[Rarebooks] fs-Jurisprudence [II]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on jurisprudence 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.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. The
Fourth [sic] Edition. Eller 6.  Printed for John Exshaw [and
others; imprint varies], Dublin, 1771.  Contemporary calf, rubbed,
a few repairs, new labels; a sound set. [60114 TAS] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=60114   $ 1,500.00

A very early Dublin-printed, pirated edition (the second) of
Blackstone's classic work, appearing during the same year as the
first American edition, and the first in Ireland in which all four
volumes were published during the same year.

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.  CANTOR, Norman L.  Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying. Indiana University 
Press, Bloomington, 1987.  A very good copy, in
the dustjacket. [66636 L69]                               $ 35.00

4.  [CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N.].  The Benjamin N. Cardozo Memorial
Lectures Delivered Before The Association of The Bar of The City of
New York 1941-1970. Two Volumes.  Mathew Bender, New York, [1972?]. Original 
buckram, the spines a bit dull, but a good, clean set
boxed. [71041 L78L79]                                    $ 250.00

The 100th anniversary edition of the 27 Cardozo lectures delivered
between 1941-54, including those by Justices Douglas, Frankfurter
and Jackson and Judges Friendly and Traynor, among many others.

5.  [CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N.].  Margaret Hall (ed.).  Benjamin Nathan
Cardozo, Ausgewahlte Schriften.  Europaische Verlagsanstalt,
Frankfurt am Main, 1957.  Original pebbled cloth, a very good copy
in a repaired dustjacket. [66533 L68]                     $ 85.00

The German edition of Cardozo's collected writings, including the
complete texts of his four major works, "The Nature of the Judicial
Process", "The Growth of the Law", "The Paradoxes of Legal
Science", and "Law and Literature", plus eight essays.

6.  CARDOZO, Benjamin N.  The Growth of the Law.  Yale University
Press, New Haven, 1924.  Original olive-green cloth, gilt, definite
browning, else a very good bright copy. [72058]          $ 250.00

First edition of Cardozo's second major work, expanding upon the
themes first pronounced in his 'Nature of the Judicial Process'
three years before, providing him with "a national reputation as a
disciple of legal scholarship and a contributor to it".

8.  CARE, Henry and William Nelson.  English Liberties, Or the
Free-born Subject's Inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de
Foresta . . . Also a Declaration of the Liberties of the Subject .
. . Of Trials by Juries, and of the Qualifications of Jurors
[etc.]. Cohen 3416.  Printed and Sold by John Carter, at
Shakespear's Head [etc.], Providence, 1774.  Modern brown morocco,
extra-gilt, some browning and the margins cut a bit close, but an
appealing, attractive copy. [40177 L75EL79]            $ 1,500.00

One of only three colonial printings of Magna Carta, relying
extensively on Coke's gloss, a work in its totality important in
the formation of nascent American political theory and as a ready
reference of fundamental rights; with the subscriber list.

10.  COKE, Edward.  The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. 
Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton. . . . With the Addition of Notes and 
References . . . By Francis Hargrave [and] With the Preface and Index to the 
Notes, by Charles Butler [etc.]. Thirteenth Edition.  Printed by T. Wright, for 
E. Brooke [etc.], London, 1788.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, joints cracked, 
label lacking, yet despite all this, a clean, well-margined, usable copy. 
[55518 XL44EL46EL50EL51EL79] PHOTO: 
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55518 $ 1,250.00

One of the five greatest English law books, a substantial folio,
here in an edition which Maitland praised, particularly for its
notes and their value for the study of English medieval law.

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