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[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  BASSETT, Tho[mas].  A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law
Books of This Realm; And some others relating thereunto . . . With
An Account of the best Editions, Volumes, and common Prices they
are now sold at [etc.]. Wing B1043.  And are to be sold at his Shop
. . . in Fleet street, [London], 1671.  Contemporary sheep, quite
worn, rebacked, later gilt device and lettering on boards,
ex-library, else quite a good, crisp, well-margined copy. [69756
BLS172L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69756   $ 6,500.00

First edition of the first bibliography of English law, no other
similar work to appear until the 18th century, arranged by subject,
with prices noted, uniformity in editions recorded, and portions of
pages left blank for manuscript additions.

2.  BINGHAM, Peregrine.  The Law of Infancy and Coverture. Second
American Edition from the Last London Edition. With Notes and
References to English and American Cases. By E.H. Bennett. Cohen
4739.  Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington, 1849.  Original sheep, worn,
covers loose, spine defective; a clean copy only. [69844 XYL76]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69844
                                                         $ 250.00

The first work published in this country devoted to the law of
infants, coupled with the first work exclusively treating of
coverture, both with substantial American notes, praised by
Holdsworth for their superior analysis of a difficult area.

3.  BLEWITT, Reginald James.  The Court of Chancery, A Satirical
Poem.  Printed and Published by J. Kay, 1, Welbeck Street [etc.],
London, 1827.  Modern cloth, ex-library, some wear, else a clean
usable copy, with several ?authorial corrections in a neat hand;
without the portrait. [69822 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69822     $ 450.00

A work anticipating Dickens' polemics by many years written from
Paris by a poet who had spent ten hard years at law, its flavor
caught in its first two lines--"Oh! Court of Equity, misnamed,
where doubt / Leads many in; whence few, or none, get out".

4.  COKE, Edward.  Le Second Part des Reports del Edward Coke
Lattorney General Le Roigne, De divers matters en Ley, avec graunde
& mature consideration resolve, & adjudge . . . durant le Raigne de
tresillustre & renomes Roygne Elizabeth [etc.]. S.T.C. 5498.5.  Per
assignatos Johannis More Armigeri. Cum Privilegio, London, 1635.
Modern 1/2 calf, discreetly ex-library; a good fresh copy. [69539
BLS20L77EL78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69539     $ 850.00

A rare edition of the second part of Coke's famed Reports,
including with Parts I and III (in Plucknett's words) Coke's
"choicest cases", concentrating on conveyancing, particularly
conveyancing blunders; one copy only in RLIN in this country.

5.  COKE, Edwardo.  The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of
England; or, a Commentary Upon Littleton . . . Revised and
Corrected With Additions of Notes, References and Proper Tables by
Francis Hargrave and Charles Butler [etc.]. The Nineteenth Edition.
Two Volumes.  Printed for J.& W.T. Clarke [and seven others],
London, 1832.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, lightish
foxing, else a sturdy clean set. [69818 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69818     $ 350.00

The final edition of one of the five greatest English law books,
known to us as 'Coke on Littleton', first published in 1628, this
edition containing the notes of Hargrave and Butler, praised by
Maitland for their value in the study of medieval law.

6.  COMER, John Preston.  Legislative Functions of National
Administrative Authorities.  Privately Printed, New York, 1927.
Original light-blue printed, sewn wraps, a bit rubbed and chipped,
else well-preserved, the stamp "Phil Diss" and one other on the
front wrap; 275 pages. [69628 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69628     $ 125.00

Seemingly the privately-printed issuance of Professor Comer's
doctoral dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Political Science
at Columbia in 1927, to appear in the same year in its 'Studies in
History, Economics and Public Law'.

7.  DAUBE, David.  Studies in Biblical Law.  KTAV Publishing House,
Inc., New York, 1969.  Original black cloth, gilt, a bit worn, but
a good copy; the facsimile reissue of the original 1947 Cambridge
University Press edition. [69601 L75EL76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69601     $ 150.00

8.  [DUKE OF YORK].  The Investigation of the Charges Brought
Against His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Two Volumes.  Printed
for W. Stratford . . . for J. Stratford, London, 1809.  [69638 L76]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69638
                                                         $ 275.00

Seemingly an extra-illustrated set, with the insertion of many
portraits throughout, in most cases those of witnesses testifying
before the House of Commons; with the hand-colored portrait of the
Duke's mistress as the frontispiece of volume two.

9.  EARDLEY-WILMOT, J.E.  An Abridgment of Blackstone's
Commentaries on the Laws of England, Intended for the Use of Young
Persons, and Comprised in a Series of Letters from a Father to His
Daughter [etc.]. A New Edition . . . by His Son, Sir John E.
Eardley-Wilmot. Eller 53.  Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,
London, 1853.  Original pebbled cloth, gilt, the spine faded, else
quite a fresh, partly uncut, copy. [69686 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69686     $ 350.00

A unique example of Blackstoniana (and unusual in a law book of any
sort), directed to the author's daughter, and expressly intended to
make her aware of "so much of the Commentaries . . . necessary to
be known by every gentlewoman"; not in OCLC.

10.  [FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND LEGAL DEPOSIT].  [John Cochrane].
The Case Stated Between the Public Libraries and the Booksellers.
Not in McCoy.  Printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden,
London, 1813.  The copy of Archibald Constable, publisher of Scott
and the Edinburgh Review, presented to him "With the Author's best
Compl[imen]ts"; later cloth dusty. [69747 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69747   $ 1,250.00

The cogent, influential essay thoroughly surveying the intensely
debated issue of legal deposit, originating in the 17th century as
a means of curtailing freedom of the press, its Parliamentary
resolution forming the basis of modern law.

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