J. 16
Burn’s Ecclesiastical law.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 87. no. 15, as above, with reading
Burne’s.
BURN,
Richard.
Ecclesiastical Law. By Richard Burn, L.L.D. Vicar of Orton, in the county of Westmorland. In
two volumes. Vol. I [-II].--Addenda to Burn’s Ecclesiastical Law . . .
London: Printed by
H. Woodfall and
W. Strahan; and sold by
A. Millar,
m. dcc. lxiii,
m dcc lxv
. [1763, 1765]
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2 vol. 4to. 366 and 417 leaves, the title-page for the Addenda on sig. 5H
1, vol. II. List of Subscribers on 8 leaves in vol. I.
This edition not in Marvin.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 37, 7.
Old calf, front cover of vol. II gone. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
13/6. Two editions of this book are entered in Jefferson’s dated manuscript catalogue; the other, which was not sold to Congress, is described as 4. v. 8
vo. and beside the entry is written in pencil:
4
th. G. Wyth
.
Richard Burn, 1709-1785, English legal writer and topographer. Sir William Blackstone, the ninth, tenth, and eleventh editions of whose
Commentaries
were edited by Burn, was one of the subscribers to this book, of which the list includes also the Rev. William Smith D.D.,
Provost of the College of Philadelphia. For another book by Burn see no. 1968.
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J. 17
Nelson’s Letters testamentary.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 87. no. 10, as above.
NELSON,
William.
Lex Testamentaria: or, A compendious system of all the laws of England, as well before the Statute of Henry VIII. as since,
concerning last wills and testaments . . . Treating also of all cases concerning executory devises and legacies. . . By Wm Nelson of the Middle-Temple, Esq; The
second edition, with many corrections and additions.
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
E. and R. Nutt and
R. Gosling, [Assigns of
Edward Sayer, Esq;)
[punct.
sic
--
Ed.
] for
Joell Stephens,
m.dcc.xxviii
. [1728]
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8vo. 308 leaves, publisher’s advertisements on the verso of the first leaf, recto blank.
This edition not in Marvin.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 159, 15.
Clarke, page 90, no. 10.
Calf. On the title-page is the autograph signature of
Tho. Juckes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
The first edition of this work was published in 1714. Other works by the same author appear in this catalogue.
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J. 18
Conset’s Practice of Ecclesiastical courts.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 87. no. 13, as above.
CONSET,
Henry.
The Practice of the spiritual or ecclesiastical courts. To which is added, A Brief discourse of the structure and manner of
forming the libel or declaration. The
third edition, corrected; with large additions. By H. C. . . .
London: Printed for
S. Battersby,
J. Walthoe [and others],
1708.
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