[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 search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
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1.  A'BECKETT, Gilbert.  The Comic Blackstone.  Bradbury, Agnew &
Co., 8,9,10, Bouverie Street, London, 1887.  Blue pictorial cloth
gilt, the spine faded, yet a sound copy. [58806 L44L64E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58806     $ 350.00

The prettiest and most lavish of all the 'Comic Blackstones',
revised and extended by Gilbert A'Beckett's son, Arthur William
A'Beckett (a barrister of Gray's Inn, as was his father); with many
illustrations, ten in full color, by Henry Furniss.

3.  BURLAMAQUI, J.J.  The Principles of Politic Law: Being a Sequel
to the Principles of Natural Law.  Printed for J. Nourse, opposite
Katherine Street in the Strand, London, 1752.  Contemporary calf,
worn, joints cracked, label lacking; usable. [58065 L44] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58065     $ 650.00

First edition in English of one of the two principal works of
Burlamaqui "demonstrably, a primary source of the theory voiced in
the Declaration of Independence", written with considerable
lucidity and clarity of thought; the only separate issuance.

4.  C[ARTER], S[amuel].  Lex Custumaria: or, A Treatise of
Copy-hold Estates, In respect of the Lord [and the] Copy-holder.
Wherein The Nature of Customs in general . . . are explained. And
also Of Actions by Lord or Tenant . . . To which are Annexed
Presidents [etc.]. Wing C665.  Printed by the Assigns of Richard
and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1696.  Contemporary calf,
rebacked, a good clean copy. [58414 L51] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58414     $ 650.00

First edition of the work which Holdsworth singles out as the
principal successor to Coke's seminal treatise on copyhold,
elucidating the important form of land tenure which Carter
estimates then accounted for about 1/3 of English
property-holdings.

5.  [CALIFORNIA].  California Codes. Parts of the Codes That Take
Effect Prior to January 1st, 1873.  T.A. Springer State Printer,
[Sacramento], [1872].  Contemporary sheep, rebacked in cloth, worn
but usable. [57757] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=57757     $ 250.00

With an introductory note by the three commissioners (Creed
Haymond, John C. Burch and Charles A. Tuttle) stating that the work
"is published in obedience to the requirements of an Act of the
Legislature"; arranged by Code.

6.  [CALIFORNIA].  The Penal Code of California.  T.A. Springer,
State Printer, Sacramento, 1872.  Contemporary sheep, some cracking
to the joints; usable. [57756 L38] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=57756     $ 350.00

The original 1872 code, still the essential foundation of
California's present law.

7.  CARDOZO, Benjamin N.  The Nature of the Judicial Process.  Yale
University Press, New Haven, 1921.  Original cloth, a bit worn, but
still quite sound. [58112 YL53EL58EL] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58112   $ 4,500.00

The copy of Justice Cardozo's most famous work which was once in
his library, bearing on the front pastedown the posthumous
bookplate made for insertion (by Judge Irving Lehman) in all of the
books remaining on his death.

8.  [EXCISE].  A Collection Of all the Statutes now in Force,
Relating to the Duties upon Candles, Leather, Sope, Paper, Silks,
Callicoes [and various other goods], With An Abridgment of the said
Statutes and a Table of the Rates [etc.].  Printed by William Brown
and John Mosman [etc.], Edinburgh, 1724.  Modern calf, definite
foxing, else quite a usable copy. [58552] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58552     $ 650.00

Only edition of an early, substantial effort to catalogue much of
the realm's excise taxes, arranged by subject and then
chronologically, with a valuable appendix alphabetically digesting
the legislation by subject; no copy in the British Library.

9.  [GILBERT, Geoffrey].  The Law of Tenures; Including the Theory
and Practice of Copyholds . . . With An Historical Introduction on
the Feudal System . . . by Charles Watkins [etc.]. Fourth Edition.
Printed by A. Strahan . . . for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street,
London, 1796.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, the old spine laid
down; attractive. [58415 L42] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58415     $ 650.00

Written "with great learning and acuteness" in Holdsworth's view,
supplying an analysis of the feudal relationship in the land law
lacking in Coke and Littleton and to be borrowed by Blackstone;
this edition the first to bear Watkin's introduction.

10.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Veritate Religionis Christianae. Editio
tertia, prioribus auctior & emendatior. Ter Meulen and Diermanse
947.  Ex officina Ioannis Mairs, Lugduni Batavorum, 1633.
Contemporary vellum, quite worn, but a sound copy. [58044 L39L49]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58044
                                                         $ 350.00

One of the earliest editions of Grotius' enormously popular defence
of Christianity, and one of a handful to appear during his
lifetime, with its subsequent translation from the Latin into some
ten European languages.
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