[Rarebooks] fs-Recent Acquisitions--Scholarly Law

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of recent scholarly acquisitions which we have in
stock; please also feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  [BRACTON, Henrici de].  Bracton on the Laws and Customs of
England. Edited by George E. Woodbine, Translated, with revisions
and notes, by Samuel E. Thorne. Four Volumes.  Harvard University
Press [in Association with the Selden Society], Cambridge, 1968-77.
Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good set. [71777] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71777     $ 650.00

The work in the edition, seven centuries and more after Bracton's
writing of his treatise, attaining the level of scholarship which
the treatise has long deserved, with Professor Woodbine's Latin
text and Professor Thorne's English translation.

2.  BUCKLAND, W.W.  A Text-Book of Roman Law from Augustus to
Justinian. Third Edition Revised by Peter Stein.  Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1966.  Original blue cloth, gilt, a
bit of wear, but a good copy. [71776] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71776     $ 250.00

One of the two classic, modern works in English on Roman law in its
best edition, based on Professor Buckland's personal annotated and
interleaved copy left at his death and seen through the press by
Professor Stein, with the latter's extensive notes.

3.  DAWSON, John P.  The Oracles of the Law.  The University of
Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, 1968.  Original cloth, gilt, a bit
marked, else a very good copy in a worn and chipped dustjacket.
[71783]                                                   $ 65.00

Original edition of Professor Dawson's much expanded Thomas M.
Cooley Lectures, delivered in 1959 at the University of Michigan
(where he had once taught) about a decade prior to their
publication.

4.  FIFOOT, C.H.S.  History and Sources of the Common Law, Tort and
Contract.  Greenwood Press, Publishers, New York, 1970.  Original
maroon cloth, gilt, a very good copy; the first Greenwood
reprinting. [71784]                                       $ 65.00

Called "original [and] of very great value" when it appeared, with
Professor Fifoot's extensive introductions to each of the chapters
(really mini-essays) followed by the original texts and in some
cases additional modern commentary.

5.  MILSOM, S.F.C.  The Legal Framework of English Feudalism.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976.  Original cloth, gilt,
a very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket. [71778] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71778     $ 125.00

The expansion of Professor Milsom's Maitland Lectures delivered at
Cambridge in 1972, a work which "Maitland would have appreciated",
in which Milsom explores the fundamental transformation of the
personal feudal bond to a Royally-enforced right.

6.  NEDELSKY, Jennifer.  Private Property and the Limits of
American Constitutionalism, The Madisonian Framework and Its
Legacy.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990.  Original
cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket. [71788]       $ 25.00

7.  PLUCKNETT, Theodore F.T.  A Concise History of the Common Law.
Fifth Edition.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1956.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, some wear, considerable neat pencil underlining;
a sound copy. [71782]                                     $ 65.00

The last, received, edition, much expanded, reflecting Professor
Milsom's final judgment that "through the successive editions [the
work] became more important to scholars", ultimately to be
translated into several languages, including Japanese.

8.  THORNE, Samuel E. (ed.).  A Discourse Upon the Exposicion &
Understandinge of Statutes, With Sir Thomas Egerton's Additions,
Edited from the Manuscripts in the Huntington Library.  Huntington
Library, San Marino, 1942.  Original red cloth, gilt, a very good
copy in a chipped dustjacket. [71780] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71780     $ 150.00

The first English treatise on the interpretation of statutes,
written in the 16th century yet only appearing here for the first
time, in an edition praised by Plucknett as done "with great
skill"; with Professor Thorne's authoritative introduction.

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