[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:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  [BARBADOS].  Laws of Barbados, For Session of 1883-84.  Printed
at the Official Gazette Office, Barbados, 1884.  Modern cloth,
ex-library, browning, but a usable copy. [69090] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69090     $ 125.00

2.  [BECCARIA, Cesare].  An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. By The
Marquis Beccaria of Milan. With a Commentary by M. de Voltaire. A
New Edition Corrected.  Printed by James Donaldson, Edinburgh,
1788.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, else a good clean
copy. [69180 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69180     $ 650.00

The seminal modern work on the theory of penology, inspiring
Bentham, Blackstone, Romilly, Adams and Jefferson, and undergirding
the movement for penal reform; once the copy of the antiquary
Edward Boswell, with his signature and posthumous bookplate.

3.  [BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS].  Correspondence and Reports on
the Settlement of Zululand, Confederation Debate in Cape Town, The
Boer Agitation and War Expenditure in South Africa, 1880-81.  Irish
University Press, Shannon, 1971.  Green cloth, a good copy, with
three large folding maps tipped in. [31099] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=31099     $ 125.00

IUP Library of Fundamental Source Books: Colonies, Africa, Vol. 15.

4.  [BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS].  Report from the Royal
Commission on the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act 1881, with Minutes of
Evidence, Appendices, and a Welsh Translation of the Report, 1890.
Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970.  Green cloth, a good copy.
[31100] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=31100
                                                         $ 125.00

IUP Library of Fundamental Source Books: Social Problems, Sunday
Observance, vol. 3.

7.  CAMPBELL, John, Lord.  Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord
Brougham, Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of
England.  John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1869.
?Contemporary calf, a trifle rubbed, but an attractive copy.
[69203] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69203
                                                         $ 250.00

First edition of the immediately controversial completion of
Campbell's famed biography of England's Lord Chancellors, leading
to two published rebuttals yet (in Holdsworth's words) "an
important source for the legal history [of] Campbell's own time".

8.  DUCK, Arthuro.  De Usu & Authoritate Juris Civilis Romanorum,
Per Dominia Principum Christianorum. Libri Duo [etc.]. Wing D2428.
Impensis Thomae Dring . . . apud Johannem Dunmore [etc.], London,
1679.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked; a sound copy only.
[69201 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69201     $ 750.00

The principal legal work of one of England's foremost civilians,
praised by Holdsworth as "the best continuous account of . . .
Roman law in England that ha[d] yet appeared", this one of three
17th century English editions of over a dozen published.

9.  [EARLY CALIFORNIA LAW].  The Practice Act of California,
Entitled 'An Act to Regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the
Courts of Justice in this State' . . . With an Appendix, Containing
the Act of 1854 in Full.  State Journal Office Print, Sacramento,
1854.  Original sheep, very worn, boards loose; a working copy.
[69229 YL75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69229     $ 350.00

The fundamental law regulating California's conduct of trials
(including trial by jury), appeals, extraordinary writs, judgments
and executions, and much else, first enacted soon after statehood
(in 1851), amended in 1853, and here amended again.

10.  [EARLY CANADIAN LAW BOOK CATALOGUE].  A Catalogue of Law
Books, Prepared with Especial Reference to the Requirements of the
Legal Profession of Canada, by R. Carswell, Law Bookseller and
Publisher.  R. Carswell, 26 and 28 Adelaide St. East, Toronto,
1877.  Original brown cloth, gilt, the spine quite faded; a clean
copy. [69128 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69128     $ 450.00

The rare first Carswell catalogue and, so far as I can determine,
the first Canadian law book catalogue published by a law book
dealer or publisher in the 19th century, especially extensive, some
entries priced; microform copies only in RLIN and OCLC.

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