[Rarebooks] A Selection from Stock, with Images

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  BLACKSTONE, William.  An Analysis of the Laws of England. To
Which is Perfixed [sic] an Introductory Discourse on the Study of
the Law.  The Fifth Edition. Eller 222.  Printed for Elizabeth
Watts, in Skinner-Row, Dublin, 1766.  Contemporary calf, neatly
rebacked, a good clean copy. [57472 XYL35L42EL74E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=57472     $ 850.00

2.  [BLACKSTONE, William].  An Analysis of the Laws of England.
Eller 217.  Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1756. Contemporary calf, 
rubbed, joints cracked, the spine hand-lettered,
some lightish browning, yet quite a good, crisp copy. [71323 XYL79]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71323
                                                        $ 4,500.00

First edition of the analytical schema underlying Blackstone's
"Commentaries", providing us with the syllabus used by Blackstone
for his Vinerian lectures at Oxford, crafted over many years as the
first university lectures on English law.

3.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Address . . . at the Inauguration of Dr.
Harry N. Wright, Sixth President of the City College of the College
of the City of New York [etc.].  Privately printed, [New York?],
[1942?].  Printed stapled wraps, a trifle embrowned; 16 pages.
[62026 FBWL59L59E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62026     $ 350.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture in praise of
publicly-supported education to realize the American ideal of equal
opportunity, passionately delivered by him at his undergraduate
alma mater, inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from FF".

4.  [GOLDBERG, ARTHUR J.].  Waldemar A. Nielsen.  African
Battleline, American Policy Choices in Southern Africa.  Harper &
Row, Publishers [For the Council on Foreign Relations], New York,
1965.  Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy in a somewhat worn
and foxed dustjacket. [70579] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70579     $ 150.00

Presentation copy "To Ambassador Goldberg -- / May this be of some
/ small value to you in / dealing with one of the / more tangled
aspects of / your vast responsibilities / Waldemar A Nielsen / New
York / Oct 1 1965".

5.  [KENT, JAMES].  Joseph Willard.  An Address to the Members of
the Bar of Worcester County [etc.]. Cohen 8570 [not noting an
errata slip present in this copy].  Carter, Andrews, and Company,
Lancaster, 1830.  Modern 1/4 calf, some lightish embrowning, but a
good copy. [47040 L42L55L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47040     $ 450.00

James Kent's copy (presented to him by the author) of a major essay
on the bench and bar of Massachusetts from its inception, with
biographical vignettes of dozens of its members and general
observations on the common law's evolution in the state.

6.  READ, Collinson.  The American Pleader's Assistant, Being a
Collection of Approved Declarations, Writs, Returns, and
Proceedings in the Several Actions Now in Use Within the United
States. Cohen 9272.  Published by I. Riley, & Co. No. 1, City
Hotel, Broad-Way [etc.], New-York, 1806.  Contemporary sheep, spine
defective, joint cracked; a working copy. [67028 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67028     $ 125.00

First edition of one of the earliest American works on the law of
pleading (the third located by Cohen), whose compiler, Collinson
Read, was one in a longish line of Pennsylvania lawyers and the
author of several other works; arranged by action.

7.  ROSCOE, William.  Additional Observations on Penal
Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals [etc.] [with]
Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of
Criminals: Part III [etc.].  Printed for T. Cadell [etc.] [imprint
varies], London, 1823 & 1825.  Original paper-backed boards,
rubbed, one spine defective; clean. [68653 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68653     $ 750.00

Presentation copies [to Gulian C. Verplanck of New York] of two of
Roscoe's substantial and especially perceptive critiques of the
American prison system ("our most formidable opponent"), each in an
appealing, completely unsophisticated binding.

10.  SURRENCY, Erwin et al (eds.).  The American Journal of Legal
History [Official Publication of the American Society of Legal
History]. Thirteen Volumes with the Three Indexes for Volumes 1-5,
6-10, and 11-15 bound in.  Temple University School of Law,
Philadelphia, 1957-71.  Crimson cloth, gilt, with Judge Klein's
name embossed in gilt on the front board of 11 of the 13 volumes
and the original wraps bound in; well-preserved. [71188 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71188     $ 450.00

A good, early run of the Journal from its inception through Volume
15, thirteen volumes in total lacking volumes 3 and 12, once the
set of Charles Klein, President Judge of Philadelphia's Orphans
Court and a member of the Journal's Advisory Board.


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