[Rarebooks] fs-Equity [III]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on equity and related
subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web site,
where you may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  LILE, Minor.  Notes of Lectures on Equity Jurisprudence to
Accompany Merwin's Equity.  University of Virginia, 1921.  Original
tan buckram, rather soiled, with much underlining in ink. [30178]
                                                          $ 25.00

2.  MERWIN, Elias.  The Principles of Equity and Equity Pleading.
Bowen-Merril Co, Indianapolis, 1895.  Original buckram, the hinges
split, but usable. [30966]                                $ 75.00

3.  MITFORD, John.  A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in the
Court of Chancery, by English Bill. The Second Edition.  Printed
for W. Owen, between the Temple-Gates, Fleet-Street, London, 1787.
Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, but a good crisp copy. [66071
L66] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66071
                                                         $ 650.00

The much expanded second edition of Mitford's principal work,
important to the literature of equity and widely praised, in
Holdsworth's words "a difficult task [and] by far the best book on
th[e] subject which had yet appeared"; with the half-title.

4.  [OLDMIXON, John].  The Lives of all the Lords Keepers and Lords
Commissioners, of the Great Seal of England; from William the
Conqueror, to the present time [etc.]. Two Volumes.  Printed for R.
Burrough and F. Baker, at the Sun and Moon [etc.], London, 1708.
Modern panelled speckled calf, quite a clean and pretty set. [16167
L13EL16L49L55L64] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=16167     $ 850.00

First edition of one of the earliest biographical works of the
English judicial system, and the first really substantial biography
of England's Lord Chancellors, accompanied by an examination of
their Anglo-Saxon antecedents and the Court of Chancery.

5.  [OMBUDSMEN].  Walter Dolf Haller.  Der Schwedische
Justitieombudsman, Eine Einrichtung zur Verstarkung des
Rechtsschutzes und der parlamentarischen Kontrolle im Hinblick aug
das Verhalten von Organen der Verwaltung und der Rechtspflege.
Verlag P.G. Keller, Winterthur, 1965.  Printed sewn wraps, showing
wear, but sound; 321 pages. [47768 L18L46]                $ 35.00

6.  P[HILIPOT], J[ohn].  The Catalogue of the Chancellors of
England, The Lord Keepers of the Great Seale; and the Lord
Treasurers of England:  With a Collection of divers, that have been
Masters of the Rolles.  Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to
be sold [etc.], London, 1636.  [54977]                 $ 2,500.00

7.  PHELPS, Arthur Warren.  Handbook of Virginia Rules of Equity
Practice and Procedure.  Michie Company, Charlottesville, 1961.
Black cloth, a bit cocked and worn, but sound. [30266]    $ 25.00

With the 1972 Cumulative Supplement appended.

8.  POLLEXFEN, Henry.  The Arguments and Reports . . . in Some
Special Cases, By him Argued during the time of his Practice at the
Barr. Together with divers Decrees in the High Court of Chancery.
Upon Limitations of Trusts of Terms for Years [etc.].  Printed for
R. Smith, at the Angel and Bible without Temple Bar, London, 1702.
Contemporary calf, somewhat rubbed, but a lovely fresh copy. [69157
L75] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69157
                                                         $ 750.00

Conceivably an unrecorded variant of the sole edition, "a
respectable authority" in Kent's words, based on the manuscript
corrected by Pollexfen, the famed Whig later Attorney General and
Chief Justice of Common Pleas; Thomas Wyndham's copy.

9.  POTTS, Stacy G.  Precedents and Notes of Practice in the Court
of Chancery of New Jersey; To Which is Prefixed Rules of the Court
of Chancery, the Prerogative Court and the Court of Appeals.
Felcone 1215.  Published by William D'Hart, Trenton, 1841.
Contemporary sheep, front board detaching, foxing; a working copy.
[65970 L65]                                               $ 75.00

An able work by the future Supreme Court justice and the lawyer
most qualified to write it, Potts having served as the court's
clerk for the preceding ten years and just appointed by the
Chancellor with two others to revise the Court's rules.

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