[Rarebooks] 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
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1.  BELKNAP, D.P.  The Probate Law and Practice of California,
Containing All the Provisions of the Codes, of 1871-2, and Other
Statutes Relating Thereto, with Judicial Decisions of This and
Other States and an Appendix of Forms. Third Edition.  A.L.
Bancroft and Company, San Francisco, 1873.  Contemporary sheep,
definitely rubbed, but a sound copy. [52885 L28EL43L54EL55EL66E]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=52885
                                                         $ 150.00

By far the earliest work on the subject to appear in California,
this edition to appear after the adoption of the 1872 codes;
glossed and complemented by extensive forms, with subsequent
additions pasted in carrying the work through 1877 & 1878.

2.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. Four
Volumes.  Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1766-69.  [53995
C15XYL26E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=53995   $ 4,500.00

A very attractive "gentleman's set" bound in a full, modern tan
calf, the spines nicely gilt, exceptionally fresh; second editions
of volumes 1 and 2, first editions of volumes 3 and 4.

3.  [CALIFORNIA].  H.P. Hepburn (ed.).  Reports of Cases in the
Supreme Court of the State of California in the year 1853. Vol.
III.  T.& J.W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, Philadelphia, 1855.
Contemporary sheep, quite worn, yet usable. [53405 L28L44E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=53405     $ 125.00

6.  COTTON, Robert.  An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the
Tower of London . . . Being of great Use for all that are concerned
in Parliamentary Affairs, and Professors of the Laws of this Realm.
Revised . . . By William Prynne, Esq; a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
Wing C6491.  Printed for T. Basset, and C. Harper, at the George
[etc.], London, 1689.  Modern blind-tooled calf, some foxing, else
crisp and attractive. [54195 L50EL69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54195     $ 650.00

Last 17th century edition of one of two valuable works singled out
by Holdsworth as the fruits of Prynne's scholarship in seeing
published the previously unprinted public records of the Kingdom;
not that common, three copies in the UK in Wing.

7.  [EARLY WILLS].  A True Copy of the Last Will and Testament of
Thomas Guy Esq; Late of Lombard-Street, Bookseller. Containing An
Account of his Publick and Private Benefactions. The Third Edition.
Printed for J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater-noster-Row, London,
1725.  Modern gray boards, the title a bit strained; sound. [54246
L31L47L69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54246     $ 250.00

One of the three printings in 1725 of the will of the eccentric
bookseller, Thomas Guy, whose penurious personal habits were
matched by his exceptional generosity upon his death, his will
leaving the monies which established Guy's Hospital.

8.  FOSS, Edward.  A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of
England From the Conquest to the Present Time 1066-1870.  John
Murray, London, 1870.  Covers badly flecked, hinges cracked; a
working copy. [54649 L18EL23EL59EL68E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54649     $ 150.00

9.  HARSTON, E.F. Buttemer.  Practice, Pleading, and Evidence in
the Courts of the State of California in General Civil Suits and
Proceedings [etc.].  A.L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco,
1877.  Contemporary sheep, showing definite wear; usable. [52881
L13L41] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=52881
                                                         $ 125.00

10.  MAYNE, John D. and Lumley Smith.  Wood's Mayne on Damages. .
.First American Edition. Adapted to the American Law by H.G. Wood.
John D. Parsons, Jr., Publisher, Albany, 1880.  Contemporary sheep,
rubbed and scuffed, some pencilling; usable. [52864 L14L33] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=52864      $ 75.00

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