[Rarebooks] A Selection from Stock, with Images

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  ATKYNS, Robert.  An Enquiry into the Power of Dispensing with
Penal Statutes. Together with Some Animadversions upon A Book writ
by Sir Edw. Herbert, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, Entituled, A short Account of the Authorities in Law [etc.].
Wing A4138.  Printed for Timothy Goodwin . . . in Fleet-street,
London, 1689.  Modern blind-tooled goatskin, definite browning, but
a sound copy. [69249 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69249     $ 750.00

First edition of a work central to the political theory of the
Glorious Revolution, rebutting the Royalist claim that the King
alone might dispense with laws as he saw fit, and propounding that
only both King and Parliament jointly may do so.

2.  CHENAULT, Lawrence R.  The Puerto Rican Migrant in New York
City.  Columbia University Press, New York, 1938.  Blue cloth,
gilt, rather faded, but still a good copy. [90297] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=90297     $ 125.00

3.  [COKE, Edward].  Le Reading del Mon Seignior Coke, Sur
Lestatute de 27 E[dward] I [1299]. appelle Lestatute de Finibus
Levatis [etc.]. Wing C4943.  Excudebat T.R. Sumptibus G. Lee, D.
Pakeman [etc.], London, 1662.  Modern calf, the margins cut close,
else a good, crisp copy. [69403 W0*BLS380L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69403   $ 1,500.00

First edition (and the only separate issuance) of Coke's only
published reading, twenty-three lectures given by him at Lyons Inn
shortly after he was called to the bar, and a rare example of a
lecture's text delivered before an Inn of Chancery.

4.  [COLERIDGE, SIR JOHN DUKE].  Speeches Delivered in the Court of
Queen's Bench, in the Case of Saurin v. Starr & Another. By Sir
John Duke Coleridge, M.P., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General.
Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street,
London, 1869.  Green cloth, gilt, some wear and staining, else a
good copy. [69374 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69374     $ 650.00

The future Lord Chief Justice's personal copy of his argument in
the case "which established his great position at the Bar",
securing a verdict for an expelled nun, his signature "J D
Coleridge / 1 Sussex Square / 1869" on the front free endpaper.

5.  CUMMINGS, Homer and Carl McFarland.  Federal Justice, Chapters
in the History of Justice and the Federal Executive.  The Macmillan
Company, New York, 1937.  Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy,
in a chipped dustjacket. [69498 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69498     $ 350.00

Edward Dumbauld's copy of the principal historical work on the
Office of the Attorney General, presented to him while he was
Special Assistant to the Attorney General, inscribed by both
authors and a dozen others instrumental in the work's creation.

6.  DOUGLAS, William O.  Of Men and Mountains.  Harper & Brothers
Publishers, New York, 1950.  Original cloth, a very good copy, in
a worn dustjacket. [69511 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69511     $ 250.00

Justice Douglas' first book-length work presented during its year
of publication, to Jack Utz, the Frederick & Nelson department
store executive, "For Jack Utz / with my warm / personal regards /
Wm O Douglas / Sept 29, 1950".

7.  [ERSKINE, LORD GORDON & THE GORDON RIOTS].  The Trial of George
Gordon, Esquire, Commonly Called Lord George Gordon. For High
Treason, at the Bar of the Court of King's Bench [etc.] [Part I].
The Third Edition [with] The Trial of George Gordon . . . The
Second Part [etc.]. Two Volumes [complete].  Sold by G. Kearsly .
. . and M. Gurney [etc.], London, 1781.  Modern wraps, slightly
dusty, else very good copies in a cloth box. [69329 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69329   $ 1,500.00

Thomas Erskine's first case argued to an English jury, in which he
miraculously secured Lord Gordon's acquittal against charges of
high treason and successfully opposed the Government's case of
constructive treason; with Joseph Gurney reporting.

8.  [ERSKINE, THOMAS].  State Trials for High Treason. Containing
the Trial of Thomas Hardy, to Which Is Prefixed Lord Chief Justice
Eyre's Charge to the Grand Jury . . . Taken in Short-hand by a
Student in the Temple.  Printed and Sold by J. Robertson, No. 4,
Horse-Wynd, Edinburgh, 1794.  Modern cloth, light pencilling,
without the portrait; sound. [69409 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69409     $ 850.00

An uncommon edition reporting "one of the great speeches of
[Erskine's] career", securing Hardy's acquittal in the first major
treason trial of 1794, as the French Revolution's effects swirled
throughout England; eight copies in RLIN, none in England.

9.  FRANKFURTER, Felix and James M. Landis.  The Business of the
Supreme Court, A Study in the Federal Judicial System. Third
Printing.  The Macmillan Company, New York, 1928.  Original green
cloth, gilt, a bit worn, but a good copy. [69313 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69313     $ 450.00

Presentation copy from Felix Frankfurter to Charles B. Nutting,
Dean of the Law School at George Washington, with his bookplate on
the front pastedown, the presentation card laid in "Compliments of
a Friend of the Court and of the Harvard Law School".

10.  HALL, Hubert (ed.).  A Formula Book of English Official
Historical Documents. Part I, Diplomatic Documents [and] Part II,
Ministerial and Judicial Records [etc.]. Two Volumes.  At the
University Press, Cambridge, 1909.  ?Later cloth-backed boards,
ex-library, a sound set. [69425 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69425     $ 125.00

The fruits of three years' work of the University of London's
Advanced Historical Studies Seminar, selecting documents from the
7th to the 19th centuries, "the first . . . present[ation of]
several types of official instruments in a connected series".

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