J. 216
L
d. Kaim’s Law-tracts.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 77. no. 126, as above.
[HOME,
Henry,
lord kames.]
Historical Law-Tracts. The
second edition.
Edinburgh: Printed by
A. Kincaid, for
A. Millar in the Strand,
London; and
A. Kincaid and
J. Bell, in
Edinburgh,
mdcclxi
. [1761]
Law 267
8vo. 240 leaves in eights.
Halkett and Laing III, 52.
Marvin, page 395.
Sweet & Maxwell V, page 44.
Rebound in calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. The author’s name written on the title-page, not by Jefferson.
The first edition was issued anonymously in 1758.
[2008]
J. 217
Blackstone’s Law-tracts.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 127, as above.
BLACKSTONE, Sir
William.
Law Tracts, in
two volumes, by William Blackstone, Esq. Vol. I [-II].
Oxford: at
the Clarendon Press,
m.dcc.lxii
. [1762]
Law 154
First Collected Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 134 leaves, 2 engraved tables, 1 folded; vol. II, 134 leaves, 8 engraved plates.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 15, 4.
Eller,
The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, page 97.
Calf, rebacked, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in both volumes;
the autograph signature
D Carr on the title-page of vol. I.
Dabney Carr, whose name is on the title-page of vol. I was Jefferson’s nephew, and it was to him that the former gave a part of the law
library of George Wythe in the belief that in this disposition of them “
he fulfills the philanthropic views of the testator [i.e. Wythe]
more exactly than by retaining them himself.”
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J. 218
Barry’s Irish tenures.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 74. no. 253, as above.
BARRY,
James, baron santry.
[
The Case of Tenvres upon the commission of defective titles, argued by all the Judges of Ireland, with their resolution and
the reasons of their resolution.
Dublin: Imprinted by the
Society of Stationers, Printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty,
1637.]
Law 146
First Edition. Folio. Large Paper, measuring 11⅜ by 7¼ inches. 32 leaves only, lacks the first leaf with title, half title for
The Order of the Councell on H
3.
STC 1530.
This edition not in Sweet & Maxwell.
Dix, page 68.
Rebound in calf by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. Manuscript marginal notes, not by Jefferson.
James Barry, Baron Santry, 1603-1673, was chief justice of the King’s Bench in Ireland. This copy appears to be of the first edition, though from the
available collations it could be also of the second edition, 1639. Copies of both editions are extremely rare.
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219
Spelman’s law terms.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 128, as above.
SPELMAN,
Sir Henry.
De Terminis Juridicis: or the Law Terms . . . wherein the laws of the Jews,
