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1.  [ANCIENT WELSH LAW].  William Probert (trans.).  The Ancient
Laws of Cambria: Containing the Institutional Triads of Dyvnwal
Moelmud, the Laws of Howel the Good, Triadical Commentaries, Code
of Education, and the Hunting Laws of Wales, to Which are Added,
the Historical Triads of Britain.  Sold by E. Williams, No. 11,
Strand [and others] [etc.], London, 1823.  Later crimson cloth,
lacking a free endpaper, but sound. [46853 L16L55L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=46853     $ 450.00

The first English translation, (and incidentally the first
valuation of dogs in Britain), of the Laws of Howell the Good,
which date to the ninth century and were recently described as "the
greatest intellectual achievement of mediaeval Wales".

2.  MAINE, Henry Sumner.  Ancient Law, Its Connection With the
Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas.  John
Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1861.  Modern brown morocco, the
boards with centered blind-tooled lozenges and the spine with
blind-tooled ornaments, simply titled and ruled in gilt. [65911
65L73EL78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65911   $ 1,250.00

First edition of Maine's magnum opus, a work recently described as
"[n]ext only to Blackstone . . . the most durable work of
jurisprudence in the English language", influential upon Holmes,
who confessed to Laski it "fed [my] philosophical passion".

3.  MAINE, Henry Sumner.  Ancient Law, Its Connection with the
Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas. Charles Scribner, 
124 Grand Street, New York, 1864.  Original
cloth, rebacked, remains of spine laid down; quite sound. [55672
L52L63EL65EL73EL78E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55672     $ 450.00

The first American edition.

4.  [QUEEN ANNE].  Anno Regni Annae, Reginae . . . Decimo. At the
Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Twenty fifth Day of
November, Anno Dom. 1710. In . . . the Reign of our Sovereign Lady
Anne [etc.].  Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry
Hills [etc.], London, 1711-12.  Contemporary panelled calf, joints
just cracking, new label; sound. [49536 ACTL30L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49536     $ 250.00

Thirty-four acts, most as issued with their separate titles bound
in, together with the listing of the 51 private acts passed at the
Parliament.

5.  SCOTT, Robert N.  An Analytical Digest of the Military Laws of
the United States. A Compilation of the Constitutional and
Statutory Provisions Concerning the Military Establishment . . .
Accompanied by Judicial and Executive Decisions Explanatory of the
Text.  J.P. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1873.  Original maroon
cloth, some fading, ex-library; a sound copy. [65968 L65] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65968     $ 150.00

A comprehensive work arranged principally by subject or government
department, prefaced by a synoptic index of the Constitution
emphasising military matters; with separate chapters on Indians,
the Militia, and military reservations, among much else.

6.  TILLESLEY, Richard.  Animadversions upon M. Seldens History of
Tythes, And His Review Thereof . . . Maintaining the Ius divinum of
Tythes [etc.] [with] An Answer to M. Seldens Unprinted Pamphlet
Against the Animadversions [etc.]. The second Edition. S.T.C.
24074. Quarto.  Printed by N. Okes for Arthur Iohnson [imprint
varies], London, 1621.  Contemporary vellum showing wear and
lacking ties, the vellum detached at the front hinge, ex-seminary
library, yet a crisp usable copy. [72003] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=72003     $ 750.00

The first major response to the work of Selden which David
Berkowitz termed "his greatest work [and] one of the triumphs of
Renaissance learning", this second edition providing Tillesley's
further response to Selden's privately circulated reply.

7.  [TREASON AND MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS].  Anno XIII Reginae
Elizabethe. At the parliament begunne and holden at Westminster the
eight of May, in the xiiii yeere of the raigne [1572] of our most
gracious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth [etc.]. S.T.C. 9479; Beale S295. Imprinted . 
. . in Powles Church yarde by Richard Iugge [etc.],
London, [1576].  Later 1/2 morocco, some staining and worming; a
usable copy. [69112 L75] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69112   $ 1,500.00

The Parliament convened at the height of the perceived threat of
Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth, the law of treason strengthened
and the penalties upon those attempting to rescue those held, as
Mary was, on charges of treason expressly enhanced.

8.  [TURNPIKE ROADS ACT].  Anno Decimo Tertio Georgeii III. . .An
Act to explain, amend, and reduce into One Act of Parliament, the
general Laws now in being, for regulating the Turpike Roads in that
Part of Great Britain called England [etc.]. Folio.  Printed by
Charles Eyre and William Strahan [etc.], London, 1773.  Modern
cloth, printed paper label, some markings and wear, but a clean
copy. [68638] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68638     $ 350.00

The all-important consolidating act, bringing together the
scattered statutory evolution of the first part of the century and
earlier, to be the basis for turnpike roads well into the 19th
century; with the schedule of mandatory forms included.

9.  [WALES].  Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales; Comprising Laws
Supposed to Be Enacted by Howel the Good, Modified by Subsequent
Regulations Under the Native Princes Prior to the Conquest of
Edward the First [etc.].  The Commissioners on the Public Records
of the Kingdom, [London], 1841.  Modern cloth, a bit shaken, but a clean copy. 
[55072 L49] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55072     $ 650.00

10.  [YEAR BOOKS].  William Fleetwood.  Annalium tam Regum Edwardi
quinti, Richardi tertii, & Henrici septimi, quam Henrici octavi.
Titulorum Ordine Alphabetico digestorum, Elenchus [etc.]. S.T.C.
11034; Beale T354.  In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, London, 1579. Contemporary 
calf, neatly rebacked, the boards with centered
lozenges, a trace of worming (marginal), light browning; a very
good wide-margined copy. [69687 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69687   $ 1,750.00

First edition of the useful index of the year books of the century
preceeding the work's publication, by the well regarded Fleetwood,
double-Reader and Recorder of London, arranged alphabetically by
subject, the reign of Henry VIII separately treated.

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