[Rarebooks] fs-Equity [IV]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on equity and related
matters; 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.  RAWLE, William Henry.  Equity in Pennsylvania. A Lecture
Delivered before the Law Academy of Philadelphia . . . With an
Appendix, Being the Registrar's Book of Governor Keith's Court of
Chancery.  Kay & Brother, 19 South Sixth Street [for the Law
Academy], Philadelphia, 1868.  Contemporary 1/4 sheep over marbled
boards, crimson morocco label, gilt, a bit rubbed, but a good copy,
with M.M. Treadwell's ownership label. [71207] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71207     $ 150.00

A fine historical effort delivered by "a member of one of the great
old upper class families of law in the city [of Philadelphia]",
tracing the origins of Pennsylvania equity to 1684, with the
Registrar's Book dating from the early eighteenth century.

2.  REEVE, Tapping.  The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and
Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the
Powers of Courts of Chancery.  With an Essay on the terms, Heir,
Heirs, and Heirs of the Body.  Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven,
1816.  Contemporary calf, worn, some staining, well rebacked;
sound. [49579 L24L49EL63EL64EL71E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49579   $ 1,250.00

First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of
women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law
school, at Litchfield.

3.  [REPORTS IN CHANCERY].  Reports of Cases Decreed in the High
Court of Chancery, During the Time Sir Heneage Finch. . .was Lord
Chancellor [etc.].  Printed by R. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling
[etc.], London, 1725.  Sheep backed boards, rubbed, but a good
clean copy. [55602 L37] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55602     $ 450.00

4.  ROBERTS, Thomas A.  The Principles of the High Court of
Chancery, and the Powers and Duties of Its Judges; Designed As the
Student's First Book on Equity Jurisprudence.  Wildy and Sons,
Lincoln's Inn Gateway, Carey Street, London, 1852.  Embossed cloth,
quite worn, preliminaries foxed, modern paper label, sound;
presentation copy to "Jas Hughes Cookery / with the author's / best
wishes". [70284 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70284     $ 350.00

An unusual introductory text, analyzing equity's functions as
"remedial", "executive", "adjustive", and "protective", the last
including those under disability, principally married women and
infants; with a brief separate section on maxims.

5.  SMITH, John Sidney.  A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of
Chancery. . .Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Two Volumes.
Saunders and Benning, London, 1837.  Original gray boards, paper
labels, somewhat chafed, but fresh. [64212] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64212     $ 350.00

6.  SPENCE, George.  Third Address to the Public . . . on the
Present Unsatisfactory State of the Court of Chancery; Including
Observations on Some of the Propositions Contained in the Last
Number of the Quarterly Review.  W. Walker, Strand; Ridgways,
Piccadilly, London, 1840.  [70910 BLS1000L78]            $ 250.00

7.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  The Dialogue in English, betweene
a Doctor of Divinitie and a Student in the Lawes of England.
Printed for the Company of Stationers, London, 1623.  Calf,
rebacked, the original spine laid down, ex-library; usable. [50940
CXYL33EL47EL48L64E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=50940     $ 450.00

An early edition of the classic work on English equity, cast in the
form of a dialogue between a student of English law and a doctor of
divinity, "intellectually satisfying [and written in a] lucid and
economical English prose style".

8.  STORY, Joseph.  Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as
Administered in England and America. Thirteenth Edition. Two
Volumes.  Fred B. Rothman & Co., Littleton, 1988.  Original green
cloth, gilt, as new. [70582]                             $ 150.00

The facsimile reissue of the last edition, undertaken by Melville
Bigelow, carefully based on Story's own last edition of 1846,
restoring Story's text and adding Bigelow's own commentary (often
substantial) separately.

9.  TOTHILL, William.  Transactions of the High Court of Chancery,
Both by Practice and President . . . And all special Orders in
extraordinary Cases, which are to be found in the Registers Office
as they are quoted by Terms, Years, and Books [etc.]. Second
Edition. Wing T1953.  Printed for R. Best and J. Place . . . in
Holborn, London, 1671.  Modern 1/2 calf, some marginal repairs, cut
close; a usable copy. [69178 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69178     $ 750.00

The first published equity cases, reaching back to the mid-16th
century and including Ellesmere's dicta while Lord Chancellor,
disclosing and providing access to the evolving and increasing
procedural and substantive precedent governing chancery.

10.  WILLARD, John.  A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence. Revised,
Corrected and Enlarged by Platt Potter.  Banks & Brothers Company,
New York, 1875.  Full sheep, very rubbed, front cover loose;
usable. [44415]                                           $ 75.00

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