concerning Estates-tail in
Scotland. The Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged.  Printed for
Alexander Donaldson [etc.], Edinburgh, 1778.  Modern mottled calf,
light embrowning and staining; attractive. [50700 L67] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50700     $ 450.00

Yorke's principal legal work, in which he argues persuasively that
forfeiture and corruption of blood are justifiable consequences of
treason, examining forfeiture in Athenian, Roman, Jewish and feudal
law; uncommon, no copy in the British Library.

10.  The Arguments of Sir Richard Hutton Knight, One of the Judges
of the Common Pleas: And Sir George Croke Knight, One of the Judges
of the Kings Bench: Together with The Certificate of Sir John
Denham Knight, One of the Barons of the Exchequer [etc].  Printed
by M. Flesher and R. Young, London, 1641.  [50769 L16EL48E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50769     $ 350.00

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