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

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  ABBOTT, Benjamin Vaughan.  The Travelling Law-School and Famous
Trials (First Lessons in Government and Law).  The Interstate
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1884.  Original brown cloth, gilt, a
very good, bright copy. [66544 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66544     $ 125.00

A lighter diversion undertaken by Abbott who, with his brother,
wrote prodigiously on the law; among the twelve trials examined are
those of Jennie Diver, Joan of Arc, Martin Guerre, Madame Rachel
and Elizabeth Canning.

2.  [ANSTEY, John].  The Pleader's Guide, A Didactic Poem, In Two
Parts: Containing . . . the Conduct of a Suit at Law [with] the
Arguments of Counsellor Bother'um and Counsellor Bore'um, in an
Action . . . Betwixt John-a-Gull and John-a-Gudgeon [etc.]. The
Seventh Edition.  Printed for T.Cadell, and W. Davies, Strand,
London, 1815.  ?Contemporary polished calf, extra gilt, rubbed, but
quite pretty. [66270 L67] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66270     $ 250.00

One of the better spoofs of English law popular throughout the 19th
century, characterized by Holdsworth as a work "[of] considerable
wit", three pages of its verses which he then can't resist quoting;
based, it is said, on Mr. Surrebutter's lectures.

3.  BALFOUR, James.  Practicks: Or, A System Of the more ancient
Law of Scotland.  Printed by Thomas and Walter Ruddimans, for A.
Kincaid [etc.], Edinburgh, 1754.  Contemporary 1/2 calf, worn,
rebacked, a good clean copy. [66718 L69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66718   $ 1,500.00

First edition of one of the most important of all works of Scots
law, written in the late 16th century and compared to Justinian's
Digest by Professor Walker, who calls it "the earliest extant
general compendium of the post-medieval law of Scotland".

4.  [BEAUCHAMP, Alphonse de].  Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, Duke of
Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France. Translated from
the French. Not in Cohen.  Wells and Lilly--Court-Street [etc.],
Boston, 1825.  Contemporary calf, extra gilt, joints cracked, else
a good copy. [66747 L69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66747     $ 450.00

First American edition of the sole contemporary work in English on
Fouche, compiled in part from his notes, providing chilling insight
into the French revolutionary who "set the guillotine and cannon to
work with a rigour which made his name odious".

5.  BROOM, Herbert.  A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classified and
Illustrated. Sixth American, from the Fourth London Edition, with
References to American Cases.  T. and J.W. Johnson & Co., Law
Booksellers [etc.], Philadelphia, 1868.  Original sheep, quite worn
and scuffed, else a clean usable copy. [66352 W0*L67L77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66352     $ 250.00

By far Broom's most famous work and almost certainly the most
popular work on legal maxims ever published, praised by Holdsworth,
with each maxim stated, translated, its source provided, and
Broom's essay (extensively annotated) then exploring it.

6.  [COMMERCE IN SCOTLAND].  The Trader's Assistant: Containing I.
Exact and Useful Tables, shewing the Value of any quantity of goods
or wares . . . VI. A Table reducing Scots Money to Sterling. VII.
A List of all the Fairs in Scotland [etc.].  Printed for and Sold
by Robert Morison, Bookseller, Perth, 1784.  Contemporary sheep,
rubbed, front joint cracking; a usable copy. [66417 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66417     $ 350.00

A rare work, comprehensively setting forth various conversion (and
other) tables, including those for interest, for commissions and
exchange, for converting to British money (Scots and otherwise) and
for weavers; one copy in RLIN (British Library).

7.  [COTTON, ROBERT].  J[ames] H[owell].  Cottoni Posthuma: Divers
Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton . . .
Preserved from the injury of Time, and Exposed to publick light,
for the benefit of Posterity. Wing C6486.  Printed for Richard
Lawndes . . . and Matthew Gilliflower [etc.], London, 1672.
Contemporary sheep, quite worn, rebacked; a clean copy only. [66277
L67] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66277
                                                         $ 450.00

The best sampler of the varied talents of Cotton, whose famed
library was incorporated into the British Museum; with essays on
the legality of combats and duels and on sovereignty and the
respective rights and powers of Parliament and the King.

8.  [FORM BOOK].  The Pocket Lawyer, and Family Conveyancer . . .
To Which is Added, an Abridged Law Dictionary, and the Fee Bill.
Embellished with Upwards of Twenty Pages of Script, Serving As a
Model for Good Writing [etc.]. Cohen 8126.  Charles Bell, Market
Street, Philadelphia, 1839.  Morocco backed printed boards, a bit
of foxing, else very nice. [66434 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66434     $ 250.00

One of several editions of an unusually and well printed work, the
forms printed vertically and surrounded by borders, thus clearly
presented and capable of being easily copied; the brief law
dictionary primarily 'translates' Latin terms.

9.  GROTII, Hugonis.  De Jure Belli Ac Pacis, Libri Tres. In quibus
ius Naturae & Gentium: item iuris publici praecipua explicantur.
ter Meulen & Diermanse 566.  Typis & sumptibus Wechelianorum,
Danielis [etc.], Moeno-Francofurti, 1626.  Contemporary vellum,
title defective, significant worming; usable. [66600 L69L76E]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66600
                                                       $ 4,500.00

The first edition, pirated, of the foremost classic of
international law, appearing a year after the first authorized
edition of 1625 and four years before the second authorized edition
of 1632; uncommon, four copies in the National Union Catalogue.

10.  HUNT, Charles Havens.  Life of Edward Livingston.  D. Appleton
and Company, 443 and 445 Broadway, New York, 1864.  Original green
cloth, definite wear and fading, but a sound copy. [66582 L69]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66582
                                                         $ 175.00

The principal early biography of Livingston, younger brother of
Chancellor Robert Livingston, famous in his own right for his
'System of Penal Laws' and later described by Sir Henry Maine as
"the first legal genius of modern times".

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