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

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  PARKER, Charles H. (ed.).  The Civil Practice Act of the
State of California, As Amended, With Notes and References, and
an Appendix [etc.].  H.H. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco,
1863.  Sheep, joints cracked, back cover loose, rear endpaper
torn. [53363 L29EL52L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=53363 $ 150.00

First edition of Parker's first work (to be followed by a digest of
the California reports and one other work), an uncommon early
California law book glossing the state's all-important civil
practice act; with cross-references to the Field Code.

3.  PIGOTT, N[athaniel].  A Treatise of Common Recoveries, Their
Nature and Use [etc.].  Printed by his Majesty's Law Printers
[etc.], London, 1770.  Contemporary calf, joints cracking, but
quite presentable. [54372 L28E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54372     $ 350.00

4.  POMEROY, John Norton and Carter (eds.).  West Coast Reporter .
. . Containing All the Decisions as Fast as Filed [in the federal
and state courts in the West], Also Legal Essays and Editorial
Notes. Seven Volumes.  A.L. Bancroft Company, San Francisco,
1884-85.  Contemporary 3/4 sheep, definitely rubbed, but a sound
set. [53407 L31L45L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=53407     $ 350.00

The first seven volumes (of ten ultimately published) of the
periodical begun at San Francisco by John Norton Pomeroy in 1884;
with many issues prefaced by an article contributed and signed by
him, beginning with his exposition of riparian rights.

5.  SANFORD, H.S.  The Different Systems of Penal Codes in Europe,
Also, a Report on the Administrative Changes in France, Since the
Revolution of 1848.  Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, Washington,
1854.  Original blind embossed cloth, rubbed and some foxing, but
sound. [54390 L20EL69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54390     $ 175.00

A work prompted by the proposal to revise this country's public
statutes, undertaken by Sanford while United States Charge
d'Affaires at Paris, comprehensively reviewing Europe's penal
codes, including France and Germany's and those of twenty others.

6.  [SELDEN, JOHN].  A Briefe Discourse Concerning the Power of the
Peeres and Comons of Parliament, in Point of Judicature. Written by
a Learned Antiquerie, at the request of a Peere of this Realme.
S.T.C. 22165.  [T. Paine], [London], 1640.  Later 3/4 diced
morocco, somewhat chipped, but sound. [54663 L16L34L48L50EL69]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54663
                                                         $ 450.00

A work variously attributed to Robert Cotton and John Selden,
briefly surveying the rise of Parliament's judicial and political
powers from the Anglo-Saxon centuries forward, with one allusion to
ancient Athens and express reliance upon Magna Carta.

7.  SKENE, John.  Regiam Majestatem Scotiae, Veteres Leges et
Constitutiones, Ex Archivis Publicis, Et Antiquis Libris
Manuscriptis Collectae [etc.].  Excudebat Thomas Finlason,
Edinburgh, 1609.  Contemporary vellum, quite worn, yet a usable
copy. [53380 L18EL23EL35L49L68E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=53380     $ 750.00

The first edition in Latin of what has recently been termed "the
principal treatise of medieval Scots law", gathered together with
other important Scots legal sources, the use of which over the
centuries through the 15th continues to be debated.

8.  [SMITH, MADELEINE].  The Story of Minie l'Angelier or Madeleine
Hamilton Smith.  Myles MacPhail, 11 South St. David Street [etc.],
Edinburgh, 1857.  Later 3/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed, but
quite pretty. [54259 L25L42L69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54259     $ 225.00

One of seemingly three contemporary analyses of what William
Roughead characterized as "the most remarkable and dramatic of our
Scots murder trials", the defendant ('Prodigious Madeleine', Henry
James called her) escaping with a Not Proven verdict.

9.  [TENANTS LAW].  Tenants Law: or, the Laws Concerning Landlords,
Tenants and Farmers. [etc.] Thirteenth Edition.  Printed by Henry
Lintot, Law-Printer to the King [etc.], London, 1750.  [53989
XYL28EL49E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=53989     $ 350.00

10.  Proceedings of a General Court-Martial. . .upon the Trial of
Lieutenant-General Sir John Mordaunt [etc.].  Printed for A.
Millar, in the Strand, London, 1758.  [54661 L43EL68EL71E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54661     $ 350.00


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