Folio. 304 leaves, half-title (reading:
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie . . .) within an engraved architectural border, engraved frontispiece with portrait by Faithorne (pasted down on the front cover), general title in red and black.
This edition not in Lowndes and not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Original calf, gilt back (worn); pasted down on the top compartment on the back is Jefferson’s original slip with his shelfmark: C 24/411. A manuscript note, not by Jefferson, on page 53. Not initialled by Jefferson.
Richard Hooker, 1554?-1600, English theologian. The
Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, originally the authoritative defense of the English Reformation settlement, is now one of the classics of English literature.
The first edition was issued without a date, probably in 1592 or 1594.
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J. 11
Harrington’s Oceana
p. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 367, as above.
HARRINGTON,
James.
Common-wealth of Oceana . . .
London: printed by
J. Streater, for
Livewell Chapman,
1656.
HX811 1656 .A56
First Edition. Folio. 154 leaves, title printed in red and black.
Lowndes II, 1001.
Hazlitt II, 268.
STC H809.
Pforzheimer catalogue II, 449.
Old calf, rebacked, with the bookplate of William Byrd of Westover preserved. Several leaves at the beginning damaged, some
repaired. The autograph signature of John Holmwood, 1673, on the title-page, manuscript corrections in the text may be by him. The names Simon Simons, Thomas Hales, and others also occur. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of William Byrd.
James Harrington, 1611-1677, English political philosopher. William Penn is supposed to have derived his leading ideas for the constitution
of Pennsylvania from this treatise on comparative politics, of which the influence was felt also in the early constitutions
of Carolina and New Jersey. The work is dedicated to Oliver Cromwell.
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J. 12
Mori Utopia.
Lat.
16
s.
ST. THOMAS MORE.
[
De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insula Utopia libri duo . . . Coloniae: apud haeredes
Arnoldi Birckmanni Anno
1555.]
HX811 1516 .A516
Sm. 8vo. Imperfect copy, lacks title and 4 preliminary leaves; collates A
7, B-N
8, printed in italic letter.
Rebound in roan by the Library of Congress in 1903. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
St. Thomas More, 1478-1535, English humanist and statesman. This work is concerned with the discovery of Utopia by Raphael Hythlodaye, who
had made several voyages to the New World with Amerigo Vespucci. The first edition was published in Louvain in 1516, and the
work is supposed to have suggested Bacon’s
New Atlantis
, Hobbes’s
Leviathan
, Harrington’s
Oceana
, Filmer’s
Patriarcha
and other works.
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J. 13
More’s Utopia.
Eng.
Foul.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 9, as above.
ST. THOMAS MORE.
Utopia: or the happy republic; a philosophical romance, in two books . . . Written in
Latin by Sir Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England. Translated into
English by Gilbert Burnet D.D. sometime professor of divinity in the
