[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: 
www.meyerbos.com

1.  [BEETON, Samuel Orchart].  Beeton's Handbook of the Law
Relating to Property.  Ward, Lock and Co., London, [1884]. Original orange 
printed boards, quite rubbed and darkened, else a
very good, clean copy. [70663 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70663     $ 125.00

The rare, first Shilling Legal Handbook, "excellent as they are
cheap", discussing in over 1,600 numbered paragraphs in an
accessible, accomplished manner freeholds, copyhold, the game laws,
railways, leases, and tenancies; no copy in OCLC or RLIN.

2.  BINNS, Archie.  Backwater Voyage. Drawings by Edward A. Wilson. Reynal and 
Hitchcock, New York, 1936.  Cream-colored cloth-backed
red cloth, somewhat worn, but quite sound; 1 of 280 copies, "of
which no copies are for sale", this being copy 118. [10571] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=10571     $ 150.00

A lovely presentation and association copy, signed by both Archie
Binns and Edward Wilson and by both publishers, Curtice Hitchcock
and Eugene Reynal, seemingly a copy destined for the daughter of
Thomas Reed Powell, the noted constitutional scholar.

3.  [CALIFORNIA].  [David Price Belknap].  Bancroft's California
Lawyer and Book of Forms; Containing Instructions for Ordinary
Transactions [etc.].  H.H. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco,
1860.  Contemporary sheep, stained and worn; usable. [47178 L20L47]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=47178
                                                          $ 250.00

4.  [CRIMINAL CONVERSATION IN IRELAND].  Authentic Report of the
Crim. Con. Trial of Joynt v. Jackson, in the Exchequer Court,
Dublin . . . from Shorthand Notes by a Gentleman in Court.  Edward
Smyth, Bookseller, 33, Temple Bar, Dublin, 1880.  New 1/4 calf, the
original wraps (front repaired) bound in. [55048 L26] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55048     $ 150.00

5.  [GAOL DELIVERY].  Assize Kalendar . . . of the Prisoners in the
Gaols of Durham, Newcastle, and Morpeth, who have to take their
Trials before the Hon. Sir John Bayley, Knt. and the Hon. Sir Geo.
Sowley Holroyd, Knt. Justices of the Court of King's Bench. Marshall, Printer, 
Newcastle, 1822.  Broadside, untrimmed, 8 x 12
inches, once folded but quite nice. [44636 C18XYL71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44636     $ 250.00

A seemingly unrecorded criminal trial calendar disclosing an
enormous variety of alleged crimes (murder, rape, arson), committed
by some as young as twelve years, and with an unusually high number
of accused women, about one-third of all charged.

6.  HILDRETH, Richard (ed.).  Atrocious Judges, Lives of Judges
Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression. Miller, Orton & 
Mulligan, New York, 1856.  Original cloth, the
spine quite faded, else a sound copy. [68873 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68873     $ 150.00

With chapters on William Scroggs and George Jeffreys, among many
others (all based in significant part on Lord Campbell's
"Justices"), and an appendix devoted to the famed Pennsylvania
abolitionist, Passmore Williamson.

7.  [LORD ELGIN AND CRIMINAL CONVERSATION].  An Authentic Account
of the Proceedings. . .in Which the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin
was Plaintiff, and William Ferguson, Esq., Defendant, for Criminal
Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife [etc.].  J. Hatchard,
London, 1808.  Modern red buckram, a bit worn and blistered, but
usable. [63578] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63578     $ 450.00

8.  [PERJURY AND COMMERCIAL FRAUD].  An Authentic Report of the
Trial of Michael Stocks, Esq. for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury, at
the Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1815, Before The Honorable Sir
Alexander Thompson, Knt. Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of
Exchequer, and a Special Jury.  Sold by the Principal Booksellers
in London [etc.], Huddersfield, 1815.  Original wraps, quite
chipped and worn, a bit of foxing, else a good untrimmed,
unsophisiticated copy; 112 copies. [71613] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71613     $ 250.00

A rare trial, well reported, charging Stocks, a Yorkshire
magistrate, with perjury in perpetrating a large-scale commercial
fraud (securing 10,000 tons of coal to his own use), then seeking
to cover it up; one copy in RLIN, none in OCLC or KVK.

9.  [ROYAL COURTS].  R[ichard] Crompton.  L' Authoritie et
Iurisdiction des Courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne [etc.]. Printed by the 
Assignes of John More Esquire, London, 1637.  Modern
hand-lettered calf, some embrowning, but a good copy. [55944
L29L51] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55944
                                                          $ 650.00

Crompton's chief work, and the first to be devoted exclusively to
the Royal courts, beginning with Parliament (as a court), Star
Chamber and King's Bench, among many others; with a number of
circuit reports of criminal cases not printed elsewhere.

10.  The Barrister: Or, Strictures on the Education Proper for the
Bar.  Printed for Messrs. E. Lynch, R. M'Allister, P. Wogan [etc.],
Dublin, 1792.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, joints cracked;
usable. [58866] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58866     $ 650.00

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