First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 212 leaves, engraved frontispiece by G. Schouten and headpiece by B. Picart (dated 1731); vol. II, 174 leaves; engraved vignettes on the title-pages, titles printed in red and black.
Not in Quérard.
Van der Aa II, 108.
French mottled calf, gilt back (volume numbers transposed), marbled end papers, pink silk bookmarks. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I in both volumes. Manuscript notes are not by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Bought from
Froullé on January 11, 1788, price
6. Entered at that price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
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J. 152
Code de l’Humanité par Felice.
13. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 60. no. 41, as above.
FELICE,
Fortunatio Bartolomeo de,
Editor.
Code de l’humanité, ou la législation universelle, naturelle, civile et politique, avec l’histoire littéraire des plus grands
hommes qui ont contribué à la perfection de ce code. Composé par une Société de gens de lettres, indiqués à la page suivante. Le tout revu & mis en ordre alphabétique par M. De Felice.
Yverdon: dans l’Imprimerie de M.
de Felice,
1778.
JA62 .F4
First Edition. 13 vol. 4to. Text in double columns; some volumes waterstained.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, marbled end papers, blue silk bookmarks. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson purchased a copy from
Froullé on August 16, 1787, price
100. The price of the copy entered on the undated manuscript catalogue is
124.10, which may include the binding.
In a letter dated from Paris June 9, 1803, Charles Pougens included this work with those he intended to offer to Jefferson.
In regard to a copy of this he wrote: “
J’en attends un a prix honnête dans une vente que doit avoir lieu tres incessamment.”
Jefferson sent a copy of this work to Edmund Randolph, with a letter (LC 2533) dated from Paris, Sep. 20, 1785: Being in your debt for ten volumes of Buffon, I have endeavored to find something that would be agreeable to you to receive in return. I therefore send you by way of Havre a dictionary of law Natural & municipal in 13. vols 4to. called le Code de l'humanité. it is published by Felice, but written by him & several other authors of established reputation. it is an excellent work. I do not mean to say that it answers fully to it's title. that would have required fifty times the volume. it wants many articles which the title would induce us to seek in it. but the articles of which it does treat are well written. it is better than the voluminous dictionnaire diplomatique, & better also that the same branch of the Encyclopedie methodique.
Fortunatio Bartolomeo de Felice, 1723-1789, Italian philosopher and mathematician. On the verso of the title-page he gives a list of the authors who formed
the
Société de gens de lettres, which includes his own name, and MM. Bouchaud, Bertrand, Tscharner, Andrié, Baron de Gorgier, De Jaucourt, De la Lande, Durand de Maillane, Mingard de Beau-Lieu, Maclaine, Molé. The book was printed at Felice’s own printing press in Yverdon.
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153
Cumberland de legibus naturae.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 60. no. 18, as above.
CUMBERLAND,
Richard.
De Legibus Naturæ . . . Londini: Typis
E. Flesher, prostat verò apud
Nathanaelem Hooke,
1672.
First Edition. 4to.
Lowndes I, 568.
STC C7580.
Marvin, page 244.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 184, 9.
The Library of Congress copy, which may have been Jefferson’s, disappeared some time ago.
Richard Cumberland, 1631-1718, bishop of Peterborough. This book, dedicated to Bridgeman, was written in opposition to Hobbes.
[1417]
J. 154
Cumberland on the laws of nature.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 60. no. 35, as above.
CUMBERLAND,
Richard.
A Treatise of the Laws of Nature. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Cumberland, Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Made
English from the
