J. 171
Trial of Burr.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 80. no. 82, as above.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the Proceedings and of the Evidence exhibited on the
arraignment of Aaron Burr, and others, before the Circuit Court of the United States, held in Virginia, in the year 1807.
November 23, 1807. Read and referred to the committee appointed on so much of the message of the President of the 27th ultimo,
as relates to enterprizes against the public peace, and to the means of preventing the same; and punishing the authors.
City of Washington:
A. & G. Way, printers,
1807.
Law 433
First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, 168 and 112 leaves, the last a blank. This copy has 164 leaves only in the first part, lacks
sig. 2D.
Sabin 9429.
Tompkins 157.
Wandell, page 140.
Originally bound for Jefferson by Milligan on April 30, 1808, cost 50 cents; rebound in blue morocco, morocco joints, by the
Library of Congress; some leaves uncut. On the fly-leaf is written by Jefferson:
Proceedings of the Circuit Court of the US. in the Case of Aaron Burr. On page [99] is a correction in ink, not by Jefferson. On 2 leaves at the end a manuscript index possibly by Isaac Coles.
On the second preliminary leaf is a printed statement signed by Th: Jefferson, Nov. 23, 1807 addressed “to the senate and
house of representatives of the United States,” that he was laying a copy of these proceedings before them agreeably to the
assurance given in his message at the opening of the present session of Congress.
Jefferson presented a copy of this Message to the Library of Congress. See the
Annual Report of the Library Committee of the Two Houses of Congress. April 11th, 1808.
[10S 1R 16.]
[1963]
J. 172
Lambard’s Eirenarchia.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 78. no. 84, as above.
LAMBARDE,
William.
Eirenarcha: or the office of the Iustices of Peace in foure bookes. First gathered 1579. published 1581. and now
fourthly reuised, corrected, and enlarged in this fortie and one yeare of the peaceable raigne of our most gracious Queene Elizabeth.
By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne, Gent . . . [The Dveties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and lay ministers
of the Peace . . .]
At
London: Printed by
Thomas Wight, and
Bonham Norton,
1599. Cum priuilegio.
Law 277
Sm. 8vo. 2 parts in 1. 390 leaves only, should be 392: lacks sig. F
1 (replaced by a blank) and Ss
1; black letter, first title within an ornamental border; the last alphabet for
The Dveties of Constables.
STC 15169, 15152.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 162, 20.
Beale T, 395, 386.
Rebound in calf, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved; the first leaf of text defective, a few leaves cut
into. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T; a manuscript note on page 508 is not by him.
Eirenarcha was issued originally in 1581 and the
Duties of Constables in 1583. They were joined in this and subsequent editions.
[1964]
J. 173
Bolton’s Justice.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 249, as above.
BOLTON,
Sir Richard.
A Justice of Peace for Ireland: consisting of two books: the first declaring the
