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

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  [BLACK DEATH].  De Termino Michaelis [Hillarii, Pasche and
Trinitatis] Anno XXXV, regni Regis Henrici sexti. S.T.C. 9748,
Beale R200.  Rychard Tottel, London, 1575.  Modern 1/4 mottled calf
over marbled boards, fresh. [45401 L23L43EL52L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=45401   $ 1,250.00

An early printing of the Year Book reporting the cases a few years
following the devastation of the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth
century, many of the cases involving trespass and debt, the
evolution of which continues to be debated.

2.  BOHUN, W[illiam].  Declarations and Pleadings, in the most
usual Actions brought in the several Courts of King's Bench and
Common Pleas at Westminster, viz Scandal of Peers . . . Slander of
Common Persons . . . Case For Mal-fesance and Torts [etc.] Second
Edition.  Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for Samuel Birt [etc.],
London, 1743.  Modern speckled calf, definite embrowning, but
attractive. [46518 L17L23L55L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46518     $ 850.00

One of the earliest works to use the word 'torts' in its title (the
earliest is said to be 1720) distinguishing between negligence as
non-feasance on the one hand and torts as mal-feasance on the
other; with much also on slander and libel.

3.  [BREACH OF PROMISE].  Dick versus Fletcher, For a Breach of
Promise of Marriage . . . Including the Proceedings in the Court of
King's Bench, Relative to His Breach of Promise of Marriage With
that Lady [etc.].  Printed and Published by John Fairburn,
Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London, [1824?].  Later 3/4 calf by Root &
Son, chipped and rubbed but sound. [46543 L41L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46543     $ 450.00

A scandalous case, much bruited, with Lord Brougham representing
Miss Dick in King's Bench against the Presbyterian minister, Andrew
Fletcher, who was to be suspended from his office and church
fellowship subsequently.

4.  DOGHERTY, Thomas.  The Crown Circuit Assistant, Being a
Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Convictions
by Justices, Inquisitions, Pleas, and other Entries in Criminal and
Penal Proceedings [etc.].  Printed for P. Uriel. . .and E. Brooke
[etc.], London, 1787.  Modern leatherette, lightly embrowned, quite
sound. [44972 L16L28] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44972     $ 350.00

5.  DOYLE, Francis Hastings.  Reminiscences and Opinions.  D.
Appleton and Company, New York, 1887.  Original brown, pebbled
cloth, worn but quite sound. [46086 L17L31E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46086      $ 65.00

6.  [GILBERT, Geoffrey].  The Law and Practice of Distresses and
Replevin . . . The Third Edition . . . by William Hunt.  Printed by
A. Strahan and W. Woodfall [etc.], London, 1794.  Contemporary
calf, rubbed, yet a good, fresh copy. [44973 L14L32L43L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44973     $ 450.00

The last 18th century edition of one of Gilbert's several treatises
on the land law which, in the aggregate, Holdsworth describes as
making a "very considerable contribution" to the subject, written
in Gilbert's trademark lucid expository style.

8.  [GREENLEAF, Joseph].  An Abridgment of Burn's Justice of the
Peace and Parish Officer. To which is Added, an Appendix,
Containing Some general rules and directions necessary to be known
and observed by all justices of the peace. Cohen 8325.  Printed
for, and Sold by Joseph Greenleaf [etc.], Boston, 1773.
Contemporary sheep, rebacked, the spine laid down. [44954
C18XYL44L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44954   $ 2,500.00

First and only edition of the first abridgment of a legal treatise
to be printed in America, and the only such abridgment to appear
prior to Independence, a substantial work in itself, with a brief
Appendix devoted to colonial justices.

9.  KELYNG, John.  A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown,
Adjudged and Determined; In the Reign of the Late King Charles II.
With Directions for Justices of the Peace and Others . . . From the
Original Manuscript, under his own Hand [etc.].  Printed for Isaac
Cleave, next Door to Serjeants-Inn [etc.], London, 1708.
Contemporary calf, rubbed but still presentable. [44675
L13L30L46EL67E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44675     $ 650.00

10.  LAMBARD, William.  Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the
Justices of Peace, in foure bookes.  Printed for the Companie of
Stationers, London, 1619.  Definite embrowning, but a sound copy in
a modern full calf gilt. [44704 L28L46L53EL64L71E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44704     $ 650.00

An early 17th century edition of the first major work on justices
of the peace, described by Holdsworth as "complete and systematic
[and] clearly arranged and comprehensive", here in its final form
and one of some fifteen editions to see print.

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