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J. 13
id. . . . . . . . . . 5 th . edñ. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 88. no. 19, Swinburne on Wills, 5th edition, fol.
SWINBURNE, Henry.
A Treatise of Testaments and last wills, compiled out of the laws ecclesiastical, civil and canon, as also out of the common laws, customs and statutes of this realm. The whole digested into seven parts . . . By Henry Swinburne, sometime Judge of the Prerogative Court of York. The fifth edition, corrected and very much enlarged with all such statutes, decrees in Chancery, and resolutions of common law cases relating to this subject, and which have hitherto been published; with an exact table to the whole . . . [ London] In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) and are to be sold by J. Knapton, A. Bettesworth, R. Gosling [and others], mdccxxviii . [1728]
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Folio. 286 leaves collating in fours; R. Gosling’s advertisement on the verso of the half-title.
This edition not in Marvin.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 317, 16.
Clarke, page 91, no. 23.
Old calf, rebacked and repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
The actual fifth edition was published in 1677.
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J. 14
Swinburne’s Espousals. 4 to.
1815 Catalogue, page 88. no. 9, Swinburne on Espousals, 4to p.
SWINBURNE, Henry.
A Treatise of Spousals, or matrimonial contracts: wherein all the questions relating to that subject are ingeniously debated and resolved. By the late famous and learned Mr. Henry Swinburne, author of the Treatise of Wills and Testaments. The second edition. London: Printed for Daniel Brown, Thomas Ward, and William Mears, 1711.
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4to. 128 leaves.
Marvin, page 682.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 320, 11.
Clarke, page 79, no. 120.
Rebound in calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T; manuscript notes are not by him.
The first edition was published in 1686.
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J. 15
Pleadings for the Marquis de Gesvres. 12 mo. 2 d. vol.
1815 Catalogue, page 87. no. 12, as above.
POTIER, François Joachim Bernard, marquis de gesvres.
[ The Case of Impotency debated, in the late famous tryal at Paris; between the Marquis de Gesvres and his lady, Mademoiselle de Mascranny . . . The second edition. London: Printed for E. Curll, 1715.]
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12mo. Vol. II only, imperfect copy, lacks the title and other leaves; list of books lately published at the end. The title of vol. II reads: The Pleadings for the Marquis de Gesvres against the Marchioness . . .
Old calf, repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
A translation of the Recueil general des pieces contenues au procez de monsieur le marquis de Gesvres et de mademoiselle de Mascranny, son epouse, printed in Rotterdam in 1713.
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