Of the Law of Nature And Nations

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by Samuel Pufendorf

Bibliographic Information

Author: Samuel Pufendorf

Title: Of the Law of Nature And Nations: Eight Books

Published: Translated. Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield, for A. and J. Churchil, 1710.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Puffendorf. and given by Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore. The precise title and work are unknown. Brown's Bibliography[1] includes the choice of either the 1749 English edition or the 1740 French edition of Pufendorf's work based in part on the copies Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress[2] and also on citations from Wythe's arguments in Bolling v. Bolling.[3] George Wythe's Library[4] on LibraryThing notes "Precise work/edition unknown. Probably an English-language edition of Pufendorf's The law of nature and nations, but could also be one of several possible works in Latin or English."

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
  2. E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:69-70 [no.1406-no.1407].
  3. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling: Law and the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America, ed. Bernard Schwartz, with Barbara Wilcie Kern, R.B. Bernstein (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; New York: New York University School of Law, c1997).
  4. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe