[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.  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".

2.  KNOX, [Robert].  Fish and Fishing in the Lone Glens of
Scotland.  G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street [etc.], London,
1854.  3/4 blue morocco, marbled endpapers, a bit faded, but
pretty. [30034] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=30034     $ 250.00

3.  MAITLAND, Frederic William.  Township and Borough, Being the
Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in the October
term of 1897.  At the University Press, Cambridge, 1898.  Original
blue cloth, rubbed, but a good copy. [66626 L68EL69E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66626     $ 125.00

Maitland's Ford Lectures, the second in that series, said to
possess "the greatest charm of all Maitland's writings", seeking to
trace "the transition from rural to urban habits", with an emphasis
on Maitland's garrison theory of the borough.

4.  [POPISH PLOT SATIRIZED AND ANALYZED].  Some Observations Upon
the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Corker and Marshal . . . By
Tom Tickle-foot the Taborer, late Clerk to Justice Clodpate [etc.].
Wing S4540.  Printed for A. Brewster [F. Smith], London, 1679.
Modern calf, some light browning, else quite a good copy. [66724
L69] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66724
                                                         $ 650.00

A sensationally-phrased but amazingly perceptive contemporary
analysis of the Popish Plot, written just after the acquittal of
George Wakeman and others had swung the balance against Oates,
supposedly written by a former clerk to an imaginary judge.

5.  [RYE HOUSE PLOT].  The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone,
William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg. For High-Treason,
For Conspiring The Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion in
This Kingdom. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily [etc.]. Wing
T2265.  Printed for Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles
Mearn, London, 1683.  Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, edges cut
close; quite sound. [66563 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66563     $ 650.00

The principal contemporary account of the trial of the plot's
conspirators, leading to the execution of Lord Russell (and
Algernon Sydney) and contributing mightily if indirectly to the
Glorious Revolution and the reform of the English law of treason.

6.  [SCOTLAND].  A Collection of the Public General Statutes
Affecting Scotland, Passed in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years
of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria [etc.].  Printed . . .
by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1855.  Later 3/4 calf
over marbled boards, a clean, attractive copy. [66546 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66546      $ 75.00

7.  SEEBOHM, Frederic.  The English Village Community, Examined
in Its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the
Common or Open Field System of Husbandry. Third Edition.
Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1884.  ?Later 3/4 morocco, a
bit rubbed, else a very good, clean copy. [66511 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66511 $ 150.00

One of Seebohm's major works, characterized by Maitland as "one of
the classical books of our time", in which Seebohm hypothesizes a
Roman origin for the English manor; with fourteen maps and plates,
some folding.

8.  [SIDNEY AND JEFFREYS].  The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation
of Algernon Sidney, Esq; for High-Treason. For Conspiring the Death
of the King, and Intending to raise a Rebellion in this Kingdom.
Before the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys [etc.]. Wing A3754.
Print for Benj. Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard,
London, 1684.  Maroon cloth, gilt; with Jeffrey's imprimatur
authorizing printing. [66813 XYL70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66813     $ 450.00

One of two contemporary accounts of Sidney's famous--or
infamous--trial for high treason, based in part on his
then-unpublished 'Discourses', one of two works which Jefferson
later called "the best elementary book of the principles of
government".

9.  [SOMERS, John, Lord].  The Security of English-Men's Lives,
Or the Trust, Power and Duty of the Grand Jurys of England.
Explained according to the Fundamentals of the English
Government, and the Declarations of the same made in Parliament
by many Statutes [etc.]. Wing S4644.  Printed for Benj. Alsop at
the Sign of the Angel and Bible [etc.], London, 1682.
Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, endpapers defective; fresh.
[66458 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66458 $ 750.00

One of two 17th century editions of Somers' most enduring work in
England and this country, "none more eloquently . . . preserv[ing]
the independence and integrity of jurors" against intrusions of
state power, and anticipating the Glorious Revolution.

10.  SPEAR, Charles.  Essays on the Punishment of Death. Seventh
Edition. Cohen 3880 [noting 16 editions published within the
decade].  Published by the Author, Boston, 1844.  Original cloth,
worn, first blank defective; a usable copy. [66486 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66486     $ 150.00

The seminal and enormously popular work which "quickly instituted
[Spear] as the foremost proponent of the abolition of capital
punishment in New England" and led to the founding of the
Massachusetts Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.
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