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[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  [GLASGOW COTTON SPINNERS].  Report of the Trial of Thomas
Hunter [and four others], Operative Cotton-Spinners in Glasgow
Before The High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh . . . for the
Crimes of Illegal Conspiracy and Murder . . . By Archibald Swinton,
Esq. Advocate.  Thomas Clark, Law-Bookseller, Edinburgh, 1838.
Original cloth, paper label, rubbed, but a clean partly uncut copy.
[69038 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69038     $ 450.00

The most extensive contemporary account of a blot on Scots justice
in the earliest major Scots labor case, leading to the harsh
sentences imposed on four union officials and a hired gun alleged
to have murdered a scab or 'nob'; with the folding plan.

2.  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 maroon cloth, gilt, a bit rubbed, but a good copy. [68913
L74EL75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68913     $ 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.

3.  HALE, Matthew.  Historia Placitorum Coronae. The History of
the Pleas of the Crown . . . Now first published from his
Lordship's Original Manuscript . . . with large Notes. By Sollom
Emlyn of Lincoln's Inn [etc.]. Two Volumes.  Printed by E. and R.
Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], [London], 1736.  Contemporary calf,
quite worn, rebacked, light foxing; a sound set. [68870 XYL74]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68870
                                                       $ 1,500.00

First edition of the masterpiece of one of England's greatest
judges and scholars of legal history, in Maitland's words "[n]o man
of his age was better . . . equipped for the task [and] none had a
wider or deeper knowledge of the materials".

4.  HILDRETH, Richard (ed.).  Atrocious Judges, Lives of Judges
Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression.
Miller, Orton & Mulligan, New York, 1856.  Original cloth, the
spine quite faded, else a sound copy. [68873 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68873     $ 150.00

With chapters on William Scroggs and George Jeffreys, among many
others (all based in significant part on Lord Campbell's
"Justices"), and an appendix devoted to the famed Pennsylvania
abolitionist, Passmore Williamson.

5.  KAMES, Henry Home, Lord.  Elucidations Respecting The Common
and Statute Law of Scotland.  Printed for William Creech; and sold
. . . by T. Cadell, London, 1777.  Contemporary calf, front joint
cracked, browning, yet a good copy. [68806 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68806     $ 850.00

First edition of the last major legal work of Lord Kames, leading
figure of the Scots Enlightenment and influential upon David Hume,
James Boswell, and Adam Smith, seeking "to advocate rational
principle in opposition to practice"; with the halftitle.

6.  [MAGNA CHARTA].  Edw[ard] Cooke.  Magna Charta, Made in the
Ninth Year of King Henry the Third. And Confirmed by K. Edward the
First in the Twenty Eighth Year of His Reign, With Some Short, but
Necessary Observations From The L[ord] Chief Just[ice] Coke's
Comments Upon It. Wing M253A.  Printed by the Assignees of Richard
and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1680.  Contemporary sheep, quite
rubbed, one leaf torn, else a clean copy. [68799 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68799     $ 750.00

One of only a handful of early English translations of Magna Carta,
filling the gap between Coke and Blackstone, prepared by the Middle
Templar, Edward Cooke, providing the text, his commentary [based
primarily on Coke's] and a range of authorities.

7.  MILLER, William Galbraith.  The Law of Nature and Nations in
Scotland, Being the Lectures . . . Introductory to the Three
Courses of Philosophy of Law, General and Comparative
Jurisprudence, The Law of Nations, or Public International Law, and
International Private Law.  William Green & Sons, Law Publishers,
Edinburgh, 1896.  Blue cloth, gilt, an attractive, well-preserved
copy. [68800 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68800     $ 250.00

Presentation copy of the lectures delivered in the University of
Glasgow by Miller, its first lecturer on Public International Law;
laid in is the contemporaneous speech on international law by Lord
Russell (then Chief Justice of King's Bench).

8.  STAUNTON, Georges Thomas (trans.).  Ta-Tsing-Leu-Lee, Ou les
lois Fondamentales du Code Penal de la Chine . . . originairement
imprime et publie a Pekin . . . Mis en Francais, avec des Notes,
par M. Felix Renouard de Sainte-Croix [etc.]. Two Volumes.  Chez
Lenormant, Libraire, Rue de Seine, n 8 [etc.]., Paris, 1812.  1/4
crimson morocco, gilt, light foxing and browning; a good set.
[69046] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69046
                                                       $ 1,500.00

The French edition of the first work translated from Chinese into
English (printed at London in 1810), China's Fundamental Law, both
constitutional, civil & penal, with the emphasis upon the last; a
rare work, two copies in the National Union Catalog.

9.  TRAYNER, John [later Lord].  Latin Maxims and Phrases:
Collected from the Institutional and Other Writers on Scotch Law;
with Translations and Illustrations.  William Paterson, 74 Princes
Street, Edinburgh, 1861.  Modern cloth, light browning and
dustiness, yet a sound copy. [68814 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68814     $ 350.00

First edition of the first work of its kind on Scots law, "widely
used and provid[ing] the basis for many arguments", each maxim
translated, then explained, and a work in which it appeared or was
debated often given.

10.  The Laws and Customs, Rights, Liberties, and Privileges, of
the City of London [etc.].  Printed by R. Withy . . . and W.
Griffin, in Fetter-Lane, London, 1765.  Modern marbled boards, some
browning, but a good copy. [68868] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68868     $ 450.00

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