[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
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1.  NIBLACK, William C.  The Law of Voluntary Societies and
Mutual Benefit Insurance.  Callaghan & Company, Chicago, 1888.
Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed; a usable copy only. [50911
L36L46L66] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50911 $ 125.00

First edition of what is seemingly the first work of its kind in
American law, initially treating of 'voluntary', 'friendly' or
'benevolent' societies generally, then focusing on their important
function in providing mutual benefit insurance.

3.  POMEROY, John Norton.  An Introduction to Municipal Law [etc.].
D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1865.  Contemporary sheep,
spotted, covers loose; a usable copy. [50953 ZXYL25L46L55EL66L71E]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50953
                                                         $ 150.00

An important work, seriously mis-titled in modern terms, not
devoted to garbage and utilities, but rather to the entire positive
law of the state, ancient and modern, one of two of Pomeroy's works
termed "brilliantly argued [and] longest enduring".

4.  PYE, Henry James.  Summary of the Duties of a Justice of the
Peace Out of Sessions. With Some Preliminary Observations. Second
Edition.  Printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty
[etc.], London, 1810.  Contemporary speckled calf, a little
chipped, but quite pretty. [42267 L42L68L71EL76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=42267     $ 350.00

The popular work written by Pye while he was both England's Poet
Laureate and a police magistrate, concentrating on the justice out
of session, in matters largely criminal and in circumstances where
a handy work, such as this, was a necessity.

5.  [SCOTLAND].  Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed for
inquiring into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments, of the several
Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice, of the Courts in
Scotland [etc.].  Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed,
[London], 1817.  Original blue printed wraps, chipped but well
preserved; 58 pages. [50863 L44EL55L66] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50863     $ 150.00

A portion of the extensive Parliamentary review of Scotland's
highest court, focusing on its Registers, or private document
repositories (including the Writers to the Signet) and on its Court
of Teinds' (or tithes') ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

6.  [SCOTTISH EXCHEQUER].  Sixth Report of the Commissioners
Appointed for inquiring into the Duties, Salaries, Fees and
Emoluments, of the several Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of
Justice, of the Courts in Scotland. Court of Exchequer.  Ordered,
by the House of Commons, to be Printed, [London], 1819.  Original
blue wraps, stitching loosening, but very fresh; 99 pages. [50862
L54L66] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50862
                                                         $ 150.00

One of several impressive reports prepared in the early 19th
century on the Scots courts and legal system, in this case its
Exchequer and its officers, clerks and functionaries; with an
appendix of reports, testimony, and other matters.

7.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  The Dialogue in English, betweene
a Doctor of Divinitie and a Student in the Lawes of England.
Printed for the Company of Stationers, London, 1623.  Calf,
rebacked, the original spine laid down, ex-library; usable. [50940
CXYL33EL47EL48L64E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50940     $ 450.00

An early edition of the classic work on English equity, cast in the
form of a dialogue between a student of English law and a doctor of
divinity, "intellectually satisfying [and written in a] lucid and
economical English prose style".

8.  STIRLING, James Hutchison.  Lectures on the Philosophy of Law,
Together with Whewell and Hegel, and Hegel and Mr. W.R. Smith
[etc.].  Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1873.  Original green
cloth, worn, the back hinge cracked, but sound. [51252 L23L42L68]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=51252
                                                         $ 250.00

The lectures delivered in November, 1871, to the Juridical Society
of Edinburgh by one of the foremost Scots Hegelians (and Kantians),
whose work on the former in particular was well regarded by Laski.

9.  WILSON, George.  Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the
King's Courts at Westminster, In Two Parts [without the Third Part,
which appeared separately in 1775]. Two Volumes in One.  Printed by
His Majesty's Law-Printers, London, 1770.  Contemporary calf,
joints cracked, lacking label; usable only. [50874] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50874     $ 200.00

10.  WOOLSEY, Theodore D.  Introduction to the Study of
International Law, Designed as an Aid in Teaching, and in
Historical Studies. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged.  Scribner,
Armstrong & Co., New York, 1875.  Contemporary cloth, gilt, a good
copy. [51274 L29EL52E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=51274     $ 175.00

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