J. 82
Laws of the US.
8. vols.
8
vo.
1808. Mar. 4.
1815 Catalogue, page 77. no. 32, Laws of the United States, 8 v 8vo, 1789-1808.
Acts passed at the First Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia,
in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, in the year
m,dcc,xcvii. and of the Independence of the United States, the twenty-first. [-Third session, 1798.]
Philadelphia: Printed by
Richard Folwell [
1797-1798].--
The Laws of the United States of America. Vol. V. Published by Authority. [Acts passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States.] Washington City: Printed by
Samuel Harrison Smith, New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol,
1801.
Law 1, 426
Vol. I and V (only). 8vo. 321 and 196 leaves, in fours.
Evans 32952, 34688 (Vol. I).
Not in Sabin.
Vol. I, old sheep, rebacked; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate; Vol. V rebound in buckram in 1914. Initialled by
Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes. Several of the acts are signed by Th: Jefferson as Vice-President of the United
States and President of the Senate.
These two volumes are the only ones extant of Jefferson’s collection of the Laws of the United States. Some volumes seem to
have been missing shortly after the printing of the 1815 catalogue, in the working copy of which the entry is marked “imperfect
(see)”; there is a similar entry in the manuscript list of msising books made at a later date, reading “Laws of the United
States (to be examined).” The Acts for January 14, 1804 and March 2, 1805 were bound by John March in September 1805, price
$1.00.
[1874]
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Gilbert’s history of the Exchequer.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 76. no. 33, as above.
[GILBERT,
Sir Geoffrey.]
An Historical View of the Court of Exchequer, and of the King’s Revenues, there answered. By a late Learned Judge. [
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
E. and R. Nutt, and
R. Gosling, (Assigns of
Edward Sayer Esq;) for
T. Waller,
m.dcc.xxxviii
. [1738]
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First Edition. 8vo. 96 leaves in eights, publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the first leaf.
Halkett and Laing III, 57.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 99, 11.
Rebound in calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, 1674-1726, English judge, was for a time lord chief baron of the court of exchequer.
[1875]
J. 84
Crompton on Courts.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 34, as above.
CROMPTON,
Richard.
L’Avthoritie et Ivrisdiction des Covrts de la Maiestie de la Roygne: Nouelment collect & compose, per R. Crompton del milieu Temple Esquire. Apprentice del Ley. Si fueris Index, miti sis corde memento, dicito, que possunt dicta decere
senem . . .
Londini: in ædibus
Caroli Yetsweirti Armig. Cum Priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. Anno Do(
~m)
1594.
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