[Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
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1.  [ABDUCTION AND ELOPEMENT].  The Abduction. The King v.
Wakefields & Thevenot. A Report of the Proceedings on the Trial of
Edward Gibbon Wakefield [and others] For a Conspiracy, for the
Abduction of Miss E. Turner, Before Mr. Baron Hullock . . . At
Lancaster Assizes.  Printed and Published by J. Pratt, 11,
Bridge-St. [etc.], Manchester, n.d.  Modern 1/4 calf, gilt, over
marbled boards, two repairs to the title, corner of leaf repaired
with small loss, else quite a pretty copy. [71640] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71640     $ 450.00

A seemingly unrecorded account of the case which sent Wakefield as
a youthful lawyer to prison, charged with seducing his rich
neighbor into a fraudulent marriage, her virginity saved through
his misunderstanding of 'defilement' at Scots law.

2.  AVINS, Alfred (ed.).  The Reconstruction Amendments' Debates,
The Legislative History and Contemporary Debates in Congress on the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.  Virginia Commission on
Constitutional Government, Richmond, 1967.  Oversized printed sewn
wraps, showing a bit of wear, but a good copy; 764 pages. [71650
WRT] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71650
                                                          $ 125.00

4.  [COKE ON LITTLETON].  Humphrey Davenport.  Synopsis, Or, An
Exact Abridgement of The Lord Cokes Commentaries upon Littleton:
Being A briefe explanation of the Grounds of the Common Law [etc.].
Wing C4958.  Printed by E.G. for Matthew Walbancke at Grayes Inne
Gate [etc.], London, 1652.  Contemporary calf, rubbed, quite neatly
rebacked, some staining and dustiness, the occasional tear, but
altogether a good fresh wide-margined copy. [71695] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71695     $ 650.00

First abridgment of one of the most famous English law books, and
the only one to appear in the 17th century, offering the essence of
(in Maitland's words) Coke's "enormous learning [shovelled out] in
vast disorderly heaps"; with the two portraits.

5.  DOUTHWAITE, W. (comp.).  Catalogue of the Books in the Library
of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn: With an Index of Subjects
[etc.]. Bland 666.  Printed by C.F. Roworth & Sons, Newton Street,
High Holborn, London, 1872.  Original 1/2 morocco, marbled edges
and endpapers, with the gilt crest of the Inn on the front board,
quite rubbed, ex-library; a sound copy. [71706] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71706     $ 350.00

First edition of the first separately published catalogue of the
library (which itself dates back to the early 16th century),
arranged by author/title with an excellent subject index; uncommon,
eight copies in OCLC.

6.  [ENGLISH LAW OF WOMEN].  The Lawes Resolutions of Womens
Rights: Or, the Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall
Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinions,
Arguments and points of Learning in the Law, as doe properly
concerne Women [etc.]. S.T.C. 7437.  Printed by the assignes of
Iohn More Esq. [etc.], London, 1632.  Modern calf, crimson morocco
label, gilt, some browning, but a good crisp wide-margined copy,
with a number of marginal annotations throughout. [71754] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71754   $ 8,500.00

The only edition of the first work on women at English law, its
publication recently termed a "remarkable event" and the work
itself described as "[t]he greatest legal monument" in English of
the debate on the social and natural status of women.

7.  [ERSKINE, THOMAS].  Proceedings In An Action For Debt, Between
the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, Plaintiff, and John Horne
Tooke, Esq. Defendant. Published by the Defendant.  Printed for J.
Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church-yard, London, 1792.  Modern
wraps, ex-library, the hinges and one leaf clumsily taped; a
complete working copy only. [71740] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71740     $ 250.00

Part of Horne Tooke's lifelong effort at Parliamentary reform,
representing himself before Lord Kenyon in (in Hazlitt's words) "a
masterpiece of acuteness, dexterity, modest assurance, and legal
effort", with Erskine representing (successfully) Fox.

8.  [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.

9.  GOODWIN-GILL, Guy S.  International Law and the Movement of
Persons between States.  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket.
[71656 WRT] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71656      $ 85.00

Based in part on Mr. Goodwin-Gill's Doctor of Philosophy degree at
Oxford under the supervision of Ian Brownlie and completed while he
was Legal Adviser in the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.

10.  HOWARD, John.  The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,
With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign
Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition. Baumgartner 3 [calling
for 22 plates, all of which are present here, many folding].
Quarto.  Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.],
Warrington, 1784.  Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, crimson
morocco label, gilt, a bit of browning and foxing, but generally a
very good copy; without the half-title. [71715] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71715   $ 1,250.00

Howard's masterwork, displaying the enormous empirical data upon
the treatment of prisoners amassed by him just as the major reforms
of English criminal law began, this edition completely revised and
much expanded following Howard's journeys in 1780.

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