Enclosure: List of Books for the Library of Congress, 14 April 1802
Enclosure: List of Books for the Library of Congress
Law of Nature and Nations
| ✓ | Rutherforth’s institutes of natural law. 8vo. |
| Puffendorf devoirs de l’homme et du citoyen. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Beller’s delineation of Universal law. 4to. | |
| ✓ | Grotius’s Laws of war with Barbeyrac’s notes. |
| ✓ | Puffendorf’s law of nations with Barbeyrac’s notes. |
| ✓ | Burlamaqui sur la droit naturelle et Politique 4to. |
| Wolff droit de la nature et des gens. Lat. Fr. 6.v. 12mo. | |
| ✓ | Vattel’s law of nations. |
| Vattel. Questions de droit naturel. 12mo. | |
| Recueil de discours par Barbeyrac. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Cumberland’s law of nature. 4to. | |
| Grotii mare liberum. 24o. | |
| Martens’ Modern law of nations. 8vo. | |
| Ward’s foundation & history of the law of nations 8vo. | |
| Zouch de judicio inter gentes, et de jure faciali. | |
| Bynkershoek opera. 6.v. 4to. | |
| Wicquefort de l’Ambassadeur. 2.v. 4to. | |
| Le ministre public par du Franquesnay 12mo. | |
| L’art de negocier par Pecquet. 12mo. | |
| Maniere de negocier par Callieres. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Mably droit publique1 de l’Europe. 3.v. 12mo. | |
| Negociations du President Jeannin. 12mo. 2.v. | |
| Ambassades de la Boderie en Angleterre. 5.v. 12mo. | |
| Negociations &c. du compte d’Estrades à Londres 9.v. 12mo. | |
| Lettres et negociations de J. de Witt. 5.v. 12mo. | |
| Histoire de la traité de Westphalie par d’Avaux. 6.v. 12mo. | |
| Dumont Corps universel diplomatique. 8.v. fol. | |
| ✓ | Jenkinson’s collection of treaties. 3.v. 8vo. |
| ✓ | Chalmer’s collection of treaties 3.v. 8vo. |
| Rymer’s federa. | |
| [Muratori?]2 | |
| Hazard’s state papers. | |
| Memoires sur les droits de France et de l’Angleterre en Amerique. 4.v. 4to. | |
| Robinet. Dictionnaire universel morale politique & diplomatique. 31.v. 4to. | |
| Code de l’humanité par Felice. 13.v. 4to. |
Maritime
| Lee’s treatise on captures. 8vo. | |
| ✓ | Molloy de jure maritime. 8vo. |
| Il Consolato del Mare. | |
| Shardü leges navales Rhodiorum et selectae Rhodiorum Vinnius’s commentary on the laws of Rhodes. | |
| Us et Coustumes de la mer par Clairac. 4to. including L. of Oleron & Wisby. | |
| Heineccii scriptores de jure maritimo. 4to. | |
| Schomberg on the maritime laws of Rhodes. 8vo. | |
| Robinson’s admiralty reports. 8vo. | |
| several tracts on Neutral rights by Jenkinson, Schlegall, Croke & others. | |
| Valin |
Law.
| Lord Kaim’s general principles of Equity fol. 2d edition. | |
| Abridgment of cases in equity. 8vo. | |
| Fitzherbert’s abridgment. fol. | |
| Broke’s abridgment. 4to. | |
| Rolle’s abridgment. fol. | |
| Bacon’s abridgment. 8vo. | |
| Comyns’s Digest. 8vo. | |
| ✓ | Viner’s abridgment. |
| Spelmanni Glossarium. fol. | |
| ✓ | Jacob’s dict. by Ruffhead. fol. |
| Cuningham’s Law dict. 2.v. fol. | |
| ✓ | Coke’s institutes. 8vo. |
| ✓ | Blackstone’s commentaries. |
| ✓ | Wooddeson’s lectures on the laws of England. 3.v. 8vo. |
| ✓ | Reeve’s history of the English law. 4.v. 8vo. |
| ✓ | Reeves’ history of the laws of shipping and3 navigation. 8vo. |
| Rastal’s collection of statutes. fol. | |
| Pickering’s collection of statutes 8vo. | |
| a complete collection of all the laws of every state should be made. | |
| Staundfort’s Pleas of the crown. 4to. | |
| Hale’s Pleas of the crown. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| Hawkins’s Pleas of the crown 3.v. 8.vo. | |
| ✓ | Foster’s crown law. 8vo. |
| ✓ | State trials. compleat. fol. |
Law Merchant
| Malyne’s lex mercatoria. 2.v. fol. | |
| ✓ | Postlethwaite’s dictionary 2.v. fol. |
| ✓ | Beawe’s Lex mercatoria. |
| ✓ | the latest book of rates. |
Foreign law.
| Calvini lexicon juridicum. fol. | |
| Corpus juris civilis Gothofredi. 2.v. fol. [it contains the Institutes, the Digests, the Codex, & Novels] | |
| ✓ | Domat’s civil law. 2.v. fol. |
| Institution du droit François par Argou. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Commentaire sur l’Ordonnance de la Marine. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Frederician code, and such other Summary digests of the laws of other countries as are known. |
Parliamentary.
| Brady on government. fol. | |
| Petty’s constitution & laws of England. 8vo. | |
| Sommers’s rights of king and people 12mo. | |
| Bacon on the government of England. 4to. | |
| Smith’s republic of England. | |
| ✓ | De Lolme on the constitution of England. |
| Burgh’s political disquisitions. 3.v. 8vo. | |
| Stuart’s historical dissertation on the English constitution. 8vo. | |
| Spelman’s works. fol. | |
| Thurloe’s state papers4 | |
| ✓ | Rushworth’s collection 8.v. fol. |
| Elsynge-Scobell [I do not recollect the particular titles5 | |
| Arcana parliamentaria. | |
| Hollis’s remains. 8vo. | |
| Orders of the H. of Commons. 12mo. | |
| Pettus’s constitution of parliament. 8vo. | |
| Brown’s privilegia Parliamentaria. 8vo. | |
| Petyt’s antient rights of the Commons of Engld. 8vo. | |
| Hale’s jurisdiction of parliaments. 8vo. | |
| ✓ | Atkyn’s power of parliaments.6 |
| Selden on the judicature of parliaments. 12mo. his works Dewes’ journal.7 | |
| Ryley’s placita parliamentaria. fol. | |
| Prynne’s parliamentary writs. 4to. | |
| Hakewell’s modus tenendi Parliamentum. | |
| Petyt’s Jus parliamentarium. fol. | |
| ✓ | Lex Parliamentaria. 8vo. |
| ✓ | Hatsell’s Precedents of proceedings in the H. of Commons. |
| Aylesbury election. | |
| Bohun’s debates.8 | |
| the Case of Ashby & White. 8vo. | |
| ✓ | Journals of the H. of Commons. |
| ✓ | H. of Lords. |
| Townshend’s historical collections. fol. | |
| ✓ | a compleat collection of Parliamentary debates from the Parliamentary history in 24.v. 8vo. down to the present day. |
| ✓ | Debates of the Irish Commons. |
Political arithmetic, Commerce &c.
| ✓ | Petty’s political arithmetic. |
| ✓ | Sinclair on the British revenues. 8vo. |
| Arithmetique Lineaire de Playfair. 4to. | |
| Wallace on the numbers of mankind. 8vo. | |
| Table des vivans de Susmich. | |
| ✓ | Anderson’s history of commerce. 6.v. 8vo. |
| ✓ | Smith’s Wealth of nations. |
| ✓ | Steuart’s political economy. 2.v. 4to. |
| Arbuthnot on antient coins and measures.9 |
Geography.
| Atlas portatif de Grenet et Bonne. 4to. | |
| the Atlas’es of Delisle and Danville. | |
| ✓ | Jeffery’s American Atlas. |
| Busching’s geography 6.v. 4to. | |
| Encyclopedia de Diderot et Dalembert. abt 30.v. fol. 35. guineas | |
| Encyclopedia Methodique10 | |
| Dictionaries Scapula, Hederici, Ainsworth, Calepinus XI linguarum, Dictionaries of the academies of France, Spain, Crusia, Johnson’s dict. and good dictionaries of all the other modern languages. |
History.
| Annales Romaines par Macquer. 12mo. | |
| Histoire universelle de Bossuet. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Essai historique et chronologique de l’Abbé Berlié. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire ancienne avant J.C. par La Combe. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire des Juifs. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire des Empereurs Romains Richer. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| ✓ | Histoire ancienne de Milot. 4.v. 12mo. |
| ✓ | Histoire ancienne de Rollin. 13.v. 12mo. |
| Newton’s chronology. 4to. | |
| ✓ | Blair’s chronology fol. |
| ✓ | Priestly’s chronological & biographical charts. |
| ✓ | Dictionnaire de Bayle 4.v. fol. |
| Dictionnaire de Moreri. 10.v. fol. | |
| Collier’s historical dictionary. 4.v. fol. | |
| Wood’s Athen.11 | |
| Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique par Lavocat. 4.v. 12mo. | |
| Dictionnaire historique par un societé de gens de lettres. 9.v. 8vo. | |
| Dictionnaire de diplomatique par Dom. de Vaynes 2.v. 8vo. | |
| The Chronologist of the war 1789–96. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire universelle par Hornot. 12mo. | |
| Introduction a l’histoire de l’Univers de Puffendorf 4.v. 12mo. | |
| Tablettes chronologiques de l’histoire universelle de Fresnoy. 2.v. 8mo. | |
| Tableau chronologique de l’histoire de l’Europe de 476 à 1648. 8vo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire d’Espagne et de Portugal. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’hist. de France par Henault. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’hist. & du droit public d’Allemagne par Pfeffel. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire du Nord par La Combe. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire de Pologne par l’Abbé Coyer. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Abregé chronologique de l’histoire d’Angleterre par Salmon. 2.v. 12mo. Eng. if to be had. | |
| Historical register. 8vo. | |
| Annual register. 8vo. |
American history. all the travels, histories, accounts &c. of America, previous to the revolution, should be obtained. it is already become all but impossible to make a collection of these things. standing orders should be lodged with our ministers in Spain, France & England, & our Consul at Amsterdam to procure every thing within that description which can be hunted up in those countries.
| London. | 12mo. | 15. @ .75 = | 11.25 | |
| 8vo. | 84. @ 1.67 = | 140. | ||
| 70. @ 2. = | 140. | |||
| 4tos. | 31. @ 4. = | 124. | ||
| fol. | 48. @ 7 = | 336. | = 751.25 | |
| Paris. | 12mo. | 70. @ .75 = | 52.5 | |
| 8vo. | 15. @ 1.5 = | 22.5 | ||
| 4to. | 79. @ 4 = | 316. | ||
| folios. | 57. @ 7. = | 399 | = 790. |
MS (MoSHi: Jefferson Papers); entirely in TJ’s hand, including brackets, except where indicated (see note 2); undated; check marks added by TJ (see letter above); calculation of expenditures in London and Paris at foot of document added by TJ at a later date, probably before 16 July (see TJ to William Duane, 16 July). PrC (DLC); blurred; lacks TJ’s check marks; lacks calculation of expenditures.
The list was evidently approved by Baldwin and the congressional committee and returned to TJ (see TJ to John Beckley, 16 July 1802).
HAZARD’S STATE PAPERS: lacks TJ’s check mark, but included in Beckley’s catalogue.
ROBINSON’S ADMIRALTY REPORTS: lacks TJ’s check mark, but included in Beckley’s catalogue.
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