Latin by John Maxwell, M.A. Prebendary of Connor, and Chaplain to his Excellency Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. To which is prefix’d,
An Introduction concerning the mistaken Notions which the Heathens had of the Deity, and the Defects in their Morality, whence
the Usefulness of Revelation may appear. At the End is subjoin’d, An Appendix, containing two Discourses, 1. Concerning the
Immateriality of Thinking Substance. 2. Concerning the Obligation, Promulgation, and Observance, of the Law of Nature, by
the Translator.
London: Printed by
R. Phillips; and sold by
J. Knapton,
J. Senex,
F. Fayram [and others] n.d. [
1727].
B1201 .C83 D423
First Edition of this translation. 4to. 397 leaves only (lacks the first leaf of the dedication, imperfect at the end); 3 parts
in 1, with separate title-pages, continuous signatures, separate pagination for the Introduction and Appendix, 2 folded engraved
plates, general title printed in red and black.
Lowndes I, 568.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 942.
Marvin, page 244.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 184, 10.
Rebound in half red morocco in 1903 by the Library of Congress; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. From the library
of Peyton Randolph, with his armorial bookplate signed by I. Skinner, Bath, preserved.
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Lee’s treatise of captures in war.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 61. no. 25, as above.
LEE,
Richard.
A Treatise of Captures in War. By Richard Lee, Esq . . .
London: Printed for
W. Sandby,
1759.
JX5228 .L4
First Edition. 8vo. 136 leaves.
Not in Lowndes.
Allibone II, 1076.
Marvin, page 457.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 181, 9.
Richard Lee, English barrister-at-law, dedicated this work, drawn chiefly from Bynkershoek’s
Questiones juris publici
, to the Earl Granville.
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Seldeni mare clausum.
24
s.
1636.
1815 Catalogue, page 61. no. 5, Selden’s Mare Clausum, Lat. 16s.
SELDEN,
John.
Ioannis Seldini Mare Clavsvm sev de Dominio Maris Libri dvo. Quorum argumentum paginâ versâ. Iuxta exemplar Londinense, VVill. Stanesbeii
pro Richardo Meighen.
c
I
ɔ
I
ɔ cxxxvI. [
Leyden:
Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir, n.d. ?
1636.]
JX4423 .S35
12mo. 296 leaves: *
8, **
4, A-Z
12, Aa
8, 2 folded engraved maps, title printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations in the text,
Elzevir’s Solitaire woodcut device on the title-page.
STC 22176 (erroneously calling for Boxhorn’s
Apologia).
Willems 449.
This edition not in Marvin.
Original vellum. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Purchased from
Van Damme. Ordered by Jefferson from a catalogue on March 23, 1788, and sent by Van Damme (described as Elzevir, 1636, 16
o) on June 25, price
2.12.; entered at that price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
John Selden, 1584-1654, English jurist. The English edition with imprint
Londini: Iuxta exemplar VVill. Stanesbeii pro Richardo Meighen, M DC XXXVI. was in octavo, and included a second part, the
Apologia
of Boxhorn, omitted from this edition. Stansby and Meighen’s original edition, published in 1635, was in folio. This Leyden
edition is not dated; it is included in the
Catalogus Librorum officinae Elsevirianae
, 1638, and was printed therefore between 1636 and 1638.
Selden’s work was written in answer to Grotius’s
Mare Liberum
, a copy of which Jefferson bought from Van Damme, price 2.10, on the same bill as the
Mare Clausum.
Mare Liberum was not sold to Congress.
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