[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.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Observations on the Nature of the
Judicial Process of Supreme Court Litigation.  Privately printed?,
[Philadelphia?], [1954?].  Printed stapled wraps; 16 pages. [62028
FBWL59] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62028
                                                         $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture read before the
American Philosophical Society, with much on due process, on
judicial restraint, and some penetrating comments on Justice
Cardozo; inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from his friend / FF".

2.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Reflections on the Reading of
Statutes [etc.].  The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York, 1947.  Reprinted from the Association's Record;
stapled wraps, 25 pages. [62023 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62023     $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture
delivered in New York in March, 1947, a lovely, warm
inscription--"For Fritz Wiener, guardian of my accuracy / and
otherwise sturdy critic, from his obliged / friend / Felix
Frankfurter".

3.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Supreme Court in the Mirror of
Justices, Being the First Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School [etc.].  Privately printed,
[Philadelphia?], [1957?].  Printed green stapled wraps,
well-preserved; 21 pages. [62031 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62031     $ 650.00

A major lecture by the Justice, focusing on the history of the
Court and the qualities necessary to serve upon it; inscribed "For
Fritz, with the hope / that his generosity in / clearing the track
was / not frustrated, and / the regards of FF".

4.  GENTILI, Alberici.  De Legationibus Libri Tres. S.T.C. 11737.
Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, Londini, 1585.  Later 1/2 calf,
rubbed, some embrowning; a sound copy. [61929] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=61929   $ 2,500.00

The rare first edition of Gentili's first substantial work,
anticipating Grotius as "the first writer who systematically worked
out this part [the rights of ambassadors] of the ius gentium";
three copies in the NUC, none in a law library.

5.  [HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR.].  Felix Frankfurter.  Foreward
to Holmes-Laski Letters, The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes
and Harold J. Laski 1916-1935.  Privately printed, [Cambridge?],
[1952?].  Single folded sheet; 4 pages. [62021 FBWL60] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62021     $ 250.00

A separate issuance of the Justice's insightful foreword to the
Holmes-Laski correspondence, exploring the two men's relationship
and the merits of the letters they exchanged, the inscription
entirely in the Justice's hand--"For / FBW / from FF".

6.  HOUGH, Charles Merrill (ed.).  Reports of Cases in the Vice
Admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty
of the State of New York, 1715-1788.  Yale University Press, New
Haven, 1925.  Modern speckled goatskin morocco, some browning, else
an attractive copy. [62188 W0*FBWL60L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62188     $ 250.00

Judge Hough's capable editing of, and the first publication of,
what he terms "the oldest law book in North America", containing
the records of the oldest maritime cases in this country; with
portraits of the judges then on the admiralty bench.

7.  HOWARD, John.  The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,
With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign
Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition.  Printed by William
Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington, 1784.  Modern 1/4
calf, half title backed, ex-library?, repairs; usable. [62392
L64EL78E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62392     $ 750.00

8.  MOILE, N[icholas] T[hirning] [i.e. Henry Bliss].  State
Trials. Second Edition.  Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London, 1842.
Original blue-green embossed cloth, showing wear, but sound.
[62294] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62294
                                                         $ 350.00

The only work of its kind I am aware of, rendering into verse three
of the better known state trials, including that of Mary Queen of
Scots.

9.  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] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62879     $ 250.00

10.  WHEATON, Henry.  Elements of International Law: With a
Sketch of the History of the Science.  Carey, Lea & Blanchard,
Philadelphia, 1836.  Original cloth, repaired and rebacked, some
foxing; sound. [62068 L68E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62068 $ 650.00

First American edition of Wheaton's most important work, translated
into many languages (including Chinese and Japanese); "for the
first time the principles underlying international law were brought
together in a book written in English".


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