[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.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  Epistolae ad Gallos, Nunc primum editae. Ter
Meulen et Diermanse 1213.  Ex Officina Elzeviriorum, Lugd. Batav.,
1648.  Modern 3/4 tan morocco, gilt, some browning, margins cut
close and a bit of marginal worming, but a good sound copy. [71905]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71905
                                                          $ 150.00

First edition (and seemingly first issue) of the sole edition of
Grotius' correspondence with the French (the only collection of its
kind), 189 letters, all from Grotius, on a great variety of
subjects, edited by the French magistrate Claude Sarrau.

2.  HALE, Matthew.  The Works, Moral and Religious, of Sir Matthew
Hale, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench . . . To
Which Are Prefixed His Life and Death by Bishop Burnet [and] the
Additional Notes of Richard Baxter. By the Rev. T. Thirlwall
[etc.]. Two Volumes.  Printed for H.D. Symonds [and five others],
London, 1805.  Modern red cloth, gilt, a bit of wear and foxing,
ex-library, else a good set; with the frontispiece portrait of Hale
in volume one. [71852 BLS918] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71852     $ 250.00

The first collected edition of Hale's moral and religious works,
crucial to any understanding of him as a lawyer and judge, this
edition with several biographical accounts (Burnet and Baxter's and
two by Thirlwall) and a catalogue of Hale's works.

3.  HALL, A. Oakey.  Brief for Grand Jurors in the County of New
York.  N.p., [New York], 1868.  Original printed sewn yellow wraps,
the front wrap somewhat stained, else a very good copy; two copies
in OCLC, neither in New York. [71900] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71900     $ 150.00

A rare re-issue of Hall's instructive tract appearing towards the
end of close to two decades of his career as a successful, even
reform-minded, district attorney and shortly before his election as
mayor, when he became enmeshed in the Tweed Ring.

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.  KRISTEIN, Barbara Frank (ed.).  A Man's Reach, The Philosopy
of Judge Jerome Frank.  The MacMillan Company, New York, 1965. Original cloth, 
gilt, a very good copy, in a worn and chipped
dustjacket. [71833] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71833     $ 125.00

The collected writings of one of the most distinguished members of
the Second Circuit, edited by his daughter, who presented this copy
to one of her father's fellow judges--"For Sterry Waterman / with
the warm best wishes of / Barbara Kristein".

6.  LIVINGSTON, Edward.  The Complete Works of Edward Livingston
on Criminal Jurisprudence; Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for
the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America . . .
To Which is Prefixed an Introduction by Salmon P. Chase [etc.]. Two
Volumes.  Published by the National Prison Association [etc.], New
York, 1873.  Original maroon cloth, gilt, the top margin of some
leaves of volume two slightly damaged (as if by an errant pencil),
ex-Dropsie College; a good set. [71881] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71881   $ 1,250.00

Stephen J. Field's copy, with his booksticker ("S J Field") on the
front pastedown of the first volume, bringing together in the
concrete form of this set two of the principal codifiers and
reformers of American law in the 19th century.

7.  MAITLAND, Frederic William and Mary Bateson (eds.).  The
Charters of the Borough of Cambridge. Edited for the Council of the
Borough of Cambridge and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.  At the
University Press, Cambridge, 1901.  Original dark blue cloth, gilt,
showing some wear and lightly faded, but a good clean copy. [71912]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71912
                                                          $ 125.00

Maitland's sole collegial effort with Mary Bateson, the "rare and
great success" whom Maitland had recruited, tragically to die
shortly before him; with Maitland's introduction glossing the
charters (in Latin and English translation) seriatim.

8.  [REFORM OF ENGLISH REAL PROPERTY LAW].  Remarks on the
Expediency of Framing a New Code of Laws for Real Property. By a
Barrister of the Inner Temple.  William Benning, Law-Bookseller,
52, Fleet-Street, London, 1827.  Modern cloth, a bit dusty,
ex-library, but a usable copy, 45 pages; rare, no copy in OCLC or
in the United Kingdom in KVK, one copy in RLIN. [71836 BLS] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71836     $ 350.00

A rare part of the great debate over the reform of English real
property law prompted by James Humphreys' visionary proposed code
(involving Bentham, Sugden, and Park, inter alia), providing
fifteen substantial criticisms and offering alternatives.

9.  SLEIGH, W. Campbell.  A Handy Book of Criminal Law, Applicable
Chiefly to Commercial Transactions.  G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon
Street [etc.], London, 1858.  Original crimson embossed cloth,
gilt, definitely faded, but quite sound. [71891] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71891     $ 350.00

A thorough review of commercial chicanery, covering embezzlement,
forgery, fraud, fraudulent bankruptcy, larceny and even conspiracy,
written by the "effective cross-examiner" who held the first brief
for Arthur Orton, the Tichborne Claimant.

10.  TIFFANY, Francis B.  Handbook of the Law of Banks and Banking. West 
Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1912.  Original tan cloth, gilt, a bit rubbed and 
marked, else a good clean copy. [91302] PHOTO: 
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=91302 $ 150.00


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