[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.  HAYWARD, John.  The Right of Succession Asserted, Against the False 
Reasonings and Seditious Insinuations of R. Dolman alias Parsons, And others 
[etc.]. Wing H1233.  Printed for Mat. Gillyflower, Will. Hensman, and Tho. Fox 
[etc.], London, 1683. Modern 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, ex-library, else a good 
crisp copy. [71299 BLS309L79] PHOTO: 
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71299 $ 450.00

The work which provided (in Brian Levack's words) "considerable
intellectual assistance" to James I's claim to the throne, written
by the noted historian and eminent member of Doctors' Commons and
based on divine right and, uniquely, on Roman law.

2.  HOHFELD, Wesley Newcomb.  Fundamental Legal Conceptions, As
Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays.  Yale
University Press, New Haven, 1923.  Original tan cloth, somewhat
worn and darkened, else a very good, clean copy. [71325 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71325     $ 250.00

Best edition of a seminal work of 20th century Anglo-American
jurisprudence, with the inclusion of manuscript notes found in
Hohfeld's own copies following his early death, and the inclusion
of seven additional essays omitted in subsequent editions.

3.  JONES, Thomas.  Les Reports De divers Special Cases En le
Common Bank & en le Court del Bank le Roy. En le Reigne de le Roy
Charles le II . . . Imprimee par l'Original [etc.]. Wing J999.
Folio.  Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins [etc.],
London, 1695.  Contemporary unlettered reverse calf, the joints
cracking but firm, one margin repaired, yet an especially clean,
bright and desirable copy. [71181 BLS340L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71181     $ 650.00

First edition of Jones' Reports, praised by Holdsworth and Wallace,
and of sufficient value to be translated by Hargrave, compiled by
Jones (a "student of records" in North's words) while a justice of
King's Bench and Chief Justice of Common Pleas.

4.  LORENZEN, Ernest G.  Selected Articles on the Conflict of
Laws.  Yale University Press, New Haven, 1947.  Original cloth,
gilt, in a worn and slightly defective dustjacket; the Limited and
Autographed Edition, one of 750 copies signed by Lorenzen. [71157
L79] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71157
                                                          $ 175.00

5.  OLYNYK, Stephen D.  Soviet Federalism in Theory and Practice. Privately 
Printed, Washington, 1965.  Original over-sized blue
cloth, gilt, a tad rubbed, double-page typescript, printed on
rectos only, 423 pages. [71153 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71153     $ 150.00

Dr. Olynyk's doctoral dissertation, submitted to the Faculty of the
Graduate School of Georgetown University and "based primarily on
the original Soviet source material in the form of official
documents and secondary works"; microform only in OCLC.

6.  ROMILLY, Samuel.  Observations on the Criminal Law of England,
As It Relates to Capital Punishments, and on the Mode in Which It
is Administered.  Printed by J. M'Creery . . . for T. Cadell and W.
Davies, Strand, London, 1810.  Modern 1/4 crimson goatskin morocco
over decorated boards, gilt, a very good, clean copy. [71269
BLS1000L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71269     $ 450.00

First edition of Romilly's first published essay (expanding upon
his Parliamentary speech) in his long and successful effort to
abolish capital punishment in England, persuasively demonstrating
its enormous inequities and its capricious application.

7.  [ST. GERMAIN, Christopher].  Doctor and Student; Or, Dialogues
Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England
. . . To which are now first added, Two Pieces concerning Suits in
Chancery by Subpoena [etc.]. The Eighteenth Edition . . . By
William Muchall.  Printed for S. Sweet, Law Bookseller, 3, Chancery
Lane [etc.], London, 1815.  Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, neatly
rebacked, the original label preserved, a few repairs to the title
and a bit of pencilling, but a very good copy. [71313 XYL79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71313     $ 450.00

The last and best early edition of the first classic of English
equity, restoring the "New Additions", providing a substantive
gloss and marginal sidenotes with citations to intervening
authorities, and adding two related early 16th century tracts.

8.  SURRENCY, Erwin et al (eds.).  The American Journal of Legal
History [Official Publication of the American Society of Legal
History]. Thirteen Volumes with the Three Indexes for Volumes 1-5,
6-10, and 11-15 bound in.  Temple University School of Law,
Philadelphia, 1957-71.  Crimson cloth, gilt, with Judge Klein's
name embossed in gilt on the front board of 11 of the 13 volumes
and the original wraps bound in; well-preserved. [71188 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71188     $ 450.00

A good, early run of the Journal from its inception through Volume
15, thirteen volumes in total lacking volumes 3 and 12, once the
set of Charles Klein, President Judge of Philadelphia's Orphans
Court and a member of the Journal's Advisory Board.

9.  TOLLER, Samuel.  A Treatise on The Law of Tithes. The Third
Edition Corrected: With Additions.  Printed by A. Strahan . . . for
Joseph Butterworth and Son [etc.], London, 1822.  Later maroon
cloth, showing wear, ex-library, first and last leaves somewhat
dusty, a trace of foxing, yet quite a good untrimmed copy, partly
uncut. [71221 BLS1070L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71221     $ 150.00

The last edition of one of two of Toller's principal works, "of
considerable value", printed from his papers posthumously and
originally based on the notes of Richard Wooddeson, successor to
Blackstone and Chambers as Vinerian Professor at Oxford.

10.  [WILDE, OSCAR].  The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Regina (Wilde) v. Queensberry 
[and] Regina v. Wilde and Taylor. Edited, with an Introduction by H. Montgomery 
Hyde. With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Sir Travers Humphreys.  William Hodge and 
Company. Limited, London, 1949.  Modern crimson leather, gilt, red edges, 
decorated endpapers; with a letter from H. Montgomery Hyde to the rare book 
dealer, Leon Drucker, laid in. [71172 L79] PHOTO: 
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71172 $ 650.00

The special edition, limited to fifty copies (of which this is
number 43), of "by far the fullest account" of Wilde's notorious
trials, signed by both Hyde and Sir Travers Humphreys, junior
counsel for Wilde, on the limitation page.

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