[Rarebooks] fs-Evidence [III]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on evidence 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.  PHILLIPS, S. March.  A Treatise on the Law of Evidence.
Volume
the Second.  Gould and Banks, New York, 1823.  Volume Two only.
[41331]                                                  $ 125.00

2.  [RAM ON FACTS].  James Ram.  A Treatise on Facts as Subjects
of Inquiry by a Jury. Second American Edition by John Townshend.
Baker, Voorhis & Company, 66 Nassau Street, New York, 1870.  Later
3/4 morocco, a bit chafed, one leaf backed, still good. [56808
L40L54]                                                  $ 350.00

A work characterized as presenting a 'philosophy of evidence'
drawing significantly on literary sources both classical and
contemporary; with a chapter on advocacy and an appendix containing
'Golden Rules for the Examination of a Witness'.

3.  Report of the Case of Joshua Stow vs. Sherman Converse, For a
Libel; Containing a History of Two Trials Before the Superior Court
and Some Account of the Proceedings Before the Supreme Court of
Errors.  New Haven, 1822.  [15856]                       $ 125.00

3.  SALTZBURG, Stephen A. and Kenneth R. Redden.  Federal Rules
of Evidence Manual. Second Edition.  Michie Company,
Charlottesville, 1977.  Blue cloth, a good copy. [30556] $ 25.00

4.  STANTON, Earle Kezartee.  Handbook of California Evidence.
Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 1931.  [19944 9L39]       $ 25.00

5.  STARKIE, Thomas.  A Practical Treatise on the Law of Evidence,
and Digest of Proofs in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. Sixth
American Edition. Two Volumes.  P.H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, Law
Booksellers [etc.], Philadelphia, 1837.  Contemporary sheep,
rubbed, some embrowning, but a sound set. [62879 L57E]   $ 250.00

6.  SULLIVAN, Francis C. and Paul Hardin III.  Evidence, Cases and
Materials.  The Foundation Press, Inc., Mineola, 1968.  [17076 L37]
                                                          $ 25.00

7.  THAYER, James Bradley.  A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at
the Common Law.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1898.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed, but a good clean copy. [68519
L73EL78E]                                                $ 250.00

Original edition of the work for which Thayer is remembered, the
classic of legal history which Holmes characterized to Pollock as
an "admirable piece of work . . . [y]ou feel sure that Thayer has
examined everything he can lay his hands on".

8.  THAYER, James Bradley.  A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at
the Common Law. Part I. Development of Trial by Jury.  Little,
Brown, and Company, Boston, 1896.  Original buckram boards, the
front board gilt, showing wear and a bit strained, light browning,
yet a usable copy. [69741 L78]                           $ 250.00

The first part of Thayer's famed treatise, characterized by Holmes
to Pollock as an "admirable piece of work", separately issued two
years before the main work appeared in 1898, with Thayer's
explanatory prefatory note, excluded in the 1898 edition.

9.  THROCKMORTON, Archibald H.  Illustrative Cases on Evidence.
West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1913.  Original buckram, rubbed but
quite sound. [30122]                                      $ 35.00

A Companion Book to McKelvey on Evidence.

10.  WIGMORE, John Henry.  A Treatise on the Anglo-American
System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law [etc.]. Second
Edition. Five Volumes.  Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1923.
Original tan buckram, a bit of wear, but quite a good set. [69151
L75]
                                                         $ 450.00

The first revision of Wigmore's masterpiece, "the most
comprehensive and the most majestic single treatise of law" in
Felix Frankfurter's words, this edition for the first time
expanding Wigmore's coverage to all of Anglo-American law.