[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
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  BACON, Francis.  The Elements of the Common Lawes of England,
Branched into a double Tract: The One Containing a Collection of
some principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, with their
Latitude and Extent . . . The Other The Use of the Common Law
[etc.]. S.T.C. 1135.  Printed by the Assignes of J. More Esq.
[etc.], London, [1636].  Contemporary unlettered calf, title
shaved, else a very fresh copy. [66959 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66959   $ 1,500.00

Bacon's most famous legal work, and the first collection in English
of the maxims of English law, part of Bacon's larger scheme to
systematize and reform the law, and part of a much more extensive
collection of his maxims never published and now lost.

2.  CLARK, JR., Wm. L.  Hand-Book of Criminal Law.  West Publishing
Co., St. Paul, 1894.  Contemporary sheep, very rubbed and chafed;
a usable copy only. [66889 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66889     $ 125.00

First edition of the second West hornbook, and one of many works
written by Clark on criminal law and cognate subjects, meeting its
purpose well, in J.H. Beale's words, by "show[ing] facility at
formulating rules clearly and concisely".

3.  [COOKE, Edward].  Chronica Juridicalia: Or, A General Calendar
of the Years of . . . the several Kings of England . . . Together
with A Chronological Table of the Names of all the Lord Chancellors
. . . Justices of the Kings-Bench and Common Pleas [etc.]. Wing
C5999.  Printed for H. Sawbridge . . . and T. Simmons [etc.],
London, 1685.  Contemporary calf, worn, rebacked; a sound copy.
[67075 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67075     $ 450.00

First edition of the expansion of Dugdale's listings of the judges,
law officers, king's serjeants and others, extending (in
Holdsworth's words) "a very valuable piece of work . . .useful to
legal historians"; without the portrait possibly called for.

4.  DE LOLME, J.L.  The Constitution of England, Or an Account of
the English Government; In which it is compared with the Republican
Form of Government, and occasionally with the other Monarchies in
Europe. A New Edition.  Sold by G. Kearsley, in Fleet Street
[etc.], London, 1777.  Contemporary speckled calf, a bit rubbed,
but quite a pretty copy. [66825 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66825     $ 450.00

The second edition of a classic treatment of the English
constitution and of comparative constitutional law, said to have
prompted Bentham's remark that "Our author [Blackstone] has copied:
but Mr. de L'olme has thought".

5.  DOUTHWAITE, William Ralph.  Gray's Inn, Its History and
Associations, Compiled from Original and Unpublished Documents.
Bland 385.  Reeves and Turner, 100, Chancery Lane, Law Booksellers
[etc.], London, 1886.  Original 1/4 morocco, worn, front joint
splitting; just usable. [67080 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67080     $ 150.00

The expansion of the work appearing a decade previously, written by
the Inn's librarian; with separate chapters on the Inn's library,
its eminent members (including Francis Bacon, Anthony Fitzherbert
and Samuel Romilly), and its masques and revels.

6.  FREEMAN, Samuel.  The Town Officer: Or the Power and Duty of
Selectmen . . . And other Town Officers. As Contained in the Laws
of . . . of Massachusetts . . . To which are added, The Power and
Duty of Towns, Parishes and Plantations [etc.]. The Third Edition.
Cohen 8280.  Printed by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews . . . Newbury
Street, Boston, 1794.  Contemporary sheep, front joint cracked,
browning; a good copy. [66843 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66843     $ 450.00

An early edition of Freeman's first work, ably discussing the
duties of dozens of officials (including such obscure examples as
deer reeves, provers of butter, and pearl ash inspectors),
anticipating his 45 year career as Massachusetts court clerk.

7.  [GRANNAN, Joseph C.].  Grannan's Warning Against Fraud and
Valuable Information. A Treatise upon Subjects Relating to Crime
and Business [etc.].  The Werner Ptg. & Litho. Co., Akron, 1890.
Original russet cloth, hinges cracking, else a good copy. [66948
L70] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66948
                                                         $ 150.00

A seemingly unrecorded edition of the popular work issued by
Grannan's Detective Agency, with substantial portions on swindling
games and tricks, on counterfeiting, on crime generally, and on
extradition; not in the NUC, OCLC, or RLIN.

8.  HALE, William B.  Handbook of the Law of Torts.  West
Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1896.  Original sheep, quite worn and
rubbed; a usable copy. [66939 L70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66939      $ 85.00

Hale's one-volume abridgment, with modifications, of Edwin
Jaggard's two-volume treatise appearing the year before, both West
hornbooks (and the first hornbooks on torts) and both
well-received, Hale "preserving what was of value in the original".

9.  JACOB, G[iles].  The Statute-Law Common-plac'd: Or, a General
Table to the Statutes. Containing The Purport and Effect of all the
Acts of Parliament in Force from Magna Charta . . . The Whole Very
useful to Counsellors, Attornies [and many others]. Fourth Edition.
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], [London], 1739.
Modern blue cloth, a very good, exceptionally clean copy. [67183
L70EL77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67183     $ 450.00

Jacob's able digest, much expanded from prior editions, the
criticism of which he notes in his preface and to which through
this expansion he responds; with his brief introductory essay on
statutory construction coupled with his gloss of Magna Carta.

10.  PEAKE, Thomas.  A Compendium of the Law of Evidence. From the
Third London Edition, with Additions: and an Appendix [with
separate title dated 1810] Containing a Digest of the American
Cases on the Law of Evidence. By Samuel Bayard [etc.]. Cohen 5096.
Philip H. Nicklin, Philadelphia, 1818.  Modern 1/4 calf, definite
foxing; a sound usable copy. [66951 L70L72E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66951     $ 350.00

The first of the 19th century evidence treatises, influential upon
Bentham and commended by him, elsewhere described as "embod[ying]
considerable original thought and research, and . . . long in high
repute"; one of two editions with Bayard's Digest.

****************************
 Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.
 Rare and Scholarly Law Exclusively
 2141 Mission Street
 San Francisco CA 94110
 415 255 6400
 415 255 6499 FAX
 rarelaw at meyerbos.com
 www.meyerbos.com

 Member, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
 and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers