Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: piⶠB⸠D-Fâ´ [G]â´ H-2Mâ´.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
The army and navy of America: containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War; independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea
Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia
A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws : down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published ; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By a barrister at law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor
The fourth edition, commencing with the eleventh year of the reign of King Richard II and ending with the sixteenth year of the reign of King George III, with two alphabetical tables to the whole /
The fourth edition, commencing with the eleventh year of the reign of King Richard II and ending with the sixteenth year of the reign of King George III, with two alphabetical tables to the whole /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. Wright ... for C. Bathurst, J. and F. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Longman, W. Owen, T. Cadell, M. Folingsby, T. Lowndes, B. Law, J. Wilkie, R. Horsefield, M. Hingeston, S. Bladon, T. Carnan, H. Gardner, W. Otridge, and the rest of the proprietors, and sold by G. Kearsly ...,
Date of Publication
1776-81.
Physical Description
11 v. ; 48 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Originally published in 1719 under title: Compleat collection of state-tryals and proceedings upon impeachments for high treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours.
Preface includes bibliographical history of this work; Thomas Salmon edited the 1st ed., Sollom Emlyn the 2nd.
"The first six [volumes] ... printed exactly from the third edition, and the four next from the four supplemental volumes ... As to the eleventh volume, it is reserved wholly for additional matter"--Preface.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Books187, 188, 189 190, and 191 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Vol. 1 1388-1628 -- v. 2. 1648-1679 -- v. 3. 1679-1684 -- v. 4. 1685-1696 -- v. 5. 1696-1709 -- v. 6. 1715-1741 -- v. 7. 1549-1688 -- v. 8. 1689-1722 -- v. 9. 1712/3-1748/9 -- v. 10. 1752-1765 -- v. 11. 1494-1777.
Die Ernsthaffte Christen-Pflicht : darinnen schöne geistreiche Gebäter, darmit sich fromme Christen-Hertzen zu allen Zeiten und in allen Nöthen trösten können
"Christliches Gemuths-Gespräch von dem geistlichen und seligmachenden Glauben ... [by Gerhard Roosen]"--248 p., with separate title page. . Two settings of type of the title page.
Signatures: A-2Fâ¶.
ESTC
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Bötte & Tannhof. German printing,
Tooled full leather binding with clasp, inscribed Anna Schwarr, c.1.
Tooled full leather binding with two clasps, straps missing, letters and symbols etched incover leather, pin-prick letters on first page, c. 2.
The Englishman's right : a dialogue between a barrister at law and a juryman, plainly setting forth I. The antiquity, II. The excellent designed use, III. The office and just privileges of juries by the law of England
"This treatise has passed through many editions. It appeared first in the year 1680 ... and is now presented to the public at least for the eighth time. ...": Advertisement to the reader, p. [1], 2nd group of paging.
Signatures: [A]ⴠB-EⶠF².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 445 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
