[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
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1.  KELYNG, John.  A Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown,
Adjudged and Determined . . . With Directions for Justices of the
Peace and Others . . . From the Original Manuscript, under his own
Hand [etc.].  Printed for Isaac Cleave, next Door to Serjeants-Inn
[etc.], London, 1708.  Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked,
embrowning; a sound copy. [66169 L67] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66169     $ 850.00

First edition of the first reports exclusively devoted to English
criminal law, reflecting Kelyng's career both while a criminal
lawyer and after becoming Chief Justice of King's Bench; seen
posthumously through the press by Lord Holt.

2.  MAINE, Henry Sumner.  Ancient Law, Its Connection With the
Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas.  John
Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1861.  Modern brown morocco, the
boards with centered blind-tooled lozenges and the spine with
blind-tooled ornaments, simply titled and ruled in gilt. [65911
65L73EL78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65911   $ 1,250.00

First edition of Maine's magnum opus, a work recently described as
"[n]ext only to Blackstone . . . the most durable work of
jurisprudence in the English language", influential upon Holmes,
who confessed to Laski it "fed [my] philosophical passion".

3.  MITFORD, John.  A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in the
Court of Chancery, by English Bill. The Second Edition.  Printed
for W. Owen, between the Temple-Gates, Fleet-Street, London, 1787.
Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, but a good crisp copy. [66071
L66] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66071
                                                         $ 650.00

The much expanded second edition of Mitford's principal work,
important to the literature of equity and widely praised, in
Holdsworth's words "a difficult task [and] by far the best book on
th[e] subject which had yet appeared"; with the half-title.

4.  MONTES[QUIEU], M. de Secondat, Baron de.  The Spirit of Laws.
Translated from the French [etc.] in Two Volumes. The Fourth
Edition.  Printed by A. Donaldson, Edinburgh, 1768.  Contemporary
mottled calf, extra gilt, rubbed but still pretty. [66083] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66083     $ 450.00

First English translation in an early Edinburgh printing, a work
which Holmes opined "probably has done as much to remodel the world
as any product of the eighteenth century [the reading of which] is
one of the last achievements of a studious life".

5.  SCOTT, Robert N.  An Analytical Digest of the Military Laws of
the United States. A Compilation of the Constitutional and
Statutory Provisions Concerning the Military Establishment . . .
Accompanied by Judicial and Executive Decisions Explanatory of the
Text.  J.P. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1873.  Original maroon
cloth, some fading, ex-library; a sound copy. [65968 L65] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65968     $ 150.00

A comprehensive work arranged principally by subject or government
department, prefaced by a synoptic index of the Constitution
emphasising military matters; with separate chapters on Indians,
the Militia, and military reservations, among much else.

6.  [SEDITION IN SCOTLAND].  The Trial of Alexander M'Laren, and
Thomas Baird, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh .
. . for Sedition [etc.].  Printed for John Robertson, 132. High
Street [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.  Modern maroon pebbled cloth, the
title dusty; a sound copy. [65943 L65E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65943     $ 350.00

The first of many 19th century sedition trials, with Jeffrey and
Cockburn jointly representing Baird; Cockburn subsequently
described Jeffrey's speech "of the highest order of excellence,
[t]here has been no such speech in such a case in Scotland".

7.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  Doctor and Student: or Dialogues
Between a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of England
. . . comparing the Civil, Canon, Common and Statute Laws, and
shewing wherein they vary from one another [with] an Account of the
Author [etc.].  Printed by Henry Lintot, (Assignee of Edward Sayer,
Esq;), [London], 1746.  Contemporary calf, front joint cracked,
else a clean sound copy. [66080 XYL66L75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66080     $ 450.00

A rare edition of the first and classic work on English equity,
recently described as "intellectually satisfying [and written in a]
lucid and economical English prose style"; four copies in RLIN, one
in the UK (British Library) and two in the USA.

8.  STEPHEN, Henry John.  A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading
in Civil Actions; Comprising a Summary View of the Whole
Proceedings in a Suit at Law. Cohen 9249.  Published by Abraham
Small, Philadelphia, 1824.  Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed, one
signature loose, else sound. [65923 L65] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65923     $ 250.00

First American edition of the influential work which John Baker
calls "the first reasoned treatise" written on pleadings'
principles, confirming Serjeant Stephen's view of them as "one of
the finest products of human intellect".

9.  WALSH, M[ichael] McN.  The Lawyer in the School-Room,
Comprising the Laws of All the States on Important Educational
Subjects [etc.].  J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., 430 Broome Street
[etc.], New-York, 1867.  Original maroon cloth gilt, a trifle
rubbed, else a very good copy. [65963 L65] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65963     $ 150.00

A work of some intellectual ambition, its outset comparing the
educational systems of the Chinese, Jews, Germans and Americans,
followed by treatments of religion in the schools (also
significantly historical) and corporal punishment, among much else.

10.  WHARTON, Francis.  A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the
United States. Sixth and Revised Edition. Three Volumes.  Kay and
Brother, 19 South Sixth Street [etc.], Philadelphia, 1868.
Original sheep, quite worn and stained, but a usable set. [65876
L64] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65876
                                                         $ 150.00

One of two treatises which "inaugurated the patterns of American
criminal law scholarship", this edition much expanded and the
first, I believe, to draw upon Wharton's great store of comparative
knowledge of French and German law.