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

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
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1.  HAND, Learned.  The Bill of Rights. Second Printing.  Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, 1958.  Original cloth, a very good
copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket. [68498 L73E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68498     $ 125.00

Judge Hand's only book-length work, based on his controversial
Holmes Lectures, delivered at Harvard before the largest crowd to
attend any of the series' lectures, advocating, in Alexander
Bickel's words, "a radical doctrine of judicial restraint".

2.  HAND, Learned.  Liberty.  Printed at The Overbrook Press,
Stamford, 1941.  Decorated boards, a bit bowed, paper label, a good
copy. [68076 L73E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68076     $ 125.00

Judge Hand's first published work, his address delivered upon the
occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Elizabethan Club at
Yale in 1941, a pretty private press production limited to 1,000
copies; with the complimentary slip laid in.

3.  [MAGNA CARTA].  Fritz Cramer.  Magna Carta, Abhandlung zur
Erlangung der Doktorwurde der Philosophischen Fakultat I der
Universitat Zurich [etc.].  Buch- und Kunstdruckerei S.
Poetzelberger, Merano, 1937.  Original cloth, rubbed, front hinge
cracking, yet a usable copy. [68623 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68623     $ 125.00

A fine, scholarly analysis of Magna Carta, in German, this copy
seemingly with authorial corrections, elaborately analyzing the
Charter's chapters, with the Latin text and German translation in
parallel columns, prefaced by an extensive bibliography.

4.  MAITLAND, F.W. (ed.).  Select Pleas of the Crown.  Bernard
Quaritch [for the Selden Society], London, 1955.  Original blue
buckram, gilt, a very good copy. [68099 L73L77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68099     $ 250.00

The reissue of the Selden Society's first annual volume, with
Maitland's substantial introduction, "set[ting] a high standard for
future editors", in John Baker's words, and permitting valuable
generalizations on the records of the Royal courts.

5.  [ONDERDONK, BENJAMIN T.].  A Statement of Facts and
Circumstances Connected with the Recent Trial of the Bishop of
New-York. Not in Cohen.  Henry M. Onderdonk, 25 John Street,
New-York, 1845.  Original sewn salmon wraps, quite chipped but
sound; 31 pages. [68641 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68641     $ 125.00

The powerful Episcopal bishop's defense, published after his trial
for "immorality and impurity" (including drunkeness and familiarity
with women), destroying his career, the church law penalty agreed
to proving impossible to revoke once imposed.

6.  ROSCOE, William.  Additional Observations on Penal
Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals [etc.] [with]
Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of
Criminals: Part III [etc.].  Printed for T. Cadell [etc.] [imprint
varies], London, 1823 & 1825.  Original paper-backed boards,
rubbed, one spine defective; clean. [68653 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68653     $ 750.00

Presentation copies [to Gulian C. Verplanck of New York] of two of
Roscoe's substantial and especially perceptive critiques of the
American prison system ("our most formidable opponent"), each in an
appealing, completely unsophisticated binding.

7.  STUBBS, William.  The Constitutional History of England, In
its Origin and Development. Library Edition. Three Volumes.  At the
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880.  Contemporary tree calf, extra gilt,
a luscious superior set. [67895 L73] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67895   $ 1,250.00

Stubbs' masterpiece, still a classic of English medieval history
and constitutional law for which Maitland reserved the highest of
praise, calling it an "immense work [and] marvellously concrete",
with alternating analytical and annalistic chapters.

8.  THAYER, James Bradley.  A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at
the Common Law.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1898.
Original blue cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed, but a good clean
copy. [68519 L73EL78E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68519 $ 250.00

Original edition of the work for which Thayer is remembered, the
classic of legal history which Holmes characterized to Pollock as
an "admirable piece of work . . . [y]ou feel sure that Thayer has
examined everything he can lay his hands on".

9.  [TRIAL BY COMBAT].  An Investigation of the Case of Abraham
Thornton, Who was Tried . . . for The Wilful Murder, and Afterwards
Arraigned for the Rape, of Mary Ashford . . . Being an Answer to a
Work . . . Entitled, "Wager of Battle, Thornton and Mary Ashford"
[etc.].  Printed by R. Gray . . . and Published (for the Author)
[etc.], London, 1818.  ?Contemporary 1/2 morocco, quite rubbed,
title dusty; usable. [68620 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68620     $ 450.00

A rare part of the contemporary literature surrounding the last
English case involving trial by combat, scrutinizing the alibis
offered by Thornton; one copy in RLIN (microform) at Harvard, not
noting the map called for by the title, not present here.

10.  WORRALL, John (comp.).  Bibliotheca Legum: Or, A new and
compleat List of All the Common and Statute Law Books of this Realm
. . . giving an Acconnt [sic] of their several Editions, Dates, and
Prices, and wherein they differ. The Sixth Edition, with
Improvements.  Printed for J. Worrall, in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's
Inn, London, 1746.  Modern cloth, some dustiness and markings, but
a good usable copy. [68674 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68674   $ 1,250.00

A rare early edition of Worrall's seminal bibliography of English
law, half again as large as its immediate predecessor, with
Worrall's cogent observations and comparison of editions sprinkled
throughout; two copies in RLIN, not in the BL or Harvard.

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