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J. 3
id. Lat. 16 s.
1815 Catalogue, page 85. no. 13, as above.
CLERKE, Francis.
Praxis curiæ Admiralitatis Angliæ. Auctore Francisco Clerke, olim curiæ Cantuar. de Arcubus London. Procuratore. Londini: impensis Guliel. Crooke, c I ɔ I ɔlxxIx . [1679]
Law 184
Third Edition. 12mo. 47 leaves, 3 numbered lists of publisher’s advertisements on the last six leaves, the first undated, 35 entries, the second of books printed in 1677 and 1678, 6 entries, the third of books printed in 1678, 25 entries.
STC C4442.
Marvin, page 202.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 220, 6.
Clarke, page 242, no. 3.
Half calf, red label on the back. Not initialled by Jefferson. On the recto of the first leaf are the autograph signatures James Williams and Rob t. Beverley .
The STC does not distinguish between this work and the Praxis in curiis ecclesiasticis by the same author, but mixes the editions of both books under the one title Praxis Francisci Clarke. The first editions of both works were published in Dublin in 1666; the second of the present work in 1667, and the third, as above, in 1679.
For the Praxis in curiis ecclesiasticis, see no. 2154.
[2111]
J. 4
Molloy de jure maritimo. Eng. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 85. no. 2, as above.
MOLLOY, Charles.
De Jure maritimo et navali: or, a Treatise of Affairs Maritime and of Commerce. In three books. The seventh edition carefully corrected, with the addition of several hundred references and many modern cases never before printed. By Charles Molloy, late Barrester at Law. London: Printed for John Walthoe Junior and J. Wotton, 1722.
Law 296
8vo. This copy has 268 leaves, collating in eights, the last 108 leaves from a different edition; engraved frontispiece and plate by John Drapetier.
This edition not in Marvin.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 327, 43.
Clarke, page 343, no. 29.
Rebound in calf, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved, and also the armorial bookplate of a previous owner, Robert Akehurst, Middle Temple. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Jefferson ordered a copy of this work from the 2d. part of Lackington’s catalogue for 1787, no. 2644, price 1/-. A copy is entered without price on his undated manuscript catalogue.
Charles Molloy, 1646-1690, a native of King’s County, entered Lincoln’s Inn and later Gray’s Inn. This treatise was first published in London in 1676, and frequently reprinted.
[2112]
J. 5
Azuni’s maritime law of Europe by Johnson. 2. v. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 85. no. 4, as above.
AZUNI, Dominico Alberto.
The maritime law of Europe. By M. D. A. Azuni . . . In two volumes. Translated from the French [by William Johnson.] vol. I [-II]. New-York: Printed by George Forman for I. Riley & Co., 1806.
JX4410 .A85
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