[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.  BIGLAND, Ralph.  Observations on Marriages, Baptisms, and
Burials, As Preserved in Parochial Registers. With Sundry Specimens
of the Entries of Marriages, Baptisms &c in foreign Countries
[etc.].  Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark [etc.], London,
1764.  Modern tan cloth, gilt, showing wear, some foxing, title
possibly a cancel, ex-library; a sound, well-margined copy, with
the advertising leaf. [71388 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71388     $ 450.00

A wide-ranging work, appearing over a decade before Bigland's
appointment as head of the College of Arms, treating of the history
of recording births, marriages, and deaths both in England and
elsewhere, with many examples and proposed reforms.

2.  CARPENTER, William.  Chancery Reform. The Equity Jurisdiction
of the Court of Chancery; A Lecture. Delivered in the Theatre of
the London Mechanics' Institute, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, by Desire of the Council of the Chancery Reform Association. Effingham 
Wilson, Royal Exchange, London, 1850.  Modern boards,
somewhat browned, a sound copy; 28 pages plus two leaves detailing
the officials and goals of the Association. [71469 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71469     $ 150.00

An uncommon lecture graphically depicting the horrific delays and
expense in Chancery, delivered under the auspices of the
Association formed by Chancery victims, appearing shortly before
the publication of 'Bleak House'; four copies in OCLC.

3.  CRUISE, William.  A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting
Real Property. Fourth American, from the Third and Last London
Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Author. With the Addition of
Notes; By Thomas Huntington [etc.]. Six Volumes in Three. Cohen
9464.  Published by Collins and Hannay--Pearl Street, New York,
1834.  Original sheep, very worn and quite stained, one label
lacking and one spine defective; a working set. [71393 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71393     $ 450.00

Cruise's monumental effort successfully extending the method of
Charles Fearne's 'Essay on Contingent Remainders' to all of real
property, combining abstract principles with decided cases; this
edition adds his Preliminary Dissertation on Tenures.

4.  DAVIES, James Conway (ed.).  The Welsh Assize Roll, 1277-1284
[Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales History and Law
Series, No. VII].  University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1940. Original crimson 
cloth, gilt, the spine quite faded and rubbed,
else a good copy. [71371 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71371     $ 125.00

The first comprehensive account of cases relating to Wales and the
Marches, illuminating both English and Welsh law and custom during
the crucial period immediately before Edward I's conquest and the
1284 Statute of Wales uniting England and Wales.

5.  FINCH, Henry.  Law, or, A Discourse thereof; in Four Books.
Written in French . . . And done into English by the same Author.
To which are now added, Notes and References, and a Table to the
Chapters. By Danby Pickering, of Gray's Inn [etc.].  Printed by
Henry Lintot . . . and sold by D. Browne [etc.], [London], 1759. Modern 1/4 
calf over marbled boards, the original label preserved,
ex-library, some foxing and browning, a few neat pencil
summary-notes; a good copy. [71345 YL79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71345     $ 850.00

The last early edition of "the pioneer book of the institutes of
English law", incorporating Finch's intervening reflections
following the treatise's original appearance in Law French, and
becoming the edition to influence subsequent writers.

6.  HOADLEY, Benjamin.  The Measures of Submission to the Civil
Magistrate Consider'd . . . In which are added . . . A Sermon
concerning the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy [and] A Sermon
concerning St. Paul's Behaviour towards the Civil Magistrate. The
Fourth Edition.  Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St.
Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1710.  Modern morocco, gilt, some
foxing and browning, ex-library, but a good, sturdy copy. [71387
BLS624L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71387     $ 350.00

Several of Hoadley's early sermons, including that upon St. Paul's
teaching, propounding that the people need only obey rulers who
govern for their good, this edition appearing as Hoadley was raised
"to the highest point in the [Whigs'] estimation".

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