Hvmanarvmqve rervm notitia, praemisit Io. Gottl. Heineccivs, IC.
Halae Magdebvrgicae; svmtibvs
Orphanotrophei
mdccxxxx
. [1740]
JX4408 .H4
4to. 594 leaves, general title in red and black with an engraved vignette; half-titles for the three works contained in the
book, continuous signatures and pagination.
Jefferson bought his copy from
Koenig of Strassburg in June and July 1789, price
8. A separate edition of Loccenius’s work, Holmiæ 1650, was on his bill from
Froullé, on April 17 in the same year, but this was not sold to Congress and may not have been for himself. The book is entered on
his undated manuscript catalogue.
This book is not numbered in the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue, and may never have been received by Congress as it was
not in Jefferson’s library at the time of the sale. In his letter to Milligan concerning the books missing from the catalogue,
dated from Monticello March 28, 1815, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . when the President, while Secretary of State was engaged in writing on neutral rights, I lent him Wynne’s life of Jenkins,
2. large folios, and a work in Latin entitled ‘Scriptores de jure maritimo, sc. Stypmannus, Kuricke, Loccenius, et Heineccius.’
4
to. they never were returned, and are now probably with the books in the office of state, if they were saved from conflagration.
will you be so good as to enquire, and if there, have them brought on with the waggon . . .
”
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, 1681-1741, German lawyer.
Franz Stypmann, 1612-1670, German lawyer.
Reinhold Kericke,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] 1610-1667, German lawyer.
For a note on Loccenius, see no. 258.
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J. 12
Institutions au droit maritime par Boucher.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 85. no. 15, as above.
BOUCHER,
Pierre B.
Institution au droit maritime, ouvrage complet sur la législation maritime, ayant pour base l’ordonnance de 1681 . . . Précédé
d’un discours, d’un Projet de Code commercial et maritime à établir avec les puissances étrangères; et d’un mémoire relatif
aux assurances sur la vie . . . Par Boucher, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages . . .
A
Paris: chez
Levrault, Schoell et Compagnie [et des autres] An
xii
. (
1803.)
Law 162
First Edition. 4to. 433 leaves, half-title on the first leaf, the last with a
Notice des Ouvrages del’ Auteur; engraved portrait frontispiece.
Quérard I, 439.
Not in Grandin and not in Camus.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back and a red and a green morocco label for the title and name of
author respectively, marbled endpapers, by John March; his initial T written by Jefferson before sig. 1. With the Library
of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Purchased from
Reibelt of Baltimore; ordered January 23, 1805. The bill settled on March 7th, price $
4.85. Bound by March on the same day, March 7, cost $2.50.
For another work by Boucher, professor of commercial and maritime law, see no. 2103.
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J. 13
Tracts in Marine Law. viz........................................................................
}
Schomberg on the Maritime laws of Rhodes.
}
Dissertation sur l’influence des loix maritimes des Rhodiens
sur la marine des Greces et Romains. par de Pastoret................
}
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 86. no. 1, Tracts on Marine Law, sc. Schomberg, on the Laws of Rhodes, Pastoret, 8vo.
Two tracts originally bound together for Jefferson, but divided and separately bound probably in 1904. The treatise by Schomberg
has the original fly-leaf with the two tracts listed in Jefferson’s handwriting.
