Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, legal bibliophile
By: by William E. Butler
Series: Tarlton Law Library legal history series -- no. 12; Legal history series -- no. 12.
Publisher: Jamail Center for Legal Research, The University of Texas at Austin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780935630794
Subjects: Library; Private libraries; History; Catalogs; Book collectors; Law; Bibliography
Other titles: Peter Stephen Du Ponceau :; Catalogue of valuable law and miscellaneous books, from the library of the late Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D.
Notes: "Bibliophile he was indeed, among many other accomplishments: jurist, philologist, linguist, translator, interpreter, anthropologist, attorney-at-law ... [etc.] ... [He] formed one of the outstanding private libraries of his generation in the United States. ... This essay concentrates upon his collection of legal materials, which collectively formed the largest single portion of his library"--P. 1.

Pages 67-132 comprise facsimile reproduction of: Catalogue of valuable law and miscellaneous books, from the library of the late Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. : to be sold by order of executors on Wednesday evening, Oct. 16, 1844, at 6 1/2 o'clock, at M. Thomas & Son's Auction Store, no. 93 Walnut Street. Philadelphia : E.G. Dorsey, Printer, Library St., 1844.

Published in conjunction with the Tarlton Law Library Rare Book Lecture presented on Feb. 3, 2011.