Titles starting with O from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

New York: New York University Press, 1976. A good copy in a rather worn dustjacket ... more information

Philadelphia?]: N.p., 1824?]. One sheet folded (four pages), the original stab holes present, foxed, yet quite sound The rare memorial offered in tribute to Patterson, who had served as the Society's President from 1819 until his death in 1824, succeeding Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in that post; no copy located in OCLC, one in RLIN, at the Society ... more information

New York: Privately Printed, for Forensic Uses, 1911. Original cloth, definitely worn, but usable The work which has been called the magnum opus of Schroeder, founder of the Free Speech League and the "maverick radical [and lawyer, who] ventured further than any of his contemporaries in exploring the meaning of . . . freedom of expression ... more information

New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. Original cloth, showing wear; a usable copy The facsimile reissue of the 1911 edition, with a new and substantial introduction by Jerold S. Auerbach, who quotes with approval the description of Schroeder as "probably the most prolific champion of free speech and press in American history ... more information

New York: Privately Printed, for Forensic Uses, 1911. Original green cloth, worn and taped, yet usable Leonard Levy's copy of the magnum opus of Schroeder, who "ventured further than any of his contemporaries in exploring the meaning of . . . freedom of expression"; with Professor Levy's ownership signature ("Leonard W. Levy") on the front blank ... more information

London: Printed by J. Nicholsand J. Nichols [etc.], 1796. ... more information

Edinburgh], [1792]. ... more information

London: Printed For J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, 1731. Original stabbed wraps, half-title and last leaf dusty, else fresh Part of the substantial political, and eventually intensely personal, debate between Pulteney and Sir Robert Walpole; Pulteney's 'Answer' (to which Arnall responds) had so enraged Walpole that he had ordered the arrest of that pamphlet's printer ... more information

London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark [etc.], 1764. Modern tan cloth, gilt, showing wear, some foxing, title possibly a cancel, ex-library; a sound, well-margined copy, with the advertising leaf 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 ... more information

Edinburgh: N.p., 1792. Modern patterned brown cloth, gilt, a very good copy; two copies in ESTC, neither in this country A rare tract comparing the respective democratic natures of the English and Scots Parliaments (to the decided advantage of the latter) and their historic development, and persuasively arguing against two proposed bills limiting the voting franchise ... more information

London: Published by Josiah Conder, 18, St. Paul's Church Yard [etc.], 1816. Original stabbed self-wraps, title and last leaf dusty, upper right-hand corner torn from title (no text affected), else a very good, untrimmed copy A rare part of the initial debate over lunacy law reform, as the "first attempt at providing a comprehensive review of institutional provisions for lunatics" was undertaken, full reform not achieved until mid-century; no copy in COPAC, two in OCLC ... 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

Rockville: National Institute of Mental Health, 1975. Wraps, darkened and stained, but quite sound; 208 pages ... more information

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon Street. Green cloth, gilt, a bit rubbed, title clipped, else a good copy An ambitious work, of which this is the only part to have been published, a significant portion of which (about 150 pages) is devoted to the history of navigation; with other chapters to devoted to the law of war, smuggling, neutrals and prizes ... more information

London: Stevens & Sons, 1952. Quite worn, the spine dull; a usable copy only ... more information

London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], 1703. Contemporary unlettered sheep, very rubbed and scraped, top of spine chipped, some browning and staining, and a bit strained; a usable copy only Only edition of an early work on the English law of wills, seemingly only the second devoted essentially entirely to wills and their construction, including devises, both conditional and executory, and legacies; uncommon, eight copies in ESTC ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950. Original cloth, a very good copy, in a worn dustjacket Justice Douglas' first book-length work presented during its year of publication, to Jack Utz, the Frederick & Nelson department store executive, "For Jack Utz / with my warm / personal regards / Wm O Douglas / Sept 29, 1950 ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950. Original green cloth, gilt, somewhat worn and dulled, but a good copy Presentation copy to Eugene Zuckert (whom Justice Douglas elsewhere called his "first outstanding student" at Harvard)-"For Gene Zuchart / who has conquered many / a 'mountain' on his own / with admiration and affection / W O Douglas / April 28 1950 ... more information

New York: S. S. Peloubet, Law Publisher and Bookseller, 80 Nassau Street, 1887. Contemporary sheep, ex-library, some embrowning yet well preserved ... more information

Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of C, 1963. Red cloth, much faded, the fore-edge stained; but a sound copy Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, noted criminologist and authority on all aspects of social deviance ... more information