nesses the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. By an American. Likewise, An Essay on canon and feudal
law, by John Adams, Esq;
London: printed for
John Fielding,
John Debrett, and
John Sewell,
1782. [Entered at Stationers-Hall.]
E249 .A214
8vo. 48 leaves in fours; on L
1 is the half-title for
An Essay on canon and feudal law.
Sabin 229.
Cronin and Wise, no. 8.
Rebound in buckram.
The first edition was printed in The Hague earlier in the same year.
In this copy John Adams has written at the end of the Introduction:
From the French Compliments, and the convivial Anecdote, I guess the Author of the foregoing, but may be mistaken. It is not
all true.
On the half-title to
An Essay on canon and feudal law, Adams has inserted in ink:
written in 1765, and after his name:
long before he was called [Ambassador Plenipotentiary . . .]
[3000]
With this is bound:
1.
History of the dispute with America; from its origin in 1754. Written in the year 1774. By John Adams, Esq.
London: printed for
J. Stockdale,
m dcc lxxxiv
. [1784.]
46 leaves in fours, the last three pages with
Stockdale’s advertisements.
Sabin 243.
Cronin and Wise, no. 35.
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2. MABLY,
Gabriel Bonnot de.
Remarks concerning the government and the laws of the United States of America: in four letters, addressed to Mr. Adams; Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to those of Holland; and one of the negociators for the purpose of concluding
a general peace, from the
French of the Abbé de Mably: with notes, by the translator.
London: printed for
J. Debrett,
m,dcc,lxxxiv
. [1784.]
142 leaves in fours.
These three books are bound together, and were probably originally so done by Jefferson, with the title
Essays on the back. The new buckram binding is lettered with the name of the author and the title of the first Essay:
Adams /
A Collection /
of /
State-Papers. / The various Essays are not initialled by Jefferson, but have inscriptions by John Adams as shown. In the 1831 Library of
Congress Catalogue all these books, including Mably’s
Remarks are listed under the one number, J. 321,
Adams’ Essays.
Jefferson stated that he owned a copy of the
Essay on Canon and Feudal Law in a letter to Van der Kemp written from Monticello on March 16, 1817: “
. . . M
r. Adams’s book on Feudal law, mentioned in your letter of Feb. 2. I possessed, and it is now in the library at Washington which I ceded to Congress . . .
”
John Adams, 1735-1826, second President of the United States.
Other works by the Abbé de Mably appear in this catalogue.
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J. 277
Observations on government & particularly on Adams & Delolmes.
Eng.
Fr.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 248, Observations on Government, on Adams and Delolmes, Eng. Fr. 8vo.
[?STEVENS,
John.]
Observations on government, including some animadversions on Mr. Adams’s Defence of the constitutions of government of the
United States of America: and on
