[Rarebooks] fs-Jurisprudence [III]

[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.  COKE, Edward.  The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of
England. Or, a Commentary upon Littleton. . .Fourteenth Edition. .
.by Francis Hargrave. . .and Charles Butler. Including Also, The
Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham
[etc.].  Printed for E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar,
London, 1789.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, a very good, clean,
tall copy. [55295 L46EL50EL51EL79E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55295   $ 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.

2.  [FORTESCUE AND SELDEN].  John Fortescue.  De Laudibus Legum
Angliae . . . Hereto are Added the two Sums of Sir Ralph de Hengham
. . . commonly call'd Hengham Magna, & Hengham Parva. With Notes
both on Fortescue and Hengham, by that Famous and Learned
Antiquarie John Selden. Wing F1613.  Printed by John Streater,
Eliz. Flesher and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1672.  Contemporary
sheep, very worn, rebacked, a portion of the label lacking, some
browning and a few margins rounded (not affecting the text); a
sound copy. [71677] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71677     $ 650.00

A work which has been placed "among the classics of English
constitutional theory", written in the late 15th century, this
edition bearing Selden's notes; with the Latin text and English
translation and much on the Inns of Court and on trial by jury.

3.  FRIED, Charles.  Right and Wrong. Fourth Printing.  Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, 1980.  Printed wraps, a very good
copy; 226 pages. [30002]                                  $ 15.00

Professor Fried's provocative philosophical adumbrations, while at
Harvard, on "rights" and "wrongs," and their interrelationships.

4.  HART, H.L.A.  Definition & Theory in Jurisprudence.  At the
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961.  Original printed gray stapled
wraps, a trifle worn, but well-preserved, 28 pages, reprinted
lithographically from sheets of the first edition. [71919] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71919     $ 125.00

Hart's first separately published work, his inaugural lecture given
upon his election to the Chair of Jurisprudence at Oxford
(succeeding A.L. Goodhart), "put[ting] him at once in controversy"
and anticipating his 'Concept of Law' to appear in 1961.

5.  [HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR.].  The Common Law & Other
Writings, Including The Common Law, Collected Legal Papers, [and]
Speeches.  The Legal Classics Library, Birmingham, 1982.  Modern
leather, a bit worn, but quite a good copy. [66396 L68]
                                                           $ 85.00

The first classic in this Library, facsimile reissues of Justice
Holmes' three principal, extra-judicial works, underpinning and
forming the basis of his recent characterization as "the greatest
thinker and writer in the history of American law".

6.  HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.  The Common Law.  Little, Brown, and
Company, Boston, 1881.  Original russet cloth, unobtrusively
repaired, a very good copy. [47027 L64EL72EL73EL77EL79E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47027   $ 1,750.00

7.  HURST, James Willard.  The Growth of American Law, The Law
Makers.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1950.  Original green
cloth, worn, the spine dull, else a good copy. [67477 L72EL79E]
                                                           $ 85.00

Hurst's first book, seeking to explore the five different
institutional structures of American law: the legislature, the
courts, constitutional conventions, the bar, and the executive,
producing "the first sustained example of legal realist history".

9.  KAIRYS, David (ed.).  The Politics of Law.  Pantheon Books,
New York, 1982.  A very good copy, in the dustjacket. [66365 L67]
                                                           $ 45.00

A work praised by Thomas Emerson, bringing together twenty essays,
including those by Duncan Kennedy, Morton J. Horwitz, Mark Tushnet
and Robert W. Gordon, among others.

10.  KAMES, Henry Home, Lord.  Elucidations Respecting The Common
and Statute Law of Scotland.  Printed for William Creech; and sold
. . . by T. Cadell, London, 1777.  Contemporary calf, front joint
cracked, browning, yet a good copy. [68806 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68806     $ 850.00

First edition of the last major legal work of Lord Kames, leading
figure of the Scots Enlightenment and influential upon David Hume,
James Boswell, and Adam Smith, seeking "to advocate rational
principle in opposition to practice"; with the halftitle.

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