[Rarebooks] fs-French law [I]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on the French law 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.  ANCEL, Marc.  La "Common Law" D'Angleterre.  Librairie Arthur
Rousseau, Paris, 1929.  Printed wraps, quite worn and embrowned,
usable only; 223 pages. [16770 L19L66]                    $ 50.00

Collections d'Etudes Theoriques et Pratiques de Droit Etranger, de
Droit Compare & de Droit International.

2.  [BEAUCHAMP, Alphonse de].  Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, Duke of
Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France. Translated from
the French. Not in Cohen.  Wells and Lilly--Court-Street [etc.],
Boston, 1825.  Contemporary calf, extra gilt, joints cracked, else
a good copy. [66747 L69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66747     $ 450.00

First American edition of the sole contemporary work in English on
Fouche, compiled in part from his notes, providing chilling insight
into the French revolutionary who "set the guillotine and cannon to
work with a rigour which made his name odious".

4.  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.

5.  CHRISTELOW, Allan.  Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial
State in Algeria.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1985.
[46195 L17L46]                                            $ 40.00

7.  [CODE NAPOLEON].  George Spence (trans.[?]).  The Code
Napoleon; or, The French Civil Code. Literally Translated from the
Original and Official Edition, Published at Paris, in 1804.
William Benning, Law Bookseller, London, 1827.  Modern 1/4 maroon
cloth, some markings, title foxed, yet sound. [68812 L74]
                                                         $ 650.00

One of two early English translations of the most influential
modern effort at codification, "one of the most notable events in
all legal history", serving as a model throughout the world, in
Europe, Asia, Northern Africa and in this hemisphere.

8.  [CODE NAPOLEON].  George Spence (trans.[?]).  The Code
Napoleon; or, The French Civil Code. Literally Translated from the
Original and Official Edition, Published at Paris, in 1804. Cohen
5273.  Halsted and Voorhies, New-York, 1841.  Modern cloth,
definite browning and staining; a usable copy. [69316]   $ 650.00

Only American edition

9.  COMFORT, W.W. (trans.).  The Clermont Assizes of 1665, A Merry
Account of a Grim Court. Being a Translation of Abbe Flechier's
Memoires sur les Grands Jours d'Auvergne.  University of
Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1937.  Maroon cloth, gilt, a
sound copy. [70310 L77]                                   $ 45.00

10.  CORAS, Jean de.  The Qualifications and the Duties of a Good
and Complete Judge . . . Translated and Edited with an Introduction
by Walter S. Johnson.  J.D. de Lamirande & Co., Montreal, 1934.
Maroon cloth, gilt, the spine faded, front hinge strengthened,
definite browning; a usable copy only. [71525]           $ 125.00

Only edition in English of a seminal work written by the 16th
century scholar and judge (and Rapporteur in the Martin Guerre
affair) containing "most, if not all, that had been said through
the ages touching the office and the probity of the Judge".

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