Titles starting with D from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

Tokyo: Ministry of Welfare, 1950. Printed wraps, quite embrowned, sound only; 59 pages ... more information

Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1930. Original wraps, uncut; 171 pages ... more information

Hailstone Graphics, 1985. One of 1,250 copies, signed in pencil and hand-coloured by the artist, measuring 18 x 24 inches, depicting Darrow staring penetratingly, full-faced at the viewer ... more information

London: Sotheby's, 1992. Original printed illustrated wraps, a very good copy, 431 lots in 159 pages; with the prices realized list laid in ... more information

Munchen: Kindler Verlag, 1979. Printed wraps; 140 pages Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, noted criminologist and authority on all forms of social deviance: "To my dear friend and colleague Gilbert. Hans ... more information

London: Excudebat Richardus Bishopius, 1644. Later speckled calf, the spine richly gilt, light foxing, else a good crisp copy; with the ownership signature of Abraham Girard dated ?1660 First edition of Selden's treatise on the ancient Jewish calendar, a fine example of his original scholarship, becoming "the first European publication to directly exploit Karaite sources", the Jewish sect which had rejected the Talmudic tradition ... more information

Buffalo: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1995. Original cloth, a very good copy; the reissue of the original 1923 Oxford edition in the Classics of International Law of the Carnegie Endowment The first English translation of Bynkershoek's first work on international law, following (and refining) both Grotius and Pufendorf, ingeniously proposing the doctrine of the "three-mile limit" and holding that the seas were free beyond that distance ... more information

Birmingham: The Legal Classics Library, 1984. Modern green leather, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a very good copy The reissue of the English translation of Grotius' magnum opus appearing in the Classics of International Law, itself taken from the 1646 edition, the last upon which Grotius worked, and in which he included matter not appearing in previous editions ... more information

Amsterdam: Ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1712. Modern sheep, light browning, but a good copy; with the portrait of Grotius and the engraved title depicting a blindfolded justice with war and peace An early eighteenth century edition of the masterwork of Grotius, supplemented by the elaborate gloss of Gronovius and only one of several editions to contain Grotius's brief treatise on equity and related matters, never translated into English ... more information

Lund: Sumtibus Adami Junghans imprimebat vitus Haberegger [etc.], 1672. Contemporary unlettered calf, light browning, else a very good crisp copy, early underlining and notations comparing Grotius, Maimonides, and Selden First edition of Pufendorf's masterpiece and a seminal work of modern international law, building upon and extending and developing the thinking of Grotius, as Pufendorf became the "architect and systematizer of the modern natural law tradition ... more information

Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1651. Contemporary vellum, darkened, definite browning, a usable copy; with a number of early informed notations and the bookplate of George H. Folger An early reissue of the last edition upon which Grotius was to work, published posthumously and including matter he had deemed prudent to exclude from previous editions, this the text chosen by the Carnegie Endowment as the basis for its edition ... more information

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Janssonio Waesbergiorum, 1689. Modern mottled 1/4 calf over marbled boards, occasional light marginal staining, else a very good copy; with the allegorical engraved title A late seventeenth century edition of the masterwork of Grotius, supplemented by the elaborate gloss of Gronovius, one of only several editions to contain Grotius's brief treatise on equity and related matters, never translated into English ... more information

Leiden: Ex Officina Elzevier, 1633. Modern brown calf, light browning, else a very good crisp copy; with the elaborate armorial Stonor bookplate, slightly chipped, on the front pastedown Grotius' first work on international law, "proclaiming, explaining, and in no small measure making the 'freedom of the seas'", one of seven editions published during his life, a pretty, pocket-sized Elzevier printing with the engraved title ... more information

Lug. Batavor: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1641. Contemporary vellum, quite well preserved ... more information

Rome: Ex Typographia Bartholomaei Lupardi Impressoris . . . Vaticani, 1679. Later 3/4 vellum over decorated boards, definite browning and some foxing, yet a crisp usable copy The rare, best edition of Zacchias' exhaustive treatise, coupled here (and taking up about half the volume) with 150 decisions of the Roman Rota, complementing the questions and answers propounded by Zacchias; three copies in OCLC, one in COPAC ... more information

London: Printed by Robert Young, and are to bee sold by [two others], 1641. Some browning and staining, a number of early careful marginal annotations, disbound; 38 pages, with both the first and last blanks First edition of Spelman's last work, part of his singular effort--as "chief architect [of] one of the great experiments in reform of the Stuart governments"--leading the commission inquiring into excessive fees charged by officials of all kinds ... more information

London: Rychard Tottel, 1575. Modern 1/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, fresh ... more information

London: Rychard Tottel, 1575. Modern 1/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, fresh ... more information

London: Rychard Tottel, 1575. Modern 1/4 mottled calf over marbled boards, fresh An early printing of the Year Book reporting the cases a few years following the devastation of the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century, many of the cases involving trespass and debt, the evolution of which continues to be debated ... more information

London: Imprynted . . . in Fletestrete . . . by Rychard Tottel [colophon], 1569. Modern 1/4 speckled calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered, a very good crisp copy; with the final blank The earliest year-book reports of the reign of Henry VIII to be printed, here in a mid-century Tottel edition, in John Baker's words "precursors of Plowden [and] stand[ing] apart from the other Tudor year books by reason of their fullness ... more information