[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.  [AMERICA'S OLD BAILEY].  The New-York City-Hall Recorder,
Volume III, No. 11.  N.p., [New-York], 1818.  Self-wraps, disbound
and browned, ex-library, a working copy; 32pp. [68661 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68661     $ 125.00

Early American crime reporting comparable to the Old Bailey
Proceedings, those held at the New York City's Mayor's Court, four
cases, including one substantial matter involving lottery
swindling, with Ogden Hoffman representing the defendant.

2.  BENTHAM, Jeremy.  Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially
Applied to English Practice. Five Volumes.  Fred B. Rothman & Co.,
Littleton, 1995.  The facsimile reissue of the original 1827 London
edition. [68405 XYL73L74E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68405     $ 350.00

The work which has been called Bentham's "legal masterpiece" and
which may lay claim as his greatest contribution to intellectual
thought, edited at Bentham's request by John Stuart Mill, whose
contribution Bentham insisted be acknowledged.

3.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. Four
Volumes. Eller 1.  Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1765-69.
Contemporary calf, rebacked, joints rubbed; a good, usable set.
[67979 XY] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67979  $ 15,000.00

First edition of the pre-eminently collectible work of
Anglo-American law, the principal fruits of Blackstone's Vinerian
Professorship at Oxford, the first legal chair in the English
speaking world whose first occupant was Blackstone.

4.  [BLACKSTONE, William].  The Case of the Late Election for the
County of Middlesex, Considered On the Principles of the
Constitution, and the Authorities of Law. Not separately listed in
Eller, who also does not list the London variant printings of 1769;
compare Eller 231. Quarto.  Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr.
Millar) in the Strand, London, 1769.  Modern calf, very light
browning, a good, wide-margined copy; with the half-title. [67958
L73L78E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67958   $ 2,500.00

Blackstone's passionate invocation of the common law as the source
of the House of Common's power to expel a member, and his principal
contribution to English constitutional law outside the
Commentaries; not seen by Eller and surprisingly uncommon.

5.  BULLER, Francis.  An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials
at Nisi Prius. The Fifth Edition, Corrected; With Additions to the
Present Time.  Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall . . . for R.
Pheney [etc.], London, 1790.  Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, else
a good clean copy. [68524 L73] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68524     $ 450.00

The work which won renown for Buller, protege of Mansfield and
appointed a King's Bench judge at a very youthful 32, designed for
'nisi prius' trials, that is, those in the country and not at
Westminster; with a closing part on trial issues.

6.  COKE, Edward.  The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of
England: Containing The Exposition of many ancient, and other
Statutes, Whereof you may see the particulars in a Table following.
The Sixth Edition.  Printed by W. Rawlins, for Thomas Basset,
London, 1681.  Modern 3/4 buckram, gilt, definite browning, but a
sound copy. [68640 L74L77EL78E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68640     $ 750.00

An early edition of the second part of the Institutes, devoted to
Coke's gloss of the statutes, commencing with his extensive, even
line-by-line and word-by-word exposition of Magna Carta, comprising
the work's first 78 pages; without the portrait.

7.  DARROW, Clarence.  The Story of My Life.  Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York, 1932.  Original cloth, a very good copy in a worn
and chipped dustjacket. [67960] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67960     $ 350.00

First edition of Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written
in his 70's, full of reflection, with much on the Scopes trial, the
Leopold and Loeb case, and his other great involvements.

8.  [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.  Printed for James Ridgeway . .
. and H.D. Symonds [etc.], London, 1794.  Modern 1/2 calf over
marbled boards, some browning; a good copy. [68403 L73L77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68403   $ 1,250.00

The rare first 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 copies in this country in RLIN.

9.  FENNER, Ball.  Raising the Veil; or, Scenes in the Courts . .
. Embellished with Portraits of Police, Court Officers [etc.].
Cohen 1006.  James French & Company, Boston, 1856.  Original
embossed cloth, quite worn and frayed, yet a usable copy. [68204
XYL73] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68204
                                                         $ 250.00

An insider's account, truly "raising the veil" on courts and
lawyers, in this case those of New York, Philadelphia and, in
particular, Boston, with a side excursion to California and with
separate chapters on divorce and bankruptcy.

10.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres, In Quibus
Ius Naturae et Gentium, Item Iuris Publici Praecipua Explicantur,
cum Annotatis Auctoris. Edidit P.C. Molhuysen. Praefatus est C. van
Vollenhoven.  Apud A.W. Sijthoff, Lugduni Batavorum, 1919.
Original crimson cloth, gilt, somewhat worn, but a good copy.
[68574 L74L75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68574     $ 250.00

A fine, modern edition of Grotius's masterwork prepared by the
librarian of the Peace Palace at The Hague, based on the 1646
edition (the last to be revised by Grotius) and noting the
variations between it and the editions of 1632 and 1642.
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