[Rarebooks] fs-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.  [POWERS OF THE KING].  William Staunford.  An Exposition of the
Kinges Praerogatiue collected out of the great Abridgement of
Iustice Fitzherbert, and other old Writers of the Lawes of England
[etc.].  Imprinted . . . in Fleet-streat . . . by Richard Totthil,
London, 1590.  Modern calf, last leaves repaired without loss;
sound. [54929 L12L28L53L64EL69L71E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54929   $ 1,500.00

One of the first English legal treatises of substance to
concentrate on a discrete subject area of the law, in this case the
powers of the King upon such matters as marriage, wardship, idiots,
lunatics, escheats and wrecks, among other matters.

2.  [PUBLIC RECORDS].  Reports From the Commissioners Appointed by
His Majesty to Execute the Measures Recommended by a Select
Committee of the House of Commons Respecting the Public Records of
the Kingdom [etc.]. Two Volumes.  Printed by Order of The House of
Commons, n.p., 1819.  1/4 sheep over marbled boards, rubbed but
sound. [42627 L14L47EL48EL69EL76E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=42627     $ 650.00

Including the Appendix in a separate volume, containing the 86
marvelous engraved facsimiles, many folding.

3.  [REFORM DURING THE INTERREGNUM].  William Shephard.  The
Justice of Peace His Clerks Cabinet: or A Book of Presidents, or
Warrants, fitted and made ready to his hand for every Case . . .
for The ease of the Justice of Peace, and more speedy dispatch of
Justice. Wing S3190 [two copies only in the UK].  Printed by D.
Maxwell, for William Lee, Daniel Parkman [etc.], London, 1660.
Contemporary sheep, showing definite wear, yet still usable. [43262
C17XYL36L56L69L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=43262     $ 650.00

Sheppard's highly useful, even essential, handbook well explaining
how justices should go about issuing warrants, and what those
warrants should contain, providing information previously
unobtainable, and part of Sheppard's reform efforts.

4.  ROBERTSON, Henry.  A Handbook of Bankers' Law.  Bell &
Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1864.  Title page chipped, front fly leaf
lacking; still sound. [42889 L34E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=42889     $ 125.00

5.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  Two Dialogues in English, Between
A Doctor of Divinity, and A Student in the Laws of England, of The
Grounds of the said Laws, And of Conscience. Wing S318A.  Printed
by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins Esquires [etc.], London,
1687.  Modern speckled calf, lightly embrowned, but a very pretty
copy. [54931 XYL37L56L69L71EL73E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54931     $ 650.00

The last 17th century edition of the earliest classic of English
equity, written in the first decades of the 16th century, and
treating of the most fundamental questions of law and equity and
their relation.

6.  SUGDEN, Edward Burtenshaw.  A Series of Letters to a Man of
Property, on the Sale, Purchase, Mortgaging, Leasing, Settling and
Devising of Estates. The Third Edition.  Printed for Reed and
Hunter [etc.], London, 1815.  Original boards, uncut; quite a
desirable unsophisticated copy. [54705 L12L25] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=54705     $ 250.00

7.  [TENANTS LAW].  Tenants Law: or, the Laws Concerning Landlords,
Tenants and Farmers. . .The Sixteenth Edition [etc.].  Printed by
his Majesty's Law-Printers for T. Waller [etc.], London, 1768.
Full sheep, a bit chipped, but well preserved. [43261 XYL28EL49E]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=43261
                                                         $ 350.00

8.  [TRIAL].  Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. before the
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and a Special
Jury.  Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row, London, 1825.
Modern 3/4 polished calf, rubbed, but still pretty. [55007 L13]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55007
                                                         $ 650.00

9.  WASHINGTON, Joseph.  An Exact Abridgment of All The Statutes of
King William and Queen Mary, And Of King William III. and Queen
Anne, In Force and Use. With Two New Tables.  Printed by Her
Majesties Printers and by the Assigns of R. Atkins, London, 1704.
Contemporary calf, worn and chipped, but quite sound. [42901 L18]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=42901
                                                         $ 275.00

10.  [YEAR BOOK].  Les Ans ou Reports del raigne du Roye Edward le
quart, nouelment reuieu et corriggee en diuers lieux [etc.].  In
aedibus Thomae Wight & Bonhami Norton, Londini, 1599.  Modern 1/4
morocco, ex-library, some repairs; usable only. [42926
NYL52EL56EL67E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=42926   $ 1,250.00

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