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

[Joe Luttrell]

1.  GODOLPHIN, John.  Repertorium Canonicum; Or An Abridgment of
the Ecclesiatical Laws of this Realm, Consistent with the Temporal:
Wherein The most Material Points relating to such Persons and
Things . . .  are succinctly Treated [etc.]. The Second Edition.
Wing G950.  Printed by S. Roycroft, for Christopher Wilkinson
[etc.], London, 1680.  Contemporary unlettered calf, quite rubbed
and worn, yet sound. [69217 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69217     $ 650.00

One of Godolphin's two principal works, covering all of canon and
church law save succession, the pair praised by both Holdsworth and
J.H. Baker, the former terming them "the first really able books on
ecclesiastical law"; Kathleen Major's copy.

2.  HOPE, Thomas.  Minor Practicks, Or, A Treatise of the Scottish
Law . . . To which is subjoined [Alexander Bayne], A Discourse on
the Rise and Progress of the Law of Scotland [etc.] [and a third
work] [without the leaf before the second title, sometimes
lacking].  Printed by Mr. Thomas Ruddiman; and Sold by Mr. Will.
Monro, Edinburgh, 1726.  Modern cloth, gilt, title dusty and
reinforced; a usable copy. [69192 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69192     $ 450.00

First edition of one of Hope's two "historically significant
writings [and] the first narrative text on some topics of Scots
law"; Bayne's appended Discourse was written while he was the first
Professor of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh.

3.  [KENYON, LORD].  Thomas Sherlock.  Several Discourses Preached
at the Temple Church. In Four Volumes.  Printed by Martin &
Wotherspoon, Edinburgh, 1770.  Contemporary calf, joints cracking,
neat underlining; a pretty set. [69170 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69170     $ 850.00

Lord Kenyon's copy, with his ownership signature ("LL[oyd] Kenyon
27 Apr 1771 / 4 vols pd 12s") on the first blank, and a slip
entirely in his hand laid in recording the cases entered and tried
on the Oxford Circuit in the Lent assizes that year.

4.  [LITTLETON, Thomas].  Littleton's Tenures, in French and
English. Wing L2588.  Printed by John Streater, James Flesher
[etc.], London, 1671.  Later green morocco extra gilt, a trifle
worn, but quite pretty. [69242 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69242   $ 2,500.00

First edition to provide both the Law French text and its English
translation, with a marvelous series of provenances, once the copy
of Edmund Trowbridge, Edmund T. Dana, Joseph G. Cogswell, Alex H.
Everett, Edward Everett, William Everett and others.

6.  RYMER, Thomas.  Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, Et Cujuscunque
Generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliae . . . ab Anno 1101, ad
nostra usque Tempora [etc.]. First Edition in Seventeen Volumes
[complete], with Two Supplementary Volumes. Nineteen Volumes.  Per
A.&J. Churchill [imprint varies], Londini, 1704-32.  Panelled calf,
rebacked, some joints cracking; a clean sturdy set. [69154 L75]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69154
                                                       $ 3,500.00

First edition of Rymer's monumental compilation of England's
treaties and alliances from just after the Norman Conquest forward,
still "a fundamental and indispensable work of historical
research"; with many plates, mostly folding facsimiles.

7.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  Doctor and Student; Or, Dialogues
Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England
. . . To which are now first added, Two Pieces concerning Suits in
Chancery by Subpoena [etc.]. The Eighteenth Edition . . . By
William Muchall.  Printed for S. Sweet, Law Bookseller, 3, Chancery
Lane [etc.], London, 1815.  Modern calf, a bit of staining,
ex-library, else attractive. [69181 XYL75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69181     $ 350.00

The last and best early edition of the first classic of English
equity, restoring the "New Additions", providing a substantive
gloss and marginal sidenotes with citations to intervening
authorities, and adding two related early 16th century tracts.

8.  STORY, Joseph.  Commentaries on the Law of Agency, as a Branch
of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional
Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Eighth Edition,
Revised, with Additions. By N[icholas] St. John Green.  Little,
Brown and Company, Boston, 1874.  Brown cloth, gilt, lightly
shaken, title browned, yet nice. [69147] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69147     $ 650.00

The only edition of the only treatise undertaken by Green, friend
of Holmes and fellow member of the Metaphysical Club, whose
"extraordinary power of [revealing] warm and breathing truth" was
perceived by Peirce and equally esteemed by Holmes.

9.  TOTHILL, William.  Transactions of the High Court of Chancery,
Both by Practice and President . . . And all special Orders in
extraordinary Cases, which are to be found in the Registers Office
as they are quoted by Terms, Years, and Books [etc.]. Second
Edition. Wing T1953.  Printed for R. Best and J. Place . . . in
Holborn, London, 1671.  Modern 1/2 calf, some marginal repairs, cut
close; a usable copy. [69178 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69178     $ 750.00

The first published equity cases, reaching back to the mid-16th
century and including Ellesmere's dicta while Lord Chancellor,
disclosing and providing access to the evolving and increasing
procedural and substantive precedent governing chancery.

10.  [TREASON AND MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS].  Anno XIII Reginae
Elizabethe. At the parliament begunne and holden at Westminster the
eight of May, in the xiiii yeere of the raigne [1572] of our most
gracious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth [etc.]. S.T.C. 9479; Beale S295.
Imprinted . . . in Powles Church yarde by Richard Iugge [etc.],
London, [1576].  Later 1/2 morocco, some staining and worming; a
usable copy. [69112 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69112   $ 1,500.00

The Parliament convened at the height of the perceived threat of
Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth, the law of treason strengthened
and the penalties upon those attempting to rescue those held, as
Mary was, on charges of treason expressly enhanced.


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