First Edition of this translation. 4to. 65 leaves collating in twos.
Barbier III, 628.
Evans 17093.
Hildeburn 4079.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Jefferson’s copy, or another copy of the same tract is now in chapter 24, see no. 3140.
For a note on Gérard de Rayneval see no. 1444. The first edition in French was published in 1780. A pamphlet with a similar title by Caron de Beaumarchais appeared about
the same time in several editions, and this work is listed under Beaumarchais by both Evans and Hildeburn.
Peter Stephen du Ponceau, 1760-1844, French lawyer and author[,] came to America as secretary and aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben, and eventually became
a citizen of Pennsylvania.
The
Justificative Memorial
was by Edward Gibbon the historian.
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Webster’s rights of Neutrals.
vii. WEBSTER,
Noah.
The Rights of Neutrals. [
New York:
E. Belden & Co.,
1802.]
JX5361 .W4
8vo. 76 leaves collating in fours, being pages [77]-227, sig. K
3-Z, A2-D2
4, E2
2, of
Miscellaneous papers and commercial subjects. The caption title reads as above; on the general title (not in this copy) the title reads:
An Essay on the Rights of Neutral Nations, in vindication of the principles asserted by the northern powers of Europe.
Sabin 102369.
Ford,
Noah Webster II, page 532.
Rebound in buckram in 1944. Below the caption title Jefferson has written:
by Noah Webster.
The work contains numerous references to Jefferson as Secretary of State.
Noah Webster, 1758-1843. For correspondence between him and Jefferson see the
Essays
in chapter 44.
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J. 16
Barton on the freedom of navigation and maritime commerce.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 85. no. 6, as above.
BARTON,
William.
A Dissertation on the freedom of navigation and maritime commerce, and such rights of States, relative thereto, as are founded
on the Law of Nations: adapted more particularly to the United States; and interspersed with moral and political reflections,
and historical facts. With an appendix, containing sundry State papers. By William Barton, M. A. . . .
Philadelphia: published by
J. Conrad;
Baltimore: by
M. & J. Conrad;
Washington City:
Rapin, Conrad & Co.;
H. Maxwell, printer,
1802.
Law 147
First Edition. 8vo. 194 leaves collating in fours; 170 leaves are for the text and the last 24 for the Appendix, with separate
signatures and pagination.
Sabin 3853.
Not in Marvin.
Not in the Fevret de Saint-Memin Collection of Portraits.
Rebound in calf, with the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate preserved; some leaves dampstained. Initialled by Jefferson at
sig. I and T. Inserted by the author as a frontispiece to this copy is an engraved portrait of himself by Saint-Memin [see letter of Feb. 20, 1802 below] on which he has written his name:
W
m. Barton
, and (
Lib. of Congress). Manuscript corrections in the text by the author, who has written at the foot of the errata list:
The reader is requested to correct with his pen any other typographical errors which may occur.
Presentation copy from the author to Thomas Jefferson, to whom the work is dedicated. Barton wrote to Jefferson from Lancaster
in Pennsylvania on October 30, 1801, to request the latter’s permission for this dedication: “Having been confined to my house with the gout, a considerable part of the past summer, I employed myself, during that time
in preparing for the press a work which is now compleated. I have taken the liberty of sending a copy of the title and preface
to you, by a M
r. Getz of this ”
