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Kerr’s Criminal law of Orleans.
8
vo.
2. cop.
1815 Catalogue, page 90. no. 40, Keer’s
[
sic
--
Ed.
] exposition of the Criminal Law of Orleans, 8vo, Fr. Eng.
KERR,
Lewis--
MOREAU DE LISLET, Louis Casimir Elisabeth.
Explication des lois criminelles du Territoire d’Orleans . . . Ouvrage publié en execution d’un acte de la Legislature du
Territoire, passé le 4 Mai 1805 et intitulé “Acte pour la punition des crimes et delits”. (Section 48). Par Autorité. Par
Lewis Kerr, Esqr. et avocat, et traduit en
français par L. Moreau Lislet, Esqr. et avocat.
Nouvelle-Orleans: Imprimé (la Partie
Française) par
Jean Renard,
1806. [
An Exposition of the criminal laws of the territory of Orleans . . . By Lewis Kerr, Esquire, Counsellor at Law.
New-Orleans: Printed by
Bradford & Anderson,
1806.]
Law 273c
First Edition. Sm. 4to. 162 leaves including the first blank, the
French title and text on the recto of the leaves, the
English on the verso; printed partly on blue paper.
Sabin 37629.
Marvin, page 439.
Originally bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt by March, on April 26, 1806. Rebound in calf (the original green silk bookmark
preserved), marbled endpapers; the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
The cost of the original binding was $1.00.
Only one copy was sold to Congress by Jefferson; the other was sold at the auction of Jefferson’s books in 1829.
This book was written at the request of Governor Claiborne, whose letter to Kerr, dated August 12, 1805, and Kerr’s answer
announcing the completion of the work, dated January 1, 1806, are printed at the beginning of the book. A copy was sent to
Jefferson by the Governor, William C. C. Claiborne, who wrote from New Orleans on March 1, 1806: “I beg you to receive--accompanied with my warm respects--a Treatise written on the Criminal Laws of this Territory.”
Louis Casimir Elisabeth Moreau de Lislet, 1767-1832, Louisiana jurist and politician, was one of the lawyers in the Batture case, q.v., in chapter 24. This is the
first edition of the French text. The English text was published in the same year by John Mowry.
William Charles Coles Claiborne, 1775-1817, Governor of Louisiana. For other references to him in this catalogue, see the Index.
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Acts of the legislature of Orleans of 1808.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 89. no. 39, Acts of the Legislature of Orleans, of 1806--, 2 v. 8vo.
i.
By Authority. Acts passed at the First Session of the First Legislature of the Territory of Orleans, begun and held in the
City of New-Orleans, on the twenty fifth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six, and of
the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth.
New-Orleans: from the press of
Bradford & Anderson, printers to the Territory of Orleans,
1806.
Law 6
First Edition. Sm. 4to. 116 leaves collating in fours,
English and
French texts on opposite pages.
Sheep; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Sent to Jefferson by the Governor, whose secretary, Richard Claiborne, wrote to Jefferson from New Orleans on August 27, 1806:
“In the absence of Governor Claiborne, I forward to you a copy of the Laws of the 1
st. Session of the Legislature of the Territory of Orleans.”
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