Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, esquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.
Summary
The writer is a General from the War of 1812 who had suffered defeats during the war and was not chosen to remain in the Army after the war. He defends his performance in this letter.
by J. C. B. Prepared by Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Frontier Forts and Trails Survey) Division of Community Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Edited by Sylvester K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent and Emma Edith Woods.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania Historical Commission,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
xiv, 167 p. front., illus., plates (incl. map) 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
"The present translation is based on Casgrain's edition."--p. vi.
Summary
"A French soldier set down his memories of life and adventure in western Pennsylvania and other parts of North America during the thrilling events of the French and Indian War, and called the book 'Voyage au Canada dans le nord de l' Amerique Septentrionale, fait depuis l'an 1751 A 1761'...The author is known only by his initials, J.C.B...These reminiscences of life and events in the wilderness, in the towns of New France, and as a prisoner in New York City, give vivid pictures of the experiences of an ordinary man in an age which was full of significance for the future of America. [from the foreword]
translated from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, being the first book of his Quaestiones juris publici, with notes, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
Signatures preceded by a dagger, e.g. [dagger]a, [dagger]A, [dagger]2E.
Errata: p. [199].
Issued also as The American law journal, v. 3, no. 11-12, Oct. 1810.
"An account of the life and writings of the author": pages [xiii]-xxi.
Half title: Treatise on the law of war.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 806 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxx) and index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
Of war in general -- Of a declaration of war -- Of war, considered as between enemies -- Of the capture of movable property, and particularly of ships -- Of the recapture of movable property -- Of the possession of immovables taken in war -- Of the confiscation of the enemy's actions and credits -- Of hostilities in a neutral port or territory -- Of neutrality -- Of contraband -- Of trade with blockaded and besieged places -- Of the mixture of lawful with contraband goods -- Of neutral goods found on board of the ships of enemies -- Of enemy's goods found on board of neutral ships -- Of the right of Postliminy on neutral territory -- Of the right of Postliminy, as applied to cities and states -- Of pirates -- Of privateers -- Of the responsibility of owners of privateers -- Of captures made by vessels not commissioned -- Of insuring enemy's property -- Of enlisting men in foreign countries, and incidentally, of expatriation -- Of the right of the several provinces of the United Netherlands, to declare and make war -- Of reprisals -- Miscellaneous maxims and observations.
Summary
"A brief alphabetical notice of several writers and works on the civil law and the law of nations: not generally known, and which are quoted or referred to in this book": pages [xxiii]-xxx.
