[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.  RICHARDSON, William M.  The New Hampshire Town Officer. Cohen
8299.  Published by Jacob B. Moore, Concord, 1829.  Contemporary
sheep, quite scuffed and worn, but a usable copy. [63823 XL56]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63823
                                                         $ 125.00

An unusual instance of an intensely practical work written by an
appellate court judge, in this case appearing about midway through
Richardson's tenure as Chief Justice of New Hampshire for over two
decades; not in the 1909 Harvard Law Catalogue.

2.  SCOTT, William.  Judgment Pronounced in the Consistory Court
of London, In the Case of Dalrymple v. Dalrymple.  Thomas Clark,
Edinburgh, 1836.  Modern brown buckram, a good clean copy. [63579]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63579
                                                         $ 150.00

3.  SPOONER, Lysander.  An Essay on the Trial By Jury.  John P.
Jewett and Company, Boston, 1852.  Ex-library, crude cloth repairs,
some pages loose; a working copy. [63414] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63414     $ 350.00

Unquestionably the most radical treatise ever written on the
American jury, examining Magna Carta and a host of other historical
sources to sustain the claim that jurors should be chosen from the
entire population and be judges of both fact and law.

4.  [TICHBORNE CASE].  Arthur Sketchly [pseud.] [George Rose].
Mrs. Brown on the Tichborne Case.  George Routledge and Sons, The
Broadway, Ludgate, London, [1872?].  Original printed illustrated
boards, defective; a fragile survivor. [63641] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63641     $ 350.00

Rose's most famous creation, the character of "Mrs. Brown", said to
be "an obvious adaptation of Dickens's Mrs. Gamp" and reminiscent
of (and predating) Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley in this country;
in the publisher's "fancy boards".

5.  [TRIALS FOR ADULTERY].  The Trial of Robert Gordon, Esq. for
Adultery with Mrs. Biscoe, Wife of the Plaintiff, Joseph Seymour
Biscoe, Esq. [bound together with ten other separately published
adultery trials].  [Imprints vary], London, 1794?-1808.
Contemporary(?) calf, gilt, generally well-preserved. [63586]
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                                                       $ 1,750.00

Eleven late 18th and early 19th century trials for adultery and
related matters, a complete list of which will be gladly provided;
complemented by a suite of thirty engravings from "Trials for
Adultery" (London, 1779-1781).

6.  [WHITE COLLAR CRIME].  Report of the Trial of the Directors of
the City of Glasgow Bank Before the High Court of Justiciary,
Edinburgh.  The Edinburgh Publishing Company, Edinburgh, 1879.
Contemporary 1/4 sheep, a bit rubbed, but a good, clean copy.
[63801 XYL56] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63801     $ 350.00

One of the great commercial scandals in Scots history, called
"probably the most important [trial] which has taken place in
Scotland", reckless investments collapsing Scotland's largest bank,
the books cooked in extremis; uncommon, four copies in NUC.

7.  WILLIAMS, Walter.  Jus Appellandi ad Regem Ipsum a
Cancellaria: Or, A Manifestation of the King's Part and Power to
Relieve His Subjects against Erroneous and Unjust Decrees in
Chancery [etc.]. Wing W2775.  Printed for Walter Davis in
Amen-Corner, near Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1684.  Modern 1/4
sheep, title trimmed, some embrowning, yet usable. [63114 L54L56]
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                                                         $ 850.00

An uncommon work written by a Middle Temple bencher (and the Keeper
of its library in the early 18th century) putting a strongly
grounded historical case for the King's personal review of
Chancery; two American locations in Wing, Yale and the Folger.

8.  WILMOT, John Eardley (ed.).  Notes of Opinions and Judgments
Delivered in Different Courts, by the Right Honourable Sir John
Eardley Wilmot . . . Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council.  Printed by Luke Hansard, and Sold by T. Cadell, Jun.
[etc.], London, 1802.  Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, a
sound attractive copy. [63820 L56L64] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63820 $ 450.00

A fine selection of the opinions of the colleague of Lord Mansfield
whom Holdsworth termed "the ablest of the very able band"; this
copy presented by the editor (Wilmot's son) to his clerk and
thence, twenty-five years later, to the Law Society.

9.  Memoire pour la Demoiselle Le Guay d'Oliva, Fille Mineure,
Emancipee d'Age, Accussee, Contre M. Le Procureur General,
Accusateur [etc.].  N.p, n.p, 1786.  Later boards, unevenly faded,
but a fresh copy. [63568] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63568     $ 350.00

10.  The Trial of James Watson, the Elder, Before the Court of
King's Bench, in Westminster Hall . . . for High Treason.  Printed
by William Aitchison, for Alex. Jameson [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.
Modern russet cloth, original dusty wraps bound in; a good copy.
[63804] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63804
                                                         $ 250.00
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