J. 16
Puffendorf de Officio hominis et civis.
12
mo.
--d
o.
8
vo.
Johnson.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 30, Puffendorf de officio hominis et civis, 12mo.
von PUFENDORF, Samuel, Freiherr.
S. Puffendorfii de Officio hominis et civis juxta legem naturalem, libri duo. Editio
octava, aucta Lemmatibus, quibus argumenti sensus, & series illustratur.
Cantabrigiæ: typis
Academicis: Impensis
Jacobi Knapton . . .
Londini.
m.dcc.xv.
[1715.]
JC156 .P7
12mo. 96 leaves: A-H
12.
This edition not in Lowndes.
This edition not in Seligmann.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges by John March. With the Library
of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Samuel Pufendorf [Freiherr von Pufendorf], 1632-1694, German jurist, philosopher and statesman.
De officio first appeared in 1675, and is a résumé of
De jure naturae gentium, libri octo
. The dedication to Gustavus Otto Steenbock is dated from
Londini Scanorum x. Kal. Febr. A. M. DC. LXXII.
The edition by Thomas Johnson (d. 1737) is not included in the catalogues. It was first published in 1735 in 8vo, and editions
appeared in 1737, 1748 and 1758. Johnson was a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[1253]
J. 17
L
d Kaim’s natural religion.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 90, as above.
[HOME,
Henry, lord kames.]
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. In Two Parts.
Edinburgh: Printed by
R. Fleming, for
A. Kincaid and
A. Donaldson.
m.dcc.li.
[1751.]
BJ1005 .K2
First Edition. 8vo. 200 leaves.
Halkett and Laing II, 212.
Jessop, page 140.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the title-page is written in ink in another hand
By Henry Home, Lord Kames. This book, which was probably part of the Shadwell library, was annotated by Jefferson in an early hand, as follows:
Page [1]. Jefferson has asterisked the words
noted French author in the first sentence, and written the name in the lower margin,
L’abbé Bossu.
Page 57. Jefferson has similarly supplied the name
Hume in the lower margin, as the author of the treatise upon human nature referred to in the text.
Page 147. In reference to the author’s comments on the treatment of enemies and prisoners of war (beginning “Putting an enemy to death
in cold blood, is now looked upon with distaste and horror . . .”) Jefferson has written in the lower margins of this and
the next two pages:
*this is a remarkeable instance of improvement in the moral sense. the putting to death captives in war was a general practice
among savage nations. when men became more humanized the captive was indulged with life on condition of holding it in perpetual
slavery; a condition exacted on this supposition, that the victor had right to take his life, and consequently to commute
it for his services. at this stage of refinement were the Greeks about the time of the Trojan war. at this day it is perceived
we have no right to take the life of an enemy unless where our own preservation renders it necessary. but the ceding his life
in commutation for service admits there was no necessity to take it, because you have not done it. and if there was neither
necessity nor right to take his life then is there no right to his service in commutation for it. this doctrine is acknoledged
by later writers, Montesquieu, Burlamaqui &c. who yet suppose it just to require a ransom from the
