Authors starting with M from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

N.p., 1973. Original double-spaced typescript, the wraps curled, some wear, but a usable copy; 147 pages Mr. Maas' masters thesis submitted to the University of California at Berkeley; one copy in OCLC ... more information

Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. Red cloth, a sound and clean presentation copy ... more information

Charlottesville: Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia, 1982. Printed wraps, a bit stained; 97 pages ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson [etc.], 1686. Contemporary speckled calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else a lovely, especially crisp copy; with the two supplementary leaves Mackenzie's exhaustive effort, examining in great detail the work of the Scots parliament over some 250 years commencing in 1424, in David Walker's words "a major work . . . of enormous practical utility [and] still valuable ... more information

London: Waterlow & Sons Limited, 1963. Blue cloth, a bit dusty, but a good, sound set ... more information

Paris: Petite Biblioteque Payot, 1975. Wraps; 244 pages ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed by James Glen, 1678. An acceptable copy, definite browning, in a later full calf First edition (variant issue) of the first work devoted exclusively to the criminal law of Scotland, by George Mackenzie, Lord Advocate and "a considerable scholar", as well as the man who has come down to us as "Bloody Mackenzie" in his former role ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed by John Reid, for Thomas Brown [etc.], 1688. Modern blind-panelled calf, green morocco labels, gilt, light browning, the margins cut a bit close, else a very good copy The first revision, and the last undertaken by Mackenzie, of one of his most influential works--patterned after Justinian--and the first attempt (highly successful) to set forth the law of Scotland in lucid, comprehensible terms ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Robert Freebairn . . . in the Parliament-Close, 1711. Contemporary crimson morocco, neatly gilt and gilt-panelled, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, rubbed, some browning, yet a pretty copy Only separate edition in English of Mackenzie's seminal work on the art of advocacy, the first in the English-speaking world, modelled in part on Cicero and "superior to any account of legal rhetoric previously published"; with six arguments appended ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, for John Vallange Book seller, 1706. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, definite browning and some staining, the margin of the first dedication leaf torn affecting some text; a usable copy First 18th century edition of one of Mackenzie's most influential works and the first attempt to set forth Scots law in lucid, comprehensible terms, this the first edition to contain the notes of William Forbes, Glasgow's first professor of civil law ... more information

St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1931. Original crimson buckram, gilt, quite worn; a usable copy only A good, general introductory treatise, said shortly after its issuance to be of "great value". ... more information

St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1931. Crimson buckram, rather worn, but a sound copy A good, general introductory treatise, said shortly after its issuance to be of "great value". ... more information

St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1940. Original green buckram, gilt, somewhat worn and rubbed and a bit musty, very occasional markings, but generally a clean, little-marked copy ... more information

London: Printed for William Owen, at Homer's Head, Near Temple-Bar [etc.], 1769. Modern cloth, the Signet Library copy, with its gilt crests Second (and best) edition of Madox's masterwork, the first comprehensive treatment of the Royal Exchequer (and of English medieval taxation), called by Maitland "beautiful . . . one of the greatest historical works of the last [18th] century ... more information

London: Printed by John Matthews; and Sold by Robert Knaplock [etc.], 1711. Contemporary calf, rebacked, front board lacking, as are two leaves (pp 355-58) never bound in, preliminary leaves loose; a working copy First edition of Madox's masterwork, the first comprehensive treatment of the Royal Exchequer, called by Maitland "beautiful . . . one of the greatest historical works of the last [18th] century"; George Woodbine's copy, with his ownership signature ... more information

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. A very good copy in the dustjacket ... more information

Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson [and] Printed for Private Circulation, 1839. Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, partly uncut, a very good copy; the first and third parts limited to 150 copies, the second to 50, the fourth to 30 Original editions of all four parts, all rare, occasionally bawdy or politically incorrect, exhibiting the talents of the Scots lawyer, James Maidment, friend of Sir Walter Scott, whose song "Justice Law" is printed here for the first time ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1876. 3/4 black morocco over boards, a bit rubbed, but quite attractive Maine's first foray into the law of the Indian subcontinent, in which he posits fundamental differences between land-holding in the East and West; this third (and best) edition including Maine's Rede Lecture and six other essays and addresses ... more information

London: John Murray, 1890. Full prize calf, a bit rubbed, but still attractive Maine's first foray into the law of the Indian subcontinent, in which he posits fundamental differences between land-holding in the East and West; this third (and best) edition including Maine's Rede Lecture and six other essays and addresses ... more information

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1861. Original 3/4 morocco over boards, quite rubbed, ?ex-library, browning and occasional notations and markings; a usable copy only First edition of Maine's magnum opus, a work recently described as "[n]ext only to Blackstone . . . the most durable work of jurisprudence in the English language", influential upon Holmes, who confessed to Laski it "fed [my] philosophical passion ... more information